The Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is a private medical school in Houston,Texas,United States. Originally as the Baylor University College of Medicine from 1903 to 1969,the college became independent with the current name and has been separate from Baylor University since 1969. The college consists of four schools:the School of Medicine,the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences,the School of Health Professions,and the National School of Tropical Medicine.
Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the academic study of religion or for leadership roles in religion,government,and service. It also caters to students from other Harvard schools that are interested in the former field. HDS is among a small group of university-based,non-denominational divinity schools in the United States.
Robert Peter George is an American legal scholar,political philosopher,and public intellectual who serves as the sixth McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He lectures on constitutional interpretation,civil liberties,philosophy of law,and political philosophy.
Bruce L. Gordon is a Canadian philosopher of science (physics),metaphysician and philosopher of religion. He is a proponent of intelligent design and has been affiliated with the Discovery Institute since 1997.
James Robert Russell is a scholar and professor in Ancient Near Eastern,Iranian and Armenian Studies. He has published extensively in journals,and has written several books.
Ursula W. Goodenough is a retired Professor of Biology Emerita at Washington University in St. Louis,where she researched on eukaryotic algae. She authored the textbook Genetics and the best-selling book The Sacred Depths of Nature and speaks regularly about religious naturalist orientation and evolution. She contributed to the NPR blog 13.7:Cosmos &Culture from 2009 to 2011.
Eugene F. Rivers III is an American activist,and Pentecostal minister based in Boston,Massachusetts.
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University,the first woman in that role. She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust is also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has been ranked among the world's most powerful women by Forbes,including as the 33rd most powerful in 2014.
Vincent Gordon Harding was an African-American pastor,historian,and scholar of various topics with a focus on American religion and society. A social activist,he was perhaps best known for his work with and writings about Martin Luther King Jr.,whom Harding knew personally. Besides having authored numerous books such as There Is A River,Hope and History,and Martin Luther King:The Inconvenient Hero,he served as co-chairperson of the social unity group Veterans of Hope Project and as Professor of Religion and Social Transformation at Iliff School of Theology in Denver,Colorado. When Harding died on May 19,2014,his daughter,Rachel Elizabeth Harding,publicly eulogized him on the Veterans of Hope Project website.
Upinder Singh is an Indian historian who is a professor of History and Dean of Faculty at Ashoka University. She is the former head of the History Department at the University of Delhi. She is also the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize in the category of Social Sciences (History).
Arthur C. Brooks is an American author,public speaker,and academic. Since 2019,Brooks has served as the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit and Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and at the Harvard Business School as a Professor of Management Practice and Faculty Fellow. Previously,Brooks served as the 11th President of the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of thirteen books,including Build the Life You Want:The Art and Science of Getting Happier with co-author Oprah Winfrey (2023),From Strength to Strength:Finding Success,Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life (2022),Love Your Enemies (2019),The Conservative Heart (2015),and The Road to Freedom (2012). Since 2020,he has written the Atlantic’s How to Build a Life column on happiness.
William James Abraham was a Northern Irish theologian,analytic philosopher,and Methodist pastor known for his contributions to the philosophy of religion,religious epistemology,evangelism,and church renewal. Abraham spent most of his career in the United States and was the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. He previously taught at Seattle Pacific University and was a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School. Abraham was associated with the Confessing Movement in the United Methodist Church and was a proponent of canonical theism,a church renewal movement that looks to the canons of the ancient ecumenical church as a source for renewing mainline Protestant churches.
Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and law professor. She is currently the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and a professor of history in the university's Faculty of Arts &Sciences. She is formerly the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard University and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Gordon-Reed is noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson regarding his relationship with Sally Hemings and her children.
Gary John Dorrien is an American social ethicist and theologian. He is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and Professor of Religion at Columbia University,both in New York City,and the author of 25 books on ethics,social theory,philosophy,theology,politics,and intellectual history.
Catherine Lowman Wessinger is an American religion scholar. She is the Rev. H. James Yamauchi,S.J. Professor of the History of Religions at Loyola University New Orleans where she teaches religious studies with a main research focus on millennialism,new religions,women and religion,and religions of India. She served as a consultant to federal law enforcement during the Montana Freemen standoff and has been cited for her expertise concerning the Branch Davidians and other apocalyptic groups.
Rose Kennedy Schlossberg is an American artist and filmmaker specializing in video installations. She created the apocalyptic installation art and web series End Times Girls Club, co-produced and co-wrote the Peabody Award-winning documentary series Time:The Kalief Browder Story (2017),and has also directed music videos and short films.
Imani Perry is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race,law,literature,and African American culture. She is currently the Henry A. Morss,Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women,Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University,a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute,and a columnist for The Atlantic. Perry won the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for South to America:A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. In October 2023,she was named a MacArthur Fellow.
Jacqueline Morreau was an American artist.
Kathryn Alexander is a Guggenheim Award-winning American composer and a professor of composition at Yale University.
Jacqueline Ilyse Stone is an emeritus professor of Japanese religion in the department of religion at Princeton University and a specialist in Japanese Buddhism,particularly Kamakura Buddhism,Nichiren Buddhism from medieval to modern times,and deathbed practices in Japan. Stone has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
