James Berger Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English, Yale University James Berger is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Yale University. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, his M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, literary theory, disability studies, neuroscience and literature, and apocalyptic literature and film, the latter including apocalypticism and the notion of the “post-apocalyptic” in exploring the limits of language, the relations between language and non-language, the status of discursive objects imagined as somehow–whether through global catastrophe, personal impairment, or religious or ethical imperative–outside the bounds of discourse.… read more »
Ned Block Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, New York University Ned Block (Ph.D., Harvard), Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, came to NYU in 1996 from MIT where he was Chair of the Philosophy Program. He works in philosophy of mind and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science, and is currently writing a book on attention.… read more »
Graciela Chichilnisky Professor of Economics, Columbia University Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky (www.chichilnisky.com) is a professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics and a University Senator at Columbia University in New York, where she is the Director of the Columbia Consortium for Risk Management (CCRM). A world-renowned economist, she is the creator of the formal theory of Sustainable Development and acted as Lead US Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the Nobel Prize in 2007. … read more »
Christopher W. Clark Imogene P. Johnson Director of the Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell University Lab of Ornithology Christopher W. Clark is the Imogene P. Johnson Director of the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Senior Scientist in the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior at Cornell University. Dr. Clark has a long history of successfully working at the interface between science, applied engineering, industry, regulations and NGOs in order to quantify and mitigate potential impacts of human activities on marine mammals.… read more »
Ray Dougherty Associate Professor of Linguistics, New York University Ray C. Dougherty, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at New York University. Professor Dougherty completed the MIT Ph.D. program in Electrical Engineering studying the mathematical communication theories of Shannon, Turing, and von Neumann. He transferred to the Linguistics Department finishing a Ph.D.… read more »
G. Bard Ermentrout Distinguished University Professor of Computational Biology and Professor of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh Bard Ermentrout received his BA and MA (mathematics) at Johns Hopkins Univerity and his PhD in biophysics & theoretical biology at the University of Chicago in 1979. He is the author of over 200 papers in math, biology, physics, and neuroscience, including XPPAUT software for the simulation and analysis of dynamical systems, and the books, Simulating, Analyzing, and Animating Dynamical Systems (2002) and, with David Terman, Mathematical Foundations of Neuroscience (2010).… read more »
R. Brian Ferguson Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University-Newark R. Brian Ferguson is a Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1988, for a study of economic and social change in a Puerto Rican village. Since then his primary area of research has been war and political violence.… read more »
Robert H. Frank Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Cornell University Robert H. Frank is the HJ Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Cornell’s Johnson School of Management. His “Economic View” column has appeared in The New York Times since 2005. He received his B.S. in mathematics from Georgia Tech, then taught math and science for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Nepal.… read more »
James L. Fuller Research Fellow, Columbia University James L. Fuller is a research fellow at Columbia University, where he recently completed his Ph.D. His doctoral research focused on the evolution and expansion of vocal signal repertoires, focusing primarily on the communication system of blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis). Dr.… read more »
James Higham Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, New York University James Higham is an Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology at New York University. His research interests lie in sexual selection and communication, and he explores primate signaling behavior from genetic, neuroendocrine, behavioral, and morphological perspectives. Dr. Higham has many on-going projects, ranging from fieldwork on communication systems in several species of macaques, guenons and baboons, to research on game theoretic signaling models and the computational modeling of primate perception.… read more »
John Horgan Science Journalist; Director of the Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology John Horgan is a science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. A former senior writer atScientific American (1986-1997), he has also written for The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post,The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Slate, Discover,The London Times, The Times Literary Supplement, New Scientist, and other publications around the world.… read more »
Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza Associate Professor of Philosophy, Linfield College Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Linfield College (Oregon), received the 2011-2012 Samuel H. Graf Faculty Achievement Award and was the 2008-2009 Allen & Pat Kelley Faculty Scholar. Currently he serves as conference chair for the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport.… read more »
Chris Impey University Distinguished Professor, Astronomy, University of Arizona Chris Impey is a University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He has over 220 refereed publications on observational cosmology, galaxies, and quasars, and his research has been supported by $20 million in NASA and NSF grants. He has won eleven teaching awards and has taught three online classes with over 350,000 enrolled and 5 million minutes of video lectures watched.… read more »
Albert A. Johnstone Courtesy Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon Albert A. Johnstone is a philosopher who has presented internationally on a wide variety of philosophical subjects. He is author of the book, Epistemology: Taking Solipsism Seriously, and many scholarly papers, including his recent, “The Deep Bodily Roots of Emotion” (Husserl Studies, 2012) and “The Basic Self and Its Doubles” (Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2011).… read more »
J. A. Scott Kelso Glenwood and Martha Creech Chair in Science, Florida Atlantic University J. A. Scott Kelso grew up in Derry, N. Ireland and was educated at universities in Belfast, Calgary and Wisconsin. He was senior research scientist at Yale’s Haskins Laboratories for 7 years before moving to Florida Atlantic University in 1985 to take up the Glenwood and Martha Creech Chair in Science and found The Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences.… read more »
William Koblener Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University William Kolbrener is Associate Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University. He received his B.A. from Columbia College, his M.A. from University College, Oxford, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has written in major scholarly journals in literature, history, theology, psychoanalysis, and cultural criticism, on Jewish topics in Commentary, Azure,JQR, the AJS Review, Tradition and many other Jewish publications, and the Washington Post column, Letter from Israel.… read more »
Joseph J. Kohn Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Princeton University Joseph Kohn is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University. He is a winner of the Mathematical Society Steele Prize and the Bergman Prize and is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.… read more »
E. James Lieberman Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, George Washington University School of Medicine E. James Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, George Washington University School of Medicine, practiced psychotherapy in Washington D.C. for 40 years after serving as Chief, Center for Child and Family Mental Health, NIMH in the 1960s. He has written extensively on Otto Rank, most recently editing The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis(2012).… read more »
Tim Maudlin Professor of Philosophy, New York University Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He received his B. A. in Physics and Philosophy from Yale and his Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His work centers on the interpretation of physical theory: how the mathematical structures used in physics may be understood as presenting a physical account of the world.… read more »
Kenneth Miller Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Director, Center for Theoretical Biology, Columbia University Kenneth Miller is the Peter Taylor Professor of Neuroscience, co-Director of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, and co-Director of the Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate Program at Columbia University. He received his B.A. from Reed College, his M.S. and Ph.D. (with distinction) from Stanford University, and completed his postdoctoral work at UCSF and Caltech.… read more »
Jeffrey Miron Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Economics, Harvard University Jeffrey Miron is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. Dr. Miron has previously served on the faculties of the University of Michigan and Boston University; at the latter, he was Department chairman for six years.… read more »
Mark A. Norell Chairman of the Department of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History Mark A. Norell was born July 26, 1957, in St. Paul, Minnesota and spent most of his formative years (from 1964) in southern California. He received a Bachelor of Science in 1980 from Long Beach State University and a Masters of Science from San Diego State University in 1983.… read more »
Lewis Porter Professor of Music, Rutgers University Lewis Porter (Lewisporter.com), long known as a jazz educator and author of books, including the most celebrated volume on John Coltrane, is also very active as a jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Known for a free and open attitude, he contributes to many types of musical situations.… read more »
Michael Rampino Professor of Biology, Earth & Environmental Studies, New York University Michael Rampino is Professor of Biology with the Earth and Environmental Science Program at New York University and is a Research Consultant at NASA, Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He received his B.A. from Hunter College of the City University of New York and his Ph.D.… read more »
George Reeke, Jr. Associate Professor & Head, Laboratory of Biological Modeling, The Rockefeller University George Reeke is Associate Professor with tenure and Head of the Laboratory of Biological Modeling at The Rockefeller University and a Senior Fellow of The Neurosciences Institute. He received his B.S. from Caltech (where he received the Baxter Prize for Undergraduate Research), his M.A.… read more »
Diana Reiss Professor of Psychology, Hunter College; Professor of Biopsychology & Behavioral Neuroscience, The Graduate Center, CUNY Diana Reiss, Ph.D. is a cognitive psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College and the Biopsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience sub-program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Dr. Reiss directs a dolphin cognitive research program at the National Aquarium in Baltimore and is a research associate at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C.… read more »
Joseph Salerno Professor of Economics, Lubin School of Business, Pace University Joseph T. Salerno received his Ph.D. in economics from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is a professor of economics in the Finance and Graduate Economics Department in the Lubin School of Business of Pace University in New York. He is the editor of theQuarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.… read more »
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone Courtesy Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is a philosopher whose first life was as a dancer/choreographer, professor of dance/dance scholar. She has an ongoing Courtesy Professor appointment in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon where she taught periodically in the 1990s. She has published numerous articles in humanities, art, and science journals, the latter journals most recently being Psychotherapy and Politics International andAnthropological Theory.… read more »
Sean Singer Poet Sean Singer‘s first book, Discography, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He has also published two chapbooks, Passportand Keep Right On Playing Through the Mirror Over the Water, both with Beard of Bees Press, and is the recipient of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.… read more »
Paul J. Steinhardt Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University Paul J. Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University, where he is also on the faculty of both the Department of Physics and the Department of Astrophysical Sciences.… read more »
Xiao-Jing Wang Professor of Neurobiology, Adjunct Professor of Physics, Applied Mathematics and Psychology and Director, Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience, Yale University Xiao-Jing Wang is Professor of Neurobiology at Yale University. He is also Director of the Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience, Adjunct Professor of Physics, Applied Mathematics and Psychology at Yale. In addition, he has held visiting faculty positions at MIT, Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and Tsinghua University in Beijing.… read more »