Gottfried Wagner Multimedia Director and Publisher Gottfried Wagner is a musicologist, multimedia director and publisher. He works internationally as a lecturer of music and politics. He completed his PhD in Vienna and is now based close to Milan. His studies are centered on German culture and politics of the 19th and 20th century, in connection with Jewish culture and history.… read more »
Michael Waldholz Medical Science Writer and Media Consultant Michael Waldholz most recently served for six years as managing editor at Bloomberg News/Businessweek,following his 25-year career as a writer, editor, and bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal. At Bloomberg, he was responsible for news coverage related to health care and science, including the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, health insurance, medical services, public health, and health policy.… 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 »
Elizabeth Waters Elizabeth Waters (Ph.D.) is a democracy and knowledge consultant. Her training in learning and memory neuroscience naturally led her to become an educator. Elizabeth works with students, teachers, and communities to explore the boundaries of our current knowledge and the practices that support this exploration.… read more »
Harry L. Watson Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Harry L. Watson is the Atlanta Distinguished Professor in Southern Culture in the History Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, he received his bachelor’s degree from Brown University and his doctorate from Northwestern before joining the UNC-CH History Department in 1976.… read more »
Eva Weil Psychoanalyst, Researcher at the Sorbonne and University Paris I Eva Weil is a psychoanalyst and a member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society. She is a researcher at the Sorbonne, University Paris I, and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS )in the program Identities, International Relations & Civilizations of Europe” (IRICE).… read more »
Steven Wein Supervising Child and Adolescent Analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Steven Wein has served at NYPSI as a Supervising Child and Adolescent Analyst since 1993, Training and Supervising Analyst since 1996, and Associate Dean for Child Analysis from 2010 to 2016. He is a member of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies.… read more »
Jared Weinstein Professor, Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University Jared Weinstein is a professor in the department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University, where he has worked since 2011. He studies number theory, which is ultimately the study of the whole numbers and their properties, but which links promiscuously with practically every other mathematical subject. … read more »
Gail Weiss Professor of Philosophy, George Washington University Gail Weiss is Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University. She recently served as Executive Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialism (SPEP) and as General Secretary for the International Merleau-Ponty Circle. Her previous monographs include Refiguring the Ordinary (Indiana U.… read more »
Martha Welch Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center Director of the Nurture Science Program in Pediatrics Director of the BrainGut Initiative in Developmental Neuroscience Dr. Welch is Director of the Nurture Science Program in Pediatrics and Director of the BrainGut Initiative in Developmental Neuroscience. She is appointed Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology & Cell Biology at Columbia University Medical Center.… read more »
Hans-Guido Wendel Principal Investigator at the Cancer Genetics Laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Dr. Hans-Guido Wendel, M.D. is a Principal Investigator at the Cancer Genetics Laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He works to identify new cancer therapies based on the genetic origins of the disease. He come from Germany and trained in medicine in Aachen and Edinburgh and is currently an Associate Member of the Sloan-Kettering Institute.… read more »
Ralph Wharton Professor, Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Attending Psychiatrist, New York Presbyterian Medical Center Ralph Wharton is Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. His work is focused on the clinical use of psychotropic medicines alone and in conjunction with psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. His clinical research on the use of lithium carbonate in the affective psychoses was noted in the Special Sesquicentennial Issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry and was republished there as one of the best in its 150 years as a publication.… read more »
R. John WIlliams Associate Professor, English, Film and Media, at Yale University R. John Williams is an Associate Professor of English, Film and Media, at Yale University. His academic work has focused on international histories of Buddhism, technological innovation and the perceived difference of racial and cultural otherness. His book, The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and The Meeting of East and West (Yale University Press, 2014), examines the role of technological discourse in representations of Asian/American aesthetics in late-nineteenth and twentieth century film and literature.… read more »
Setsuko Winchester Writer, Ceramicist, & Conceptual Artist Creator of the Freedom from Fear/Yellow Bowl Project View Papers / Presentations » Setsuko Winchester, creator of the Freedom from Fear/Yellow Bowl Project, is a writer, ceramicist and conceptual artist. Prior to moving to Western Massachusetts in 2006 to pursue a life-long interest in ceramics and the visual arts, she worked as a journalist, editor and producer at NPR’s Morning Edition and Talk of the Nation.… read more »
Elliot Wolfson Marsha and Jay Glazer Chair Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, the University of California, Santa Barbara Elliot R. Wolfson, a Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Chair Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His main area of scholarly research is the history of Jewish mysticism but he has brought to bear on that field training in philosophy, literary criticism, feminist theory, postmodern hermeneutics, and the phenomenology of religion.… read more »
Susan Wolfson Professor of English, Princeton University Susan Wolfson has taught at UC Berkeley, Rutgers University, and is now Professor of English at Princeton University. She’s a specialist in the literature of British Romanticism, the era of “enlightenment” quests for knowledge and new philosophies of social freedom and social responsibility.… read more »
Christopher Wood Carnegie Professor, History of Art, Yale University; Visiting Professor, Department of German, New York University Christopher Wood (A.B., Harvard 1983, Ph.D., Harvard 1991) has been teaching at Yale since 1992. He is currently Visiting Professor in the German Department, New York University, and has taught as a visitor at the University of California (Berkeley), Vassar College, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.… read more »
Michelle Woods Associate Professor of English, SUNY New Paltz Michelle Woods is the author of Kafka Translated: How Translators Have Shaped Our Reading of Kafka (Bloomsbury, 2013); Censoring Translation: Censorship, Theatre and the Politics of Translation (Continuum, 2012); and Translating Milan Kundera (Multilingual Matters, 2006). She is currently editing a book of essays on literature and translation, Authorizing Translation (Routledge, 2016).… read more »