Richard Betts Leo A. Shifrin Professor of War and Peace Studies Emeritus, Columbia University Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Richard K. Betts is the Leo A. Shifrin Professor of War and Peace Studies Emeritus in the Columbia University political science department and School of International and Public Affairs and adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He works on international politics and U.S.… read more »
Jane Ira Bloom Saxophonist, Composer Soprano saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom has been developing her unique voice on the soprano saxophone for over 45 years. She is a pioneer in the use of live electronics and movement in jazz. Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition, the Downbeat International Critics Poll & Jazz Journalists Association Award for soprano saxophone, the Mary Lou Williams Award for lifetime service to jazzand the Charlie Parker Fellowship for jazz innovation. … read more »
Rosanne Cash Singer-songwriter, Author “One of the most ambitious and literary songwriters of her generation” (Rolling Stone), Rosanne Cash is America’s foremost musical woman of letters, a literate and incisive artist whose poignant and distinctive vocals turn every song into a revelatory tale.… read more »
Lydia Goehr Fred & Fannie Mack Professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy, Columbia University Author Lydia Goehr is Fred and Fannie Mack Professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University. She is the author of The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music ; The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy; Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory; Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread.… read more »
Marc Kissel Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University in North Carolina Marc Kissel received his PhD in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Notre Dame from 2014-2017, where he worked on a project on the evolution of human symbolic thought that, intersecting with scholars from philosophy, theology, psychology and other related disciplines.… read more »
Joseph LeDoux Professor of Neural Science, New York University Joseph LeDoux is a Professor of Neural Science at New York University. His work, which has spanned the topics of emotion, memory, and consciousness, and their interaction in the brain. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.… read more »
Dayu Lin Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine Dayu Lin, Professor of the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Neuroscience and Physiology New York University Grossman School of Medicine, has studied the neural mechanisms underlying the generation of social behaviors, especially aggression and parental behaviors for the last 20 years.… read more »
Charles Marmar Schub Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine Director, NYU Center for Precision Medicine in Alcohol Use Disorder & PTSD Executive Director, NYU Langone Military Family Center Charles R. Marmar, MD joined NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Langone Health in 2009 as the Lucius N. Littauer Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry. He has recently been named the Peter H. Schub Professor of Psychiatry. He also serves as Director of the Center for Precision Medicine in Alcohol Use Disorders and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and as Executive Director of the Steven A.… read more »
Edward Nersessian Director, The Helix Center Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute Edward Nersessian is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Distinguished Life Member of the American Psychiatric Association, and Corresponding Member of Société Psychanalytique de Paris. He is co-founder and first co-editor of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis, co-editor of the Textbook of Psychoanalysis and of Controversies in Contemporary Psychoanalysis.… read more »
Joe Peyronnin Professor, Journalism, NYU Associate Professor, Journalism, Hofstra University Joe Peyronnin has been an adjunct journalism professor at NYU since 2008, and he served as a full time associate professor of journalism at Hofstra University from 2011-19. In 2017 he was voted “Teacher of the Year” at Hofstra’s School of Communication. … read more »