Name
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Relation to NYU
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Notability
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Reference
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Steven E. Koonin
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Professor
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Former provost of
California Institute of Technology
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David Leebron
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Professor
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7th President of
Rice University
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Jeffrey S. Lehman
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Professor
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Former president of
Cornell University
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Alfred Bloom
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Professor
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Former president of
Swarthmore College
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Yusef Komunyakaa
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Professor
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Pulitzer Prize winner
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Christopher L. Eisgruber
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Professor
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20th and current President of
Princeton University
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Jack Lew
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Professor
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76th
United States Secretary of the Treasury
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Martin Hairer
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Professor
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Fields Medal winner
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Frances E. Allen
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Professor
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Turing Award winner
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Louis Nirenberg
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Professor
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Abel Prize winner
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Thomas A. Abercrombie
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Professor, current
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winner of the 2004–2005
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Martin Davis
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Professor Emeritus
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Davis is the co-inventor of the
Davis–Putnam algorithm and the
DPLL algorithms. He is also known for his model of
Post–Turing machines.
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Philip Alston
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Professor, current
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John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law; the
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary executions
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David Copperfield (illusionist)
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Professor
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Taught a course in magic
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Cammy Myler
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Professor
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American luger who was a member of the U.S. National Luge Team from 1985 to 1998 and competed on four
Winter Olympics teams
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Edward Altman
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Professor, 1977 –
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inventor of the "Altman Z-Score"
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Yehuda Amichai
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Poet in residence
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awarded the 1969
Brenner Prize, 1976
Bialik Prize, and 1982
Israel Prize
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Awam Amkpa
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Professor, current; director of NYU's Africana studies
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drama professor and professor
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Jacob M. Appel
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Visiting faculty, current
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bioethicist, authority on euthanasia
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Roger S. Bagnall
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Visiting Professor
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Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at NYU
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Henry Martyn Baird
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B.A. 1850, Professor 1859–1906
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historian of the
Huguenots
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Gabriela Basterra
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Professor, current
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professor of
Comparative Literature and
Spanish
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William Baumol
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professor
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member of
National Academy of Sciences
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Saul Bellow
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Professor
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1976
Nobel Prize in Literature
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Baruj Benacerraf
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Professor 1956–1968
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1980
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Marsha Berger
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Professor
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member of
National Academy of Sciences
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Ben Bernanke
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Visiting Professor 1993
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Chairman of the
Federal Reserve Board
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Carl Bernstein
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Professor
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1973
Pulitzer Prize (Watergate)
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Ned Block
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Professor 1996–
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contributed to matters of
consciousness and
cognitive science
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Paul Boghossian
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Professor, current
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Professor of Philosophy
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Richard Bona
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Professor, current
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jazz bassist and composer
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Steven Brams
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Professor 1969 –
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known for his research on
voting systems and
approval voting
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McGeorge Bundy
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Professor of History (1979–1989)
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National Security Advisor under
John F. Kennedy
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John Canemaker
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Professor, current
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Academy Award-winning independent animator, animation historian
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Norman Cantor
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Professor 1978–2004
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medievalist
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Jorge Castañeda
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Visiting Professor
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Secretary of State of Mexico
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Domingo Cavallo
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Guest Lecturer
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former Minister of Finance, Republic of Argentina
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Paul Chaikin
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professor, current
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physicist
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Herrick Chapman
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Professor since 1992
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historian of France
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Jeff Cheeger
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Professor
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member of
National Academy of Sciences
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Stephen F. Cohen
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Professor
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scholar of history and foreign relations of Russia
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Dalton Conley
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Professor, current
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sociologist
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Joan Breton Connelly
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Professor, current
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classical archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Art History at
New York University; appointed to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee by President
George W. Bush in 2003; awarded
MacArthur Fellowship in 1996
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David Copperfield
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Professor
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taught a course on
magic at the age of sixteen
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Richard Courant
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Professor
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noted for the development of the
finite element method
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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Professor, current
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political scientist
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E. L. Doctorow
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Professor
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author of
Ragtime
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Denis Donoghue
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Professor, current
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Irish
literary critic; Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at
New York University
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Norman Dorsen
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Professor, current
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former president of the
American Civil Liberties Union, 1976–1991
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John William Draper
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Professor, 1840–1881
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founder and former president of the
Medical School
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Peter F. Drucker
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Professor, 1950–1972
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major contributor to management theory
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Troy Duster
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Professor, current
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sociologist
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Ronald Dworkin
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Professor, −2013
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clerked for
Judge Learned Hand of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; winner of the 2007
Holberg International Memorial Prize
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William Easterly
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Professor 2003–
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economist
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Robert F. Engle
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Professor 1999–
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2003
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
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Niall Ferguson
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Professor
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author of Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
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Zelda Fichandler
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Professor, current
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National Medal of Arts winner in 1996; inducted into the
American Theater Hall of Fame in 1999
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Hartry Field
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Professor, current
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philosopher
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Kit Fine
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Professor, current
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Silver Professor of Philosophy
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Joel Fink
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Professor, former
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Associate Dean of
Roosevelt University
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Erich Fromm
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Professor of psychiatry 1962–1974
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German-American
psychologist and
philosopher
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Mark L. Gertler
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Professor, current
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macroeconomist; Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics at New York University;
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Carol Gilligan
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Professor
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known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships
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Vivien Goldman
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Professor,
Clive Davis School of Recorded Music
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wrote the first biography of
Bob Marley
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Stephen Jay Gould
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Vincent Astor Visiting Professor
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known for his development of the
evolutionary biology theory of
punctuated equilibrium and his scientific writings
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Percy Grainger
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Professor, 1932–1940
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inventor of the Free Music Machine, the forerunner of the synthesizer
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Rinne Groff
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Professor,
Tisch School of the Arts
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recipient of the
Whiting Writers' Award in 2005 for plays
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Mikhail Gromov
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Jay Gould Professor of Mathematics
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made major contributions to
metric geometry and
symplectic geometry
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David Heeger
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Professor, current
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neuroscientist; son of
Nobel laureate
chemist
Alan J. Heeger
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Daniel Webster Hering
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Dean
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credited with taking the first human x-ray in the United States
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Avram Hershko
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Adjunct Professor 1998–
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2004
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Sidney Hook
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Professor, 1927–1972
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philosopher who championed
pragmatism
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Paul Horwich
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Professor, current
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philosopher,
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Natalie Jeremijenko
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Professor, current
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photographer, founder of xDesign Environmental Health Clinic
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Jotham Johnson
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Chairman of Classics
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archaeologist; former President of
Archaeological Institute of America
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Boyan Jovanovic
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Professor, current
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economist, Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Tony Judt
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Professor
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director of Erich Maria Remarque Institute; author of Postwar
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Frances Kamm
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Professor
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philosopher, winner of a
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Eric Kandel
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Professor
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former faculty member at the
New York University Medical School; winner of the 2000
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Richard S. Kayne
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Professor of Linguistics, current
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developed the theory of
antisymmetry
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Elias Khoury
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Professor
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Lebanese writer and critic
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Israel Kirzner
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Professor emeritus, current
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economist, leading proponent of the
Austrian School of Economics.
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Jason King
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Professor, artistic director of NYU's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music
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writer, pop critic, music manager
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Galway Kinnell
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Professor, 1993 –
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1982
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Stewart Krentzman
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Instructor
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CEO of Oki Data Americas, Inc.
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Carol Herselle Krinsky
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Professor
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architectural historian
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Mattias Kumm
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Professor, current
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holds a Research Professorship on "Globalization and the Rule of Law" at the Social Science Research Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB) and Humboldt University in Berlin
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Saul Krugman
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Professor
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developed first vaccine against
hepatitis B
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Peter Lax
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Professor, current
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member of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences; awarded the
National Medal of Science in 1986, the
Wolf Prize in 1987 and the
Abel Prize in 2005
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Joseph E. LeDoux
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Professor, current
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neuroscientist
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Spike Lee
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Film professor in the Tisch School of the Arts, current
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actor, director, producer, social activist
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Wassily Leontief
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Professor, 1975–1999
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1973
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
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Pierre N. Leval
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Professor
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Judge,
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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David Levering Lewis
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Professor, current
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Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History
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Otto Loewi
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Professor 1940–1961
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1936
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Gary Marcus
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Professor, Current Psychology
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Robert L. Fantz award,
cognitive development
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Colin McLeod
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Professor, 1941–1970
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established that genes are made of DNA
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Theodor Meron
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Professor
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President,
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
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Cheryl Mills
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Current Senior Vice President for Operations and Administration
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former Deputy Counsel to President
Bill Clinton; lead defense attorney in
Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial
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Cathleen Synge Morawetz
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Professor, current
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mathematician, winner of the
National Medal of Science in 1983 and 1988
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Samuel F. B. Morse
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Professor, 1832–?
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inventor of
Morse code
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Brian Morton
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Professor, current
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academic and novelist
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Robert S. Mulliken
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Professor, 1926–1928
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1966
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Gunnar Myrdal
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Visiting professor
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1974
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
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Thomas Nagel
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Professor
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scholar,
philosophy of mind
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Marion Nestle
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Professor, current
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nutritionist
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Ronald K. Noble
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Professor of law
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Interpol Secretary General 2000–present
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Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Professor
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Irish politician and academic
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Severo Ochoa
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Professor, 1942–1974
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winner of 1959
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Sharon Olds
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Professor, current
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English creative writing teacher
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Bertell Ollman
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Full professor
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Henry Bamford Parkes
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Professor
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author of Gods and Men, The Origins of Western Culture and A History of Mexico
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Cyrus Patell
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Professor, current
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American literature and cultural critic
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Adam Penenberg
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Professor
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uncovered the journalistic fraud of
The New Republic reporter
Stephen Glass
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F. E. Peters
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Professor, 1961–
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pioneer in comparative study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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Amir Pnueli
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Professor of Computer Science, current
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winner of the 1996
Turing Award
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Martin Pope
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Professor Emeritus
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physical chemist, winner of the 2006
Davy Medal
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Neil Postman
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1959–2003
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author of
Amusing Ourselves to Death; founder of
media ecology program
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Mary Louise Pratt
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Professor, current
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Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures
|
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Joseph Ransohoff
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Professor, 1962–1992
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physician
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Debraj Ray
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Professor, current
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economist
|
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Richard Revesz
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Professor, current
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Dean of
New York University School of Law
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Robert Rosenblum
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Professor
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art historian and
curator
|
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Kristin Ross
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Professor, current
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professor of
comparative literature, recipient of the
Guggenheim Fellowship from 1999 to 2000
|
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Ariel Rubinstein
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Professor, current
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Israeli economist
|
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Curt Sachs
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Professor, 1937–1953
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co-author of the
Sachs–Hornbostel scheme
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Naomi Sager
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Professor, 1965–1995
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pioneer in computational linguistics; Director of the Linguistic String Project
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Paul A. Samuelson
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Visiting professor
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winner of 1970
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
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Thomas Sargent
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Professor
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one of the leaders of the rational expectations revolution; Berkeley Professor of Economics and Business
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Peter Sarnak
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Professor, 2001–2005
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mathematician
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Mary Schmidt
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Professor, current
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Dean of the
Tisch School of the Arts, fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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John Scofield
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Professor, current
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jazz fusion guitarist and composer
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Richard Sennett
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Professor, current
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Fellow of the
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and
Royal Society of Literature; founding director of the
New York Institute for the Humanities
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Bob Shrum
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Professor
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Democratic political consultant
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Richard Sieburth
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Professor, current
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translator, essayist and
editor
|
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Alan Sokal
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Professor
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known for the
Sokal affair
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John James Stevenson
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Professor Emeritus, 1872–1909
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geologist; President of the
Geological Society of America in 1898
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Darin Strauss
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Adjunct Professor, 2000–present
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author of
Chang & Eng and
The Real McCoy; 2005 teaching award winner; 2006
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Marti G. Subrahmanyam
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Professor, current
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Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the
Stern School of Business
|
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Edward Sullivan
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Professor
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taught
English as a Second Language at New York University for 15 years
|
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Henry Philip Tappan
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Professor of philosophy
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first President of the
University of Michigan
|
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Allen Tate
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Professor, 1948–1951
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author,
Ode to the Confederate Dead
|
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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Visiting professor
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Kenyan activist
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Lewis Thomas
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Dean,
NYU School of Medicine
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S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
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Professor, current
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mathematician, 2007 winner of the
Abel Prize
|
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Akshay Venkatesh
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Professor, current
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mathematician, winner of the 2007
Salem Prize
|
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Ludwig von Mises
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Professor, 1945–1969
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leader of the
Austrian School of economics
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Lawrence Weschler
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Professor, current
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Director of the
New York Institute for the Humanities
|
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Suzanne Weyn
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Guest instructor, 1988–1989
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author of over forty novels
|
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Thomas Wolfe
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author
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Lawrence Wright
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Professor, current
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Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the
New York University School of Law, author of
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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Robert J. C. Young
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Professor, current
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postcolonial theorist, writer and historian
|
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Ronald W. Zweig
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Professor, current
|
Israeli
historian, member of the Historical Advisory Panel to the
National Archives in Washington, D.C.
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Eero P. Simoncelli
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Professor, current
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Won a
Technology & Engineering Emmy Award
|
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Meredith Broussard
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Assistant Professor, current
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Assistant Professor at Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Author of Artificial Unintelligence
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Itamar Rabinovich
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(born 1942), Israeli historian, diplomat and president of
Tel Aviv University
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Nila Banton Smith
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Professor, past
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Director of the Reading Institute
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Barbara Krauthamer
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Faculty member, past
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Historian
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