Megan Abbott Author Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of seven novels, including Dare Me, The End of Everything and her latest, The Fever, which won both the International Thriller Writers and Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Amazon, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times.… read more »
Cristina Alberini Professor in the Center for Neural Science, New York University Cristina Alberini, Professor in the Center for Neural Science, New York University, has been studying the biological mechanisms of long-term memory for the last 20 years. Her studies explore the biological mechanisms of memory consolidation and reconsolidation, the processes by which newly learned information become long-lasting memories, and how memories are modulated and integrated into complex behavioral manifestations.… read more »
Nacho Arimany Ethnic percussionist, Composer Nacho Arimany is a master ethnic percussionist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, currently based in New York City. His music career began at age six as a classical piano student and singer with the Spanish National Choir and Orchestra, and he now works as a producer, performer, therapeutic musician, and educator.… read more »
Patricia Bauer Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Psychology, Emory University Patricia J. Bauer is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Psychology at Emory University. She is a developmental scientists whose primary interests are in autobiographical or personal memory and its development. She earned her PhD from Miami University after which she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego.… read more »
David Bellos Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Princeton University David Bellos studied Modern Languages at Oxford and taught French at the Universities of Edinburgh, Southampton and Manchester before moving to Princeton, where he is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication.… read more »
Sven Bernecker Professor of Philosophy, the University of California, Irvine Sven Bernecker is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. After obtaining his doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University, he held research positions at the University of Munich, Birkbeck College London, the University of Manchester, and the University of Vienna.… read more »
Akeel Bilgrami Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University Akeel Bilgrami got a B.A in English Literature from Elphinstone College, Bombay University and went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He has a Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he is also a Professor on the Committee on Global Thought.… read more »
Bella Brodzki Professor of Comparative Literature, Sarah Lawrence Bella Brodzki is professor of Comparative Literature at Sarah Lawrence, where she teaches courses in world literature/global writing, translation studies, autobiography, and literary and cultural theory. She is the coeditor of Life/lines: Theorizing Women’s Autobiography; a special issue of Comparative Literature Studies on Narrative and Trauma, and author of Can These Bones Live?:… read more »
Paul Browde Psychiatrist, teaching faculty in the Department of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University Paul Browde is a psychiatrist and teaching faculty in the Department of Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. The ethical stance of Narrative therapy shapes his clinical work. He works with both individuals and couples exploring the relational space and the reciprocal relationship between listening and telling.… read more »
Luis Cabral Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics and International Business, Stern School of Business, NYU A native of Portugal, Luís Cabral is a graduate of Stanford University (PhD, Economics, 1989). He taught at the London Business School, Berkeley, Yale, NYU and IESE. He is currently the Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics and International Business at NYU’s Stern School of Business.… read more »
Tom Carew Professor of Neuroscience, NYU Center for Neural Science Thomas Carew is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University, where he is also a Professor of Neural Science. Tom trained with Eric Kandel, a pioneer in the field of memory research.… read more »
David Chalmers Professor of Philosophy , New York University, and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, New York University David Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is best known for his work on consciousness, especially for his formulation of the “hard problem” of consciousness and his arguments against materialism.… read more »
Frances Champagne Associate Professorof Psychology, Columbia University Frances A. Champagne Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. Dr. Champagne’s main research interest concerns how genetic and environmental factors interact to shape the brain and behavior through epigenetic changes in gene expression. Studies in rodents suggest that the quality of maternal care received in infancy can lead to long-term changes in offspring gene expression and behavior. … read more »
Edgar Choueiri Professor of Applied Physics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associated Faculty, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University Professor Edgar Choueiri is Director of Princeton University’s Program in Engineering Physics, and Director of Princeton’s Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory (EPPDyL). He is tenured Full Professor in the Applied Physics Group at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, and associated faculty at the Astrophysical Sciences Department/Program in Plasma Physics at Princeton University.… read more »
Martin Conway Professor of Cognitive Psychology, City University London Professor of Cognitive Psychology, head of the psychology department at City University London, Martin A. Conway has been studying human memory for more than thirty years. He is known for his pioneering theoretical work on autobiographical memory, as well as for his studies of the neuropsychology of memory and memory’s neurological basis.… read more »
James Dahlman Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech James Dahlman is a chemical / bioengineer who works at the interface of nanotechnology, genomics, and gene editing. He is studying gene editing with Feng Zhang at the Broad Institute. He received his PhD from MIT and Harvard Medical School in 2014, where he studied RNA delivery and gene therapies with Robert Langer and Daniel Anderson.… read more »
Sarah Demers Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics, Yale University Professor Demers is a particle physicist who studies the fundamental particles and forces of nature. Her recent work has focused on the characterization of the Higgs Boson and a measurement of tau polarization with the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.… read more »
Theodore Dimon Director of The Dimon Institute; adjunct assistant professor, Columbia Teachers College. Theodore (Ted) Dimon is the founder and director of The Dimon Institute and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia Teachers College. Dimon’s pioneering work covers the study of the human mental and physical ‘operating system’ as a holistic entity and how it works in activity.… read more »
Stuart Firestein Former Chair of Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University Stuart Firestein is the former Chair of Columbia University’s Department of Biological Sciences, where he studies the vertebrate olfactory system. Aside from its molecular detection capabilities, the olfactory system serves as a model for investigating general principles and mechanisms of signaling and perception in the brain.… read more »
Karl Friston Professor at the Institute of Neurology, University College London Karl Friston is a theoretical neuroscientist and authority on brain imaging. He invented statistical parametric mapping (SPM), voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and dynamic causal modelling (DCM). These contributions were motivated by schizophrenia research and theoretical studies of value-learning – formulated as the dysconnection hypothesis of schizophrenia.… read more »
Paul Fry William Lampson Professor of English, Yale University Paul H. Fry is the William Lampson Professor of English and has taught at Yale since 1971. He received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph. D. from Harvard. His primary areas of specialization are British romanticism, the history of literary criticism, contemporary literary theory, and literature in relation to the visual arts.… read more »
Paul Harris Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education, Harvard Paul Harris is a developmental psychologist with interests in the development of cognition, emotion and imagination. After studying psychology at Sussex and Oxford, he taught at the University of Lancaster, the Free University of Amsterdam and the London School of Economics.… read more »
Alexandra Horowitz Professor of Psychology, Barnard College Dr. Alexandra Horowitz is a researcher and professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she teaches seminars in canine cognition, creative nonfiction writing, and audio storytelling. As Senior Research Fellow, she heads the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard, studying the behavior and mind of owned dogs.… read more »
Marie Howe 2012-2014 Poet Laureate of New York State Marie Howe is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time; The Good Thief; and What the Living Do, and she is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic.… read more »
Steve Hsu Vice-President for Research and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University Steve Hsu is Vice-President for Research and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University, where he oversees over $500 million in annual research expenditures. Educated at Caltech and Berkeley, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and held professorships at Yale University and the University of Oregon.… read more »
Siri Hustvedt Author, Essayist Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, Reading to You; seven novels, The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American, The Summer Without Men, The Blazing World, and Memories of the Future, as well as five essay collections, Women, Mothers, Fathers, and Others; A Plea for Eros; Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting; Living, Thinking, Looking; A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women and a work of nonfiction: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves.… read more »
Piet Hut Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Institute for Advanced Study Piet Hut has been Professor of Astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, since 1985, where he is currently the Head of the Program for Interdisciplinary Studies. One focus of Piet Hut’s research is computational astrophysics, in particular multiscale multiphysics simulations of dense stellar systems. … read more »
Vijay Iyer Composer & Pianist Grammy-nominated composer-pianist Vijay Iyer was described by Pitchfork as “one of the most interesting and vital young pianists in jazz today,” by the Los Angeles Weekly as “a boundless and deeply important young star,” and by Minnesota Public Radio as “an American treasure.”… read more »
Gabrielle Jackson Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University Gabrielle Benette Jackson received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 2011. Since then she has been the Andrew W Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute, and a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Social Sciences in Princeton, New Jersey.… read more »
James Judd Conductor, Music Director of the Israel Symphony and the Little Orchestra Society James Judd is Music Director of the Israel Symphony and the Little Orchestra Society. Previous directorships include the New Zealand Symphony, the Orchestre National deLille, Adelaide Symphony and the Florida Philharmonic. A regular guest conductor with major orchestras around the globe, he leads an annual tour of Asia with the Asian Youth Orchestra, as an opera conductor he has led the English National Opera, Glyndeboune Opera Festival and Florida Grand Opera, and as a recording artist he has amassed an extensive discography with the Naxos, Decca, Philips and EMI labels.… read more »
Rex Jung Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico Rex Jung received his training in clinical psychology, specializing in neuropsychology, at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque. He completed an internship at Baylor College of Medicine in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Behavioral Medicine, and postdoctoral training at the University of New Mexico in Psychiatry Research.… read more »
Brigitte Kahl Professor of New Testament, Union Theological Seminary in New York Brigitte Kahl is a Professor of New Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York and an Associate Professor at the Religion Department of Columbia University. A biblical scholar with strong inter-disciplinary and ecological leanings, she explores scriptural texts and topics in their ancient contexts and interpretational trajectories throughout history, analyzing both “mainline” and “heretic” reading paradigms in their impact on church, society and natural environment.… read more »
Zachary Kaminsky Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Zachary Kaminsky is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and jointly appointed in the Department of Mental Health in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D.… read more »
Kenneth T. Kishida Research Scientist, Computational Psychiatry Unit, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Kenneth T. Kishida is a Research Scientist in the Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute. He investigates neurobiological processes underlying human choice behavior using computational approaches paired with measurements of behavior and associated neural activity. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Genetics at the University of California, Davis, but also studied Philosophy and developed an interest in investigating the biological basis of mental processes.… read more »
Simon Kochen Professor emeritus and Senior Research Scientist, Mathematics Department, Princeton University Simon Kochen is Professor emeritus and Senior Research Scientist in the Mathematics Department of Princeton University. Kochen received his Ph.D. in 1959 from Princeton University. He was a professor at Cornell University from 1960 to 1967. After a year at the Institute for Advanced Study, he joined the Princeton Mathematics Department in 1968.… read more »
Joseph Kohn Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Princeton University Joseph Kohn was born in Prague, on May 18, 1932. He emigrated to Ecuador in 1939 and to the US in 1945. There, he received his BS at MIT 1953, and his Ph.D. at Princeton, in 1956. He served as a Professor at Brandeis University 1958-1968 and at Princeton since 1968.… read more »
Marina Korsakova-Kreyn Marina Korsakova-Kreyn is a professional pianist and scholar in music perception and cognition. She received her Diploma in Piano Performance from Nizhniy Novgorod State Conservatory, Russia, and she received her Ph.D. in Cognition and Neuroscience from The University of Texas at Dallas.… read more »
Sara Lazar Assistant Professor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School Sara W. Lazar, Ph.D., is an Associate Researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The focus of her research is to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation, both in clinical settings and in healthy individuals.… read more »
Francis Lee Mortimer D. Sackler Professor & Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College View Papers / Presentations » Francis Lee is the Mortimer D. Sackler Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, and attending psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He received his MD and PhD from the University of Michigan, and psychiatry training at Payne Whitney Clinic and completed postdoctoral training, at New York University and the University of California, San Francisco.… read more »
Anne-Marie Levine Poet and Visual Artist Anne-Marie Levine lives in New York City. A poet and visual artist who began writing while touring as a concert pianist, she’s the author of three books of poetry: Euphorbia, Bus Ride to a Blue Movie, and Oral History; and a forthcoming artists book called Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter.… read more »
Suzanne Jill Levine Director of Translation Studies, the University of California, Santa Barbara Suzanne Jill Levine’s translation Mundo Cruel: Stories (by Luis Negron) won the 2014 Lambda Prize for Fiction. Editor of the Penguin paperback classics of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry and essays, and translator of canonical Latin American writers such as Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Julio Cortazar, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy and Adolfo Bioy Casares, she has received many honors (NEH, NEA, Guggenheim Fellowships, Rockefeller Fellowship at Villa Serbelloni, PEN American & USA awards) and most recently received the PEN award in 2012 for Jose Donoso’ s The Lizard’s Tale.… read more »
Mark Levinson Director of Particle Fever Before embarking on his film career, Mark earned a doctoral degree in theoretical particle physics from the University of California at Berkeley. In the film world, he became a specialist in ADR, working with actors and directors in post-production to write and record additional dialogue.… read more »
Penelope Lewis Senior Lecturer of Neuroscience, University of Manchester Penelope A. Lewis is a neuroscientist at the University of Manchester, where she runs the Neuroscience and Psychology of Sleep (NaPS) lab. Her research specifically investigates the role of sleep in strengthening and altering memories – and ways we can use this to our advantage. … read more »
Fei Li Assistant Professor of Biology, New York University Fei Li is an Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the University of Texas at Austin. He then conducted his postdoctoral research at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and University of California at Berkeley.… read more »
Peter Malinowski Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liverpool John Moores University Peter Malinowski, PhD, is the founding director of the Meditation and Mindfulness Research Group at the Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Liverpool John Moores University and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. In his work he builds on his expertise in Cognitive Neuroscience and on his extensive experience in practicing and teaching meditation within the Karma Kagyu / Diamond Way tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.… read more »
Alberto Manguel Writer and translator Alberto Manguel is an Argentinian-Canadian writer, translator and critic. He has published both fiction and non-fiction, and received numerous international awards, among others the Formentor Prize 2017 and the Gutenberg Prize 2018. Until August 2018, he was the director of the Argentine National Library.… read more »
Karen Maschke Researcher Scholar, The Hastings Center Karen J. Maschke is a Research Scholar at the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute in Garrison, New York. She has a PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University, a master’s degree in bioethics from Case Western Reserve University, and was a Bioethics Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic, an academic medical center in Cleveland, Ohio.… read more »
Darrin McMahon Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College Darrin M. McMahon is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College, and formerly the Ben Weider Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University, where he taught from 2004-2014. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale, where he received his PhD in 1998, McMahon is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001); Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), which has been translated into twelve languages, and was awarded Best Books of the Year honors for 2006 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Library Journal, and Slate Magazine; and Divine Fury: A History of Genius, published with Basic Books.… read more »
Priyamvada Natarajan Professor of Astronomy and of Physics, Yale University Priyamvada Natarajan’s research is focused on exotica in the Universe-dark matter, dark energy and black holes. She is noted for her key contributions to two of the most challenging problems in cosmology: mapping the distribution of dark matter and tracing the growth history of black holes.… read more »
Koshin Paley Ellison Co-Founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care Rev. Dr. Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, cofounded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, the first Zen-based organization to offer fully accredited ACPE clinical chaplaincy training in America, which delivers contemplative approaches to care through education, direct service, and meditation practice.… read more »
Ken Paller Professor of Psychology; Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University Ken Paller conducts cognitive neuroscience research at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he also serves as Director of the Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition. Ken’s collaborative research with his students and colleagues focuses on human memory, consciousness, and related issues.… read more »
Regina Pally Co-Founder and Assistant Director, Center for Reflective Parenting Regina Pally is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, in private practice for over 35 years, with a special interest in parents and couples. For 25 years she has studied and written about neuroscience for mental health professionals and the lay public. Most recently she dedicated herself to working in the community to improve the lives of children and their families. … read more »
Irene Pepperberg Research Associate, Harvard University Irene Pepperberg (S.B, MIT, ’69; Ph.D., Harvard, ’76) is a Research Associate and lecturer at Harvard. She has been a visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, a visiting Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and an adjunct Associate Professor at Brandeis University.… read more »
Tristan Perich Composer and sound artist Tristan Perich’s work is inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of math, physics and code. WIRE Magazine describes his compositions as “an austere meeting of electronic and organic.” 1-Bit Music, his 2004 release, was the first album ever released as a microchip, programmed to synthesize his electronic composition live.… read more »
Colin Phillips Professor of Linguistics & Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland; Director, Maryland Language Science Center; Associate Director, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program Colin Phillips combines linguistics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to understand how language is mentally and neurally encoded, and how children learn language so effortlessly. In the same way that vision scientists study optical illusions in order to reveal the inner workings of the visual system, Phillips and his team study linguistic illusions to reveal how linguistic representations are encoded and navigated in memory.… read more »
Mark Polizzotti Author, Director of the Publications Program at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Mark Polizzotti has translated more than fifty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, André Breton, and Raymond Roussel. A Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the recipient of a 2016 American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature, he is the author of eleven books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995; revised ed.,… 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 »
Alan Richardson Professor of English, Boston College Alan Richardson is Professor of English at Boston College. He holds degrees in English from Princeton University and Harvard University. A Romanticist by training, he has published extensively on the literature and culture of the British Romantic era, especially in relation to issues of gender, childhood and education, race and colonialism, and scientific psychology.… read more »
Carol Rovane Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University Carol Rovane is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, where she has served as Director of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Philosophy Department, and was recently awarded the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. She publishes widely in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action and ethics, and has authored two books: The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics, and The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism. … read more »
Joanne Ruthsatz Assistant Professor of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Mansfield Joanne Ruthsatz is Assistant Professor of Psychology at The Ohio State University, Mansfield. She graduated from Bowling Green State University with a BA in psychology, receiving Phi Beta Kappa. She completed her PhD in Experimental Psychology at Case Western Reserve University.… read more »
Adam J. Sacks Ph.D. Candidate in History, Brown University Adam J Sacks is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Brown University. He holds a Masters of Arts from Brown University, a Masters of Science (High Honors) from the City College of the City University of New York, and a Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University.… read more »
Nicholas Schiff Director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuromodulation at Weill Cornell Medical College; Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology, and Public Health Dr. Nicholas Schiff is Jerold B. Katz Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, as well as Director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuromodulation, at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Schiff directs an integrative translational research program with a primary focus on understanding the process of recovery of consciousness following brain injuries.… read more »
Sandra Shapshay Associate Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University Sandra Shapshay earned her B.A. in Intellectual History from the University of Pennsylvania (1992) and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University (2001). She is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. Shapshay’s interests center on 19th century German philosophy, especially Kant and Schopenhauer, as well as contemporary aesthetics and ethics.… read more »
Dean Keith Simonton Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis Dean Keith Simonton is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, he received his 1975 PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard University. His research program spans various questions associated with genius, creativity, leadership, talent, and aesthetics. Simonton’s curriculum vita lists more than 500 publications, including 13 books, namely: Genius, Creativity, and Leadership; Why Presidents Succeed; Scientific Genius; Psychology, Science, and History; Greatness; Genius and Creativity; Origins of Genius; Great Psychologists and Their Times; Creativity in Science; Genius 101; Great Flicks; Social Science of Cinema; and, most recently, The Wiley Handbook of Genius.… read more »
Sheldon Solomon Professor of Psychology and Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Skidmore College Sheldon Solomon is Professor of Psychology and Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College. As an experimental social psychologist (with a B.A. in psychology from Franklin and Marshall College, and PhD from the University of Kansas), his interests include the nature of self, consciousness, and social behavior.… read more »
Morgan Stebbins Supervising Analyst, Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York Morgan Stebbins was a supervising analyst, faculty member and Director of Training at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York, where he also maintains a private practice. He teaches Religious Studies and Hermeneutics at the New York Theological Seminary in the Pastoral Care and Counseling program.… read more »
Jean Strouse Historian and Biographer Jean Strouse is the author of Morgan, American Financier (1999, 2014) and Alice James, A Biography (1980, 2011), which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. Her essays and reviews have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Vogue, and Slate.… read more »
Yi-Yuan Tang Professor of Psychological Sciences, Texas Tech University View Papers / Presentations » Dr. Yi-Yuan Tang is a Professor of Psychological Sciences, Presidential Endowed Chair in Neuroscience at Texas Tech University and founding Director of Texas Tech Neuroimaging Institute. He is also Professor of Internal Medicine at TTU Health Science Center, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon.… read more »
Ryan Tellalian Ph.D. Candidate in Clinical Psychology, The New School for Social Research Ryan Tellalian is a PhD student in Clinical Psychology at The New School for Social Research. He holds an MA in Psychology from the same institution, an M.Div. from St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, and a certificate in Armenian Studies from St.… read more »
Michael S. Turner Bruce V. and Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, the University of Chicago Michael S. Turner is a theoretical astrophysicist and the Bruce V. and Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is also Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at Chicago, which he helped to establish, and formerly served as the President of the American Physical Society.… read more »
Jessica Tyler Professor, Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Jessica Tyler was born in England in 1969. After graduating from the University of Sheffield with a Bachelors degree and Hans Krebs prize in Biochemistry, she performed her PhD studies at the MRC Virology Unit in Glasgow, Scotland. During her postdoctoral studies at the University of California San Diego identified the key factors that package our genetic material into chromosomes.… read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Phil Zabriskie Author and Journalist Phil Zabriskie is the author of the The Kill Switch, a highly-acclaimed Kindle Single about American soldiers and Marines learning to take life in combat and then dealing with this particular aspect of their experience once they return home. Previously, he spent nearly a decade living and working as a journalist overseas, primarily as a staff writer for Time magazine in Asia and the Middle East, covering both Afghanistan and Iraq, along with news and events in Pakistan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and elsewhere.… read more »
Paul Zelinsky Children’s book illustrator and author Paul O. Zelinsky is a children’s book illustrator and writer whose books have won wide acclaim and many awards, including the Caldecott Medal for his retelling of Rapunzel, and three Caldecott Honors, for Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Swamp Angel.… read more »