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 »
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 »
Nikos Salingaros Professor, Mathematics & Architecture, University of Texas at San Antonio View Papers / Presentations » Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros is Professor of Mathematics and Architecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio. An internationally recognized Architectural Theorist and Urbanist, his publications include the books Algorithmic Sustainable Design, Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction, A Theory of Architecture, Principles of Urban Structure, and Unified Architectural Theory, plus numerous scientific articles.… read more »
Fred Sander Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry Fred Sander has been teaching and practicing psychoanalysis and family therapy since graduating from Albert Einstein Medical School in 1963. He is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry and on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute Psychotherapy Program.… read more »
John Schaefer John Schaefer is the host and producer of WNYC’s long-running new music show New Sounds (“The #1 radio show for the Global Village” – Billboard), founded in 1982, and its innovative Soundcheck podcast, which has featured live performances and interviews with a variety of guests since 2002.… read more »
Caleb Scharf Director of Astrobiology, Columbia University Caleb Scharf’s research career spans cosmology, exoplanetary science, and astrobiology. He currently leads efforts at Columbia University in New York to understand the nature of exoplanets and living environments in the universe. He is also a Global Science Coordinator for the Earth-Life Science Institute’s Origins Network at the Tokyo Institute for Technology and a co-founder of YHouse, Inc.… 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 »
Daniela Schiller Professor, Neuroscience & Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Dr. Daniela Schiller is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, and the Friedman Brain Institute, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research is focused on how the brain represents and modifies emotional memories.… read more »
Susan Schneider NASA/Baruch Blumberg Chair, Library of Congress Director of the AI, Mind and Society Group, University of Connecticut Susan Schneider is the NASA/Baruch Blumberg Chair at the Library of Congress and the director of the AI, Mind and Society Group at the University of Connecticut. Her work has been featured by the New York Times, Scientific American, Smithsonian, Fox TV, History Channel, and more.… read more »
Lloyd Schwartz Frederick S. Troy Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston Lloyd Schwartz is the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. In addition to being a poet and literary critic, Mr. Schwartz is the classical music editor for The Boston Phoenix and a regular commentator on NPR’s Fresh Air.… read more »
Wynn Schwartz Clinical psychologist and research psychoanalyst, The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology Wynn Schwartz, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and research psychoanalyst on the core faculty of The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and on the faculties of Harvard Medical School and The Harvard Extension School. He is a coeditor of Advances in Descriptive Psychology.… read more »
David W. Schwartzman Professor Emeritus, Biology, Howard University View Papers / Presentations » David W. Schwartzman, Professor Emeritus, Howard University (Washington DC, USA), PhD in Geochemistry from Brown University, USA. In 1999 (updated in paperback in 2002), he published Life, Temperature and the Earth (Columbia University), in addition to many papers in Capitalism Nature Socialism (CNS) and other journals.… read more »
Sara Seager Astrophysicist Professor Physics, Planetary Science, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Sara Seager is an astrophysicist and a Professor of Physics, Professor of Planetary Science, and a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she holds the Class of 1941 Professor Chair. She has been a pioneer in the vast and unknown world of exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun.… read more »
Rebecca Seal Assistant Professor Departments of Neurobiology and Otolaryngology Center for Pain Research, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Seal is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and Otolaryngology and the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research. Her work has focused on the neurobiology of neurotransmitter transporters and their role in nervous system function including hearing, vision, motor output and pain.… read more »
Harvey Seifter Harvey Seifter, one of the world’s leading authorities on organizational creativity, is founder and director of The Art of Science Learning (AOSL), a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that uses the arts to spark creativity and innovation in science, technology, engineering and education.… read more »
James Serpell James Serpell holds the Marie A. Moore endowed Chair of Animal Ethics & Welfare at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor’s degree in Zoology from University College London and his PhD in Animal Behavior from the University of Liverpool, UK.… read more »
Susan Seymour Jean M. Pitzer Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Pitzer College Susan C. Seymour is Jean M. Pitzer Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Pitzer College where she served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty as well as Coordinator of Women’s Studies for the Claremont Colleges. Her research has focused on changing family and gender systems in India, specifically a longitudinal study in Bhubaneswar, India.… read more »
Nermeen Shaikh Co-Host & News Producer, Democracy Now! Nermeen Shaikh is a Co-Host and News Producer at Democracy Now! She is the author of The Present as History published by Columbia University Press. She has a B.A. (Honours) from Queen’s University in Canada, and an M.Phil. in politics from Cambridge University.… read more »
Theodore Shapiro Professor Emeritus, Weill-Cornell Medical College Theodore Shapiro is Professor Emeritus at the Weill-Cornell Medical College and a practicing psychoanalyst and adult, child and adolescent psychiatrist . He is a co-principle investigator on a study of psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. He has more than 200 scholarly and research publications, is author of 7 books, and was Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association from 1983-94.… 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 »
Anna Shechtman Klarman Fellow, Cornell University Anna Shechtman is a Klarman Fellow at Cornell University and will begin as an assistant professor in the Department of Literatures in English in 2024. She is writing a two-volume history of the “media” and “data” concepts in the United States.… 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 »
Francis X. Shen Executive Director, Harvard MGH Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior Dr. Francis X. Shen, JD, PhD is the Executive Director of the Harvard MGH Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior; an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School; Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience at the Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center; and an Associate Professor of Law, McKnight Presidential Fellow, and faculty member in the Graduate Program on Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota.… read more »
Daphna Shohamy Associate Professor of Psychology, Columbia University Daphna Shohamy is an Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Mind, Brain Behavior Institute and Department of Psychology and a member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science. Dr. Shohamy’s research combines brain imaging in healthy humans with studies of patients with brain disorders to understand how our expectations and experiences change the way memories are formed and the consequences for health and disease.… read more »
Richard A. Shweder Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. degree in social anthropology in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University in 1972, taught a year at the University of Nairobi in Kenya and has been at the University of Chicago ever since.… read more »
Lee Silver Lee M. Silver is a professor of molecular biology at Princeton University and co-founder of GenePeek, a genetic research company which screens couples for possible prospective genetic disorders in their children. Silver is the author of the book Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family (1998) and Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life (2006).… read more »
Viviane Silvera Artist & filmmaker View Papers / Presentations » Viviane Silvera is an award winning artist and filmmaker. Her videos have been installed at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MGM National Harbor, University of Mary Washington, Davidson College, 4Culture and the Cube Art Project – Union Bank. Exhibitions include the Art Basel Miami, Art Week Berlin, the Edward Hopper House, the Albright Knox Gallery, The Dahesh Museum, The Masur Museum and The Museo de la Ciudad – Mexico.… 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 »
Nathalie Sinclair Distinguished University Professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University Nathalie Sinclair is Distinguished University Professor at Simon Fraser University, in the Faculty of Education. She is co-editor of Mathematics and the aesthetic: New approaches to an ancient affinity and What is a mathematical concept?. She has also led the development of two multi-touch apps for arithmetic learning, called TouchCounts and TouchTimes.… 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 »
Dan Slater Journalist, Author Dan Slater, a widely published author of journalism and creative nonfiction, is the author of Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating. A former legal affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Dan is currently a contributor to Fast Company and The New York Times.… read more »
Steven Sloman Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University Steven Sloman is a Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University where he has worked since 1992. He did his PhD in Psychology at Stanford University from 1986-1990 and then did post-doctoral research for two years at the University of Michigan.… read more »
Mark Smith Carolina Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Carolina Claude Henry Neuffer Chair of Southern Studies, University of South Carolina Mark Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History and Claude Henry Neuffer Chair of Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he is also Director of the Institute for Southern Studies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. … read more »
Ken Soehner Ken Soehner is the Arthur K. Watson Chief Librarian, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan of Art. With a collection of more than one million volumes, the libraries at The Metropolitan Museum comprise one of the largest and most encyclopedic collections of research material relating to the history of art.… 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 »
Ellen Handler Spitz Honors College Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland (UMBC) Ellen Handler Spitz writes, teaches, and lectures on the visual, literary, and performing arts and psychology and on the aesthetic lives of children. Her background includes four years as a research candidate at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. … read more »
Katepalli Sreenivasan Katepalli Sreenivasan holds professorships in the Department of Physics as well as the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and is the Eugene Kleiner Professor for Innovation in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NYU. He is also University Professor in NYU, a title conferred upon scholars whose work is interdisciplinary and reflects exceptional breadth.… read more »
Peter Stearns Peter Stearns is University Professor of History at George Mason University, where he long served as Provost. He has also taught at Harvard, where he earned his undergraduate degree and doctorate, the University of Chicago, Rutgers, and Carnegie Mellon. He has previously been a Vice President of the American Historical Association and founded and long edited the Journal of Social HIstory.… 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 »
Alma Steingart Assistant Professor, History, Columbia University Alma Steingart researches the interplay between politics and mathematical rationalities. Steingart’s second book manuscript, Accountable Democracy: Mathematical Reasoning and Representative Democracy in America, 1920 to Now, examines how mathematical thought and computing technologies have impacted electoral politics in the United States in the twentieth century.… 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 »
Eric Steinhart Professor of Philosophy at William Paterson University Eric Steinhart grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. He received his BS in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University, after which he worked as a software designer for several years. Many of his algorithms have been patented. He earned an MA in Philosophy from Boston College and was awarded a PhD in Philosophy from SUNY at Stony Brook. … read more »
Karen B. Stern Professor of History, Brooklyn College of the City, University of New York Karen B. Stern is Professor of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Her research is deeply interdisciplinary. She studied Classics with honors at Dartmouth College, earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Brown University, and has excavated and conducted field research in different areas of the Mediterranean, including Jordan, Greece, Tunisia, Morocco, and Israel.… read more »
Matthew Stone Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University Matthew Stone completed his Ph.D. in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. Since then he has had an appointment in the Computer Science Department and Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. … read more »
Jonathan Stray Research Scholar, Columbia University Computational Journalist Jonathan Stray is a computational journalist at Columbia University, where he teaches the dual masters degree in computer science and journalism and leads the development of Workbench, an integrated tool for data journalism. He’s contributed to The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, Foreign Policy and ProPublica.… 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 »
Sushma Subramanian Science Writer & Journalist Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Mary Washington View Papers / Presentations » Sushma Subramanian is the author of “How to Feel: The Science and Meaning of Touch,” a book that explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch and that aims to reconnect readers to what is arguably our most important sense.… read more »
David Sulzer Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Pharmacology, Columbia University & New York State Psychiatric Institute Dave Sulzer is a professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Pharmacology, and at the School of the Arts at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. He received a PhD in biology from Columbia University. His lab has published over 250 studies on synaptic function, particularly of the basal ganglia and dopamine systems, and neuroimmunology, in normal and diseased states that are cited over 50,000 times (h-index 198).… read more »
Wendy Suzuki Professor of Neural Science and Psychology, New York University Wendy Suzuki, Ph.D. is a Professor of Neural Science and psychology at New York University. She received her undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from U.C. San Diego. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health before starting her faculty position in the Center for Neural Science at New York University in 1998.… read more »
Nathan M. Szajnberg Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis Nathan Szajnberg is the Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, on the Faculty at New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and formerly Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University. He is the author or editor of four books and one novella: Educating the Emotions (on Bruno Bettelheim’s ideas); Lives Across Time (with Henry Massie); Reluctant Warriors (the maturation and inner lives of elite Israeli soldiers) and Sheba and Solomon’s Return: Ethiopian Children in Israel (the foundational study for this roundtable).… read more »