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Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1821, it is the third oldest college in Massachusetts, and has been coeducational since 1975. Amherst is a member of the historic Little Three colleges, which includes Wesleyan University and Williams...
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Calvin Plimpton
Calvin Hastings Plimpton (7 October 1918, Boston, Massachusetts – 30 January 2007, Westwood, Massachusetts) was an American physician and educator, who served as president of Amherst College and American University of Beirut. He is known for...
Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is also a Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor. He has written, co-written, or edited more than fifty...
William Taubman
William Chase Taubman is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003.
He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of...
Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans (born Ilan Stavchansky on April 7, 1961, in Mexico City) is a Mexican-American, essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, and teacher known for his insights into American, Hispanic,...
Hadley Arkes
Hadley P. Arkes is a conservative political scientist and the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions at Amherst College.
Arkes writes and speaks frequently on pro-life issues and helped craft the Born-Alive Infants...
Ronald Tiersky
Ronald Tiersky (born 1944) is the Joseph B. Eastman Professor in Political Science at Amherst College. He has held the position of Director at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) center in Bologna, Italy and the...
Norton Garfinkle
Norton Garfinkle (born February 26, 1931) is an economist and author.
He received a BA with honors from Columbia University and did his graduate work at Columbia University and Princeton University. He was a professor of economics and economic...
Benjamin Kendall Emerson
Benjamin Kendall Emerson (December 20, 1843 – April 7, 1932) was an American geologist and author.
Emerson graduated from Amherst College in 1865, and went on to receive his doctorate from the University of Göttingen, Germany in 1870. He returned to...
Amrita Basu
Professor Amrita Basu is a scholar of South Asian politics who has a particular interest in women's movements and other social movements. Her most influential publications concern the contested meaning of feminism and the complicated relationship...
George Kateb
George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Kateb, along with John Rawls and Isaiah Berlin, is credited with making significant contributions to liberal political theory. A staunch individualist,...
Jamal J. Ellias
Jamal J. Elias is the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
He was called on to write to the Administrative Review Boards held at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps. The Boards were authorized to recommend...
Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn
Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn (1915, New York City -1984) was an American paleobotanist, called by his student Andrew Knoll, the present Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard, "the father of Pre-Cambrian palaeontology."
Barghoorn is best known...
Charles Baker Adams
Charles Baker Adams (January 11, 1814 – January 18, 1853) was a noted educator and naturalist. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1814, the son of Charles J. Adams.
He graduated from Amherst College in 1834 with high honors (having...
Perez Zagorin
Perez Zagorin (May 20, 1920- April 26, 2009) was a world-renowned historian who specialized in 16th and 17th century English/British history and political thought, early modern European history, and related areas in literature and philosophy. From...
Theodore Baird
Theodore Baird (February 28, 1901 – December 22, 1996) was a noted American professor of English at Amherst College.
Baird was born in Warren, Ohio, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He served on the Amherst faculty from 1927-1969, and...
Colston Warne
Colston Estey Warne (August 14, 1900 – May 20, 1987) was a professor of economics and one of the founders of Consumers Union (along with Arthur Kallet), in 1936. He served as president of the board of directors from 1936 to 1979.
A native of Romulus...
David W. Blight
David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University. Blight was the Class of 1959 Professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years.
Blight grew up in Flint, Michigan, where he later taught in a...
John Maurice Clark
John Maurice Clark (30 November 1884 in Northampton, Massachusetts – 27 June 1963 in West Haven, Connecticut) was an American economist whose work combined the rigor of traditional economic analysis with an "institutionalist" attitude.
Clark studied...
David J. Schneider
David J. Schneider is an American psychologist. He is a professor of psychology and the director of the cognitive sciences program at Rice University.
Schneider's most important published work deals chiefly with cognitive psychology and...
Clarence Edwin Ayres
Clarence Edwin Ayres (May 6, 1891 – July 24, 1972) was the principal thinker in the Texas school of Institutional Economics, during the middle of the 20th century.
Ayres was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the son of a Baptist minister. He graduated...
Benjamin DeMott
Professor Benjamin Haile DeMott (June 2, 1924, Rockville Centre, New York - September 29, 2005) was an American writer, scholar, and cultural critic. Author of more than a dozen books, DeMott was best known for his cultural criticism in popular...
George B. Churchill
George Bosworth Churchill (October 24, 1866 – July 1, 1925) was an American politician, a Representative from Massachusetts, and an academic and editor.
Churchill was born in Worcester, Massachusetts where he grew up. He graduated from Amherst...
Lewis Spratlan
Lewis Spratlan (b. 1940, Miami, United States) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He studied composition with Mel Powell at Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Spizzwinks(?).
Spratlan joined the faculty of...
Henry Preserved Smith
Henry Preserved Smith (October 12, 1847 – February 26, 1927), was an American Biblical scholar.
Smith was born in Troy, Ohio. He graduated at Amherst College in 1869 and studied theology in Lane Theological Seminary in 1869–1872, in Berlin in 1872...
Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve (born 1946) is an award winning American writer. The daughter of an airline pilot and a homemaker, she graduated from Dedham High School, attended Tufts University and began writing while working as a high school teacher. One of her...
Alexander George
Alexander George is a professor of philosophy at Amherst College. He received his B.A. in 1979 from Columbia College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1981 and 1986, respectively. He was also a junior research fellow at New College...
David Peck Todd
David Peck Todd (March 19, 1855 – June 1, 1939) was a noted American astronomer. He produced a complete set of photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus.
Todd was born in Lake Ridge, New York, the son of Sereno Edwards Todd and Rhoda (Peck) Todd. He...
Robert Thurman
Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 3, 1941) is an influential and prolific American Buddhist writer and academic who has authored, edited or translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He is the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan...
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish (7 May 1892 – 20 April 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois....
Anthony Lake
Anthony Lake, or William Anthony Kirsopp Lake (born April 2, 1939) is a retired American diplomat, political figure, and academic. He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, and served as...
Henry Steele Commager
Henry Steele Commager (October 25, 1902 – March 2, 1998) was an American historian who wrote (or edited) over forty books and over 700 journalistic essays and reviews. He won fame as one of the most active and prolific public intellectuals of his...
Stark Young
Stark Young (October 11, 1881 - January 6, 1963) was an American teacher, playwright, novelist, painter, literary critic and essayist.
Stark Young was born in Como, Mississippi to Mary Clark Starks and Alfred Alexander Young, a local physician.
He...
Hermann Joseph Muller
Hermann Joseph Muller (or H. J. Muller) (December 21, 1890 – April 5, 1967) was an American geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation (X-ray mutagenesis) as well as his...
Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New...
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009) was an American theorist in the fields of gender studies, queer theory (queer studies), and critical theory. Her works reflect a serious and abiding interest in a wide range of issues and topics,...
