Matthew Rabin is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His current research topics are models of self-control, fairness in economics, bounded rationality and self-deception. He is a contributing co-author with Ted O onoghue of Self Awareness and Self Control, to appear as a chapter of Roy Baumeister, George Loewenstein, and Daniel Read (eds) Now or Later: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Intertemporal Choice (Russell Sage Foundation Press, forthcoming); Risky Behavior Among Youths: Some Issues from Behavioral Economics (co-author with Ted O onoghue), in Jon Gruber, editor, Youthful Risky Behavior: An Economic Perspective, (University of Chicago Press, 2000); and Addiction and Self-Control (with Ted O onoghue), in Addition: Entries and Exits, Jon Elster, editor, Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Lorna A. Rhodes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington. She is the author of Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (2004) and "Utilitarians With Words: 'Psychopathy' and the Supermaximum Prison" (Ethnography, 2003).
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Anne-Marie Roviello is Professor of Philosophy in the department of History, Art, and Archaeology at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. She is coeditor of Hannah Arendt et la modernité (with Chaumont and Weyembergh, 2000) and author of Sens commun et modernite chez Hannah Arendt (1987), among other publications.
Current as of Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Alan Ryan is Warden of the New College, Oxford University and a member of the British Academy since 1986. He is the author of many articles and books. His books include Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education (Hill and Wang, 1998); John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism (W. W. Norton & Company, 1997); and Russell: A Political Life (Hill and Wang, 1995). He was the editor of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Mill: A Critical Edition (W. W. Norton & Company, 1997); Karl Marx (Harper, 1995) and Democracy in America (Everyman Library, 1994).
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Barry Schwartz, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Georgia, has addressed collective memory issues in many articles and books, including
George Washington: The Making of an American Symbol (1987), Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory (2000), and Abraham Lincoln, Eroding Idol: History and Memory in the Post-Heroic Era (forthcoming, 2008).
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Ian Shapiro is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor and Chairman of the Political Science Department and was previously Director of the Program of Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University. His research interests include the methodologies of the social sciences, theories of justice and democracy, the relations between democracy and the distribution of income and wealth, and the prospects for sustainable democracy in the post-communist world and sub-Saharan Africa. Professor Shapiro is author of The State of Democratic Theory (Princeton University Press, 2004); The Moral Foundations of Politics (Yale Press, 2003); and The Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1986).
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Jonathan Simon is Associate Dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (2006).
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Lacey Baldwin Smith, Professor emeritus of history and Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Humanities emeritus at Northwestern University, is the author of eight books on English history, and Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: the Story of Martyrdom in the Western World. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
Brent Staples joined The New York Times editorial board in 1990. He is author of the memoir Parallel Time, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Michael P. Steinberg is the Director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and Professor of Music at Brown University. His main research interests include the cultural history of modern Germany and Austria with particular attention to German Jewish intellectual history and the cultural history of music. His most recent publication is Judaism Musical and Unmusical (2007).
Current as of Vol.74 No.3 (Fall 2007)
Cass Sunstein is Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, with an appointment in the Department of Political Science. His recent books include Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge (2006).
Current as of Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
David Sutton, Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, is interested in questions
of memory, food, gender, skill, and practical knowledge. His publications
include Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory and Memories Cast in Stone: The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life. He is also coeditor of The Restaurants Book: Ethnographies of Where We Eat.
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
John Sutton is Professor of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, where he was Head of the Philosophy Department until 2007. He is author of Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to Connectionism and coeditor of Memory Studies. His research addresses memory, dreaming, skilled movement, distributed cognition, and early modern philosophy.
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Étienne Tassin is professor of political philosophy at the University Paris VII Denis-Diderot and a member of the Centre de Sociologie des Pratiques et des Représentations Politiques. His publications include Le trésor perdu : Hannah Arendt, l'intelligence de l'action politique (1999) and Un monde commun : pour une cosmo_politique des conflits (2003), and he is the editor of L'humaine condition politique : Hannah Arendt (2001).
Current as of Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
Michael Tonry is Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy and director of The Institute on Crime and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. His books include Crime and Punishment in Western Countries, 1980-99 (with Farrington, 2005).
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, directed the National Institute of Justice at the U.S. Department of Justice from 1994-2000. He is the author of But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry (2005).
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Alan Trachtenberg is Neil Grey, Jr. Emeritus Professor of English and Professor Emeritus of American Studies, Yale University. His books include Reading American Photographs: Images as History (1989; winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize), Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1890-1930 (2004; winner of the Francis Parkman Prize), and Lincoln’s Smile and Other Enigmas (2007).
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Christopher Uggen is Distinguished McKnight Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (with Manza, 2006).
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author most recently of Out of the Cave: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Dead Sea Scrolls Research (2006).
Current as of Vol.74 No.1 (Spring 2007)
Sidney Verba is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at the J.F.Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the author and co-author of a number of books on American and comparative politics, including The Private Roots of Public Action (co-author with Nancy Burns, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Harvard University Press, 2001); Voice and Equality (co-author with Kay Lehman Schlozman, Henry E. Brady, Harvard University Press, 1995); and Designing Social Inquiry (co-author with Gary King, Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University Press, 1994). He won the Kammerer Prize of the American Political Science Association for the best book on American politics for Participation in America (Harper and Row,1972), and in 1976 his book, The Changing American Voter, won the Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book in political science.
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Dana Villa is Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of several books, including "Arendt and Heidegger: the Fate of the Political" (Princeton, 1996), "Politics, Philosophy, Terror" (Princeton, 1999), and "Socratic Citizenship" (Princeton, 2001). A new book, "Public Freedom," is forthcoming from Princeton in 2008. Villa is currently working on a book entitled "Teachers of the People" which looks at the political pedagogy of Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Marx.
Current as of Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
Andrew von Hirsch is Honorary Professor of Penal Theory and Penal Law at the University of Cambridge and the founding Director of the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics at the Institute of Criminology. His books include Proportionate Sentencing: Exploring the Principles (with Ashworth, 2005).
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
David Weiman is Alena Wels Hirschorn '58 Professor of Economics at Barnard College. He is co-author of The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration, Crime and Delinquency (2001) and co-editor of Incarcerating America: The Social Impacts of Mass Incarceration (2004).
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Harald Welzer is the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research at Essen and Research Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany. His publications in English include “The Collateral Damage of Enlightenment: How Grandchildren Understand the History of National Socialist Crimes and Their Grandfather’s Past” (in Cohen-Pfister and Wienroeder-Skinner, 2006).
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
James V. Wertsch is Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He is Director of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy, Director of International and Area Studies, and Professor in the Department of Anthropology. His publications include Voices of Collective Remembering (2002) and The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky (coedited
with Daniels and Cole, 2007).
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
Bruce Western is Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. His publications include Punishment and Inequality in America (2006) and "Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration" (with Pettit; American Sociological Review, 2004).
Current as of Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Neil L. Whitehead is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Author of numerous works on South America his most recent volumes include Violence (2004), Terror, Violence and the Imagination (2005) and War in the Tribal Zone (James Currey 1999). He is currently working on issues of sexuality, violence and the end of the human.
Current as of Vol.75 No.2 (Summer 2008)
James Q. Whitman is Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale University. His recent works include the books Harsh Justice (2003) and The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Religious Roots of the Criminal Trial (forthcoming 2007).
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Vol.74 No.2 (Summer 2007)
Richard Wilkinson is Professor of Social Epidemiology at The University of Nottingham, UK. His research interests include social determinants of health, psychosocial influences on population health, health inequalities, income inequalities and population health. He is the author of many books and articles. Among his recent books are: Mind the Gap: Hierarchy, Health and Human Evolution (Yale University Press, 2001); Social Determinants of Health (co-author with M.G. Marmot, Oxford University Press, 1999); and Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality (Routledge, 1997).
Current as of Vol.73 No.2 (Summer 2006)
Liu Xiaobo, 49, was a lecturer at Beijing Normal University until his arrest in the wake of the June 4th massacre. Since his release in 1990, he has continued writing on the Chinese political situation and has been jailed for three years. Liu Xiaobo is one of the leading analysts of the Chinese “post-totalitarian” system, and is the most significant figure of Chinese dissent.
Current as of Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Kang Xiaoguang, of the Centre for China Studies, (Guoqing yanjiusuo), Academy of Sciences, Beijing, and Tsinghua University has written extensively on the Chinese political system. His writings demonstrate his remarkable analytic mind. His positions, close to China’s neo-conservative movement, have been discussed extensively among the Chinese intelligentsia. A controversial figure, he enjoys the esteem of his peers.
Current as of Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Wang Yi has been trained in physics, and is now working at the Centre for China Studies, (Guoqing yanjiusuo), Academy of Sciences, Beijing. He is involved in a great number of research projects on the protection of the environment.
Current as of Vol.73 No.1 (Spring 2006)
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, a psychoanalyst in Manhattan, is the author, most recently, of Why Arendt Matters (2006). Her many publications also include articles for The Nation and the books The Anatomy of Prejudices (1997) and the biography Hannah Arendt: For the Love of the World (1982, rev. 2004).
Current as of Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
Idith Zertal is professor of contemporary history at the Institute for Jewish Studies, Basel University. Her publications include Lords of the Land, 1967-2007 (2007) and Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood (2005). She is currently at work on a book of essays on Hannah Arendt as well as a translation into Hebrew of The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Current as of Vol.74 No.4 (Winter 2007)
Yael Zerubavel, Founding Director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers University, is the author of Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition (1995) and “Trans-Historical Encounters in the Land of Israel: National Memory, Symbolic Bridges, and the Literary Imagination” in Jewish Social Studies (2005), among other works.
Current as of Vol.75 No.1 (Spring 2008)
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