Born in Philadelphia, Mitchell B. Merback studied Fine Arts at Alfred University in New York State, then worked in sculpture and paintings conservation at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Later he went on to study Art History…
Juliet Koss is an expert on Soviet and German aesthetic modernism, and her work regularly reaches from art history and architecture into theater, music, film, literature and aesthetic theory. An associate professor of art history at Scripps College, in Claremont, California,…
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is a nonfiction writer following the tradition of literary journalism. A prolific author of magazine and newspaper articles, LeBlanc refined immersion reporting in her first book, Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the…
Brian Ladd is an urban historian. His 1997 book The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in Urban Landscape received international attention. He is also the author of The Companion Guide to Berlin (2004) and Autophobia: Love and Hate in the…
Professor and chair of the political science and history departments at Boston University, David Mayers’ specialties range from the history of US foreign relations, to international history of Europe since 1789, to the diplomatic histories of China and the USSR.…
Composer and conductor Sean Shepherd’s music has been performed at venues such as Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall, Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Library of Congress, the Aspen Music Festival, and in London and Geneva. Recent performances include those on…
Steven Simon is the Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining the Council, Simon specialized in Middle Eastern affairs at the RAND Corporation. He came to RAND from London,…
Devin Fore is an assistant professor in the German department at Princeton University, where he is also an associate faculty member of the Slavic Department and an affiliated faculty member of the program in Media + Modernity. His interdisciplinary research,…
Michael Meyer is the founding dean of the Graduate School of Media and Communications at Aga Khan University in Nairobi. He was previously the communications director and chief speechwriter for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Prior, he held the position…
