Mark Bassin gained his PhD at the University of California-Berkeley in 1983. He has taught at UCLA, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and UCL, and held visiting positions at the Universities of Chicago, Copenhagen, and Pau (France). He has received numerous…
Stephen F. Szabo is the executive director of the Transatlantic Academy in Washington DC, a forum for research and dialogue between scholars, policy experts, and authors from both sides of the Atlantic. Prior to joining the Transatlantic Academy, in 2007,…
Marsha Vande-Berg serves as chief executive officer of the Pacific Pension Institute (PPI). She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Council’s National Program Committee, and is also a member of the International Institute for…
W.J.T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Critical Inquiry since 1978, Mitchell is a scholar and theorist of visual art, media, and literature,…
Jane Kramer is the European correspondent for the New Yorker, and writes the "Letter from Europe" for that magazine. She is the author of nine books, the latest of which is about a militia in the American West. Kramer has…
Atina Grossmann is Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cooper Union in New York City, where she teaches Modern German and European History, and Gender Studies. A graduate of the City College of…
Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of four books. The Catcher Was A Spy was a national bestseller; In the Country of Country was named one of the 86 all-time greatest works of travel literature by Conde Nast Traveler; The Fly…
Benjamin R. Barber was a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Dēmos, president of the Interdependence Movement, and Walt Whitman Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. Barber was the author of seventeen books, including the classic Strong Democracy, the international best-seller Jihad vs. McWorld…
The fall 2001 Berlin Prize Fellow Evonne Levy is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto. A specialist in the Italian Baroque, her work has focused on the controversial Jesuit order. She is the author of Propaganda…
Sue de Beer received her MFA in Fine Art from the Columbia University School of Art, and her BFA from the Parsons School of Design. She has taught at the New York University School of Art. Her work has…