speaker bios

Anita L. Allen Castellitto is Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where she specializes in privacy law, legal philosophy, constitutional law, torts, race relations, gender studies, and law and literature.  Previously, she was Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship and Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.  She has also served as Assistant Professor at both Carnegie-Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh Law School and as Visiting Professor at both Harvard and Villanova Law Schools.  In addition, Professor Allen has served as Board Chair for Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington and as Associate Program Director for the National Endowment for the Humanities IPA.  She is the author of Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society (1988) and co-author of Debating Democracy's Discontent (1988) and Privacy Law (1999).  Her upcoming books, Privacy and Accountability and After Privacy, are still in progress.  Professor Allen has published numerous articles on such topics as privacy in the law, medical/healthcare privacy, genetic privacy, constitutional privacy, women and privacy, affirmative action, abortion, and multi-culturalism.  She has participated in many lectures, keynotes, and panels on similar topics and is the recipient of several awards and fellowships.

Jerry Berman is the Executive Director of the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT). The Center was founded in December of 1994 by Mr. Berman to promote civil liberties and democratic values on the global Internet.  Mr. Berman directs CDT's staff of lawyers and policy experts engaged in research and public policy activities affecting democracy on the Internet.  He also chairs CDT's  free speech and privacy policy working groups comprised of communications firms, associations, and civil liberties groups addressing Internet policy issues.  Mr. Berman is also the President of the Internet Education Foundation, a non-profit organization
which sponsors projects to educate policy makers on why the Internet is a unique and valuable medium for democratic participation, communications, and commerce.  He also chairs the 120 organization Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus which involves over 100 members of Congress in efforts to inform policy makers about the Internet.  At CDT,  Mr. Berman coordinated the successful Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition of over 40 companies and public interest groups which litigated and argued the Supreme Court case which overturned the Communications Decency Act.  Mr. Berman has led legislative efforts to enact such landmark legislation as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986.  Prior to founding the Center for Democracy and Technology, Mr. Berman was a Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  Mr. Berman was also Chief Legislative Counsel at the ACLU from 1978-1988 and founder and director of ACLU Projects on Privacy and Information Technology.

David Bromwich is Housum Professor of English at Yale University and has previously served as Professor of English at Princeton University and as the Director of the Whitney Humanities Center.  He writes frequently on literature and politics for The New Republic, Raritan, Dissent, and other journals.  He is the author of  Hazlitt: the Mind of a Critic (1983); A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost (1989); Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking (1992); and Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790's (1998).  Professor Bromwich has edited several books, most recently a collection of Edmund Burke's writings, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform (2000).  He served as consultant to the "Poets in Person" series for National Public Radio and in 1993-94 was film critic for The New Leader.

Jean Cohen is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.  She is a specialist in contemporary political and legal theory with particular research interests in democratic theory, critical theory, civil society, gender and the law.  She served as Assistant Professor of Social Science at Bennington College and as Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley before coming to Columbia.  In addition to numerous scholarly articles, she is the author of Class and Civil Society: The Limits of Marxian Critical Theory and co-author of Civil Society and Political Theory (1992).  She serves on the editorial board of numerous journals and is currently writing a book on Sex, Privacy and the Constitution: Dilemmas of Regulating Intimacy.

David J. Garrow is Presidential Distinguished Professor at Emory University School of Law.  He is a noted historian of politics, with teaching expertise in American legal history and the Supreme Court since 1900, African-American political history and the civil rights movement, and reproductive rights politics since 1915.  Professor Garrow has taught at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the City University of New York, The Cooper Union, The College of William and Mary, and American University.  He is the author of Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade (1994); The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. (1981); and Protest at Selma (1978).  His book, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in biography and the seventh annual Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.  He is editor of The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson (1987) and co-editor of The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader.  He served as senior advisor for Eyes on the Prize, the award-winning PBS television history of the American black freedom struggle, and regularly contributes to the New York Times, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and George.  In addition, he has published numerous articles, essays, book reviews, commentaries, and profiles and is the recipient of various honors and awards.

John Hollander is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University.  Professor Hollander is the author of sixteen volumes of poetry including: Tesserae (1993); Selected Poetry (1993); Harp Lake (1988); Powers of Thirteen (1983); Spectral Emanations (1978); Types of Shape (1969); and A Crackling of Thorns (1958).  His seven books of criticism include: The Work of Poetry (1997); Melodious Guile (1988); The Figure of Echo (1981); Rhyme's Reason (1981); Vision and Resonance (1975); Images of Voice (1970); and The Untuning of the Sky (1961).  He has edited or co-edited numerous books, among them Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize (1996); The Gazer's Spirit (1995); Animal Poems (1994); The Library of America's two-volume anthology Nineteenth Century American Poetry (1993); and others.  He has also written books for children and has collaborated on operatic and lyric works.  Professor Hollander is former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Secretary of the American Institute of Arts and Letters.  He has received several honors and fellowships for his work.

George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics and Director of the Program in Political Philosophy at Princeton University. His field is modern political theory, with a special emphasis on the varieties of individualism that have arisen since the Puritan Revolution.  He is the author of Utopia and its Enemies; Political Theory: Its Nature and Uses; Hannah Arendt: Politics, Conscience, Evil; The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture; and Emerson and Self-Reliance; the editor of Utopia; and the author of many articles on the topic of American political and social thought, and classical and contemporary political philosophy.  He was awarded the 1994 Spitz Book Prize by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought for The Inner Ocean. He has published in many journals and magazines, including Daedalus, The American Political Science Review, The New York Review of Books, and Social Research. Professor Kateb was a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows for three years.  He has also received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and D.H.L. Honorary Degree from Amherst College, where he taught for many years before coming to Princeton.  He currently serves on the editorial boards of Political Theory, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Raritan.

Lawrence Lessig is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School; he previously held the position of Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.  He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace.  In addition to his books Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999) and The Fidelity in Translation (in progress), he has written many articles, essays, and book reviews on such topics as censorship, cyberlaw, constitutionality, and social meaning.  He has spoken at various conferences, seminars, and workshops and is currently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Fatos Lubonja is a Writer and Editor-in-Chief of Perpjekja ("Endeavor") in Albania.  After serving 17 years in prison for "agitation and propaganda" and for his membership in a "counterrevolutionary organization," he became involved in human rights, as General Secretary of the Albanian Helsinki Committee.  In 1994 he founded the quarterly review Perpjekja, which attempted to introduce the critical spirit in the Albanian culture.  He has authored Ploja e Mbrame ("The Final Slaughter," 1994); Ne Vitin e Shtatembedhjete ("In the Seventeenth Year," 1994), a diary of his seventeenth year in prison; Ridenimi ("The Second Sentence," 1996); and Liri e Kercenuar ("Threatened Freedom," 1999).  He has also published numerous articles and essays in the foreign press.  In 1997 Mr. Lubonja became one of three leaders of the Forum of Democracy and won two international prizes during the same year -- one presented by COOP Italy for his journal and the other presented by Human Rights Watch for his activity as a human rights activist.

Avishai Margalit is Schulman Professor of Philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has also twice served as the Philosophy Department's Chairman.  Previously he was a British Council Scholar at Oxford University, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College in Oxford, a Visiting Professor at The Free University of Berlin, a Visiting Fellow at St. Anthony's College in Oxford and, most recently, a Rockefeller Fellow at The Center for Human Values at Princeton University.  He also held short-term visiting professorships at the Central European University in Prague and at the European University in Florence.  He has written three books: Idolatry (1992), The Decent Society (1996), and Views on Review: Politics and Culture in the State of the Jews (1998).  Another book, Past Perfect: The Ethics of Memory,is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.  Professor Margalit has edited several books and has published numerous articles in various philosophical journals on such topics as philosophy of language, logical paradoxes and rationality, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.  He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and is among the founders of Peace Now.

Theresa M. McGovern is a Faculty Member at Columbia University School of Public Health and an Individual Project Fellow at the Open Society Institute.  Before this, she founded The HIV Law Project, Inc. and served as its Executive Director for ten years.  She has also served as Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall School of Law, City University of New York Law School, and Rutgers University School of Law, and as Staff Attorney at MFY Legal Services, Inc., The Legal Aid Bureau of Maryland, and New York Legal Aid Society.  Ms. McGovern has published various articles on such diverse subjects as disabilities, child custody issues, women and research, informed consent, and HIV testing.  She has served as advisor or consultant to the United States Conference of Mayors, Columbia University HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Centers for Disease Control, and Beth Israel Hospital, and was appointed in 1993-96 by President Clinton to serve on the National Task Force on AIDS Drug Development.  She has participated in many presentations and conferences, and has given testimony at congressional hearings.  Ms. McGovern has also received several awards for her work.

Louis Menand is Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has also taught at Queens College, Princeton, and Columbia and has served as Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.  He is the author of Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context and The Metaphysical Club; editor of The Future of Academic Freedom and Pragmatism: A Reader; and co-editor of America in Theory and volume seven of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (2000).  He has been a Program Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and a Vice President of PEN—American Center. He was Associate Editor of The New Republic and Literary Editor of The New Yorker.  Since 1994 he has been Contributing Editor of The New York Review of Books.

Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  Her primary concentrations include contemporary autobiography and autobiography theory, women's writing (American and French), 20th-century cultural history (after 1945), and feminist theory.  She has served as a Visiting Professor at both Harvard University and Tel Aviv University, and was also a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar.  She is author of several books including: The Heroine's Text: Readings in the French and English Novel, 1722-1782 (1980); Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing (1988); Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts (1991); French Dressing: Women, Men, and Ancien Regime Fiction (1995); and Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death (1996).  Professor Miller has also edited several volumes and is co-editor and co-founder of Gender and Culture, a series published by Columbia University Press.  She has also received several awards and fellowships.

Charles Nesson is William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.  He is also the Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development.  After completing his law degree at Harvard Law School, Professor Nesson clerked with Justice Harlan on the United States Supreme Court and then served as a Special Assistant with the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.  He joined the Harvard Law School Faculty in 1966 and was tenured in 1969.  He later served as Associate Dean of the Law School from 1979-1982.  In addition to his teaching, Professor Nesson was the Organizer and President of the Lawyer's Military Defense Committee from 1969 to 1972 and served as the Director of the Harvard Evidence Film Project from 1974 to 1979.  He is the author of Problems, Cases and Materials on Evidence and has written numerous articles generally dealing with the nature of judicial proof.  He has been the Television and Seminar Moderator for Fred Friendly Seminars at Columbia University since 1974 and has Moderated several television programs including the PBS series The Constitution: That Delicate Balance; CBS' Eye on the Media: Media and Business; and the Granada Television programs The Right to Die, International Bribery, and Terrorism.  He was one of the Advocates on The Advocates (WGBH) and the Narrator for the film Three Appeals, which discussed the appellate process of the State of New York and was made by WNET.

Kenneth Prewitt has been Director of the United States Census Bureau since October 21, 1998. Nominated by the President, he was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He comes to government service from a career in higher education and private philanthropy.  Most recently, from 1995 to 1998, he served as the President of the Social Science Research Council, a position he also held from 1979 to 1985.  For ten years he was Senior Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation, where he directed the international Science-Based Development program involving activities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He served for five years as the Director of the National Opinion Research Center, based at the University of Chicago. He taught for fifteen years at the University of Chicago, and for shorter periods, taught at Stanford University (where he received his Ph.D.), Columbia University, Washington University, the University of Nairobi, and Makerere University (Uganda).  The Director of the Census Bureau heads an agency that produces an extensive array of economic and demographic statistics for the nation -- including basic data on consumer prices, labor force participation, poverty, housing conditions and many other dimensions of our economy and society.  Dr. Prewitt manages a large staff of economists, statisticians, demographers, and survey experts.  His main attention has been on the operations of Census 2000 -- often described as the largest peacetime mobilization in history.  Managing a budget of approximately $7.5 billion and a permanent and part-time decennial staff that at peak is more than 500,000 persons, Dr. Prewitt has overall responsibility for ensuring that 275 million residents are correctly counted. In addition to general management, his duties involve numerous appearances before the U.S. Congress, cooperation with other federal agencies, dozens of press conferences and related media events, and hundreds of meetings with officials and stakeholders across the country.  He is especially concerned with public confidence in the census and, more generally, with promoting Census 2000 as a major civic event.  Dr. Prewitt is the author or co-author of a dozen books, and more than 50 contributions to professional journals and edited collections.  Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, an honorary degree from Southern Methodist University, a Distinguished Service Award from the New School for Social Research, and The Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany.  He has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been an officer or served on the Board of each of these organizations. He has also served on advisory boards to the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and UNESCO.  Born March 16, 1936, in Alton, Ill., Dr. Prewitt has two children by his first marriage, and is now married to Susan Vogel, an art historian and film-maker.

Philip R. Reitinger is a Deputy Chief of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice.  CCIPS consists of attorneys who specialize in computer search and seizure, computer intrusions, other computer-related legal issues, and intellectual property matters.  CCIPS attorneys assist both prosecutors and investigators from law enforcement agencies on such matters, and provide training to law enforcement personnel around the country.  Before joining CCIPS, Mr. Reitinger worked in the Justice Department's Civil Division as a Trial Attorney in the Federal Programs Branch.  He then joined the Criminal Division, became a Senior Counsel, and was appointed Deputy Chief in 1999.

David A. J. Richards is Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law and Director of the Program for Study of Law, Philosophy and Social Theory at New York University School of Law.  He has also served as Visiting Associate Professor at Barnard College and Associate Professor at Fordham University Law School, and has held the position of Associate at a New York law firm and Lecturer at Harvard University.  He is the author of dozens of articles and ten books including, most recently: Women, Gays, and the Constitution: The Grounds for Feminism and Gay Rights in Culture and Law (1998); Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity (1999); Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies (1999); and Free Speech and the Politics of Identity (1999).  Professor Richards is also the recipient of several awards and fellowships.

Jeffrey Rosen is an Associate Professor at The George Washington University Law School, where he teaches constitutional law, criminal procedure, and the law of privacy.  He is also the legal affairs editor of The New Republic and author of The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (2000).  He is a graduate of Harvard College; Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School.  After law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.  His essays and book reviews have appeared in may publications including The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker.

Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC, a public interest research organization working to protect privacy, free speech, and Constitutional values in the on-line world.  EPIC has published several landmark reports and pursued a number of important Freedom of Information Act cases to determine the extent of the federal government's monitoring of private communications.  Mr. Rotenberg is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches the Law of Information Privacy. He has served on numerous national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD and the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO.  He was recently named to the Advisory Council for the Law, Science and Technology Program at Stanford Law School. He is co-editor of Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape (1997) and the editor of The Privacy Law Sourcebook 1999: United States Law, International Law, and Recent Developments.  He serves on the editorial boards of The Computer Law and Security Report (UK) and BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Report, and the advisory boards of several non-profit organizations. He recently chaired conferences on "Computers, Freedom and Privacy: The Global Internet" (Washington), "The Public Voice and the Development of Internet Policy" (Paris), and "A Privacy Agenda for the 21st Century" (Hong Kong).  Mr. Rotenberg has testified before the US Congress on many issues, including encryption policy, computer security, copyright, and communications privacy.  He has also participated in many of the leading cyber liberties cases, including Bernstein v. DOJ and  ACLU v. Reno, and has filed amicus briefs in several important privacy cases, such as Condon v. Reno and Greidinger v. Davis. His articles have appeared in publications ranging from Government Information Quarterly and the Stanford Technology Law Review to Wired Magazine and USA Today.  He was named one of the 50 top young lawyers in the United States public sector by The American Lawyer, one of the 50 Most Influential People on the Internet by Newsweek Magazine, and one of the 25 Most Intriguing Minds of the New Economy by Business 2.0.  He has received the EFF Pioneer Award, the CPSR Norbert Weiner Award, and was a finalist for the World Technology Award in Law.

Joseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture (now Emeritus) at the University of Pennsylvania.  He has lectured or taught at most major schools of architecture throughout the world. and has held visiting appointments in Princeton, the Cooper Union, New York, Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University of Sydney, Louvain, the Institut d’Urbanisme, Paris, the Central European University  and others.  He has held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Washington and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, and was Slade Professor in the Fine Arts at the University of Cambridge in 1979/80.  His publications include: The Golden House (1947); The Idea of a Town (1963 and two subsequent editions); On Adam’s House in Paradise (1972 and subsequent editions); The First Moderns (1980); The Necessity of Artifice (1982); The Brothers Adam (1984); a new translation of Alberti’s architecture treatise, On the Art of Building in Ten Books (1989, with Robert Tavernor and Neil Leach); and The Dancing Column (1996). The Seduction of Place will be published in autumn 2000. All his books have been translated into several languages.  In 1984, he was appointed Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France).  He also holds various honorary degrees and is a member of the Italian Accademia di San Luca.  He is currently working on a new book which deals with the relationship of architecture and the other arts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Maggie Scarf is a Journalist and Author, and is Writer-in-Residence at Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University.  She is also a Senior Fellow at the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale.  She is a Contributing Editor to The New Republic, a member of the Oxygen/Markle Pulse Advisory Board, a member of the board of Family Counseling of Greater New Haven, a member of the Advisory Board of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale, and has just completed a 10-year service on the Advisory Board of the American Psychiatric Press.  She is the author of two books for children and four books for adults: Body, Mind, Behavior; Unfinished Business: Pressure Points in the Lives of Women; Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage; and Intimate Worlds: Life Inside the Family.  Both Unfinished Business and Intimate Partners were on The New York Times Best Sellers list.  Ms. Scarf has been awarded various fellowships and awards and has also received several National Media Awards from the American Psychological Foundation.  During the past several years, Ms. Scarf has served on the National Commission on Women and Depression, has been the recipient of a Certificate of Appreciation from the Connecticut Psychological Association, and also received The Connecticut United Nations Award, which cited her as an Outstanding Connecticut Woman.  In 1997 she was awarded a Special Certificate of Commendation from the American Psychiatric Association for an article on patient confidentiality ("Keeping Secrets") which was published in The New York Times Magazine.  She has made many television appearances (among them Oprah, Donahue, Regis and Kathy, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS News, Prime Time Live, CNN), and been interviewed extensively on radio and for magazines and newspapers across the nation.

Frederick Schauer is Academic Dean and Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  Formerly Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, he has also been the Cutler Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary, Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, William Morton Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities and Visiting Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, Ewald Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.  Professor Schauer is the author of several books including: The Law of Obscenity (1976); Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry (1982); and Playing By the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life (1991), and co-author of The Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings With Commentary (1996) and The First Amendment: A Reader (1991, 1996).  He is also the author of more than 100 articles in legal and philosophical journals.  Professor Schauer's work has been the subject of numerous commentaries, including four law review symposia and a book devoted exclusively to commentaries on his scholarly contributions to constitutional law, freedom of speech, and the philosophy of law.  Formerly Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Constitutional Law, he is Vice-President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and founding Co-Editor of the journal Legal Theory.  In addition to appearing before many congressional committees on issues of constitutional law, in recent years he has taught and advised on issues of legal and constitutional development and has lectured on legal theory and constitutional law throughout the world.

Frederick Wiseman is an Independent Filmmaker and the General Manager of Zipporah Films Inc.  His work in theatre includes The Last Letter from Vasili Grossman’s novel Life and Fate which he recently directed at the Comedie Francaise as well as 31 documentary films, including: Titicut Follies (1967), which won Best Film at the Mannheim International Filmweek; Law and Order (1969) and Hospital (1969), for which he received Emmy Awards for Best News Documentary; Juvenile Court (1973), Hospital (1969) and Near Death (1989) won the Dupont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism in 1975, 1970 and 1990, respectively.  Some of his other films are: Welfare (1975); Zoo (1993); Ballet (1995); Public Housing (1997); and Belfast, Maine (1999).  All of his films have been broadcast nationally on PBS and many have been broadcast in other countries.  Mr. Wiseman received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1981) and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship from 1982-1987.  He has also received The Peabody Award for Significant and Meritorious Achievement in 1990, and the Irene Diamond Life-Time Achievement Award from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in 2000.  In addition to his work as a filmmaker, he has served as Visiting Lecturer at many universities throughout the country and is on the board for the Theatre for a New Audience and the Honorary Advisory Committee at the American Repertory Theatre.

Ruth Bernard Yeazell is Chace Family Professor and English Department Chair at Yale University.  She formerly taught at both Boston University and the University of California, Los Angeles.  Professor Yeazell is the author of several books including: Language and Knowledge in the Late Novels of Henry James (1976); The Death and Letters of Alice James (1981); Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel (1991); and Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature (2000).  She is also the Editor of Sex, Politics, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1983-1984 (1986) and Henry James: A Collection of Critical Essays (New Century Views) (1994).    Professor Yeazell is the recipient of several fellowships and awards, and is the author of several articles and reviews.
 

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