Meet our Fellows
2025
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- Anna Deavere Smith
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Playwright, actor
2025 Summer, 2015 Fall
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- Vinzenz Hediger
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Film critic, scholar
2025 Fall, 2024 Spring
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- Yo-Yo Ma
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Musician
2025 Fall, 2018 Spring, 2001 Winter
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- Mark Morris
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Choreographer
2026 Winter
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- Vinzenz Hediger
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Film critic, scholar
2025 Fall, 2024 Spring
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- Martha Pollack '79
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University leader, AI and language expert
2025 Spring
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- Sylvie Delacroix
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Philosopher, legal theorist
2025 Spring
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- Orit Halpern '94
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Science historian, media studies scholar
2025 Spring
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- Bill T. Jones
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Choreographer
2026 Spring
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- Alessandro Sciarroni
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Artist
2026 Spring
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- Luciano Floridi
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Ethicist, information philosopher
2025 Spring
2024
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- Vinzenz Hediger
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Film critic, scholar
2025 Fall, 2024 Spring
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- Pico Iyer
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Novelist, essayist
2022 Fall, 2024 Fall
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- Atifete Jahjaga
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Politician
2024 Winter, 2016 Summer
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- George Takei
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Actor, activist
2024 Spring
2023
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- Hoda Barakat
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Writer
2023 Spring
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- Phil Klay '05
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Writer
2020 Summer, 2023 Winter
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- Cal Newport '04
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Computer scientist
2023 Summer
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- Hortense Spillers
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Professor, writer
2023 Fall
2022
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- Marilyn da Silva
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Metalsmith
2022 Winter
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- Michael Hurwitz
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Woodworker
2022 Winter
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- Pico Iyer
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Novelist, essayist
2022 Fall, 2024 Fall
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- Diego Romero
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Ceramicist
2022 Winter
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- David Silbersweig '82
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Psychiatrist, neuroscientist
2022 Fall
2021
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- Patty Gerstenblith
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Law professor
2021 Fall
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- Salima Ikram
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Egyptologist
2021 Fall
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- Charles Musiba
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Anthropologist
2021 Fall
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- C. Brian Rose
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Archaeologist
2021 Fall
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- Joe Watkins
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Anthropologist
2021 Fall
2020
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- Phil Klay '05
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Writer
2020 Summer, 2023 Winter
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- Zia Haider Rahman
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Writer
2020 Winter
2019
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- Michael Denning '76
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Historian
2019 Summer
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- Christine and Frido Mann
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Writers, public intellectuals
2019 Fall
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- Jake Sullivan
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Policymaker
2019 Winter
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- George D. Yancy
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Philosopher
2019 Summer
2018
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- Didier Eribon
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Philosopher, sociologist
2018 Spring
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- Larry Gonick
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Cartoonist
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- Eric van Hove
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Artist
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- Édouard Louis
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Writer
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- Yo-Yo Ma
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Musician
2025 Fall, 2018 Spring, 2001 Winter
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- Ulrike Ottinger
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Filmmaker
Photographer
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- Cornel West
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Public intellectual, writer
2018 Summer
2017
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- Édouard Louis
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Writer
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- Che Rhymefest Smith
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Artist
2017 Fall
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- Sir Salman Rushdie
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Writer
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- Fazal Sheikh
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Photographer
2016
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- Thomas Allen Harris
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Filmmaker
Director
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- Hendrik Hertzberg
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Journalist
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- Atifete Jahjaga
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Politician
2024 Winter, 2016 Summer
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- David R. Montgomery
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Geomorphologist
2016 Fall
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- Magdalene Odundo
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Ceramicist
2015
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- Mark Brzezinski '87
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Diplomat
Lawyer
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- Enrique MartÃnez Celaya
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Artist
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- Bernardine Evaristo
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Writer
2015 Spring
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- Hendrik Hertzberg
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Journalist
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- Anna Deavere Smith
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Playwright, actor
2025 Summer, 2015 Fall
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- Diana Wall
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Biologist
2015 Winter
2014
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- Enrique MartÃnez Celaya
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Artist
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- Johnny Clegg
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Musician
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- Emmet Gowin
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Photographer
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- Sir Malcolm Grant
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Lawyer
Academic
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- Daniel T. Potts
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Archaeologist
2014 Spring
2013
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- Alan Alda
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Actor, writer, director
2013 Fall
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- Robert Battle
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Choreographer
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- Rebecca Goldstein
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Philosopher
Writer
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- Werner Herzog
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Filmmaker
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- George Pattison
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Theologian
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- Bernice Reagon
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Singer, songwriter, activist
2013 Spring
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- Joel Sternfeld '65
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Photographer
2012
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- Louise Erdrich '76
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Writer
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- Philip Gourevitch
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Journalist
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- Larry Kramer
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Writer
Activist
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- Bette Bao Lord and Winston Lord
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Writer, diplomat
2012 Spring
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- Howard Morphy
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Anthropologist
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- Tobias Wolff
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Writer
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- Eduardo RodrÃguez Veltze
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Politician
Justice
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- Calvin Trillin
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Journalist
2011 Winter
2011
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- Dan Barber
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Chef, activist
2011 Winter
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- Louise Erdrich '76
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Writer
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- Alanis Obomsawin
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Filmmaker, activist
2011 Fall
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- Ruth Reichl
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Chef
Writer
2010
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- Christo
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Artist
2010 Winter
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- Bill T. Jones
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Dancer, choreographer
2010 Spring
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- Alex Kotlowitz
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Writer
2010 Summer
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- Frank Stella
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Painter
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- Terry Tempest Williams
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Writer
Environmentalist
2009
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- Ada Deer
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Activist, scholar
2009 Spring
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- Jules Feiffer
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Cartoonist
Writer
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- Roald Hoffmann
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Chemist
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- Galway Kinnell
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Poet
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- Peter Sellars
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Director
2008
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- Stephen Kelley '81
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Cartoonist
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- Everett Raymond Kinstler
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Artist
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- Caryl Phillips
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Writer
2008 Summer
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- Juan Williams
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Journalist
Political analyst
2007
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- Thomas Cech
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Chemist
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- Lucille Clifton
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Writer
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- Merce Cunningham
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Dancer
Choreographer
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- Pilobolus
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Dance troupe
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- Mary Robinson
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Politician
Human rights advocate
2006
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- Edward Albee
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Playwright
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- Githa Hariharan
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Writer
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- Romila Thapar
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Historian
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- Terry Tempest Williams
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Writer
Environmentalist
2005
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- Sidney Altman
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Molecular biologist
Chemist
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- Rita Colwell
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Environmental microbiologist
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- Robert Dallek
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Historian
Writer
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- Bobby McFerrin
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Composer, singer
2005 Spring
2004
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- Russell Baker
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Journalist
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- David Brooks
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Journalist
2004 Winter
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- Robert Dallek
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Historian
Writer
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- Lewis Lapham
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Writer
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- Clarence Page
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Journalist
2004 Winter
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- Richard Reeves
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Writer
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- David Shribman '76
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Journalist
2004 Fall
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- Robin Wright
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Journalist
2003
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- Aloisio Cabalzar
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Social anthropologist
2003 Spring
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- Anne Garrels
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Journalist
2003 Fall
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- Marlui Miranda
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Composer
Singer
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- Tom Rosenstiel
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Writer
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- David Shipler '64
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Journalist
2003 Fall
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- Fernando Guilherme Tenorio
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Professor of public policy
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- Roger Wilkins
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Civil rights leader
Historian
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- Christopher Wren '57
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Journalist
2003 Fall
2002
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- Judith Baca
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Artist
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- Philip Bobbitt
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Writer
Lawyer
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- Reuel Marc Gerecht
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Writer
Political analyst
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- Mary Good
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Chemist
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- Robin D.G. Kelley
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Writer
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- Michael Vatis
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National security specialist
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- James Nachtwey '70
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Photographer
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- Joseph Persico
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Writer
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- Desmond Tutu
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Bishop, diplomat
2002 Spring
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- David Vise
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Journalist
2002 Winter
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- James Woolsey
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National security specialist
2001
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- Richard Leakey
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Paleoanthropologist
Politician
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- Yo-Yo Ma
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Musician
2025 Fall, 2018 Spring, 2001 Winter
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- Tom MacIntyre
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Writer
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- Lech Walesa
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Politician
2000
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- August Wilson
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Playwright
1998 Winter
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- James L. Brooks
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Screenwriter
Producer
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- Sheryl Crow
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Singer
Songwriter
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- Juan de Marcos Gonzalez
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Musician
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- Robin D.G. Kelley
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Writer
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- Beryl Korot
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Artist
2000 Winter
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- Ang Lee
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Filmmaker
2000 Fall
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- Steve Reich
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Composer
1999
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- Michael Beschloss
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Historian
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- Benjamin C. Bradlee
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Editor
1999 Spring
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- Robert Caro
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Writer
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- Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Writer
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- David Grubin
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Filmmaker
1999 Spring
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- David Maraniss
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Journalist
1999 Winter
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- David McCullough
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Writer
1994 Winter, 1999 Winter
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- Edmund Morris
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Writer
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- Endel Tulving
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Experimental psychologist
Cognitive neuroscientist
1998
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- Johnnetta Cole
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Anthropologist
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- Jill Ker Conway
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Writer
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- Manning Marable
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Historian
Social critic
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- August Wilson
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Playwright
1998 Winter
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- Li Xueqin
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Historian
Archaeologist
1997
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- William Sloane Coffin
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Reverend
Civil rights advocate
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- John C. Fletcher
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Biomedical ethicist
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- Murray Gell-Mann
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Physicist
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- David Halberstam
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Journalist
1997 Winter
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- Roy Jenkins
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Politician
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- Stuart Kauffman '61
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Theoretical biologist
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- Lynn Margulis
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Evolutionary theorist
1996
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- Albert Hunt
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Editor
1996 Spring
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- Wilma Mankiller
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Women's rights advocate
Native American rights advocate
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- Joseph Sax
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Environmental lawyer
Writer
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- Bertrand Tavernier
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Film critic
1996 Winter
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- George Woodwell '50
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Ecologist
1995
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- Jorge G. Castañeda
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Political advisor
Professor
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- Vyacheslav Ivanov
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Literary theorist
Slavic language and literature expert
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- Richard D. Lamm
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Politician
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- Jessica Tuchman Mathews
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Foreign policy advocate
Columnist
1994
1993
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- Mae C. Jemison
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Astronaut
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- Wangari Maathai
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Environmentalist
Civil rights advocate
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- Beverly Willis
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Architect
1993 Winter
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- Christa Wolf
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Writer
1993 Summer
1992
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- Sidney Altman
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Molecular biologist
Chemist
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- Claire Bloom
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Actor
1992 Summer
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- Michael Dorris
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Native American studies professor
Writer
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- Louise Erdrich '76
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Writer
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- Suzan Shown Harjo
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Poet
Native American rights advocate
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- Philip Roth
-
Writer
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- Oscar Arias Sánchez
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Politician
Peace activist
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- Marshall Shulman
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Soviet studies scholar
1991
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- Bernard Bailyn
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Historian
1991 Winter
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- Edward (Ted) Fiske
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Journalist
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- Madeleine Kunin
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Politician
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- Stanley Kunitz
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Poet
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- Marshall T. Meyer '52
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Rabbi
Human rights activist
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- Gore Vidal
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Writer
Politician
1990
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- Chinua Achebe
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Writer
1990 Winter
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- Alfonso Ortiz
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Anthropologist
1990 Spring
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- F. Sherwood Rowland
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Chemist
1989
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- F. Forrester Church
-
Minister
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- Eugene McCarthy
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Politician
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- John Updike
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Writer
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- Shirley Williams
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Politician
1988
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- A. J. Ayer
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Philosopher
1982 Fall, 1983 Winter, 1988 Fall
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- Saul Bellow
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Novelist
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- Laura Dean
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Choreographer
Composer
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- James Harrison
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Scientist
Public servant
-
- Harrison Salisbury
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Journalist
1987
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- John K. Galbraith
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Economist
Diplomat
-
- Richard D. Lamm
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Politician
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- John Mortimer
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Writer
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- Edmund Muskie
-
Politician
1986
-
- Gerald R. Ford
-
Former president of the U.S.
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- Fred W. Friendly
-
Television producer
-
- Carlos Fuentes
-
Writer, diplomat
1981 Spring, 1981 Summer, 1981 Winter, 1986 Summer
-
- Eleanor J. Gibson
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Psychologist
-
- Toni Morrison
-
Writer
1985
-
- Robert McAfee Brown
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Minister
Educator
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- Conor Cruise O'Brien
-
Historian, politician, writer
1984 Fall, 1985 Spring, 1985 Winter
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- Paul Tsongas '62
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Politician
1984
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- Harry A. Blackmun
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice
-
- Ernst H. Gombrich
-
Art historian
-
- David Mathews
-
Politician, educator
1984 Summer
-
- Czeslaw Milosz
-
Writer
1984 Winter
-
- Conor Cruise O'Brien
-
Historian, politician, writer
1984 Fall, 1985 Spring, 1985 Winter
-
- Barbara Tuchman
-
Historian, writer
1984 Winter
1983
-
- A. J. Ayer
-
Philosopher
1982 Fall, 1983 Winter, 1988 Fall
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- Anthony Quayle
-
Actor, director
1983 Fall
-
- Dean Rusk
-
Secretary of State
1983 Fall
-
- Dorothy Thompson
-
Journalist
Social historian
-
- Edward P. Thompson
-
Social historian
Writer
-
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
-
Writer
1982
-
- A. J. Ayer
-
Philosopher
1982 Fall, 1983 Winter, 1988 Fall
-
- Allan Bloom
-
Philosopher, writer
1982 Spring
-
- John Hope Franklin
-
Historian
Writer
-
- Arnold X. Jiang
-
Historian, professor, author
1982 Winter
-
- Dan H. Laurence
-
Biographer, English professor
1982 Fall
-
- Toni Morrison
-
Writer
-
- Frank Press
-
Geophysicist
Presidential science advisor
-
- Marcel Roche
-
Physician
-
- Rosalyn Yalow
-
Medical physicist
1981
-
- Max Black
-
Philosopher
Linguist
-
- Carlos Fuentes
-
Writer, diplomat
1981 Spring, 1981 Summer, 1981 Winter, 1986 Summer
-
- Stephen Jay Gould
-
Paleontologist
Evolutionary theorist
-
- Peter Medawar
-
Zoologist
-
- Philip Morrison
-
Professor of physics
Theoretical astrophysicist
-
- Carroll M. Williams
-
Biology professor
1981 Fall
1980
-
- Sherman Adams '20
-
Politician
-
- George W. Ball
-
Politician
Undersecretary of state
-
- Erskine Caldwell
-
Writer
-
- John Cheever
-
Writer
-
- Gerald R. Ford
-
Former president of the U.S.
-
- Michel Foucault
-
Philosopher
Cultural historian
-
- Edward Heath
-
Politician
-
- Lynda Bird Johnson Robb
-
Politician
-
- Bernard Malamud
-
Writer
1980 Summer
-
- Mary McCarthy
-
Writer
-
- James Russell Wiggins
-
Journalist
Statesman
-
- Harrison Salisbury
-
Journalist
1979
-
- Elise Boulding
-
Sociologist
Activist
-
- Edmundo Desnoes
-
Novelist
Educator
-
- J. William Fulbright
-
Politician
Lawyer
-
- Robert Hollander
-
Professor in European literature
Dante scholar
1978
-
- Elise Boulding
-
Sociologist
Activist
-
- Kenneth Boulding
-
Economist
Philosopher