Academy Members
Harris J. Silverstone
Academy Co-Chair and Academy Professor, Chemistry
PhD, California Institute of Technology
hjsilverstone@jhu.edu
Professor Silverstone studies and publishes about expansions as tools in quantum chemistry. The question with some expansions is how fast do they converge, as with configuration interaction for atomic and molecular wave functions. With divergent expansions, questions are how fast do they diverge and how to decode the encrypted information, as with the power-series-in-electric-field-strength for of the energy of an atom in an electric field – Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation theory.
Bruce D. Marsh
Academy Co-Chair and Professor Emeritus, Earth and Planetary Sciences
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
bmarsh@jhu.edu
Bruce Marsh holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include all aspects (from basic geology to crystallization kinetics, and fluid mechanics) of the generation, migration, and eruption of magma.
Karl L. Alexander
Academy Professor and John Dewey Professor Emeritus, Sociology
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
karl@jhu.edu
Karl Alexander is Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Alliance. He retired from the Johns Hopkins University in 2014 after 42 years on the Sociology faculty, including 15 years as department chair. He presently holds appointments at Hopkins as the John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Academy Professor, and, by courtesy, Professor in the School of Education.
Bruce Barnett
Academy Professor, Physics and Astronomy
PhD, University of Maryland
bab@jhu.edu
Bruce Barnett is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Johns Hopkins University. His current research is high energy proton-proton collisions within the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Over the years, he has taught a large variety of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
Sara Castro-Klarén
Academy Professor
Ph.D. in Hispanic languages and literatures, UCLA, 1968
sck@jhu.edu
Sara Castro-Klarén is Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture. She specializes in the modern Latin American literature, cultural and post-colonial theory, and colonial studies.
Richard Cone
Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus, Biophysics
PhD, University of Chicago
cone@jhu.edu
Cone’s personal website
As an assistant professor of biology at Harvard University, I taught physiology in an introductory biology course, Nat. Sci. 5, led by George Wald and pursued research on photoreceptors, the rods and cones of our eyes. In 1969, I chose to join the Biophysics Department at Johns Hopkins, where my research on the rapid diffusion of rhodopsin in photoreceptors led to the Cole award from the Biophysical Society.
Matthew Crenson
Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus, Political Science
Matthew Crenson ’63 began teaching in the Department of Political Science in 1969 and became a professor emeritus in Urban Government and American Political Development, his primary areas of interest, in 2007. Crenson has authored or co-authored several books including Downsizing Democracy, Building the Invisible Orphanage, and Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced.
Paul Dagdigian
Academy Professor
PhD, University of Chicago
pjdagdigian@jhu.edu
Paul Dagdigian began his academic career in 1974 at the Department of Chemistry at Hopkins, where he is Arthur D. Chambers Professor of Chemistry. He served as chair of the department from 1998 to 2005. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and served for two years as Chair of the Division of Chemical Physics. In 2007, the Maryland Section of the American Chemical Society designated Dagdigian as the Maryland Chemist of the Year.
Toby Ditz
Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus, History
PhD, Columbia University
toby.ditz@jhu.edu
Toby L. Ditz is an historian of early America and the British Atlantic world. Her teaching and research interests include cultural history, the history of commerce and markets, and the history of women, and gender, and masculinity. She received her PhD from Columbia University and is now a professor of history and director of undergraduate studies for the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University.
Michael Fried
Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus of the Humanities
PhD, Harvard University
mmf8@jhu.edu
Michael Fried is best known as an art critic and art historian though he is also a literary critic/historian and a poet.
Louis Galambos
Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus, History
Louis Galambos is a professor emeritus in the Department of History and editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower (21 volumes) at Johns Hopkins University. He has served as president of the Business History Conference and the Economic History Association. A former editor of The Journal of Economic History, he has written extensively on U.S. business history, business-government relations, the economic aspects of modern institutional development in America, and the rise of the bureaucratic state.
Jane Guyer
Academy Professor and George Armstrong Kelly Professor, Anthropology
Jane I. Guyer came to Johns Hopkins from Northwestern University in 2002, having served previously on the faculties of Harvard and Boston University. Her research career has been devoted to economic transformations in West Africa, particularly the productive economy, the division of labor and the management of money.
Richard Conn Henry
Academy Professor, Physics and Astronomy
PhD, Princeton University
henry@jhu.edu
Dick Henry joined the department in 1968 as its first astronomer. He is a member of the Principal Professional Staff, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory; and a member of the JHU Center for Astrophysical Sciences. Since 1991, Henry has also served as director, Maryland Space Grant Consortium Observatory, which is located atop the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, and which houses the Morris W. Offit telescope, a fine half-meter reflector.
Michael Johnson
Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus, History
PhD, Stanford University
mpj3511@gmail.com
Richard Kagan
Academy Professor and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor Emeritus of History
Kagan joined the history department at Johns Hopkins in 1972. His specialty is the history of the early modern Europe, with particular emphasis on Habsburg Spain and its overseas empire, a subject that has engaged his attention, albeit in different ways, throughout his scholarly career.
Margaret Keck
Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus, Political Science
PhD, Columbia University
mkeck@jhu.edu
Margaret Keck taught comparative politics, Latin American Politics, and environmental politics. She is the author or co-author of numerous articles and four prize-winning books, including Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics (Oxford 2013), with Rebecca Abers; Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Duke 2007), with Kathryn Hochstetler; Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Cornell 1998), with Kathryn Sikkink; and The Workers’ Party and Democratization in Brazil (Yale 1992). She has been doing research in Brazil since 1982.
Sharon Kingsland
Academy Professor
PhD, 1981, University of Toronto
Sharon@jhu.edu
Sharon Kingsland received her PhD in 1981 from the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. She is co-editor with Mott Greene of the Johns Hopkins Introductory Series in History of Science, and is associate editor for the Springer series Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
Franklin W. Knight
Academy Professor and Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor Emeritus of History
PhD, University of Wisconsin—Madison
fknight@jhu.edu
Yuan Chuan Lee
Academy Professor and Research Professor, Biology
PhD, University of Iowa
yclee@jhu.edu
Ruth Leys
Academy Professor and Henry Wiesenfeld Professor Emerita of the Humanities
PhD, Harvard University
leys@jhu.com
Trained in the physiological and psychological sciences at Oxford University, Professor Ruth Leys went on to receive her doctoral dissertation in the History of Science at Harvard University at a time when the work of Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault were beginning to have an impact, which is to say, at a time when the field of the history of science and medicine was starting to develop ways to think more thoughtfully about its theoretical and methodological assumptions.
P. Kyle McCarter, Jr.
Academy Professor and William Foxwell Albright Professor Emeritus in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
PhD, Harvard University
pkm@jhu.edu
P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. is a leading expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the origin of the alphabet.
Alice McDermott
Academy Professor and Richard A. Macksey Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities
George D. Rose
Academy Professor and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Emeritus, Biophysics
PhD, Oregon State University
grose@jhu.edu
H. Alan Shapiro
Academy Professor and W. H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology Emeritus
PhD, Princeton University
ashapiro@jhu.edu
Alan Shapiro is a classical archaeologist with a particular interest in Greek art, myth, and religion in the Archaic and Classical periods. His interest in the interrelationship among art, religion, and politics is best represented in his book Art and Cult Under the Tyrants in Athens (1989; Supplement, 1995).
Bernard Shiffman
Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus, Mathematics
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
bshiffman@math.jhu.edu
Professor Shiffman has been a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins since 1977. He served as chair of the department from 1990-1993 and again from 2012-2014.
Darrell Strobel
Academy Professor and Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
PhD, Harvard University
strobel@jhu.edu
In 1984, Professor Darrell Strobel joined the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. He has a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and is on the principal professional staff of Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Prof. Strobel is the author of more than 230 journal publications and 25 book chapters.
Meredith Williams
Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus, Philosophy
PhD, New York University
mwill@jhu.edu
Meredith Williams taught at Wesleyan University (Connecticut) and Northwestern University before joining Hopkins in 2000. Her areas of research are the later Wittgenstein and philosophy of mind and psychology.