Notes on Contributors
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akeel bilgrami is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and professor on the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. His most recent publication is Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (2014).
steven brint is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author or editor of seven books and author of more than 70 articles. He is completing work on a new book, The Ends of Knowledge: Organizational and Cultural Change in US Colleges and Universities, 1980–2015.
david bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. He has written extensively about British Romanticism, modern poetry, and the rhetoric of political persuasion. His books include The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence (2014), and Moral Imagination (2014).
daniel goroff is vice president and program director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He was previously vice president for Academic Affairs and dean of the faculty at Harvey Mudd College and, before that, a faculty member at Harvard University for over 20 years. Goroff has twice worked in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, most recently as assistant director for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.
josh greenberg is director of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Digital Information Technology program. He serves on the boards of the Metropolitan Library Council, the Center for Open Science, and the American Geophysical Union.
ira katznelson has been Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University since 1994, and, since 2012, president of the Social Science Research Council. The author, most recently, of the prizewinning book, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (2013), he is also a research associate at Cambridge University's Centre for History and Economics.
daniel j. kevles writes about science, technology, medicine, and society past and present. His works include The Baltimore Case, In the Name of Eugenics, The Physicists, and contributions to the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the Times Literary Supplement. A professor of history emeritus at Yale, he is a visitor at New York University and Columbia law schools.
arthur lupia is the Hal R. Varian Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and its Institute for Social Research. He examines how [End Page 759] people learn about politics and how to improve science communication. His books include Uninformed: Why People Know so Little about Politics and What We Can Do about It.
james e. miller teaches at the New School for Social Research. He is the editor of a new English edition of Diogenes Laertius's Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (2018), and the author of a new history of democracy (forthcoming).
rosalind c. morris is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. She has written widely on questions of representation, value, and power in the age of mass media, focusing her ethnographic research on South Africa and mainland Southeast Asia. Her most recent book is The Returns of Fetishism: Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea (with Daniel H. Leonard, 2017).
jeremiah p. ostriker, a senior research scholar at Princeton University and professor of astronomy at Columbia University, has been very influential in advancing the concept that most of the mass in the universe is not visible and consists of dark matter. His research has also focused on the interstellar medium, galaxy evolution, cosmology, and black holes.
kenneth prewitt is the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, vice president for Global Centers, and director of the Scholarly Knowledge Project at Columbia University. He has also served as director of the United States Census Bureau, director of the National Opinion Research Center, president of the Social Science Research Council, and senior vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
wolfgang rohe is the executive director of Stiftung Mercator and head of the Science and Humanities Division. He previously worked with the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in Bonn and the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat).
richard a. shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development in the Department of Comparative Human Development...
