Jordan Associates in the Humanities

With the support of the Elizabeth Turner Jordan (‘59) Fund for the Humanities, the Newhouse Center has named several distinguished Boston area scholars as Jordan Associates in the Humanities. Jordan Associates come to lunch meetings at the Newhouse Center once or twice in each academic year for open discussions with Newhouse Fellows and with members of the Wellesley faculty. Topics for discussion include both the new and recent work of the Jordan Associates themselves and other topics of shared and current scholarly interest.

For the academic years 2008-09 and 2009-10, the Jordan Associates are:

Peter Galison, the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard, where he is also Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Interests and a member of the department of the History of Science. Peter Galison has made two films, Ultimate Weapon, about the making of the H-Bomb, and Secrecy, about the burgeoning world of government secrecy and is also the author and editor of many books and articles in the history of science, including most recently Objectivity (Zone Books 2007, co-authored with Lorraine Daston) and Einstein in the 21st Century (Princeton 2008). He is also the winner the winner of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Jane Kamensky, Professor of American History at Brandeis University and author of several books including The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse (Viking, 2008) and a novel, Blindspot, jointly written with Jill Lepore. She is now researching a book about politics and portraiture in early America, centered on the Anglo-American painter Gilbert Stuart.

Alan Wolfe, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. A noted commentator on contemporary American politics and culture, Alan Wolfe writes regularly for The New Republic and other journals and is the author and editor of many different volumes of social and political analysis, including most recently The Future of Liberalism (Alfred Knopf, 2009).