Renaissance Weekend

Renaissance Weekend

Illustrative List of Past Participants

Education, Think-Tanks, Psychology & Religion
Some professional notes below reflect past roles.
Imad Ahmad
Pres., Minaret of Freedom Institute; Former Scientist, Harvard Observatory
Judith Areen
Former Dean, Georgetown Law Center
Jeffrey Von Arx
President, Fairfield University
Anthony Atala
Dir., Wake Forest Inst. for Regenerative Medicine/Urology Dept. Chm., Wake Forest Univ. Med. School
Harry Attridge
Dean, Yale Divinity School
Ian Ayres
Law & Economics Prof., Yale Law School/Columnist, Forbes
Charles Bailyn
Astronomy Prof., Yale University
Dennis Bakke
Chairman, Imagine! Schools/Co-Founder & Former CEO, AES Corporation
Craig Barnes
Former Sr. Pastor, National Presbyterian Church
Nancy Bekavac
Former President, Scripps College
Arthur Benjamin
Mathematics Prof., Harvey Mudd College
Richard Berman
Former President, Manhattanville College
Henry Bienen
Former Pres., Northwestern University and Dean, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School
Tony Blankley
Frmr. Press Sec'y to Speaker Gingrich & Ed. Page Editor, DC Times/Sr. Fellow, Heritage Fndtn.
David Blight
Bancroft Prize-winning Historian, Yale Univ.
Alan Blinder
Econ. Prof., Princeton Univ./Former V. Chm., Federal Reserve Board
Robert Blocker
Dean, Yale School of Music
F. Peter Boer
Prof., Yale School of Management
Stephen Boes
Nat'l Exec. Dir., Girls & Boys Town
Rita Bornstein
President Emerita & Prof., Rollins College/Dir., Tupperware, Assn. of Univ. Governing Bds.
Bill Bright
Founder, Campus Crusade for Christ
Douglas Brinkley
History Prof., University of New Orleans/Biographer
Molly Broad
Pres., American Council on Education/Former Pres., UNC System
Walter Broadnax
Former Pres., Clark Atlanta Univ & US Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services
Erik Brynjolfsson
IT Prof., MIT
Robin Buchanan
Former Dean, London Business School
Glenn Bucher
Former Pres., Graduate Theological Union
Sidney Burrus
Engineering Dean, Rice University
Tom Campbell
Former US Congressman & Dean, Haas School of Business
Cynthia Campbell
Pres., McCormick Theological Seminary
Tony Campolo
Pres., Evangelical Assn. for Promotion of Education
Albert Carnesale
Chancellor Emeritus, UCLA & former Provost, Harvard University
Paula Carreiro
Head, Beauvoir School
Stephen Carter
Prof., Yale Law School/Author, The Culture of Disbelief
Phillip Cary
Augustine & Spirituality Scholar, Eastern, Yale & Univ. of Connecticut
George Church
Personal Genome Project, Harvard Medical School
Joanna Cole
Author, Magic School Bus Series
James Comer
Child Development Authority, Yale University
Gordon Conway
Former Pres., Rockefeller Foundation
Suzan Johnson Cook
Sr. Pastor, Bronx Christian Fellowship
Joanne Creighton
Former Pres., Mt. Holyoke College
James Cronin
Physics Nobel Laureate
Dolores Cross
Pres., Morris Brown College/Former President, Chicago State University & President, GE Foundation
Ronald Crutcher
Pres., Wheaton College
Richard D'Aveni
Professor, Tuck School of Business
George Day
Dir., Wharton School's Mack Ctr. for Technology Innovation
Hubert Dreyfus
Philosophy Prof., Univ. of California-Berkeley; Author, What Computers (Still) Can't Do
Philip Dubois
Chancellor, UNC-Charlotte/Former Pres., University of Wyoming
Alice (Tish) Emerson
Former President, Wheaton College
Amitai Etzioni
Political Theorist
Bruce Feiler
Author, Abraham, Walking the Bible
Roger Ferguson
Pres., TIAA-CREF/Frmr., V.Chm., Federal Reserve Board
Alex Filippenko
Astronomy Prof., UC-Berkeley
Edward Fiske
Editor, Fiske Guide to Colleges & former Education Editor, New York Times
Betsy Fleming
President, Converse College
Eric Foner
History Prof., Columbia Univ.
Leighton Ford
Evangelist/Former "American Clergyman of the Year"
Victor Fuchs
Economics & Health Policy Prof. Emeritus, Stanford Univ.
Pamela Brooks Gann
President, Claremont McKenna College
Juliet Garcia
President, University of Texas-Brownsville
Howard Gardner
MacArthur Prize-winning Harvard Prof./Author, Changing Minds, Creating Minds, Multiple Inteligences
Alice Gast
Pres., Lehigh Univerity
Gordon Gee
Pres., Ohio State Univ./Former Pres. Vanderbilt & Brown Universities
Tom Gerety
Former President, Amherst & Trinity Colleges
Edes Gilbert
Former Head, Spence School for Girls
Nathan Glazer
Former Chm., American Sociology Assn. & Harvard Prof.
Michael Ellis Goldberg
Brain & Behavior Professor & Director, Columbia Univ.
Lee Goldman
Dean, Columbia Medical School
Lino Graglin
Professor, University of Texas Law School
Wes Granberg-Michaelson
Gen. Sec'y., Reformed Church in America/Former Man. Ed., Sojourners/Author
Barbara Grosz
Dean, Radcliffe Institute & Natural Sciences Prof., Harvard Univ.
Os Guinnes
Sociologist & Founder, Trinity Forum
Nicky Gumbel
Co-Developer, Alpha Movement/Anglican Priest
Amy Gutman
President, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Charles Handy
Management Consultant/Author, The Age of Unreason, Age of Paradox, Understanding Organizations
Joseph Hankin
President, Westchester Community College
David Hardesty
President, West Virginia University
Paul Hardin
Former Chancellor, UNC-Chapel Hill & Pres., Drew Univ. and Wofford College
Robert Harris
Dean, W.Va.'s Darden School of Business
Kevin Hasson
Founder & President, Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty
Gary Haugen
Founder-President, International Justice Mission
Virgil Hill
Admiral, US Navy/Former Superintendent, US Naval Academy
Susan Hockfield
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Hollander
European Literature Prof., Princton University/Dante Authority
Robert Hormats
US Under Secretary of State/Former Vice-Chm., Goldman Sachs/Former US Asst. Secretary of State & Deputy Trade Representative
Christopher Howard
President, Hampden-Sydney College
Daniel Howe
Pulitzer Prize-winning History Prof., Oxford, Yale & UCLA
Freeman Hrabowski
Former President, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Glenn Hubbard
Dean, Columbia Business School/Former Chm., Pres. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers
Ian Hunter
Bioinstrumentation Prof., MIT
Shirley Jackson
Pres., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/Former Chair, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Thomas Jackson
Former President, University of Rochester
Kathleen Hall Jamison
Dean, University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications
Kay Jamison
Psychiatry Prof., Johns Hopkins Medical School
Everett Jenkins
Author, The Muslim Diaspora
Kristina Johnson
US Under Secretary of Energy/Former Provost, Johns Hopkins University and Engineering Dean, Duke University
Luke Timothy Johnson
New Testament Authority
Gregory Jones
Former Dean, Duke University Divinity School
Michael Josephson
Founder & CEO, Josephson Institute of Ethics
Nancy Kanwisher
Cognitive Neuroscience Prof., MIT
Robert Kaplan
Accounting Prof., Harvard Business School/Developer, "The Balanced Scorecard"
Randy Katz
Engineering Prof., UC-Berkeley/Former Deputy Dir., DARPA
Nannerl Keohane
Former President, Duke University & Wellesley College
Robert Kirshner
Astronomy Prof., Harvard University
Joel Klein
Chairman, New York City Public Schools System
Harold Koh
Legal Adviser, US State Dept./Former Dean, Yale Law School and US Assistant Attorney-General
Philip Kotler
Marketing Prof., Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Michael Kremer
MacArthur Prize-winning Development Economist, MIT
Harold Kushner
Rabbi/Author, When Bad Things Happen to Good People
George Lakoff
Linguistics Prof., UC-Berkeley/Political Theorist
Richard Land
Executive Director, Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Comm'n
Brian Lang
Former Principal & Vice Chancellor, University of St. Andrews
Robert Lawton
President, Loyola Marymount University/Jesuit Priest
Liza Lee
Former Head, The Hockaday School
Nicky Lee
Angelican Priest, Holy Trinity Church-Brompton/Co-Founder, Alpha Movement
David Lee
Physics Nobel Laureate/Physics Prof. Emeritus, Cornell University
David Leebron
Pres., Rice University/Former Dean, Columbia Law School
Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot
Prof., Harvard University
Sam Lloyd
Dean, National Cathedral
Michael Lomax
President, United Negro College Fund/Former President, Dillard University
Richard Lowery
Dean & Hebrew Bible Prof., Lexington Theological Seminary
Anna Lysyanskaya
Computer Science Prof., Brown University
Martin Marty
Religion Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
Walter Massey
Chairman, Bank of America/Former President, Morehouse College
David McAllister-Wilson
Pres., Wesley Theological Seminary
Kathleen McCartney
Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Layton McCurdy
Dean Emeritus, Medical University of South Carolina
Gene McDonald
Pres., Duke Management Group
Vashti Murphy McKenzie
Ch., African Methodist Episcopal Church Council of Bishops
Stan McKenzie
Episcopal Supervisor, The African Methodist Episcopal Church/Ret'd MBA Player
George McLendon
Dean of Arts & Sciences, Duke University
William McSweeny
Publisher, National Catholic Reporter
William Meninger
Retreat Master, St. Benedict's Monastery
Amber Miller
Physics Prof., Columbia University
Ken Miller
Biology Prof., Brown Univ./Author, Findng Darwin's God
Kenneth Miller
Biology Prof., Brown University
William Milliken
Founder, Communities in Schools
Theodore Mitchell
CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund/Former Pres., Occidental College
Judith Mohraz
CEO, Piper Charitable Trust/Former Pres., Goucher College
Mark Moore
Professor, Kennedy School of Government
Barbara Morgan
Distinguished Educator in Residence, Boise State Univ./Former Astronaut
Charles Murray
Author, The Bell Curve and Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Barry Nalebuff
Co-Founder, Honest Tea/Prof., Yale School of Management
David Neff
Editor-in-Chief, Christianity Today
Joseph Newhouse
Health Policy Professor, Harvard University
Michael Novak
Theologian and Author
Joseph Nye, Jr.
Former Dean, Harvard's Kennedy School of Gov't & US Under Secretary of Defense
John O'Neil
Pres., California School of Professional Psychology/Author, The Paradox of Success
Jeremiah Ostriker
Cosmology Prof. & Former Provost, Princeton University
Julio Ottino
Engineering Dean, Northwestern University
Elaine Pagels
MacArthur Prize-winning Religion Professor, Princeton University
Luis Palau
Evangelist
John Palms
Former Pres., Univ. of South Carolina
Harry Payne
Former President, Williams College
Susan Resneck Pearce
Former President, University of Puget Sound
Paul Peercy
Engineering Dean, Univ. of Wisconsin/Former Pres., Semi-Sematch
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Professor, Stanford Business School/Author Competitve Advantage through People
Michael Porter
Professor, Harvard Business School/Author, The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Xiao Qiang
MacArthur "Genius" Prize-Winning China Internet Project Director., U.C.-Berkeley
John Quelch
Prof., Harvard Business School/Former Dean, London Business School
Ted Rabb
History Prof., Princeton University
Lisa Randall
Physics Prof., Harvard U./Author, Warped Passages: Unraveling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
William Rankin
Former Pres., Episcopal Divinity School
John Ratey
Psychiatry Prof., Harvard Medical School/Author, User's Guide to the Brain
Kevin Reilly
Pres., University of Wisconsin System
Kenneth Rogoff
Economics & International Finance Prof., Harvard University/Former Chief Economist, World Bank
Harry Rowen
Former President, RAND Corporation
George Rupp
President, International Rescue Committee & former President, Columbia University
Lamin Sanneh
World Christianity Professor, Yale Divinity School
Isabel Sawhill
Sr. Fellow, Brookings Institute/Former Assoc. Dir., US Office of Mgmt. & Budget
Richard Schmalensee
Former Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
Robert Schuller, Jr.
Minister, Crystal Cathedral Ministries
Allen Sessoms
President, Univ. of DC/Former President, Delaware State University and Queens College
Judith Shapiro
Former President, Barnard College
William Sharpe
Economics Nobel Laureate
Bennett Shaywitz
Professor of Child Dev't, Yale University
Dal Shealy
CEO, Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Robert Shelton
President, Univ. of Arizona/Former Provost, UNC-Chapel Hill
John Sherrill
Co-Author, The Hiding Place, The Cross & The Switchblade
David Shi
Former President, Furman University
Betty Siegel
Former President, Kennesaw State College & President, Assn. of State Colleges & Universities
Jeremy Siegel
Prof., Wharton School of Finance
John Silber
Former President, Boston University
Ruth Simmons
Pres., Brown University and former Pres., Smith College
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
Prof., Yale School of Management
David Spergel
Astronomy Prof., Princeton University
Michael Starbird
Mathematics Professor, University of Texas-Austin
Shelby Steele
Historian, Stanford Univ.'s Hoover Institution
Donald Stewart
Former Pres., Education Testing Service
Skip Stout
History Prof., Yale Univ./Author, Upon the Altar of the Nation, American Religious History
Jon Strauss
President Emeritus, Harvey Mudd College/Former Pres., Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bjarne Stroustrup
Designer, C++ Programming Language
Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
Cultural Psychology Professor, Harvard University
Michael Sugrue
Humanities Professor, Princeton University
Deborah Tannen
Linguistics Prof., Georgetown/Best-selling Author, You Just Don't Understand, Talking 9-5
Sir Cyril Taylor
Chm., City Technologies Colleges Trust/Former High Sheriff of London
Curtis Thompkins
Former President, Michigan Technological University and President, Institute of Industrial Engineers
Linwod Thompson
California "Teacher of the Year"
Tyler Tingley
Principal, Phillips Exeter Academy
Eugene Trani
Former President, Virginia Commonwealth University
Sherry Turkle
Technology & Society Prof., MIT/Author, Life on the Screen
Mpho Tutu
Exec. Dir., Tutu Institute for Prayer & Pilgrimage
Michael Useem
Director, Wharton School's Leadership & Change Management Center, University of Pennsylvania
Miroslav Volf
Dir., Yale University's Center for Faith & Culture
John Waddell
Pres., St. Paul's College/Former Pres., Allen University
Steve Waldman
Founder-Editor, Beliefnet.com
Jim Wallis
Author, God's Politics/Founder, Sojourners
Diana Chapman Walsh
Former President, Wellesley College
Sharon Watkins
President, Christian Church-Disciples of Chirst/Director, National Council of Churches
Ti Weiming
Chinese History & Philosophy Prof., Harvard University
Allan Weinstein
Former Archivist of the US
Drew Westen
Psychology Prof., Emory University/Author, The Politics of the Brain
Ruth Westheimer
Sexuality & Relationships Therapist ("Dr. Ruth")
John White
Chancellor Emeritus, U.Ark. System/Frmr. Eng. Dean, Ga. Tech
George Whitesides
Chemistry Prof., Harvard Univ./Fndr., Gel-tex Pharma
Richard Wood
Dean Emeritus, Yale Divinity School/Former President, Earlham College
C.D. Wright
MacArthur Prize-winning Literature Prof., Brown University
Philip Yancey
Author/Former Editor, Christianity Today
John Zysman
Director, Univ. of California-Berkeley's Roundtable on the Int'l Economy
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