Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland; former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights; co-author, International Encyclopedia of Human Rights: Freedom, Abuses, and Remedies (2000) and co-editor, The Poverty of Rights: Human Rights and the Eradication of Poverty (2001); "Human Rights and Ethical Globalization"

bell hooks, author, Feminism is for Everybody (2000) and Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002); "Feminist Education: Changing All Our Lives"

Hershel Parker, H. Fletcher Brown professor emeritus of English, University of Delaware; author, Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literacy Authority in American Fiction (1984) and Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 2, 1851-1891) (2002); "Damned by Dollars: Moby-Dick and the Price of Genius"

Valerie Bunce, professor of political science, Cornell University; author, Subversive Institutions: The Design and Destruction of Socialism and the State (1999) and Do New Leaders Make a Difference?: Executive Succession and Public Policy under Capitalism and Socialism (1981); "The Sources of Ethnic Conflict: Insights from the Post-communist Experience"

Gary Comstock, professor of philosophy, director of ethics program, North Carolina State University; author, Vexing Nature: On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology (2000) and Life Science Ethics (2002); "Vexing Nature? On Ethics and Genetically Modified Food"

Nicholas Turro, William P. Schweitzer professor of chemistry, Columbia University; author, Modern Molecular Photochemistry (1991) and Annual Survey of Photochemistry Volume 3 (1971); "Paradigms Found and Paradigms Lost. Science Extraordinary and Science Pathological. Which is Which? And How to Tell the Difference"

Thomas Metcalf, Sarah Kailath chair and professor of history and Indian studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, Ideologies of the Raj (1995) and An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj (1989); "Gandhi: Imperialist, Nationalist, Hindu?"

Edward Burger, professor of mathematics, Williams College; co-author, The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking (1999) and author, Exploring the Number Jungle: A Journey into Diophantine Analysis (2000); "The Beauty and Art of Paper Folding for the Origamically Challenged"

Harold Mulherin, Don and Loraine Freeberg chair and professor of economics and finance, CMC; co-author, Valuing the Process of Corporate Restructuring (2001) and Comparing Acquisitions and Divestitures (2000); "Research in Corporate Finance"

Il SaKong, former finance minister, Republic of Korea; author, Korea in the World Economy (1993) and co-editor, The Korea-United States Economic Relationship (1997); "Towards an Enchanted East Asian Economic Cooperation"

Ted Bergstrom, Aaron and Cherie Raznick chair and professor of economics, U.C. Santa Barbara; co-author, Experiments with Economic Principles: Microeconomics (1999) and Workouts in Intermediate Microeconomics (1999); "An Evolutionary View of the Economics of the Family"

Ersky Freeman as Malcolm X; Dudley Craig II as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Mark Anderson as bodyguard; "Pin Points Theatre: The Meeting"

Jorge Dominquez, professor of international affairs, Harvard University; editor, The Future of Inter-American Relations (1999) and co-author; "The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict" (2001)

Michael Berenbaum, adjunct professor of theology and director, Sigi Ziering Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics, University of Judaism, Los Angeles; co-author, False Papers: Deception and Survival in the Holocaust (2000) and In the Shadow of the Swastika (1998); "Creating Something from Nothing: The Scholar as Entrepreneur"

James Young, professor of English and Judaic studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; author, Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (2000) and editor, Holocaust Memorials in History: The Art of Memory (1997); "Memory, Counter-memory, and the End of the Holocaust Monument"