P.
Kyle McCarter, Jr.,
William Foxwell Albright Chair in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern
Studies, has chaired the MLA Program since 2003. His research and
teaching interest include Biblical
Studies,
Northwest Semitic philology, and
Dead Sea scrolls. Dr. McCarter also teaches course in the MLA Program
including King Arthur, Lost Books of the Bible, and Ancient Medicine,
and Dead Sea Scrolls.
Mark Blyth,
Associate Professor of Political Science, came to Hopkins in 1997. His
research interests include Comparative Political Economy ,
Institutional and Ideational Theory, and Advanced Industrial
States. His publications include Great
Transformations: Economic Ideas and Political Change in the Twentieth
Century
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002).
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Mark Blyth
Neil
Hertz,
Professor (English): Romantic and modern literature, Freud and
psychoanalytic theory. Professor Hertz has been at Johns Hopkins
University since 1982. He chaired the Humanities Center from 1993-1999,
and the Master of Liberal Arts Program from 1999 until 2003.
Edward
C. Papenfuse
has held the positions of Maryland State Archivist and Commissioner of
Land Patents since 1975. As director of the extensive activities of the
Maryland State Archives in Annapolis, Dr. Papenfuse is responsible for
the Archives' vast collection of government and private materials. He
is the author of numerous articles and books, including In
Pursuit of Profit: The Annapolis Merchants in the Era of the American
Revolution
(1975) and, with Joseph M. Coale, The
Hammond-Harwood House Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608-1908
(1982). Dr. Papenfuse received his undergraduate degree from the
American University, an M.A. from the University of Colorado, and his
Ph.D. in history from The Johns Hopkins University.
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Gary
Vikan assumed
Directorship of the Walters Art Gallery in April, 1994, after serving
as Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Medieval
Art at the Walters since 1985. He has participated in
scholarly conferences worldwide, and has published and lectured
extensively on topics ranging from early Christian pilgrimages, to
icons, to medicine and magic, to Elvis Presley. He is Adjunct Professor
at The Johns Hopkins University. He is an internationally known scholar
and has curated many of the most significant exhibitions in the history
of the Walters, including Silver Treasure from Early Byzantium, Holy
Image, Holy Space: Icons and Frescoes from Greece, Gates of Mystery:
The Art of Holy Russia, and African Zion: The Sacred Art of Ethiopia.
Ronald
Walters,
Professor of History, has been at the Johns Hopkins University since
1970. His publications include The
Antislavery Impulse: American Abolitionism after 1830
(1976, 1984), and American
Reformers (1978; revised
edition, 1997), and three edited works as well as numerous articles and
book reviews in scholarly journals. His present work divides between
his interest in radical reform movements and research on nineteenth-
and twentieth-century American commercial popular culture. Dr. Walters
has been on the MLA Advisory Board since 1999.
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Susan
Forscher Weiss, Music history.
B.A., Goucher College; M.A., Smith College; Ph.D., University of
Maryland. Additional studies, Juilliard School of Music, University of
Michigan. Publications include articles in The Journal of The American
Musicological Society, chapters in scholarly books such as Food and
Eating in Medieval Society (1998), the book Bologna Q 18: An
Introduction and Facsimile Edition (1999), as well as entries in the
forthcoming edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Awards include National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend,
1986; American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant; Mu Phi
Epsilon Musicological Research Award, 1990; John Ward Fellowship,
Harvard University, 1991; Folger Shakespeare Library Fellow, 1992.
Council of The American Musicological Society, 1995-97.
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