Sentences with phrase «from leading historians»

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With the death of Sydney Ahlstrom and the retirements of Robert Handy and Martin Marty from the classroom, Mark Noll has surely become our leading teacher - historian of American Christianity.

Cornell University Professor William Provine, a leading historian of Darwinism, concluded from Gallup's figures that the American public simply does not understand what the scientists mean by evolution.

This naturally, even unconsciously, influences them, and can lead to the situation where a historian carefully disentangles the original Jesus of history from the Christ of faith of the first - century Church only to reidentify him with the Christ of his own faith and so reinterpret the teaching all over again.

For example, this year we're looking at Britain in Europe, but I feel we've all heard a lot from David Cameron and Nigel Farage, so we're bringing in the French ambassador to Berlin, and also the leading Latin American historian Oscar Guardiola - Rivera and Jaideep Prabhu of the Cambridge Judge Business School are speaking.

Soon after, the German atomic effort turned from bomb making to nuclear - reactor design, leading some historians to believe that Heisenberg helped maneuver the research toward more peaceful purposes.

Now plans are underway to use the imaging technique to decrypt other relics, including the Fra Mauro world map from 1455 and the earliest surviving globe from 1492, says Chet Van Duzer, the map historian who led the Martellus project.

«Aerosols from volcanoes reduce evaporation and cool the temperature, leading to fewer clouds,» says Francis Ludlow of Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, and the team's climate historian.

This book, which includes contributions from historians of science, key scientists and administrators, and one of the principal astronauts who led many of the servicing missions, is meant to capture the history of this iconic instrument...

Each title gets a full - length audio commentary from Travis Crawford, a dogged film critic and programmer with the instincts of a historian, who goes into detail on the background of just about every lead and significant supporting player who appears on screen, in addition to the producers and financiers behind the scenes who allowed (or more likely didn't allow) Romero to realize his vision on screen.

With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimonies from leading voices, including Michelle Alexander, Bryan Stevenson, Van Jones, Newt Gingrich, Angela Davis, Senator Cory Booker, Grover Norquist, Khalil Muhammad, Craig DeRoche, Shaka Senghor, Malkia Cyril, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis.

In this forum, lead author of Learning from No Child Left Behind, EdisonLearning's John Chubb, and education historian and task force member Diane Ravitch, who declined to sign the recommendations, weigh in on the future of the law.

A leading historian of American education, Graham served as dean of the Ed School from 1982 through 1991.

She's the most prominent educational historian since her predecessor, Lawrence Cremin from Teachers College and somehow people believe this should somehow enable her to lead our schools down the path of credible reform in her name's sake.

You might know Syd from The OMG Hour / Lost Treasures, as well as being Canada's leading video game collector and historian.

Beginning in early 2000, Walter Hopps (a leading curator of 20th - century art and founding director of the Menil Collection in Houston) and art historian William C. Agee began kicking around ideas for a comprehensive exhibition of Abstract Expressionist work from... Read More

McMillian was selected by an independent advisory committee made up of renowned curators and art historians from across the U.S. Led by Heather Pesanti, Senior Curator of The Contemporary Austin, this year's inaugural advisory committee included Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator and Head of Modern Art Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Naomi Beckwith, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Peter Eleey, Chief Curator, MoMA PS1; Hamza Walker, Executive Director, LAXART; and Heidi Zuckerman, Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO and Director, Aspen Art Museum.

A self - proclaimed «collector of souls,» Neel often painted friends and family, as well as the celebrated artists and writers of her day, such as Andy Warhol, Frank O'Hara, and Meyer Shapiro, delving into personalities and idiosyncrasies with a rare frankness.Alice Neel: Painted Truths brings together paintings that demonstrate Neel's range and ability, along with insightful commentary from four leading art historians.

The Sourcebook includes materials on such topics as implanted memories in mice, caves in Laos left over from the Indochina wars, new methods for listening underwater and meditations on light and darkness, plus interviews between Weerasethakul and leading art historians as well as texts drawn from his personal library.

The curator and art historian who works on UCLan's Making Histories Visible project, an interdisciplinary visual art research project based at UCLan's Centre for Contemporary Art led by Lubaina Himid, Professor of Contemporary Art, hopes the two exhibitions will also inspire students from the University.

Báez was selected by a jury of art experts, who looked at nominations submitted by leading curators, critics, gallerists, historians and teachers from all over the country.

That could help draw more collectors, curators, art historians and writers to the city, who then could spread word about what they've seen, perhaps leading to requests for work from local artists to be included in exhibitions around the country.

Organized by art historian Linda Norden, with Peter Ballantine, the leading expert on Donald Judd, the show provides context to the contemporary art fairs — after all, no movement exists in a bubble, and the reverberations from artwork made in 1960s can still be seen trembling in work made today.

Abundant, detailed illustrations from every phase of the artist's work accompany a series of thematic essays by leading art and social historians.

Alice Neel: Painted Truths brings together paintings that demonstrate Neeland # 8217; s range and ability, along with insightful commentary from four leading art historians.

The findings came from the Climate Accountability Institute, an entity led by Richard Heede, whose company, Climate Mitigation Services, advises companies, municipalities and others on how to cut greenhouse gases, and Naomi Oreskes, the Harvard historian and co-author of «Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.»

The thing that really, really, seriously pisses me off, as a now historian of the extractive / energy industries, is that from Grimes Graves up until end of the last millenium, the UK had an almost 100 % record of leading the rest of the world in these fields, but we've tossed it all away for a bunch subsidy - chasing shiessters like the Yeo, Deben and Camoron clans.

50 years from now, historians poring over the events that led to the collapse of the AGW «consensus» will certainly appreciate your account.

The historian Wraxall was distinctly sceptical: «Erskine successfully undertook to spurn at precedents... to appal or silence the judges themselves; to intimidate, convince or seduce the juries; to appeal from the understanding to the feelings... finally, to lead captive his audience, and to carry the cause that he defended or espoused, by extorting a sort of voluntary submission, sometimes yielded almost in defiance of evidence, facts, belief or conviction.»

The survey was conducted by Robert Fishman, professor of history at Rutgers University, and was based on 149 responses from leading urban historians.