Our External Faculty Group, acting as an advisory board, consists of pioneering scholars whose research and teaching give insight into the effects of knowledge production on human communities. Many of them have worked in institutional roles that further the study of these questions.

Daron Acemoglu
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Tom Cummins
Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University
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Kathy Eden
Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and Professor of Classics, Columbia University
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Paul Farmer
Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University
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Peter Galison
Joseph Pelligrino University Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
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Simon Goldhill
Professor in Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College, Cambridge. Director, CRASSH
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Stephen Greenblatt
John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, English Department, Harvard University
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Christian Jacob
Professor of Anthropology and the History of Antiquity, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paries, and Directeur de recherche at CNRS
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Sho Konishi
Associate Professor in Modern Japanese History, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford
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Professor Sir G.E.R. Lloyd
Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge University
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Marie-Jose Mondzain
Director of Research at the Groupe de sociologie politique et moral at CNRS
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Scott L. Montgomery
Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Sheldon Pollock
Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
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Timothy Reiss
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, NYU
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Francesca Rochberg
Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley
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Alain Schnapp
Professor of Greek Archaeology, Paris 1; General director, Institut national de l'histoire de l'art, Paris
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Pamela Smith
Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Center for Science and Society, Columbia University
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Ann Laura Stoler
Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, The New School
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Zhang Longxi
Chair and Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation, City University of Hong Kong
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