Bill Nichols (2019)

Bill Nichols is Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University, a position he has held in 1987. Prior to that, he was a member of the Queen’s University Film Studies Department, where he was Acting Chair from 1976-8 and Chair from 1978-1985. He is a founder of the contemporary study of documentary film. His 1991 book Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary applied modern film theory to the study of documentary film for the first time and helped to establish film studies as an academic discipline.

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Naomi Klein (2004-2005)

Naomi Klein is an award-winning author, a senior correspondent at The Intercept, and the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is a syndicated columnist and the author of books including The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (2017). The Shock Doctrine has been translated into more than 25 languages worldwide. It won the Warwick Prize for Writing.

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Margaret MacMillan (2004-2005)

Margaret MacMillan is a provost at Trinity College and Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is also emeritus Professor of International History and the former Warden of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. Her publications include Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, for which she was the first woman to win the Samuel Johnson Prize.

Linda Colley (2004-2005)

Linda Colley is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 professor of history at Princeton University and the author of Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837, which investigated how inhabitants of England, Scotland, and Wales came to see themselves as British over the course of the 18th and early 19th centuries. and Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World 1600-1850, which used captivity narratives to investigate the vulnerability of the British empire and its makers. She is an expert on British, imperial, and global history after 1700.

Hanan Ashrawi (2005-2006)

Hanan Ashrawi is a scholar and activist in the struggle for a Palestinian homeland. As the founder and secretary general of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, her academic expertise has played a vital role in the development and recognition of Palestinian culture. She served as a member of the Leadership Committee and as an official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace process, beginning with the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991.

Eric L. Jones (2005-2006)

Eric L. Jones is Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University, and Visiting Professor at Exeter University. He received his doctorate in economic history from Oxford University, after which he taught at Northwestern University, Yale, Manchester, Princeton, University of Berlin and the Center for Economic Studies at Munich.

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Roberto Cipriani (2005-2006)

Roberto Cipriani is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Roma Tre University. He has taught at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Recife, and Laval. He is Past President of the Italian Sociological Association and the ISA Research Committee for the Sociology of Religion. His research has spanned Greece, Mexico, Spain, and Israel and addresses popular religion, the sacred, and secularization.

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