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  EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD
The External Advisory Board meets annually to review Faculty Fellowship proposals and to select the Faculty Fellows for the next academic year.

Anthony Kwame Appiah
Laurence S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center of Human Values
Department of Philosophy, Princeton University

Anthony Kwame Appiah is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center of Human Values.  His interests include philosophy of mind and language, African and African-American intellectual history, and political philosophy.  Among his publications are Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (with Amy Gutmann), the Dictionary of Global Culture (co-edited with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), Thinking It Through, and The Ethics of Identity.

Peter Caws
University Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Human Sciences,
Department of Philosophy, George Washington University

Peter Caws’ research interests include contemporary continental philosophy, social and political philosophy, existentialism and phenomenology, and philosophy and technology.  He is the author of Sartre, Structuralism: The Art of the Intelligible, and Yorick’s World: Science and the Knowing.

Catharine R. Stimpson
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University

Catharine Stimpson is University Professor and Dean of NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science.  She was director of the MacArthur Foundation Fellows Program, past president of the Modern Language Association, former chair of the New York State Humanities Council and the National Council for research on Women and the first director of the Women’s Center of Barnard College and of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers. Her many publications include the book Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces and the Library of America’s Gertrude Stein: Writings 1903-1932.  She was the founding editor of Signs; Journal of Women in Culture and Society for the University of Chicago Press.

Michael Warner
Board of Governors Professor of English, Rutgers University
Michael Warner is co-director of the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University.

His most recent books include Publics and Counterpublics and The Portable Walt Whitman. He is also the author of The Letters of the Republic and The Trouble with Normal : Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life. He has edited two literary anthologies: American Sermons (Library of America, 1999); and, with Myra Jehlen, The English Literatures of America , 1500-1800 (1997). He is also the editor of Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (1993); and, with Gerald Graff, The Origins of Literary Studies in America: A Documentary Anthology (1988).