Memories of CASBS
David Sears, Class of 1988-89, 1992-93
I have had many and quite diverse connections to the Center over the years, so I hope I will be… Read more…
Productive and Exciting
Susan Ervin-Tripp , Class of 1974-75
CASBS encouraged us to come with fellowships, so I found it convenient to have Guggenheim help that year. I commuted… Read more…
Sixty Years
Peter Stansky, Class of 1988-89, 2013-14, 2014-15
Having asked the approximately 1500 living Fellows of CASBS to write for the web site at the time of the… Read more…
Essay on being a Center Fellow
Nannerl O. Keohane, Class of 1978-79, 1987-88, 2004-05
My most vivid memories of the years I was fortunate enough to have a fellowship at CASBS in the late… Read more…
Reminiscence with Appreciation
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Class of 1988-89
The Scholars’ Paradise, indeed. While there are other paradises for scholars, the Center was/is truly so, enabling us fellows to… Read more…
Two of the Best Years of My Academic Life
Gary T. Marx, Class of 1987-88 & 1996-97
I would like at least that my own intellectual activity should not make things worse or more dangerous, and, preferably,… Read more…
My Year at the Center
Richard M. Lerner, Class of 1980-81
Like almost every other day at a few minutes after noon, I walked into the bright sun carrying my tray… Read more…
My Year at CASBS
L. Alan Sroufe, Class of 1984-85
I was fortunate to spend the 1984-1985 year at the center. I was just 43 years old and at a… Read more…
Serendipity at CASBS in 1971-72 That Stimulated a Career Change
Frederick L. Newman, Class of 1971-72
I was five years beyond graduating with a Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology) and was in awe of being one of the… Read more…
My Year at CASBS
Daniel C. Dennett, Class of 1979-80
My year at CASBS was 1979-80, as a member of the group assembled by Stanford Professor John McCarthy, founding father… Read more…
My Year at CASBS
Martin H. Krieger, Class of 1973-74
During my year at the Center I read a great deal in a variety of fields, outside my training as… Read more…
CASBS Recollection
Robert H. Bates, Class of 1993-94 & 1985-86
I have been fortunate to have spent two years at the Center. For reasons of space, I write only about… Read more…
Erwin R. Steinberg (Professor of English and Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University 1946-2007) was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for… Read more…
CASBS: Effects on Me and Observations for the Future Kenneth J. Arrow, Class of 1956-57
(Talk given at the 60th Anniversary Event on Nov 9, 2014) Basic inspiration: a unity of the social sciences with… Read more…
Serendipity at the Center
Robert 0. Keohane, Class of 2004-05, 1987-88 & 1977-78
I was a "double recidivist" at the Center. I couldn't stay away. After an initial year (1977-78) while I was… Read more…
CASBS Memories
Peter Eisinger , Class of 1985-86
The class of 1986 worked hard and played hard. I wrote the first half of a book during my year.… Read more…
Reminiscences
Ray S. Jackendoff, Class of 1983-84
From the acknowledgments of my book Consciousness and the Computational Mind (MIT Press, 1987) drafted at CASBS 1983-4: "Pride of… Read more…
America the Unusual
John Kingdon, Class of 1987-88
I was a Fellow at the Center in 1987-88. I had been Chair of my department at Michigan for the… Read more…
Elysium
Gerald Holton, Class of 1975-76
Our stay (1975-76) at the Center was magical, felt to be so both at the time and in retrospect-- a… Read more…
Memories and Appreciation
David E. Leary, Class of 1982-83
I have many wonderful memories of my year at the Center (1982-83), particularly those associated with lively friendships and the… Read more…
A LA UNA DE LA TARDE
John R. Walsh, Class of 1979-80
(At a farewell dinner for fellows at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences) After optional work and… Read more…
The First IBM PCs
Lois Bloom, Class of 1982-83
A sunny day in Fall 1982, at lunch on the terrace, Kenji Hakuta shared the news that the IBM Personal… Read more…
Reminiscences
Robert Darnton, Class of 1973-74
When I arrived at the Center in 1973 after a cross-country marathon in a VW with my wife and two… Read more…
The Center Changed My Life
Richard A. Easterlin, Class of 1970-71
The economics of happiness is now a burgeoning subject in economics. It all began at the Center when, over lunch… Read more…