2010-2015

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… 

Reflections on a Ghost in Study #7
Katherine Isbister, Class of 2014-15

I remember the sunny autumn day in 2014 when I got my office key, standing there, scanning the ‘Ghosts in… Read more… 

My Year at CASBS
Maryanne Wolf, Class of 2014-15

“It is a universal truth” that no Fellow wants to write a summary of their time at the Center for… Read more… 

Heavenly, Supportive, Productive, Delicious, Sublime
Estelle Freedman, Class of 2009-10

I finally realized why I’ve had so much trouble setting down in words my thoughts about CASBS – I think… Read more… 

Like a True Thrill, Both Delicious and Terrifying
Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Class of 2005-06, 2012-13

I was first a CASBS fellow in 2005-06. As a Stanford faculty member since 1991, I had long viewed the… Read more… 

The Stream of Consciousness and Beyond in Ulysses
Julia Rothenberg (Class of 2013-14) on Erwin R. Steinberg (Class of 1970-71)

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… 

On Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Class of 1955-56
Albert Rothenberg M.D, Class of 2013-14 & 1986-87

One of the earliest women invited to spend a year (1956) at CASBS, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann was a pioneering psychoanalyst who… Read more… 

Serendipity, CASBS, and Me
Charles S. Carver, Class of 2014-15

Of the many illustrious documents produced during Fellowships at CASBS, very few are better known among psychologists than the slim,… Read more… 

Fire on the Hill: The Making of a Modern Classic
Kamala Visweswaran (Class of 2014-15) on M.N. Srinivas, Class of 1964-65 & 1969-70

I came to know of MN Srinivas as a UC Berkeley student in a course on “Social Stratification in India”… Read more…