I have had many and quite diverse connections to the Center over the years, so I hope I will be excused for the egocentricity of emphasizing the memories that have come to me directly through my own eyes and relationships.…
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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 to the Center from Berkeley, since I had young children, but sometimes spent the night in my study or in…
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 60th birthday of the Center and having received about 30 wonderful responses, I thought it would only be fit and…
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 70s, mid-80s and 2004-5 are organized around the flow of each day, so perfectly attuned to that incomparably restful and…
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 pursue our research without the intensity of academic politics. It was in large part thanks to Director Gardner Lindze and…
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, that it would make things by a tiny margin a little bit better, a little bit clearer, a little bit…
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 from the lunchroom. Squinting (I wore no glasses of any kind in 1980 and 1981), I looked to see if…
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 very important point in my career. At Minnesota we had started one of the most ambitious longitudinal studies of development…
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 Fellows at the Center, interacting with psychologists I held in very high regard (Lee Cronbach, Gardner Lindsey, Henry Riecken, Roger…
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 of Artificial Intelligence (and coiner of the term), to spend the year working on Artificial Intelligence and philosophy. That year…