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David Noel Keightley (October 25, 1932 – February 23, 2017) was an American sinologist. He was a professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a published author covering the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the Chinese Bronze Age.
Michael James Harner (April 27, 1929 – February 3, 2018) was an American anthropologist, educator and author. His 1980 book, The Way of the Shaman: a Guide to Power and Healing, [1] has been foundational in the development and popularization of core shamanism as a New Age path of personal development for adherents of neoshamanism. [2]
Arthur Aron (born July 2, 1945) is a professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.He is best known for his work on intimacy in interpersonal relationships, and development of the self-expansion model of motivation in close relationships.
After teaching briefly at Brown University, he moved to Berkeley in 2006 as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science Program. In 2010, he became an associate professor and the director of Berkeley's Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences. [1] [7] He became a full professor at Berkeley in 2015. [1] [8]
Alison Gopnik (born June 16, 1955) is an American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.She is known for her work in the areas of cognitive and language development, specializing in the effect of language on thought, the development of a theory of mind, and causal learning.
[6] [7] [8] He is a former lecturer in UC Berkeley's School of Information where he taught "Virtual Communities and Social Media" and "Participatory Media/Collective Action". [9] He has been a frequent contributor to the Connected Learning Alliance blog on topics ranging from new media literacy to learning innovation. [10]
Chemical element number 103, discovered at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1961, was named lawrencium after him. [114] In 1968 the Lawrence Hall of Science public science education center was established in his honor. [115] His papers are in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. [116]
Dirks was born in Illinois but grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, where his father, J. Edward Dirks, [2] was a professor at Yale University.When the latter received a Fulbright Scholarship in 1963 to teach at the Madras Christian College, the Dirks family relocated to Madras, where Nicholas developed an interest in Indian culture.