Current and former Tufts faculty include former American Psychological Association president Robert Sternberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin, preeminent philosopher Daniel Dennett, Nobel Laureate Allan M. Cormack ( 1924 – 1998 ), regular featured columnist in Foreign Policy Magazine Daniel W. Drezner, radio host Lonnie Carton and author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive Lee Edelman.

Topsfield's preeminent historian, George Francis Dow, tells us: " No minister of those early days left a deeper impression on the town than Reverend Joseph Capen, who wisely led the minds of the people along the varied paths of knowledge until his death in 1725.

George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American Conservative movement, states that Buckley was " arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century ... For an entire generation, he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure.

Comer Vann Woodward ( November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999 ) was a preeminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations.

Citing the breadth and quality of Aron's writings, historian James R. Garland suggests that " Though he may be little known in America, Raymond Aron arguably stood as the preeminent example of French intellectualism for much of the twentieth century.

A frequent television guest, he is best known as an urban historian and a preeminent authority on New York City, where he lives on the Upper West Side.

In page 13 of " Cracks in the Parchment Curtain ", preeminent historian William Henry Scott quotes Riquel ’ s original text, which he found in the Spanish archives under " Archivo General de Indias Seccion Patronato leg.

Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command established Freeman as the preeminent military historian in the country, and led to close friendships with United States generals George Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

" Political commentator Daniel Pipes described him as " the preeminent historian of the modern Middle East writing today.

Griffith Borgeson ( December 21, 1918 – June 29, 1997 ) was an influential American race car historian, described by the Society of Automotive Engineers as one of the world's preeminent automotive historians.

Jacob Piatt Dunn, the preeminent Indiana historian of the time, consulted several history and arrived at the conclusion that the sun was rising.

John Badger Bachelder ( September 29, 1825 – December 22, 1894 ) was a portrait and landscape painter, lithographer, and photographer, but best known as the preeminent 19th century historian of the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.

Even China's preeminent intellectual Lu Xun was appalled at the details surrounding Ruan's death and wrote an essay, entitled " Gossip is a Fearful Thing ", denouncing the tabloids.

" Maimonides ( 1135 – 1204 ), the preeminent Jewish philosopher of his day, wrote, " Only lately some well-to-do men came forward and purchased three copies of my code Mishneh Torah which they distributed through messengers ....

Al-Maturidi with other two preeminent scholars () wrote especially on the creed of Islam and elaborated Abu Hanifa's doctrine, the other two being Abu al-Hasan al-Ash ' ari in Iraq, and Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi in Egypt.

Former President Jiang Zemin once wrote a few words of encouragement for DMU: “ Be steadfast, rigorous, industrious, and pioneering in order to build the University into one of the preeminent maritime universities in the world ”.

Later in life, Ewing wrote Ross that he felt Ross was “ preeminent for courage ” among men – not only for his physical courage in battle but also for opposing Johnson ’ s impeachment.

At the premiere of the symphony in 1865, the preeminent music critic Eduard Hanslick wrote

After George Hepworth, a preeminent journalist of the late nineteenth century, traveled through Ottoman Armenia in 1897, he wrote Through Armenia on Horseback, which discusses the causes and effects of the recent massacres.

In 1881, the Los Gatos News wrote, " While other cities and towns may boast of a larger population, for the manufacture of the finest grade of flour known to the markets of the civilized world, Los Gatos Flouring Mills stands preeminent.

Wallace established himself as the preeminent Farm Belt leader, wrote the major farm speech of the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidential campaign, and in 1933 became Secretary of Agriculture in his father's footsteps.

He also wrote about 400 pieces in the first edition of Norsk biografisk leksikon, a biographical dictionary which would become a preeminent source on important figures in Norwegian history.

Jacques-Louis David (; ) ( 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825 ) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.

Hans Kelsen is considered one of the preeminent jurists of the 20th century and has been highly influential in Europe and Latin America, although less so in common-law countries.

Brooks was also the preeminent critic of Southern literature, writing classic texts on William Faulkner, and co-founder of the influential journal, The Southern Review ( Leitch 2001 ) with Robert Penn Warren.

For 70 years the preeminent and influential American architect Philip Johnson held that the profession has no functional responsibility whatsoever, and this is one of the many views today.

Although subject to occasional attack for the positions it has taken, Crisis Group was firmly established by the time of Evans ’ s departure, and has remained, the preeminent international NGO working on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict, praised by leaders across the spectrum from Condoleezza Rice to Hillary Clinton, and regularly being identified as one of the world ’ s most influential think tanks.

Channel 0 in Melbourne took an early lead in catering for teenage viewers and quickly became the preeminent network in pop music programming, commissioning a sequence of popular and influential local pop shows including The Go !!

The seminary is one of the world's preeminent and most influential seminaries, with a number of leading theologians and biblical scholars being alumni of the school.

The bank rose to become one of most powerful investment banks in the City during the 60s, 70s, and 80s and Warburg himself one of London's most preeminent and influential financiers of the era.

After the first volumes of Javakhishvili's monumental, but yet unfinished, kartveli eris istoria ( A History of the Georgian Nation ) appeared between 1908 and 1914, the young scholar quickly established himself as a preeminent authority on Georgian and Caucasian history, Georgian law, paleography, diplomacy, music, drama and other subjects, producing landmark studies in these fields.

Perhaps the preeminent American Indian leader in the Northwest Indian War, in which a pan-tribal confederacy fought several battles with the nascent United States, he was an important predecessor of the famous Shawnee leader Tecumseh.

He is linked forever to the year-older Seabiscuit, who was a famous Grandson of the Man o ' War stallion, son of Hard Tack and was the preeminent horse based in the western US.

Groza emerged as a public figure at the end of World War I as a notable member of the Romanian National Party ( PNR ), preeminent layman of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and then member of the Directory Council of Transylvania.

That race, however, was ultimately a dead end, as aircraft carriers and submarines came to the fore and, after the successes of World War II, the Royal Navy yielded its formerly preeminent place to the United States Navy.

During the Cold War, Revel was known as a champion of classical liberal values such as liberty and democracy at a time when many preeminent European intellectuals praised Communism or Maoism.

He believed that the Schuylkill Valley — which from colonial times until the Civil War had been the center of American iron-making — would, because of the importance of anthracite iron, continue to hold that preeminent position indefinitely.

In 45 BC, after the Roman Civil War ended at the Battle of Munda, Híspalis built city walls and a forum, completed in 49 BC, as it grew into one of the preeminent cities of Hispania ; the Latin poet Ausonius ranked it tenth among the most important cities of the Roman Empire.

Crabgrass Frontier, a comprehensive study of the factors influencing suburban growth in the United States is the preeminent source on the history of American suburbanization.

The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II cemented the status of the Empire as the preeminent power in southeastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean.

The Cabinet has always been led by the Prime Minister, whose unpaid office as such was traditionally described as merely primus inter pares ( first among equals ), but today the Prime Minister is clearly the preeminent head of government, with the power to appoint and dismiss Cabinet ministers and to control the Cabinet's agenda.

Marathas remained the preeminent power in India until their defeat in the Second and Third Anglo-Maratha Wars ( 1805 – 1818 ), which left Britain in control of most of India.

With the support of Kublai Khan, Phagpa established himself and his sect as the preeminent political power in Tibet.

Sparta never again engaged in major military efforts at sea, and within a few years Athens had reclaimed her place as the preeminent Greek sea power.

The Third Dynasty of Ur came to preeminent power in Mesopotamia after several centuries of Akkadian and Gutian kings.

Zhou publicly contradicted Gao's belief that the military should play a preeminent role in the politics of the PRC, deplored Gao's attempts to spread " rumors " about Liu and other leaders, and concluded that Gao's intention was to sow discord and to usurp power within the Party and the state.

With the support of Kublai Khan, Chögyal Phagpa established himself and his sect as the preeminent political power in Tibet.

Henry Jaffa argued that neither state nor national sovereignty was clearly established in the Constitution but no American president has in fact operated on the assumption that state power was preeminent, giving the Constitution a nationalist orientation.

He reached the apex of his power when appointed National Security Advisor and temporarily became preeminent among presidential aides.

Notably, Great Britain, the preeminent world power of the era, was relieved that it had chosen to settle the Oregon boundary dispute with the U. S. through diplomacy.

When the Parliament Act 1911 reduced the power of the Lords, it seemed likely that the leader in the Commons would be preeminent.

I have in the past played with the double sense of Archimago's name — Archi-mage, the preeminent enchanter, and Arch-image, the preeminent illusion — and on this basis asserted that the name authorizes a cultural imagination corrupted by its own impossible aspiration toward wholeness / holiness — toward heroic autonomy and tyrannical power — and thus torn by deprivation, anger, and the perpetual fear of impotence.