scholar of computer science at Harvard University, Guggenheim Fellow Eric Lander, mathematician and geneticist, professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and science advisor to President Barack Obama, MacArthur Fellow Adam Marcus, professor of mathematics at Princeton University Cathy O'Neil, data scientist and blogger at Mathbabe, Director of the Lede Program in Data Practices at Columbia University Jim Propp, professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Dana Randall, professor of computer science at Georgia Tech Lisa Randall, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, known for developing the Randall–Sundrum model Seth Schoen, technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Steven Strogatz, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at UCLA Law School, scholar of American constitutional law and libertarianism Erik Winfree, professor of computer science and bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology, MacArthur Fellow Notable past and present faculty Film and video Joan Braderman, video artist and director, MacArthur Fellow Bill Brand, experimental filmmaker Jacqueline Hayden, feminist photographer and video artist Peter Hutton (filmmaker), experimental filmmaker Penny Lane (filmmaker), documentary filmmaker Jerome Liebling, filmmaker and photographer, Guggenheim Fellow Kara Lynch, video artist Elaine Mayes, filmmaker and photographer, Guggenheim Fellow Julia Meltzer, video artist, Guggenheim Fellow Walid Raad/Atlas Group, video and multi-media artist Ellen Spiro, Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Photography Diane Arbus, photographer, Guggenheim Fellow Jerome Liebling, filmmaker and photographer, Guggenheim Fellow Elaine Mayes, filmmaker and photographer, Guggenheim Fellow Carrie Mae Weems, photographer, MacArthur Fellow Visual arts Leonard Baskin, graphic artist and sculptor, Guggenheim Fellow David Diao, painter Theater Josephine Abady, theater director Music Ray Copeland, jazz musician Mark Dresser, jazz musician Marty Ehrlich, jazz musician Yusef Lateef, jazz musician, Grammy Award-winner Roland Wiggins, music theorist, music teacher to John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Yusef Lateef, Buster Williams, Jimmy Owens, and Billy Taylor Politics Eqbal Ahmad, political scientist, writer and academic Michael Klare, scholar on U.S. defense policy and global resource issues History Anson Rabinbach, historian of modern Europe, co-founder of New German Critique, Guggenheim Fellow E. Francis White, historian Anthropology Alan H. Goodman, anthropologist Aihwa Ong, anthropologist, MacArthur Fellow Leonard Glick, anthropologist, historian of ideas and Judaism Psychology John Roosevelt Boettiger, psychologist, grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt Writing and Journalism James Baldwin, novelist, essayist, poet, playwright and activist Ronnie Dugger, journalist, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, founder of The Texas Observer, George Polk Award-winner