nonfiction and poetry writer Julian Simon – environmental economics academic and author Pulitzer Prize recipients David Garrow – 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Henry S. Taylor – 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Other Alida Anderson – author and researcher at American University School of Education Kenneth Anderson – research fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, Professor of Law George Ayittey – president of the Free Africa Foundation; political economics professor Robert Bausch – fiction writer, novelist and 2009 Dos Passos Prize in Literature; author of Almighty Me, released in film as Bruce Almighty Upendra Baxi – legal scholar; Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi, Honorary Director (Research) of the Indian Law Institute and President of the Indian Society of International Law Betty T. Bennett – Dean, College of Arts and Sciences (1985–1997) and Professor of Literature Michael Berenbaum – Holocaust scholar, writer and filmmaker; deputy director of the President's Commission on the Holocaust; Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Richard E. Berendzen – Department of Physics Professor, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Barbara Bergmann – feminist economics academic; professor emerita of economics Alan Berman – psychologist, psychotherapist, and suicidologist Julian Bond – Chairman of NAACP; distinguished professor in residence, Department of Government, School of Public Affairs David Bosco – journalist; author; assistant professor of international politics Richard Breitman – Distinguished Professor of History, American University Norma Broude – Art historian and feminist scholar, Professor Emerita James B. Conant – President of Harvard University; chemist Laura DeNardis – author and Internet governance scholar; School of Communications Professor Elizabeth Eisenstein – author and historian on the French Revolution and early printing Samih Farsoun – Founding Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Sharjah and the American University of Kuwait; professor emeritus of sociology Charles B. Ferster – Department of Psychology, behavioral psychologist, co-author with B. F. Skinner of Schedules of Reinforcement (1957) Lee Francis – Laguna Pueblo-Anishinaabe poet and educator; Professor and Interim Director of Native American Studies department and the American Studies program Herbert Fuchs – former member of various communist cells during the 1930s and 1940s; Professor of Law Mary Garrard – Art historian and feminist scholar, Professor Emerita Walter Gautschi – mathematician and expert in numerical analysis Edmund Ghareeb – author and expert on the Kurds, Iraq, and media issues; Professor of Middle East