CBS program "Money Talks", later president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Edward Drinker Cope, A.M. (Hon.) 1864, professor of zoology, 1864-67; renowned paleontologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist; long associated with Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences William C. Davidon, professor of physics and mathematics (1961–1991); peace and justice activist Elihu Grant, writer, professor of Biblical literature (1917–1938) Elaine Tuttle Hansen, provost of Haverford College 1995–2002; president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine Louise Holland (1893–1990), academic, philologist and archaeologist Anita Isaacs, Benjamin Collins Professor of Social Sciences; professor of political science Rufus Jones, professor of philosophy (1893–1934); Quaker mystic; co-founder of American Friends Service Committee Roger Lane, Benjamin R. Collins Research Professor in history; winner of the Bancroft Award from Columbia University and the Best Book Award from the Urban History Association Ira De Augustine Reid, professor and chair of sociology and anthropology and first tenured black faculty member (1948–1966), scholar of black urban and immigrant life in the United States Michael Sells, guest professor of comparative religions at Haverford (1984–2005); author of Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations; Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago Ed Sikov '78, film scholar and author of Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers and On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder. For a decade during the 1990s and 2000s he taught "Sex and Gender on Film: Screwballs, Devil Dames, and Closet Cases", then one of the most popular courses on campus Douglas V. Steere , professor of philosophy (1928 to 1964); organized Quaker post-war relief work in Finland, Norway and Poland; invited to participate as an ecumenical observer in the Second Vatican Council Ronald F. Thiemann, chairman of Religion (1975–1985), dean of Harvard Divinity School (1986–1998) Josiah ("Tink") Thompson, professor of philosophy (1965–1976); biographer and scholar of Søren Kierkegaard; expert on assassination of John F. Kennedy (author of Six Seconds in Dallas (1967) and Last Second in Dallas (2021); left academia to become a private investigator in San Francisco; author of memoir Gumshoe'' Cornel West, assistant professor of Philosophy (1987–88), currently professor of religion at Princeton University Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, author and psychoanalyst, former student and biographer of Hannah Arendt Sorelle Friedler, Assistant Director for Data and Democracy in the Whitehouse Office of Science and Technology Policy References Haverford College people