David George Haskell is an American biologist, author, and professor of biology at Sewanee: The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee. In addition to scientific papers, he has written…

Mari Carmen Ramírez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and Director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts,…

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is the author of fifteen books, including two prize-winning story collections, Arranged Marriage and The Unknown Errors of Our Lives, four volumes of poetry, and the bestselling…

Anne Chao is adjunct lecturer in the humanities at Rice University, and program manager of the Houston Asian American Archive (HAAA), which focuses on the immigration experience of Asian Americans…

Sandy Edwards is the senior director of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Prior to Crystal Bridges, Edwards and her late husband, Clay, served as the management team for University…

Nancy Bailey is lecturer in Vocal Studies for the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and has taught music appreciation courses for the School of Continuing Studies since 1984.…

Raised in Texas by an Italian mother, Flaminia Chapman moved to Rome in the early 2000s to work as a tour guide alongside her mother and brother and younger sister,…

Jim Nelson is a former professional dancer who moved into nonprofit administration in 2000, when he became Houston Ballet's general manager, before being named executive director of the company in…

Robert L. Patten, the Lynette S. Autrey Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Rice University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London,…

James Hollis received his doctorate from Drew University and taught humanities for 26 years in various colleges and universities before retraining as a Jungian analyst at the C. G. Jung…