Luther Brown spent most of his early life in Elmhurst, Illinois and received his BA from Elmhurst College.  He received is MA and PhD in ecology from Ohio State University,…

Felipe Chavez-Ramirez has a long history of involvement in whooping crane research and conservation activities, beginning in 1993 with his PhD thesis work at Texas A&M University. He is the…

Melissa F. Kean was Rice University’s Centennial Historian from 2005 until her retirement in 2020. She is the author of Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice,…

Kate S. Kirkland is the author of Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857–1941 (Texas A&M University Press, 2012), published in conjunction with Rice University’s centennial, and The Hogg Family…

Rebecca Rabinow, director of the Menil Collection since 2016, was formerly a curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1990. She…

Clive Swansbourne studied at the Royal College of Music in London 
and received his doctorate from the Yale School of Music. He has won prizes in international competitions, and performed…

Brian Connelly's career embraces an unusually broad range of historical and modern repertoires and styles. He has premiered works by a host of contemporary composers, and is widely known for…

John B. Boles retired in 2019 as the William Pettus Hobby Professor of American History at Rice University, where he taught for 38 years. He is the author of the…

Sean Theriault is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of government at the University of Texas in Austin. His primary focus is American political institutions with specialties in congressional politics, elections and…

François de Menil, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C; is Principal and founder of FdM:Arch, an internationally acclaimed architecture firm. He is also a filmmaker. One of his first films, "Hanging Max…