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W.E.B. Du Bois 1868–1963Scholars & Public IntellectualsSociologist, historian, and civil rights activist who was the first African American to earn a Harvard doctorate.
Noam Chomsky b. 1928Scholars & Public IntellectualsLinguist and political activist whose theories revolutionized the study of language and cognitive science.
Elie Wiesel 1928–2016Scholars & Public IntellectualsHolocaust survivor, author of Night, and Nobel Peace laureate
Susan Sontag 1933–2004Scholars & Public IntellectualsAgainst Interpretation, On Photography, and Illness as Metaphor
Angela Davis b. 1944Scholars & Public IntellectualsPolitical activist and academic whose scholarship on race, class, and prisons became globally influential.
Edward Said 1935–2003Scholars & Public IntellectualsHis 1978 book Orientalism argued that Western knowledge of the East was built inside imperial power, and it remade several humanities fields.
Cornel West b. 1953Scholars & Public IntellectualsPhilosopher and public intellectual whose work bridges race, democracy, and American pragmatism.
bell hooks 1952–2021Scholars & Public IntellectualsFeminist scholar and cultural critic whose writings on race, gender, and class transformed critical theory.
Kimberlé Crenshaw b. 1959Scholars & Public IntellectualsLegal scholar who coined the term intersectionality, reshaping understandings of overlapping discrimination.
Lawrence Lessig b. 1961Scholars & Public IntellectualsHarvard Law professor and activist who founded Creative Commons and campaigns against political corruption.