Howard Aronson, advocate for study of Slavic and non-Slavic languages, 1936‒2024
Colleagues recall the ‘linguist’s linguist’ as a remarkable scholar and amiable colleague
Ralph A. Austen, historian of Africa and a ‘scholar’s scholar,’ 1937-2024
Champion for UChicago workshops remembered for his deep curiosity, dedication to community and family
Gene Mazenko, UChicago physicist and leading theorist in statistical mechanics, 1945–2024
Remembered for humor, love of sports, and patient but rigorous mentorship
McKim Marriott, world-renowned scholar of India and caste, 1924-2024
UChicago anthropologist, PhD’55, exemplified the ‘undaunted life of the mind’
Lewis ‘Alan’ Longino, UChicago graduate student and scholar of postwar Japanese art, 1987‒2024
Colleagues remembered art historian’s ‘intellectual spirit,’ empathy and curiosity
George Haley, acclaimed critic of the Golden Age of Spanish literature, 1927‒2024
Colleagues recall UChicago scholar’s work as ‘unique for its quality: not volcanic but everlasting’
David B. Rowley, geologist who overturned conventional wisdom about Earth’s surface evolution, 1954–2024
David Ballantyne Rowley, Professor Emeritus in UChicago’s Department of the Geophysical Sciences, who specialized in paleoaltimetry, paleogeography, and tectonics, died May 30.
W. Ralph Johnson, pre-eminent UChicago critic of Latin poetry, 1933‒2024
Latin scholar remembered as ‘a superb poet, raconteur and fierce intellectual’
Donald Whitcomb, renowned scholar of Islamic archaeology, 1944‒2024
UChicago scholar, alum ‘redefined the discipline’ through his fieldwork across the Middle East