Eva

Brann (born 1929) is a former dean (19901997) and the longest-serving

tutor (1957present) at St. John's College, Annapolis, and a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Brann was born to a Jewish family in Berlin. She immigrated in 1941 to the United States and received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1950, her M.A. in Classics from Yale University in 1951, and her Ph.D. in Archaeology from Yale in 1956. She also holds an Honorary Doctorate from Middlebury College. In her early years at St. John's, she was very close to Jacob Klein, one of the great philosophical minds of the 20th century, if unheralded. After Klein died, Brann increasingly assumed his role as the deUining Uigure of St. John's, the St. John's program, and the continuing dialogue with the Great Books represented by the program.

Curriculum Vitae
B.A., Brooklyn College, (1950); M.A., Yale University, (1951); Ph.D., Yale University, (1956); Fellow of the American Numismatic Society (Summer 1952); Fellow of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1952-53); American Agora Excavations at Athens as Sibley Fellow of Phi Beta Kappa, Instructor; Instructor in Archaeology, Stanford University (1956-57); Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1958-59); Tutor, St. John's College, Annapolis (1957-); Addison E. Mullikin Tutorship (1971-); Member, U.S. Advisory Commission for International Education and Cultural Affairs (1975-77); Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1976-77); Arnold Visiting Professor, Whitman College (1978-79); Visiting Scholar in Honors Education, University of Delaware (1984-86); Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1987-88); Member, Maryland Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1988-96); Dean, St. John's College, Annapolis (1990-1997); Doctor of Humane Letters, Whitman College (1995); Doctor of Letters, Middlebury College (1999); Recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Medal (2005)

Her published works (not including translations) include:

Late Geometric and Protoattic Pottery, Mid 8th to Late 7th Century B.C.: Results of excavations conducted by the American school of classical studies at Athens (1962) Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, and American Constitutionalism by Leo Paul S., ed. (Berns, Laurence; Thurow, Glen E.; Brann, Eva; Anastaplo, George; contributors) De Alvarez (1976) Paradoxes of Education in a Republic (1989) The World of the Imagination (1992) Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory: Appropriating Historical Traditions by Patricia Cook (Editor), George Allan (Contributor), Donald PhillipVerene (Contributor), Alasdair MacIntyre (Contributor), J. B.Schneewind (Contributor), Lynn S.Joy (Contributor), Robert CummingsNeville (Contributor), Eva T. H.Brann (Contributor), George Kline (Contributor), John S.Rickard (Contributor), Stanley Rosen (Contributor) The Past-Present: Selected Writings of Eva Brann (1997) The Study of Time: Philosophical Truth and Human Consequences (Kritikos Professorship in the Humanities, 1999.) What, Then, Is Time? (1999) The Ways of Naysaying: No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing (2001) Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad (2002) The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings (2004) Open Secrets/Inward Prospects: Reflections on Word and Soul (2004) Feeling Our Feelings: What Philosophers Think and People Know (2008) Introduction to His Monkey Wife or Married to a Chimp by John Collier (2000) Translations include: Klein, Jacob, Greek mathematical thought and the origin of algebra. [Die griechische Logistik und die Entstehung der Algebra], 1968 Plato's Sophist or the professor of wisdom, 1996 Plato's Phaedo: with translation, introduction and glossary, 1998