scholar

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To which reader Michael Mendle, an emeritus professor at the University of Alabama and scholar of 17th-century British history, responded:

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Prior to his appointment to the central bank in 2012 by then-president Obama, Powell was a scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Hai Nguyen, a Vietnam War scholar at the Harvard Kennedy school, told Hirsh that he saw history literally repeating itself.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

If only Freidenberg could have foreseen that, in a distant continent three-quarters of a century later, another literary scholar, like herself, would so ably bring these moving and brilliant notes to light.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

I wonder if he would have suggested stopping there right now if I’d won top scholar.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison