People

Christine Southworth, through her work with robots and automated music systems as co-founder and Director of Ensemble Robot, is making groundbreaking music based on the interaction between science, technology and creativity. Employing sounds from man and nature, from Van de Graaff Generator to honeybees, Balinese gamelan to seizmic data from volcanos, Southworth is introducing a brand new genre of music to Boston, born out of the areas complex community of scientists and artists. Southworth received a B.S. from MIT in 2002 in mathematics and music and M.A. in Computer Music & Multimedia Composition from Brown University in 2006. She composes for Western ensembles, Balinese gamelan, and mixed ensembles of gamelan, western instruments, electronics, and robots. Her compositions draw from her interests in modern American and European music, jazz, Balinese music, and rock and roll, and have received awards and recognition from the LEF Foundation, American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), the MIT Eloranta Fellowship, and Bang on a Can. Her music has been played throughout the U.S., Europe, and Indonesia by ensembles including Gamelan Galak Tika, the Calder Quartet, and Ensemble Robot.

Christine Vachon is an American movie producer active in the US independent film sector. Christine Vachon produced Todd Haynes' controversial first feature, *Poison*, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival. Since then, she has gone on to produce some of the most acclaimed American independent films including *Far From Heaven* (nominated for four Academy Awards), *Boy's Don't Cry* (Academy Award winner), *One Hour Photo*, *Hedwig and the Angry Inch*, *Happiness*, *Velvet Goldmine*, *SAFE*, *I Shot Andy Warhol*, *Go Fish*, *Swoon*, and *I'm Not There*.

**Christof Spieler**, PE, LEED AP is a Vice President and Director of Planning at Huitt-Zollars and a Senior Lecturer at Rice University. He served as a member of the board of directors of Houston’s Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) from 2010 to 2018, where he initiated the Transit System Reimagining process, a blank sheet re-design of the entire local bus network. Spieler's book, [Trains, Buses, People: an Opinionated Atlas of US Transit](https://islandpress.org/books/trains-buses-people), shows how cities can build successful transit. In it he profiles the 47 metropolitan areas in the US that have rail transit or BRT, using data, photos, and maps for easy comparison. Spieler lives in downtown Houston and relies on transit and walking for most of his daily trips.

Christoph Reinhart, Ph.D., Professor of Architecture, Director, Building Technology Program and Sustainable Design Lab, MIT. Dr. Reinhart is an international leader in urban design, especially recognized for architectural “daylighting”—the use of natural light to illuminate building interiors—and urban-level environmental building performance analysis. The design tools developed by the Reinhart lab are used by architects and urban planners in more than 90 countries.

Christoph Rückel is a founding partner of BridgehouseLaw Rückel & Bolthausen with offices in Atlanta, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, London, Manila, Munich, Paris, Shanghai, and Singapore. He is managing partner of the firm’s Atlanta office practicing in the areas of corporate law, real estate, banking law, white collar crime, and tax and investments.

Christoph Wolff, born in Solingen, Germany on May 24, 1940, is one of the world's leading scholars on composer J. S. Bach. Educated in Germany, Wolff studied organ and historical keyboard instruments, musicology and art history at the Universities of Berlin, Erlangen, and Freiburg, taking a performance diploma in 1963 and the Dr. Phil. in 1966. He taught the history of music at Erlangen, Toronto, Princeton, and Columbia Universities before joining the Harvard faculty in 1976 as Professor of Music; William Powell Mason Professor of Music, 1985-2002; and Adams University Professor, 2002-. At Harvard he served as Chair of the Music Department (1980-88, 90-91), Acting Director of the University Library (1991-92), and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1992-2000). Recipient of various international prizes, several honorary degrees, he holds an honorary professorship at the University of Freiburg and memberships in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften. He currently serves as Director of the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig and President of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales. He has published widely on the history of music from the 15th to the 20th centuries. "Bach: Essays on His Life and Music" (Cambridge, 1991), "Mozart's Requiem" (Berkeley, 1994), "The New Bach Reader" (New York, 1998), and "Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musicia" (New York, 2000--translated into eight languages) are his most recent books.

Christopher N. Avery, Roy E. Larsen Professor of Public Policy, teaches analytic courses in microeconomics and statistics. His first book, The Early Admissions Game, coauthored with Andrew Fairbanks and Richard Zeckhauser, was published by Harvard University Press in March 2003. In his current research, he studies college application patterns and college enrollment choices for high school students.

Christopher supports the administrative and financial areas of NCAM.

Dr. Bowler is a scientific coordinator of the Tara Oceans expedition, which is providing a global analysis of plankton at a time when climate change and marine environmental threats are causing rapid extinctions and ecosystem breakdowns in the world’s oceans. He is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization. His awards include a Silver Medal from the CNRS (Centre Nationnal de la Recherche Scientifique) in 2010 and a Fondation Louis D. Grand Prix from the Institut de France in 2015. This year he is a Grass Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Research

Christopher Brown is a historian of Britain and the British empire, principally in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with special emphasis on the comparative history of slavery and abolition, and with secondary interests in the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Age of Revolutions. His current research centers on the history of European experience on the African coast at the height of the Atlantic slave trade, and continues early commitments to the rise and fall of slavery in the British Empire. Published work has received prizes in four distinct fields of study – American History, British History, Atlantic History, and the history of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance. Completed projects include Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (University of North Carolina Press) and, with Philip D. Morgan, Arming Slaves: Classical Times to the Modern Age (Yale University Press). He has written as well for The Nation, The New York Times, and the London Review of Books, among other outlets.

Christopher Bucklow, was born on the first of June, 1957, in Flixton, Lancashire, England. His parents were Roy and Doreen Bucklow. Roy Bucklow was an architect, but he died before Christopher's first birthday in 1958. Christopher was adopted by his stepfather Alfred Noel Titterington, a businessman in the printing industry, in 1967 and used the name Chris Titterington until the beginning of his life as an artist in 1989, when he was 32 years old. After Bucklow graduated in 1978 he accepted a post as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He worked in the Prints and Drawings department. There he researched Romantic works of art on paper and early photography. He also continued his interest in contemporary art and he wrote reviews of contemporary exhibitions for *Artscribe magazine*, London. During this whole period as a museum curator, he did not make any art himself. He was completely absorbed in the study of the Romantic mind in particular the developments that led to the rise of landscape in the genre hierarchy of the period. However, he was becoming interested in William Blake and would spend time after hours studying the many wonderful examples of Blakes work that he was looking after as part of the V&A collection. During these years as a curator, he also continued his early interest in physics and astronomy.

**Christopher C. King** is a Grammy-winning producer, musicologist, and prominent 78 RPM record-collector, has written for The Paris Review and the Oxford American. Profiles of him have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Washington Post. He lives in Virginia.

Christopher Capozzola specializes in the political and cultural history of the United States from 1861 to 1945. He graduated from Harvard College and competed his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2002. He has held fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Carnegie Scholars Program, and the Social Science Research Council. At MIT, he teaches courses in political and legal history, cultural history, and the history of race, gender, and class.