People

Daniel Clowes was born and grew up in Chicago before attending the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. His career as an underground comic began to take of when his first Lloyd Llewellyn story was published in 1985. He soon began the periodic comic collection *Eightball*, which spawned several full-length graphic novels, including *Ghost World* and *Art School Confidential*. Both of these novels he adapted into screenplays, and for his adaptation of *Ghost World* he was nominated for an Academy Award in 2001. He is currently an illustrator for *The New Yorker* and lives in Oakland, CA.

Daniel Cziczo is professor at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University.

In the southwest and Latin America, Daniel D. Beck continues to work with Gila Monsters and Beaded Lizards, primarily on projects related to conservation and public outreach. In St. George, Utah, he is working with resource management agencies and public schools in efforts to prevent Gila Monster populations from disappearing in the wake of rapid recreational and residential development. His teaching interests include general biology, physiology, ecology, and field biology. He teaches courses in introductory biology, ecology, herpetology, and physiology, as well graduate courses in research design and analysis.

Daniel C. Dennett, the author of *Breaking the Spell (Viking, 2006), Freedom Evolves (Viking Penguin, 2003) and Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Simon &Schuster, 1995)*, is a university professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He was born in Boston in 1942 and received his BA in philosophy from Harvard in 1963. He then went to Oxford to work with Gilbert Ryle, under whose supervision he completed the D.Phil. in philosophy in 1965. He taught at U.C. Irvine from 1965 to 1971, when he moved to Tufts, where he has taught ever since, aside from periods visiting at Harvard, Pittsburgh, Oxford, and the cole Normale Suprieure in Paris. His first book, *Content and Consciousness*, appeared in 1969, followed by *Brainstorms (1978), Elbow Room (1984), The Intentional Stance (1987), Consciousness Explained (1991), Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995), Kinds of Minds (1996), and Brainchildren: A Collection of Essays 1984-1996 (MIT Press and Penguin, 1998). Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness*, was published in 2005 by MIT Press. He co-edited *The Mind's I* with Douglas Hofstadter in 1981. He is the author of over three hundred scholarly articles on various aspects on the mind, published in journals ranging from Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral and Brain Sciences to Poetics Today and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He gave the John Locke Lectures at Oxford in 1983, the Gavin David Young Lectures at Adelaide, Australia, in 1985, and the Tanner Lecture at Michigan in 1986, among many others. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987. He was the co-founder (in 1985) and co-director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts, and has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in Boston.

Daniel Drezner is Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and author of *All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes*.

Daniel Duncan has reported for the Sudan Radio Project since September 2009. He aims to uncover little-known aspects of the Sudanese experience at home and abroad. His stories have included a report on an American dance company that uses ballet to raise awareness about Darfur.

**Daniel E. Lieberman** is a Human Evolutionary Biologist and Professor at Harvard University. He has written a book entitled "Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding."" He studies and teaches how and why the human body looks and functions the way it does. Lieberman has long been fascinated by the evolution of the human head but his main focus is currently on the evolution of human physical activity.

Daniel E. Lieberman received a PhD in 1993 at Harvard University where he is now professor of anthropology.

Daniel is currently working towards a PhD at Linnaeus University studying the biology and ecology of manta and mobula rays in the Indian Ocean. At Blue Resources Trust he helps obtain funds, oversee project operations, leads the elasmobranch research, and develops and implements national and international policy to better manage fisheries. He has also been appointed as an Adviser to the Minister of Sustainable Development and Wildlife of Sri Lanka and represents the Government at international conventions such as CITES and CMS. Alongside this, in his role as an Associate Director of The Manta Trust, he is responsible for global mobulid fisheries projects. His work has been highlighted in international documentaries broadcast on ITV (UK) and Al Jazeera English.

Dr. Fornari was the first Chief Scientist of Deep Submergence at WHOI. He is a past Director of WHOI’s Deep Ocean Exploration Institute (DOEI), and was a Chair of the Ridge 2000 Program, a NSF-funded national program studying mid-ocean ridges. Dr. Fornari is the author or co-author of over 100 research publications and has participated in over 100 research cruises and as many dives in deep-sea submersibles. His research focuses on volcanic and hydrothermal processes along the global mid-ocean ridge, using a variety of surface and deep-towed sonar systems, submersibles, ROVs, and AUVs. Dr. Fornari received the 2014 American Geophysical Union's Flinn Award.

Daniel G. Nocera, Ph.D. is the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. He is best known for his bionic leaf innovation, which has been widely featured in the media, including PBS, Scientific American, New Yorker and other sources. He received the United Nations Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization’s Science and Technology Award in 2009 for his contributions to renewable-energy development. Daniel Nocera is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Daniel Geary is the Mark Pigott Assistant Professor of U.S. History at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought. Geary's book is titled [Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy](http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15361.html "") Study Geary's [annotated version of the Moynihan Report](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-moynihan-report-an-annotated-edition/404632/ "") in \_The Atlantic\_.

Professor of Geophysics, MIT; Co-director of Lorenz Center. Dr. Rothman’s work has resulted in fundamental advances in subjects ranging from seismology and fluid flow to biogeochemistry and paleobiology. He has also made significant contributions to research in statistical physics. Daniel Rothman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Geophysical Union and is the recipient of the 2016 Levi L. Conant Prize from the American Mathematical Society