The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities
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The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities is an annual honorary bestowed upon an “established scholar of classical literature, who has made substantial contributions to the critical analysis of classical literature, or has been exceptionally skilled at inspiring an appreciation for classical literature” by the Humanities Division of the University of Chicago
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Sigmund H Danziger, Jr, founded Homak Mfg Co. Inc. in 1947 in Chicago. A Chicago southsider and son of a sales representative for houseware products, including bathroom scales, Mr. Danziger began his business career “jobbing” for Chicago manufacturers while a student at the University of Chicago. After the World War II, in which he served as a Captain and translator, he purchased a bathroom cabinet manufacturer on the south side of Chicago for which he was jobbing. Naming the new company Homak, capturing a sign he noted on a hat store, he began manufacturing steel kitchen cabinets and rapidly moved to a 35000 sq ft (3,251.6 m²) building, which he designed at 4433 S. Springfield Ave in Chicago. In the early 1960s, an order for tool boxes lead to the production of a hardware line including roller cabinets, tool boxes, and other accessories. Through the 1970s and 1980s, most of the major retailers and chains of the time became either line or private label customers at one time or another, including Sears, True Value
, Montgomery Ward
, Coast-to-Coast, Costco
, Sports Authority
, etc. In 1979, Sigmund Danziger died and his wife Gertrude (Trudy), ran the company for the next 25 years. During this time, the company moved to a 400000 sq ft (37,161.2 m²) facility in Bedford Park, Illinois
while sales grew to $35,000,000 with hardware, automotive, hospital (under Homed TM), and sporting goods lines. One of the major innovations during this period was the introduction of a consumer gun cabinet (under HomSafe TM), which instantly grew to be a major hit at mass retailers and hunters. Homak employed hundreds of people, who enjoyed the prosperity of the industry.
Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University
2009-2010 Page duBois
Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego
2008-2009 Elaine Pagels
Harrington Spear Pain Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University
2007-2008 Mary Beard
Chair of Classics at the University of Cambridge and Classics Editor of the Times Literary Supplement
2006-2007 Daniel Mendelsohn
Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities, Bard College
2005-2006 Jacques Rancière
Professor of Philosophy, University of Paris
2004-2005 Andrew Ford
Professor of Classics, Princeton University
2003-2004 Steven Feld
Professor of Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico
2002-2003 Josiah Ober
Professor of Classics, Princeton University
2001-2002 Ian Hacking
Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts, Collège de France
2000-2001 Simon Goldhill
Professor of Greek Literature and Culture, King's College, University of Cambridge
1999-2000 David Shulman
Renée Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies, Hebrew University
1998-1999 Joan E. DeJean
Trustee Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania
1997-1998 Mary L. Poovey
Professor of English, New York University
1996-1997 Peter R. Brown
Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Princeton University
1995-1996 Irene Winter
Chair of Fine Arts, Harvard University
1994-1995 Charles Segal
Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics, Harvard University
1993-1994 Friedrich Kittler
Professor of Aesthetics and Media Studies, Humboldt University
1992-1993 Gary A. Tomlinson
Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania
1991-1992 Hazel V. Carby
Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, Yale University
1990-1991 Naomi A. Schor
Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French, Yale University
1989-1990 Natalie Zemon Davis
Professor Emerita of History, Princeton University
1988-1989 Sir Kenneth J. Dover
Professor of Greek and Chancellor Emeritus, University of St. Andrews
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
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Sigmund H Danziger, Jr, founded Homak Mfg Co. Inc. in 1947 in Chicago. A Chicago southsider and son of a sales representative for houseware products, including bathroom scales, Mr. Danziger began his business career “jobbing” for Chicago manufacturers while a student at the University of Chicago. After the World War II, in which he served as a Captain and translator, he purchased a bathroom cabinet manufacturer on the south side of Chicago for which he was jobbing. Naming the new company Homak, capturing a sign he noted on a hat store, he began manufacturing steel kitchen cabinets and rapidly moved to a 35000 sq ft (3,251.6 m²) building, which he designed at 4433 S. Springfield Ave in Chicago. In the early 1960s, an order for tool boxes lead to the production of a hardware line including roller cabinets, tool boxes, and other accessories. Through the 1970s and 1980s, most of the major retailers and chains of the time became either line or private label customers at one time or another, including Sears, True Value
True Value
True Value Company is a retailer-owned hardware cooperative with over 5,000 independent retail locations worldwide. Members of the True Value cooperative own their individual stores and operate independently of True Value Company....
, Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward is an online retailer that carries the same name as the former American department store chain, founded as the world's #1 mail order business in 1872 by Aaron Montgomery Ward, and which went out of business in 2001...
, Coast-to-Coast, Costco
Costco
Costco Wholesale Corporation is the largest membership warehouse club chain in the United States. it is the third largest retailer in the United States, where it originated, and the ninth largest in the world...
, Sports Authority
Sports Authority
The Sports Authority, Inc. is one of the largest sporting goods retailers in the United States. It is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, and operates more than 460 stores in 45 U.S...
, etc. In 1979, Sigmund Danziger died and his wife Gertrude (Trudy), ran the company for the next 25 years. During this time, the company moved to a 400000 sq ft (37,161.2 m²) facility in Bedford Park, Illinois
Bedford Park, Illinois
Bedford Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 574 at the 2000 census. Bedford Park consists of a small residential area and vast amounts of heavy industry sprawling to the east and a small amount to the west.-Geography:...
while sales grew to $35,000,000 with hardware, automotive, hospital (under Homed TM), and sporting goods lines. One of the major innovations during this period was the introduction of a consumer gun cabinet (under HomSafe TM), which instantly grew to be a major hit at mass retailers and hunters. Homak employed hundreds of people, who enjoyed the prosperity of the industry.
Roster of Sigmund H. Danziger Jr lecturers
2010-2011 Anthony GraftonAnthony Grafton
Anthony Grafton is a historian and the current Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. He is also a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Balzan Prize...
Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University
2009-2010 Page duBois
Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego
2008-2009 Elaine Pagels
Elaine Pagels
Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey , is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the Gnostic Gospels...
Harrington Spear Pain Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University
2007-2008 Mary Beard
Mary Beard (classicist)
Winifred Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Newnham College. She is the Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and author of the blog "", which appears in The Times as a regular column...
Chair of Classics at the University of Cambridge and Classics Editor of the Times Literary Supplement
2006-2007 Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn
-Life and career:Mendelsohn was born on Long Island. He graduated with a B. A. in Classics from the University of Virginia, which he attended from 1978 to 1982 as an Echols Scholar, and received his M. A. and Ph. D. in Classics from Princeton University, where he was a Mellon Fellow in the...
Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities, Bard College
2005-2006 Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee...
Professor of Philosophy, University of Paris
2004-2005 Andrew Ford
Andrew Ford
Andrew Ford is an English and Australian composer, writer and radio presenter.He was Composer-in-residence with the Australian Chamber Orchestra , held the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer Fellowship from 1998 to 2000 and was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Music Board of the Australia Council...
Professor of Classics, Princeton University
2003-2004 Steven Feld
Steven Feld
Steven Feld is an American ethnomusicologist anthropologist, and linguist, who worked for many years with the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea. He earned a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991....
Professor of Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico
2002-2003 Josiah Ober
Josiah Ober
Josiah Ober is an American historian and classical political theorist. He is currently the Constantine Mitsotakis Chair of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University...
Professor of Classics, Princeton University
2001-2002 Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science.- Life and works :...
Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts, Collège de France
2000-2001 Simon Goldhill
Simon Goldhill
Simon Goldhill is a professor of Greek literature and culture at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is also Director of CRASSH, the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge...
Professor of Greek Literature and Culture, King's College, University of Cambridge
1999-2000 David Shulman
David Shulman
David Shulman was an American lexicographer and cryptographer.He contributed many early usages to the Oxford English Dictionary and is listed among . He felt most at home in the New York Public Library, undertaking his lexicographic research there and donating many valuable items to it...
Renée Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies, Hebrew University
1998-1999 Joan E. DeJean
Trustee Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania
1997-1998 Mary L. Poovey
Mary Poovey
Mary Poovey is an American cultural historian and literary critic whose work focuses on the Victorian Era. She is currently Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities at New York University,and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge. Her PhD was from the...
Professor of English, New York University
1996-1997 Peter R. Brown
Peter Brown (historian)
Peter Robert Lamont Brown is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. His principal contributions to the discipline have been in the field of late antiquity and, in particular, the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe.-Life:Peter Brown was born in...
Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Princeton University
1995-1996 Irene Winter
Irene J. Winter
-Life:BA Barnard College, Anthropology, 1960; MA University of Chicago, Near Eastern Studies, 1967; PhD Columbia University, Art History and Archaeology...
Chair of Fine Arts, Harvard University
1994-1995 Charles Segal
Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics, Harvard University
1993-1994 Friedrich Kittler
Friedrich Kittler
Friedrich A. Kittler was a literary scholar and a media theorist. His works relate to media, technology, and the military.-Biography:Friedrich Adolf Kittler was born in 1943 in Rochlitz in Saxony...
Professor of Aesthetics and Media Studies, Humboldt University
1992-1993 Gary A. Tomlinson
Gary A. Tomlinson
Gary Tomlinson is an American musicologist, and Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, at the University of Pennsylvania. Beginning in the fall of 2011, he will be a full time faculty member at Yale University....
Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania
1991-1992 Hazel V. Carby
Hazel Carby
Hazel V. Carby is professor of African American Studies and of American Studies at Yale University. Before joining Yale University faculty, she taught English at Wesleyan University for seven years...
Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, Yale University
1990-1991 Naomi A. Schor
Naomi Schor
Naomi Schor was a noted literary critic and theorist. A pioneer of feminist theory for her generation, she is regarded as one of the foremost scholars of French literature and critical theory of her time...
Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French, Yale University
1989-1990 Natalie Zemon Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis is a Canadian and American historian of the early modern period. She is currently a professor of history at the University of Toronto in Canada. Her work originally focused on France, but has since broadened to include other parts of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean...
Professor Emerita of History, Princeton University
1988-1989 Sir Kenneth J. Dover
Kenneth Dover
Sir Kenneth James Dover, FRSE, FBA was a distinguished British Classical scholar and academic, who was head of an Oxford college and from 1981 until his retirement in December 2005 was Chancellor of the University of St Andrews....
Professor of Greek and Chancellor Emeritus, University of St. Andrews
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- http://www.princeton.edu/~classics/downloads/newsletters/cla06sp.pdf
- Josiah OberJosiah OberJosiah Ober is an American historian and classical political theorist. He is currently the Constantine Mitsotakis Chair of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University...
- Ian HackingIan HackingIan Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science.- Life and works :...
- Peter Brown (historian)Peter Brown (historian)Peter Robert Lamont Brown is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. His principal contributions to the discipline have been in the field of late antiquity and, in particular, the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe.-Life:Peter Brown was born in...
- Anthony GraftonAnthony GraftonAnthony Grafton is a historian and the current Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. He is also a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Balzan Prize...