Johns Hopkins University is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. It was incorporated in 1867 and opened in 1876 on the European research institution model, and it is considered the first research university in the United States. It was named for its first benefactor, the businessman and Quaker philanthropist Johns Hopkins, whose seven million dollar bequest to found the university and the affiliated hospital was the largest philanthropic gift in American history up to that time. Its first president, Daniel Coit Gilman, led it to combine teaching with research, and it became a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900.
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Johns Hopkins University (JHU), often abbreviated as Hopkins, is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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He moved to the United States in 1989, and taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, before acquiring his current position of Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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Veena Das, FBA (born 1945 in India) is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University.
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After Veblen graduated from Carleton in 1880, he traveled east to study philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.
Donna Haraway (Wikipedia)
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Haraway taught women's studies and the history of science at the University of Hawaiʻi (1971-1974) and Johns Hopkins University (1974-1980).
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A former Vice President of the American Sociological Association, he has also taught at Johns Hopkins University.
Alejandro Portes (Wikipedia)
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In 1980 he moved to Johns Hopkins University, where he held the John Dewey Chair in Arts and Sciences and chaired the sociology department.
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