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Three Who Clearly Fit the Category of Celebrity Professors

 

Kenneth W. Colegrove
 
Served as chair throughout the 1940s; longtime secretary of the American Political Science Association; advised in writing the postwar Japanese constitution; plaintiff in a famous constitutional law case; supported Senator McCarthy and crusaded against communism.
 
William Montgomery McGovern
 
Born in New York but graduating in 1917 with a doctor of divinity from a Buddhist monastery in Japan, McGovern held an appointment in Oriental Studies at the University of London prior to becoming Assistant Curator in the Anthropology Department at Chicago's Field Museum. He was a foreign correspondent in the Far East and led expeditions into Tibet and up the Amazon River.
 
Harold Guetzkow

Guetzkow received his PhD in Psychology in 1948 from the University of Michigan and gained his early reputation in social psychology. He joined Northwestern in 1957 with a professorial appointment in three departments: psychology, sociology, and political science. Political science was his main home and where he did his pioneering research in simulation of international relations. One testimony to Guetzkow's intellect comes from Herbert Simon, Nobel Prize-Winner in Economics, who dedicated his book, Models of Man (1957) to him. Prof. Guetzkow retired from the faculty in 1985 but continues his scholarly activities in California. The link above is to the page maintained by Prof. Michael Ward (NU PhD, 1977) at the University of Washington "to serve as a repository for information about the use of simulation in the social sciences, in honor of Harold Guetzkow."