CSI Fellows and Staff
At the Center for Inquiry/TRANSNATIONAL
An International Organization
- Paul Kurtz, Founder and Chairman Emeritus
- Richard Schroeder, Chairman
- Ronald A. Lindsay, President and CEO
- Barry Karr, Executive Director
- Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow
- Massimo Polidoro, Research Fellow
- Richard Wiseman, Research Fellow
Fellows
- James E. Alcock,* psychologist, York Univ., Toronto
- Marcia Angell, M.D., former editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine
- Kimball Atwood IV, physician, author, Newton, Massachusetts.
- Stephen Barrett, M.D., psychiatrist, author, consumer advocate, Allentown, Pa.
- Willem Betz, professor of medicine, Univ. of Brussels
- Irving Biederman, psychologist, Univ. of Southern California
- Susan Blackmore, psychologist, Univ. of the West of England, Bristol
- Henri Broch, physicist, Univ. of Nice, France
- Jan Harold Brunvand, folklorist, professor of English, Univ. of Utah
- Mario Bunge, philosopher, McGill University
- Robert T. Carroll, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Sacramento City College, writer.
- Sean B. Carroll, professor of molecular genetics, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
- John R. Cole, anthropologist, editor, National Center for Science Education
- K.C. Cole, science writer, author, professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism.
- Frederick Crews, literary and cultural critic, professor emeritus of English, Univ. of California, Berkeley
- Richard Dawkins, zoologist, Oxford Univ.
- Geoffrey Dean, technical editor, Perth, Australia
- Cornelis de Jager, professor of astrophysics, Univ. of Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Daniel C. Dennett, university professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, director of Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts Univ.
- Ann Druyan, writer and producer, and CEO, Cosmos Studios, Ithaca, New York
- Kenneth Feder, professor of anthropology, Central Connecticut State Univ.
- Antony Flew, philosopher, Reading Univ., U.K.
- Barbara Forrest, professor of philosophy, Southeastern Louisiana Univ.
- Andrew Fraknoi, astronomer, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, Calif.
- Kendrick Frazier,* science writer, Editor, Skeptical Inquirer
- Christopher C. French, Professor, Department of Psychology, and Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
- Yves Galifret, Exec. Secretary, l'Union Rationaliste
- Martin Gardner,* author, critic
- Luigi Garlaschelli, chemist, Universitá di Pavia (Italy) and research fellow of CICAP, the Italian skeptic’s group.
- Maryanne Garry, Professor, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
- Murray Gell-Mann, professor of physics, Santa Fe Institute; Nobel Laureate
- Thomas Gilovich, psychologist, Cornell Univ.
- Susan Haack, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, professor of philosophy and professor of Law, University of Miami
- Harriet Hall, retired family physician, writer, Puyallup, Washington.
- C. E. M. Hansel, psychologist, Univ. of Wales
- David J. Helfand, professor of astronomy, Columbia Univ.
- Douglas Hofstadter, professor of human understanding and cognitive science, Indiana Univ.
- Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of History of Science, Harvard Univ.
- Ray Hyman,* psychologist, Univ. of Oregon
- Leon Jaroff, sciences editor emeritus, Time
- Stuart D. Jordan, NASA astrophysicist emeritus, science advisor to Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy, Washington, D.C.
- Sergei Kapitza, editor, Russian edition, Scientific American
- Lawrence M. Krauss, author, Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department, and Inaugural Director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University
- Harry Kroto, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, Florida State University; Nobel laureate
- Edwin C. Krupp, astronomer, director, Griffith Observatory
- Paul Kurtz,* professor emeritus of philosophy, SUNY at Buffalo
- Lawrence Kusche, science writer
- Leon Lederman, emeritus director, Fermilab; Nobel laureate in physics
- Scott Lilienfeld, psychologist, Emory Univ.
- Lin Zixin, former editor, Science and Technology Daily (China)
- Jere Lipps, Museum of Paleontology, Univ. of California, Berkeley
- Elizabeth Loftus, professor of psychology, Univ. of California, Irvine
- David Marks, psychologist, psychologist, City University, London
- Mario Mendez-Acosta, journalist and science writer, Mexico City, Mexico
- Kenneth R. Miller, Professor of Biology, Brown University.
- Marvin Minsky, professor of Media Arts and Sciences, M.I.T.
- David Morrison, space scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
- Richard A. Muller, professor of physics, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
- Joe Nickell,* senior researh fellow, CSI
- Jan Willem Nienhuys, mathematician, Waalre, the Netherlands.
- Lee Nisbet,* philosopher, Medaille College
- Steven Novella, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine.
- Bill Nye, science educator and television host, Nye Labs
- James E. Oberg, science writer
- Irmgard Oepen, professor of medicine (retired), Marburg, Germany
- Loren Pankratz, psychologist, Oregon Health Sciences Univ.
- Robert L. Park, professor of physics, Univ. of Maryland
- Jay M. Pasachoff, Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Hopkins Observatory, Williams College.
- John Paulos, mathematician, Temple Univ.
- Massimo Pigliucci, professor of philosophy, City University of New York-Lehman College.
- Steven Pinker, Cognitive Scientist, Harvard
- Philip Plait, astronomer, lecturer, and writer.
- Massimo Polidoro, science writer, author, executive director CICAP, Italy
- James “The Amazing” Randi, magician, CSICOP founding member, founder, the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF).
- Milton Rosenberg, psychologist, Univ. of Chicago
- Wallace Sampson, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, Stanford Univ., editor, Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine
- Amardeo Sarma, engineer, Senior Manager at NEC Laboratories Europe, Chairman, GWUP, Germany
- Evry Schatzman, President, French Physics Association
- Eugenie Scott, physical anthropologist, executive director, National Center for Science Education
- Robert Sheaffer, science writer
- Elie A Shneour, biochemist, author, director, Biosystems Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif.
- Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif.
- Dick Smith, film producer, publisher, Terrey Hills, N.S.W., Australia
- Robert Steiner, magician, author, El Cerrito, Calif.
- Victor J. Stenger, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii; adjunct professor of philosophy, Univ. of Colorado
- Jill Cornell Tarter, SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif.
- Carol Tavris, psychologist and author, Los Angeles, Calif.
- David Thomas, physicist and mathematician, Peralta, New Mexico
- Stephen Toulmin, professor of philosophy, University of Southern California
- Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director, Hayden Planetarium, New York City
- Marilyn vos Savant, Parade magazine contributing editor
- Steven Weinberg, professor of physics and astronomy, University of Texas at Austin; Nobel laureate.
- E.O. Wilson, university professor emeritus, Harvard University
- Richard Wiseman, psychologist, University of Hertfordshire
- Benjamin Wolozin*, professor, department of pharmacology, Boston University School of Medicine
- Marvin Zelen, statistician, Harvard Univ.
* Member, CSI Executive Council (Affiliations given for identification only.)
Past Fellows
- Isaac Asimov, science writer
- Jerry Andrus, magician and inventor, Albany, Oregon
- Robert A. Baker, psychologist, Univ. of Kentucky
- Barry Beyerstein,* biopsychologist, Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Vern Bullough, Distinguished Professor, State Univ. of New York
- Milbourne Christopher
- Francis Crick
- Henry Gordon, magician, columnist, Toronto
- Stephen J. Gould, paleontologist
- Saul Green, PhD, biochemist, president of ZOL Consultants, New York, NY
- Al Hibbs, scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Philip J. Klass,aerospace writer, engineer
- Paul MacCready, scientist/engineer, AeroVironment, Inc., Monrovia, Calif.
- Sir John Maddox, editor emeritus of Nature
- H. Narasimhaiah, physicist, president, Bangalore Science Forum, India
- Dorothy Nelkin, sociologist New York Univ.
- Carl Sagan, astronomer, science writer
- Glenn Seaborg
- Marcello Truzzi