Oral History

Oral history interview of Céline Bessière, Thomas Dodman, and Klaus Oschema, July 25, 2018. The interview concerns the interviewees' participation in the IAS History Working Group in 2017 and 2018.

Interview of G.W. Bowersock (1936- ), Professor in the School of Historical Studies, 1980-.

Interview of Giles Constable (1929- ), Professor in the School of Historical Studies, 1985-.

Oral history interview of John Huxtable Elliott, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, 1973-1990. The interview was recorded at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, on May 15, 1990, and was conducted by Patricia H. Labalme. Professor Elliott was resigning his position as Professor in the School of Historical Studies to accept the Regius Chair in Modern History at Oxford University.

Oral history interview of Kurt Weitzmann and Josepha Weitzmann-Fiedler, 1989. Kurt Weitzmann was a Member in the School of Historical Studies for the years 1935-1972.

Oral history interview of Lucy Shoe Meritt, November 12, 1988. The interview concerns the interviewee's husband, Benjamin Dean Meritt, who was Faculty in the School of Historical Studies from 1935 until his death in 1989.

Oral history interview of Margaret Meiss, March 21, 1991. The interview concerns the interviewee's husband, Millard Meiss, who was Faculty in the School of Historical Studies from 1958 until his death in 1975.

Interview of Marshall Clagett, Professor in the School of Historical Studies from 1964 until 2005.

Oral History interview of Oleg Grabar (1929-2011), Professor in the School of Historical Studies, 1990-1998; Emeritus Professor, 1998-2011.

Oral history interview of Quentin Skinner, February 17, 1995. Professor Skinner was a Member in the School of Historical Studies for the year 1974-1975 and a Member in the School of Social Science for the years 1976-1979.

The following manuscript contains the edited transcript of an interview with Ralph E. Giesey (1923-2011), held at the Institute for Advanced Study on June 12, 1990. It was conducted by Patricia H. Labalme. Dr. Giesey was born in Detroit and received his PhD in 1954 at the University of California in Berkeley. He was a Fulbright fellow in Belgium in 1951-52 and an ACLS fellow in France in 1952-53 before coming to the Institute for Advanced Study as assistant to Professor Ernst Kantorowicz for 1953-55. He was a visiting member of the School of Historical Studies in 1964-65 and 1975-76 and a frequent summer visitor. Among his publications related to his residence at the Institute are The Royal Funeral Ceremony in Renaissance France (1960); The Juristic Basis of Dynastic Right to the French Throne (1961); If Not, Not: the Oath of the Aragonese and the Legendary Laws of Sobrarbe (1968); Francogallia by Francois Hotman (ed., with J. H. M. Salmon, 1972); and Selected Studies by Ernst Kantorowicz (ed., with Michael Cherniavsky).