Chicago, IL: A Legacy in Print: Cheers to 150 Years of Johns Hopkins

Dr. Christopher S. Celenza is the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He is also a professor of history and classics.

The James B. Knapp Dean of Arts and Sciences brings leadership and expertise to the tasks of shaping the Krieger School’s vision and managing its complex and extensive operations. The dean has responsibility for setting direction, generating and managing resources, and coordinating fundraising and alumni relations activities. The dean also authorizes all new appointments and plays an active role in recruiting prospective faculty.

Celenza oversees the Krieger School's 22 highly ranked academic departments within the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. He has made it a priority to foster diversity and inclusion. He also seeks to build on the school’s collaborative relationships, deepening support for scholars at every stage of their careers.

As a faculty member, his research interests include Latin literature and philosophy of the Italian Renaissance; late medieval intellectual history; the history of philosophy; the history of books and reading practices; Latin paleography; and the history of the classical tradition.

Andrew Jewett teaches in the Medicine, Science, and Humanities program at Johns Hopkins. He is the lead author of Johns Hopkins: The First 150 Years, an institutional history of Hopkins that will appear in fall 2026 in conjunction with the university’s 150th anniversary. Prof. Jewett received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and published two previous books: Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War (Cambridge, 2012), and Science under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America (Harvard, 2020). Before coming to Hopkins in 2022, Prof. Jewett taught at Harvard for ten years and held a variety of other positions and fellowships.

Science, Democracy…: https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/history/american-history-general-interest/science-democracy-and-american-university-civil-war-cold-war

Science under Fire: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674987913

JH First 150: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/johns-hopkins-first-150-years

Jonathan Strassfeld is a historian of modern intellectual and social history, focusing on the history of American higher education. His work examines the university as a site of both knowledge production and bureaucratic control, showing how everyday administrative needs and institutional practices play a determinative role in the development of discourse, even in fields as seemingly detached from the quotidian as philosophy. He is a Visiting Assistant Research Professor. His first book, Inventing Philosophy’s Other: Phenomenology in America, received the triennial John Dewey Prize from the Society for US Intellectual History. It is a community study of a geographically disparate group of twentieth century intellectuals that uses mixed methodologies to explain philosophy’s schism into “analytic” and “continental” traditions. He is also co-author of Johns Hopkins: The First 150 Years, a history of America’s first research university.