Prominent Faculty and the Courses They Taught
Earnest Elmo Calkins
Advertising
Father of modern advertising with the first advertising campaign and the concept of the advertising jingle
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, PhD
Personal Efficiency in Business
Expert in industrial psychology and motion studies, model for the mother in “Cheaper by the Dozen”
Olga Samaroff Stokowski
Music Appreciation
The first American woman to attend the Paris Conservatoire
Harry James Carmen, PhD
Government
Dean and Professor of History at Columbia College, Columbia University
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Art Appreciation
Sculptor, filmmaker, and member of the German Bauhaus
Joseph Wood Krutch, PhD
Theatre Arts
Columbia University faculty member, National Book Award for Nonfiction winner, theatre critic, and author of literary biography and theatrical history
James P. Shenton, PhD
History
Columbia University faculty member, American history scholar and award–winning teacher
Erwin Schell
Business
Dean of the MIT Department of Business and Engineering (later the Sloan School of Management)
Mark Van Doren, PhD
English
Columbia University faculty member, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, novelist, playwright, critic, and celebrated teacher