University of Chicago Professor Emeritus Peter Homans died Saturday, May 30 at a nursing home in Evanston. Homans, 78, had been suffering from the effects of a recent stroke. Homans, Professor ...

A NEW JOHN: More work seems to be the great reward for many media types, and John Homans certainly qualifies. Homans has been named editor of Vanity Fair’s widely read media, business and technology ...

Ballet is dying. Maybe already dead. Impossible, you say, I’ve got tickets to a show! Alas, dear reader, I’ve just learned the grim diagnosis in Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet, Jennifer Homans’ ...

A NEW JOHN: More work seems to be the great reward for many media types, and John Homans certainly qualifies. Homans has been named editor of Vanity Fair’s widely read media, business and technology ...

“It has never been done, what Jennifer Homans has done in Apollo’s Angels,” said Toni Bentley in The New York Times. The dancer turned critic has written “the only truly definitive history” of ballet.

Jennifer Homans has ruffled a few tutus with her history of ballet, in which she concludes that the art is dying. She talks to Jennifer McDonald IT is not the typical academic who studies the ...

John Homans is the reason I am at Vanity Fair. In 2017, John recruited me away from New York magazine, where he had been my editor from 2007–2014. I loved New York but the chance to reunite with John ...

Celia E. Homans, died in Chicago on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Homans was a leader in social science research. She spent the majority of her career at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the ...

I HOPE that you will pardon a pride that is so justly mine in having been chosen to give the first John Homans Lecture. This pride is in nowise lessened, but is in fact enhanced, by a realization that ...