text: Former faculty members include biblical scholar Richard A. Horsley, chemist John Warner, evolutionary biologist Joan Roughgarden, feminist writers Beverly Smith and Christina Hoff Sommers, politician Mary B. Newman (namesake of the Mary B. Newman Award for Academic Excellence), historians Edward Berkowitz, James Green, Peter Linebaugh, William Andrew Moffett, Mark Peattie, and James Turner, literary scholar Carlo L. Golino (who served as the university's chancellor from 1973 to 1978), mathematicians Amir Aczel, Victor S. Miller, and Robert Thomas Seeley, computer scientist Patrick O'Neil, neurologist M. V. Padma Srivastava, novelists Jaime Clarke, Elizabeth Searle, and Melanie Rae Thon, philosopher Jane Roland Martin, poets Martha Collins and Sabra Loomis, political scientists Jalal Alamgir and Kent John Chabotar, clinical psychologist David Lisak, social psychologist Melanie Joy, and sociologists Benjamin Bolger and Robert Dentler.
  Institutes and centers
  The following free-standing institutes and centers are administered by the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
  Center for Social Development and Education
  Center for Survey Research
  Institute for Asian American Studies (a member of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Research Consortium)
  Institute for Community Inclusion
  Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration
  The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy
  Urban Harbors Institute
  Venture Development Center
  William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences
  William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture
  The following university-wide institutes and centers are operationally managed by collective leadership teams appointed by the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
  Center of Science and Mathematics in Context
  Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy (a collaborative venture with the Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center)
  Confucius Institute
  Developmental Sciences Research Center
  Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation
  Institute for International and Comparative Education
  Paul English Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute