New Academy Members

Elected in 2024

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Academy President David W. Oxtoby and Chair of the Board of Directors Goodwin H. Liu have announced that 250 outstanding individuals have been elected to the Academy in 2024. The new members are listed below, starting with a complete list in alphabetical order followed by members organized by area and specialty. International Honorary Members are indicated with (IHM) after their names. An online directory provides information about members from our founding in 1780 to members elected last year.

All Newly Elected Members
  • Quarraisha Abdool Karim (IHM),  Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa; Columbia University
  • Daniel G. Alarcón,  National Public Radio; Columbia Journalism School
  • Dolores Albarracín,  University of Pennsylvania
  • Mustafa Santiago Ali,  National Wildlife Federation
  • Anne L. Alstott,  Yale Law School; Yale School of Medicine
  • Pedro J. J. Alvarez,  Rice University
  • Nancy M. Amato,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Eric V. Anslyn,  University of Texas at Austin
  • Pol Antràs,  Harvard University
  • Elizabeth Arkush,  University of Pittsburgh
  • Paola Arlotta,  Harvard University; Broad Institute
  • Polly L. Arnold (IHM),  University of California, Berkeley
  • Raney Aronson-Rath,  Frontline, Public Broadcasting Service
  • Talal Asad,  CUNY Graduate Center
  • Estella Atekwana,  University of California, Davis
  • John P. Atkinson,  Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  • Doris Bachtrog,  University of California, Berkeley
  • Nenad Ban (IHM),  ETH Zurich
  • Megan Bang,  Northwestern University
  • Mary T. Barra,  General Motors
  • Susan Baserga,  Yale School of Medicine
  • Rashid Bashir,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Paul Beatty, Columbia University
  • Sian Leah Beilock,  Dartmouth College
  • Alison M. Bell,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
  • Dawoud Bey,  Columbia College Chicago
  • Stephen Charles Blacklow,  Harvard Medical School
  • Cédric Blanpain (IHM), Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • Lenore Blum,  Carnegie Mellon University, Peking University
  • Jamelle Bouie,  The New York Times
  • W. Thomas Boyce,  University of California, San Francisco
  • Robert Boyd,  Arizona State University 
  • Betsy Bradley,  Mississippi Museum of Art
  • Diane Brentari,  University of Chicago
  • Rosalind Brewer,  Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
  • Jeffrey L. Brodsky,  University of Pittsburgh
  • Judith Lee Bronstein,  University of Arizona
  • Linda Goode Bryant,  Project Eats
  • Ann E. Carlson,  UCLA School of Law
  • Deborah Carr,  Boston University
  • Bruce Carruthers,  Northwestern University
  • Prudence Carter,  Brown University
  • Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco (IHM), NOVA Universidade de Lisboa
  • Manuel Castells,  USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism; University of Southern California
  • Gordon H. Chang,  Stanford University
  • Yuan Chang,  University of Pittsburgh
  • Sourav Chatterjee,  Stanford University
  • Chinfei Chen,  Harvard Medical School
  • Peng Chen,  Cornell University
  • Wei Chen,  Northwestern University
  • Mung Chiang,  Purdue University
  • Kyoung-Shin Choi,  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • William M. Clemons, Jr.,  California Institute of Technology 
  • George Clooney,  Clooney Foundation for Justice; Smokehouse Pictures
  • Jason Cong,  University of California, Los Angeles 
  • Cecilia Conrad,  Lever for Change
  • Tim Cook,  Apple, Inc. 
  • Edward F. Crawley,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • José Luis Cruz Rivera,  Northern Arizona University
  • Susan L. Cutter,  University of South Carolina
  • Mark T. D'Esposito,  University of California, Berkeley
  • Julianne Dalcanton,  Simons Foundation
  • Jack L. Davis,  University of Cincinnati
  • Camillo De Lellis,  Institute for Advanced Study
  • Samuel R. Delany,  Temple University
  • Cora Diamond,  University of Virginia 
  • Mamadou Diouf,  Columbia University
  • Frank J. Doyle,  Brown University
  • Du Yun,  Johns Hopkins University 
  • Thasunda Brown Duckett,  TIAA
  • Elizabeth Easton,  Center for Curatorial Leadership
  • Amy C. Edmondson,  Harvard Business School
  • Cagla Eroglu,  Duke University
  • Glennys R. Farrar,  New York University
  • Kaywin Feldman,  National Gallery of Art
  • Fábio José Feldmann,  SOS Mata Atlântica Foundation
  • Andre A. Fenton,  New York University
  • John M. Fischer,  University of California, Riverside
  • Bonnie T. Fleming,  Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; University of Chicago
  • Carol Folt,  University of Southern California
  • P. Gabrielle Foreman,  Pennsylvania State University; Colored Conventions Project
  • Michael C. Frank,  Stanford University
  • Joan T. A. Gabel,  University of Pittsburgh
  • Charles F. Gammie,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Mildred Garcia,  California State University System; American Association of State Colleges and Universities 
  • Gary Gerstle,  University of Cambridge
  • Lise Getoor,  University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Amitav Ghosh
  • Kathleen M. Giacomini,  University of California, San Francisco
  • Juan E. Gilbert,  University of Florida
  • David Gillborn (IHM),  University of Birmingham
  • Sigurður Reynir Gíslason (IHM),  University of Iceland
  • Thavolia Glymph,  Duke University; Duke University School of Law
  • Janet Gornick,  CUNY Graduate Center
  • Michael Gorra,  Smith College
  • Martyn Goulding,  Salk Institute for Biological Studies
  • Diane Edmund Griffin,  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; National Academy of Sciences
  • G. Mitu Gulati,  University of Virginia School of Law
  • Vijay Gupta,  Street Symphony Project, Inc.
  • Stephan Haggard,  University of California, San Diego
  • Min Han,  University of Colorado Boulder
  • Frederick Cornelius Harris,  Columbia University
  • Rachel Harrison
  • Tetsuo Hatsuda (IHM),  University of Tokyo; RIKEN
  • Chuan He,  University of Chicago
  • Nathaniel Hendren,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Mark C. Hersam,  Northwestern University
  • Grant Hill,  Hill Ventures, Inc.; Atlanta Hawks Basketball Club
  • Heather C. Hill,  Harvard Graduate School of Education 
  • Elizabeth L. Hillman,  National 9/11 Memorial and Museum 
  • Greg Hirth,  Brown University
  • Daniel E. Ho,  Stanford Law School
  • Mei Hong,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • Tyrone C. Howard,  University of California, Los Angeles
  • Mala Htun,  University of New Mexico
  • Sun Hur,  Harvard Medical School; Boston Children's Hospital
  • James H. Hurley,  University of California, Berkeley
  • Erik Hurst,  University of Chicago Booth School of Business; University of Chicago
  • Harold Y. Hwang,  Stanford University
  • Kenneth Intriligator,  University of California, San Diego
  • Christine Jacobs-Wagner,  Stanford University
  • James Joyce,  University of Michigan
  • Charles L. Kane,  University of Pennsylvania
  • David C. Kaslow,  U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • Webb Keane,  University of Michigan
  • John Keene,  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  • Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald,  University of Michigan
  • Pauline T. Kim,  Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
  • Niall Kirkwood,  Harvard University Graduate School of Design 
  • Eva Feder Kittay,  Stony Brook University
  • Isao Kumakura (IHM),  National Museum of Ethnology; Miho Museum
  • Hanif Kureishi (IHM)
  • Jhumpa Lahiri,  Barnard College
  • Kristine M. Larson,  University of Colorado Boulder
  • Suzan van der Lee (IHM),  Northwestern University
  • Brendan Lee,  Baylor College of Medicine
  • David A. Leigh (IHM),  University of Manchester
  • Deborah E. Lipstadt,  Emory University; U.S. Department of State 
  • Bridget Terry Long,  Harvard Graduate School of Education; National Bureau of Economic Research 
  • Carlos Lozada,  The New York Times 
  • Ellen Lust,  University of Gothenburg
  • Tod Machover,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Vivek Malhotra,  Centre for Genomic Regulation
  • Edward D. Mansfield,  University of Pennsylvania
  • Tarell Alvin McCraney,  Yale University
  • Michael Meaney (IHM),  McGill University
  • Kevin Merida
  • Muriel Miguel,  Spiderwoman Theater
  • Antonios G. Mikos,  Rice University
  • Anna Mikusheva,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Shelley D. Minteer,  Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Aaron P. Mitchell,  University of Georgia
  • Ted Mitchell,  American Council on Education
  • Patrick S. Moore,  University of Pittsburgh
  • Lidia Morawska (IHM),  Queensland University of Technology; University of Surrey
  • Ernest Morrell,  University of Notre Dame
  • Walter E. Mosley
  • Candida R. Moss (IHM), University of Birmingham
  • Elchanan Mossel,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Helene C. Muller-Landau,  Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
  • Elizabeth Mynatt,  Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences
  • Geeta J. Narlikar,  University of California, San Francisco
  • Deborah L. Nelson,  University of Chicago
  • Serena Ng,  Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Susan Niditch,  Amherst College
  • Muriel Niederle,  Stanford University
  • Sonia Nieto,  University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Kia Nobre (IHM), Yale University
  • Arthur J. Nozik,  University of Colorado Boulder
  • Howard Ochman,  University of Texas at Austin
  • Hee Oh,  Yale University
  • Peggy Oti-Boateng (IHM),  African Academy of Sciences
  • Laura Otis,  Emory University
  • Margaret A. Palmer,  University of Maryland
  • M. Lee Pelton,  The Boston Foundation
  • Virgil Percec,  University of Pennsylvania
  • Marina Picciotto,  Yale University
  • Mark Polizzotti,  Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Kornelia Polyak,  Harvard Medical School; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Dawn Porter,  Trilogy Films
  • Lori Lea Pourier,  First Peoples Fund
  • Neil R. Powe,  University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine; Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital 
  • Gina Maria Prince-Bythewood,  Undisputed Cinema, LLC
  • Uma Ramakrishnan (IHM), National Centre for Biological Sciences
  • Barbara Ransby,  University of Illinois Chicago
  • Nancy Yunhwa Rao,  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  • B. Dayanand Reddy (IHM), University of Cape Town
  • Elsa Reichmanis,  Lehigh University
  • Karin M. Reinisch,  Yale School of Medicine
  • Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, University of Texas at Austin
  • Ruth Rogers,  The River Cafe
  • Gideon A. Rosen,  Princeton University
  • Robert K. Ross,  The California Endowment
  • Edward G. Ruby,  Carnegie Institution for Science; California Institute of Technology
  • Timothy A. Ryan,  Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Michel Sadelain,  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Thomas A. Saenz,  Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
  • Alberto Luigi Sangiovanni-Vincentelli,  University of California, Berkeley 
  • Vivien A. Schmidt,  Boston University
  • Uroš Seljak,  University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   
  • Paul R. Selvin,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
  • Piali Sengupta,  Brandeis University
  • Arlene H. Sharpe,  Harvard Medical School; Harvard University
  • Irfan Siddiqi,  University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Roxane Cohen Silver,  University of California, Irvine
  • Marilyn H. Simons,  MJS Foundation; Simons Foundation 
  • Thomas B. Smith,  University of California, Los Angeles
  • Tracy K. Smith,  Harvard University 
  • Eduardo Sontag,  Northeastern University 
  • Jeffrey C. Stewart,  University of California, Santa Barbara 
  • Jon Stryker,  Arcus Foundation
  • Dan Suciu,  University of Washington 
  • Amir Sufi,  University of Chicago Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Zhigang Suo,  Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 
  • William Sutherland (IHM), University of Cambridge
  • Jeffrey S. Sutton,  United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • Vladimir Sverak,  University of Minnesota
  • Rachel L. Swarns,  New York University; The New York Times
  • Eric Talley,  Columbia Law School
  • Paul C. Taylor,  University of California, Los Angeles
  • Deborah A. Thomas,  University of Pennsylvania
  • Kim Thúy (IHM)
  • Henry Timms,  Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts  
  • Nim Tottenham,  Columbia University
  • Satish K. Tripathi,  University at Buffalo
  • David A. Tuveson,  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Luis Valdez,  El Teatro Campesino
  • John Vandermeer,  University of Michigan
  • Akshay Venkatesh,  Institute for Advanced Study
  • Ben Vinson III,  Howard University
  • Gauri Viswanathan,  Columbia University
  • Spenta Rustom Wadia (IHM), International Centre for Theoretical Sciences 
  • José Weinstein Cayuela (IHM),  Universidad Diego Portales
  • Xiao-Gang Wen,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • W. Richard West, Jr.,  Autry Museum of the American West; Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
  • Rodney Whitaker,  Michigan State University
  • Eileen White,  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Princeton University 
  • Uri Joseph Wilensky,  Northwestern University
  • Catherine Wilson,  University of York
  • Adia Harvey Wingfield,  Washington University in St. Louis
  • John Witte, Jr.,  Emory University School of Law
  • Christopher Wlezien,  University of Texas at Austin 
  • Mariana F. Wolfner,  Cornell University
  • Melanie Matchett Wood,  Harvard University
  • Yanqin Wu (IHM),  University of Toronto 
  • Karen Tei Yamashita,  University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Jeffrey Zacks,  Washington University in St. Louis
  • Patricia Zavella,  University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Semir Zeki (IHM), University College London
  • Karl S. Zimmerer,  Pennsylvania State University

 

The lists below present the American Academy’s newest members grouped in the thirty-one sections, organized within five classes, in which they were elected.

CLASS I – Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Section 1 – Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics

  • Lenore Blum,  Carnegie Mellon University, Peking University
  • Sourav Chatterjee,  Stanford University
  • Camillo De Lellis,  Institute for Advanced Study
  • Elchanan Mossel,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Hee Oh,  Yale University
  • Vladimir Sverak,  University of Minnesota
  • Akshay Venkatesh,  Institute for Advanced Study
  • Melanie Matchett Wood,  Harvard University

Section 2 – Physics

  • Glennys R. Farrar,  New York University
  • Bonnie T. Fleming,  Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; University of Chicago
  • Tetsuo Hatsuda (IHM),  University of Tokyo; RIKEN
  • Harold Y. Hwang,  Stanford University
  • Kenneth Intriligator,  University of California, San Diego
  • Charles L. Kane,  University of Pennsylvania
  • Irfan Siddiqi,  University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Spenta Rustom Wadia (IHM), International Centre for Theoretical Sciences 
  • Xiao-Gang Wen,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Section 3 – Chemistry

  • Eric V. Anslyn,  University of Texas at Austin
  • Polly L. Arnold (IHM),  University of California, Berkeley
  • Peng Chen,  Cornell University
  • Kyoung-Shin Choi,  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • William M. Clemons, Jr.,  California Institute of Technology 
  • Mei Hong,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • David A. Leigh (IHM),  University of Manchester
  • Shelley D. Minteer,  Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Lidia Morawska (IHM),  Queensland University of Technology; University of Surrey
  • Arthur J. Nozik,  University of Colorado Boulder
  • Virgil Percec,  University of Pennsylvania

Section 4 – Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth Sciences

  • Estella Atekwana,  University of California, Davis
  • Julianne Dalcanton,  Simons Foundation
  • Charles F. Gammie,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Sigurður Reynir Gíslason (IHM),  University of Iceland
  • Greg Hirth,  Brown University
  • Kristine M. Larson,  University of Colorado Boulder
  • Suzan van der Lee (IHM),  Northwestern University
  • Uroš Seljak,  University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   
  • Yanqin Wu (IHM),  University of Toronto 

Section 5 – Engineering and Technology

  • Pedro J. J. Alvarez,  Rice University
  • Rashid Bashir,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Wei Chen,  Northwestern University
  • Mung Chiang,  Purdue University
  • Edward F. Crawley,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Frank J. Doyle,  Brown University
  • Mark C. Hersam,  Northwestern University
  • Antonios G. Mikos,  Rice University
  • Elsa Reichmanis,  Lehigh University
  • Eduardo Sontag,  Northeastern University 
  • Zhigang Suo,  Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 

Section 6 – Computer Sciences

  • Nancy M. Amato,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Jason Cong,  University of California, Los Angeles 
  • Lise Getoor,  University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Juan E. Gilbert,  University of Florida
  • Elizabeth Mynatt,  Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences
  • Alberto Luigi Sangiovanni-Vincentelli,  University of California, Berkeley 
  • Dan Suciu,  University of Washington 
CLASS II – Biological Sciences

Section 1 – Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology

  • Nenad Ban (IHM),  ETH Zurich
  • Susan Baserga,  Yale School of Medicine
  • Stephen Charles Blacklow,  Harvard Medical School
  • Chuan He,  University of Chicago
  • Sun Hur,  Harvard Medical School; Boston Children's Hospital
  • James H. Hurley,  University of California, Berkeley
  • Geeta J. Narlikar,  University of California, San Francisco
  • Paul R. Selvin,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

Section 2 – Cellular and Developmental Biology

  • Paola Arlotta,  Harvard University; Broad Institute
  • Cédric Blanpain (IHM), Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • Jeffrey L. Brodsky,  University of Pittsburgh
  • Min Han,  University of Colorado Boulder
  • Vivek Malhotra,  Centre for Genomic Regulation
  • Karin M. Reinisch,  Yale School of Medicine
  • Eileen White,  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Princeton University 
  • Mariana F. Wolfner,  Cornell University

Section 3 – Neurosciences

  • Chinfei Chen,  Harvard Medical School
  • Mark T. D'Esposito,  University of California, Berkeley
  • Cagla Eroglu,  Duke University
  • Andre A. Fenton,  New York University
  • Martyn Goulding,  Salk Institute for Biological Studies
  • Kia Nobre (IHM), Yale University
  • Marina Picciotto,  Yale University
  • Timothy A. Ryan,  Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Piali Sengupta,  Brandeis University
  • Semir Zeki (IHM), University College London

Section 4 – Evolution and Ecology

  • Doris Bachtrog,  University of California, Berkeley
  • Alison M. Bell,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
  • Judith Lee Bronstein,  University of Arizona
  • Helene C. Muller-Landau,  Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
  • Howard Ochman,  University of Texas at Austin
  • Margaret A. Palmer,  University of Maryland
  • Uma Ramakrishnan (IHM), National Centre for Biological Sciences
  • Thomas B. Smith,  University of California, Los Angeles
  • William Sutherland (IHM), University of Cambridge
  • John Vandermeer,  University of Michigan

Section 5 – Medical Sciences

  • John P. Atkinson,  Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  • Kathleen M. Giacomini,  University of California, San Francisco
  • Brendan Lee,  Baylor College of Medicine
  • Kornelia Polyak,  Harvard Medical School; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Neil R. Powe,  University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine; Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital 
  • Michel Sadelain,  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • David A. Tuveson,  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Section 6 – Microbiology and Immunology

  • Yuan Chang,  University of Pittsburgh
  • Diane Edmund Griffin,  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; National Academy of Sciences
  • Christine Jacobs-Wagner,  Stanford University
  • Aaron P. Mitchell,  University of Georgia
  • Patrick S. Moore,  University of Pittsburgh
  • Edward G. Ruby,  Carnegie Institution for Science; California Institute of Technology
  • Arlene H. Sharpe,  Harvard Medical School; Harvard University
CLASS III – Social and Behavioral Sciences

Section 1 – Psychological Sciences

  • Dolores Albarracín,  University of Pennsylvania
  • Sian Leah Beilock,  Dartmouth College
  • W. Thomas Boyce,  University of California, San Francisco
  • Michael C. Frank,  Stanford University
  • Michael Meaney (IHM),  McGill University
  • Roxane Cohen Silver,  University of California, Irvine
  • Nim Tottenham,  Columbia University
  • Jeffrey Zacks,  Washington University in St. Louis

Section 2 – Economics

  • Pol Antràs,  Harvard University
  • Nathaniel Hendren,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Erik Hurst,  University of Chicago Booth School of Business; University of Chicago
  • Anna Mikusheva,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Serena Ng,  Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Muriel Niederle,  Stanford University
  • Amir Sufi,  University of Chicago Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research

Section 3 – Political Science

  • Stephan Haggard,  University of California, San Diego
  • Frederick Cornelius Harris,  Columbia University
  • Mala Htun,  University of New Mexico
  • Ellen Lust,  University of Gothenburg
  • Edward D. Mansfield,  University of Pennsylvania
  • Vivien A. Schmidt,  Boston University
  • Christopher Wlezien,  University of Texas at Austin 

Section 4 – Law

  • Anne L. Alstott,  Yale Law School; Yale School of Medicine
  • Ann E. Carlson,  UCLA School of Law
  • G. Mitu Gulati,  University of Virginia School of Law
  • Daniel E. Ho,  Stanford Law School
  • Pauline T. Kim,  Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
  • Jeffrey S. Sutton,  United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • Eric Talley,  Columbia Law School

Section 5 – Anthropology and Archaeology

  • Elizabeth Arkush,  University of Pittsburgh
  • Robert Boyd,  Arizona State University 
  • Jack L. Davis,  University of Cincinnati
  • Webb Keane,  University of Michigan
  • Isao Kumakura (IHM),  National Museum of Ethnology; Miho Museum
  • Deborah A. Thomas,  University of Pennsylvania
  • Patricia Zavella,  University of California, Santa Cruz

Section 6 – Sociology, Demography, and Geography

  • Deborah Carr,  Boston University
  • Bruce Carruthers,  Northwestern University
  • Manuel Castells,  USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism; University of Southern California
  • Susan L. Cutter,  University of South Carolina
  • Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald,  University of Michigan
  • Adia Harvey Wingfield,  Washington University in St. Louis
  • Karl S. Zimmerer,  Pennsylvania State University

Section 7 – Education

  • Megan Bang,  Northwestern University
  • Prudence Carter,  Brown University
  • David Gillborn (IHM),  University of Birmingham
  • Heather C. Hill,  Harvard Graduate School of Education 
  • Tyrone C. Howard,  University of California, Los Angeles
  • Bridget Terry Long,  Harvard Graduate School of Education; National Bureau of Economic Research 
  • Ernest Morrell,  University of Notre Dame
  • Sonia Nieto,  University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • José Weinstein Cayuela (IHM),  Universidad Diego Portales
  • Uri Joseph Wilensky,  Northwestern University
CLASS IV – Humanities and Arts

Section 1 – Philosophy

  • Cora Diamond,  University of Virginia
  • John M. Fischer,  University of California, Riverside
  • James Joyce,  University of Michigan
  • Eva Feder Kittay,  Stony Brook University
  • Gideon A. Rosen,  Princeton University
  • Paul C. Taylor,  University of California, Los Angeles
  • Catherine Wilson,  University of York

Section 2 – History

  • Gordon H. Chang,  Stanford University
  • Mamadou Diouf,  Columbia University
  • Gary Gerstle,  University of Cambridge
  • Thavolia Glymph,  Duke University; Duke University School of Law
  • Deborah E. Lipstadt,  Emory University; U.S. Department of State 
  • Barbara Ransby,  University of Illinois Chicago
  • Ben Vinson III,  Howard University

Section 3 – Literature and Language Studies

  • Diane Brentari,  University of Chicago
  • P. Gabrielle Foreman,  Pennsylvania State University; Colored Conventions Project
  • Michael Gorra,  Smith College
  • Deborah L. Nelson,  University of Chicago
  • Laura Otis,  Emory University
  • Mark Polizzotti,  Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Gauri Viswanathan,  Columbia University

Section 4 – Literature

  • Paul Beatty, Columbia University
  • Samuel R. Delany,  Temple University
  • Amitav Ghosh
  • John Keene,  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  • Hanif Kureishi (IHM)
  • Jhumpa Lahiri,  Barnard College
  • Walter E. Mosley
  • Tracy K. Smith,  Harvard University 
  • Kim Thúy (IHM)
  • Karen Tei Yamashita,  University of California, Santa Cruz

Section 5 – Visual Arts

  • Dawoud Bey,  Columbia College Chicago
  • Linda Goode Bryant,  Project Eats
  • Elizabeth Easton,  Center for Curatorial Leadership
  • Rachel Harrison
  • Niall Kirkwood,  Harvard University Graduate School of Design 
  • Jeffrey C. Stewart,  University of California, Santa Barbara 

Section 6 – Performing Arts

  • George Clooney,  Clooney Foundation for Justice; Smokehouse Pictures
  • Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco (IHM), NOVA Universidade de Lisboa
  • Du Yun,  Johns Hopkins University 
  • Tod Machover,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Tarell Alvin McCraney,  Yale University
  • Muriel Miguel,  Spiderwoman Theater
  • Dawn Porter,  Trilogy Films
  • Gina Maria Prince-Bythewood,  Undisputed Cinema, LLC
  • Nancy Yunhwa Rao,  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  • Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, University of Texas at Austin
  • Luis Valdez,  El Teatro Campesino
  • Rodney Whitaker,  Michigan State University

Section 7 – Religious Studies

  • Talal Asad,  CUNY Graduate Center
  • Susan Niditch,  Amherst College
  • Candida R. Moss (IHM), University of Birmingham
  • John Witte, Jr.,  Emory University School of Law
CLASS V – Leadership, Policy, and Communications

Section 1 – Journalism, Media, and Communications

  • Daniel G. Alarcón,  National Public Radio; Columbia Journalism School
  • Raney Aronson-Rath,  Frontline, Public Broadcasting Service
  • Jamelle Bouie,  The New York Times
  • Carlos Lozada,  The New York Times 
  • Kevin Merida
  • Rachel L. Swarns,  New York University; The New York Times

Section 2 – Business, Corporate, and Philanthropic Leadership

  • Mary T. Barra,  General Motors
  • Rosalind Brewer,  Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
  • Tim Cook,  Apple, Inc. 
  • Thasunda Brown Duckett,  TIAA
  • Amy C. Edmondson,  Harvard Business School
  • Grant Hill,  Hill Ventures, Inc.; Atlanta Hawks Basketball Club
  • Ruth Rogers,  The River Cafe
  • Jon Stryker,  Arcus Foundation

Section 3 – Educational and Academic Leadership

  • José Luis Cruz Rivera,  Northern Arizona University
  • Carol Folt,  University of Southern California
  • Joan T. A. Gabel,  University of Pittsburgh
  • Mildred Garcia,  California State University System; American Association of State Colleges and Universities
  • Ted Mitchell,  American Council on Education
  • M. Lee Pelton,  The Boston Foundation
  • Satish K. Tripathi,  University at Buffalo

Section 4 – Public Affairs and Public Policy

  • Mustafa Santiago Ali,  National Wildlife Federation
  • Fábio José Feldmann,  SOS Mata Atlântica Foundation
  • Janet Gornick,  CUNY Graduate Center
  • David C. Kaslow,  U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • Robert K. Ross,  The California Endowment
  • Thomas A. Saenz,  Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Section 5 – Scientific, Cultural, and Nonprofit Leadership

  • Quarraisha Abdool Karim (IHM),  Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa; Columbia University
  • Betsy Bradley,  Mississippi Museum of Art
  • Cecilia Conrad,  Lever for Change
  • Kaywin Feldman,  National Gallery of Art
  • Vijay Gupta,  Street Symphony Project, Inc.
  • Elizabeth L. Hillman,  National 9/11 Memorial and Museum 
  • Peggy Oti-Boateng (IHM),  African Academy of Sciences
  • Lori Lea Pourier,  First Peoples Fund
  • B. Dayanand Reddy (IHM), University of Cape Town
  • Marilyn H. Simons,  MJS Foundation; Simons Foundation 
  • Henry Timms,  Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 
  • W. Richard West, Jr.,  Autry Museum of the American West; Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
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