Select Prizes and Awards
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2012
Madeleine Korbel Albright (Washington, DC)
Bob Dylan (Beverly Hills, CAS)
Toni Morrison (Princeton University)
John Paul Stevens (Supreme Court of the United States)
Academy Members elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2012
Susan Athey (Harvard University)
Larry M. Bartels (Vanderbilt University)
Jagdish N. Bhagwati (Columbia University)
Randolph Blake (Vanderbilt University)
John Carlson (Yale University)
Richard W. Carlson (Carnegie Institution for Science)
Demetrios Christodoulou (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
Pablo G. Debenedetti (Princeton University)
Ronald A. DePinho (University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center)
Joseph M. DeSimone (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; North Carolina State University)
François N. Diederich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
Gideon Dreyfuss (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)
Denis Duboule (University of Geneva)
Carol S. Dweck (Stanford University)
Matthew P. Fisher (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Wendell H. Fleming (Brown University)
Susan Gelman (University of Michigan)
John T. Groves (Princeton University)
Tina Henkin (Ohio State University)
Hiroo Kanamori (California Institute of Technology)
Guinevere Kauffmann (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
Bruce R. Levin (Emory University)
Barbara H. Liskov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Liqun Luo (Stanford University)
Ann E. Nelson (University of Washington)
Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Northwestern University)
Nai Phuan Ong (Princeton University)
Roy Parker (University of Arizona)
Mary Power (University of California, Berkeley)
Louis J. Ptáček (University of California, San Francisco)
Stephen W. Raudenbush (University of Chicago)
Marcia J. Rieke (University of Arizona) Giacomo Rizzolatti (University of Parma)
Bernard Sadoulet (University of California, Berkeley)
Pedro A. Sanchez (Columbia University)
Eric U. Selker (University of Oregon)
Daniel Simberloff (University of Tennessee)
James L. Skinner (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Gisela T. Storz (National Institutes of Health)
Peter L. Strick (University of Pittsburgh)
Subra Suresh (National Science Foundation)
Robert M. Townsend (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Ruth J. Williams (University of California, San Diego)
Melinda A. Zeder (National Museum of Natural History)
Other Awards
Daniel Aaron (Harvard University) was awarded a 2012 Centennial Medal from Harvard University.
Cornelia Isabella Bargmann (Rockefeller University) was awarded the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. She shares the prize with Ann M. Graybiel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Winfried Denk (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany).
William Drayton (Ashoka: Innovators for the Public) received the 2012 Richard E. Neustadt Award, given by Harvard Kennedy School.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience.
David A. Evans (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2012 Welch Award in Chemistry.
Ann M. Graybiel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. She shares the prize with Cornelia Isabella Bargmann (Rockefeller University) and Winfried Denk (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany).
Nancy Hopkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded a 2012 Centennial Medal from Harvard University.
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Winters, CA) received the 2012 J. I. Staley Prize for Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding.
James Earl Jones (Pawling, NY) is the recipient of the 2012 Marian Anderson Award.
Robert Keohane (Princeton University) was awarded a 2012 Centennial Medal from Harvard University.
Yo-Yo Ma (Cambridge, MA) was awarded the 2012 Polar Music Prize. He shares the prize with Paul Simon (New York, NY).
Margaret H. Marshall (Harvard Law School) was awarded the Radcliffe Institute Medal.
Bill McKibben (Middlebury College) is the inaugural recipient of the Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism.
Mike Nichols (New York, NY) won a 2012 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
Carole Pateman (University of California, Los Angeles) was awarded the 2012 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.
Lisa Randall (Harvard University) is the 2012 recipient of the Andrew Gemant Award, given by the American Institute of Physics.
Amartya Sen (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2012 Thomas C. Schelling Award, given by Harvard Kennedy School.
Laurence Senelick (Tufts University) won the Betty Jean Jones Award of the American Theatre and Drama Society.
Paul Simon (New York, NY) was awarded the 2012 Polar Music Prize. He shares the prize with Yo- Yo Ma (Cambridge, MA).
Bess Ward (Princeton University) is the recipient of the 2012 Procter & Gamble Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
New Appointments
Dennis A. Ausiello (Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital) was elected to the Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
David Eisenbud (University of California, Berkeley) was named Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.
Mary Ann Glendon (Harvard Law School; Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences) was appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Kathleen Kennedy (The Kennedy/ Marshall Company) was named Board Cochair at Lucasfilm Ltd.
Jim Yong Kim (Dartmouth College) was named President of The World Bank.
Steven E. Koonin (Science and Technology Policy Institute) was named Director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University.
Paul LeClerc (New York, NY) was appointed Director of Columbia University’s Global Center in Paris.
Earl Lewis (Emory University) was elected President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Michael A. Marletta (Scripps Research Institute) was appointed to the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee, the governing board of California’s stem cell agency, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
Richard A. Meserve (Carnegie Institution for Science) was elected President of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers.
David Robertson (St. Louis Symphony) was appointed Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Sydney Symphony in Australia.
Select Publications
Poetry
Jorie Graham (Harvard University). Place: New Poems. Ecco, May 2012
A.E. Stallings (Athens, Greece). Olives: Poems. Triquarterly, April 2012
Fiction
Francine du Plessix Gray (New York, NY). The Queen’s Lover. Penguin Press, June 2012
Elie Wiesel (Boston University). Hostage. Knopf, August 2012
Nonfiction
Paul Auster (New York, NY). Winter Journal. Henry Holt and Co., August 2012
William J. Baumol (New York University). The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn’t. Yale University Press, September 2012
Henry E. Brady (University of California, Berkeley), Kay Lehman Schlozman (Boston College), and Sidney Verba (Harvard University). The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy. Princeton University Press, May 2012
Leo Braudy (University of Southern California). The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon. Yale University Press, March 2012
Eli Broad (Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation). The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking. Wiley, May 2012
John W. Dower (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World. New Press, July 2012
J. H. Elliott (University of Oxford). History in the Making. Yale University Press, October 2012
Günter Grass (Lubeck, Germany). From Germany to Germany: Journal of the Year 1990. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 2012
Linda Greenhouse (Yale Law School). The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, March 2012
Vartan Gregorian (Carnegie Corporation of New York). The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan: Politics of Reform and Modernization. Stanford University Press, January 2013
Douglas Hofstadter (Indiana University) and Emmanuel Sander (University of Paris). Surfaces and Essences. Basic Books, September 2012
Charles Larmore (Brown University). Vernunft und Subjektivität. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, April 2012
Arend Lijphart (University of California, San Diego). Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. Yale University Press, September 2012
Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (University of Michigan). The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life. Yale University Press, September 2012
Jennifer Jane Marshall (Visiting Scholar, 2005–2006; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities). Machine Art, 1934. University of Chicago Press, June 2012
James M. McPherson (Princeton University). War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861–1865. University of North Carolina Press, September 2012
Mary E. Miller (Yale University) and Barbara E. Mundy (Fordham University), ed. Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City: Land, Writing, and Native Rule. Yale University Press, December 2012
Victor S. Navasky (Columbia University) and Evan Cornog (Hofstra University), ed. The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry. Columbia University Press, September 2012
Amos Oz (Ben-Gurion University) and Fania Oz-Salzberger (University of Haifa). Jews and Words. Yale University Press, November 2012
Gustavo Pérez-Firmat (Columbia University). Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way. University of Texas Press, May 2012
Martin Rees (University of Cambridge). From Here to Infinity: A Vision for the Future of Science. W.W. Norton, June 2012
Robert I. Rotberg (Harvard University). Transformative Political Leadership: Making a Difference in the Developing World. University of Chicago Press, June 2012
Kay Lehman Schlozman (Boston College), Sidney Verba (Harvard University), and Henry E. Brady (University of California, Berkeley). The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy. Princeton University Press, May 2012
Silvan S. Schweber (Brandeis University). Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe. Harvard University Press, June 2012
Ian Shapiro (Yale University). The Moral Foundations of Politics. Yale University Press, October 2012
Theda Skocpol (Harvard University). Obama and America’s Political Future. Harvard University Press, September 2012
Richard Slotkin (Wesleyan University). The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution. Liveright, July 2012
Robert Somerville (Columbia University). Pope Urban II’s Council of Piacenza (March 1–5, 1095). Oxford University Press, December 2011
Wole Soyinka (Abeokuta, Nigeria). Of Africa. Yale University Press, November 2012
Peter Stansky (Stanford University) and William Abrahams. Julian Bell: From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War. Stanford University Press, January 2012
Sidney Verba (Harvard University), Kay Lehman Schlozman (Boston College), and Henry E. Brady (University of California, Berkeley). The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy. Princeton University Press, May 2012
Robert Louis Wilken (University of Virginia). The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity. Yale University Press, November 2012
Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University) and Alex Harris (Duke University). Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City. Liveright, October 2012
Wu Hung (University of Chicago). A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture. Princeton University Press, May 2012
Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago). A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity. Basic Books, June 2012
We invite all Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members to send notices about their recent and forthcoming publications, scientific findings, exhibitions and performances, and honors and prizes to bulletin@amacad.org.