Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Boris Altshuler (Columbia University) was named a 2019 Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics.
R. Scott Appleby (University of Notre Dame) is the recipient of the 2019 Religion and International Studies Distinguished Scholar Award, given by the International Studies Association.
David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern University) was awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Donna G. Blackmond (The Scripps Research Institute) was selected as a 2019 Distinguished Woman in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
David W. Blight (Yale University) was awarded a 2019 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy and a 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
Emily Carter (Princeton University) received the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from the California Institute of Technology.
Raj Chetty (Harvard University) was named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Andrew Delbanco (Columbia University; Teagle Foundation) was awarded the Mark Lynton History Prize and a 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War.
JoAnn Falletta (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra) won a Grammy Award for best classical compendium for “Fuchs: Piano Concerto ‘Spiritualist’; Poems Of Life; Glacier; Rush.”
Jeff Gelles (Brandeis University) received the Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics from the Biophysical Society.
Lila Gierasch (University of Massachusetts Amherst) received the American Peptide Society’s Merrifield Award.
Paul Gilroy (Kings College London) was awarded the Holberg Prize by the government of Norway.
Gabriela González (Louisiana State University) is the recipient of the 2019 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award.
Linda Greenhouse (Yale Law School) has been elected an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple (London).
Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago) was named a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Laura Haas (University of Massachusetts Amherst) is the recipient of the 2019 IEEE Computer Society’s Computer Pioneer Award.
Christopher Hacon (University of Utah) has been elected to the Royal Society of London.
Joseph Halpern (Cornell University) was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Stephen Harrison (Harvard Medical School) received the 48th Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research, given by Brandeis University.
Daniel Hartl (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2019 Genetics Society of America Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal.
Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto) is the recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Turing Award. He shares the prize with Yann LeCun (New York University) and Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal).
Susan Band Horwitz (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) is the recipient of the 2019 Canada Gairdner International Award.
David Huse (Princeton University) was named a 2019 Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics.
David Jerison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Edward P. Jones (Washington, D.C.) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Carl June (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine) received the Edward Netter Leadership Award, given by the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy.
Victor Kac (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named a 2019 Simons Fellow in Mathematics.
Renata Kallosh (Stanford University) was named a 2019 Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics.
Jacqueline King (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) was awarded the 2019 Stockholm Water Prize.
Sergiu Klainerman (Princeton University) was named a 2019 Simons Fellow in Mathematics.
Margaret Levi (Stanford University) is the recipient of the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.
Andrei Linde (Stanford University) was named a 2019 Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics.
Jane Lubchenco (Oregon State University) was elected to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
She also received the inaugural Tethys Award from the Ocean Visions Institute.
Mark Mangel (University of California, Santa Cruz) received the Outstanding Achievement Award of the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists.
Eve Marder (Brandeis University) received the 2019 NAS Award in the Neurosciences, given by the National Academy of Sciences.
Suzanne Mettler (Cornell University) was awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Meredith Monk (The House Foundation for the Arts) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Joseph S. Nye Jr. (Harvard Kennedy School) received the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards’ Jury Prize.
Robert B. Pippin (University of Chicago) was awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Richard Powers (Stanford University) won a 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Overstory.
Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Rice University) was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Geraldine Richmond (University of Oregon) received the Linus Pauling Legacy Award from Oregon State University.
Mendel Rosenblum (Stanford University) is the recipient of the inaugural ACM Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award.
Christine Seidman (Harvard Medical School) is the recipient of the 2019 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science.
Laurence Senelick (Tufts University) received the Historic Boston 2018 award for collecting works on paper.
Johannes Sjöstrand (University of Bourgogne) was awarded the 2018 Bergman Prize.
Linda Smith (Indiana University) received the 2019 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Experimental Psychologists.
Michael Snyder (Stanford University) is the recipient of the 2019 Genetics Society of America George W. Beadle Award.
Timothy Springer (Harvard Medical School) is the recipient of the 2019 Canada Gairdner International Award.
Bruce Stillman (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) is the recipient of the 2019 Canada Gairdner International Award.
Natasha Trethewey (Northwestern University) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Richard Tuck (Harvard University) was awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Ronald Vale (University of California, San Francisco) is the recipient of the 2019 Canada Gairdner International Award.
Lothar von Falkenhausen (University of California, Los Angeles) was awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.
David Walt (Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Wyss Institute at Harvard University) was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Clifford M. Will (University of Florida) has been awarded the 2019 Albert Einstein Medal by the Albert Einstein Society in Berne, Switzerland.
Eli Yablonovitch (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the 2019 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize by the Optical Society.
Adam Zagajewski (University of Chicago) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
New Appointments
Angela Belcher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named head of the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT.
Jeffrey Bluestone (University of California, San Francisco) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Provention Bio, Inc.
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar (Supreme Court of California) was elected as a member of the Harvard Corporation.
Pietro De Camilli (Yale School of Medicine) has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Casma Therapeutics, Inc.
Thelma Golden (The Studio Museum in Harlem) was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Andrea J. Goldsmith (Stanford University) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Medtronic.
Edward W. Kolb (University of Chicago) was named Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago.
Glenn D. Lowry (Museum of Modern Art) was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
Daniel Mendelsohn (New York, NY) was named Editor-at-Large of The New York Review of Books.
Indra Nooyi (PreeTara LLC) was named to the Board of Directors of Amazon.
Robert Schreiber (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis) was appointed to the Immuno-Oncology Advisory Board of Sensei Biotherapeutics, Inc.
Oscar Tang (New York, NY) was elected Cochair of the Board of Directors of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York.
Jay Xu (Asian Art Museum of San Francisco) has been appointed to the Board of the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Select Publications
Poetry
Arthur Sze (Institute of American Indian Arts). Sight Lines. Copper Canyon Press, April 2019
Fiction
Ann Beattie (York, ME). A Wonderful Stroke of Luck. Viking, April 2019
Ian McEwan (London, United Kingdom). Machines Like Me. Nan A. Talese, April 2019
Nonfiction
Robert Alter (University of California, Berkeley). The Art of Bible Translation. Princeton University Press, March 2019
Robert J. Barro (Harvard University) and Rachel M. McCleary (Harvard University). The Wealth of Religions: The Political Economy of Believing and Belonging. Princeton University Press, May 2019
Carles Boix (Princeton University). Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads. Princeton University Press, May 2019
David Bromwich (Yale University). How Words Make Things Happen. Oxford University Press, May 2019
Robert A. Caro (New York, NY). Working: Research, Interviewing, Writing. Penguin Random House, April 2019
Nicholas A. Christakis (Yale University). Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society. Little, Brown and Company, March 2019
Patricia Churchland (University of California, San Diego). Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition. W.W. Norton, June 2019
Thomas Crow (New York University), Melissa Ho (Smithsonian American Art Museum), Mignon Nixon (University College London), Erica Levin (Ohio State University), and Martha Rosler (American artist and author). Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975. Princeton University Press, April 2019
Philip J. Deloria (Harvard University). Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract. University of Washington Press, April 2019
Daniel Dennett (Tufts University), Christopher Hitchens† (Houston,
TX), Richard Dawkins (The Royal Society), and Sam Harris (Project Reason). The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution. Random House, March 2019
Frans de Waal (Emory University). Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves. W.W. Norton, March 2019
Jared Diamond (University of California, Los Angeles). Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis. Little, Brown and Company, May 2019
Jennifer L. Eberhardt (Stanford University). Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do. Viking Press, March 2019
Patricia Buckley Ebrey (University of Washington) and Paul Jakov Smith (Haverford College), eds. State Power in China, 900–1325. University of Washington Press, March 2019
Melinda Gates (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World. Flatiron Books, April 2019
John Stratton Hawley (Barnard College), Christian Lee Novetzke (University of Washington), and Swapna Sharma (Yale University), eds. Bhakti and Power: Debating India’s Religion of the Heart. University of Washington Press, May 2019
Susan Hockfield (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution. W.W. Norton, May 2019
Margaret C. Jacob (University of California, Los Angeles). The Secular Enlightenment. Princeton University Press, April 2019
William Chester Jordan (Princeton University). The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX. Princeton University Press, April 2019
Thomas Forrest Kelly (Harvard University). The Role of the Scroll: An Illustrated Introduction to Scrolls in the Middle Ages. W.W. Norton, April 2019
Alison Lurie (Cornell University). Words and Worlds: From Autobiography to Zippers. Delphinium, May 2019
Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth. Princeton University Press, May 2019
David McCullough (West Tisbury, MA). The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West. Simon & Schuster, May 2019
Bill McKibben (Middlebury College). Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? Henry Holt and Co., April 2019
Anna Quindlen (New York, NY). Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting. Random House, April 2019
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (University of Wisconsin-Madison; Academy Visiting Scholar, 2005–2006). The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History. Oxford University Press, February 2019
Nancy L. Rosenblum (Harvard University) and Russell Muirhead (Dartmouth College). A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy. Princeton University Press, April 2019
Robert I. Rotberg (Harvard Kennedy School), ed. Corruption in Latin America: How Politicians and Corporations Steal from Citizens. Springer Nature, November 2019
Thomas D. Seeley (Cornell University). The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild. Princeton University Press, May 2019
Laurence Senelick (Tufts University), trans. Two Plays of Weimar Germany: Youth Is a Sickness and Criminals by Ferdinand Bruckner. Northwestern University Press, September 2018
John Paul Stevens (Supreme Court of the United States). The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years. Little, Brown and Company, May 2019
Steven Strogatz (Cornell University). Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2019
Susan Treggiari (Oxford, United Kingdom). Servilia and Her Family. Oxford University Press, March 2019
Lawrence Weschler (The New Yorker). And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2019
Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study). Mathematics and Computation. Princeton University Press, April 2019
Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University). Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies. Liveright, March 2019
† Deceased
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