2024 Projects, Publications & Meetings of the Academy | American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Board of Directors

Goodwin Liu, Chair
Supreme Court of California

Paula J. Giddings, Vice Chair
Smith College

Stephen B. Heintz, Vice Chair
Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Earl Lewis, Secretary
University of Michigan

Laurie L. Patton, President (as of January 2025)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Kenneth L. Wallach, Treasurer
Central National Gottesman, Inc.

Philip N. Bredesen
State of Tennessee

Margaret A. Hamburg
Washington, D.C.

John Mark Hansen
University of Chicago

Cherry A. Murray
University of Arizona

David M. Rubenstein
The Carlyle Group

Deborah F. Rutter
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Larry Jay Shapiro
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Anna Deavere Smith
New York, NY

Shirley M. Tilghman
Princeton University

Jeannette M. Wing
Columbia University

Judy Woodruff
PBS

Academy Council

Paula J. Giddings, Chair
Smith College

Deborah Loewenberg Ball
University of Michigan

Juan J. De Pablo
University of Chicago

Johanna Ruth Drucker
University of California, Los Angeles

Joseph S. Francisco
University of Pennsylvania

Annette Gordon-Reed
Harvard University

Mary-Claire King
University of Washington

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Harvard Graduate School of Education

Shirley Mahaley Malcom
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Paula D. McClain
Duke University

Cherry A. Murray
University of Arizona

John G. Palfrey
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Deborah F. Rutter
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Scott D. Sagan
Stanford University

Cristián T. Samper
Bezos Earth Fund

Larry Jay Shapiro
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Anna Deavere Smith
New York, NY

Shirley M. Tilghman
Princeton University

Jeannette M. Wing
Columbia University

Susan Wolf
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Stephen B. Heintz, ex officio
Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Earl Lewis, ex officio
University of Michigan

Goodwin Liu, ex officio
Supreme Court of California

Laurie L. Patton, ex officio (as of January 2025)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Kenneth L. Wallach, ex officio
Central National Gottesman, Inc.

Academy Trust

Stephen B. Heintz, Chair
Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Joanne Berger-Sweeney
Trinity College

Philip N. Bredesen
State of Tennessee

Juan Enriquez
Excel Venture Management

Adam F. Falk
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

James Fallows
Our Towns Civic Foundation

Frances Daly Fergusson
Vassar College

Ann M. Fudge
Young and Rubicam Brands

Margaret A. Hamburg
Washington, D.C.

John Mark Hansen
University of Chicago

Antonia Hernández
California Community Foundation

Robert F. Higgins
Causeway Media Partners

Jonathan Scott Holloway
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Alberto Ibargüen
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Sherrilyn Ifill
Howard University School of Law

Nancy Beth Peretsman
Allen & Company, LLC

John W. Rogers, Jr.
Ariel Investments, LLC

David M. Rubenstein
The Carlyle Group

Patti B. Saris
United States District Court, District of Massachusetts

Sara Lee Schupf
New York, NY

James M. Stone
Plymouth Rock Companies

Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
University of Massachusetts Boston