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American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy's elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business and public affairs.

Anthropology, Archaeology, Sociology, Demography, and Geography

  • Susan Gal, 2007
  • Tanya Marie Luhrmann, 2003
  • Richard A. Shweder, 1997
  • Jean Comaroff, 1995
  • John Comaroff, 1995
  • Ronald S. Burt, 1993
  • Dr. James W. Fernandez, 1991
  • Paul Friedrich, 1987
  • Marshall David Sahlins, 1976

Astronomy and Earth Sciences

  • Donald Quincy Lamb Jr., 2003
  • Robert Rosner, 2001
  • John E. Carlstrom, 2000
  • Robert M. Wald, 2000
  • Michael S. Turner, 1996
  • James Wellington Truran, Jr., 1995
  • Frank Morris Richter, 1993
  • Roger H. Hildebrand, 1991
  • Robert Norman Clayton, 1978
  • Eugene Newman Parker, 1970

Business, Corporate, and Philanthropic Leadership

  • Richard J. Franke (life trustee), 1996
  • Howard G Krane (life trustee), 1996
  • George Ranney (life trustee), 1996

Chemistry

  • Karl F. Freed, 2007
  • Dr. James Rufus Norris, Jr., 1994
  • Donald Harris Levy, 1987
  • Takeshi Oka, 1987
  • Robert Gomer, 1981
  • R. Stephen Berry, 1978
  • Clyde Allen Hutchison, Jr., 1968
  • Jack Halpern, 1967
  • Stuart Alan Rice, 1967

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  • Lucia B. Rothman-Denes, 2001
  • Dr. Eugene Goldwasser, 1991
  • Dr. Bernard Roizman, 1991
  • Robert Haselkorn, 1987

Cellular and Developmental Biology, Microbiology, and Immunology

  • Dr. Rochelle Easton Esposito, 2003
  • Anthony Peter Mahowald, 1993
  • Dr. Ursula Beate Storb, 1992
  • A. A. Moscona, 1987
  • Dr. Donald Frederick Steiner, 1972

Economics

  • Robert W. Vishny, 2002
  • Douglas W. Diamond, 2001
  • Richard H. Thaler, 2000
  • Kevin M. Murphy, 1998
  • Robert Morris Townsend, 1994
  • Lars Peter Hansen, 1993
  • Roger B. Myerson, 1993
  • Nancy L. Stokey, 1993
  • Eugene F. Fama, 1989
  • James Joseph Heckman, 1985
  • Hugo Freund Sonnenschein, 1984
  • Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr., 1980
  • Arnold Zellner, 1979
  • Ronald Harry Coase, 1978
  • Gary S. Becker, 1972
  • Robert William Fogel, 1972

Educational, Scientific, Cultural, and Philanthropic Administration

  • Don Stewart, 2007
  • John W. McCarter, Jr. (trustee), 2005
  • President Emeritus Don Michael Randel, 2001
  • Hanna Holborn Gray, 1973

Engineering

  • Dean E. Eastman, 1991

Evolutionary and Population Biology and Ecology

  • Sir Peter Crane, 2008
  • Jerry Coyne, 2007
  • Susan Marie Kidwell, 2002
  • David Jablonski, 2000
  • Martha K. McClintock, 1999
  • Wen-Hsiung Li, 1999

History

  • Michael Geyer, 2008
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick, 2005
  • Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2004
  • William H. Sewell, Jr., 2004
  • Thomas C. Holt, 2003
  • Friedrich Katz, 2003
  • Bruce Cumings, 1999
  • Cornell Hugh Fleischer, 1998
  • Neil Harris, 1993
  • Tetsuo Najita, 1993
  • John A. Brinkman, 1991

Law

  • William Landes, 2008
  • David A. Strauss, 2002
  • Saul Levmore, 2000
  • Abner J. Mikva, 2000
  • Douglas Gordon Baird, 1996
  • Cass R. Sunstein, 1992
  • Richard H. Helmholz, 1991
  • Geoffrey Richard Stone, 1990
  • David P. Currie, 1985
  • Richard A. Epstein, 1985
  • Richard Allen Posner, 1982
  • Kenneth W. Dam, 1981
  • Bernard David Meltzer, 1973

Literary Criticism (including Philology)

  • Glenn Most, 2008
  • John Goldsmith, 2007
  • Michael J. Murrin, 2006
  • Anthony C. Yu, 2000
  • Thomas Pavel, 1999
  • Michael Silverstein, 1991
  • Peter F. Dembowski, 1990
  • David Bevington, 1985

Literature (Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories, Non-Fiction, Playwriting, Screenwriting)

  • Richard Gustave Stern, 1995

Mathematics

  • Vladimir Drinfeld, 2008
  • Alexander Beilinson, 2008
  • President Robert J. Zimmer, 2007
  • Gregory Lawler, 2005
  • Carlos E. Kenig, 2002
  • Peter McCullagh, 2002
  • Stephen M. Stigler, 1987
  • Saunders Mac Lane, 1944

Medical Sciences, Clinical Medicine and Public Health

  • Graeme Bell, 2008
  • Shutsung Liao, 1997
  • Dr. Janet D. Rowley, 1991

Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences, and Behavioral Biology

  • Edwin William Taylor, 1991

Philosophy and Religious Studies

  • Robert Pippin, 2007
  • Bernard J. McGinn, 2002
  • William W. Tait, 2002
  • Wendy Doniger, 1989
  • Howard Stein, 1989
  • Martha Craven Nussbaum, 1988
  • Brian Albert Gerrish, 1987
  • David William Tracy, 1982
  • Robert McQueen Grant, 1981
  • Martin E. Marty, 1968

Physics

  • George Crabtree , 2008
  • Bruce Winstein, 2007
  • Melvyn J. Shochet, 2005
  • Jeffrey A. Harvey, 2004
  • Sidney R. Nagel, 1997
  • Leo Philip Kadanoff, 1982
  • Yoichiro Nambu, 1973
  • Dr. Albert Victor Crewe, 1972
  • Leon M. Lederman, 1970
  • James Watson Cronin, 1967

Political Science, International Relations, and Public Policy

  • Michael Dawson, 2006
  • John Mark Hansen, 2003
  • John J. Mearsheimer, 2003
  • Susanne Rudolph, 1998
  • Jean Bethke Elshtain, 1996

Public Affairs, Journalism, and Communications

  • Norman M. Bradburn, 1994
  • Jack W. Fuller (trustee), 1991

Social and Developmental Psychology and Education

  • Janellen Huttenlocher, 2007
  • Reid Hastie, 2006
  • Susan J. Goldin-Meadow, 2005
  • John T. Cacioppo, 2003
  • Stephen Raudenbush, 2001

Visual and Performing Arts (Criticism and Practice)

  • Anne Robertson, 2008
  • Wu Hung, 2007
  • Shulamit Ran, 1992
  • Philip Edward Gossett, 1989
  • Charles Rosen, 1974