Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Lagos, Nigeria) was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2018.
Joseph Altonji (Yale University) was awarded the 2018 IZA Prize in Labor Economics.
David J. Anderson (California Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2018 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience, given by the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
Martin Baron (The Washington Post) was awarded the Benton Medal for Distinguished Public Service, given by the University of Chicago.
Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University) was awarded the 2018 Dickson Prize in Medicine, given by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Eavan Boland (Stanford University) was elected an honorary member of the Royal Irish ÇďżűĘÓƵ.
Luis Caffarelli (University of Texas at Austin) was awarded the 2018 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.
Hillary Clinton (Chappaqua, NY) received the Radcliffe Medal, given by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Michael Cook (Princeton University) was named an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge University.
Robert Crabtree (Yale University) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Carlo Croce (Ohio State University) was awarded a 2018 Dan David Prize.
Marcetta Darensbourg (Texas A&M University) was named the 2018 Southeastern Conference Professor of the Year.
Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany) was awarded a 2018 Dan David Prize.
Jenny Davidson (Columbia University; Visiting Scholar, 2005–2006) was awarded a fellowship to the Institute of Ideas and Imagination of Columbia University.
Elizabeth Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Princeton University) has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2018.
Jennifer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the 2018 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience. She shares the prize with Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Plank Institute for Infection Biology, Germany) and Virginijus Šikšnys (Vilnius University, Lithuania).
Brian J. Druker (Oregon Health and Science University), Tony Hunter (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), and John Mendelsohn (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) were awarded the 2018 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science.
Herbert Edelsbrunner (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) was awarded the 2018 Wittgenstein Prize.
John Elliott (University of Oxford) is the inaugural recipient of the Premio de las Órdenes Españolas, given by the Spanish Orders of Santiago, Calatrava, Alcántara, and Montesa.
Ezekiel Emanuel (University of Pennsylvania) was awarded a 2018 Dan David Prize.
Drew Faust (Harvard University) was awarded the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity by the Library of Congress.
Robert Fettiplace (University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health) was awarded a 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. He shares the prize with A. J. Hudspeth (Rockefeller University) and Christine Petit (Pasteur Institute).
Gerald Fink (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is the recipient of the 2018–2019 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award given by MIT.
Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University) is the recipient of the 2018–2019 Athena Lecturer Award, given by the Association of Computing Machinery.
Jeffrey Gordon (Washington University School of Medicine) is the recipient of the 2018 Copley Medal from the Royal Society.
Ann Graybiel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2018 Gruber Neuroscience Prize.
Lenore A. Grenoble (University of Chicago) was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Angela Gronenborn (University of Pittsburgh) received the Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Alma Guillermoprieto (Mexico City, Mexico) was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, 2018.
Rebecca Henderson (Harvard Business School) was awarded the Dr. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business by the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. She shares the prize with George Serafeim (Harvard Business School).
A. J. Hudspeth (Rockefeller University) was awarded a 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. He shares the prize with Robert Fettiplace (University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health) and Christine Petit (Pasteur Institute).
Tony Hunter (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Brian J. Druker (Oregon Health and Science University), and John Mendelsohn (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) were awarded the 2018 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science.
Evelyn Fox Keller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was awarded a 2018 Dan David Prize.
Mary-Claire King (University of Washington) was awarded the 2018 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. She was also awarded a 2018 Dan David Prize.
David M. Kreps (Stanford University) was awarded the 2018 Nemmers Prize in Economics.
Jennifer Lewis (Harvard University) was inducted into The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows.
Dahlia Lithwick (Slate Magazine) was awarded the 2018 Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism.
Jane Mansbridge (Harvard University) was awarded the 2018 Skytte Prize in Political Science by the Johan Skytte Foundation.
John R. McNeill (Georgetown University) was awarded the 2018 Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for History.
John Mendelsohn (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center), Tony Hunter (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), and Brian J. Druker (Oregon Health and Science University) were awarded the 2018 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science.
Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.
Paul Offit (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) was awarded the 2018 Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal.
Hirosi Ooguri (California Institute of Technology) was awarded the 2018 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics.
Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University) was awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
Stuart H. Orkin (Boston Children’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School) was awarded the 2018 Nemmers Prize in Medical Science.
Stephen Owen (Harvard University) was awarded the 2018 Tang Prize in Sinology. He shares the award with Yoshinobu Shiba (Toyo Bunko).
Svante Pääbo (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany) was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, 2018.
Annie Proulx (Port Townsend, WA) was awarded the 2018 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
Veerabhadran Ramanathan (University of California, San Diego) was awarded the 2018 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development. He shares the prize with James E. Hansen (formerly, NASA).
Lisa Randall (Harvard University) was awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
Joseph Raz (Columbia Law School) was awarded the 2018 Tang Prize in Rule of Law.
Nicholas Rescher (University of Pittsburgh) was honored by the American Philosophical Association’s inauguration of the Nicholas Rescher Prize that recognizes an awardee’s lifetime contributions to systematic metaphysics.
Judith Resnik (Yale University) was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.
Scott D. Sagan (Stanford University) was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.
Robert J. Sampson (Harvard University) was awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
Michael J. Sandel (Harvard University) was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, 2018.
Helmut Schwarz (Technische Universität Berlin) was elected a Foreign Associate of the National ÇďżűĘÓƵ of Sciences.
Martin Scorsese (Sikelia Productions) was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Arts, 2018.
Beth Simmons (University of Pennsylvania) was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.
Michelle Simmons (University of New South Wales) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco (University of California, Los Angeles) has been recognized by Carnegie Corporation of New York as a “Great Immigrant” as part of its Great Immigrants Initiative.
Craig Thompson (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) received the Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Jeremy Thorner (University of California, Berkeley) received the Herbert Tabor Research Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Mark Trahant (Indian Country Today) is the recipient of the 2018 NAJA Richard LaCourse Award, given by the Native American Journalists Association.
Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden University, the Netherlands) was awarded the 2018 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics.
Bert Vogelstein (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) was awarded a 2018 Dan David Prize.
Sharon Weiner (American University; Visiting Scholar, 2005–2006) was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.
New Appointments
Dennis Ausiello (Massachusetts General Hospital; Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has been elected to the Board of Directors of Rani Therapeutics.
Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern University) has been named President-Elect of the Association of Psychological Science.
Bonnie Berger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was elected to the Brandeis University Board of Trustees.
Lord Browne of Madingley (L1 Energy) has been appointed to the Advisory Board of Blue Bear Capital.
Francisco Cigarroa (University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio) was elected Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation.
Elazer R. Edelman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard Medical School; Brigham & Women’s Hospital) has been named Director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT.
Drew Gilpin Faust (Harvard University) was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust.
Pinelopi K. Goldberg (Yale University) has been named Chief Economist of the World Bank.
Jeffrey Immelt (formerly, General Electric Company) was appointed Executive Chairman of athenahealth.
Paula A. Johnson (Wellesley College) was elected to the Board of Directors of Eaton Vance Corp.
Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin (Amherst College) was elected a member of the Harvard Corporation.
John R. McNeill (Georgetown University) was elected President of the American Historical Association for 2019–2020.
Mary Miller (Yale University) was appointed Director of the Getty Research Institute.
Joseph Neubauer (Aramark Corporation) was reelected as Chair of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees.
Nancy Knowlton (Smithsonian Institution) was appointed as a member of the Global Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy.
Norman Pearlstine (Time Inc.) has been named Executive Editor of The Los Angeles Times.
Penny S. Pritzker (PSP Capital Partners) was elected a member of the Harvard Corporation.
Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Rice University) has been named a U.S. Science Envoy.
Crystal Sanders (Pennsylvania State University; Visiting Scholar, 2013–2014) has been named Director of the Africana Research Center of the Pennsylvania State University.
Debra Satz (Stanford University) has been named Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.
Select Publications
Poetry
Terrance Hayes (University of Pittsburgh). American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. Penguin Books, June 2018
Fiction
Chris Abani (Northwestern University), ed. Lagos Noir. Akashic Books, June 2018
Bill Clinton (The Clinton Foundation) and James Patterson (Hachette Book Group). The President Is Missing: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company and Alfred A. Knopf, June 2018
Anne Tyler (Baltimore, MD). Clock Dance: A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, July 2018
James Wood (Harvard University; The New Yorker). Upstate: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2018
Nonfiction
Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University). The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity. Liveright, August 2018
Mary Beard (University of Cambridge). How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization. Liveright, September 2018
Henry E. Brady (University of California, Berkeley), Kay Lehman Schlozman (Boston College), and Sidney Verba (Harvard University). Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People’s Voice in the New Gilded Age. Princeton University Press, June 2018
Mary Schmidt Campbell (Spelman College). An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden. Oxford University Press, September 2018
James H. Cone†(Union Theological Seminary). Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody. Orbis Books, October 2018
Scott Cowen (Tulane University). Winnebagos on Wednesdays: How Visionary Leadership Can Transform Higher Education. Princeton University Press, February 2018
John Elliott (University of Oxford). Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion. Yale University Press, July 2018
Doris Kearns Goodwin (Concord, MA). Leadership: In Turbulent Times. Simon & Schuster, September 2018
Temple Grandin (Colorado State University). Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor. Philomel Books, May 2018
Patricia Hampl (University of Minnesota). The Art of the Wasted Day. Viking, April 2018
Terrance Hayes (University of Pittsburgh). To Float in the Space Between. Wave Books, September 2018
Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University). Globalization and Inequality. Harvard University Press, August 2018
John Kaag (University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Visiting Scholar, 2007–2008). Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2018
Eric R. Kandel (Columbia University). The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2018
Thomas E. Levy (University of California, San Diego) and Ian W. N. Jones (University of California, San Diego), eds. Cyber-Archaeology and Grand Narratives. Springer, March 2018
Errol Morris (Fourth Floor Productions). The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality). University of Chicago Press, May 2018
Laura Nader (University of California, Berkeley). Contrarian Anthropology: The Unwritten Rules of Academia. Berghahn Books, January 2018
Martha C. Nussbaum (University of Chicago). The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis. Simon & Schuster, July 2018
Paul A. Offit (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine). Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren’t Your Best Source of Health Information. Columbia University Press, June 2018
Stephen Owen (Harvard University). Just a Song: Chinese Lyrics from the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries. Harvard University Press, February 2019
Elizabeth J. Perry (Harvard University) and Prasenjit Duara (Duke University), eds. Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared. Harvard University Press, October 2018
Stanley Plumly (University of Maryland). Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime. W. W. Norton, August 2018
Joy Lisi Rankin (Michigan State University; Visiting Scholar, 2015–2016). A People’s History of Computing in the United States. Harvard University Press, October 2018
Martin Rees (University of Cambridge). On the Future: Prospects for Humanity. Princeton University Press, October 2018
Condoleezza Rice (Stanford University) and Amy B. Zegart (Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University). Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity. Twelve Books, May 2018
Frances McCall Rosenbluth (Yale University) and Ian Shapiro (Yale University). Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy From Itself. Yale University Press, October 2018
Kay Lehman Schlozman (Boston College), Henry E. Brady (University of California, Berkeley), and Sidney Verba (Harvard University). Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People’s Voice in the New Gilded Age. Princeton University Press, June 2018
Ian Shapiro (Yale University) and Frances McCall Rosenbluth (Yale University). Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy From Itself. Yale University Press, October 2018
Anna Marie Skalka (Fox Chase Cancer Center). Discovering Retroviruses: Beacons in the Biosphere. Harvard University Press, October 2018
Rosemary A. Stevens (Cornell University, Weill Cornell Medical College). A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau. Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2016
Paul Theroux (East Sandwich, MA). Figures in a Landscape: People and Places. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2018
Michael Tomasello (Duke University). Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny. Harvard University Press, January 2019
Sidney Verba (Harvard University), Kay Lehman Schlozman (Boston College), and Henry E. Brady (University of California, Berkeley). Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People’s Voice in the New Gilded Age. Princeton University Press, June 2018
Steven Weinberg (University of Texas at Austin). Third Thoughts. Harvard University Press, August 2018
We invite all Fellows and International Honorary Members to send notices about their recent and forthcoming publications, scientific findings, exhibitions and performances, films and documentaries, and honors and prizes to bulletin@amacad.org.
†Deceased