American Academy of Arts & Sciences 2007 Class of Fellows
and Foreign Honorary Members in Alphabetical Order

Fellows

Titles and Affiliations at Time of Election:

Abruña, Héctor Daniel: Emile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University

Amar, Akhil Reed: Southmayd Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Andrews, Nancy C.: Dean for Basic Sciences and Graduate Studies; Leland Fikes Professor
of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School /Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Angell, Roger: Editor and Contributor, The New Yorker

Ansolabehere, Stephen D.: Elting R. Morison Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ax, Emanuel: Pianist, New York , New York

Baillargeon, Renee: Alumni Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Bass, Brenda L.: Professor of Biochemistry, University of Utah; Investigator with Howard Hughes Medical Institute 

Bassler, Bonnie Lynn: Professor of Molecular Biology, Investigator, Princeton University /Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Beck, Aaron T.: Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania

Bell, Alexis T.: Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Bennack, Jr., Frank A.: Vice Chairman and Head of Executive Committee, Hearst Corporation

Betancourt, Philip P.: Laura H. Carnell Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Temple University

Bierbaum, Rosina Marie: Dean and Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy, University of Michigan

Blackbourn, David Gordon: Archibald Carey Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University

Bloomberg, Michael R.: Mayor, New York City

Bontecou, Lee: Artist, New York , New York

Bren, Donald: Chairman of the Board, Irvine Company

Brooks, Rodney: Panasonic Professor of Robotics and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Chief Technology Officer, iRobot Corporation

Brownlee, Donald E.: Professor of Astronomy, University of Washington

Caviness, Madeline Harrison: Mary Richardson Professor of Fine Arts, Professor of the History of Art, Tufts University

Chakraborty, Arup K.: Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering; Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chobanian, Aram V.: President Emeritus, University Professor and John I. Sandson Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences, Boston University

Christ, F. Michael: Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Colacurcio, Michael J.: Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Coyne, Jerry Allen: Professor of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago

Craig, Nancy L.: Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University

Cutler, David: Dean for the Social Sciences; Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University

Dachs, Alan Mark: President and Chief Executive Officer, Fremont Group

Dally, William: Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Engineering; Chairman of the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University

d'Amboise, Jacques: Dancer, Choreographer, Founder, National Dance Institute

Damrosch, Jr., Leopold: Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Literature, Harvard University

de Lange, Titia: Leon Hess Professor, Rockefeller University

DeWitt, David J.: John P. Morgridge Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dillehay, Tom D.: Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Anthropology Department, Vanderbilt University

Drake, Michael Vincent: Chancellor, University of California, Irvine

Drell, Persis Sydney: Professor and Deputy Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University

Duffie, Darrell: Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance, Stanford University

Edley, Jr., Christopher F.: Dean and Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

Ellison, Glenn: Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Emlen, Stephen T.: Jacob Gould Schurman Professor, Cornell University

Endler, John A.: Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Erikson, Robert S.: Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

Estrin, Deborah: Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, University of California, Los Angeles

Fassler, Margot E.: Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History, Yale University

Fienberg, Stephen Elliott: Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Fish, Lawrence K.: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Citizens Financial Group

Forget, Bernard G.: Chief of the Hematology Section, Yale University School of Medicine

Freed, Karl Frederick: Professor of Chemistry and Director of the James Frank Institute, University of Chicago

French, Kenneth R.: Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance, Dartmouth College

Fu, Gregory Chung-Wei: Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gal, Susan: Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Sciences, University of Chicago

Goldsmith, John A.: Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, University of Chicago

Gordon, Bernard M.: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Neurologica Corporation

Gore, Jr., Albert A.: Former Vice President of the United States; Former U.S. Senator; Environmentalist, Generation Investment Management U.S. LLP

Greenwald, Anthony G.: Professor of Psychology, University of Washington

Griess, Jr., Robert L.: Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan

Hampl, Patricia: Regents Professor of English, University of Minnesota

Hanahan, Douglas: Professor of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco

Hanrahan, Pat: Canon USA Professor, Stanford University

Hansmann, Henry: Augustus E. Lines Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Harrison, Robert Pogue: Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature, Stanford University

Harvey, David: Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York, The Graduate Center

Haynes, Barton Ford: Frederic M. Hanes Professor of Medicine and Director of the Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University

Hellman, Geoffrey P.: Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota

Hernquist, Lars: Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University

Honig, Barry Hirsh: Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University

Hovenkamp, Herbert: Ben and Dorothy Willie Distinguished Professor of Law and History, University of Iowa College of Law

Hrushovski, Ehud: Professor of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Huey, Raymond B.: Professor of Zoology, University of Washington

Hughes, Thomas J.R.: Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and Computational & Applied Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin

Hull, Isabel Virginia: John Stambaugh Professor of History, Cornell University

Hunt, Carlton Cuyler: Professor of Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Huttenlocher, Janellen: William S. Gray Professor of Psychology and Chair of Developmental Psychology, University of Chicago

Jan, Lily Y.: Professor of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco

Jan, Yuh Nung: Professor of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco

Jin, Deborah S.: Associate Professor and Fellow, JILA and NIST, University of Colorado

Johnson, Alexander D.: Professor and Vice Chair, University of California, San Francisco

Jorgensen, William L.: Whitehead Professor of Chemistry, Yale University

Jorgenson, James W.: W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Joyner, Alexandra Leigh: Member, Courtney Steel Chair in Pediatric Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Kac, Victor: Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kareiva, Peter Michael: Lead Scientist, Nature Conservancy

Karlan, Pamela Susan: Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford University

Kazazian, Jr., Haig H.: Professor of Genetics and Chair of the Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania

Keller, Evelyn Fox: Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Khosla, Chaitan: Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department; Wells H. Rauser and Harold M. Petiprin Professor in the School of Engineering; Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, Stanford University

Kleinberg, Jon M.: Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University

Koch, Christof: Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology, California Institute of Technology

Kosterlitz, J. Michael: Professor of Physics, Brown University

Lamb, Robert Andrew: Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University

Langley, Charles Hunt: Professor of Genetics, University of California, Davis

Lasseter, John: Chief Creative Officer, Pixar and Disney Animation Studios

Lee, Spike: Filmmaker, Artistic Director of the Graduate Film Program and the Amy and Joseph Perella Chair, New York University

Lentz, Thomas W.: Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard University

Leventhal, Norman: Founder, Beacon Companies

Levi, David Frank: Chief District Court Judge, United States District Court

Li, Peter Wai-Kwong: Chancellor's Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine

Lupia, Arthur: Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

MacCormack, Sabine G.: Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh C.S.C. Professor of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame

Magnuson, Terry: Sarah Graham Professor and Chair of Genetics; Director, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Maldacena, Juan Martín: Professor of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study

Mandel, Gail: Senior Scientist, Oregon Health and Science University

Mankiw, N. Gregory: Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Manley, Lawrence G.: William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, Yale University

McNerney, Jr., W. James: Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Boeing Company

Melillo, Jerry M.: Senior Scientist and Co-Director of The Ecosystems Center , Marine Biological Laboratory

Meyerson, Morton H.: Chairman and CEO, 2M Companies, Inc.

Moeser, James C.: Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Morris, Errol Mark: Filmmaker, Cambridge , Massachusetts

Mrowka, Tomasz: Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Narayanamurti, Venkatesh: Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences, John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Professor of Physics, Harvard University

Needleman, Alan: Professor of Engineering, Brown University

Neier, Aryeh: President, Open Society Institute

Neureiter, Norman: Director of the Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Neville, Helen J.: Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of the Brain Development Laboratory, University of Oregon

Newey, Whitney K.: Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Niemi, Richard G.: Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Rochester

Norman, Jessye: President, L'Orchidee, Inc.

Nurmikko, Arto Veikko: L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering and Physics, Brown University

Nussenzweig, Michel Claudio: Sherman Fairchild Professor of Immunology, Rockefeller University /Howard Hughes Medical Institute

O'Connell, Richard John: Professor of Geophysics, Harvard University

O'Connor, Sandra Day: Associate Justice (retired), Supreme Court of the United States

Olivera, Baldomero M.: Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Utah

Ortiz, Michael: Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Owen, E. Roger: A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History, Harvard University

Painter, Nell Irvin: Edwards Professor Emeritus of American History, Princeton University

Parada, Luis Fernando: Southwestern Ball Distinguished Chair in Basic Neuroscience Research and Director of the Center for Developmental Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Parsons, Terence Dwight: Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles

Penny, Nicholas: Senior Curator of Sculpture, National Gallery of Art

Perdue, Peter C.: T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations and Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Perlmutter, Saul: Senior Scientist and Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Pippin, Robert B.: Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago

Piwnica-Worms, Helen M.: Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, and Internal Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis /Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Pope, Stephen B.: Sibley College Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University

Power, Mary Eleanor: Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Rainer, Yvonne: Choreographer and Filmmaker; Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine

Ranney, George: President and CEO, Chicago Metropolis 2020

Record, M. Thomas: Steenbock Professor in Chemical Sciences; John D. Ferry Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Redmond, Elsa M.: Research Associate, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History

Reich, Steve: Composer, New York , New York

Reilly, William K.: President and CEO, Aqua International Partners LP

Revesz, Richard L.: Dean and Lawrence King Professor of Law, New York University

Rieke, Marcia J.: Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona

Risen, James E.: Investigative Correspondent, New York Times

Rock, Arthur: Principal, Arthur Rock & Company

Rosenbluth, Frances McCall: Damon Wells Professor of International Politics, Yale University

Rosenfield, Allan G.: Dean, Mailman School of Public Health; DeLamar Professor of Public Health; Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University

Sag, Ivan A.: Professor of Linguistics and Symbolic Systems, Stanford University

Sanes, Joshua Richard: Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Director of the Center for Brain Science, Harvard University

Schiffer, Stephen: Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philospohy Department, New York University

Schiller, Peter H.: Dorothy W. Poitras Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Schleyer, Paul von Ragué: Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry, University of Georgia

Schmidt, Eric: Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Google Inc.

Schroeder, Steven A.: Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, University of California, San Francisco

Schwartz, Anna J.: Researcher and Economist, National Bureau of Economic Research

Schwarz, John Henry: Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology

Shanley, John Patrick: Playwright, New York , New York

Shapiro, Judith R.: President, Barnard College

Shattuck, John: Chief Executive Officer, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

Shaw, David E.: Founder, D.E. Shaw Group

Sherwin, Martin Jay: Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History, Tufts University

Shuger, Debora Kuller: Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Sidanius, James H.: Professor of Psychology and African-American Studies, Harvard University

Sieburth, Richard: Professor of French and Comparative Literature, New York University

Sieg, Wilfried: Professor of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University

Silk, Joseph I.: Savilian Professor of Astronomy and Head of Astrophysics, University of Oxford

Silver, Paul G.: Senior Scientist, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Smith, Linda B.: Chancellor's Professor and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University

Snyder, Jr., James M.: Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spinrad, Robert J.: Vice President, Technology Strategy (Retired), Xerox Corporation

Spudich, John Lee: Professor and Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry, University of Texas Houston Medical School

Stamas, Stephen: Chairman, American Assembly

Stern, Robert A.M.: Professor and Dean, Yale University School of Architecture

Stewart, Donald Mitchell: Visiting Professor, University of Chicago

Stroud, Robert M.: Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics; Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco

Sullivan, John L.: Regents Professor, Arleen C. Carlson Chair in American Government, University of Minnesota

Taylor, Michael E.: William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Thorner, Jeremy W.: Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology; William V. Power Chair in Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Thornton, John L.: Professor and Director, Global Leadership, Beijing 

Tsien, Billie: Architect, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLP

Valentine, Joan Selverstone: Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

Wallach, Kenneth L.: Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Central National-Gottesman, Inc.

Waterbury, John: President and Professor of Political Studies, American University of Beirut

Waters, Alice: Founder and Director, Chez Panisse Foundation; Chef and Owner, Chez Panisse

Weber, David J.: Robert and Nancy Dedman Professor of History, Southern Methodist University

Weidenbaum, Murray Leo: Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

Weir, Margaret: Professor of Sociology and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Wessler, Susan R.: Regents Professor of Botany and Genetics, University of Georgia

Western, Bruce: Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

Williams, David R.: Harold R. Cruse Professor of Sociology and Director of the South Africa Initiatives Office, University of Michigan

Williams, Michael J.: Krieger-Eisenhower Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University

Williams, Tod: Architect, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLP

Wilson, Mark L.: Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh

Winstein, Bruce Darrell: Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, University of Chicago

Wood, James: Senior Editor, The New Republic

Wright, Edward L.: Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles

Wu Hung: Harriet A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese Art History and Director, Center for Art of East Asia, University of Chicago

Wyrtki, Klaus: Professor Emeritus of Oceanography, University of Hawaii

Yuan, Junying: Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

Zelizer, Viviana: Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

Zimmer, Robert Jeffrey: President, University of Chicago

Foreign Honorary Members
Titles and Affiliations at Time of Election:

Abella, Rosalie Silberman: Judge, Supreme Court of Canada

Banville, John: Novelist, Dublin , Ireland

Brunschwig, Jacques: Emeritus Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy, Université de Paris

Dobson, Christopher M.: John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology, University of Cambridge

Esping-Andersen, Gøsta: Full Professor of Sociology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Fehr, Ernst: Professor and Director of the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, Universität Zürich

Hershko, Avram: Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Johnson, Louise N.: David Phillips Professor in Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford

Koolhaas, Rem: Principal, Office for Metropolitan Architecture; Professor, Harvard University

Ludwig, Donald: Emeritus Professor, University of British Columbia

Oren, Moshe: Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science

Oz, Amos: University Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Petrides, Michael: Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University

Ratcliffe, Peter J.: Nuffield Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford

Schiavone, Aldo: Director and Professor, Instituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Universita degli Studi di Firenze

Shigesada, Nanako: Professor, Doshisha University

Sperber, Dan: Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Tagliapietra, Lino: Visual Artist, Murano, Italy

Todorov, Tzvetan: Director of Research, Philosopher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Tugendhat, Ernst: Honorarprofessor, Universität Tübingen

Twining, William Lawrence: Emeritus Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London

Uchida, Mitsuko: Pianist, London, United Kingdom

Vickers, Brian William: Emeritus Professor of Literature and Director of the Centre for Renaissance Studies, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

Williamson, Timothy: Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford

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