American
Academy of Arts & Sciences 2008 Class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members in Alphabetical Order
Fellows' Titles and Affiliations at Time of Election:
Alder,
Berni Julian, Scientist, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory
Alsop,
Marin,
Music Director, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra;
Principal Conductor, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Anderson,
Elizabeth S., John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of
Michigan
Athey,
Susan C., Professor of Economics, Harvard
University
Austin,
Robert
Hamilton, Professor of Physics,
Princeton University
Baird,
Barbara
A., Horace White Professor of
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
Bajcsy,
Ruzena,
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, University of California, Berkeley
Baker,
James
A., Partner, Baker Botts LLP
Banaji,
Mahzarin,
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study; Richard Clark Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard
University
Banerjee,
Utpal,
Department
Chair and Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology; Professor of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los
Angeles; Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Bažant, Zdenek P., McCormick School Professor and
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Engineering and Materials Science, Northwestern
University
Bearman,
Peter
Shawn, Jonathan Cole Professor of the
Social Sciences; Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research and
Policy; Director, Paul F. Lazarsfield Center for Social Sciences, Columbia
University
Beckerle,
Mary
Catherine, Ralph E. and Willia T. Main
Presidential Endowed Chair in Cancer Research; Executive Director, Huntsman
Cancer Institute; Professor, Department of Biology, University of Utah
Beilinson,
Alexander A., David and Mary Winton Green University Professor, University of Chicago
Beitz,
Charles
R., Edwards S. Sanford Professor of
Politics, Princeton University
Bell,
Graeme
I., Louis Block Professor of
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Chicago
Belnap,
Nuel
D., Alan Ross Anderson Distinguished
Professor of Philosophy; Professor of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh
Bochner,
Mel,
Artist, New York, New York; Adjunct Professor, Yale
University
Browne,
Janet,
Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard
University
Bruns,
Gerald
L., William P. and Hazel B. White
Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
Buchloh,
Benjamin,
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art, Harvard
University
Buck,
Linda
Brown, Member and Associate Director
of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Investigator, Howard
Hughes Medical Institute
Buell,
Lawrence,
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature,
Harvard University
Byers,
Brook,
Senior Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Carter,
Emily
Ann, Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Professor of Applied and Computational
Mathematics, Princeton University
Chambers,
L.
Ross, Marvin Felheim Distinguished
University Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, University
of Michigan
Chang,
Sun-Yung
Alice, Professor of Mathematics,
Princeton University
Coen,
Ethan,
Filmmaker, New York, New York
Coen,
Joel,
Filmmaker, New York, New York
Cohen,
Fred
E., Professor of Cellular and
Molecular Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Medicine, and Biochemistry,
University of California, San Francisco
Colding,
Tobias,
Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Cordell,
Linda
S., Professor Emeritus of
Anthropology, University of Colorado
Córdova,
France
A., President, Purdue University
Cott,
Nancy
F., Carl and Lily Pforzheimer
Director, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Jonathan
Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University
Crane,
Peter
Robert, John and Marion Sullivan
University Professor, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
Cummins,
Christopher C., Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dachs,
Lauren
Bechtel, President, S.D. Bechtel, Jr.
Foundation
de
Waal,
Frans
B.M., Director, Living Links Center;
C.H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, Emory University
Debenedetti,
Pablo
Gaston, Class of 1950 Professor in
Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University
Dekel-Tabak,
Eddie,
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University; Aaron Rubinstein Chair in Economics, Tel Aviv
University
Dell,
Michael
Saul, Founder, Chairman, and Chief
Executive Officer, Dell Inc.
Dickinson,
Michael
Hughes, Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem
Professor of Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
Diller,
Elizabeth,
Partner, Diller, Scofidio and Renfro; Professor,
Architectural Design, Princeton University
Donoghue,
Michael
John, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Director, Peabody Museum of Natural
History, Yale University
Doupe,
Allison
Jane, Professor of Psychiatry and
Physiology, University of California, San Francisco
Drinfeld,
Vladimir,
Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor,
University of Chicago
Duranti,
Alessandro,
Professor of Anthropology, University of California,
Los Angeles
Dwork,
Cynthia,
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Fleming,
John
V., Professor of English, Emeritus,
Princeton University
Foley,
Helene
Peet, Professor of Classics, Barnard
College
Forman,
Milos,
Film Director, New York, New York
Foster,
Richard
Norman, Managing Partner, Millbrook
Management Group
Friesner,
Richard
A., Professor of Chemistry, Columbia
University
Gebbie,
Katharine Blodgett, Director, Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gehrels,
Neil,
Chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory,
Goddard Space Flight Center
Gelman,
Susan
A., Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor
of Psychology, University of Michigan
Geschke,
Charles
M., Chairman of the Board, Adobe
Systems, Inc.
Geyer,
Michael
E., Samuel N. Harper Professor of
German and European History, University of Chicago
Gilbert,
Daniel
Todd, Harvard College Professor,
Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Goldstein,
Lawrence
Steven, Professor of Cellular and
Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine:
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Gordon,
Roger
H., Professor of Economics, University
of California, San Diego
Gottlieb,
David,
Ford Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Brown University
Granovetter,
Mark,
Joan Butler Ford Professor of Sociology, Stanford
University
Groopman,
Jerome,
Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School; Chief of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center; Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Grossman,
Alan
D., Praecis Professor of Biology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grove,
Timothy
L., Professor of Geology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gruber,
Jonathan,
Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Gubins,
Samuel,
President, Editor-in-Chief, Annual Reviews
Guckenheimer,
John,
Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University
Hammons,
David,
Artist, New York, New York
Hanawalt,
Philip
C., Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins
University Professor of Biology, Stanford University
Hedges,
Larry
V., Board of Trustees Professor of
Statistics and Social Policy; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research,
Northwestern University
Herman,
Richard
H., Chancellor; Professor of
Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hobbie,
John
Eyres, Distinguished Scientist and
Senior Research Scholar, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
Horowitz,
Mark
A., Yahoo! Founders Professor of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University
Hynes,
James
Thomas, Professor of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, University of Colorado
Immelt,
Jeffrey
R., Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer, General Electric Company
Jackson,
John
E., M. Kent Jennings Collegiate
Professor in Political Science; Professor, School of Business Administration,
University of Michigan
Jain,
Jainendra Kumar, Erwin W. Mueller Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
Jain,
Rakesh
K., Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology, Harvard Medical School; Director, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jensen,
Klavs
Flemming, Department Head and Lammot
du Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering; Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jones,
Edward
P., Novelist, Short Story Writer,
Washington, District of Columbia
Kalyvas,
Stathis
N., Arnold Wolfers Professor of
Political Science; Director, Program on Order, Conflict and Violence;
Co-Director, Hellenic Studies Program, Yale University
Karten,
Harvey
Jules, Distinguished Professor of
Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego
Kasting,
James
Fraser, Distinguished Professor;
Professor of Geosciences and Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University
Kastner,
Marc
Aaron, Donner Professor of Science;
Dean, School of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kazhdan,
David,
Professor of Mathematics, Hebrew University;
Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Kelman,
Mark
Gregory, James C. Gaither Professor of
Law; Vice Dean, Stanford Law School
Kenny,
David
A., Professor of Psychology,
University of Connecticut
Kim,
Peter
S., President, Merck Research
Laboratories
King,
B.
B., Musician, Memphis, Tennessee
Kirkpatrick,
Mark,
T.S. Painter Centennial Professor in Genetics,
University of Texas at Austin
Kolodner,
Richard,
Executive Director, Ludwig Institute for Cancer
Research; Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Professor of Medicine
and Moores Cancer Center Member, University of California, San Diego
Krumhansl,
Carol
L., Professor of Psychology, Cornell
University
Kuriyan,
John,
Chancellor's Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
and Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley; Investigator, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute
Landes,
William
M., Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law
and Economics, University of Chicago Law School
Lay,
Thorne,
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Lazar,
Mitchell
Avery, Sylvan Eisman Professor of
Medicine and Genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Lepage,
G.
Peter, Professor of Physics; Harold
Tanner Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University
Leslie,
Alan
Miller, Professor of Psychology and
Cognitive Science, Rutgers University
Lester,
Marsha
I., Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn
Professor in the Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Levinson,
Arthur
D., Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, Genentech, Inc.
Levy,
Thomas
Evan, Professor of Anthropology,
Professor of Judaic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Lewis,
Earl,
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic
Affairs; Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies,
Emory University
Lieberman,
Judith,
Professor of Pediatrics; Senior Investigator, CBR
Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School
Lindenberger,
Herbert
Samuel, Avalon Foundation Professor of
Humanities Emeritus, Stanford University
Lipman,
David
J., Director, National Center for
Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of
Health
Lisberger,
Stephen
G., Professor of Physiology,
University of California, San Francisco; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute
Lodge,
Milton,
Distinguished University Professor, State University
of New York at Stony Brook
Loewenstein,
George,
Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and
Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Lubensky,
Tom
C., Mary Amanda Wood Professor of
Physics, University of Pennsylvania
Mayne,
Thom,
Principal, Morphosis; Professor of Architecture,
University of California, Los Angeles
Mello,
Craig
Cameron, Professor of Molecular
Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Investigator, Howard
Hughes Medical Institute
Miller,
William
I., Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, Irwin Financial Corporation
Mitchison,
Timothy
J., Hasib Sabbagh Professor of Systems
Biology, Harvard Medical School
Moore,
Jeffrey
Scott, William H. and Janet G. Lycan
Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Most,
Glenn
W., Professore Ordinario di Filologia
Greca, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; Professor, Committee on Social
Thought, University of Chicago
Mutz,
Diana
Carole, Samuel A. Stouffer Professor
of Political Science and Communication; Director, Institute for the Study of
Citizens and Politics, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of
Pennsylvania
Necipoglu,
Gülru,
Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art; Director, Aga
Khan Program, Harvard University
Nooyi,
Indra,
Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, Inc.
Normore,
Calvin,
Professor of Philosophy, University of California,
Los Angeles
Oddone,
Piermaria J., Laboratory Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Oden,
John
Tinsley, Associate Vice President for
Research; Director, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences;
Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics; Professor of
Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
O'Donnell,
Peter,
President, O'Donnell Foundation
Orsi,
Robert,
Professor of Religion; Grace Craddock Nagle
Professor of Catholic Studies, Northwestern University
Palfrey,
Thomas
R., Flintridge Foundation Professor of
Economics and Political Science, California Institute of Technology
Pérez,
Jr.,
Louis
A., J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of
History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Perrimon,
Norbert,
Associate Member, Broad Institute; Professor,
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute
Pildes,
Richard
H., Sudler Family Professor of
Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law
Plummer,
James
D., John M. Fluke Professor of
Electrical Engineering, Frederick Emmons Terman Dean, School of Engineering,
Stanford University
Porter,
Theodore
M., Professor of History; Vice Chair
for Undergraduate Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles
Powell,
James
L., Professor of Economics, University
of California, Berkeley
Ptácek,
Louis
J., Professor of Neurology, Director
of the Division of Neurogenetics, University of California, San Francisco
School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Queller,
David
C., Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University
Quint,
David
Louis, Sterling Professor of English
and Comparative Literature, Yale University
Rabaté,
Jean-Michel,
Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
University of Pennsylvania
Radin,
Margaret
Jane, Professor of Law, University of
Michigan Law School
Rall,
Wilfrid,
Scientist Emeritus, National Institutes of Health
Rapaport,
Samuel
I., Professor of Medicine, Emeritus,
University of California, San Diego
Rashid,
Richard
F., Senior Vice President of Research,
Microsoft Research
Ravetch,
Jeffrey
Victor, Theresa and Eugene M. Lang
Professor; Head, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology, Rockefeller
University
Ray,
Charles,
Sculptor; Professor of Sculpture, University of
California, Los Angeles
Rescorla,
Robert
A., Christopher H. Browne
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Richards,
Paul
G., Mellon Professor of Natural
Sciences, Columbia University
Riess,
Adam
G., Astronomer, Space Telescope
Science Institute; Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Johns Hopkins University
Rine,
Jasper,
Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development;
Director, Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley;
Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Robertson,
Anne
Walters, Clare Dux Swift Distinguished
Service Professor of Music, University of Chicago
Rodgers,
Daniel,
Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton
University
Ryan,
Patrick
G., Founder and Executive Chairman,
Aon Corporation
Sagan,
Paul,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Akamai
Technologies
Sagan,
Scott
D., Professor of Political Science,
Co-director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford
University
Sanchez,
Pedro
A., Senior Research Scholar,
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction; Co-Chair, Hunger Task
Force, Millennium Project; Director of Tropical Agriculture, The Earth
Institute, Columbia University
Sandwell,
David
T., Professor of Geophysics, Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Schwartz,
Lynne
Sharon, Novelist, New York, New York;
Core Faculty, Fiction, Bennington College
Scott,
Joan
Wallach, Harold F. Linder Professor;
Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study
Scully,
Marlan
O., Hershel Burgess Distinguished
Professor; Director, Center for Theoretical Physics, Texas A&M University
Siegel,
Reva
Beth, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Silverman,
Debora
Leah, Professor of History and Art
History, University of California, Los Angeles
Simons,
James
Harris, President and Founder,
Renaissance Technologies
Simonyi,
Charles,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Intentional
Software Corporation
Slezkine,
Yuri,
Professor of Russian History, University of
California, Berkeley
Smith,
Henry
I., Professor of Electrical
Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Smith,
Raymond
W., Chairman, Executive Committee,
Arlington Capital Partners
Stein,
Jeremy
C., Moise Safra Professor of
Economics, Harvard University
Stevens,
John
Paul, Associate Justice, Supreme Court
of the United States
Steyer,
Thomas
F., Founder and Senior Managing
Member, Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C.
Stillman,
Bruce
William, President, Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory
Stokes,
Susan
Carol, John S. Saden Professor of
Political Science; Director, Yale Program on Democracy, Yale University
Stout,
Jeffrey
Lee, Professor of Religion, Princeton
University
Strassmann,
Joan
E., Department Chair of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology; Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor in Natural Sciences,
Rice University
Struhl,
Kevin,
David Wesley Gaiser Professor of Biological
Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
Stuntz,
William
J., Henry J. Friendly Professor of
Law, Harvard Law School
Swensen,
David
Frederick, Chief Investment Officer,
Yale University
Trachtenberg,
Alan,
Neil Gray, Jr. Professor of English and American
Studies, Emeritus, Yale University
Tuttle,
Richard,
Artist, New York, New York
Upshaw,
Dawn,
Soprano, New York, New York
Urry,
C.
Megan, Israel Munson Professor of
Physics and Astronomy; Chair, Department of Physics; Director, Yale Center for
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Yale University
Vaupel,
James
W., Duke Research Professor, Duke
University; Professor and Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research
Wade,
Michael
J., Distinguished Professor of
Biology, Indiana University
Warnock,
John
E., Chairman of the Board, Adobe
Systems, Inc.
Warren,
Elizabeth,
Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Whinston,
Michael
D., Robert E. and Emily H. King
Professor of Business Institutions, Northwestern University
Whitman,
Margaret
C., Former President and Chief Executive Officer, eBay
Inc.
Willard,
Huntington Faxon, Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences; Director, Institute for Genome Sciences
and Policy, Duke University School of Medicine; Professor, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute
Wolfson,
Elliot
R., Abraham Lieberman Professor of
Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
Wuthnow,
Robert,
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Sociology;
Director, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University
Wyner,
Yehudi,
Walter W. Naumburg Professor Emeritus of
Composition, Brandeis University
Xie,
Xiaoliang Sunney, Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University
Zeder,
Melinda
A., Curator of Old World Archaeology
and Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
Zon,
Leonard
Ira, Director, Stem Cell Research
Program, Children's Hospital, Boston; Grousbeck Professor in Hematology and
Oncology, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Foreign Honorary Members' Titles and Affiliations at Time of Election:
Almodóvar,
Pedro,
Film Director, Screenwriter and Producer, Madrid,
Spain
Armstrong,
David
Malet, Emeritus Professor, University
of Sydney, Australia
Blackburn,
Simon,
Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Castañeda,
Jorge
G., Global Distinguished Professor of
Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University;
Professor of Political Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
Chaskalson,
Arthur,
Former Chief Justice, Constitutional Court of South
Africa
Ciechanover,
Aaron
Judah, Distinguished Research
Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Dirks,
John
Herbert, President, The Gairdner
Foundation; Professor of Medicine Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada
Durand,
Jorge,
Professor and Senior Research Investigator,
Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
Frenkel,
Daan,
Professor of Computational Macromolecular Chemistry,
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Latour,
Bruno,
Professor; Vice-President for Research, Institut
d'Etudes Politiques, France
Lawton,
John
H., Chairman, Royal Commission on
Environmental Pollution, United Kingdom
Logothetis,
Nikos
K., Director, Max Planck Institute for
Biological Cybernetics, Germany
Muti,
Riccardo,
Conductor, Milan, Italy; Artistic Director, Salzburg
Pentecost Festival, Austria
Nakamura,
Eiichi,
Professor of Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Japan
Pamuk,
Orhan,
Novelist, Professor of Comparative Literature,
Columbia University
Polke,
Sigmar,
Painter and Photographer, Cologne, Germany
Sarukhán
Kermez,
José,
Professor of Ecology, Instituto de Ecologia,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
Sompolinsky,
Haim,
Professor of Physics, Hebrew University, Israel
van
Dishoeck,
Ewine
Fleur, Professor of Molecular
Astrophysics, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Vasella,
Daniel,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Novartis
International AG, Switzerland
Watt,
Fiona
Mary, Deputy Director Cancer Research,
UK Cambridge Research Institute; Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre
for Stem Cell Research; Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics,
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Weinrib,
Ernest,
Cecil A. Wright Chair, Faculty of Law, University of
Toronto, Canada
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