Select Prizes and Awards to Members
Members Elected to the American Philosophical Society
Carol Anderson (Emory University)
Rosina M. Bierbaum (University of Michigan)
Emery N. Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard University)
Johanna Drucker (University of California, Los Angeles)
John Dupré (University of Exeter)
Jennifer L. Eberhardt (Stanford University)
Kathryn Edin (Princeton University)
Naomi Ellemers (Utrecht University)
Louise Erdrich (novelist)
James Forman, Jr. (Yale Law School)
Lene Vestergaard Hau (Harvard University)
Kellie Jones (Columbia University)
Catharine A. MacKinnon (University of Michigan Law School)
John C. Mather (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Curtis T. McMullen (Harvard University)
Paul A. Offit (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania)
N. Geoffrey Parker (The Ohio State University)
Ardem Patapoutian (Scripps Research Institute)
Marilyn Raphael (University of California, Los Angeles)
Dorothy E. Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)
Barbara Anna Schaal (Washington University in St. Louis)
Susan Stewart (Princeton University)
David R. Walt (Harvard University)
Bruce Western (Columbia University)
Other Prizes and Awards to Members
Rolena Adorno (Yale University) was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Rome. Professor Adorno also delivered the Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America.
Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan) received the 2023 Sage-CASBS Award.
Jean Bennett (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine) is among the recipients of the Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research, given by the Helen Keller Foundation.
David Bloom (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) is the recipient of the 2023 Irene B. Taeuber Award, given by the Population Association of America.
Dana Carroll (University of Utah School of Medicine) is the 2023 recipient of the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, given by the University of Utah.
Caroline Dean (John Innes Centre) was awarded the 2023 Mendel Medal by the Genetics Society.
Vladimir Drinfeld (University of Chicago) was awarded the 2023 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. Professor Drinfeld shares the award with Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University; Tsinghua University).
Nader Engheta (University of Pennsylvania) received a 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech.
Martha Finnemore (George Washington University) was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.
Wendy Freedman (University of Chicago) was elected to the Royal Society of the United Kingdom.
Gretchen H. Gerzina (University of Massachusetts Amherst) was awarded a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship for 2023–2024. Professor Gerzina was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2023 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship Award by the University of Massachusetts.
Rhiannon Giddens (composer, musician, singer) and composer Michael Abels won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Music for their opera Omar.
Herbert Gleiter (Institute of Nanotechnology) was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lanzhou. Professor Gleiter was also elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Liaoning Academy of Materials.
Oliver Hart (Harvard University) was made a Knight Bachelor in King Charles’s Birthday Honors list for 2023.
Larry V. Hedges (Northwestern University) received the World Cultural Council 2023 José Vasconcelos World Award of Education.
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Citrona Farms) received the 2023 Bowlby-Ainsworth Award from the Center for Mental Health Promotion and the New York Attachment Consortium.
Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University) was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom.
Akiko Iwasaki (Yale School of Medicine) is the 2023 recipient of the Connecticut Medal of Science.
Paula A. Johnson (Wellesley College) received a 2023 Harvard Medal, given by the Harvard Alumni Association.
Jamaica Kincaid (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2024 St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Libraries.
Hanna Kokko (University of Mainz) was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship.
Lewis L. Lanier (University of California, San Francisco) was inducted into Virginia Tech’s College of Science Hall of Distinction.
Yiyun Li (Princeton University) received the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities from Princeton University.
Avi Loeb (Harvard University) was awarded the 2023 Cosmos Prize for his book Extraterrestrial.
Elizabeth McNally (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) is the recipient of the 2023 Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence from Northwestern University.
Martha Minow (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2023 Freedom of the Press Career Achievement Award.
Helen Mirren (actor) is the recipient of the 37th American Cinematheque Award.
Alondra Nelson (Institute for Advanced Study) received the 2023 Sage-CASBS Award.
Eva Nogales (University of California, Berkeley) was awarded the 2023 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. Dr. Nogales shares the prize with Patrick Cramer (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences).
Jean Porter (University of Notre Dame) is the inaugural recipient of the University of Notre Dame’s College of Arts & Letters Graduate Student Mentorship Award.
Anna Marie Prentiss (University of Montana) received the 2023 Robert T. Pantzer Humanitarian Award from the University of Montana.
Roberta Cooper Ramo (Modrall Sperling) received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Law Institute.
Faith Ringgold (University of California, San Diego) was awarded the Gold Medal for Painting by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Salman Rushdie (novelist) is the recipient of the British Book Award for Freedom to Publish.
Frederick Schauer (University of Virginia) won the 2023 Scribes Book Award for The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else.
Michael Smith (Princeton University) received the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities from Princeton University.
Moshe Vardi (Rice University) was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom.
Helen Hennessy Vendler (Harvard University) was awarded the Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Abraham Verghese (Stanford University) was awarded the 2023 Writer in the World Prize from the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference.
Elke Weber (Princeton University) received the 2023 Patrick Suppes Prize in Psychology from the American Philosophical Society.
Jonathan F. Wendel (Iowa State University) was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University; Tsinghua University) was awarded the 2023 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. Professor Yau shares the award with Vladimir Drinfeld (University of Chicago).
Viviana Zelizer (Princeton University) received the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association.
Xiaowei Zhuang (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2023 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences.
New Appointments
T. Alexander Aleinikoff (The New School) was appointed Dean of The New School for Social Research.
Abdullah Antepli (Duke University) was named Associate Vice President/Associate Vice Provost for Community-Engaged Research and Teaching at Duke University.
Allan Basbaum (University of California, San Francisco) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Rapport Therapeutics, Inc.
Joanne Berger-Sweeney (Trinity College) was appointed Chair of the Hartford HealthCare Board of Directors.
David Clapham (Harvard Medical School) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Rapport Therapeutics, Inc.
Jennifer H. Elisseeff (Johns Hopkins University) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Cartesian Therapeutics.
Bernard A. Harris, Jr. (National Math and Science Initiative) was appointed to the Business Advisory Board of Predictive Oncology Inc.
Hopi Hoekstra (Harvard University) was appointed Dean of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Charles Lee Isbell Jr. (Georgia Institute of Technology) was named Provost of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
David Julius (University of California, San Francisco) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Rapport Therapeutics, Inc.
Lewis Lanier (University of California, San Francisco) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Mendus AB.
David MacMillan (Princeton University) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Rapport Therapeutics, Inc.
Susan Marqusee (University of California, Berkeley) was selected to lead the Directorate for Biological Sciences of the National Science Foundation.
Susan Quaggin (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) was named Chair of Medicine of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Andrew Read (Pennsylvania State University) was named Interim Senior Vice President for Research at Pennsylvania State University.
Paul B. Rothman (Johns Hopkins University) was appointed to the USC Health System Board.
Sean Solomon (Columbia University) was elected to the Board of Trustees of Universities Space Research Association.
Patty Stonesifer (Martha’s Table) was named interim CEO of The Washington Post.
Select Publications
Poetry
Jorie Graham (Harvard University). To 2040. Copper Canyon Press, April 2023
Eileen Myles (poet). A “Working Life.” Grove Press, April 2023
Fiction
Ann Beattie (University of Virginia). Onlookers: Stories. Scribner, July 2023
Emma Donoghue (novelist). Learned by Heart. Little, Brown and Company, August 2023
James McBride (New York University). The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel. Riverhead Books, August 2023
Lorrie Moore (Vanderbilt University). I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home. Knopf, June 2023
Ann Patchett (Parnassus Books). Tom Lake: A Novel. Harper, August 2023
Nonfiction
Catherine L. Albanese (University of California, Santa Barbara). The Delight Makers: Anglo-American Metaphysical Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness. University of Chicago Press, January 2023
Martin Baron (The Washington Post). Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post. Flatiron Books, October 2023
Tom Brokaw (NBC News). Never Give Up: A Prairie Family’s Story. Random House, June 2023
Jericho Brown (Emory University), ed. How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill. Amistad, July 2023
William H. Chafe (Duke University). Lifting the Chains: The Black Freedom Struggle Since Reconstruction. Oxford University Press, August 2023
Drew Gilpin Faust (Harvard University). Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2023
Kay Redfield Jamison (Johns Hopkins University). Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind. Knopf, May 2023
Evelyn Fox Keller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Making Sense of My Life in Science: A Memoir. Modern Memoirs, March 2023
Michèle Lamont (Harvard University). Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—And How It Can Heal a Divided World. Atria/One Signal Publishers, September 2023
Jackson Lears (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey). Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2023
Michael Lewis (author, columnist). Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. W.W. Norton & Company, October 2023
Avi Loeb (Harvard University). Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars. Mariner Books, August 2023
We invite all Fellows and International Honorary Members to send notices about their recent and forthcoming publications, new appointments, exhibitions and performances, films and documentaries, and honors and prizes to bulletin@amacad.org.