Summer 2021 Bulletin

Noteworthy

Select Prizes and Awards to Members
 

Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

James G. Anderson (Harvard University) is the recipient of the 2021 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences.

Anna Katherine Behrensmeyer (Smithsonian Institution) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Stephen Benkovic (Pennsylvania State University) was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.

David W. Blight (Yale University) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Philip Chase Bobbitt (Columbia Law School; University of Texas at Austin School of Law) was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE).

Lawrence D. Bobo (Harvard University) received the 2020 AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement from the American Association for Public Opinion Research. He also received the 2021 Warren Mitofsky Award from The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Jeff Cheeger (New York University) was awarded the 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. He shares the award with Jean-Michel Bismut (Université Paris Sud).

Mark Dean (University of Tennessee) was inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.

Philip J. Deloria (Harvard University) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Scott D. Emr (Cornell University) was awarded the 2021 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine.

Louise Erdrich (Minneapolis, Minnesota) won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the Aspen Words Literary Prize for her novel The Night Watchman.

Joseph S. Francisco (University of Pennsylvania) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Kenneth Frazier (Merck) was named 2021 Chief Executive of the Year by Chief Executive magazine.

Huajian Gao (Nanyang Technological University) is the recipient of the 2021 ASME Timoshenko Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

H. Charles Godfray (University of Oxford) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Jeffrey I. Gordon (Washington University in St. Louis) received the 2021 Kober Medal from the Association of American Physicians.

Joy Harjo (Tulsa, Oklahoma) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Kristen Hawkes (University of Utah) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Gerald Holton (Harvard University) received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Barbara V. Jacak (University of California, Berkeley) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Carl June (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine) received the Sanford Lorraine Cross Award.

Victoria Kaspi (McGill University) was awarded the 2021 Shaw Prize in Astronomy. She shares the award with Chryssa Kouveliotou (George Washington University).

Marc Kirschner (Harvard Medical School) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Chryssa Kouveliotou (George Washington University) was awarded the 2021 Shaw Prize in Astronomy. She shares the award with Victoria Kaspi (McGill University).

Tania León (Brooklyn College, City University of New York) won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her orchestral work Stride.

Trudy F.C. Mackay (Clemson University) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Margaret H. Marshall (Choate, Hall & Stewart; formerly, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court) was awarded the 2021 Susan and Carl Bolch Jr. Prize for the Rule of Law by the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School.

Margaret Martonosi (Prince­ton University) is the recipient of the 2021 Eckert-Mauchly Award.

James McBride (New York University) was awarded the inaugural Gotham Book Prize.

Robert C. Merton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is the recipient of MIT’s 2021–2022 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award.

David Miliband (International Rescue Committee) received the 2021 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award, given by the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

Mary Miller (Getty Research Institute) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Rafael Moneo (Harvard University) is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

Daniel G. Nocera (Harvard University) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Indra Nooyi (PreeTara; formerly, PepsiCo) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Claire L. Parkinson (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) was awarded the 2020 Roger Revelle Medal by the American Geophysical Union.

Carl Phillips (Washington University in St. Louis) is the recipient of the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize, awarded by Poets & Writers.

Richard J. Powell (Duke University) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Gene E. Robinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Ares Rosakis (California Institute of Technology) was awarded the Horace Mann Medal by Brown University.

Helmut Schwarz (Technische Universität Berlin) received the 2021 Leonardo da Vinci Award from the European Academy of Sciences.

Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University) was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.

Susan C. Stokes (University of Chicago) was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.

Billie Lee Turner II (Arizona State University) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Neil deGrasse Tyson (American Museum of Natural History) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Moshe Vardi (Rice University) received the 2021 Donald E. Knuth Prize, awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Darren Walker (Ford Foundation) was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Christopher A. Walsh (Harvard Medical School; Boston Children’s Hospital) was awarded the 2021 Gruber Neuroscience Prize. He shares the prize with Christine Petit (Institut Pasteur; Collège de France).

Karen L. Wooley (Texas A&M University) received the 2021 SEC Faculty Achievement Award and was named the 2021 SEC Professor of the Year.


New Appointments
 

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas (Harvard Medical School) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Braintale.

Lord Browne of Madingley (L1 Energy) was named Senior Advisor to General Atlantic.

France A. Córdova (National Science Foundation) was named President of the Science Philanthropy Alliance.

Elazer Edelman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Xenter, Inc.

Sheldon Lee Glashow (Boston University) was named Editor-in-Chief of Inference: International Review of Science.

Susan Hockfield (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was elected to the Board of Directors of Repertoire Immune Medicines.

Rakesh Jain (Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of Elpis Biopharmaceuticals.

Amaney Jamal (Princeton University) was named Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

Paula A. Johnson (Wellesley College) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Abiomed.

William Kaelin (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of IconOVir Bio.

Marie-Josée Kravis (New York, New York) was named Chair of the Board of the Museum of Modern Art.

Robert S. Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Xenter, Inc.

Ann Lee (Bristol Myers Squibb) was appointed to the Board of Directors of Coya Therapeutics, Inc.

Frank McCormick (University of California, San Francisco) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of IconOVir Bio.

Geraldine Richmond (University of Oregon) was nominated as Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy.

Brenda Schulman (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry; St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of BioTheryX.

Kevan M. Shokat (University of California, San Francisco) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of BioTheryX.

Lawrence W. Sonsini (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati) was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Marta Tienda (Princeton University) was named President of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Pauline Yu (American Council of Learned Societies) was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study.

Peter Walter (University of California, San Francisco) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of BioTheryX.

Owen Witte (University of California, Los Angeles) was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of IconOVir Bio.
 

Members appointed to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States
 

Jack M. Balkin (Yale Law School)

Walter Dellinger (Duke Law School; O’Melveny & Myers)

Richard H. Fallon, Jr. (Harvard Law School)

Heather Gerken (Yale Law School)

Nancy Gertner (Harvard Law School)

Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law School)

Sherrilyn Ifill (NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund)

David F. Levi (Duke Law School)

Trevor W. Morrison (New York University School of Law)

Richard H. Pildes (New York University School of Law)

Cristina M. Rodríguez, Cochair (Yale Law School)

David A. Strauss (University of Chicago Law School)

Laurence H. Tribe (Harvard Law School)

Keith E. Whittington (Prince­ton University)


Select Publications
 

Fiction
 

Jonathan Franzen (Santa Cruz, California). Crossroads: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2021

Ha Jin (Boston University). A Song Everlasting: A Novel. Pantheon, July 2021

Elizabeth Warren (United States Senate). Pinkie Promises. Henry Holt and Co., October 2021

Joy Williams (Tucson, Arizona; Laramie, Wyoming). Harrow: A Novel. Knopf, September 2021
 

Nonfiction
 

Danielle Allen (Harvard University). Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus. University of Chicago Press, September 2021

Carol Anderson (Emory University). The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. Bloomsbury Publishing, June 2021

Robert D. Ballard (Ocean Exploration Trust) and Christopher Drew (Louisiana State University). Into the Deep: A Memoir from the Man Who Founded Titanic. National Geographic, May 2021

Ursula Burns (Teneo; formerly, Xerox Corporation). Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir. Amistad, June 2021

Erwin Chemerinsky (University of California, Berkeley School of Law). Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights. Liveright, August 2021

Nancy F. Cott (Harvard University), Margot Canaday (Princeton University), and Robert O. Self (Brown University), eds. Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern U.S. History. University of Chicago Press, August 2021

Gregg Easterbrook (Bethesda, Maryland). The Blue Age: How the U.S. Navy Created Global Prosperity–And Why We’re in Danger of Losing It. PublicAffairs Books, September 2021

Sandra M. Gilbert (University of California, Davis) and Susan Gubar (Indiana University). Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination. W.W. Norton, August 2021

Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University). On Juneteenth. Liveright, May 2021

Bernd Heinrich (University of Vermont). Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime. Ecco, July 2021

Anita Hill (Brandeis University). Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence. Viking Press, September 2021

Charles Larmore (Brown University). Morality and Metaphysics. Cambridge University Press, June 2021

Françoise Meltzer (University of Chicago). Dark Lens: Imaging Germany, 1945. University of Chicago Press, September 2021

Louis Menand (Harvard University; The New Yorker). The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2021

David Nirenberg (University of Chicago) and Ricardo L. Nirenberg (State University of New York at Albany). Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present. University of Chicago Press, September 2021

Indra Nooyi (PreeTara; formerly, PepsiCo). My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future. Portfolio, September 2021

Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University). Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics. University of Chicago Press, September 2021

Robert C. Pozen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Alexandra Samuel (Social Signal). Remote, Inc.: How to Thrive at Work . . . Wherever You Are. Harper Business, April 2021

Ronald Schuchard (Emory University), general editor. The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, April 2021

Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University). Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora. University of Chicago Press, December 2021

Paul M. Sniderman (Stanford University) and Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (University of Bergen, Norway). The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos. University of Chicago Press, October 2021

Keith Wailoo (Princeton University). Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette. University of Chicago Press, October 2021
 

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.

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