American Academy of Arts & Sciences

On April 20, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its 2009 class of Fellows.  Almost a quarter of those so honored—47 of 212—were Guggenheim Fellows.

The Academy was established in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, and John Hancock, and other major figures of the time. Over the succeeding two centuries, its rolls grew to include George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, and more than 250 Nobel laureates and more than sixty Pulitzer Prize winners. According to Leslie Berlowitz, Chief Executive Officer and William T. Golden Chair, since its founding “the Academy has served the public good by convening leading thinkers and doers from diverse perspectives to provide practical policy solutions to the pressing issues of the day.”

Guggenheim Fellows Elected to Membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2009:

Andrew Abbott, Sociology, 2002

Eric E. Becklin, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1985
Trisha Brown, Choreography, 1975, 1984
Rogers Brubaker, Sociology, 1999

Mary Ann Caws, French Literature, 1972
Eric Charnov, Biology and Ecology, 1979
Stanley Crouch, General Nonfiction, 1982

Paul DiMaggio, Sociology, 1989

William Eggleston, Photography, 1974
Richard Eisenberg, Chemistry, 1977
Carl William Ernst, Translation, 2009

Eduardo Hector Fradkin, Physics, 1998

William Michael Gelbart, Chemistry, 1998
Edith Grossman, Translation, 2008

James E. Haber, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1999
Jeffrey Hamburger, Medieval History, 1977
Ann Hamilton, Painting, Sculpture, and Installation Art, 1989
Michael Heizer, Painting, Sculpture, and Installation Art, 1983
George Paul Hess, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1962
Douglas R. Hofstadter, Computer Science, 1980

Matthew O. Jackson, Economics, 2005
Gish Jen, Fiction, 1992

Alice Y. Kaplan, French Literature, 1994
Mehran Kardar, Physics, 2001
Jamaica Kincaid, Fiction, 1985
J. David Konstan, Classics, 1994

Barbara Landau, Psychology, 2009
T. J. Jackson Lears, U. S. History, 1984
Steven G. Louie, Physics, 1989

Thomas J. Mathiesen, Arts and Humanities, 2001
James M. McPherson, U. S. History, 1967

H. Allen Orr, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2000

Ross Posnock, American Literature, 1993
David Premack, Psychology, 1978

Nicholas Rescher, Philosophy, 1970
Robert Rosenthal, Psychology, 1973

Steven Shapin, History of Science and Technology, 1979
Neil H. Shubin, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1998
Dan I. Slobin, Psychology, 1984

Matthew Tirrell, Engineering, 1986
James William Truman, Biology and Ecology, 1986

Gunther Uhlmann, Mathematics, 2001

Robert von Hallberg, American Literature, 1987

Jennifer Widom, Computer Science, 2000
Ruth J. Williams, Statistics, 2001
Tobias Wolff, Fiction, 1982
Donald E. Worster, U. S. History, 1981

Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Literary Criticism, 1979