American Humanist Association
The American Humanist Association (AHA) is an American association for the advancement of humanism . The organization, based in Washington, DC, supports the concept of humanism of the International Humanistic and Ethical Union , of which the AHA is a founding member.
history
The AHA was founded in 1941 as the successor to the Humanist Press Association , which in turn goes back to the Humanist Fellowship . The symbol of the AHA is the happy human . The Amsterdam Declaration (2002) is supported by the AHA .
Humanist of the Year
The AHA awards the “Humanist of the Year” prize annually. Prize winners:
- 2018: Jennifer Ouellette
- 2017: Adam Savage
- 2016: Jared Diamond
- 2015: Lawrence M. Krauss
- 2014: Barney Frank
- 2013: Dan Savage
- 2012: Gloria Steinem
- 2011: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- 2010: Bill Nye
- 2009: Paul Zachary Myers
- 2008: Pete Stark
- 2007: Joyce Carol Oates
- 2006: Steven Pinker
- 2005: Murray Gell-Mann
- 2004: Daniel C. Dennett
- 2003: Sherwin T. Wine
- 2002: Steven Weinberg
- 2001: Stephen Jay Gould
- 2000: William F. "Bill" Schulz
- 1999: Edward O. Wilson
- 1998: Barbara Ehrenreich
- 1997: Alice Walker
- 1996: Richard Dawkins
- 1995: Ashley Montagu
- 1994: Lloyd Morain and Mary Morain
- 1993: Richard Douglas Lamm
- 1992: Kurt Vonnegut
- 1991: Lester R. Brown
- 1990: Ted Turner
- 1989: Gerald A. Larue
- 1988: Leo Pfeffer
- 1987: Margaret Atwood
- 1986: Faye Wattleton
- 1985: John Kenneth Galbraith
- 1984: Isaac Asimov
- 1983: Lester A. Kirkendall
- 1982: Helen Caldicott
- 1981: Carl Sagan
- 1980: Andrei Sakharov
- 1979: Edwin H. Wilson
- 1978: Margaret Eliza Kuhn
- 1977: Corliss Lamont
- 1976: Jonas E. Salk
- 1975: Betty Friedan and Henry Morgentaler
- 1974: Mary Calderone and Joseph Fletcher
- 1973: Thomas Szasz
- 1972: B. F. Skinner
- 1971: Albert Ellis
- 1970: Asa Philip Randolph
- 1969: Richard Buckminster Fuller
- 1968: Benjamin Spock
- 1967: Abraham H. Maslow
- 1966: Erich Fromm
- 1965: Hudson Hoagland
- 1964: Carl Rogers
- 1963: Hermann J. Muller
- 1962: Julian Huxley
- 1961: Linus Pauling
- 1960: Leó Szilárd
- 1959: Brock Chisholm
- 1958: Oscar Riddle
- 1957: Margaret Sanger
- 1956: C. Judson Herrick
- 1955: James P. Warbasse
- 1954: Arthur F. Bentley
Web links
Commons : American Humanist Association - Collection of Images
