List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences / 2015

In 2015, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences selected 194 people in six categories to be its membership .

Among the 197 members (fellows) 16 are “foreign honorary members” who are not citizens of the United States or are active there; these are marked with the addition "FHM".

Newly elected members

Mathematical and physical sciences

• Sanjeev Arora (* 1968)
• László Babai (* 1950)
• Phil S. Baran (* 1977)
• Gérard Ben Arous (* 1957)
• David Bercovici (* 1960)
• Sangeeta N. Bhatia (* 1968)
• John Clarke (born 1943)
• Robert E. Cohen (* 1947)
• Susan T. Dumais (* 1954)
• Jonathan A. Ellman (born 1962)
• Björn Engquist (* 1945)
• Alexei V. Filippenko (* 1957)
• Igor B. Frenkel (* 1952)
• George Georgiou (* 1959)
• Morteza Gharib (* 1952)
• Thomas J. Greytak (* 1941)
• Laura M. Haas (* 1956)
• Joseph Y. Halpern (* 1953)
• John F. Hartwig (born 1964)
• Maurice P. Herlihy (* 1954)
• Tin-Lun Ho (born 1951)
• Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson (* 1968)
• Enrique Iglesia (* 1954)
• John D. Joannopoulos (* 1947)
• Eugenia Kalnay (* 1942)
• Ravindran Kannan (* 1953)
• David B. Kaplan (* 1958)
• Victoria M. Kaspi (* 1967)
• Renu Malhotra (born 1961)
• Paul L. McEuen (born 1963)
• Nicholas W. McKeown (born 1963)
• William P. Minicozzi II (* 1968)
• David R. Morrison (* 1955)
• Raymond Pierrehumbert (* 1954)
• Jill Pipher (* 1955)
• Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum (* 1964)
• Valery A. Rubakov FHM (* 1955)
• Joseph Sifakis FHM (* 1946)
• Roger M. Temam (* 1940)
• Donald G. Truhlar (* 1944)
• Karen L. Wooley (born 1966)
• Ali Yazdani (* 1967)

Biological sciences

• Jean Bennett (born 1954)
• Marc G. Caron (* 1946)
• Patricia Smith Churchland (* 1943)
• Joseph L. DeRisi (born 1969)
• Joseph R. Ecker (* 1956)
• Howard Eichenbaum (1947-2017)
• Michael B. Elowitz (* 1970)
• Stanley Fields (born 1955)
• David D. Ginty (born 1962)
• Kay E. Holekamp (* 1954)
• David Michael Karl (* 1950)
• Brian K. Kobilka (* 1955)
• David Kleinfeld (* 1954)
• Michael J. Lenardo (* 1955)
• Margaret Stratford Livingstone (born 1950)
• David Herman MacLennan FHM (1937-2020)
• Kenneth J. Marians (* 1952)
• Frank P. McCormick (born 1950)
• Philip Needleman (* 1939)
• Karl J. Niklas (* 1948)
• Robert L. Nussbaum (* 1949)
• Paul A. Offit (* 1954)
• Dennis DM O'Leary (* 1951)
• Miroslav Radman FHM (* 1944)
• Alexander Rudensky (* 1958)
• Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado (* 1964)
• Mark S. Schlissel (* 1957)
• Sandra L. Schmid (* 1958)
• Stewart Shuman (* 1955)
• Joan B. Silk (born 1953)
• Michael Snyder (* 1955)
• Sharon Y. Strauss (* 1956)
• Joseph Travis (* 1953)
• Gerhard Wagner (* 1945)
• Peter C. Wainwright (* 1957)
• Stephen T. Warren (* 1953)
• James A. Wells (born 1951)
• Wei Yang (* 1963)

Social sciences

• Morris Sheppard Arnold (* 1941)
• Roy F. Baumeister (* 1951)
• Sarah A. Binder (* 1964)
• Dante Cicchetti (* 1948)
• Margaret S. Clark (* 1952)
• Liran Einav (* 1970)
• Peter T. Ellison (* 1954)
• Timothy J. Feddersen (* 1958)
• Noah R. Feldman (* 1970)
• Roland G. Fryer , Jr. (* 1977)
• David W. Garland (* 1955)
• Matthew Gentzkow (* 1975)
• Martin Gilens (* 1960)
• Jane C. Ginsburg (* 1955)
• David B. Grusky (* 1958)
• Kenji Hakuta (* 1951)
• Philip Hamburger (* 1957)
• Paul L. Harris (born 1946)
• Nina G. Jablonski (* 1953)
• Peter J. Klenow (* 1964)
• Lewis A. Kornhauser (* 1950)
• Margaret Lock FHM (* 1938)
• Michael Mann (* 1941)
• Milbrey W. McLaughlin (born 1947)
• Philip J. Reny (* 1959)
• Douglas Rivers (* 1956)
• Rubén G. Rumbaut (* 1948)
• Jenny Saffran (* 1964)
• Paul Slovic (* 1938)
• David Stasavage (* 1967)
• David S. Tatel (* 1941)
• Kathleen Thelen (* 1957)
• Iván Werning (* 1974)
• Robin L. West (born 1958)
• Carol M. Worthman (born 1948)

Humanities and arts

• Christopher U. Abani (* 1966)
• Marilyn McCord Adams (1943-2017)
• David Z. Albert (* 1954)
• Carl Andre (* 1935)
• Harold W. Attridge (* 1946)
• Iván T. Berend (* 1930)
• Lorenzo Gennaro Bianconi FHM (* 1946)
• Robert E. Bly (born 1926)
• Kang-i Sun Chang (* 1944)
• Judith Marjorie Collins (* 1939)
• Holland Cotter (* 1947)
• Thomas BF Cummins (* 1952)
• Hermann Danuser FHM (* 1946)
• Philip J. Deloria (* 1960)
• Geoff Dyer FHM (* 1958)
• David Eltis (* 1940)
• Anne Fadiman (* 1953)
• John Freccero (* 1930)
• James T. Harrison (1937-2016)
• Sally Haslanger (* 1955)
• N. Katherine Hayles (* 1943)
• Gail Hershatter (born 1948)
• Allen F. Isaacman (* 1942)
• Joan Jonas (* 1936)
• Johan Anthony Willem Kamp FHM (* 1940)
• James Kloppenberg (* 1951)
• Barbara Kruger (* 1945)
• György Kurtág FHM (* 1926)
• George E. Lewis (born 1952)
• Magnus Lindberg FHM (* 1958)
• John MacFarlane (born 1969)
• Peter Mandler (* 1958)
• Tim WE Maudlin (* 1958)
• Jane Dammen McAuliffe (* 1946)
• James McBride (born 1957)
• Audra Ann McDonald (* 1970)
• Françoise Meltzer (* 1947)
• Edward Mendelson (* 1946)
• Murray Perahia (* 1947)
• Christopher O. Plummer (* 1929)
• Christopher A. Prendergast FHM (* 1942)
• Keren D. Rice (born 1950)
• Gregory R. Schopen (* 1947)
• David Dean Shulman (* 1949)
• Johan van Benthem FHM (* 1949)
• Jay Xu (born 1963)

Public Affairs, Business and Administration

• Lisa Anderson (born 1950)
• Marcia Angell (* 1939)
• Nahum Barnea FHM (* 1944)
• A'Lelia Bundles (* 1952)
• William Joseph Burns (* 1956)
• Clive M. Cookson FHM (* 1952)
• James W. Curran (born 1944)
• Terry Gross (* 1951)
• Maria D. Hummer-Tuttle (* 1943)
• Kay Bailey Hutchison (born 1943)
• Alberto Ibargüen (* 1944)
• Feisal Amin Rasoul Istrabadi (* 1962)
• Philip H. Knight (* 1938)
• Richard Kurin (* 1950)
• Wallace D. Loh (born 1945)
• Ann Lurie (* 1945)
• Janet A. Napolitano (* 1957)
• Joseph Neubauer (* 1941)
• Rebecca W. Rimel (* 1951)
• James F. Rothenberg (1946-2015)
• Cristián Samper (* 1965)
• Victoria P. Sant (1939-2018)
• James M. Stone (born 1947)
• Teresa A. Sullivan (* 1949)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958)
• Darren Walker (* 1960)

Overarching category

The following eight members have made a name for themselves in several of the classes mentioned (interclass) and have therefore been included in a special category:

• June Kathryn Bock (born 1947)
• Carlos Bustamante (* 1951)
• Gary S. Dell (born 1950)
• Taekjip Ha (* 1968)
• Kay R. Jamison (* 1946)
• Robert M. Nosofsky (* 1956)
• Roger Ratcliff (born 1947)
• Tom Wolfe (1931-2018)

Web links

• Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 2000–2019. (PDF; 389 kB) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org)
• Members of the American Academy. Newly Elected Members, April 2015. (English, PDF file, 261 kB) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org)