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21Name:  Dr. Michèle Lamont
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1957
   
 
Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. A cultural and comparative sociologist who studies inclusion and inequality, she has tackled topics such as dignity, respect, stigma, racism and stigma, class and racial boundaries, social change, and how we evaluate social worth across societies and academic disciplines. She is the author of five monographs (including Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World (2023)), more than a dozen collective works and over a hundred articles published in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Human Nature Behavior, and other prominent outlets. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Royal Society of Canada, and the British Academy. She served as the 108th president of the American Sociological Association in 2016-17. Recent honors include a Carnegie Fellowship, a Leverhulme fellowship, the 2014 Guttenberg award, the 2017 Erasmus prize, as well as the 2024 Kohli Prize for Sociology.
 
22Name:  Dr. Sandra Laugier
 Institution:  Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  406. Linguistics
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1961
   
23Name:  Professor Stacy L. Leeds
 Institution:  Arizona State University
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1971
   
24Name:  Dr. Jonathan B. Losos
 Institution:  Washington University in St. Louis
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1961
   
 
Jonathan Losos is an evolutionary biologist known for his research on how lizards rapidly evolve to adapt to changing environments. He graduated from Harvard University and received his PhD from the University of California. After a postdoctoral stint at the University of California Davis, Jonathan moved to Washington University for his first faculty position, before leaving to become a professor of biology at Harvard and Curator in Herpetology at the university’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. He then returned to Washington University in 2018 to become the founding Director of the Living Earth Collaborative, a partnership between Washington University, the Saint Louis Zoo and the Missouri Botanical Garden. This new biodiversity center, nearly unique in partnering a leading university, zoo, and garden, has as its mission to advance knowledge and conservation of biodiversity. Losos has written more than 250 scientific papers and three books, most recently The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa (Penguin Random House, 2017), and is an author of a leading college biology textbook (Raven et al., Biology). Losos has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and is the recipient of the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, the Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award from the American Society of Naturalists, and the David Starr Jordan Prize.
 
25Name:  Dr. Eve Marder
 Institution:  Brandeis University
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  208. Plant Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1948
   
26Name:  Dr. Patricia A. McAnany
 Institution:  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  403. Cultural Anthropology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1957
   
 
Patricia A. McAnany (PhD 1986, University of New Mexico) is Kenan Eminent Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the recipient of the 2022 A. V. Kidder Award from the American Anthropological Association and has received both research and community-impact grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, Archaeological Institute of America, and Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. A Maya archaeologist, she is co-investigator of Proyecto Arqueológico Colaborativo del Oriente de Yucatán, a community-engaged archaeology project focused on the Preclassic through contemporary community in Tahcabo, Yucatán. As the executive director of a UNC-CH program called InHerit: Indigenous Heritage Passed to Present (www.in-herit.org), she works with local communities throughout the Maya region and beyond to provide opportunities to dialogue about cultural heritage and magnify Native voices in education and heritage conservation. She is the author/co-author of many journal articles, books, and book chapters including Maya Cultural Heritage: How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past (2016).
 
27Name:  Dr. David Nirenberg
 Institution:  Institute for Advanced Study
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1964
   
28Name:  Dr. Carol J. Oja
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  401. Archaeology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1953
   
 
Carol J. Oja is William Powell Mason Professor of Music and American Studies at Harvard and Faculty Director of the Humanities at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a cultural historian of music with a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her research focuses on American music and culture, with an emphasis on interracial history and social justice. Her most recent book is Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century, edited with Charles Hiroshi Garrett (University of Michigan Press, 2021). Her Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Oxford University Press, 2014) won the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society. Her Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (Oxford 2000) won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Book Award, and her Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds (Smithsonian 1990) also won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Oja’s coauthored article "Marian Anderson's 1953 Concert Tour of Japan: A Transnational History," written with Katie Callam, Makiko Kimoto, and Misako Ohta and published in American Music (2019), won the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music. She was co-director of the digital humanities exhibit Eileen Southern and “The Music of Black Americans,” together with Christina Linklater, and she is author or editor of six other books. Oja is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; she was inducted into the Collegium of Scholars of the Martin Luther King, Jr. College of Ministers and Laity at Morehouse College; she has served as Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic; she has twice chaired the Pulitzer Prize committee in music; and she was a Visiting Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music, and she is a past president of that organization. She has held fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks, the Radcliffe Institute, ACLS, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College, the Mellon Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her current book-in-progress is Jim Crow in the Concert Hall: Revisiting Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial Concert and the Racist History that Made it a Flash Point
 
29Name:  Dr. Dolph Schluter
 Institution:  University of British Columbia
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1955
   
 
Dolph Schluter received his BSc in ecology in 1977 from the University of Guelph, Ontario, and his PhD in 1983 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the supervision of Peter R. Grant (elected to APS 1991). For his PhD thesis, Schluter studied ecological mechanisms driving assembly and evolution of island assemblages of Darwin's finch species. He and an assistant spent nearly two years living in a tent on remote and otherwise uninhabited Galápagos islands collecting field data. Schluter’s work on the finches culminated in the first estimates from nature of “adaptive landscapes” (mean fitness functions), which successfully predicted mean beak sizes of Galápagos ground finches on islands. He was able to compare these landscapes to fitness functions from survival data on natural selection, using a method he also pioneered, and to test evolutionary shifts caused by interspecific competition between species. This work was a key component of the long-term study of the Darwin's finches that is regarded as the most successful ever field study of evolution. Schluter obtained a tenure track position at UBC in 1989, where he played a steering role in building one of the world’s strongest research groups in biodiversity science. Between 1983 and 1990 Schluter studied the evolution of continental bird assemblages, during which he developed methods to estimate convergence between faunas. This work led to a collaboration with R. E. Ricklefs that produced a highly influential coedited volume on global patterns of species diversity (Chicago, 1993). Schluter’s group continued to work on the evolution of the latitudinal gradient in species diversity. They showed, surprisingly, that speciation rates are often as higher or higher in the temperate zone, where few species are present, than in the much more species-rich tropics. This finding has since been confirmed by numerous other researchers. In the late 1980’s, Schluter initiated work on threespine stickleback fish in BC, which enabled his landmark experimental and comparative studies on mechanisms driving the origin and divergence of new species. This work yielded advances on many significant research problems in adaptive radiation, and his stickleback species pairs have become one of the best-known natural study systems in evolutionary biology. The work inspired many ideas, culminating in his now classic text, "The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation" (Oxford, 2000). His subsequent collaboration with D. Kingsley and C. Peichel led to the discovery of key genes underlying species differences and made the stickleback a “supermodel” for studies of adaptive genetic variation. He continues to work on the ecology and genetics of adaptation and speciation in stickleback. Research Interests I investigate recent adaptive radiation, whereby a single ancestor diversifies rapidly into an array of species that inhabit a variety of environments and that differ in traits used to exploit those environments. I am especially interested in the selection pressures that drive the origin of new species, the ecological interactions that lead to the evolution of species differences, the genetic basis of these differences, and the wider impacts of diversification on ecosystems. I addressed these questions initially in field studies of Darwin’s finches, but over recent decades I have developed for study a natural system having many advantages for experimental study, the threespine sticklebacks of fresh water and coastal marine areas of British Columbia. My work has included the quantitative estimation of natural selection surfaces and ancestral traits, the experimental study of species interactions, natural selection and evolution, and the discovery of genes underlying phenotypic differences between populations and species and their fitness consequences. My second interest is the role of evolutionary processes and historical events in the development and maintenance of Earth's major biodiversity gradients.
 
30Name:  Dr. Ruth Scodel
 Institution:  University of Michigan
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  402b
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1952
   
31Name:  Dr. Christine Edry Seidman
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  204. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Immunology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1952
   
32Name:  Dr. G. Gabrielle Starr
 Institution:  Pomona College
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
 Residency:  resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1974
   
 
G. Gabrielle Starr is the 10th president of Pomona College and Philip and Gertrude McConnell Professor Human Relations in the departments of English and Neuroscience. Originally a scholar of the British long eighteenth century, she has extended her critical inquiries into the modern origins of aesthetics through graduate training in cognitive neuroscience, becoming a leading voice in the emergence of the field of neuroaesthetics. Starr is known nationally as a tireless advocate for the liberal arts and for creating opportunities to expand access to education. This has included founding programs fostering partnerships with community colleges, providing access to higher education for incarcerated individuals, lobbying Congress on behalf of scholars subject to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and expanding opportunities for refugees through her founding of the Global Student Haven Initiative. A graduate of Emory (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard universities, she was a Robert T. Jones Scholar at the University of St Andrews and completed post-doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology. From 2000 to 2017, she was on the faculty at New York University, departing as professor of English and the Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science. She assumed leadership for Pomona in 2017. Starr is the author of three books: Just in Time: Temporality, Aesthetic Experience, and Cognitive Neuroscience (MIT Press, 2023); Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience (MIT Press, 2013; shortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 2014); and Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). Starr’s literary critical, neuroscientific, and interdisciplinary work has been published in academic journals including Modern Philology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cognition, Neuron, NeuroImage, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her public commentary has appeared in the Hill, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed. Starr is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Science Foundation ADVANCE award (jointly with Nava Rubin), and a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation. Starr is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Starr is a member of the board of directors of Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She is a trustee of the Getty Trust and of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She has served as an elected officer or board member of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the California Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and the Consortium on Financing Higher Education. An education leader in California, Starr was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to the California Higher Education Recovery with Equity task force in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic She is married to John C. Harpole and together they have two school-aged children. They reside in Claremont, California.
 
33Name:  Mr. Bryan Stevenson
 Institution:  Equal Justice Initiative; New York University School of Law
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1959
   
34Name:  Dr. Jill Cornell Tarter
 Institution:  SETI Institute
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  101. Astronomy
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1944
   
 
Jill Tarter received her Bachelor of Engineering Physics Degree with Distinction from Cornell University and her Master’s Degree and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. She served as Project Scientist for NASA’s SETI program, the High Resolution Microwave Survey, and has conducted numerous observational programs at radio observatories worldwide. Since the termination of funding for NASA’s SETI program in 1993, she has served in a leadership role to secure private funding to continue the exploratory science. Currently, she serves on the management board for the Allen Telescope Array, an innovative array of 350 (when fully realized) 6-m antennas at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory, it will simultaneously survey the radio universe for known and unexpected sources of astrophysical emissions, and speed up the search for radio emissions from other distant technologies by orders of magnitude. Tarter’s work has brought her wide recognition in the scientific community, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from Women in Aerospace, two Public Service Medals from NASA, Chabot Observatory’s Person of the Year award (1997), Women of Achievement Award in the Science and Technology category by the Women’s Fund and the San Jose Mercury News (1998), and the Tesla Award of Technology at the Telluride Tech Festival (2001). She was elected an AAAS Fellow in 2002 and a California Academy of Sciences Fellow in 2003. In 2004 Time Magazine named her one of the Time 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2005 Tarter was awarded the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization at Wonderfest, the biannual San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science. Tarter is deeply involved in the education of future citizens and scientists. In addition to her scientific leadership at NASA and SETI Institute, Tarter was the Principal Investigator for two curriculum development projects funded by NSF, NASA, and others. The first, the Life in the Universe series, created 6 science teaching guides for grades 3-9 (published 1994-96). Her second project, Voyages Through Time, is an integrated high school science curriculum on the fundamental theme of evolution in six modules: Cosmic Evolution, Planetary Evolution, Origin of Life, Evolution of Life, Hominid Evolution and Evolution of Technology (published 2003). Tarter is a frequent speaker for science teacher meetings and at museums and science centers, bringing her commitment to science and education to both teachers and the public. Many people are now familiar with her work as portrayed by Jodie Foster in the movie Contact.
 
35Name:  Test Test
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  0
   
36Name:  Dr. Drew Weissman
 Institution:  University of Pennsylvania
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  209. Neurobiology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1959
   
37Name:  Dr. Deborah Willis
 Institution:  New York University
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1948
   
 
Deborah Willis, Ph.D. is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has affiliated appointments with the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Social & Cultural and the Institute of Fine Arts where she teaches courses on Photography & Imaging, iconicity, and cultural histories visualizing the black body, women, and gender. She is also the director of NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture/Institute for African American Affairs. Her research examines photography’s multifaceted histories, visual culture, contemporary women photographers and beauty. She received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and was a Richard D. Cohen Fellow in African and African American Art, Hutchins Center, Harvard University; a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and an Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. Fellow. In 2019 she was the Robert Mapplethorpe Photographer in Residence of the American Academy in Rome, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received awards from the College Art Association for Writing Art History (2021) and the Outstanding Service Award from the Royal Photographic Society in the UK. She was awarded the Don Tyson Prize for the Advancement of American Art by the Crystal Bridges Museum in 2022 and named the Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence by the Norton Museum of Art in 2023. She has pursued a dual professional career as an art photographer and as one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography and curator of African diasporic cultures. Willis is the author of The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship, Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present; Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty; Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers - 1840 to the Present; Let Your Motto be Resistance – African American Portraits; Family History Memory: Photographs by Deborah Willis; VANDERZEE: The Portraits of James VanDerZee; and co-author of The Black Female Body A Photographic History with Carla Williams; Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery with Barbara Krauthamer; and Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs (both titles a NAACP Image Award Winner). She lectures widely and has co-edited books Women and Migration(s); authored many papers and articles on a range of subjects including The Image of the Black in Western Art, Gordon Parks Life Works, Steidl, Volume II; America’s Lens in Double Exposure: Through the African American Lens; “Photographing Between the Lines: Beauty, Politics and the Poetic Vision of Carrie Mae Weems,” in Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography & Video, and “Malick Sidibé: The Front of the Back View” in Self: Portraiture and Social Identity. Professor Willis is editor of Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography; and Black Venus 2010: They Called Her "Hottentot", which received the Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women's Studies by the Popular Culture/American Culture Association in 2011. Exhibitions of her artwork include: Monument Lab Staying Power, Philadelphia; 100Years/100Women, Park Avenue Armory, In Conversation: Visual Meditations on Black Masculinity, African American Museum Philadelphia; MFON: Black Women Photographers, African American Museum Philadelphia; In Pursuit of Beauty, Express Newark, Rutgers University, Newark, “Mirror Mirror” Express Newark, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ; A Sense of Place, Frick, University of Pittsburgh; Regarding Beauty, University of Wisconsin, Interventions in Printmaking: Three Generations of African-American Women, Allentown Museum of Art; A Family Affair, University of South Florida; I am Going to Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston Museum; Afrique: See you, see me; Progeny: Deborah Willis +Hank Willis Thomas. Gantt Center. Professor Willis’s curated exhibitions include: “Framing Moments in the KIA” Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, “Framing Beauty” at the Henry Art Gallery; "Reframing Beauty: Intimate Moments" at Indiana University; “Migrations & Meanings in Art” Maryland Institute of the Arts; “Convergence”, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans; “Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty,” Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, “Visualizing Emancipation,” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, “Gordon Parks: 100 Moments,” Schomburg Center; “Posing Beauty Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits” at the International Center of Photography, “Social in Practice: The Art of Collaboration”, Nathan Cummings Foundation, "Home: Reimagining Interiority '' at YoungArts, and “Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory '' at the National Underground Freedom Center, FotoFocus Biennial 2022. In addition to making art, writing and teaching, she has served as a consultant to museums, archives, and educational centers. She has appeared and consulted on media projects including the documentary films such as Through A Lens Darkly, Question Bridge: Black Males, a transmedia project, which received the ICP Infinity Award 2015, and American Photography, PBS Documentary. Since 2006 she has co-organized thematic conferences exploring “Black Portraitures” focusing on imaging the black body. She holds honorary degrees from Pratt Institute and the Maryland Institute, College of Art. She is currently researching two projects on photography and the black arts movement and artists reimaging history.
 
38Name:  Governor Thomas W. Wolf
 Year Elected:  2024
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1948
   
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