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| | • | 102. Chemistry and Chemical Biochemistry |
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| | • | 103. Engineering |
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| | • | 106. Physics |
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| | • | 107 |
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| | • | 203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology |
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| | • | 204. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Immunology |
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| | • | 208. Plant Sciences |
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| | • | 209. Neurobiology |
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| | • | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology |
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| | • | 303. History Since 1715 |
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| | • | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science |
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| | • | 401. Archaeology |
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| | • | 402a |
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| | • | 402b |
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| | • | 403. Cultural Anthropology |
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| | • | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century |
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| | • | 501. Creative Artists |
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| | • | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions |
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| | • | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors |
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| | 21 | Name: | Dr. Patricia A. McAnany | | | Institution: | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 403. Cultural Anthropology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | 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). | |
| 22 | Name: | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1964 | | | | |
| 23 | Name: | Dr. Carol J. Oja | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | 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 | |
| 24 | Name: | Dr. Ruth Scodel | | | Institution: | University of Michigan | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | |
| 25 | Name: | Dr. Christine Edry Seidman | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 204. Medicine, Surgery, Pathology and Immunology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | |
| 26 | Name: | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1959 | | | | |
| 27 | Name: | Dr. Jill Cornell Tarter | | | Institution: | SETI Institute | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 101. Astronomy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | 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. | |
| 28 | Name: | Dr. Drew Weissman | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 209. Neurobiology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1959 | | | | |
| 29 | Name: | 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? : |
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| | | 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. | |
| 30 | Name: | 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? : |
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