The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected 213 new members for 2016. They include some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, as well as civic, business, and philanthropic leaders. The new class was inducted at a ceremony on October 8, 2016, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“It is an honor to welcome this new class of exceptional women and men as part of our distinguished membership,” said Don Randel, Chair of the Academy’s Board of Directors. “Their election affords us an invaluable opportunity to bring their expertise and knowledge to bear on some of the most significant challenges of our day. We look forward to engaging these new members in the work of the Academy.”
Members of the 2016 class included 7 members of APSA (listed below) as well as winners of the Pulitzer Prize and the Wolf Prize; MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships; the Fields Medal; and the Grammy Award and National Book Award. The list of the 236th class of new members is located at www.amacad.org/members.
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the country’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers, convening leaders from the academic, business, and government sectors to respond to the challenges facing—and opportunities available to—the nation and the world. Members contribute to Academy publications and studies of science, engineering, and technology policy; global security and international affairs; the humanities, arts, and education; and American institutions and the public good.
“In a tradition reaching back to the earliest days of our nation, the honor of election to the American Academy is also a call to service,” said Academy President Jonathan F. Fanton. “Through our projects, publications, and events, the Academy provides members with opportunities to make common cause with one another. We invite these newly elected members to participate in this important and rewarding work—and to help produce the useful knowledge for which the Academy’s 1780 charter calls.”
ANDREA LOUISE CAMPBELL, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Andrea Louise Campbell is the department head and Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Campbell’s interests include American politics, political behavior, public opinion, and political inequality, particularly their intersection with social welfare policy, health policy, and tax policy. She is the author of Trapped in America’s Safety Net: One Family’s Struggle (University Press of Chicago, 2014), How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Citizen Activism and the American Welfare State (Princeton University Press, 2003), and, with Kimberly J. Morgan, The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Provision (Oxford University Press, 2011). Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Political Behavior, Comparative Political Studies, Politics & Society, Studies in American Political Development, and Health Affairs, among others. She holds an AB degree from Harvard University and a PhD from University of California, Berkeley. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Russell Sage Foundation. She is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and served on the National Academy of Sciences Commission on the Fiscal Future of the United States.
BRANDICE CANES-WRONE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Brandice Canes-Wrone is the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Currently, she serves as the vice dean of the Woodrow Wilson School and is the president of the Presidency and Executive Politics Organized Section. She received a PhD from Stanford University and an AB from Princeton, and she taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northwestern University before returning to Princeton University as a faculty member. She has written extensively on issues related to American politics, political economy, and elections. The author of the award-winning Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public (University of Chicago Press, 2006), she continues to write on the presidency, including a current project on the relationship between campaign donors’ preferences and presidential policy positions. Other current research includes the economic effects of policy uncertainty, the impact of judicial elections on legal outcomes, and the motivations of congressional campaign donors. Ongoing research projects include the impact of campaign donors on representation, the economic effects of policy uncertainty, and the effects of judicial elections on legal outcomes.
JOANNE S. GOWA, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Joanne S. Gowa is William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton University. Her interests include international relations, international political economy, and the relationship between democracies and international disputes. Gowa received her PhD from Princeton University. She is the author of Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods; Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade; and Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace; and author of articles on political economy, trade and monetary policy, and democracy and disputes. She is a member of the editorial boards of World Politics and International Organization and is a trustee of Tufts University. Gowa has been a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in international security, a MacArthur Foundation Grant for Research and Writing, and a NSF POWRE grant.
JACK KNIGHT, DUKE UNIVERSITY
As political scientist and legal theorist, Professor Knight’s scholarly work focuses on modern social and political theory, law and legal theory, and political economy. He holds a joint appointment with Duke Law School and Duke’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. He is codirector of the Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies. Knight holds a JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA and a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago.
Knight’s research focuses on the rules and norms that organize human activities in nations. In addition to study of the motivations and decisions of judges, he has examined the effects of the norm of extensive prior judicial experience as a prerequisite for service on the US Supreme Court, as well as several other aspects of how courts make decisions and how judges choose their positions in opinions.
Knight is the author of several books: Institutions and Social Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Explaining Social Institutions (with Itai Sened) (The University of Michigan Press, 1995), andThe Choices Justices Make (with Lee Epstein) (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1997), which won the American Political Science Association’s C. Herman Prichett Award for the best book published on law and courts. He coedited Courts, Judges, and Politics (McGraw-Hill, 6th Edition, 2005) and has published numerous articles in journals and edited volumes on topics such as democratic theory, the rule of law, judicial decision-making, and theories of institutional emergence and change.
PAUL PIERSON, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Paul Pierson is the John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Pierson’s teaching and research includes the fields of American politics and public policy, comparative political economy, and social theory. His most recent books are Off-Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (Yale University Press, 2005), coauthored by Jacob Hacker, Politics in Time: History, Institutions and Social Analysis (Princeton University Press, 2004), and The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism (Princeton University Press, 2007), which was coedited with Theda Skocpol, and Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class (Simon and Schuster 2010), coauthored by Jacob Hacker. Pierson is an active commentator on public affairs, and his writings have appeared in such outlets as The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and The New Republic.
Pierson is also the author of Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment (Cambridge 1994), which won the American Political Science Association’s 1995 prize for the best book on American national politics. His article “Path Dependence, Increasing Returns and the Study of Politics” won the APSA’s prize for the best article in the American Political Science Review in 2000, as well as the Aaron Wildavsky Prize for its enduring contribution to the field of public policy, awarded by the Public Policy Section of the APSA in 2011. He has served on the editorial boards of The American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, and The Annual Review of Political Science. From 2007 to 2010 he served as chair of the Berkeley political science department.
GEORGE TSEBELIS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
George Tsebelis is Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan. He works in comparative politics, and he is a specialist in political institutions. His work uses game theoretic models to analyze the effects of institutions; it covers Western European countries and the European Union. More recent work studies institutions in Latin America and in countries of Eastern Europe. He is the author of three books: Nested Games (University of California Press, 1991), Bicameralism (coauthored, Cambridge University Press, 1997), and Veto Players (Princeton University Press, 2002). His work has been reprinted and translated in several languages (Veto Players is published or to be published in Chinese, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish). He has received fellowships from the Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Herbert Hoover Foundation. Some of his articles have received awards by the American Political Science Association. He teaches graduate and undergraduate classes on institutions, the European Union, and advanced industrialized countries.
KIM LANE SCHEPPELE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She joined the Princeton faculty in 2005 after nearly a decade on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where she was the John J. O’Brien Professor of Comparative Law. Scheppele’s work focuses on the intersection of constitutional and international law, particularly in constitutional systems under stress. After 1989, Scheppele studied the emergence of constitutional law in Hungary and Russia, living in both places for extended periods. After 9/11, Scheppele researched the effects of the international “war on terror” on constitutional protections around the world. Her many publications on both post-1989 constitutional transitions and on post-9/11 constitutional challenges have appeared in law reviews, social science journals and multiple languages. In the last two years, she has been a public commentator on the transformation of Hungary from a constitutional-democratic state to one that risks breaching constitutional principles of the European Union.
