Eight Princeton faculty members have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are among 198 leaders in scholarship, business, science, the arts and public affairs elected this year in recognition of their contributions to their specific fields.
Among those elected this year are the following Princeton faculty members: Jeffrey Eugenides(Link is external), professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts; Robert Kaster(Link is external), the Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature and professor of classics; Naomi Leonard(Link is external), the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Stephen Macedo(Link is external), the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values; Jennifer Rexford(Link is external), the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor in Engineering and professor of computer science; Yoshiaki Shimizu(Link is external), the Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Emeritus; Michael Smith(Link is external), the McCosh Professor of Philosophy; and Leonard Wantchekon(Link is external), professor of politics.
The membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1780, includes more than 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners. The new class will be inducted at a ceremony Oct. 12 at the academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.