22 Cambridge authors named Fellows by The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS)

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) has selected 22 Cambridge University Press authors as part of its 2018 class of Fellows and International Honorary Members. The authors join a class of 213 fellow scholars, artists and world leaders, which also includes Supreme Court Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor, 44th President of the United States Barack H. Obama, author Ta-Nehisi Coates and philanthropist and entrepreneur Laurene Powell Jobs.

Founded in 1780, the AAAS is one of the oldest learned societies in the country. As an independent policy research center, it champions scholarship, civil dialogue and useful knowledge. Members have included Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Maria Mitchell, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Margaret Mead and Martin Luther King, Jr.

The full list of Cambridge University Press authors elected in this year’s class include:

Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology - Computational Social Science

Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame, Indiana - The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy

Alexei Borodin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Representations of the Infinite Symmetric Group

Philippe Bourgois, University of California, Los Angeles - In Search of Respect

John Bowen, Washington University St. Louis - A New Anthropology of Islam

Christian Davenport, University of Michigan - Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party

Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University - Planetesimals: Early Differentiation and Consequences for Planets

Randall W. Engle, Georgia Institute of Technology - Cognitive Limitations in Aging and Psychopathology

Simon E. Gikandi, Princeton University - Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Jianguio Liu, Michigan State University – Sources, Sinks and Sustainability

Nathaniel Mackey, Duke University – Discrepant Engagement

Marc Mangel, University of California, Santa Cruz – The Theoretical Biologist’s Toolbox

Pippa Norris, Harvard Kennedy School – Strengthening Electoral Integrity and Why Elections Fail

Elaine S. Oran, University of Maryland – Numerical Simulation of Reactive Flow

Guillermo Sapiro, Duke University – Geometric Partial Differential Equations and Image Analysis

Debra Satz, Stanford University – Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy

David Cannadine, University of London – Winston Churchill in the Twenty-First Century

Itzhak Gilboa, Tel-Aviv University and HEC, Paris – Theory of Decision under Uncertainty

Jennifer Hornsby, University of London – The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy

Gabor Klaniczay, CEU – Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses

Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki – The Gentle Civilizer of Nations

Pablo Marquet, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile – Scaling Biodiversity

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