The APS is an elected body of scholars from all different disciplines. Today the Society has approximately 1,000 elected Members, about 840 of whom are Resident Members (are citizens of or live and work in the United States) and about 160 of whom are International Members from more than two dozen countries. Only 5,890 Members have been elected since the Society's establishment in 1743. Since 1900, more than 260 Members have received the Nobel Prize.
Early Members included George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Marshall. In the 19th century, John James Audubon, Robert Fulton, Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, and Louis Pasteur were among those elected. Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, and George Marshall hint at the scientific, humanistic, and public accomplishments of 20th-century Members. The first woman was elected in 1789—the Russian Princess Dashkova, president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg.
The photo above shows the diversity of the Society's Membership, with Michael Marletta (molecular biologist), Joyce Carol Oates (author), Stephen Lippard (chemist), Yve-Alain Bois (art historian), Martha Minow (legal scholar), and Elena Kagan (Justice of the US Supreme Court) all sitting in the front row waiting to be inducted into the Society.
The Member Directory provides the public with the list of Members elected to the American Philosophical Society from 1743 to the current year and includes general information and short biographies. The section of the Member Directory that is restricted to elected Members provides more detailed information and is accessed through the Members-Only Portal.
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The Members-Only Portal provides a means of engagement for the elected Members of the Society. Members can update their own information in the Member Directory, find contact information for other members, register for upcoming Meetings, nominate candidates for Membership, and find documents, committee reports, and minutes of the Council and Business Meetings.
Roger Bagnall (APS 2001) is professor emeritus of ancient history and Leon Levy Director Emeritus of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. Among the leading historians of Greek and Roman antiquity, Dr. Bagnall enjoys an immense reputation for his work on Roman and Late Antique Egypt, its economy, and its documents on papyri and potsherds. His technical expertise in papyrology is matched by a historical mind of great range. He has also been a pioneer in the application of computer technology to the humanities.
Dr. Bagnall has written or edited more than sixty books and over 250 articles, including The Administration of the Ptolemaic Possessions Outside Egypt (1976); Currency and Inflation in Fourth-Century Egypt (1985); (co-author) Consuls of the Later Roman Empire (1987); Egypt in Late Antiquity (1993); (co-author) The Demography of Roman Egypt (1994); The Kellis Agricultural Account Book (1997); The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (2009); Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East (2011); An Oasis City (2015); and Roman Egypt (2021). A brilliant and respected administrator as well as an internationally known scholar, Dr. Bagnall has served as director and president of the American Society of Papyrologists, president of the International Association of Papyrologists, and director and president of the Society for Classical Studies and is a member of the American Numismatic Society, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the British Academy and l'Académie Royale de Belgique. In 2019 Dr. Bagnall was appointed Honorary President for Life of the American Society of Papyrologists and Honorary President of the International Association of Papyrologists.
Read about APS Members' latest awards and honors and remember recently passed Members.
Dawn A. Bonnell
Senior Vice Provost for Research, Henry Robinson Towne Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University
Wick C. Haxton
Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley; Senior Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
Jon Kleinberg
Tisch University Professor, Department of Computer Science, Department of Information Science, Cornell University
Jill Cornell Tarter
Chair Emeritus for SETI Research, SETI Institute
International
Bernard Lucas Feringa
Jacobus H. van't Hoff Distinguished Chair in Molecular Sciences, University of Groningen; Academy Professor, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
William G. Kaelin Jr.
Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Katalin Karikó
Professor, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary; Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Losos
Director, Living Earth Collaborative, William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor, Washington University
Eve Marder
Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience, University Professor, Biology Department and Volen Center, Brandeis University
Christine Edry Seidman
Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Drew Weissman
Co-Director, Immunology Core, Penn Center for AIDS Research, Director of Vaccine Research, Infectious Diseases Division, Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
International
Andrew Balmford
Professor of Conservation Science, University of Cambridge
Dolph Schluter
University Killam Professor, University of British Columbia
Seyla Benhabib
Senior Research Scholar, Professor Adjunct of Law, Columbia Law School, Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Senior Fellow, CCCT, Columbia University; Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy Emerita, Yale University
Frederick Cooper
Professor of History Emeritus, New York University
Daniel T. Gilbert
Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Michèle Lamont
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Harvard University
Bryan Stevenson
Founder, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative; Lawyer and Social Justice Activist; Aronson Family Professor of Criminal Justice, New York University School of Law
Gerald Lyn Early
Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, Professor of African and African American Studies and English, Washington University in St. Louis
Patricia A. McAnany
Kenan Eminent Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
David Nirenberg
Director, Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Carol J. Oja
William Powell Mason Professor of Music and Professor of American Studies, Harvard University
Ruth Scodel
D. R. Schackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin Emerita, University of Michigan
International
Rachel Bowlby
Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus, University College London
Sandra Laugier
University Professor of Philosophy of Language, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Theodore R. Aronson
Founding Partner, AJO and AJO Vista
Geraldine Brooks
Novelist
Michael M. Crow
President, Arizona State University
John E. Echohawk
Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund
John A. Fry
President, Temple University
Danny O. Jacobs
Former President, Oregon Health and Science University
Stacy L. Leeds
Willard H. Pedrick Dean and Regents Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; Judge, Hualapai Tribe Court of Appeals; Judge, Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians Court of Appeals; Judge, Muscogee (Creek) Nation District Court
G. Gabrielle Starr
President, Philip C. and Gertrude L. McConnell Professor, Departments of English and Neuroscience, Pomona College
Deborah Willis
University Professor and Chair, Department of Photography and Imaging, Director, Center for Black Visual Culture and African American Affairs, Professor, Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Thomas W. Wolf
Former Governor, Pennsylvania
International
Fintan O'Toole
Columnist and Critic, The Irish Times; Advising Editor and Commentator on U.S. affairs, New York Review of Books
Lene Vestergaard Hau
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Area Chair for Applied Physics, Harvard University.
John Cromwell Mather
Senior Project Scientist, James Webb Space Telescope, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Adjunct Professor of Physics, College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, University of Maryland
Curtis T. McMullen
Maria Moors Cabot Professor, Harvard University
Marilyn Raphael
Professor of Geography, Director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
David R. Walt
Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Core Faculty, Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard University; Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
International
Vladimir Kučera
Vice Director, Professor, Distinguished Researcher, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics at the Czech Technical University in Prague; Scientist Emeritus, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Carol Vivien Robinson
Dr. Lee’s Professor of Physical Science and Theoretical Chemistry, Professional Fellow, Exeter College, Founder Director, OMass Therapeutics, Founder Director, Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford
Rosina M. Bierbaum
Professor of Natural Resources and Environment Policy, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan; Roy F. Weston Chair in Natural Economics, University of Maryland
Emery N. Brown
Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and of Computational Neuroscience, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Investigator, Picower Center for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Paul A. Offit
Attending Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and Professor of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Ardem Patapoutian
Professor of Neuroscience, Dorris Neuroscience Center, Presidential Endowed Chair in Neurobiology, Scripps Research Institute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Barbara Anna Schaal
Mary Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis
Carol Anderson
Charles Howard Candler Professor, Department of African American Studies, Emory University
Ellen R. Cohn
Editor-in-Chief, Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Senior Research Scholar, Department of History, Yale University
Jennifer Lynn Eberhardt
Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy, William R. Kimball Professor at the Graduate School of Business, Professor of Psychology and by courtesy, of Law, Co-Director, SPARQ (Social Psychological Answers to Real-World Questions) Stanford University
Kathryn Edin
William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
James Forman, Jr.
Professor, Yale Law School
Catharine A. MacKinnon
Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Bruce Western
Bryce Professor of Sociology and Social Justice, Director, Justice Lab, Columbia University
International
Naomi Ellemers
Distinguished University Professor, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Angelos Chaniotis
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Kellie Jones
Professor in Art History and Archaeology and African American Studies, Chair, Department African American and African Diaspora Studies, Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Wai-yee Li
1879 Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
Geoffrey Parker
Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History, The Ohio State University
Susan Stewart
Poet; Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English, Associate member Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
International
John Dupré
Professor of Philosophy of Science, Consulting Director (formerly Director), The Centre for the Study of Life Sciences (Egenis), University of Exeter
Monika Fludernik
Chair of English Literature, English Department, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität of Freiburg im Breisgau
Peter J. Dougherty
Director, APS Press, American Philosophical Society
Johanna Ruth Drucker
Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies, Distinguished Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Louise Erdrich
Novelist, Poet
Dorothy E. Roberts
George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, Professor of Africana Studies, Director, Penn Program on Race, Science & Society, University of Pennsylvania
Tracy K. Smith
Poet; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Professor of English and of African and African American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
International
Michael G. Marmot
Professor in Epidemiology & Public Health, Director, UCL Institute of Health Equity, University College London
CLASS 1: MATHEMATICAL & PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Tobin Jay Marks
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry, Professor of Applied Physics, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
Kathleen McKeown
Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
Kimberly A. Prather
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
David N. Spergel
President, Simons Foundation; Charles Young Professor of Astronomy Emeritus, Princeton University
Howard A. Stone
Donald R. Dixon ‘69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor, Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Bernard Fanaroff
Former Director, Square Kilometre Array South Africa Project; Adviser to the Minister for Trade, Industry and Competition and former adviser to the Director of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory; Former Deputy Director General in President Mandela’s Office of the President
Stephen Weiner
Professor Emeritus in Biomineralization and Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
Class 2: Biological Sciences
Francis Sellers Collins
Acting Science Advisor to the President, Acting Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; Senior Investigator, Molecular Genetics Section, National Human Genome Research Institute
Karl Deisseroth
DH Chen Professor, Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Christopher Bower Field
Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
Maria Jasin
Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Leslie B. Vosshall
Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, Head of Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, Director, Kavli Neural Systems Institute, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Sandra Díaz
Full Professor of Community and Ecosystems Ecology, Department of Biological Diversity and Ecology, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina; Investigador Superior, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
Class 3: Social Sciences
Anita LaFrance Allen
Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Affiliated Faculty, Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, Affiliated Faculty, Department of Africana Studies, Affiliated Faculty, Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences, Affiliated Faculty, Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Matthew Desmond
Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Elizabeth K. Hinton
Professor of Law, Yale Law School, Associate Professor, Department of History and the Department of African American Studies, Yale University
David I. Laibson
Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics, Director, Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative, Faculty Dean, Lowell House, Harvard University; Co-Director, National Bureau of Economic Research Roybal Center on Behavior Change in Health, National Institutes of Health
Jennifer Richeson
Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology, Yale University
Desmond S. King
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Class 4: Humanities
Mary J. Carruthers
Remarque Professor Emeritus of Literature, New York University; Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
Didier Fassin
James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study; Directeur d’études, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Tanya Marie Luhrmann
Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Salikoko S. Mufwene
The Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College, Professor, Committee of Evolutionary Biology, Professor, Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Professor, Committee on African Studies, University of Chicago
Robert McCracken Peck
Curator of Art and Artifacts and Senior Fellow, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Jahan Ramazani
University Professor, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, University of Virginia
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
Pierre-Étienne Will
Professor Emeritus of Modern Chinese History, Collège de France
Class 5: The Arts, Professions, Leaders in Public and Private Affairs
France Anne-Dominic Córdova
President, Science Philanthropy Alliance; Former Director, National Science Foundation; President Emeritus, Purdue University
Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Suzan Shown Harjo
President, Morning Star Institute
Alberto Ibargüen
President, Knight Foundation
Nicholas Lemann
Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism, Dean Emeritus, Columbia University
Leslie Anne Miller
Chair, Board of Directors, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Tracy Palandjian
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Social Finance
Natasha Trethewey
Board of Trustees Professor of English, Northwestern University
Nili Cohen
Former President, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Professor of Law Emeritus, Former Rector, Tel Aviv University
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Pianist; Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Orchestre Métropolitain, Montreal; Music Director, Philadelphia Orchestra; Music Director, New York Metropolitan Opera; Honorary Conductor, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Class 1: Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Joseph S. Francisco
President’s Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania; William E. Moore Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry, Purdue University
Barbara V. Jacak
Faculty Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Deb Niemeier
Clark Distinguished Chair in Sustainability, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park; Professor Emerita, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis
Daniel G. Nocera
Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University; Founder and Board of Directors, Kula Bio
Billie Lee Turner II
Regents’ Professor, Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society, School of the Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and School of Sustainability, Arizona State University; Distinguished Research Professor of Geography, Clark University
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, Rose Center for Earth and Space, American Museum of Natural History; Co-founder, Executive Producer, and Host, StarTalk Radio
International
Michael Victor Berry
Melville Wills Professor of Physics Emeritus, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Class 2: Biological Sciences
Anna Katherine “Kay” Behrensmeyer
Senior Research Geologist, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Kristen Hawkes
Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah
Marc Kirschner
John Franklin Enders University Professor, Harvard University, Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Trudy Frances Charlene Mackay
Director, Clemson Center for Human Genetics, Self Family Endowed Chair of Human Genetics, and Professor of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University
Gene E. Robinson
Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Swanlund Chair, Center for Advanced Study Professor in Entomology and Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
International
Charles Godfray
Director, Oxford Martin School, Professor of Population Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan
Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India; Professor Emeritus, Former Director, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
Class 3: Social Sciences
Daron Acemoglu
Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David W. Blight
Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University
Philip Joseph Deloria
Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Sheila Jasanoff
Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald
General Editor and Director, The Einstein Papers Project, Robert M. Abbey Professor of History, Division of the Humanities & the Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Cecilia Elena Rouse
Lawrence and Shirley Katzman and Lewis and Anna Ernst Professor in the Economics of Education, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
International
Mireille Delmas-Marty
Member, French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences; Professor Emeritus, Collège de France
Class 4: Humanities
Elizabeth Anderson
John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Kathleen Mary Coleman
James Loeb Professor of the Classics, Chair, Department of Classics, Harvard University
Ronald Egan
Confucius Institute Professor of Sinology, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University; Emeritus Professor of Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mary Miller
Director, Getty Research Institute
Richard J. Powell
John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University
International
Moshe Halbertal
Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Hebrew University; Gruss Professor of Law, New York University Law School
Deborah Howard
Professor Emerita of Architectural History, Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, Fellow, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
Sarah Stroumsa
Alice and Jack Ormut Professor of Arabic Studies Emerita, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Class 5: The Arts, Professions, Leaders in Public and Private Affairs
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Dean, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School, Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Chair, Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, Harvard University
Lydia Davis
Short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator; Professor of English Emerita, SUNY Albany
Denyce Graves
Operatic Mezzo-Soprano; Rosa Ponselle Distinguished Faculty Artist (Voice), Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Joy Harjo
U.S. Poet Laureate, Musician
Indra Nooyi
Former Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo; Board of Directors, Amazon; Co-Chair, Board of Directors, AdvanceCT (Connecticut Economic Resource Center); Class of 1951 Chair for the Study of Leadership, West Point
Darren Walker
President, Ford Foundation
Class 1: Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Ernest J. Moniz
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems Emeritus, Special Advisor to the President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; CEO, Energy Futures Initiative; Co-Chair and CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Former U.S. Secretary of Energy
James M. Moran
Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Donald H. Menzel Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, Harvard University
Sidney Nagel
Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Physics, James Franck Institute, and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Director of the Center for Computation and Theory of Soft Materials; Deputy-Director, Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science, Northwestern University
Eva Tardos
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
International:
Lia Addadi
Professor, Department of Structural Biology, President’s Advisor for Advancing Women in Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
Ewine van Dishoeck
Professor of Molecular Astrophysics, Leiden Observatory, Leiden University; President, International Astronomical Union
Jeanne Altmann
Eugene Higgins Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Emerita, Princeton University
Scott Edwards
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Curator of Ornithology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
David Ginsburg
James V. Neel Distinguished University Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Pediatrics, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Carl June
Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Director Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Perelman School of Medicine, Universtiy of Pennsylvania
Venki Ramakrishnan
Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge; President, The Royal Society, London
International:
John Skehel
Emeritus Research Scientist, The Francis Crick Institute; former Biological Secretary and Vice-President, The Royal Society; Director, MRC National Institute for Medical Research
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Department of Psychology, Senior Advisor to Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University; External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute
Joyce E. Chaplin
James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Harvard University
Alondra Nelson
Harold F. Linder Professor, School of Social Science, , Institute for Advanced Study; President, Social Science Research Council
James C. Scott
Sterling Professor of Political Science, Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Forest & Environmental Studies, Yale University
Alan Taylor
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair, Department of History, University of Virginia
Caroline Bruzelius
Anne Murnick Cogan Professor Emerita of Art and Art History, Duke University
Angela N. H. Creager
Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science, Chair, Department of History, Princeton University
Catherine Gallagher
Ida May and William J Eggers, Jr. Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley
David Tracy
Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies, rofessor Emeritus of Theology and the Philosophy of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School and the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought
David Wellbery
Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, Leroy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, Germanic Studies, John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
International:
Maribel Fierro
Research Professor, Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean (ILC), CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Eva Schlotheuber
Professor for Medieval History, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf; President, German Historical Association
Elizabeth Alexander
Essayist, Poet, President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Marin Alsop
Music Director, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Chief Conductor, Vienna Radio Orchestra, Ravinia Festival; Director, Graduate Conducting Studies, Peabody Institute, John Hopkins University; Conductor of Honor, São Paulo Symphony
Louise Henry Bryson
Former Chair, Board of Trustees, Founder, Getty Conservation Council, J. Paul Getty Trust
Lonnie Bunch III
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
Carla Hayden
Librarian of Congress
Goodwin Liu
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California
David Oxtoby
President, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, President Emeritus, Pomona College
André Watts
Pianist; Jack I. and Dora B. Hamlin Endowed Chair in Music, Distinguished Professor of Music, Indiana University
International:
Robert Tony Watson
Former Professor and Director, Tyndall Center, University of East Anglia
David L. Donoho
Professor of Statistics, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
Kerry Emanuel
Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science, Co-Founder, Co-Director, The Lorenz Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fernando Pereira
Vice President and Engineering Fellow, Google, Inc.
David A. Tirrell
Provost, Carl and Shirley Larson Provostial Chair, Ross McCollum - William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Xiaowei Zhuang
David B. Arnold Professor of Science, Director, Center for Advanced Imaging, Harvard University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
International:
Fabiola Gianotti
Director-General, CERN
Adi Shamir
Paul and Marlene Borman Professorial Chair of Applied Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science
Catherine Dulac
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Laurie H. Glimcher
President, Chief Executive Officer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Erin K. O'Shea
Investigator, President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Gary Ruvkun
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Hans-Hermann Schoene Distinguished Investigator, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Clifford J. Tabin
George Jacob and Jacqueline Hazel Leder Professor of Genetics, Chair, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Professor of Health Sciences & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
International:
Kamaljit S. Bawa
Founder, President, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, India; Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Chris Stringer
Research Leader in Human Origins, Natural History Museum, London
Larry M. Bartels
Professor of Political Science, May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science, Vanderbilt University
Annette Gordon-Reed
Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Harvard Law School; Professor of History, Harvard University
Martin Jay
Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Roger B. Myerson
Professor of Economics, David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Philip Tetlock
Annenberg University Professor, Professor of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Kathy Eden
Chavkin Family Professor of English, Professor of Classics, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Brian Daniel Joseph
Distinguished University Professor, Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of Slavic Languages and Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, Ohio State University
Jonathan Lear
John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor, Committee on Social Thought and Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago
Naomi Oreskes
Professor of the History of Science, Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard University
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
International:
Karine Chemla
Directrice de recherche classe exceptionnelle, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
Jean-Louis Ferrary
Directeur d’études Emeritus, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
Romila Thapar
Professor of History Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
S. James Anaya
Dean, University Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado Law School
William Drayton
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Jennifer Higdon
Composer; Milton L. Rock Chair in Composition Studies, The Curtis Institute of Music
John Lithgow
Actor
Nancy Weiss Malkiel
Professor of History Emeritus, Princeton University
David M. Rubenstein
Co-Founder, Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group
Patrick Spero
Librarian, Director, Library of the American Philosophical Society
Patricia Williams
James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia University; Columnist, The Nation
International:
David Cannadine
President, British Academy; Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University; Visiting Professor of History, Oxford University
Frances H. Arnold
Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, California Institute of Technology
Eric J. Horvitz
Director, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research Labs; Affiliate Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, and of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington
Vijay Kumar
Nemirovsky Family Dean, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
Sara Seager
Professor of Planetary Science, Professor of Physics, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Class of 1941 Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Taylor
Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
International:
Jean Dalibard
Professor, Collège de France
Christopher Martin Dobson
Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology, Master of St. John’s College, University of Cambridge
Helen M. Blau
Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Professor, Director, Baxter Laboratory in Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Diane Edmund Griffin
University Distinguished Service Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Hopi E. Hoekstra
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Departments of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Curator of Mammals, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Richard E. Lenski
John Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University
Michael W. Young
Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and Head, Laboratory of Genetics, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rockefeller University
International:
Rudolf K. Thauer
Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology; Professor of Biology Emeritus, Philipps University Marburg
Robin A. Weiss
Professor Emeritus of Viral Oncology, University College London
Karen S. Cook
Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Eric Foner
DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Emeritus, Columbia University
Margaret Levi
Sara Miller McCune Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Reva Siegel
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor, Yale Law School
Shelley Taylor
Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
William A. Graham
Murray A. Albertson Research Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Philip Stuart Kitcher
John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Paul W. Kroll
Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado, Boulder
Susan Neiman
Director, Einstein Forum
Thomas M. Scanlon
Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity Emeritus, Harvard University
International:
Jakob Lothe
Professor of English Literature, University of Oslo
Avishai Margalit
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ronald J. Daniels
President, Johns Hopkins University
Paul Edward Farmer
Co-founder, Chief Strategist, Partners in Health; Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Special Adviser to the Secretary General on Community-based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti, United Nations
Kenneth C. Frazier
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Merck
Frederick M. Lawrence
Secretary, Chief Executive Officer, The Phi Beta Kappa Society; Distinguished Lecturer in Law, Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown University
Sara Miller McCune
Founder, Executive Chair, SAGE Publishing
Janet Napolitano
President, University of California
Kara Walker
Artist, Kara Walker Studio; Tepper Chair in Visual Art, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
International:
Rosalie Silberman Abella
Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
Orhan Pamuk
Novelist
Talking About Things is a video series about elected Members of the American Philosophical Society. Members select an object from the APS collections of over 13 million items and then are interviewed about the object. The interview often leads to discussion of the Member’s life work and stories from their past and present. Why did they select this particular object? Does it connect to their field of specialty? How did they become interested in their field?
The aim of this series is to give viewers insight into who the APS Members are and, more generally, how a lifetime passion for learning and critical inquiry can develop and be sustained.
Michael Silverstein and Journals from the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Keith Thomson and On the Origin of Species
Judge David Tatel and Franklin's Copy of the Constitution