Nine ÐÜèÊÓÆµMembers Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Nine ÐÜèÊÓÆµMembers Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 
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April 2024

Nine ÐÜèÊÓÆµmembers, including ÐÜèÊÓÆµImmediate Past President Tyrone C. Howard, have been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The ÐÜèÊÓÆµresearchers are among 250 other members elected. The  was made by the Academy on April 24.

Joining Howard are ÐÜèÊÓÆµFellows Megan Bang (recipient of the ÐÜèÊÓÆµScholars of Color Mid-Career Contribution Award), Prudence Carter (ÐÜèÊÓÆµ2019 Brown Lecturer), Heather C. Hill, Ernest Morrell, and Sonia Nieto (recipient of the ÐÜèÊÓÆµScholars of Color Distinguished Career Contribution Award and ÐÜèÊÓÆµSocial Justice in Education Award). Along with Carter, Long served among AERA’s select distinguished Centennial Scholars.

The elected ÐÜèÊÓÆµmembers are:

Megan Bang, Northwestern University
Prudence Carter, Brown University
David Gillborn, University of Birmingham
Heather C. Hill, Harvard Graduate School of Education 
Tyrone C. Howard, University of California, Los Angeles
Bridget Terry Long, Harvard Graduate School of Education; National Bureau of Economic Research 
Ernest Morrell, University of Notre Dame
Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Uri Joseph Wilensky, Northwestern University


The academy is an honorary society founded in 1780, which is dedicated to recognizing excellence and relying on expertise to advance the public good. New elected members are accomplished individuals from the nonprofit, private, and public sectors.

"ÐÜèÊÓÆµextends its warmest congratulations to these scholars for this honor," said Executive Director Felice J. Levine. "Their election into the academy brings important awareness to the field of education research and its applications to advancing the common good."

More than 14,500 members have been elected since the academy’s founding. Howard joins several other ÐÜèÊÓÆµpast presidents who are members of the academy, including, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, James A. Banks, Linda Darling-Hammond, Vivian L. Gadsden, Kris D. Gutiérrez, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Carol D. Lee, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Lauren B. Resnick, Lee S. Shulman, Catherine E. Snow, William F. Tate IV, and Vanessa Siddle Walker.