On
Thursday, April 22, 2021, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced in a press release its election of 252 new members,
nine of whom are from the Harvard community, including our very own
AAAS Professor Evelyn Hammonds. Professor Hammonds joins a long list of artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders who've contributed to the common good since the Academy's inception in 1780 including: Benjamin Franklin (elected 1781), Albert Einstein (1924), Margaret Mead (1948), Martin Luther King, Jr. (1966), and Anna Deavere Smith (2019). The press release and a complete list of members can be found on the American Academy of Arts & Sciences'
website.
