Carnegie Corporation of New York has named 31 Andrew Carnegie Fellows as the inaugural class of a major annual fellowship program that will provide support for scholars in the social sciences and humanities. The Fellows will receive awards of up to $200,000 each, which will enable them to take sabbaticals in order to devote time to their research and writing.
The Andrew Carnegie Fellows are an exceptional group of established and emerging scholars, journalists, and authors whose work distills knowledge, enriches our culture, and equips leaders in the realms of science, law, business, public policy, and the arts. Their proposals address issues including policing and race, big data and privacy, the impact of an aging population, the safety of generic drugs, and how attitudes are formed among voters.
Susan Hockfield, MIT President Emerita, who chaired the selection jury, said, “What impressed me most was the quality of the proposals—they seek to tackle some of the most pressing issues of our times with innovative and forward-looking ideas from a wide range of high-caliber candidates. Solutions to the complex issues of today and tomorrow will not emerge simply through technology and science, but require humanistic and social science scholarship to use lessons of the past to devise paths to future peace and progress.”
2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellows:
Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
Larry M. Bartels, Vanderbilt University
Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University
David E. Bloom, Harvard University
Kevin Gerard Boyle, Northwestern University
Fotini Christia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John D. Ciorciari, University of Michigan
Gregory T. Cushman, University of Kansas
Katherine Eban, Journalist
Caleb Everett, University of Miami
Masha Gessen, Journalist
Mala Htun, University of New Mexico
Valerie M. Hudson, Texas A&M University
Maria Ivanova, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Keir A. Lieber, Georgetown University
Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan
Sarah Mathew, Arizona State University
Ian Morris, Stanford University
Leith Mullings, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Laurence Ralph, Harvard University
Louise I. Shelley, George Mason University
Timothy David Snyder, Yale University
Thomas J. Sugrue, New York University
Patricia L. Sullivan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Philip E. Tetlock, University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth F. Thompson, University of Virginia
Daniel J. Tichenor, University of Oregon
Zeynep Tufekci, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lynn Vavreck, University of California, Los Angeles
Max Weiss, Princeton University
Elizabeth J. Wilson, University of Minnesota
Selection Jury:
Chair: Susan Hockfield, President Emerita, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ralph Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences
Jared Cohon, President Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University
Mary Sue Coleman, President Emerita, University of Michigan
John DeGioia, President, Georgetown University
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Jonathan Fanton, President, American Academy of Arts & Sciences; president emeritus, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Amy Gutmann, President, University of Pennsylvania
Ira Katznelson, President, Social Science Research Council
Earl Lewis, President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Don Randel, chair of the board, American Academy of Arts & Sciences and President Emeritus, The University of Chicago and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Robert Silvers, Editor, The New York Review of Books
Pauline Yu, President, American Council of Learned Societies
Rapporteur: Arthur Levine, President, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
More Resources:
Read more about the 2015 Fellows in our media release
New $200,00 Carnegie Fellowships to Aid Researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences, The New York Times
Carnegie Corporation Makes a $6-Million Statement of Faith in the Humanities,Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription)
Carnegie Mellon Professor Acquisti Awarded Fellowship from Carnegie Corporation of New York, Virtual Strategy Magazine