Political scientist new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The “Academy” honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor since 1780. Now political science professor Ellen Lust joins the list of notable members such as Martin Luther King, Madeleine Albright, Albert Einstein, and Mary Leakey.
With her election, Ellen Lust joins the company of notable members. Early members included John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Maria Mitchell, and Alexander Graham Bell. Other distinguished members have included Margaret Mead, Jonas Salk, Barbara McClintock, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, John Hope Franklin, Georgia O’Keeffe, E. O. Wilson, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, and N. Scott Momaday.
International Honorary Members have included Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Wislawa Szymborska, Laurence Olivier, Mary Leakey, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Akira Kurosawa, and Nelson Mandela.
The Academy's current members represent today’s innovative thinkers in every field and profession, including more than two hundred and fifty Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners.
The complete list of newly elected members and a press release is available on the Academy’s website.