Three members of the Yale faculty have been invested as new members of the American Academy of Sciences & Letters, a nonprofit organization that promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts and sciences.
David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Bryan Garsten, a professor of political science and humanities in FAS, and Anthony T. Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law and former dean of Yale Law School, were among 60 scholars who were officially invested as members of the institution during a ceremony on Nov. 12.
The academy encourages the exchange of ideas within academia and in society at large and provides platforms for the presentation and dissemination of scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
More information about the new members from Yale follows:
David Bromwich, the Sterling Professor of English in FAS, has published widely on Romantic criticism and poetry, and on 18th-century politics and moral philosophy. His collection of essays “Skeptical Music” was awarded the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay in 2002, and his essays and reviews have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and many other U.S. and British journals. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and since 2017 has served as a trustee of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Bryan Garsten, professor of political science and humanities in FAS, is the author of “Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment,” as well as articles on political rhetoric and deliberation, the meaning of representative government, the relationship of politics and religion, and the place of emotions in political life. He has served on several forums for liberal education, including the Harvard Higher Education Leaders Forum and the National Forum on the future of Liberal Education. In 2016 he founded Citizens Thinkers Writers, a Yale-based program for students in the New Haven Public Schools. His writings have won various awards, including the First Book Prize of the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association and the Delba Winthrop Award.
Anthony T. Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, teaches on areas that include constitutional law and legal philosophy. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. In June 2004, he was named Commander of the French National Order of Merit. In 2018, he received the Kellogg Award from his alma mater Williams College for extraordinary career achievement.
“Like other academies, we honor intellectual excellence, but our academy is distinguished by a special accent on intellectual courage,” said Donald Landry, president of the academy. “All our new members this year reflect the independence of mind we strive to honor.”
Other academy members from the Yale faculty are Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science; Nicholas A. Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science; Carlos Eire, the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies; and Noël Valis, the Kingman Brewster, Jr. Professor of Spanish & Portuguese.
