Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA) — Five Hoover Institution fellows were invested as members of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters on November 12, reflecting the breadth of Hoover scholarship across fields including history, economics, political economy, and the humanities.
Hoover fellows Jennifer Burns, Steven J. Davis, Dan Edelstein, Stephen H. Haber, and Stephen Kotkin were each invested as members of the Academy at a ceremony in Washington, DC.
Jennifer Burns, a historian of modern American intellectual life and political economy, has illuminated the ideas shaping capitalism and conservatism in the United States through works including a biography of Milton Friedman.
Economist Steven J. Davis serves as Hoover’s research director and is widely recognized for research on labor markets, business dynamics, and policy uncertainty.
Dan Edelstein is a scholar of the Enlightenment and the history of ideas who bridges literature, political thought, and the foundations of modern liberal democracy.
Stephen H. Haber’s work focuses on the political economy of development and financial systems, and has deepened understanding of institutions, growth, and stability. He leads the Hoover Prosperity Program.
Stephen Kotkin, who leads the Hoover History Lab, is a celebrated historian of Russia and authoritarianism who brings geopolitical insight to the study of power and statecraft.
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It encourages the fruitful exchange of ideas within academia and society at large by sponsoring occasions for scholarly interaction and providing platforms for the presentation and dissemination of scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
Burns, Davis, Edelstein, Haber, and Kotkin join an accomplished list of fellow Academy members that includes author Sir Salman Rushdie, Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides, Nicholas Christakis, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker, Akhil Reed Amar, and three Nobel-laureate scientists (chemist Arieh Warshel, biochemist Jennifer Doudna, and chemist Sir David W. C. MacMillan).
Also recognized at the ceremony was Stanford physician-scientist David A. Relman, who was one of 10 recipients of the Academy’s Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement, which includes an award of $50,000.
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