Clay F. Semenkovich,
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Early elected
to Council of American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Gerald Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies, all in Arts & Sciences, has been elected to the Council of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
"We are pleased that Professor Early will play a leadership role at the American Academy," said Leslie C. Berlowitz, executive officer of the academy. "His intelligence and experience will be a great asset in fulfilling the academy's mission of encouraging academic excellence and enhanced interaction with the broader community." Early, who also is director of the International Writers Center in Arts & Sciences, is the editor of several volumes, including The Sammy Davis, Jr., Reader (2001) and The Muhammad Ali Reader (1998). Early is the author of The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award and a General Electric Foundation Award. The election of Kenneth Marc Ludmerer, M.D., professor of medicine and of history in Arts & Sciences, and Clifford M. Will, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Physics in Arts & Sciences, to the academy's Class of 2002 brings the number of University fellows in the academy to 17. For a full listing of all academy fellows from the University, go to www.amacad.org/members/classlist.htm. The American Academy of Arts & Sciences was founded in 1780 by John Adams and other scholar-patriots "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people." The current membership of more than 3,700 fellows and 600 foreign honorary members includes more than 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners. Drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of its
membership, the academy conducts thoughtful,
innovative, nonpartisan studies on international
security, social policy, education and the humanities.
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