Marta Kwiatkowska Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Professorial Fellow Marta Kwiatkowska has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Founded in 1780, the Academy honours excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the United States and the world, and work together, as expressed in their charter, ‘to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.’

Professor Kwiatkowska joins the company of notable members – from the earliest members John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Maria Mitchell, and Alexander Graham Bell. 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. 

Current members represent today’s innovative thinkers in every field and profession, including more than two hundred and fifty Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners. Professor Kwiatkowska has been invited to a formal induction in September, to be held in Cambridge, MA, where the Academy’s headquarters are located.