BU Social Scientists Among Five Newest Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
This article by 道格最 originally appeared on the Bostonia on April 26, 2024.
社会学家黛博拉·卡尔、作家琼帕·拉希里、记者凯文·梅里达都在获奖名单之列
A group of 波士顿大学 faculty and alumni—alongside actor George Clooney, Apple CEO Tim Cook, retired NBA star Grant Hill, and other global leaders in the arts and sciences, business, philanthropy, and public affairs—are the 美国艺术与科学学院的最新成员, announced on Wednesday.
在250名获选为杰出组织成员的成员中，联盟附属成员包括：
保罗·比蒂
A BU alum and prominent best-selling author, Beatty (CAS’84, GRS’87) was the first American author to win the 布克奖, for 的背叛 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), his satirical novel on race in America. When he won the prize, Beatty, who earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology at BU, 承认挑战 of writing the book, which is filled with coarse language and obscenities: “It was a hard book for me to write; 我知道这很难读懂。 我只是想给自己留点空间。 希望这能为其他人创造空间。”
黛博拉·卡尔（CISS主任）
A professor of sociology at BU’s College of 艺术与科学 and director of the 社会科学创新中心, 卡尔 is one of the nation’s leading experts on aging, health, and well-being in later life. In articles, journals, and books, she has written extensively on death and dying, on inequality in old age, on how family relationships evolve through life, and on the stigma facing those who deal with obesity and disabilities. In a 最近的论文 边缘, 卡尔 wrote: “This aging of our population will impact every aspect of our society, from social policy to healthcare expenditures to the labor force to family care.”
裘帕•拉希莉
Lahiri is a BU alum whose rise as a writer began with her collection of short stories 疾病翻译, which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, followed by her acclaimed novel 同名. “Part of what drove me to write those early stories was that impulse that I had, as a child as well, to be able to speak for my parents—to defend them, to protect them, to explain them in a world in which they weren’t being completely understood or respected or heard,” Lahiri (GRS’93, UNI’95,’97) said in a 最近的面试.
凯文梅里达
ESPN. 华盛顿邮报》. 洛杉矶时报. 《达拉斯晨报》. 梅里达（COM ' 79）是美国最杰出的记者之一。 And his journey started at BU, when he interned at the 波士顿环球报 and led a campus newspaper called BLACKFOLK. 他是普利策奖委员会和波士顿大学董事会的成员。 In a recent BU interview with COM/365 about the state of journalism, he said: “A news organization today has to do more things than a newspaper had to do. 我仍然喜欢纸质报纸。 它每天都被人类精心策划，对于那些仍然得到它的人来说，这是一个很棒的产品。 但是，为了达到我们今天和未来需要达到的受众，我们必须做得更广泛、更强大。”
薇薇安施密特
A leading scholar of European politics and economics, 施密特 is a professor of international relations at BU’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, the Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, and founding director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe. Writing recently in the 欧洲公共政策杂志 about the rise of populism in politics, 施密特 said: “The trans-national reach of both social media and traditional media has also meant that populist messages ‘travel’ through the mechanism of diffusion. 2016年，随着英国脱欧公投和特朗普当选，民粹主义思想和话语的传播得到了极大的推动，不仅是通过聊天机器人的假新闻，而且民粹主义的欧洲领导人也开始模仿特朗普的方式和话语。”
美国艺术与科学院成立于1780年，用它的话说，其宗旨是“通过共同的目标、知识和思想，帮助一个年轻的国家面对挑战”。 它的第一批成员于1781年选举产生，成员包括拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生、本杰明·富兰克林、亚历山大·汉密尔顿、马德琳·奥尔布赖特、马丁·路德·金、安娜·迪维尔·史密斯、纳尔逊·曼德拉、林-曼努尔·米兰达和萨尔曼·拉什迪。 2024名成员的入会仪式将在马萨诸塞州的剑桥举行。6月3日，他在纽约举行了欢迎仪式。
“我们向这些艺术家、学者、科学家以及公共、非营利和私营部门的领导人致敬，因为他们的成就，以及达到新高度所需的好奇心、创造力和勇气，”该学院院长戴维·奥克斯托比（David Oxtoby）说。 “我们邀请这些杰出人士加入该学院的工作，以应对严峻的挑战，促进共同利益。”
当乔治·华盛顿总统在1781年作为就职班的一员接受了他的学院会员资格时，他在信中写道：“我感到特别荣幸的是，我相信，这个致力于推广有用知识的学会将在文学界获得很高的声誉。”