Professor Reginald G. Golledge is amongst the 2005 class of Fellows elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The election, the result of a highly competitive selection process, recognizes Golledge’s outstanding contributions in his profession.
As its Charter of 1780 expresses it, the Academy’s purpose is “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”Academy members from previous generations have included John Adams, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin in the 18 th Century; Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Alexander Graham Bell in the 19 th C.; and Albert Einstein, Woodrow Wilson, Charles Steinmetz, and Samuel Eliot Morison in the 20th.
The Academy is an international learned society composed of the world’s leading scientists, scholars, artists, business people, and public leaders, with a current membership of 4,000 American Fellows and 600 Foreign Honorary Members. Among its Fellows are more than 160 Nobel Prize laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners.
Professor Golledge is one of 196 new Fellows and 17 new Foreign Honorary Members elected this year. New Fellows also include Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eric Cornell of the University of Colorado; Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist; Steven Squyres, leader of NASA’s Rover program for the exploration of Mars; Dante scholar and chairman emeritus of the National Humanities Center, Robert Hollander; sculptor and painter Jeff Koons; Academy Award-winning actor and director Sidney Poitier; choreographers Mark Morris and Judith Jamison; journalist Tom Brokaw; Washington Post Company CEO Donald Graham; Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page; Time, Inc., CEO Ann Moore; architect, sculptor, and designer of the Vietnam Veterans’Memorial in Washington, Maya Lin; as well as four Pulitzer Prize winners –dramatist Horton Foote; playwright Tony Kushner; novelist Alison Lurie, and cartoonist Art Spiegelman.
