American Academy elections
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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has now announced the roster of newly elected members, with six linguists (of various specialties) in the group of 212:
In Social and Developmental Psychology and Education: Melissa Bowerman, Michael Tanenhaus
In Archaeology, Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, and Demography: Penelope Eckert
In Philosophy and Religious Studies: James Higginbotham
In Literary Criticism (including Philology): Peter Culicover, Jay Jasanoff
(None this year in Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences, and Behavioral Biology, though there are linguists in that section too.)
Yes, the category stucture of the Academy is odd. Occasionally it gets jiggled, but it never becomes particularly satisfactory.