Melani Cammett and Other Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Alongside Three Faculty Associates

Weatherhead Center Director Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University, has been elected to the 2025 class of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Since 1780, the organization has “honored excellence and convened leaders from across disciplines and divides to examine new ideas, address issues of importance, and work together ‘to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.’” Also in this year’s class are three Faculty Associates: Francis X. Clooney, Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School; Taeku Lee, Bae Family Professor of Government at Harvard University; and Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.