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Classics
Professor Helene Peet Foley Elected to
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
updated
05.05.08
Helene
Peet Foley, a professor of classics, has been elected to the
American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS), one of the
nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and
independent policy research centers. Foley is among a group
of 212 distinguished scholars, scientists, artists, and civic,
corporate and philanthropic leaders selected this year for
their preeminent contributions to a variety of fields. Other
Fellows elected this year include U.S. Supreme Court Senior
Associate Justice John Paul Stevens; computer company founders
Michael Dell (Dell Computer), and Charles M. Geschke and John
E. Warnock (Adobe Systems, Inc.); two-time cabinet secretary
and former White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III;
Academy Award-winning filmmakers Ethan and Joel Coen and
Milos Forman; blues guitarist B.B. King; and corporate CEOs
Margaret Whitman (eBay) and Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo).
A leader
in the study of women in antiquity, Professor Foley is renowned
for her expertise in many aspects of Greek tragedy. Widely
published, she is the author of "Female Acts in Greek
Tragedy" (2001), and co-editor of and contributor to
"Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek
Art and Literature" (2007). She served as president of
the American Philological Association in 1998, and has received
numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship
in 1991, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
in 1992, and a Loeb Library Classical Foundation Grant in
2005. While on leave from Barnard this semester, she is serving
as Visiting Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the
University of California, Berkeley, and focusing on the ultimately
successful struggle of Greek tragedy to find a place on the
American stage.
AAAS is
an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary
studies of complex and emerging problems. Founded in 1780
by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots,
the Academy has elected as members the finest minds and most
influential leaders from each generation, including George
Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century,
Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth,
and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the twentieth.
The current membership of 4,000 American Fellows and 600 Foreign
Honorary Members includes some 200 Nobel laureates and more
than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.
For more
information on the American Academy of Arts & Sciences,
visit www.amacad.org
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