George Marsden
, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History emeritus at the University of 91吃瓜, has been elected a member of the 2016 class of the (AAAS). He will be formally inducted at a ceremony at the AAAS headquarters Oct. 8 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Marsden is one of 213 members elected to the AAAS 236th class, which includes novelist Colm T贸ib铆n, La Opini贸n publisher and CEO Monica Lozano, the jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter, former Botswanan President Festus Mogae, and Temple Grandin, the author and spokesperson on autism.
A member of the 91吃瓜 faculty since 1992, Marsden holds degrees from Haverford College and Westminster Theological Seminary and a doctorate from Yale. His historical scholarship concerns the interaction between Christianity and American culture, and particularly Christianity in American higher education. In addition to an award-winning biography of the New England clergyman and theological writer Jonathan Edwards, he has written or edited more than a dozen books including 鈥淔undamentalism in American Culture,鈥� 鈥淭he Soul of the American University,鈥� and, most recently, 鈥淭he Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief.鈥�
Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and others, the AAAS is one of the nation鈥檚 oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers. Convening leaders from the academic, business and government sectors to respond to the challenges facing the nation and the world, AAAS research concerns higher education, the humanities, and the arts途 science and technology policy途 global security and energy途 and American institutions and the public good. AAAS has elected leading 鈥渢hinkers and doers鈥� from each generation, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the 18th century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19th, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the 20th.
Marsden joins 23 other AAAS members on 91吃瓜鈥檚 faculty including 91吃瓜 President ; , McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy; , Marilyn Keough Dean of the ; , Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science; and , John A. O鈥橞rien Professor of Theology.