American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with over 5,700 active membership in the US and across the globe,  is one of the most prestigious learned societies in the world, and also one of America’s oldest learned societies, with the purpose of honoring exceptional scholars across diverse fields.

Afreecan Read is thrilled to announce that Bernardine Evaristo and Teju Cole have been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They were added  through a “thorough petition, review, and election process.”

The 2021 members are grouped into the categories of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Humanities and Arts, and Leadership, Policy and Communications. Each category is further divided into sections.

Evaristo and Cole are both categorized under Humanities and Arts in the section Literature (Brunel University and Harvard University respectively).

Here is a full list of new members.