Divisional Accolades

To date:

Twenty-seven Divisional faculty members have received the Nobel Prize, the most of any Division or school at the University of Chicago. Mostly recently, Prof. James A. Robinson (Harris/Political Science) was awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Fifty-four current Division faculty have been named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Demonstrating the broad intellectual reach of the faculty of the Division, three (3) have received the National Medal of Science, six have received the National Humanities Medal, and one has received the National Medal of the Arts.

Six Divisional faculty members have been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The Division has celebrated the election of nine faculty members to the National Academy of Sciences - most recently Michael Greenstone in 2024 - and one to the National Academy of Medicine.

Social Sciences faculty have earned nine MacArthur Fellowships, most recently Tara Zahra in 2014.

Recent Highlights:

Adom Getachew (Political Science) was named the 2023 Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar.

Molly Offer-Westort (Political Science) was awarded a 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.

Monica Rosenberg (Psychology) was awarded the Janet Taylor Spence Award in 2024.

Terra Edwards (Comparative Human Development) won the 2025 Innovation Award from the International Pragmatics Association

John List (Economics) won the 2023 R.K. Cho Economics Prize by Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea

2024 Dean’s Early Career Research Awards recipients include:

• Lin Bian, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology
• Ryan Jobson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology