Yale Bulletin and Calendar

June 21-July 19, 1999

Volume 27, Number 34

Academy of Arts and Sciences
taps three Yale faculty

Among the 180 new members voted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences are three Yale senior professors: Stephen R. Anderson, John Geanakoplos and Roberto González Echevarría.

The Yale faculty members join 150 other fellows and 27 foreign honorary members elected in April to the venerable Academy on the basis of "distinguished contributions to [one's] profession." The organization, which includes 3,500 fellows and 600 honorary members, honors leading intellectuals in every field and profession.

Stephen R. Anderson, professor of linguistics and cognitive science since 1994, has chaired the department of linguistics since 1995. His research interests include the cognitive science of language, specifically, the nature of linguistic knowledge and its relation to the functional architecture of the mind/brain; general linguistic theory (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics); and languages, including Scandinavian (Icelandic, Faroese), Romance (French, Franco-Provençal patois, Rumantsch), Celtic (Breton), Caucasian languages (Georgian, Abkhaz), and Native American (Kwakw'ala, Muskogean). He is now developing a view of word structure known as "A-Morphous Morphology," which has a variety of implications for several areas of phonology and morphosyntax.

John Geanakoplos is the James Tobin Professor of Economics and director of the Cowles Foundation for Economics. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale in 1975 and began teaching at Yale as assistant professor of economics in 1980. He was subsequently named associate professor (1983), professor of mathematical economics and microeconomics (1986) and the Tobin Professor (1994). Geanakoplos specializes in general equilibrium theory in economics, concentrating on problems arising from the absence of some markets (incomplete markets), game theory, the economics of information and mathematical finance. Among his studies are examinations of multimarket oligopoly, managerial hierarchies and the role of banks.

Roberto González Exheverría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures and a former chair of the department of Spanish, received his M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale in 1968 and 1970, respectively. He was assistant professor at Yale in 1970-71, and returned as associate professor in 1977. He was appointed professor in 1980, the R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish in 1985, the Bass Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures in 1991 and Sterling Professor in 1995. A literary critic and historian, González Echevarría specializes in Spanish literature of the Golden Age and Latin American literature. His interests also include French and Italian literatures. He has authored studies of Calderon, Carpentier, Sarduy and Neruda.

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1780 to "cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people." The academy sponsors a number of projects and publications.

The academy's newly elected members will be formally inducted into the Academy during a ceremony in Cambridge on Oct. 2.

T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Alumni elect Roland W. Betts as new trustee
To the Yale Community
Murder on the Nile? Examination suggests Peabody mummy met with . . .
Study shows quality of child care affects school performance
Endowed Professorships
Literary critic Harold Bloom awarded Gold Medal . . .
Academy of Arts and Sciences taps three Yale faculty
Exhibit recalls art and poetry inspired by the Great War
Downtown program will add local flavor to International Festival . . .
Show by Peabody artists among Yale-related events during festival
Boredom with board games prompts Green to invent new one
Beinecke Library acquires papers of noted theater director
The University honors its long-serving staff members
Three Yale teachers are selected as Guggenheim Fellows
Schell Center for International Human Rights announces new appointments . . .
Traveling fellowships are awarded for students' research
Downs Fellows to study health issues around the world during the summer
Students make cross-country trek on behalf of charity
Summer Cabaret marks 25th year of 'ambitious theater'
Tours of historic Grove Street Cemetery are being offered
How to order extra copies of the Yale Bulletin & Calendar
Campus Notes