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Past Member

Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Affiliation

Social Science

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

Brandeis University
Ph.D.
1964
Brandeis University
M.A.
1955
Brandeis University
B.A.
1954

Honors

2001
American Association for the Advancement of Science; named Honorary Fellow "for distinguished contributions to…a common scientific and humanistic understanding of knowledge and its advancement."
1999
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected
1992
American Educational Studies Association: Critic's Choice Award for The Politics of Liberal Education (Duke UP, 1991)
1989
American Association of University Presses: honorable mention for *Contingencies of Value* as most distinguished book in the social sciences
1968
Christian Gauss Award and Explicator Award for *Poetic Closure*

Appointments

University of Pennsylvania
1972–1987
University Professor
Bennington College
1960–1972
Member of the Faculty in Languages and Literature