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The Center for the Environment is delighted to congratulate three of its longtime affiliated faculty—Joyce Chaplin, Jody Freeman, and Daniel Schrag—on their recent election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research. Joyce Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History in the Department of History, where she teaches the histories of science, climate, colonialism, and environment. She is currently working on a history of resource conservation, climate change, and settler colonialism, for which she received a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. Chaplin is also the faculty organizer of the HUCE Environmental History Working Group. Jody Freeman is Archibald Cox Professor of Law and the founding director of the Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Program. A leading scholar of both administrative law and environmental law, Freeman served as counselor for Energy and Climate Change during the Obama Administration, where she was the architect of the president’s historic agreement with the auto industry to double fuel efficiency standard. Daniel Schrag is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, co-director of the Program on Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and director of the Center for the Environment. Schrag studies climate change over the broadest range of Earth’s history, including how climate change and the chemical evolution of the atmosphere influenced the evolution of life in the past, and what steps might be taken to prepare for impacts of climate change in the future. He served from 2009 to 2017 on President Obama’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST), contributing to many reports to the President including energy technology and national energy policy, agricultural preparedness, climate change, and STEM education.

For more information on the 12 Harvard faculty elected to the Academy, please see the Harvard Gazette story here.