Our more than 2,300 alumni include 22 Nobel Laureates, 14 Pulitzer Prize winners, 44 MacArthur Fellows, 12 recipients of the John Bates Clark medal in economics for scholars under 40 years of age, more than 100 recent Guggenheim fellowships, 22 winners of the Bancroft Prize, 20 recipients of the National Book Award, 21 recipients of the National Medal of Science and hundreds of members of the National Academy of Sciences. The vast majority of Center Fellowships were awarded before these other prizes were given — underscoring our stellar record of identifying top talent at a critical period in their scholarly trajectory.

We are proud to name as center alumni such renowned scholars as Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Wallace Stegner, and Ian Watt who have and are making important contributions to the nation’s political and cultural life.


A sampling of our 1,700+ works:

A Southern Odyssey, by John Hope Franklin
A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls
Childhood and Society, by Erik Erikson
Gender and Conversational Interaction, by Deborah Tannen
Orientalism, by Edward Said
The Structure of Scientific Revolution, by Thomas Kuhn
The Logic of Scientific Discovery, by Karl Popper
Who Governs?, by Robert Dahl