2024 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement

The Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement is the Academy’s premier recognition of excellence in scholarship. This prestigious annual prize, open to scholars across diverse fields and disciplines, honors those whose work has made outstanding contributions to humanity’s knowledge, appreciation, and cultivation of the good, the true, and the beautiful. Recipients are nominated by the members of the Academy and appointed by the board of directors. Winners of the Barry Prize receive a cash award and also become members of the Academy.

The 2024 Barry Prize winners pose with Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer and other friends

The 2024 Barry Prizes were awarded to:

Akhil Reed Amar

Yale University

Gary A. Anderson

University of Notre Dame

Marianne Bertrand

University of Chicago

Nicholas A. Christakis

Yale University

Brian Conrad

Stanford University

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Harvard University

Jeannie Suk Gersen

Harvard University

William Chester Jordan

Princeton University

Karin I. Öberg

Harvard University

Megan Sykes

Columbia University