Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Emeritus, has received the 2025 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL). He is among 10 recipients of the prize, awarded at a November 12 ceremony at Decatur House in Washington D.C.
“Through his outstanding scholarship on the history of scholarship, Anthony Grafton has held up a mirror of penetrating insight to the academic enterprise itself,” the academy said in its citation. “His groundbreaking work on the history of the classical humanist tradition, and the university’s methods of scholarly inquiry more generally, has invited scholars in every field to seek a deeper understanding of what we are doing when we engage in disciplined and systematic pursuit of truth.”
The Academy of Sciences and Letters also invested 65 new members. They include Grafton and seven additional Princeton faculty: Lara Buchak (Philosophy), Michael Cook (Near Eastern Studies, emeritus), William Happer (Physics, emeritus), Gene A. Jarrett (English and Dean of the Faculty), David MacMillan (Chemistry), and Howard Stone (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). Flora Champy (French and Italian) was honored as a term member, for early- to mid-career scholars of exceptional ability.
