American Academy of Arts and Sciences Establishes Commission on Humanities and Social Sciences

From Emmylou Harris to Billie Tsien. It’s not the subtitle of a new feminist reader but one way to describe the membership of a new national commission created to bolster teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences. Formed by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in response to a bipartisan request from Congress, the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences will be chaired by Richard H. Brodhead, president of Duke University, and John W.