Four Duke Faculty To Join American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Prestigious appointments to 243-year-old institution

Clockwise, new Duke AAAS fellows: Abdullah Antepli, Amy S. Gladfelter, Kenneth Dodge and Margaret Sullivan.
Clockwise, new Duke AAAS fellows: Abdullah Antepli, Amy S. Gladfelter, Kenneth Dodge and Margaret Sullivan.

DURHAM, N.C. -- Three members of the Sanford School of Public Policy and a brand-new Science & Technology Scholar in the School of Medicine have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for 2023.

Abdullah T. Antepli, Associate Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, and Associate Professor of the Practice of Interfaith Relations, Divinity School. Imam Antepli’s expertise is in religious peace-building, cross-religious interfaith work and faith-based diplomacy. He served as Duke University’s first Muslim chaplain and inaugural director of Muslim life at Duke from 2008-2014, and has been Duke’s chief representative of Muslim Affairs for the past decade.

Kenneth A. Dodge, Ph.D., William McDougal Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. Professor Dodge studies the development and prevention of violence in children and families, as well as violence prevention policy. In 2008, Dodge and Professors Robert Murphy and Karen O’Donnell of the Center for Child and Family Health created Family Connects, a universal, short-term, postnatal home-visiting program to support families in providing optimal learning for their young child beginning from before birth through kindergarten matriculation. 

Margaret Sullivan, the Jack and Pamela Egan Visiting Professor in Journalism and Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy. Professor Sullivan previously served as the public editor of the New York Times and media critic for The Washington Post. She was the top editor of The Buffalo News for 12 years and is a former member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. She is a weekly columnist with the Guardian US. Her memoir, "Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life," was published in 2022.

Amy S. Gladfelter, Ph.D., joined the School of Medicine faculty April 13 and will be a full professor in the Department of Cell Biology after July 1. A Duke Ph.D. alumna, she was recruited to Duke from UNC - Chapel Hill as a Science & Technology Scholar. Professor Gladfelter is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute faculty scholar who studies the cell biology of fungi and is working on understanding marine fungal systems. She uses a variety of microscopy and biophysical approaches and her lab is in the Levine Science Research Center.

Duke’s four newest academy members join a long list of notables including President Vincent E. Price and historical figures John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Maria Mitchell, and Alexander Graham Bell. Other distinguished members have included Margaret Mead, Jonas Salk, Barbara McClintock, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, John Hope Franklin, Georgia O’Keeffe, E. O. Wilson, Madeleine Albright, and Colin Powell. The academy’s current members represent innovative thinkers in every field and profession, including more than 250 Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners.