Michael Jones-Correa and Sophia Rosenfeld Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences 2025 class includes two faculty from Penn Arts & Sciences: Michael Jones-Correa, President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science, and Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History. They join three others from the University of Pennsylvania this year and nearly 250 total across the country.

The other honorees from Penn include Dennis E. Discher, Robert D. Bent Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in Penn Engineering; Cherie R. Kagan, Steven J. Angello Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering in Penn Engineering, with a secondary appointment in Penn Arts & Sciences’ Department of Chemistry; and Susan R. Weiss, Professor and Vice Chair of Penn Medicine’s Department of Microbiology.

Michael Jones-Correa, President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Jones-Correa’s research interests include inter-ethnic contact and coalition-building in urban politics; immigrant incorporation, naturalization, and political mobilization; and Latino politics and public opinion. He has co-authored and authored several books, including Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement among Latino Immigrants (2020) and Between Two Nations: The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City (1998). He also edited or co-edited several books and published in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Social Science Quarterly, among other academic journals.  

Among other projects, Jones-Correa was a co-lead on the Philadelphia-Atlanta Project, collaborative research on contact, trust, and civic participation among immigrant and native-born residents of those two cities, and the 2006 Latino National Survey, a national state-stratified survey of Latinos in the U.S. Jones-Correa serves on the Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees, and previously served on the Board of Overseers for the American National Election Studies, the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, and the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Redesign of U.S. Naturalization Test. He was also previously vice president of the American Political Science Association, and in 2025, was elected as the Robert A. Dahl Fellow to the National Academy of Political and Social Science.

Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History
Rosenfeld teaches European and American intellectual and cultural history with a special emphasis on the Enlightenment, the trans-Atlantic Age of Revolutions, and the legacy of the 18th century for modern democracy. Her newest book, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life, just published in February 2025 and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice. She has also authored A Revolution in Language: The Problem of Signs in Late Eighteenth-Century France (2001); Common Sense: A Political History (2011), which won the Mark Lynton History Prize and the Society for the History of the Early American Republic Book Prize; and Democracy and Truth: A Short History (2019). The 2022 six-volume series, A Cultural History of Ideas, which she co-edited with Peter Struck, Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Vartan Gregorian Professor of Humanities, won the Association of American Publishers’ award for best reference work in the humanities. Her writing has also appeared in non-scholarly outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Nation.
 
Rosenfeld received her BA from Princeton University and her PhD from Harvard University. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the Mellon Foundation, both the Remarque Institute and the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Paris, the American Council of Learned Societies, and a Kluge Chair at the Library of Congress.  

For the full announcement, visit https://www.amacad.org/news/new-member-announcement-2025.