Obama Announces Humanities Medals for 2010

President Obama on Tuesday named the 10 winners of the National Humanities Medal for 2010. They are:

• Daniel Aaron, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of English and American Literature Emeritus at Harvard University.
• Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor at Harvard University.
• Jacques Barzun, former dean and provost at Columbia University.
• Wendell E. Berry, the poet and novelist.
• Roberto González Echevarría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures at Yale University.
• Stanley N. Katz, director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.
• Joyce Carol Oates, the author.
• Arnold Rampersad, biographer and professor and former associate dean at Stanford University.
• Philip Roth, the novelist.
• Gordon S. Wood, the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University.