Booth Professor Named American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
University of Chicago Booth School of Business professor Matthew Gentzkow has been elected by The American Academy of Arts and Sciences as one of its 197 new Fellows, according to a press release on the school website.
A Richard O. Ryan Professor of Economics and Neubauer Faculty Fellow at Chicago Booth, Gentkow studies empirical industrial organization and political economy, with a specific focus on media industries. He has had his work published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, and Econometrica, and has been covered in major national media.
“Each new member is a leader in his or her field and has made a distinct contribution to the nation and the world. We look forward to engaging them in the intellectual life of this vibrant institution,” Don Randel, Chair of the Academy’s Board of Directors, said.
In addition to this newest honor, Gentzkow has also received the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal, given by the American Economic Association to the American economist younger than 40 who has made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. He also received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2009, and has been awarded several National Science Foundation grants for research on media, and a Faculty Excellence Award for teaching.
Gentzkow joins 11 other Chicago Booth faculty members in the Academy: Marianne Bertrand, Ronald Burt, Douglas Diamond, Eugene Fama, Reid Hastie, Kevin Murphy, Raghuram Rajan, Richard Thaler, Robert Vishny and Luigi Zingales.
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