Obama Announces 2011 National Humanities Medals

President Obama on Friday announced the recipients of the 2011 National Humanities Medals:

• Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor of philosophy at Princeton University.
• John Ashbery, the poet.
• Robert Darnton, a professor of history and librarian at Harvard University.
• Andrew Delbanco, professor of humanities at Columbia University.
• Charles Rosen, the music writer.
• Teofilo Ruiz, a professor of history and chair of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Los Angeles.
• Ramón Saldívar, a professor of English and comparative literature at Stanford University.
• Amartya Sen, a professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University.

Complete biographies of the winners may be found here.