The CAFC Academic Freedom Prize

Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago

Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Professor of Politics and Social Science at Sarah Lawrence College

Early Childhood Educator, Author, and Former Yale University Lecturer in Child Development and Policy

Physician, Sociologist, and Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University

Medical Historian, Journalist, and Former Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine

Economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, co-Founder of Equal Opportunity Ventures

Media Commentator, Filmmaker, and Former Professor of Communication Arts at Essex County College

Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine and Former Director of the Duval County Health Department

Educator, Author, and Former Lecturer and Co-director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University

Professor of Music Theory and Distinguished University Research Professor at the University of North Texas

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Former Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Louisville

Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Linguist, Classicist, and Former Cotsen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University

Professor of Law at the University of Illinois Chicago

Theoretical physicist, Edward Teller Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and Former Undersecretary for Science in the U.S. Department of Energy

Biostatistician and Epidemiologist, Former Professor of Medicine at Harvard University

Educator and Former Faculty Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the California Community College System

Art Historian and Former Adjunct Instructor of Art History at Hamline University

Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and Former President of the American Association of University Professors

Applied statistician, Research Scientist and Former Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Human Rights Lawyer and Former General Counsel of Human Rights Watch

Former French Literature and History Teacher at the Spence School in New York City

Professor of Sociology at Barnard College and Columbia University

Educator, Founder and Director of The Terra Firma Teacher Alliance, and Former Teacher at the Grace Church High School in New York City

Entrepreneur, Palantir Alumnus, and Former Brown University Student

Musical Artist and Former Employee of Smith College

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Chair of Biological Sciences at Columbia University

Distinguished Endowed Professor at Middlebury College, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and Founding Director of Middlebury's Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Rhodes College

Cardiac Electrophysiologist and Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh

Pastor and Former Assistant Professor of Religion at Liberty University

Sociologist and Professor of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah