Three Princeton University faculty members and three University alumni were among 33 new members recently elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), the nation's oldest scholarly organization.

Sara McLanahan, who holds a joint appointment at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Sociology, was elected to APS’ social sciences class.

McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, is the director of the Wilson School’s Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. McLanahan also recently received an honorary doctorate from Northwestern University, recognizing her scholarship on child well-being. Her research interests include family demography, stratification and social policy.

Also newly elected is Paul DiMaggio, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Emeritus, who held a joint appointment at the Wilson School and the Department of Sociology. Currently professor of sociology at New York University, DiMaggio has a variety of research interests, including the formal and informal organization, the sociology of economic markets, social implications of information technology and theory and methods in the sociology of culture.