Kornel Chang has been selected as an Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow for the 2013-14 academic year. Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, and other scholar-patriots, the Academy is one of the nation's oldest learned societies. It promotes scholarship across a wide range of fields and, in the words of its founders, "cultivates every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people."