Awards and Honors
Conquest is a dual national (British and American) by birth. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Royal Society of Literature, and of the British Interplanetary Society, and a Member of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. His honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005); Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (1996); Order of the British Empire (1956); Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2009), Estonian Cross of Terra Mariana (2008), and the Ukrainian Order of Yaroslav Mudryi (2005). His awards include selection by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the 1993 Jefferson Lecture (the highest honor the U.S. government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities); Richard Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters (1999); Michael Braude Award for Light Verse (American Academy of Arts & Letters,1997); Peter Shaw Memorial Award (National Association of Scholars, 2001); Alexis de Tocqueville Award, (1992), Dan David Prize (2012).
He is a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
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