Andrew Delbanco is named this year's Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

Andrew Delbanco, professor of American Studies at Columbia University, will deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. (Michaelangelo's Photography)

Andrew Delbanco, author and professor of American Studies at Columbia University, will deliver this year's Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.

Established by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1972, the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities is considered the highest honor the federal government gives for "distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities," according to the NEH.