 Among his honors were three Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright professorship at the University of Pisa and a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.He also was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the most prestigious honor society for creative arts in the country.Schorer was called as an expert witness during the 1957 obscenity trial over the Allen Ginsberg poem "Howl", and testified in defense of the poem.