 He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968 and the American Philosophical Society in 1973.In 1985, the Society honored him with the Karl Spencer Lashley Award.Bodian was an honorary member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the French Neurological Society, and the Mexican Society of Anatomy, and he served as president of the American Association of Anatomists from 1971 to 1972.