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Sharon Ann Holt WS ’87 has been appointed executive director of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. She was previously executive director of Sandy Spring Museum, a community history museum in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC.
Ambassador June Carter Perry WF ’65 was appointed the Cyrus Vance Visiting Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College. The Cyrus Vance Visiting Professorship in International Relations was established in 1987 to honor the 57th U.S. Secretary of State. The professorship brings a prominent practitioner in international relations to the College for a semester or full academic year. Ambassador Perry served as the U.S. envoy to Sierra Leone and Lesotho under Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush and has received numerous awards for her achievements in the Foreign Service.
David Schwebel CH ’99, professor of psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was appointed Associate Dean for Research in the Sciences at the College of Arts and Sciences.
Stephen J. Greenblatt WF ’64 H was awarded the 2011 National Book Award in Nonfiction for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W. W. Norton & Co., 2011). Dr. Greenblatt was previously a finalist for the same award in 2004 for his work Will of the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.
Frederic Jameson WF ’54 H was awarded the sixth Lifetime Scholarly Achievement award from the Modern Language Association (MLA). Dr. Jameson is William A. Lane Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and professor of Romance studies at Duke University and is a renowned cultural theorist and literary critic. Several other Fellows also recevied awards from the Modern Language Association:
Michael K. Bourdaghs MN ’89, Atsuko Ueda, and Joseph A. Murphy received the 9th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature for their translation of Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings, by Natsume Sôseki (Columbia University Press, 2009).
The 9th MLA Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition was awarded to Janel Mueller WF ’59 and Joshua Scodel for Elizabeth I: Translations, 1544–1589 and Elizabeth I: Translations, 1592–1598, (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
Vivasvan Soni AP ’00 was awarded the 18th Annual MLA Prize for a First Book for Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity (Cornell University Press, 2010). The award is given for an outstanding literary or linguistic study that is the first book-length publication by a member of the association.
William A. Lovis WF ’73 received the 2011 Distinguished Career Award from the Midwest Archaeological Conference. The award is conferred on someone whose career has consistently demonstrated excellence in research, teaching, publication, site and collection preservation, program development and education in the advancement of Midwestern archaeology. Dr. Lovis also recently published Information and Its Role in Hunter Gatherer Bands (UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2011), edited with Robert Whallon and Robert Hitchcock.
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Random House, 2011) by Maya Jasanoff MN ’97 was selected a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
Chris Quigg WF ’66 has been awarded a 2011 J. J. Sakurai Prize from the American Physical Society for outstanding achievement in theoretical particle physics.
Arnold Rampersad BS NAC was named the recipient of the Biographers International Organization's 2012 BIO Award.
Jing Tsu MN ’95 became the first person to be tenured professor of modern Chinese literature and culture at Yale University in 2011 and is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (2011-2012). She is a recent recipient of the New Directions Fellowship (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2011) and will be at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University in spring 2013.
Margaret Atwood WF ’61—In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (Nan A. Talese, 2011)
David William Bates MN ’86—States of War: Enlightenment Origins of the Political (Columbia University Press, 2011)
George Bornstein WF ’63—The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish From 1845 to 1945 (Harvard University Press, 2011)
Michael Bourdaghs MN ’89—Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop (Columbia University Press, 2012)
Christopher Breiseth WF '58 and Kirstin Downey—editors, A Promise to All Generations: Stories & Essays about Social Security and Frances Perkins (Frances Perkins Center, 2011)
Partha Chatterjee WF ’71 DS—Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2011)
Eleanor Courtemanche MN ’91—The "Invisible Hand" and British Fiction, 1818-1860: Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Sarah Damaske WS ’07—For the Family?: How Class and Gender Shape Women's Work (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Cathy N. Davidson WF ’70—Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking, 2011)
Kirsten Marie Delegard MN ’92—Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
Joellyn Duesberry WF '66, Carl Little, and David Curry—Elevated Perspective: The Paintings of Joellyn Duesberry (Rose Fredrick Fine Art Publishing/distributed by University of New Mexico Press, 2011)
David M. Freidenreich MN ’99—Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law (University of California Press, 2011)
Brenda Dixon Gottschild WS ’79—Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Sandra M. Gustafson CN ’91—Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Lynne Lawner WF ’57 H—translator, Painted Fire: A Selection of Poems 1954-2006 by Maria Luisa Spaziani (Chelsea Editions, 2010)
Michael Lempert CN ’02—Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery (University of California Press, 2012)
Sara Levine MN ’92—Treasure Island!!! (Tonga Books, 2012)
John D. Lyons WF ’67—The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature (Columbia University Press, 2012)
Mary Mackey WF ’66—Sugar Zone (Marsh Hawk Press, 2011)
John Lardas Modern CN ’01—Secularism in Antebellum America, with Reference to GHOSTS, Protestant Subcultures, MACHINES, and their Metaphors; featuring discussions of Mass Media, Moby-Dick, Spirituality, Phrenology, Anthropology, Sing Sing State Penitentiary, and SEX with the New Motive Power (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Ralph Nader WF ’63—Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Build It Together to Win (Common Courage Press, 2011)
Leah Price MN ’91—editor, Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (Yale University Press, 2011)
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen CN ’01—American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Amy Schalet CH ’00—Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Richard Sennett WF ’64—Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (Yale University Press, 2011)
Carole Watterson Troxler WF ’64—Farming Dissenters: The Regulator Movement in Piedmont North Carolina (North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 2011)
Alison Winter MN ’88—Memory: Fragments of a Modern History (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Hilma Woliter VF—An Available Man (Ballantine Books, 2012)