APPOINTMENTS

William M. Ruddick WF ’55 professor of philosophy and bioethics at New York University, was appointed the first Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics and Director of the NYU Center for Bioethics in October 2007.

AWARDS & HONORS

Anne R. Clark MN '93 received a 2007 Milken Family Foundation National Educator award. The award is given to educators in recongition of their excellence in the classroom and commitment to students and is highly regarded as the "Oscar" of teaching awards.

Heather D. Curtis CN '03 received the 2008 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize from the American Society of Church History for Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860-1900.

Claire A. Fontijn WS ’91 was awarded the 2007 Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography by ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) for her book Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo. Ms. Fontijn's work received further recognition as an honorable mention in the book category of the 2007 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music awarded by the International Alliance for Women in Music to honor scholarly works focused on women in music.

Robert L. Hass WF ’63 received a 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and the 2007 National Book Award for Poetry for his collection Times and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 . He served as poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and is Professor of English at University of California-Berkeley.

Catherine G. Kodat MM ’02 was awarded The Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award by Hamilton College. A member of the faculty since 1995, Dr. Kodat is chair of the department of English and director of the Program in American Studies.

Alan C. Kors WF ’64 has been awarded a 2008 Bradley Prize by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Co-founder and chairman emeritus of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Dr. Kors is the George H. Walker Term Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He was awarded the prize "not only for his original scholarship in European intellectual history, but also for his defense of free speech as well," said the Bradley Foundation president and chief executive officer.

Brian A. Smith MN ’03 received the first-place 2007 Templeton Enterprise Award from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute for his article "Adam Smith, the Concept of Leisure, and the Division of Labor," Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, 2006. Mr. Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in government at Georgetown University.

Christopher M. Sorensen WF ’69, a distinguished professor of physics at Kansas State University, was named Professor of the Year in the category of doctoral and research universities by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Richard S. Wortman WF ’58 was the recipient of the 2007 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in recognition of his extraordinary scholarly accomplishments and his lifelong dedication to the field of Russian history.

NEW BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

Marc S. Abramson MN ’92—Ethnic Identity in Tang China (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).

Robert B. Alter WF ’57—The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (W.W. Norton & Company, 2007).

Leonard Y. Andaya WF ’65—Leaves of the Same Tree: Trade and Ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka (University of Hawai'i Press, 2008).

Margaret Atwood WF ’61—The Door (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).

Carrie N. Baker WS ’00—The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Russell E. Banks WF ’67—The Reserve (HarperCollins, 2008).

Casey Nelson Blake CN ’83—editor, The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State (University of Pennsylvania Press/Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2007).

Jack S. Blocker WF ’63—A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860–1930 (Ohio State University Press, 2008).

Hester M. Blum MN ’95—The View From the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives (University of North Carolina Press, 2008).

William C. Calin WF ’57—The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics: From Spitzer to Frye (University of Toronto Press, 2007).

Beth Widmaier Capo WS ’01—Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction (Ohio State University Press, 2007).

Scott E. Casper MN ’86—Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine (Hill & Wang , 2008).

Catherine M. Chin CN ’02—Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).

Susan Letzler Cole WF ’62—Missing Alice: In Search of a Mother's Voice (Syracuse University Press, 2007).

Heather D. Curtis CN ’03—Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860-1900 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

Jean A. Dowdall WF ’63—Searching for Higher Education Leadership: Advice for Candidates and Search Committees (Praeger Publishers, 2007).

Heather J. Dubrow WF ’66—The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

David M. Estlund CN ’85—Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework (Princeton University Press, 2007).

Drew Gilpin Faust WF ’70—This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Knopf, 2008).

Julia Haig Gaisser WF ’62—The Fortunes of Apuleius and "The Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception (Princeton University Press, 2008).

Margaret Gibson WF ’66—One Body: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2007) and The Prodigal Daughter: Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood (University of Missouri Press, 2008)

Carol Gilligan WF ’58—Kyra: A Novel (Random House, 2008).

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore WS ’90—Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950 (W.W. Norton & Company, 2008). 

Lenn E. Goodman WF ’65 H—Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself (Oxford University Press, 2007). 

Donna J. Haraway WF ’66 H—When Species Meet (University of Minnesota Press, 2007). 

Jennifer E. Hedda MN ’91—His Kingdom Come: Orthodox Pastorship and Social Activism in Revolutionary Russia (Northern Illinois University Press, 2008). 

Stanley E. Hedeen WF ’65—Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology (University Press of Kentucky, 2008). 

Nancy J. Hirschmann WS ’82—Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory (Princeton University Press, 2007). 

Katherine K. Jellison WS ’87—It's Our Day: America's Love Affair With the White Wedding, 1945-2005 (University Press of Kansas, 2008). 

G. Matthew Jenkins CN ’97—Poetic Obligation: Ethics in Experimental American Poetry After 1945 (University of Iowa Press, 2008). 

Jane N. Kamensky MN ’87—The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse (Viking, 2008). 

Sidney L. Kasfir WF ’63—African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity (Indiana University Press, 2007). 

Mary R. Lefkowitz WF ’57—History Lesson: A Race Odyssey (Yale University Press, 2008). 

Laura Lein WF ’69 and Deanna T. Schexnayder, et.al.—Life After Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty (University of Texas Press, 2007). 

Caitrin Lynch WS ’96—Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2007).

Nathaniel E. Mackey WF ’69—Bass Cathedral (New Directions, 2008).

Richard S. Markovits WF ’63 H—Truth or Economics: On the Definition, Prediction, and Relevance of Economic Efficiency (Yale University Press, 2008).

Miranda C. Marvin WF ’63—The Language of the Muses: The Dialogue Between Roman and Greek Sculpture (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008).

Thomas M. McCarthy AP ’01—Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment (Yale University Press, 2007).

Darlis A. Miller WF ’61—Matilda Coxe Stevenson: Pioneering Anthropologist (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007).

Kiri M. Miller MN ’00—Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism (University of Illinois Press, 2007).

Negar Mottahedeh WS ’96—Representing the Unpresentable: Historical Images of National Reform From the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran (Syracuse University Press, 2007).

Lynda E. Payne CN ’95—With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England (Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007).

Robert N. Pinsky WF ’62DS—Gulf Music (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007).

James W. Pipkin WF ’66—Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies (University of Missouri Press, 2008).

Jeremy G. Prestholdt CN ’02—Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (University of California Press, 2008).

Lisle A. Rose WF ’61—Explorer: The Life of Richard E. Byrd (University of Missouri Press, 2008).

Vanessa R. Schwartz MN '86—It's So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich WS '78—Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (Knopf, 2007).

Sasha Su-Ling Welland MN ’96—A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - paperback, 2007).

Tinsley E. Yarbrough WF ’63 H—Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice (Oxford University Press, 2007).

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Karl M. Sooder WF '67 was recently awarded the Teaching Improvement Award and recognized for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by the University of Central Florida. Retired from management positions in the Fortune 500, he is now full-time faculty at UCF.