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Several Woodrow Wilson Fellows received national awards and honors in spring 2009.

Guggenheim Fellows

  • Eliot Borenstein MN ’88—Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University
  • Caryl Emerson WF ’66—A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
  • Joshua Gamson SP ’91—Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco
  • Noel Lenski MN ’89—Associate Professor of Classics, University of Colorado
  • Leslie Peirce WS ’83—Silver Professor, Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
  • Carla Gardina Pestana CN ’86—W. E. Smith Professor of History, Miami University

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    Pulitzer Prize Finalists

  • History
    Drew Gilpin Faust WF '70—The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf)
  • Poetry
    Frank Bidart WF '62—Watching the Spring Festival (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • General Nonfiction
    Arthur Herman CN '82—Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age (Bantam Books)

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    Academy of Arts & Sciences Fellows

  • Nancy E. Adler WF ’68—Professor of Medical Psychology; Director, Center for Health and Community, University of California, San Francisco
  • Robert Berne AF ’71—Senior Vice President for Health; Professor of Public Policy and Financial Management, New York University
  • James E. Haber WF ’65 H—Professor of Biology, Brandeis University
  • Deborah R. Hensler WF ’63—Judge John W. Ford Professor of Dispute Resolution; Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Stanford Law School
  • William Chester Jordan WF ’69—Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University
  • Jackson Lears WF ’69—Board of Governors Professor of History, Rutgers University
  • James M. McPherson WF ’58—George Henry Davis Professor of American History, Emeritus, Princeton University
  • Norman H. Nie WF ’64—Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Chicago/ Research Professor of Political Science; Director, Stanford Institute for Quantitative Study of Society, Stanford University
  • Stephen Peter Stich WF ’64—Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
  • Ruth Bernard Yeazell WF ’67—Chace Family Professor of English, Yale University

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    Carnegie Scholars

  • Hussein Anwar Fancy CN '06—Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor for Medieval Violence and Modern Tolerance
  • Denise Spellberg WS '85—Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin for Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders

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    APPOINTMENTS

    Laura Bolton WF ’66 H was appointed to the steering committee of the World Health Organization Global Initiative for Wound and Lymphedema Care.

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    AWARDS & HONORS

    James Gunn WF ’61 H, a professor of astronomy at Princeton University, was awarded a National Medal of Science in October 2009.

    James McPherson WF '58, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Humanities from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities in October 2009.

    Edward L. Vaughn AF '78, dean of the College for Excellence at Alcorn State University, was one of four individuals to receive an Alumni Achievement Award for professional accomplishments from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in May 2009.

    Walter Whiteley WF '66, professor of mathematics at York University in Toronto, was awarded the 2009 Adrien Pouliot Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to mathematics education, by the Canadian Mathematical Society.

    Doris Wilkinson WF '59, professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky, received the Women Leading Kentucky’s Lifetime Achievement Award in April 2009. The University of Kentucky dedicated a conference room to her in October 2007.

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    OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

    Nancy M. Robertson CN ’86's revised dissertation was published as Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46 in 2007 by University Illinois Press and was awarded their Richard L. Wentworth Prize in 2008.

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    NEW BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

    George A. Akerlof WF ’62 and Robert J. Shiller—Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (Princeton University Press, 2009)

    Jasmine Alinder AP '01—Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration (University of Illinois Press, 2009)

    Jennifer Baszile MN ’91—The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2009)

    Mia Bay MN ’86—To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (Hill and Wang, 2009)

    Janet Burroway WF ’58 H—Bridge of Sand (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009)

    Brian Q. Cannon RU ’90—Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West (University Press of Kansas, 2009)

    James W. Ceaser WF ’67, Andrew E. Busch, and John J. Pitney Jr.—Epic Journey: The 2008 Elections and American Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009)

    Morris Dickstein WF ’61—Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009)

    George C. Edwards III WF ’69—The Strategic President: Persuasion and Opportunity in Presidential Leadership (Princeton University Press, 2009)

    Marc Egnal WF ’65—Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War (Hill and Wang, 2009)

    Robert Faulkner WF ’56 and Susan Shell—editors, America at Risk: Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty (University of Michigan Press, 2009)

    Michael M.J. Fischer WF ’56—Anthropological Futures (Duke University Press, 2009)

    Miriam Forman-Brunell WS ’86—Babysitter: An American History (New York University Press, 2009)

    Eileen Gillooly CN ’90 and Deirdre David, editors—Contemporary Dickens (Ohio State University Press, 2009)

    Erik Gray MN ’95—Milton and the Victorians (Cornell University Press, 2009)

    Gina L. Greco MN ’86 and Christine M. Rose, translators—The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris): A Medieval Household Book (Cornell University Press, 2009)

    Jennifer A. Herdt MN ’86—Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (University of Chicago Press, 2008)

    Eva Hoffman WF ’67—Appassionata (Other Press, 2009)

    Roger Horowitz CN ’89 and Warren Belasco—editors, Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)

    Richard W. Kaeuper WF ’63—Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)

    Arnold Krupat WF ’62—All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression (University of Nebraska Press, 2009)

    Jackson Lears WF ’69—Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (HarperCollins, 2009)

    Elise Lemire CN ’95—Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)

    Tina Lu MN ’90—Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature (Harvard University Asia Center/Harvard University Press, 2009)

    Mary Mackey WF ’66—The Widow's War (Berkley Books, 2009)

    Robert Malcolmson WF ’65 H and Patricia Malcolmson, editors—Nella Last’s Peace: The Post-War Diaries of Housewife, 49 by Nella Last (Profile Books, 2009)

    Michael R. Marrus WF ’63—Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009)

    Lisa G. Materson WS ’99—For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)

    J. D. McClatchy WF ’67—Mercury Dressing: Poems (Knopf, 2009)

    Angela L. Miller CN ’83, Janet C. Berlo, Bryan Wolf, and Jennifer L. Roberts—American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity (Prentice Hall, 2008)

    Nicolaus Mills WF ’60 and Michael Walzer, editors—Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)

    Bethany Moreton CN ’05—To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press, 2009)

    David N. Myers CN ’90—Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz (Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2008)

    Patricia Causey Nichols WS ’74—Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South Carolina (University of South Carolina Press, 2009)

    Sharon Olds WF ’64—One Secret Thing (Knopf, 2008)

    Robert Oppenheim MN ’93—Kyongju Things: Assembling Place (University of Michigan Press, 2008)

    P.J. O'Rourke WF ’69—Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hellbending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed to Be -- With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank Mowing Our Lawn (Atlantic Monthly Press , 2009)

    Frederick S. Paxton CN ’83, translator—Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony: The "Lives" of Liubirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim (Catholic University of America Press, 2009)

    Steve Pincus MN ’84—1688: The First Modern Revolution (Yale University Press, 2009)

    William Rothman WF ’65 H—editor, Three Documentary Filmmakers: Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch (State University of New York Press, 2009)

    Carolyn Moxley Rouse CEF ’02—Uncertain Suffering: Racial Health Care Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease (University of California Press, 2009)

    Jennifer Scanlon WS ’87—Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown (Oxford University Press, 2009)

    Marshall S. Shapo WF ’59—Experimenting With the Consumer: The Mass Testing of Risky Products on the American Public (Praeger Publishers, 2008)

    Kathryn Kish Sklar WF ’65 and Beverly Wilson Palmer, editors—The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869-1931 (University of Illinois Press, 2009)

    Bruce R. Smith WF ’68—The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2008)

    Sanderson M. Smith WT ’84—The Statistical Odyssey of Herkimer and the Stat Pack (AuthorHouse, 2009)

    Rupert Stasch CN ’97—Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place (University of California Press, 2009)

    John Stauffer CN ’97 and Sally Jenkins—The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded From the Confederacy (DoubleDay, 2009)

    Robert Stuart Thomson WF ’62—Operatic Italian (Godwin Books)

    Charles Weiss WF ’59 H and William B. Bonvillian—Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution (MIT Press, 2009)

    Robert Zaretsky CN ’88 and John T. Scott—The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding (Yale University Press, 2009)

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