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PULITZER, NATIONAL ACADEMY MEMBERSHIP, GUGGENHEIMS AWARDED TO WW FELLOWS, NEW WW PRESIDENT

PRINCETON, NJ—Spring 2006 saw a spate of national honors for Fellows from a range of Woodrow Wilson programs, including a prestigious Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction awarded to an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies for her first book.

Caroline Elkins, a 1994 Mellon Fellow, won the Pulitzer in April 2006 for Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain 's Gulag in Kenya. Based on her doctoral dissertation, the book documents brutality by British occupying forces against Kenya's Kikuyu people during the 1950s—a story of colonial violence previously covered up by officials, and revealed through Dr. Elkins’ interviews with survivors of detention camps. Dr. Elkins is now the Hugo K. Foster Associate Professor of African Studies at Harvard University.

Spring 2006 accolades also went to Arthur E. Levine, president-elect of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and 15 of the original Woodrow Wilson Fellows, all elected to membership in the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences (full list below). Collectively the group accounts for nearly 10% of the 175 members elected to the Academy this year. Founded during the American Revolution, the Academy each year recognizes “exceptional achievement” in the arts and sciences, professions, and public service by prominent Americans and a handful of Foreign Honorary Members.

In addition, seven more of the original Woodrow Wilson Fellows, as well as two Mellon Fellows, a WW Women’s Studies Fellow, and a founding faculty member in Woodrow Wilson’s Teachers As Scholars program received 2006 Guggenheim Fellowships in April (full list below). The prestigious awards, made annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, recognize significant achievement by established scholars and professionals, and are intended to support their ongoing creative projects. The 11 new Guggenheim Fellows affiliated with Woodrow Wilson were among 187 selected nationwide.

A partial list of some of the many distinguished Fellows from various Woodrow Wilson programs is available on the Woodrow Wilson Web site at http://www.woodrow.org/fellowships/about_fellows. Contact Beverly Sanford, at (609) 452-7007, ext. 181 or sanford@woodrow.org, for additional information.

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The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has its origins in a now-famous fellowship program, begun in 1945, which helped the United States create a great generation of college teachers and intellectual leaders. Today’s Woodrow Wilson continues to cultivate excellence in teaching and learning at every level of education, putting the arts and sciences at the service of democracy.

 

 

MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES, 2006:
WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION FELLOWS

Dudley Andrew   WF ’67
R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature   •   Yale University

Christopher R. Browning   WF ’67
Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of History   •   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jeff Cheeger   WF ’64
Professor of Mathematics   •   New York University

William A. Graham   WF ’66
Dean, John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, and
Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies   •   Harvard Divinity School

Kenneth T. Jackson   WF ’61
Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and
Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History   •   Columbia University

Richard A. Kieckhefer   WF ’68
Professor of Religion and History   •   Northwestern University

David R. Knechtges   WF ’64
Professor of Asian Languages and Literature   •   University of Washington

Richard Kraut   WF ’65
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities and
Professor of Philosophy and Classics   •   Northwestern University

Dominick C. LaCapra   WF ’61
Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies   •   Cornell University

Arthur E. Levine   President-elect, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Professor and President   •   Teachers College, Columbia University

J. Andrew McCammon   WF ’69
Professor of Pharmacology and Chemistry   •   University of California, San Diego

Michael Murrin   WF ’60
David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Humanities   •    University of Chicago

Richard Taruskin   WF ’65
Class of 1955 Professor of Music   •   University of California, Berkeley

Craig A. Tracy   WF ’67
Distinguished Professor of Mathematics   •   University of California, Davis

Ellen Bryant Voigt   WF '64
Poet   •   Marshfield, Vermont

Nicholas Wolterstorff   WF ’53
Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology   •   Yale University

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GUGGENHEIM FELLOWS, 2006:
WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION FELLOWS

Patricia Cline Cohen   WF ’68
Professor of History   •   University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas and Mary Gove Nichols and marriage reform in antebellum America

Julia V. Douthwaite   TAS (founding faculty)
Professor of French and Assistant Provost for International Studies   •   University of Notre Dame
A literary history of the French Revolution

Robert S. Edelman   WF
Professor of History   •   University of California, San Diego
Moscow soccer audiences and popular attitudes toward communism

Paula S. Fass   WF ’67 H
Margaret Byrne Professor of History   •   University of California, Berkeley
Parents and children in American history, 1800-2000

Barbara Fuchs   MN ’92
Associate Professor of Romance Languages   •   University of Pennsylvania
“Moorish” culture and the conflictive construction of Spain

Karen V. Hansen   WS ’87
Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies   •   Brandeis University
The Dakota Sioux and Scandinavian homesteaders, 1900-1930

Deidre S. Lynch   MN ’83
Associate Professor of English   •   Indiana University, Bloomington
A cultural history of the love of literature

Arden Reed   WF ’70
Arthur M. and Fanny M. Dole Professor of English   •   Pomona College
Slow art, from tableaux vivants to James Turrell

William C. Taubman   WF ’62
Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science   •   Amherst College
A biography of Mikhail Gorbachev

Noël Valis   WF ’68
Professor of Spanish   •   Yale University
Catholicism in modern Spanish narrative

Anne Winters   WF ’68
Poet/Professor of English   •   University of Illinois, Chicago
Poetry

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