Publications, promotions, and awards! Here’s what we’ve heard from you since the fall. Please stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu.
2009-10
SARAH LOCHLANN JAIN explored the issue of cancer in “A Special Case: The Young Cancer Patient” for the Human Experience series “Thinking Twice.”
2008-09
TERRY CASTLE is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education article “Terry Castle, Critical Outlaw.” Her recent book The Professor was chosen as one of the Top 10 Books of the year by New York Magazine as well as one of the Favorite Books of 2010 by BookForum; it was also named Editor’s Pick #2 in the top ten books in Gay and Lesbian Studies by Amazon.com.
DONG GUOQING received a promotion to full professorship from Nanjing University. His promotion came on the heels of a number of recent publications: “Local Factionalism in the Cultural Revolution: Nanjing Under Military Control,” Journal of Asian Studies (June 2011); ”Factions in a Bureaucratic Setting: The Origins of Cultural Revolution Conflict in Nanjing,” China Journal (January 2011); ”Nanjing’s failed January Revolution of 1967: The Inner Politics of an Aborted Power Seizure,” China Quarterly (September 2010); and “The First Uprising of the Cultural Revolution at Nanjing University: Dynamics, Nature and Interpretation,” Journal of Cold War Studies (Summer 2010).
2006-07
HANS THOMALLA has won the prestigious Composer’s Prize from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. The prize is a great honor for young composers and is awarded with a cash prize and a composition commission.
2005-06
MARGARET COHEN published The Novel and the Sea (Princeton University Press, 2010), a literary history that questions our land-locked assumptions about the novel.
2002-03
ARNOLD RAMPERSAD received the 2010 National Humanities Medal, bestowed by President Obama during a ceremony at the White House on March 2, 2011. Rampersad was honored for his work as a biographer and literary critic.
2001-02
DEBRA SATZ recently published Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets (Oxford University Press, 2010).
1994-95
LAWRENCE JACKSON published his second book, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 (Princeton University Press, 2010).
1991-92
DAVID HAHN finished composing “TIC*TAC*TOE” for mandolin, guitar, and electronic sound. The piece was commissioned by the German-based MARE Duo and will be included on their next CD, Sound Design. He is currently working as sound designer for the Seattle Publc Theatre‚ March 2011 production of The Happy Ones, a play by Julie Marie Myatt. He also founded the performing ensemble Concert Imaginaire which performs free improvisations and Eastern European folk music.
His 4-movement piece for mandolin and guitar, “Passionate Isolation,” has been published by Clear Note Publications. The piece won the 2003 Composition Prize from the Classical Mandolin Society of America.
1989-90
RICHARD PRICE published a new book, Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). Another of his books, Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2008), won the 2008 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, the 2009 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship, and the 2009 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion.
1987-88
BARBARA BABCOCK has a new book out with Stanford University Press titled Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz (2011). The January edition of Rorotoko featured a fascinating interview with Babcock on Clara Foltz’s life and why today we would call her a “public intellectual.” Read More»
1982-83
HERBERT LINDENBERGER published Situating Opera: Period, Genre, Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
