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2010-2011
GIORGIO RIELLO was promoted to a professorship in Global History and Culture at Warwick University.
2008-2009
MUNKH-ERDENE LKHAMSUREN will be a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, for 2012-2013.
2007-2008
MIRIAM LEONARD was appointed to Full Professor at University College London in October 2011. Her title is Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception.
2006-2007
CHRISTINE GUTH published two articles: “The Local and the Global: Hokusai’s Great Wave in Contemporary Product Design,” Design Issues vol. 28/2 (Spring 2012): 16-35 and“Hokusai’s Great Waves in Nineteenth-century Japanese Visual Culture,” The Art Bulletin Vol. XCIII/1 (Dec. 2011): 468-85.
2005-2006
STEVEN YAO'S monograph, Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity (Oxford 2010), has been selected by the Association for Asian American Studies for its 2010 Book Award in Literary Studies.
2003-2004
KAROL BERGER has received the 2011 Glarean Prize, Swiss Musicological Society and has been the 2011-12 EURIAS Senior Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna.
AMELIA GLASER was promoted to the level of Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at UCSD, with tenure.
2002-2003
TAKASHI FUJITANI was runner-up for the John Hope Franklin Prize (best book in American Studies) for his book Race for Empire: Japanese as Koreans and Koreans as Japanese During WWII.
1998-1999
BYRNA GOODMAN will be a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-2013.
1994-1995
STEFAN HELMREICH'S book, Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas, won 2010 American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize and 2010 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
LAWRENCE JACKSON'S second book, The Indignant Generation, won the 2012 Creative Scholarship Award from the College Language Association, the 2012 Award for Non-Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, the 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, Literature, the 2011 William Sanders Scarborough Prize of the Modern Language Association, and was a Finalist for the 2011 Hurston-Wright Award. His book My Father's Name was featured on NPR.
1993-1994
JANN PASLER won the Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers of Music for her book Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France (UC Press, 2009).
1990-1991
MICHAEL BRATMAN was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1988-1989
SCOTT JOHNSON was named 2011 Robert L. Spaeth Teacher of Distinction at St. John's University. He is also completing a 3 year term as Chair of the joint department of political science at the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University in St. Joseph and Collegeville MN.
1986-1987
ROBERT SCHAPIRO was appointed Dean of Emory Law School.
1985-1986
HAMILTON CRAVENS has retired from Iowa State University and now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of the truly civilized cities in North America. He continues his scholarship on science in modern American culture and is a research specialist in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Program at the University of Minnesota.
