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Breaking icons, lyrically

In a conversation with soundings, Ellen Harris discusses her new work Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas.

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Writer-in-Residence Stephen Alter has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Professor of Economics Abhijit Banerjee was awarded the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal 2000.

Ricardo Caballero, Ford International Professor of Economics, received the 2002 Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society.

Joshua Cohen, Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, has been awarded the Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship in Philosophy.

Associate Professor of Linguistics Michel DeGraff has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.

Professor of History and Urban Studies Robert Fogelson was awarded the Lewis Mumford Prize for his book Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950.

Professor of Anthropology James Howe was given a Wenner-Gren grant.

Professor of History and Philosophy of Science Evelyn Fox Keller was presented with the medal of the Italian Senate in recognition of her outstanding contribution to research.

Professor of History Bruce Mazlish was appointed to the Kluge Center Scholars Council of the Library of Congress.

David A. Mindell, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, was awarded the Society for the History of Technology's (SHOT) IEEE Life Member Prize in Electrical History. He also received SHOT's Sally Hacker Prize.

Associate Professor of Literature Shankar Raman was given the Jeptha H. and Emily V. Wade Award.

Harriet Ritvo, Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, was awarded a senior Fellowship at the National Humanities Center for 2003.

Susan Slyomovics, McMillan-Stewart Professor of the Study of Women in the Developing World and Professor of Anthropology, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and a Bunting/Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. She was also elected a Fellow of the American Folklore Society.

Assistant Professor of History Jonathan Zatlin was given the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize for his dissertation, "The Currency of Socialism: Money in the GDR and German Unification, 1971-1990."

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