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Assistant Professor of History Christopher Capozzola will be a Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina. Victor Chernozhukov, Castle Krob Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics, has been selected as the winner of the 2004 Arnold Zellner award for his joint paper with Han Hong on "An MCMC Approach to Classical Estimation." This award is given once every two years for the best theory paper published in the Journal of Econometrics in the preceding two years. Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow and Professor of Music Peter Child will be in residence with the Albany Symphony Orchestra from 2005-2008, with the support of a "Music Alive" residency funded by Meet the Composer and the American Symphony Orchestra League. Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Noam Chomsky was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Florence and the University of Athens in 2004. Jonathan Gruber, Professor of Economics, was elected to the Institute of Medicine. Class of 1949 Professor of Music Ellen Harris has been awarded the Westrup Prize by the Editorial Board of Music & Letters for her article "Handel the Investor." Marietta College in Ohio named Robert Kanigel, Professor of Science Writing, its third Krause Lecturer. Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Human Development Kenneth Keniston will be an Honorary Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science. Ruth Perry, Professor of Literature and Women's Studies, will be giving a postdoctoral seminar at the Folger Institute entitled "Ballads, Broadsides, and Eighteenth-Century Culture." Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies, received a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation. Technical Instructor with the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies Ann Snodgrass received the 2004 Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship, a $20,000 prize which is awarded every other year for a translation of modern Italian poetry. This award will allow Ms. Snodgrass to complete her translation of the selected poems of Vittorio Sereni. She has also received a six-week residency at the American Academy in Rome. Stephen Yablo, Professor of Philosophy, has been invited to give the 2005 Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture at Oxford University and the 2005 Jacobsen Lecture at the University of London. Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of Writing and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society Rosalind Williams has been invited to give the Annual Neale Wheeler Watson Lecture at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm. Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music and Head of Music and Theater Arts Evan Ziporyn and Lecturer in Music Mark Harvey have been chosen as 2004 Award recipients by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP). Faculty Promotions James Buzard Xavier Gabaix Noel Jackson David Mindell Patricia Tang |
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