Honors & awards
Elting E. Morison Professor of Political Science Stephen Ansolabehere, Gregory K. Palm (1970) Professor of Economics Glenn D. Ellison, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Emerita, Evelyn Fox Keller, Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Economics Whitney K. Newey, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations Peter C. Perdue, and Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Economics James Snyder were elected as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.
Assistant Professor of History William Broadhead received the MIT Jeptha H. and Emily V. Wade Award to support his project "Judging Caesar: Ancient and Modern Interpretations of Julius and Augustus Caesar."
Chris Capozzola, Lister Brothers Career Development Associate Professor of History, was awarded the Haynes Research grant by the Historical Society of Southern California for his project "Marriage, Migration, and Citizenship in Filipino, Los Angeles."
Institute Professor Emeritus and Professor of Linguistics Noam Chomsky received an honorary degree from Uppsala University, Sweden. Professor Chomsky's book Failed States was awarded a 2007 Massachusetts Book Award.
Junot Diaz, Associate Professor of Writing, was given a Rome Fellowship in Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2007.
Ford International Professor of History John W. Dower received the James R. Killian Faculty Achievement Award.
Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics Esther Duflo was named one of ten "Revolutionary Thinkers" by Forbes. Professor Duflo was also chosen as the inaugural editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Elizabeth Garrels, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, was awarded the 2006 NECLAS Translation Prize for her work on Sarmiento's autobiography.
Rudi Dornbusch Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics Mikhail Golosov was awarded the CESifo prize for the "Distinguished Young Economist in Public Finance," and was also named a Distinguished CESifo Associate.
Professor of Economics and Associate Department Head Jonathan Gruber was awarded a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellowship.
Professor of Science Writing Thomas Levenson was presented the first Walter P. Kistler Science Documentary Film Award in June 2007 for his work on Origins, a NOVA miniseries from the Foundation for the Future.
Pauline Maier, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Professor of History, and Section Head Anne McCants received the Arthur C. Smith Award for meaningful contributions and devotion to undergraduate student life and learning at MIT.
Heather Paxson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, was awarded a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to conduct an ethnographic study of the cultural economy and projection practices behind a recent renaissance in American artisan and farmstead cheesemaking.
David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy Michael J. Piore was elected President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.
James M. Poterba, Mitsui Professor of Economics and Department Head, was elected Second Vice President for the National Tax Association.
Arthur J. Conner Professor of History Harriet Ritvo was elected as the new Vice President and President Elect of the American Society for Environmental History.
Haimanti Roy, Assistant Professor of History, received the Ohio Academy of History Dissertation Award for "Citizenship and National Identity in Post-Partition Bengal, 1947–65."
Assistant Professor of Political Science Lily Tsai received the Sage Paper Award by the American Political Science Association for the best paper in comparative politics.
The Spanish Group of the Foreign Languages and Literatures section was awarded the 2006 Inter-American Prize for Educational Quality by the jury of the Inter-American Prize for Educational Innovations (INELAM). This prize is awarded annually by the Institute of Advanced Studies for the Americas (INEAM) of the Organization of American States (OAS) in recognition of projects which, through the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), contribute to solving socio-educational problems related to the development of human potential.
