Spring
1998
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Honors & awards
Recent faculty
honors and awards
New faculty chairs
Recent faculty honors and awards
Economics Professor Abhijit Banerjee was appointed a Fellow of the Econometric Society and awarded a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
Associate Professor James Buzard, of the Literature Faculty, was appointed a Fellow of the National Humanities Center.
Institute Professor of Linguistics Noam Chomsky was awarded the Helmholtz Medal by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie Wissenschaften and an honorary doctorate at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Economics Associate Professor Glenn Ellison was appointed a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and received the Graduate Economic Association Teaching Award.
Professor Loren Graham of the Science, Technology and Society Program received the highest award of the History of Science Society, the George Sarton Medal, "for a lifetime of professional contributions to the history of science."
Associate Professor Hugh Gusterson of the Anthropology Program and the Program in Science, Technology and Society was appointed a Fellow of the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University.
Kenneth Hale, Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Linguistics, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Arizona.
Institute Professor of Music John Harbison was awarded the Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities.
Associate Professor of Literature Diana Henderson received the MIT Jeptha H. and Emily V. Wade Award to support her project "Uneasy Collaborations: Transforming Early Modern English Drama Across Time and Media."
Economics Professor Bengt Holmstrom received the Graduate Student Council Teaching Award and the 1997 Economics Prize from the Economics Society of Finland, and will receive an honorary doctorate from the Stockholm School of Economics.
Professor Evelyn Fox Keller of the Science, Technology and Society Program was awarded an honorary doctorate from Lulea University in Sweden.
Dean Philip S. Khoury, of the History Faculty, was elected president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
Associate Professor Michael Kremer, of the Economics Department, received the MacArthur Fellowship and the 1996 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which honors the scholarly achievements and potential of the nation's most outstanding young science and engineering faculty members.
Professor Lowell Lindgren of the Music and Theater Arts Program was named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow in recognition of his contributions to undergraduate education. Professor Lindgren also received the Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award from Harvard University.
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History Pauline R. Maier has been named a finalist in the National Book Critics' Circle Award for American Scripture. (See the related article).
Frances and David Dibner Assistant Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing David Mindel, of the Science, Technology and Society Program, received a grant from the James H. Ferry, Jr. Fund to support the development of his new joint course between STS and Electrical Engineering/Computer Science.
Professor Shigeru Miyagawa of Foreign Languages and Literatures was awarded the International Cultural Award from The Cultural Foundation for Promoting the National Costumes of Japan.
Michael Ouellette, senior lecturer of Theater Arts, received the Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize for excellence in the creative arts.
Economics Professor Michael Piore was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lille in France.
Assistant Professor of Literature Shankar Raman was appointed a Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz in Germany.
Associate Professor of Spanish Margery Resnick received the Alumni Association's Presidential Citation Award for the MacVicar Oral History Project and from the Abby Mauze/Rockefeller Fund for Women's Studies.
Arthur J. Conner Professor of History Harriet Ritvo and Associate Professor of History Anne McCants won an award from the Class of '51 Fund for Excellence in Education and the Class of '55 Fund for Excellence in Teaching for their project, History at the Bench: Reading and Writing about Modern Europe.
Merritt Roe Smith, Cutten Professor of the History of Technology, in the Science, Technology and Society Program, was awarded an honorary doctorate by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the history of technology.
Literature Professor David Thorburn and Literature Professor Henry Jenkins, III, received a $525,000 grant from the John and Mary Markle Foundation for a two-year series of conferences and symposia, part of the Media in Transition Project.
Foreign Languages and Literatures Associate Professor Bernd Widdig, who also directs the MISTI / Germany Program, was awarded the 1997 James A. Levitan Prize in the Humanities to pursue his research, entitled "Daily Explosions: Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany."
Class of 1922 Professor of Literature Cynthia Wolff, of the Writing and Humanistic Studies Program, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, to conduct her research on writer Willa Cather.
Anthropology Program
Professor Susan Slyomovics The Geneviève
McMillan-Reba Stewart Professorship in the Study of Women in the Developing
World.
Department of Economics
Professor Bengt Holmstrom The Paul
A. Samuelson Professorship
Associate Professor Daron Acemoglu The Pentti J. K. Kouri Career Development Professorship in Economics
Associate Professor Dora Costa The Ford Career Development Professorship in Economics
Assistant Professor Susan Athey The Castle Krob Career Development Professorship in Economics
Foreign Languages and Literatures Section Assistant Professor Takako Aikawa The Mitsui Career Development Professorship
Department of Linguistics
and Philosophy
Professor Robert Stalnaker Laurance
S. Rockefeller Professorship
Assistant Professor Kai
von Fintel
The Class of 1942
Career Development Professorship
Music and Theater Arts Section
Professor Ellen Harris
The Class of 1949 Professorship
Department of Political
Science
Assistant Professor Melissa Nobles
The Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professorship
Program in Science, Technology
and Society
Assistant Professor David Mindell
The Frances and David Dibner Professorship in the History of Engineering
and Manufacturing
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