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Honors and awards Recent faculty honors and awards Faculty promotions Staff promotions Recent faculty honors and awards Associate Professor of Economics Dora L. Costa was honored by TIAA-CREF with the 1998 Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security. Composer Peter Child, professor of music and head of the Music and Theater Arts Section, received a 1998 commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. Professor of Literature and Women's Studies Ruth Perry was awarded a Bellagio Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation. Professors of Economics Joshua Angrist and Ricardo Caballero were elected Fellows of the Econometric Society. Joshua Cohen, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy, was selected as the Carlyle Professor at Oxford University and presented the first Carlyle classes in the history of political theory in January, 1999. Professor of French Studies and Film Edward Baron Turk's book, Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald (University of California Press) was named "one of the best books of 1998" by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Rudiger Dornbusch, Ford International Professor of Economics, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lima, Peru. Professor of Philosophy Judith Jarvis Thomson has been invited to give the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University. James M. Poterba, Mitsui Professor of Economics, was awarded the National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing for his "influential and comprehensive review of factors determining the savings of individuals over their lifetimes and the private accumulation of wealth for retirement." Institute Professor of Linguistics Noam Chomsky was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. Ford International Professor of Political Science Richard J. Samuels was awarded the Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council of New York to support field research on political leadership in Italy and Japan. He also has been appointed visiting professor at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Tokyo. Catherine Chvany, professor emerita of Russian Studies, was appointed Lindholm Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon. Associate Professor of History Anne McCants was honored by Mount Holyoke College with the Mary Lyon Award for her achievements in European history and economics and her commitment to education. The Shakespeare Electronic Archive, spearheaded by Peter Donaldson, professor of Literature and head of the Literature Faculty, has been installed at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC and at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-on-Avon, England. Faculty promotions BACK TO TOP Susan Athey Associate Professor of Economics Alexander Byrne Associate Professor of Philosophy Brenda Cotto-Escalera Associate Professor of Theater Arts Michel DeGraff Associate Professor of Linguistics Melissa Nobles Associate Professor of Political Science Shankar Raman Associate Professor of Literature Jeffrey Ravel Associate Professor of History Frederick Schaffer Associate Professor of Political Science Jaume Ventura Associate Professor of Economics Ralph Wedgwood Associate Professor of Philosophy Nicolas Wey-Gomez Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Staff promotions BACK TO TOP Gary King Student Administrator, Economics Phyllis Klein Student Administrator, Anthropology and Science, Technology and Society Chris Pomiecko Program Administrator, Comparative Media Studies Jennifer Purdy Student Administrator, Linguistics and Philosophy Tobie Weiner Student Administrator, Political Science   BACK TO TOP

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