From News of the National Humanities Center, Fall 2004
Kudos  A sampling of good news from our Trustees and Fellows
Jordanna Bailkin (Josephus Daniels Fellow* 2003–04) and Christopher Johnson are the proud parents of Tobias Lev Johnson, who was born at 7:13 p.m. on August 31st, weighing just under 8.5 lbs., and measuring 20.5 inches. "He is very much looking forward to making your acquaintance," Tobias’s parents report, "although his most sociable hours are sometimes rather late at night!"

Philip J. Benedict (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 1993–94) has received two prizes for the book he worked on at the Center, Christ’s Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism (Yale University Press, 2002): the Phyllis Goodhart Gordon Prize of the Renaissance Society of America (for the best book in any discipline concerning the period 1300–1700) and the Philip Schaff Prize of the American Society for Church History (for the best book on any aspect of the history of Christianity in the preceding two years). Benedict will leave Brown University next year to become a professor at the University of Geneva’s Institute for the History of the Reformation.

Susan Einbinder (NEH Fellow 1999–2000) is the recipient of a 2004 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Current fellows Deborah Harkness (John E. Sawyer Fellow) and Greg Mitman (GlaxoSmithKline Senior Fellow) are also recent recipients of Guggenheim awards.		 The board of trustees of Ohio State University has conferred its highest academic honor, the Distinguished University Professorship, on John N. King (Lilly Endowment Fellow in Religion and the Humanities 1997–98). King, who by virtue of this honor will serve on the university’s President’s and Provost’s Advisory Council, continues as Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and of Religious Studies. He recently completed a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Conference and Study Center at Bellagio, Italy, and his most recent book is Voices of the English Reformation (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).

Lloyd Kramer (John G. Medlin, Jr., Fellow 2002–03) has been named Dean Smith Distinguished Term Professor and chair of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

David Levering Lewis (Rockefeller Fellow 1984–85) is one of the first recipients of a new award that honors John Hope Franklin (Mellon Senior Fellow 1980–81, ’81-82; Trustee Emeritus). Lewis, who teaches history at New York University, received the award, called the John Hope Franklin Distinguished Contributor to Higher Education, this past summer at the Black Issues Benchmarks & Barriers for People of Color in Higher Education conference in Arlington, Virginia. Other honorees were the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Sybil Mobley, former business school dean at Florida A&M University.		 Steven Marcus (Trustee; Commonwealth Fellow 1980–82) has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Mainz.

Sean McCann (Burkhardt Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies 2001–02) received the 2004 Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Wesleyan University.

The administration of the National Humanities Center received the 2004 Information Management Award from the North Carolina Chapter of the Special Libraries Association at its annual awards banquet. The award recognizes an organization served by a North Carolina Special Library for notable support of its library and/or library science.

Anne Scott (Commonwealth Fellow 1980–81; Trustee Emeritus), Alvin Goldman (Rockefeller Fellow 1981–82), and Paul Berliner (NEH Fellow 1996–97) have all been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as has Richard Brodhead, who joins the Center’s board of trustees this fall as the new president of Duke University.

Paul Weithman (Walter Hines Page Fellow* 2000–01) has received the 2003 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award for Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Jiyuan Yu (Hurford Family Fellow 2003–04) is coauthor, with Nicholas Bunnin, of The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy (Blackwell, 2004).
*Endowed by the Research Triangle Foundation



From News of the National Humanities Center, Fall 2004
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