From News of the National Humanities Center, Spring 2004
Kudos  A sampling of good news from our Trustees and Fellows
John Agresto (Ford Foundation Fellow 1978–79) was named senior advisor to oversee the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in August 2003.

Stuart Clark (Lilly Fellow in Religion and the Humanities 1999–2000) will be a Stewart Fellow in the Council for the Humanities and the history department at Princeton University in fall 2004.

Morris Eaves (MacArthur Foundation Fellow 1984–85), Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi have won the fifth Modern Language Association Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition for their website the William Blake Archive. The citation for the prize, which recognizes major scholarly additions to the archive published in 2001 and 2002, reads in part: "The William Blake Archive is a dazzling combination of hypertextually organized texts, bibliographical and historical commentaries, and beautifully reproduced visual images, including thousands of plates of Blake drawings, watercolors, and manuscripts." Eaves and his wife, Georgia, have also been celebrating the arrival of their first granddaughter, Emmeline.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (Ford Foundation Fellow 1984–85) was one of 10 recipients of the 2003 National Humanities Medal, awarded by the president of the United States to people who have made significant contributions to the study and preservation of the humanities in America.

The book Karen Tranberg Hansen (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 1997–98) worked on at the Center, Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia (University of Chicago Press, 2000) was awarded the book prize of the Society for Economic Anthropology at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in November 2003.

 Daniel Horowitz (NEH Fellow 1984–85) has received the Mary C. Turpie Prize for achievement in American studies teaching, advising, and program development from the American Studies Association.

Brian Kelly’s (Walter Hines Page Fellow of the Research Triangle Foundation) book Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908–1921 (University of Illinois Press, 2001) has won the Francis B. Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association for the best first book by an author in the field of southern history over a two-year period. The book previously won four honors, including the association’s H. L. Mitchell Award for the best book in southern labor history published in 2001–02.

John N. King (Lilly Fellow in Religion and the Humanities 1997–98) has been designated Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies at Ohio State University. During the current academic year, he holds a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to complete his book, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and Early Modern English Print Culture. King recently directed his fifth NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers.

Claude McKinney (Trustee Emeritus) has received the Watauga Medal, the highest nonacademic honor given by North Carolina State University.

Kenneth Mills (NEH Fellow 1995–96) has left Princeton University to become professor of history at the University of Toronto.

Joanne Meyerowitz (NEH Fellow 1999–2000) has received the Stonewall Award for Nonfiction sponsored by the American Library Association and the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction category, for the book she wrote at the Center, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (Harvard University Press, 2002). How Sex Changed also won recognition from the American Association of University Presses for its jacket design. 		Mary Patterson McPherson (Past Trustee) and Pauline Yu (Trustee) have been named to the board of directors of the Teagle Foundation, whose president is W. Robert Connor (President and Director Emeritus).

Eliza Robertson (Director of the Library) is president elect of the North Carolina chapter of the Special Libraries Association.

John Beldon Scott (NEH Fellow 1993–94) has received the Charles Rufus Morey Prize of the College Art Association of America for the book he worked on at the Center, Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin (University of Chicago Press, 2003).

John Shelton Reed (NEH Fellow 1983–84) has been honored through the John Shelton Reed Distinguished Professorship in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. John and Paula Powell of Palo Alto, Calif., created the professorship, which will benefit UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South.

Leonard V. Smith (Mellon Fellow 1993–94) and his co-authors Stéphane Audoin- Rouzeau and Annette Becker have won the 2003 Norman J. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize of the U.S. Branch of the Western Front Association for the best book in English published on World War I for France and the Great War, 1914–1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Nancy Tomes (Burroughs Wellcome Fund Fellow 1999–2000) has received the Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine for her book The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life (Harvard University Press, 1998).

Perez Zagorin’s (Rockefeller Fellow 1978–79) How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West (Princeton University Press, 2003) won recognition from the Los Angeles Times as one of the 20 best nonfiction books of 2003.




From News of the National Humanities Center, Spring 2004
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