From News of the National Humanities Center, Spring 2005
Kudos  A sampling of good news from our Trustees and Fellows
T. J. Anderson (Fellow 1996–97) has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Carla Antonaccio (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 1999–2000) will leave the department of classical studies at Wesleyan University to join the faculty of Duke University.

Jodi Bilinkoff (Mellon Fellow 1999–2000) has been made a full professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

John P. Birkelund (Trustee Emeritus), Robert Hollander (Trustee Emeritus), Harriet Ritvo (Walter Hines Page Fellow* 1989–90; MacArthur Ecological Humanities Fellow 2002–03), and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Rockeller Fellow 1991–92) have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Molly Broad (Trustee) has announced plans to retire as president of the University of North Carolina system by the end of the 2005–06 academic year.

Allen Buchanan (John G. Medlin, Jr., Fellow 2001-02) has been named James B. Duke Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke University.

The Fellows of Magdalen College, Cambridge have elected Nicholas Canny (Pew Fellow 1986–87) to be Senior Parnell Research Fellow for 2005–06.

Edward Curtis (Josephus Daniels Fellow*) will leave the religion department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Margreta de Grazia (NEH Fellow 1982–83) has been named the Joseph B. Glossberg Term Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.

Andrew Delbanco (Trustee; Mellon Fellow 1990–91; Lilly Fellow in Religion and the Humanities 2002–03) was named a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for 2004–05.		 Duke University presented Ernestine Friedl (Fellow 1985–86) its University Medal for Distinguished Meritorious Service to the University. A cultural anthropologist, Freidl in 1980 became the first female dean of arts and sciences at Duke.

Carmela Vircillo Franklin (Mellon Fellow 1990–91) has been named the twentieth director of the American Academy in Rome.

Andrea Frisch (Gould Foundation Fellow) gave birth to Gabriel Sebastian on February 21, 2005.

Eugene Goodheart (NEH Fellow 1987–88) reports the publication of two books, Confession of a Secular Jew: A Memoir (Overlook Press, 2000 [hardcover]; Transaction, 2004 [paperback]) and Novel Practices: Classic Modern Fiction (Transaction, 2004).

Jonathan M. Hess (John E. Sawyer Fellow 1999–2000) received an honorable mention for the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Germanic Languages and Literatures for his book Germans, Jews, and the Claims of Modernity (Yale University Press, 2002).

Gertrude Himmelfarb (Trustee Emerita) and John R. Searle (Trustee Emeritus) accepted the 2004 National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush.

Linda K. Kerber (Delta Delta Delta Fellow 1990–91) has been voted president-elect of the American Historical Association, the country’s largest and oldest organization for professional historians.

Louise McReynolds (NEH Fellow 1995–96, 1999–2000) is leaving the department of history at the University of Hawai’i to join the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Patricia O’Brien (NEH Fellow 1988-89) became executive dean of the UCLA College on July 1, 2004.

James J. O’Donnell (Trustee) has published Augustine: A New Biography (Ecco, 2005).		 Sherry Ortner (Luce Senior Fellow 1999–2000) was the recipient of the 2004 J. I. Staley Prize for Life and Death on Mount Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering (Princeton University Press, 1999). The School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico presents the Staley Prize annually to a living author in honor of a book exemplifying outstanding scholarship and writing in anthropology. Ortner has left Columbia University to become a distinguished professor in the department of anthropology at UCLA.

Yale historian Jaroslav Pelikan (Past Trustee) and French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (Rockefeller Fellow 1979–90; Mellon Senior Fellow 1980–81, ’83–84) received the Library of Congress’s second John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences. The two scholars shared the $1 million award.

Robin Moore (William J. Bouwsma Fellow) will leave the department of music at Temple University for the University of Texas at Austin.

Peter Sigal (Rockefeller Fellow) will leave California State University to join the department of history at Duke University.

Robert K. Steel (Trustee) has been elected chairman of the Duke University board of trustees, beginning on July 1. Steel, the first Durham native to chair the board since Duke became a university in 1924, has served as vice chair since July 2000.

Timothy Taylor (NEH Fellow 1999–2000) has left Columbia University to become associate professor of musicology and ethnomusicology at UCLA.

Timothy Tyson (John Hope Franklin Senior Fellow) will leave the University of Wisconsin-Madison to join the faculty of Duke University.

Karl von der Heyden (Trustee) has been named vice chair of the Duke University board of trustees, effective July 1.

David Wallace (Mellon Fellow 1989–90) became president of the New Chaucer Society in 2004.
*Endowed by the Research Triangle Foundation



From News of the National Humanities Center, Spring 2005
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