From News of the National Humanities Center, Spring/Summer 2006
Kudos  A sampling of good news from our Trustees and Fellows
Leslie M. ("Bud") Baker, Jr. (Trustee) has been elected to the board of directors of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.

Charles Capper (Fellow 1994-95) and David Hollinger (Past Trustee) are the editors of the fifth edition of the two volumes of The American Intellectual Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2005). Capper, with Anthony La Vopa (Fellow 1983-84 and 1998-99) and Nicholas T. Phillipson, is also the editor of Modern Intellectual History, a journal launched in 2004.

Blair Effron (Trustee Emeritus) has joined the board of directors of the Foundation for the National Archives.

Aline Helg (Fellow 2000-01) was awarded the 2005 John Edwin Fagg Prize of the Association of American Historians for the best publication in the history of Spain, Portugal, or Latin America in the last ten years for her book Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004).

 Jenann Ismael (Fellow 2003-04) reports that she has earned tenure at the University of Arizona. She has also won a five-year Queen Elizabeth II research fellowship at the University of Sydney from the Australian Research Council.

Linda K. Kerber (Fellow 1990-91) now serves as president of the American Historical Association; she will offer the presidential address at the AHA’s annual meeting in Atlanta, January 4-7, 2007. During the 2006-07 academic year she will be Harmsworth Professor of History at Oxford University.

Martin V. Melosi (Fellow 1982-83) is the 2004-05 recipient of the Ester Farfel Award at the University of Houston. The Farfel Award is the highest honor that the university can bestow on a faculty member, and is given for career excellence in research, teaching, and service.



 Gregg Mitman (Fellow 2004-05) has won the Aldo Leopold-Ralph W. Hidy Award from the American Society for Environmental History. The award is given annually for the best article published in Environmental History. Mitman wrote the article, "In Search of Health: Landscape and Disease in American Environmental History," during his stay at the National Humanities Center.

Karin Schutjer (Fellow 2004-05) has received the Max Kade Award for the Best Article in German Quarterly for "Beyond the Wandering Jew: Anti-Semitism and Narrative Supersession in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre." German Quarterly is published by the American Association of Teachers of German and is the leading organ for German studies in the United States.

Karl M. von der Heyden (Trustee) has been elected to serve on DreamWorks Animation’s Board of Directors.

Ding Xing Warner (Fellow 2004-05) has been awarded tenure as a member of Cornell University's East Asian Literature faculty.




From News of the National Humanities Center, Spring/Summer 2006
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