 From News of the National Humanities Center, Fall/Winter 2007 KUDOS: A Sampling of Good News from our Trustees, Fellows, and Staff |
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HONORS AND RECOGNITION Aline Helg (Fellow 2000-01) was awarded the 2006 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). Fitz Brundage (Fellow 1995-96) has received two awards for his book The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (Harvard University Press, 2005), the Lillian Smith Book Award of the Southern Regional Council, 2006, and the Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association. Mellon: An American Life (Knopf, 2006), by David Cannadine (Fellow 2005-06) has been selected for the Boston Globe's list of Best Nonfiction books of 2006 and for the Washington Post's Critic's Choice list for 2006. Christoper Browning (Fellow 2006-07), Jack P. Greene (Fellow 1986-88), Darlene Clark Hine (Fellow 1986-87), Richard Janko (Fellow 1990-91), and Rita Dove (Fellow 1988-89) were among those inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on October 7. Also at that meeting Patricia Meyer Spacks (Trustee, Fellow 1982-83, 1988-89) was recognized for her leadership on the conclusion of her term as president of the American Academy, 2001-06. She will now direct the visiting scholars program at the Academy. In October, Joe Viscomi (Fellow 2006-07) was one of five pioneers honored by The Knowledge Trust Honors Program in its first year. Viscomi was the recipient of the Exploration Award for his work as coeditor and cocreator of The William Blake Archive, the awardwinning hypertext resource of Blake's poetry and art. The Exploration Award recognizes the creation or compilation of new knowledge, tools, and services that help shape teaching and scholarship for 21st-century knowledge professionals. Distinguished literary scholar and biographer R.W.B. Lewis (Fellow 1989-90, distinguished visiting scholar 1998), has been honored by other former Fellows, friends, and admirers whose contributions have made possible the dedication of Study 114 in his name. NEW POSITIONS Edward H. Friedman (Fellow 1998-99) has been appointed Chancellor's Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, where he has taught since 2000. In November, the Vanderbilt Theatre, under the direction of Jeffrey Ullom, performed Wit's End, Friedman's adaptation of La dama boba by the seventeenth-century Spanish playwright Lope de Vega, as part of its 2006-07 season. Jim Lesher (Fellow 2004-05) has accepted a position in the Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill beginning with the fall semester of 2007. On Tuesday, October 10, 2006, Robert K. Steel (Trustee) was sworn in as the Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance. In that capacity, he serves as the principal adviser to the Secretary on matters of domestic finance and leads the Department's activities with respect to the domestic financial system, fiscal policy and operations, governmental assets and liabilities, and related economic and financial matters. Deborah Wong (Fellow 2005-06) was recently named president-elect of the Society for Ethnomusicology. She will serve as its president for 2007-09. NEW ARRIVALS Theresa Braunschneider (Fellow 2005-06) and her partner Chris welcomed their daughter, Eliza Mae Matthews Braunschneider, on December 23, 2006. Stephanie Tucker (Staff) and her husband Sean are the proud parents of their first child, Samantha Clare, born October 6, 2006. Nancy Yousef (Fellow 2006-07) and her husband Jonah Siegel (Fellow 1998-99) announced the birth of their daughter, Silvia Luna Siegel-Yousef, on October 17, 2006. Mother and daughter are healthy and Nancy will be continuing her fellowship at the Center in the spring. |
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