From News of the National Humanities Center, Summer 2007

NOTES: A Sampling of Good News from our Trustees, Fellows, and Staff

NEW TRUSTEES NAMED

At the Spring Board Meeting, the Center elected five new trustees. They are CEES DE BRUIN, Chairman and President, Indofin Group; CATHERINE GALLAGHER, Eggers Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley; STANHOPE KELLY, President of Wealth Management, Wachovia Corporation; PHILIP KHOURY, Ford International Professor of History and Associate Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and LAWRENCE RICCIARDI, Senior Advisor: IBM Corp., Jones Day, Lazard Freres.


OTHER NEWS

AZIZAH Y. al-HIBRI (Fellow 2000-01) was recently awarded the 2007 First Freedom Award by the Council for America's First Freedom. Professor al-Hibri was one of four distinguished advocates of religious freedom to receive First Freedom Awards at a dinner held on January 25, 2007, at the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.

T. J. ANDERSON (Fellow 1996-97) has been awarded an honorary degree as Doctor of Music by Tufts University in recognition of his achievements as a composer and music educator. Anderson, who retired from Tufts in 1990, taught at the university for eighteen years.

Denison University has named BRADLEY W. BATEMAN (Fellow 1999-2000) as provost. Bateman had previously been associate dean at Grinnell College. Bateman will also be professor of economics at Denison.

DANIEL BORNSTEIN (Fellow 2003-04) has accepted a new position at Washington University in St. Louis, where he will be professor of history and religious studies and holder of the Stella K. Darrow Professorship in Catholic Studies beginning in the fall semester 2007.

MOLLY FARIES (Fellow 1990-91) has been made professor emerita at Indiana University and the University of Groningen. She continues her work with the Mondrian Foundation as coeditor and researcher.

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund has honored former Trustee NICHOLAS deB. KATZENBACH with its 2007 Justice in Action Award. The award recognizes achievements in business, journalism, and the law that have advanced social justice and created lasting change.

JEFFREY KERR-RITCHIE (Fellow 2003-04) is now associate professor of history at Howard University.

JIM LESHER (Fellow 2004- 05) has accepted a new position as adjunct professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

DEIDRE LYNCH and THOMAS KEIRSTEAD (Fellows 2000-01), formerly at Indiana University, have moved to the University of Toronto. Deidre Lynch is now the Chancellor Jackman Professor and associate professor of English. Thomas Keirstead is now associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies.

PETER LYNCH (Fellow 1998-99) entered a Trappist monastery on February 16, 2007.

VICTOR MAIR (Fellow 1991-92) was elected to the American Philosophical Society in April 2007. Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the society includes members from a broad range of the arts and sciences and public achievement. Mair was also honored by an issue of the journal Asia Major (vol. 19, 2006) on "China at the Crossroads" that is a Festschrift for him.

Former Trustee MARY PATTERSON MCPHERSON has been named the new executive officer of the American Philosophical Society, beginning July 1.

DAVID S. PETERSON (Fellow 1987-88) has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the coming year to work on his book analyzing the place of the church in Florentine politics and society in the early Italian Renaissance.

Trustee CARL PFORZHEIMER III is the recipient of the 2007 Harvard Medal in recognition of his extraordinary service to Harvard University. The award is made annually by the Harvard Alumni Association.

ROBERT SIMON has been named to the advisory and editorial board for the NCAA Scholarly Colloquium on College Sports. He is the only representative from a Division III college in the 13-member group, which was created by NCAA president Myles Brand. The inaugural meeting of the group will take place in January 2008 in conjunction with the NCAA national convention in Nashville, Tennessee. The purpose of the colloquium is to promote research of the highest quality focusing on intercollegiate athletics and their influence on university and cultural life.




From News of the National Humanities Center, Summer 2007
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