Arts & Sciences Awards & Recognitions 2009

The Dean of Faculty Office would like to thank Public Affairs for all of their efforts to spread the word about the innovative and creative work of the Dartmouth faculty.  Please note that the list provided here is by no means exhaustive, for instance it does not include the majority of external grants or notable papers of which there also have been many.  We will update this list periodically and encourage you to send notice of new awards and recognitions to Assistant Dean for Administration, Megan Steven.

Induction to Scholarly Societies

• Mark McPeek, professor of biological sciences, was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• David Kotz, professor of computer science, was awarded the distinction of Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• Robert Caldwell, associate professor of physics and astronomy, was recently awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Physical Society (APS)

Directorship Appointments

• Hany Farid, William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science, was appointed the Neukom Institute director
• Brian Pogue, Thayer School professor of engineering, was named Dean of Graduate Studies
• Christiane Donahue, associate professor of linguistics, has been appointed Dartmouth's first director of its Institute of Writing and Rhetoric
• Annamaria Lusardi, professor of economics, was named to lead a research team that will devise a national baseline survey of financial capability and literacy among US adults, in consultation with the US Treasury Department

• Denise Anthony, associate professor of sociology, was appointed to be the research director of Institute for Security, Technology and Society (ISTS)

Endowed Chair Appointments

• Mary Flanagan, is to be the inaugural Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in the Digital Humanities. She will also serve as a professor of film and media studies.
• Ross Virginia, is to be the inaugural holder of the Myers Family Professorship.  Virginia is also a professor of environmental studies and is the director of the Institute of Artic Studies
• William Wohlforth, professor of government, was appointed to be The Daniel Webster Professor
• Jonathan Crewe, professor of English and comparative literature, was appointed to be The Leon Black Professor in Shakespearean Studies

• Nancy Marion, professor of economics, was appointed to be The George J. Records 1956 Professor in Economics

Major Grants and Fellowships

• Susanne Freidberg, associate professor of geography, was recently awarded both the Mellon New Directions Fellowship and the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
• Larry Polansky, the Jacob H. Strauss Professor in Music, was awarded a New Directions Fellowship by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support his emerging interest in American Sign Language poetry and performance
• Fabio Pellacini, assistant professor of computer science, won the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship recognizing his contribution to computer science and supporting his future research
• Tanzeem Choudhury, assistant professor of computer science, won the prestigious NSF CAREER award to support her research on "Enabling Community-Scale Modeling of Human Behavior and its Application to Healthcare"
• Afra Zomorodian, assistant professor of computer science, has won the prestigious NSF CAREER award to carry our research on "Persistence Theories for Computational Topology
• Ross Virginia, Myers Family Professor of Environmental Studies, is the PI on a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation through its Integrative Graduate Education and research Traineeship (IGERT) program.  The grant was awarded to the Dickey Center for International Understanding through its Institute for Arctic Studies
• Dartmouth's Toxic Metals Research Group was awarded a $14.5 million grant renewal from the National Institute of Environmental Health Science's Superfund Basic Research Program, bringing the total awarded to the group to over $40 million.  Dartmouth Faculty on the grant include: Program Director and Professor of Physiology, Bruce Stanton; Associate Director, The Dartmouth Professor of Biological Sciences and Dean of the Faculty, Carol Folt; Associate Director and Professor and Chair of Community and Family Medicine at DMS, Margaret Karagas; Professor of Chemistry Dean Wilcox; The Ronald and Deborah Harris Professor in the Sciences and Professor of Biological Sciences, Mary Lou Guerinot; Associate Professor of Genetics, Jason Moore; Research Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Celia Chen '78; and Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Trace Elements Analysis Laboratory, Brian Jackson
• Seven Dartmouth professors won Fulbright scholarships.  Christiane Donahue, the new director of Dartmouth's Institute for Writing and Rhetoric and associate professor of linguistics; Ursula Gibson, professor of engineering; Pamela Jenkins, associate professor of community and family medicine and of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School; David Kotz, professor of computer science; and Michael Mastanduno, the Nelson Rockefeller Professor of Government, were named Fulbright Scholars by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, which is part of the US Department of State.  Ioana Chitoran, associate professor of French and of linguistics and cognitive science, and Jonathan Smolin, assistant professor in Asian and Middle Eastern studies, each received Fulbright-Hays fellowships from the US Department of Education
• Michael Dorsey, assistant professor of environmental studies, was awarded $300,000 from the Ford Foundation to launch the Climate Justice Research Project.  The project is dedicated to studying the racial and social inequities that occur in addressing climate change
• Craig Sutton, assistant professor of mathematics, won the Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation
• Enrico Riley, senior lecturer in studio art, was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to support his work in painting

Other Honors

• Dartmouth honored Marysa Navarro, the Charles A. and Elfriede A. Collis Professor of History who will be retiring this year, by commissioning a portrait of her to hang in Baker Library
• Tanzeem Choudhury, assistant professor of computer science, was named to the 2008 TR35, an annual listing from Technology Review magazine that features the world's top innovators under the age of 35
• Joseph Sutton '76, visiting associate professor of theatre's play Complicit ran from Jan 7 - Feb 21, 2009, in London's Old Vic Theatre and starred Academy Award Winning actor Richard Dreyfuss
• Lou Renza, professor of English, received the 2008 Faculty Member of the Year Award from Dartmouth's Lambda Rho chapter of the Order of Omega Greek National Greek Honor Society
• Andrew Garrod, professor of education and executive director for the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth (SEAD) program, received the Presidents' Good Steward Award at the annual 2008 Campus Compact for New Hampshire Presidents'.  He also won the Good Work Award from the Association for Moral Education for his work in the Marshall Islands and Bosnia
• Hany Farid, the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science, is featured in the PBS program NOVA scienceNOW in its June 25th episode
• John Rassias, the William R. Kennan Professor of French and Italian was awarded (by vote of the Class of 2008) the Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching
• Richard Wright, the Orvil Dryfoos Professor in Public Affairs, was awarded the Dean of Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentoring and Advising
• Margaret Graver, professor of classical studies, was awarded the John M. Manley Huntington Memorial Award for Newly Promoted Faculty
• Paul Whalen, associate professor psychological and brain sciences and Leslie Butler, associate professor of history, were both awarded the Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement
• Celia Naylor, associate professor of history, and David Bucci, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences were both awarded the John M. Manley Huntington Memorial Award for Newly Tenured Faculty
• Douglas Moody, senior lecturer in Spanish, was awarded the Dean of Faculty Teaching Award for Visiting and Adjunct Faculty
• Raul Bueno-Chavez, professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies, was recognized with an honorary professorship from the Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru
• Esme Thompson, professor of studio art, had a solo show of her "New Paintings and Collages" at the Bowery Gallery in NY
• Bernard Gert, Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, celebrated his 50th and final year of teaching at Dartmouth
• Karolina Kawiaka, senior lecturer in studio art and practicing architect, has received a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant for the design and construction of two solar-powered sculpture installations
• Paul Christesen '88, associate professor of classics, has been named the Linda '82 and Paul Gridley Faculty Fellow in recognition of his work with students outside of the classroom.  The award was given by Dean of the College Thomas Crady at a ceremony on campus in November
• Larry Polansky, Jacob H. Strauss Professor in Music, was featured in an article in the Nov/Dec issue of Chamber Music
• James Igoe, assistant professor of anthropology, spoke as a panelist on food sovereignty during the World Conservation Congress, held in Barcelona, Spain
• David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics, was named Business Person of the Year by the Daily Telegraph (London) in its "Great Britons of 2008" contest
• Doug Perkins, lecturer in music, performed in New York City's Carnegie hall on January 16 as part of the Meehan/Perkins duo
• Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry recognized, Michael Dorsey, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, as a "Green Revolutionary" in an exhibition this winter titled "Black Creativity 2009: Green Revolution"
• Ronald Green, Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the study of Ethics and Human Values and Professor of Religion, appeared on a February 11 broadcast of Greater Boston with Emily Rooney
• Megan Steven '02, visiting assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences and Assistant Dean of the Faculty for Administration, is featured in the Discovery Channel's segment "When Senses Collide."  In the video, available online at http://science.discovery.com/tv/senses-collide/steven/steven.html, Steven discusses the condition known as synesthesia, and how it can be observed using brain-imaging techniques

Books

• Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative, by Michael Chaney, assistant professor of English, Indiana University Press, 2008
• Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy, edited by Ada Cohen, associate professor of art history, and Jeremy Rutter, Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007
• The Headman Was a Woman: The Gender Egalitarian Batek of Malaysia, by Kirk Endicott, professor of anthropology, and Karen Endicott, director of communications, Thayer School, Waveland Press, 2008
• Five O'clock Lightning: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the Greatest Team in Baseball, the 1927 New York Yankees, by Harvey Frommer, Visiting Professor of Liberal Studies, John Wiley & Sons, 2008
• Yankee Century and Beyond, by Harvey Frommer, visiting professor of liberal studies, Sourcebooks Inc., November 2007
• Palladium in Heterocyclic Chemistry: A Guide for the Synthetic Chemist, edited by Gordon Gribble, Dartmouth Professor of Chemistry, and Jie Jack Li Elsevier, 2007
• The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance, by Christopher MacEvitt, assistant professor of religion, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
• Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Italy, by Graziella Parati, professor of Italian, Fairleigh, Dickinson University Press, 2007
• The Shining World: Exploring Aleksandr Grin's "Grinlandia," by Barry Scherr, Dartmouth Provost and Mandel Family Professor, and Nicholas Luker, with the collaboration of Simon Ellis Astra Press, 2007
• The Craft of System Security, by Sean Smith, associate professor of computer science, and John Marchesini, A&S Grad '06, Addison-Wesley, 2008
• Insider Attack and Cyber Security: Beyond the Hacker, edited by Sean Smith, associate professor of computer science, S.M. Bellovin, S. Hershkop, A. Keromytis, S. Sinclair, and S. Stolfo Springer, 2008
• Political Women and American Democracy, by Lisa Baldez, associate professor of government, with Karen Beckwith and Christina Wolbrech, Cambridge University Press, 2008
• Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century, by Carol Bohmer, visiting associate professor of women's and gender studies, and Amy Shuman, Routledge, 2008
• Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History, by Paul Christesen '88, associate professor of classics, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• The Human Genome Project in College Curriculum: Ethical Issues and Practical Strategies, edited by Aine Donovan, director of the Ethics Institute, and Ronald Green, Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Value, University Press of New England, 2008
• A Foreign War: Billy Wilder's American Films, by Gerd Gemunden, Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities, Berghahn Books, 2008
• Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence, by Richard Granger, professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Gary Lynch Palgrave, Macmillan, 2008
• The Genesis of the GATT, by Douglas Irwin, Professor of Economics, Petros C. Mavroidis, and Alan O. Sykes, Cambridge University Press, 2008
• Cuba Singing with Bright Tears, by Virginia Beahan, senior lecturer in studio art, Pond Press, 2009
• Hakka Soul: Memories, Migrations, and Meals, by Chin Woon-Ping, visiting professor of English, University of Hawaii Press, 2008
• Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage Through the Himalayas, by Sienna Craig, assistant professor of anthropology, Wisdom Publications, 2008
• Crossing Boundaries: Gender, the Public, and the Private in Contemporary Muslim Societies, edited by Dale Eickelman, Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2008
• African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens, by Celia Naylor, associate professor of history, University of North Carolina Press, 2008
• The Faith of Scientists in Their Own Words, edited with commentary by Nancy Frankenberry, John Phillips Professor of Religion, Princeton University Press, 2008
• The Making of Saint Louis: Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages, by Marianne Cecilia Gaposchkin, Assistant Dean of the Faculty for Pre-Major Advising, Cornell University Press, 2008
• Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata: The Jaramillista Movement and the Myth of the Pax Prista, 1940-1962, by Tanalis Padilla, assistant professor of history, Duke University Press, 2008
• Estrenado con Gran Aplauso: Teatro Espanol, 1844-1936, edited by Marsha Swislocki, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Miguel Valladares, romance languages reference bibliographer, Vervuert, 2008
• The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies, edited by Steven Ericson, associate professor of history, and Allen Hockley, associate professor of art history, University of New England Press, 2008