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Announcements Click here to read the Spring 2007 School of Humanities Magazine On the Air: Rice's School of Humanities to co-produce national radio programs. Please click here for full story.
2007-2008 Major Faculty Awards English Joseph Campana, assistant professor, received the Glenna Luschei Award from the Prairie Schooner Magazine for poems published in 2007. Caroline Levander, professor and director of the Kirsten Ostherr, assistant professor, received a Faculty Initiatives Fund Award for Health Media Literacy and was invited to be a Scientia Faculty Fellow History John Boles, William P. Hobby Professor of History and Editor of the Journal of Southern History, received the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. Rebecca Goetz, assistant professor, received the Webb-Smith Essay Competition Award for an essay entitled "'The Child Should be made a Christian:' Baptism, Race, and Identity in the Early Chesapeake." Linguistics Robert Englebretson, assistant professor, received the 2007 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize. Masayoshi Shibatani, Deedee McMurtry Professor of the Humanities in Linguistics and Chair of Linguistics, has been elected a Christensen Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Religious Studies Elias Bongmba, professor, reveived the 2007 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Work in Caribbean Thought for his book The Dialectics of Transformation in Jeffrey Kripal,J. Newton Rayzor Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the University of Chicago Press for his book on Esalen and was given the American Society for the Study of Religion election ASSR Award. Visual and Dramatic Arts Darra Keeton, associate professor, received the Yaddo Artist's Fellowship.
Past Announcements The Brown Foundation has awarded $10 million to Rice University to support a new doctoral program in art history. Please click here to read the full story. Dean Wihl is pleased to announce the renewal of the Mellon Foundation Graduate Seminar Pilot Program. John Boles, William Pettus Hobby Professor of History, received the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. April DeConick, Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies, and Kirsten Ostherr, assistant professor of English, received Faculty Initiative Funds for their research proposals. Thomas Haskell, Samuel G. McCann Professor of History, received the GSA Faculty Teaching/Mentoring Award. Robert Englebretson, linguistics assistant professor, is recipient of Rice's 2007 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize. Veronica Albin, sr. lecturer of Spanish, received the Sarofim Teaching Award. Gautami Shah, lecturer, was named President of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages. Jose Narbona, lecturer, received a Baker College Special Service Award and was named Distinguished Faculty Associate at Baker College. Darra Keaton, visual arts professor, was a finalist and received a $2500 award from the Wynn Newhouse Award for Artists. She has also been awarded a Residency Fellowship at Yaddo for the fall. Professor Elias Bongmba's The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa, is this year's winner of the Caribbean Philosophical Association's the Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding work in postcolonial thought. April DeConick, Isla Carrol and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies, received a $50,000 Faculty Initiative Grant to support her project The Codex Judas Congress. The first Elizabeth Dietz Prize for best book published in Early Modern Studies has been awarded to Professor Zachary Lesser for his Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publishing: Readings in the English Book Trade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Congratulations to Professor William Camfield for receiving an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellowship renewal. $20 million gift, largest in Rice history, boosts $80 million plan to make Humanities departments national leaders. Please click here for full story. |
