Matthew Jesse Jackson, Associate Professor in Art History, Visual Arts, and the College, received the 2011 Robert Motherwell Book Award and an honorable mention from the 2010 American Publishers Awards for The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes , published by the University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Curriculum Vitae
This list includes the major awards, publications, and creative endeavors of Division of the Humanities faculty members from the 2010-2011 academic year (July 1 to June 30). All faculty members are listed with their rank and title as of June 30 of that year.
Art History
Cinema and Media Studies
Yuri Tsivian, the William H. Colvin Professor in Art History, Cinema and Media Studies (Chair), Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and the College, received “SLON,” Award for Achievements from the Guild of Film Scholars and Critics of Russia.
Classics
Clifford Ando, Professor in Classics and the College, published Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
Mark Payne, Associate Professor in Classics, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, received the Brooks-Warren Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism for The Animal Part: Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
Comparative Literature
Tamara Chin, Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and the College, received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Boris Maslov, Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and the College, received a Loeb Classical Library fellowship.
Creative Writing
Suzanne Buffam, Lecturer in the Committee on Creative Writing and the Humanities Division, published The Irrationalist (Canarium Books, 2010).
Garin Cycholl, Lecturer in English Language and Literature and the Humanities Collegiate Division, published The Bonegatherer (Moria Books, 2011).
Rachel DeWoskin, Lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division, published Big Girl, Small (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011). Her novel Repeat After Me (Overlook Press, 2009) won ForeWord magazine’s Book of the Year Award.
Mickle Maher, Sergel Writer-in-Residence, was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to adapt his play, Hunchback Variations , into an opera.
Peter O’Leary, Lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division, published Luminous Epinoia (The Cultural Society, 2010). He also edited John Taggart’s Is Music: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2010).
Daniel Raeburn, Lecturer in the Committee on Creative Writing, won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Howard Foundation fellowship for creative nonfiction for his work in progress, Vessels: A Memoir .
Srikanth Reddy, Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, published Voyager (University of California Press, 2011). He also won the Mark Ashin Prize for Teaching in the College.
Megan Stielstra, Lecturer in English Language and Literature and the Humanities Collegiate Division, published Everyone Remain Calm (Joyland/ECW Press, 2011).
John Wilkinson, Professor of Practice in the Arts in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, published a revised edition of Flung Clear (Salt Publishing, 2010).
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Michael Bourdaghs, Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a book subvention award from the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies for his book Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon (Columbia University Press, 2011).
Paul Copp, Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a residential fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Xinyu Dong , Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies and the College; Paola Iovene , Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College; and Judith Zeitlin, Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a grant from the University of Chicago Center in Beijing to host a conference entitled Chinese Opera Film: At the Intersection of Theater, Cinema, and Politics .
Jacob Eyferth, Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received the 2011 Joseph Levenson Book Prize in the post – 1900 category for Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920 – 2000 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009).
Judith Zeitlin, Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
English Language and Literature
Lauren Berlant, the George M. Pullman Professor in English Language and Literature, Gender Studies, and the College, published Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press, 2011), which was named a John Hope Franklin Center Book.
James Chandler, the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, the Committee on the History of Culture and the College, received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to sustain the work of the Center for Disciplinary Innovation at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, which he directs.
Hillary Chute,
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, coedited MetaMaus (Pantheon, forthcoming in 2011) and published Graphic Women (Columbia University Press, 2010). She also received a Mellon Residential Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship as well as the Early Career Award from Rutgers University Graduate School.
Maud Ellmann, the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English Language and Literature and the College, published The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Elaine Hadley, Professor in English Language and Literature (Chair) and the College, published Living Liberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
W. J. T. Mitchell, the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Art History, Visual Arts, and the College and editor of Critical Inquiry, published Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
Lawrence Rothfield, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and the College and faculty director at the Cultural Policy Center, received an award for excellence in art crime scholarship from the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art for his book, The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
Jennifer Scappettone, Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, the Committee on Creative Writing, and the College, was named a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
Eric Slauter, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and the College and director of the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, received an MLA honorable mention for his first book, The State as a Work of Art (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
Richard Strier, the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, the Divinity School, and the College and editor of Modern Philology , published The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton (University of Chicago Press, 2011). He also served as the Lloyd Davis Memorial Visiting Professor in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Queensland.
Kenneth Warren, the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, the Committee on African and African-American Studies, the Committee on the History of Culture, and the College, published What Was African American Literature? (Harvard University Press, 2011). He was also named the 2010 – 11 R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library.
Germanic Studies
David Levin, Professor in Germanic Studies, the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, and the College, was appointed the inaugural director of the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.
Susanne Luedemann, Associate Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, published Jacques Derrida zur Einführung (Dresden: Junius Verlag, 2011).
Eric Santner, the Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies (Chair), the Committee on Jewish Studies, and the College, published The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty (University of Chicago Press, 2011). He also translated On the Psychology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig (University of Chicago Press, 2010), and was Gast des Direktors at the 2011 IFK Vienna (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften).
David Wellbery, the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and named the Leibniz Professor at the University of Leipzig for summer 2012.
Linguistics
John Goldsmith, the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Computer Science (Chair), Linguistics, and the College and Senior Fellow in the Computation Institute, was appointed chair of linguistics and language sciences at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.
Music
Philip V. Bohlman, the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music, the Committee on Jewish Studies, and the College, published Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe (Routledge, 2011). He also coedited Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity (Scarecrow Press, 2011) with Nada Petkovic, Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures, and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Thomas Christensen, the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Music, and the College, received a fellowship from the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin.
Martha Feldman, the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in the Humanities, Music (Chair), Romance Languages and Literature, and the College, won the Gordon J. Laing Award for her book Opera and Sovereignty (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
Robert Kendrick, Professor in Music, the Committee on the History of Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College, received a senior fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Marta Ptaszynska, the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Composition, Music, and the College, received the Union of Polish Composers Prize.
Shulamit Ran, the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College, has been named the Fromm Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
Steven Rings, Assistant Professor in Music and the College, published Tonality and Transformation (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Orit Bashkin, Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, was named a 2009 – 11 fellow at the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education.
Fred Donner, Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College and director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, was elected to a three-year term as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
McGuire Gibson, Professor in the Oriental Institute, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College, received a service award from the Middle East Studies Association.
Petra Goedegebuure, Assistant Professor in Hittitology, the Oriental Institute, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College, received a 2011 – 12 fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Theo van den Hout, Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Chair), the Oriental Institute, and the College and executive editor of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary , published Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazkoi, Neunundfünfzigstes Heft: Texte aus dem Bezirk des Grossen Tempels X (Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2010) and was appointed an honorary member of the Societas Anatolica.
Philosophy
James Conant, the Chester D. Tripp Professor in Philosophy and the College, published Orwell ou le Pouvoir de la Verite (Éditions Agone, 2011) and Rileggere Wittgenstein (Carocci, 2010) with Cora Diamond. He received an SIAS grant to run a two-year summer institute (together with Sebastian Rödl) titled “The Second Person: Comparative Perspectives,” to take place at the National Humanities Center in August 2011 and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in August 2012.
Arnold Davidson, the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, the Divinity School, and the College, published Foucault, Wittgenstein: de possibles rencontres (Editions Kimé, 2011) with Frédéric Gros. He also edited Pierre Hadot, L’enseignement des antiques, l’enseignement des moderns (Presses de l’Ecole Normale Superieure, 2010) with Frédéric Worms; Primo Levy, Vivir para contar. Escribir tras Auschwitz (Alpha Decay, 2010); and edited The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978 – 1979 by Michel Foucault (Macmillan, 2010) with Graham Burchell.
Anton Ford, Assistant Professor in Philosophy and the College, coedited Essays on Anscombe’s Intention (Harvard University Press, 2011) with Jennifer Hornsby and Frederick Stoutland.
Jonathan Lear, the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Philosophy, and the College, published Irony and Identity (Harvard University Press, 2011).
Martha Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School, Philosophy, the Divinity School, and the College, published Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011).
Robert Pippin, the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Philosophy, and the College, published Hegel on Self-Consciousness (Princeton University Press, 2010), Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy (Yale University Press, 2010), and Nietzsche, Psychology, First Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
Robert Richards, the Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine in Philosophy, History, Psychology, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College, has been awarded the Gordon J. Laing book prize for The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle Over Evolutionary Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
W. W. Tait, Professor Emeritus in Philosophy and the College, was awarded an Emeritus Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Romance Languages and Literatures
Frederick de Armas, the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Humanities, Romance Languages and Literatures (Chair), Comparative Literature, and the College, was named to the editorial board of Anales Cervantinos . He was also awarded fellowships from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Consolider.
Philippe Desan, the Howard L. Willett Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the History of Culture, and the College and editor of Montaigne Studies, published Bibliotheca Desaniana (Editions Classiques Garnier, 2011) and edited Les Chapitres oubliés des “Essais” de Montaigne (Éditions Honoré Champion, 2011).
Armando Maggi, Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the History of Culture (Chair), and the College, published the first critical edition of Brunoro Zampeschi’s L’innamorato (Longo Editore, 2010) with graduate students Chiara Montanari, Michael Subialka, and Sarah Christopher-Faggioli.
Robert Morrissey, the Benjamin Franklin Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, and the College and executive director of the France Chicago Center, edited Héroïsme et lumières
Larry Norman, Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Theater and Performance Studies, and the College, published The Shock of the Ancient (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Victor Friedman, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the College and director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, received the United Macedonian Diaspora’s Macedonia Friendship Award and the Nova Makedonija Lifetime Achievement Award. He also received a 2010 award for Humanist Achievement from the Mother Teresa Foundation. Bai Ganyo: Incredible Tales of a Modern Bulgarian , (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), a novel by Aleko Konstantinov that Friedman edited and cotranslated, won the John D. Bell Book Award from the Bulgarian Studies Association.
Lenore Grenoble, the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Slavic Linguistics and the College and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Jerrold Sadock, the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Linguistics, Humanities, and the College, received a three-year award from the National Science Foundation to develop a lexicon and multimedia gazetteer for West Greenlandic, an Inuit language and the national language of Greenland.
Nada Petkovic, Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures, was elected president of the North American Society for Serbian Studies.
Valentina Pichugin, Senior Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures, received the University’s Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Muzaffar Alam, the George V. Brobinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, coauthored Writing the Mughal World: Studies in Political Culture (Columbia University Press and Permanent Black, 2011) with Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, English, and the College and coeditor of Critical Inquiry , received an honorary degree from the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Steven Collins, the Chester D. Tripp Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chair) and the College, published Civilisation et femmes célibataires dans le bouddhisme en Asie du Sud et du Sudest (Les conférences de l’école pratique des hautes études no. 5, 2011).
Sascha Ebeling, Assistant Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received an outstanding achievement award in Tamil studies from the Tamil Literary Garden for his book Colonizing the Realm of Words: The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India (State University of New York Press, 2010).
Jason Grunebaum, Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Ulrike Stark, Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a 2011 literature translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Rochona Majumdar, Assistant Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, published Writing Postcolonial History (Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2010).
Visual Arts
Laura Letinsky, Professor in Visual Arts, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College, published After All (Damiani, 2010).
Geof Oppenheimer, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in Visual Arts and the College, published Restless Empathy (Aspen Art Museum, 2010).