Professor Thomas Rose (art) has had his recent book projects Secrets, the collaboration with Chinese artist Lo Ching, and Time Frames acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Time Frames has also been acquired by the Library of Congress and the Yale University's arts library special collections.

Professor John Freeman (political science) has received the Wallerstein Award from the American Political Science Association's Political Economy Section. The Wallerstein Award is for the best article in political economy published the previous calendar year. John and his coauthor, Dennis Quinn (Georgetown University), won the award for their article, "The Economic Origins of Democracy Reconsidered," which was published in the American Political Science Review, February 2012.

Associate Professor Carl Flink and Professor Ananya Chatterjea (both theatre arts and dance) are both recipients of 2012 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Choreographers. Now, in addition to that award, they have both received residencies for the 2013-14 season. Carl will spend six and a half weeks in residence at the American Dance Festival (ADF) in Durham, N.C. in June-July 2014. He will create a new work using dancers from the prestigious ADF Six Week School. His new work will premiere at the festival on a shared evening. Ananya will spend one week in residence with her company, Ananya Dance Theatre, at the Tofte Lake Center near Ely, Minnesota, in July 2014.

Regents Professor Elaine Tyler May has received a Guggenheim fellowship. It will support her book project "The American Quest for Security, 1960 to the present." Read more

Regents Professor Patricia Hampl (English) will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree from St. Bonaventure University (St. Bonaventure, NY) on May 12.

Associate Professor George Sheets (classical and Near Eastern studies) has received a President's Award for Outstanding Service. The award recognizes exceptional service to the University, its schools, colleges, departments, and service units.

Four CLA faculty members have received 2013 Council of Graduate Students (COGS) Outstanding Faculty Awards:

Assistant Professor Jane Gingrich (political science)
Associate Professor Eden Torres (gender, women and sexuality studies)
Associate Professor Marco Yzer (journalism and mass communication)
Associate Professor Hui Zou (statistics)

Associate Professor Shaden M. Tageldin (cultural studies and comparative literature) has received the honorable mention for the 2013 Harry Levin Prize, awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), for her book Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt (University of California Press, 2011). The 2013 Levin Prize distinguishes the best first book in comparative literature published in 2010-2012. The prize committee was "notably excited about the book's theoretical considerations of translation using the paradigm of seduction, as well as the brilliant case studies, with their sophisticated movements among works, languages, and cultures."

Associate Professor Howard Lavine's (political science) book The Ambivalent Partisan (Oxford University Press, 2012), won the David O. Sears Award from the International Society of Political Psychology for the best book on the political psychology of mass behavior. The award will be presented at the annual meetings of ISPP at Herzliya, Israel, in July.

Professor Tim Kehoe (economics) has been named the College of Liberal Arts Dean's Medalist.

Professor Ananya Chatterjea (theatre arts and dance), Associate Professor Alan Love (philosophy) and Professor Joan Tronto (political science) have been named CLA Scholars of the College.

Professor Ron Aminzade (sociology), Associate Professor Paul Goren (political science) and Associate Professor Saje Mathieu (history) have received the Arthur "Red" & Helene B. Motley Exemplary Teaching Award.

Regents Professor Patricia Hampl (English) has received the Dr. Matthew Stark Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Faculty Award.

Professor Andrew Oxenham (psychology) and Professor Barbara Welke (history) have been named Distinguished McKnight University Professors.

Professor Kay Reyerson (history) has been awarded the Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies by the Medieval Academy. This annual award recognizes members who have provided leadership in developing, organizing, promoting, and sponsoring medieval studies through the extensive administrative work that is crucial to the health of medieval studies but often goes unrecognized by the profession at large.

Professor Donna Gabaccia (history) will be awarded the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for her book Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective at the Organization of American Historians meeting in San Francisco this weekend.

Associate Professor Jigna Desai (gender, women, & sexuality studies) has won the Association for Asian American Studies Excellence in Mentorship Award.

Assistant Professor Clint Carroll (American Indian studies) has been awarded a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2013-2014.

Graduate student Lalinne Suon Bell (creative writing) has received the 2013 Scribes For Human Rights Fellowship. The fellowship supports an MFA student to work with the Human Rights Program as a writer-in-residence. Lalinne's research and writing will focus on human trafficking in Cambodia. She plans to work closely with the Somaly Mam Foundation, an organization dedicated to the eradication of sex slavery in Cambodia.

Graduate student Anna Rosensweig (French & Italian) has been awarded a Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation. There were nearly 600 applicants nationwide and less than 30 recipients.

Professor Wayne Potratz (art) has been awarded the prestigious International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Educator Award for 2013. Thirty-nine educators were nominated and the vote in favor of Wayne was unanimous, according to the ISC press release. A reception to celebrate this honor will be held at noon on Thursday, April 25 at the Regis Center's In-Flux Space.

Professor Regina Kunzel (gender, women and sexuality studies) has won an ACLS fellowship and the Stanford Humanities Center fellowship. The title of her project is In Treatment: Mental Illness, Health, and Modern Sexuality, which explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry and psychoanalysis from the 1930s through the 1960s

Associate professor Brenda Child (history and American Indian studies) has joined the board of directors of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

Associate professor Mary Franklin-Brown (French & Italian) has won the 2103 Harry Levin Prize, awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association, for her book Reading the World: Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age (University of Chicago). The 2013 Levin prize distinguishes the best first book in comparative literature published in 2010-2012. The prize committee praised the book for being impressively textured and detailed in its historical scholarship, and at the same time for posing urgent questions that have resonated across the centuries into our own internet era.

Associate professors Karen Ho (anthropology) and Kevin Murphy (history) have won the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate and Professional Education for 2012-13.

Professor David Baldwin (music) is a member of the Summit Hill Brass Quintet, which is one of four artists selected to be Classical MPR's Artists-in-Residence. The groups perform, teach, and speak about music during visits to schools throughout the state of Minnesota. Listen to the quintet perform Divertimento, K. 136, Allegro by W.A. Mozart.

MFA candidate Kate Petersen (creative writing) has received the prestigious Wallace Stegner Fellowship in fiction. The two-year Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University is one of the nation's most prestigious creative writing fellowships, with about 1,700 applicants last year. Ten fellowships are awarded each year, five in fiction and five in poetry.

MFA candidate Adriane Quinlan (creative writing) is the first University of Minnesota student to win a prestigious Overseas Press Club Foundation Award. The $3,000 grant she received will fund an internship in the Beijing bureau of The Associated Press this summer. In her winning essay, Adriane wrote about theme parks in China, specifically, her own Beijing rite of passage: a trip to World Park.

Graduate student Jennifer Fillo (psychology) has won the 2012-13 APS Albert Bandura Graduate Research Award from Psi Chi.

Graduate student Emily Springer (sociology) was awarded a Thomas F. Wallace Fellowship for the 2013-14 academic year. This award is given to social sciences graduate students in their intermediate PhD years, to salute academic excellence.

Professor Andrew Elfenbein (English) received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for 2013-14.

Professor Rob Warren (sociology) is the new editor of Sociology of Education, an American Sociological Association journal, published by Sage Publications. It will be housed in the sociology department for three years starting this summer.

The 2013 IDEA Multicultural Research Award recipients are:
Assistant Professor Clint Carroll (American Indian studies): Sovereign Landscapes: Political Ecology, Environmental Governance, and the Resurgence of an Indigenous Land Ethic in the Cherokee Nation
Assistant Professor David Karjanen (American studies): African American and Latino Community-Labor Coalitions: Analyzing Effectiveness in Three American Cities
Assistant Professor Angelica Lawson (American Indian studies): Indigenous Resistance and Resilience
Associate Professor Lynn Lukkas (art): Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta
Associate Professor Moin Syed (psychology): Women and Ethnic Minorities in STEM: An Intersectional Analysis of STEM Participation and Persistence

Professors M. J. Maynes and Ann Waltner (both history) are the recipients of an International Research Fellowship, affiliated with the International Research Center for "Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History" at the Humboldt-University Berlin. They will be in residence in Berlin in March and April.

Associate Professor Jan Estep (art) published the article "Semblance of Fact: How brain scans are presented and consumed as photographs" in Triple Canopy. She writes about fMRI and their photographic likeness and the use of brain scans in the court system. Part of the research comes from a collaboration between Jan and cognitive neuroscientists on campus, and her experience in the Tesla scanners on campus.

Associate professors Francis Harvey and Steve Manson (geography, environment and society) and coordinator Len Kne (U-Spatial) co-authored the cover story of the winter 2012-13 issue of ArcNews, published by Esri. The article describes the U-Spatial collaborative at the University, which supports spatial science and creative activities across the University campus.

Assistant Professor Alice Lovejoy (cultural studies and comparative literature) has been named a McKnight Land Grant Professor for 2013-2015.

Two CLA professors are nominated for Minnesota Book Awards in the General Nonfiction category. Winners will be announced on April 13.

Professor Emerius David Noble (American studies) is nominated for Debating the End of History: The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life (U of Minnesota Press).
Professor Brenda Child (American Indian studies/history) is nominated for Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (Viking/Penguin).
Also, former associate professor David Treuer (English) was nominated for Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life (Atlantic Monthly Press/Grove/Atlantic, Inc.).

Associate Professor Dona Schwartz (journalism and mass communication) has received a $10,000 2013 Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. With the award, Dona will produce framed exhibition prints from her award-winning project On the Nest. The prints will be exhibited in association with the launch of a published monograph of the series.

Professor Mary Schuster (writing studies) and Ph.D. alumna Jessica Reyman (now assistant professor at Northern Illinois University) were awarded the 2013 Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. The award is for their co-editorship of a special issue of the journal Technical Communication Quarterly on "Technical Communication and the Law."

Professor Nabil Matar (English), with co-editor Judy Hayden, has published Through the Eyes of the Beholder: The Holy Land, 1517-1713 (Brill, 2013). The collection examines the view of holiness in the "Holy Land" through the writings of pilgrims, travelers, and missionaries. More info

Christopher Buckley (career services), along with Jeannie Stumne (CEHD Career Services) and Heidi Perman (St. Paul Campus Career and Internship Services), was presented with the Career Development Network's Golden Gopher Merit Award for his work this year creating the CDN Diversity and Inclusion program, which provides structure for career services staff to grow in their multicultural competence. This program has helped CDN members purposefully seek out experiences and resources that challenge the way they approach their work.

Professor Joachim Savelsberg (sociology) was honored with the 2012 Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award by the American Society of Criminology's International Division. The award recognizes "an international scholar who has made a significant contribution to international criminology, including international criminal justice, comparative, and transnational crime and justice research."

Associate Professor Ronald Walter Greene (communication studies) was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Critical Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association.

Associate Professor Diane Willow (art) is one of a handful of Twin Cities artists who are part of the Creative CityMaking initiative of the City of Minneapolis and Intermedia Arts. Four artist teams will be paired with five planning projects in the city's Community Planning and Economic Development Department to, "engage artists in critical thinking and art making around City and urban issues and to increase artists' and planners' ability to facilitate community interaction and work collaboratively with the public to foster positive change in the quality and trajectory of social discourse about the city's urban future." Diane's project will focus on the development of five stations along the proposed Southwest LRT line. Learn more

Institute for Advanced Study Faculty Fellows 2013-14:
Assistant Professor Clint Carroll, Department of American Indian Studies
Associate Professor Bianet Castellanos, Department of American Studies
Associate Professor Karen Ho, Department of Anthropology
Professor Patricia Lorcin, Department of History
Assistant Professor Lorena Munoz, Department of Geography
Assistant Professor Jimmy Patino, Department of Chicano and Latino Studies
Assistant Professor Matthew Rahaim, School of Music
Learn more

Professor Ruth Karras (history) has been named co-winner of the 2012 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History for her book Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). Given by the American Historical Association and named in memory of Joan Kelly, this prize is awarded annually for the book in women's history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly (1928-1982).

Associate Professor Joanie Smith (dance), received a 2012 Sage Award for outstanding performance for her company, Shapiro and Smith Dance. Sage Awards recognize excellence in Minnesota's dance community.

Assistant Professor Matthew Rahaim's (music) book Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music has been published by Wesleyan University Press. Matthew will discuss his new book at the U of M Bookstore, Coffman Memorial Union on Thursday, November 29 at 4 p.m.

Professor Nabil Matar (English) has two books coming out this month: Through the Eyes of the Beholder: The Holy Land 1517-1713, co-edited with Judy Hayden (Brill) and Henry Stubbe's The Rise and Progress of Mahometanism, which he edited, introduced, and annotated (Columbia University Press).

Emeritus Professor Marty Roth (English) has published Contours of Privacy: The Ethnography of a Social and Aesthetic Concept (Academica Press, 2012).

Professor Amy Sheldon (communication studies and linguistics) will present a keynote address and will be a discussant at the conference Children with Possibilities: New Conditions for Learning and Growing in a Complex and Changing World, at Örebro University (Sweden) on November 6. Her keynote is titled "Conversations without screens: unmediated, embodied, face-to-face, multimodal talk-and-interaction."

Graduate students Emily Springer and Rahsaan Mahadeo (both sociology) are recipients of Hawkinson Foundation scholarships. The foundation supports students whose work shows a commitment to peace and justice.

Professor Erika Lee (history) has been awarded the Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences for 2012-13. This is especially fitting in that the award is named in honor of one of our most distinguished emerita colleagues from the history department.

Terri Wallace (Center for Writing) has been awarded the Civil Service and Bargaining Unit Leadership Award for 2012-13.

Erika and Terri will be honored at the Celebrating University Women Awards Program on October 12, 2:30-4:30 pm in McNamara Alumni Center. RSVP to attend.

Professor Emeritus Ronald Anderson (sociology) received the William F. Ogburn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Communication and Information Technology Section, American Sociological Association annual meeting, where he also presented a published paper, "Caring Capital Websites." He is president of the U of M Retirees Association.

Professor Joachim Savelsberg (sociology) along with his former student, Ryan King (now associate professor at SUNY-Albany) received the 2012 Outstanding Book Award of the Theory Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems for their book, American Memories: Atrocities and the Law (Russell Sage Foundation 2011).

Assistant Professor Josh Page (sociology) was awarded the Herbert Jacob Book Prize for his book, The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California. The prize is given by the Law and Society Association and is intended to recognize new, outstanding work in law and society scholarship.

Recent Publications & Creative Activities
Professor Alex Lubet's (music) album Spectral Blues was released on the Parma label and distributed by Naxos. The album contains two suites for acoustic guitar, performed and composed by Alex. In addition, his article "Listening to Bob Dylan" will appear in the next issue of Cognitive Critique. His essay "Losing...My Religion: Music, Disability, Gender and Jewish and Islamic Law" will appear in the forthcoming Music and Identity Politics, Ian Biddle, editor (Ashgate).

Assistant Professor Adriana Zabala (music) was involved for two years in the development of the recently launched Mill City Summer Opera (MCSO). On July 12 the company started a sold-out run of Pagliacci in their unique venue, the Mill City Museum Ruin Courtyard. MCSO also features a Studio Artists Program, built and directed by Adriana. The Studio Artists Program, which included nine singers from the School of Music, includes educational engagement, master classes, main stage chorus, and a showcase performance. Participating student/singers were Elizabeth Steffensen, Sara Yoder, Carrie Hall, Reyna Sawtell, Sidney Walker, Brennan Blankenship, David Morgan, Richard Joseph, Joe Okell, Stephen Cunningham, Justin Spenner, and Stephen Mumbert.

Professor David Damschroder's (music theory) Harmony in Haydn and Mozart, the third book of his Harmony Project, has been published by Cambridge University Press. He is currently at work on the fourth volume, Harmony in Chopin, which formed the basis for "Formal/Harmonic Conflicts in Chopin's Mazurkas," a lecture delivered at the 17th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music in Edinburgh, Scotland in June.

Assistant Professor Jennifer J. Marshall (art history) has published Machine Art, 1934 (University of Chicago Press). The book examines the notorious Museum of Modern Art major exhibition of ball bearings, airplane propellers, pots and pans, cocktail tumblers, petri dishes, protractors, and other machine parts and products, positioning them as modern works of art. Learn more.

Professor Peter Wells (anthropology) has published How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times (Princeton). The book offers a completely new approach to the study of Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe, and represents a major challenge to existing views about prehistoric cultures. The book demonstrates why we cannot interpret the structures that Europe's pre-Roman inhabitants built in the landscape, the ways they arranged their settlements and burial sites, or the complex patterning of their art on the basis of what these things look like to us. Rather, we must view these objects and visual patterns as they were meant to be seen by the ancient peoples who fashioned them. Learn more.

Professor August Nimtz's (political science) book Marx and Engels has recently been republished in Turkish translation by Yordam Publications.

Professor Paul Rouzer (Asian languages and literatures) has been serving as an associate editor for the new edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Its publication has set the poetry world abuzz: "At well over a million words and more than 1,000 entries, the Encyclopedia has unparalleled breadth and depth. Entries range in length from brief paragraphs to major essays of 15,000 words, offering a more thorough treatment-including expert synthesis and indispensable bibliographies-than conventional handbooks or dictionaries." (University of Virginia English dept.) The new edition is a comprehensive reference about the entire field of poetry and poetics and has expanded coverage to more than 110 world nations, regions, and languages.

Associate Professor Jennifer Pierce (American studies) has a new book, Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action (Stanford University Press, 2012). Racing for Innocence reconsiders white privilege and racial inequality by examining the backlash against affirmative action. Drawing upon three different approaches--ethnography, narrative analysis, and fiction--the book highlights the complexities and ambiguities of race and gender in contemporary America. Learn more

Professor Kay Reyerson (history) has co-edited with Joëlle Rollo-Koster, "For the Salvation of My Soul": Women and Wills in Medieval and Early Modern France (Centre for French History and Culture, University of St. Andrews, 2012). Learn more

Associate Professor Katherine Scheil (English) published She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America (Cornell University Press, August 2012).

Professor Paula Rabinowitz (English) published Exchanging Clothes: Habits of Being II, co-edited with Cristina Giorcelli (University of Minnesota Press, August 2012).

Professor Julie Schumacher (English) published the novel Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls (Delacorte, May 2012).

University Awards
Professor Naomi Scheman (philosophy) has been named the 2012-14 Imagine Fund Arts, Design, and Humanities Chair. The chair is intended to enable professors with a record of distinguished scholarship, teaching, and service to conduct a research project that will further their own scholarship, generate curricular innovation, and forge intellectual communities in the university or wider community. She also will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the faculty of Social Science at Umeå University in Sweden.

Professor Ron Aminzade (sociology) was awarded the Minnesota Campus Compact Presidents' Civic Engagement Steward Award. This award is for faculty, administration, or staff or for a group (e.g., advisory committee, task force, project team) that has significantly advanced their campus' distinctive civic mission by forming strong partnerships, supporting others' civic engagement, and working to institutionalize a culture and practice of engagement.

2011-12 Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award honorees are Professor Ron Aminzade (sociology), Associate Professor Paul Goren (political science) and Associate Professor Saje Mathieu (history).

CLA faculty who are Institute for Advanced Study Fellows for fall 2012 include Associate Professor David Chang (history) and Professor John Nichols (American Indian studies); for spring 2013, they are Associate Professor Michael Gaudio (art history), Professor David Pellow (sociology), and Associate Professor Shaden Tageldin (cultural studies and comparative literature). Grad student Murat Altun (anthropology) is an IAS Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow.

Two recent CLA Ph.D.'s received Office of Graduate Education Best Dissertation Awards for 2012.
Arts & Humanities: Caley D. Horan (history) for "Actuarial Age: Insurance and the Emergence of Neoliberalism in the Postwar United States." Her advisers were Regents Professor Elaine Tyler May and Professor Lary May. Caley is currently a lecturer at Princeton University.

Social & Behavioral Sciences & Education: Ellery Frahm (archaeology) for "The Bronze-Age Obsidian lndustry at Tell Mozan (Ancient Urkesh), Syria." His adviser was Professor Gilbert Tostevin. Ellery is currently the Marie Curie Experienced Research Fellow at University of Sheffield.

Congratulations to the following civil service/bargaining unit employees who are celebrating milestone work anniversaries this year. Thank you for your service to the University and CLA!

Sean Burns (CLA-OIT): 20 years
Robert Wozniak (CLA-OIT): 20 years
Mary Wilcox (Economics): 25 years
Catherine Bach (Economics): 30 years
Mary Hildre (School of Statistics): 30 years
Daniel Pinkerton (Center for Austrian Studies): 30 years
Bonnie Williams (Geography): 30 years
John Easton (CLA-OIT): 35 years
Kerry Mc Indoo (French and Italian): 35 years
Margery Pickering (Psychology): 35 years
Lonna Riedinger (Student Services): 35 years
Beatrice Dehler (Communication Studies): 40 years
Charlene Hayes (Institute for Global Studies): 40 years
Linda Springer (Psychology): 40 years

Immigration History Research Center's Digitizing Immigrant Letters project team is the recipient of the 2011 Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award, given by the Society of American Archivists. IHRC undertook "outstanding efforts in promoting the knowledge and use of documentation of the immigrant experience through the Digitizing Immigrant Letters Project." The award recognizes institutions, project teams or individual archivists for increasing public awareness of archival documents for educational, instructional or other purposes.

Associate Professor Bruno Chaouat (French & Italian) has published L'Ombre pour la proie: petites apocalypses de la vie quotidienne [Grasping at Substance: Little Everyday Apocalypses] (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion).

Assistant Professor Mary Franklin-Brown (French & Italian) has published Reading the World in the Century of Encyclopedias (University of Chicago Press).

Associate Professor Scott D. Lipscomb (Music) is serving on a research team as program evaluator for a three-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation entitled "Computational Thinking Through Computing and Music." The team's goal is to reinforce musical and computational learning through a team-teaching model, designing collaborative workshops involving pairs of faculty - one from music, one from computer science. Read more

Grad student Hollie Nyseth Brehm (Sociology) has been awarded this year's Dunn Peace Research Scholarship to support her dissertation research on genocide in Bosnia. She was also awarded the Midwest Sociological Society Dissertation Grant.

Graduate student Julia Corwin (Geography) received a Judd Fellowship to conduct research in India this summer. She will investigate how policies and plans pertaining to solid waste management intersect with and affect community-based, informal, and marginalized waste labor, and the contradictory dynamics of urban waste policies and practices in Delhi, India. In particular, she wishes to explore how Delhi's formal waste management system and the informal waste sector affect and respond to each other, with an emphasis on unraveling the politics surrounding the marginalization of informal waste labor and their attendant effects on landfill diversion rates. Read more

Graduate student Emily Springer received a Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, a highly competitive fellowship which supports mid-stage graduate students in formulating effective doctoral dissertation research proposals that contribute to the development of interdisciplinary fields of study in the humanities and social sciences. She will be working on her proposal about women and development in Tanzanian agriculture.

Graduate student Rachel Gibson (French & Italian) has been awarded an International Dissertation Research Fellowship for 2012 by the Social Science Research Council, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Rachel will be doing research at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris), and at the Biblioteca Marciana (Venice). Rachel's research project is entitled "Negotiating Space and Self in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Construction of Mercantile Identity in Franco-Italian Literature." She is one of 77 awardees, selected from a total of 1,148 submitted applications from graduate students at 128 universities. Rachel has also accepted a two-year term on the Graduate Student Committee of the Medieval Academy.

Graduate student Tracy Rutler was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to study in France next year. Her project is called, "Family Remains: The Politics of Legacy in Eighteenth-Century French Literature." Her dissertation is on images of orphans, bastards, and abandoned children.

Graduate student Anna Rosensweig (French & Italian) was awarded a Hella Mears Summer Fellowship.

Professor David Samuels (Political Science) has been named a Distinguished McKnight Professor. The goal of this program is to recognize and reward the University of Minnesota's most outstanding mid-career faculty. Recipients hold the title for as long as they remain at the university. The grant associated with the professorship consists of $100,000 to be expended over five years. Read more

Lecturer Stephen Smith (Classical and Near Eastern Studies), Professor Valerie Tiberius (Philosophy), and Professor Rob Warren (Sociology) are CLA's winners of the 2012 COGS Outstanding Faculty Award. The COGS Outstanding Faculty Award was established in 2010 and is the only award where graduate students nominate faculty they feel have gone above and beyond in their work with graduate students, and a panel of students selects the winners. A reception to recognize the winners will be on May 8th at 4:30 p.m. in the Mississippi Room in Coffman Union.

Associate Professor and Chair Carl Flink (Theatre Arts & Dance) has received the City Pages Best Choreographer recognition in their "Best of the Twin Cities" issue.

Elaine Tarone (Professor of Second Language Studies, Director of CARLA) will be the new Associate Editor for Perspectives at The Modern Language Journal.

Associate Professor Giancarlo Casale (History) has received a year-long residential fellowship from the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence.

Associate Professor Ronald Krebs (Political Science) received a Fulbright Award from the United States-Israel Educational Foundation.

Associate Professor Sarah Chambers (History) received an NEH Faculty Fellowship for 2012-13.

Director Barbara Frey (Human Rights Program) received a Fulbright-Robles award to carry out teaching and research in Mexico from January to May 2013. She will be teaching a seminar on Human Rights Advocacy at FLACSO-Mexico (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales/ Latin American Academy of Social Sciences) in Mexico City. She will also conduct research on the roles and perceptions of civil society organizations regarding human rights protection in the context of major criminal justice reforms.

Associate Professor and Chair Louis Mendoza's (Chicano Studies) book Conversations Across Our America: Talking About Immigration and the Latinoization of the United States (University of Texas) will be published in June. You may recall that Louis undertook a 8,500-mile bike ride around the perimeter of the U.S. in 2007, and this book is a collection of the conversations about the Latinoization of the U.S. he had with people along the way. Read more

Professor Edward Schiappa (Communication Studies) will spend the 2012-2013 academic year as a Visiting Professor at M.I.T. in the Comparative Media Studies and Writing/Humanistic Studies programs.

Professor Julie Schumacher (English) publishes her fifth novel for younger readers, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls, (Delacorte) in May.

Teaching specialist Barbara Kierig (Music/voice) was chosen as the 2012 Teacher of the Year by the Thursday Musical Competition in honor of her dedication and service to their organization. She was celebrated at the winners' recital/award ceremony on Thursday, March 29 at the Bloomington Arts Center.

Graduate student Wenjie Liao (Sociology) received a Doctoral Dissertation grant from the National Science Foundation. Wenjie will use this funding to complete a survey on law and collective memory in Chengdu, China. She will be conducting the survey and follow-up interviews this summer.

Graduate student Chunying Xie (Economics) has received the 2012 CURA Dissertation Fellowship. Her project "Dynamic Pricing and Congestion Pricing: The case of the MNPass Program" is cited for having the potential to make a significant contribution to the understanding of traffic management and the estimation of consumer demand of High Occupancy Toll lanes.

Graduate student Jesse Izzo (History), has received a Fulbright grant to work in Israel for the academic year 2012-2013. He'll be at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem working with Professor Reuven Amitai-Preiss on Mamluk/Mongol/Crusader relations in late 13th C. Syria.

The Dance program was recognized at the American College Dance Festival Association North Central Regional Conference this month. The student company, which performed Carl Flink's "Lost Lullabies," was selected to go to the National College Dance Festival May 24 - 27, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In addition, student choreographer Orlando Hunter's work "Mutiny," which he also performed, was selected for the Regional Conference Gala concert presented on April 1 in Madison, Wis.

Professor Matthew Lefebvre (Theatre Arts & Dance) will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award on May 4 in New York City. Founded in 1993, the awards pay tribute to the art of costume design and honor legendary designer Irene Sharaff, who designed numerous Broadway productions, including the original stagings of Lady in the Dark, West Side Story, The King and I, Juno, Sweet Charity, Funny Girl, Candide and Jerome Robbins' Broadway.

Professor Clarence Morgan (Art), will receive the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts (PAFA) Distinguished Alumni Award for 2012. This award is given to PAFA alumni who have gone on to significant careers as practicing artists and arts professionals. Clarence received his four-year certificate-diploma from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1975 and will be honored at PAFA's 2012 commencement ceremony. Jeffrey Carr, Dean of the School of Art stated in his letter, "The committee is impressed with your career as a distinguished educator who has also had an exceptionally solid career as an artist. Your career and accomplishments will inspire our graduating class, who all aspire to having lives as fine artists."

Professor Jennifer Pierce (American Studies) will receive the Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education Award.

Associate Professor Kathryn Pearson (Political Science) will receive the Morse-Alumni Award for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education.

Assistant Professor Timothy Johnson (Political Science) will receive the John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.

Assistant Professor Alexander Fiterstein's (Music) new album of works by Ronn Yedidia titled Impromptu, Nocturne & World Dance for clarinet and piano was recently released on Naxos American Classics. Listen to Impromptu, Nocturne & World Dance on the Naxos website.

Assistant Professor Laura Sindberg's (Music) book Just Good Teaching: Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance in Theory and Practice was recently published by R&L Education. According to their website, "The Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) model will help you plan instruction for school ensembles that promotes a holistic form of music learning and will allow you to use your creativity, passion, and vision." Read more.

The Ojibwe People's Dictionary, a project of the Department of American Indian Studies, is the University's entrant into the regional C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Awards competition. The project was selected, "because of the robust partnership between Ojibwe elders and the University of Minnesota, the ways in which this project is advancing engaged scholarship, and the potential that this dictionary has for serving as a model for documenting other languages and cultures." The winner of the regional competition will advance to compete for the national award.

Congratulations to CLA faculty who have received Institute for Diversity, Equity and Advocacy 2012 Multicultural Research Awards.

Bianet Castellanos (American Studies): Comparative Indigeneities of the Americas
Njeri Githire (African American and African Studies): The Other America: French Caribbean Regional Integration, Environmental Management, and Gender Empowerment
David Karjanen (American Studies): African American and Latino Community-Labor Coalitions: Analyzing Effectiveness in Three American Cities
Carolyn Liebler (Sociology): American Indian Transracial Adoptees' Experiences in Comparative Perspective
Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu (History): African American Soldiers and the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
Lorena Munoz (Geography): Queer, Gendered and Brown: (Re)Producing Latina/o Immigrant Informal Work in Los Angeles
Jimmy Patino (Chicano Studies): "Raza Si, Migra No!": Forging Chicano/Mexicano Activism in the San Diego Borderlands, 1924-1986

Associate Professor Shaden Tageldin (Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature) has been awarded the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Essay Prize for 2011 for her essay "Secularizing Islam: Carlyle, al-Siba'i, and the Translation of 'Religion' in British Egypt" published in the January 2011 PMLA (journal of the Modern Language Association of America).

Associate Professor David Feinberg (Art) brought his Voice to Vision project to Clark University, where he spoke last week. Voice to Vision, which narrates the experiences of Holocaust and genocide survivors through art, was founded 10 years ago this year. Read more.

Assistant Professor Lisa Channer's (Theatre Arts & Dance) company Theatre Novi Most has a new play called Picnic on the Batttlefield opening March 2 at the Southern Theatre. In the cast are four alumni of the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and one current student. The design team includes MFA students past and present. Read more

Professor James Dillon (Music) was ranked among the top ten living composers in the londonist.com article "Top 10 Contemporary Classical music Composers." Dillon was listed along with Steve Reich, John Adams, John Cage, George Crumb, György Ligeti, and more. Read more

Professor Nabil Matar (English) has been awarded the 2012 Building Bridges Award from the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (UK). The award recognizes Nabil's pioneering scholarship on the relationship between Islamic civilization and early modern Europe, as well as raising awareness of the historical roots of Western perceptions of Islam. He will receive the award during a lecture he will present at the University of Cambridge on March 28.

Associate Professor Brenda Child's (American Indian Studies) latest book, Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community, is published today by Penguin. The book explores the remarkable role of women in sustaining Native American communities through the hardest years of the last two centuries, and is the latest addition to the Penguin Library of American Indian History. Brenda will do a reading at the U Bookstore a week from today. More info

Assistant Professor Lisa Channer (Theatre Arts & Dance) and her Theatre Novi Most were awarded a grant from the Playwrights Center and the Network of Ensemble Theatres to start a collaboration with playwright Cory Hinkle on a new play about Bertolt Brecht. Brecht's Brain will focus on Brecht's dramatic 1947 testimony before the House Un-American Affairs Committee, weaving together excerpts from hearing transcripts and Brecht's writings with ensemble-generated text and original music.

Graduate student Sophie Christian (Music) was chosen as a first place winner of the American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition 2012. The Winners' Recital will be held Sunday, April 8, 2012 at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Winners Certificates will be granted after the Winners Recital.

Graduate student Andrew Johnson (Sociology) was awarded a 2012-13 Visiting Research Scholar Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University.

Grad student Elizabeth Ault's (American Studies) coauthored book, The 1968 Project: A Nation Coming of Age, is now available from the Minnesota Historical Society Press. It's published in conjunction with The 1968 Exhibit on display at the Minnesota History Center through February 20. [editor's note: See the exhibit!]

Two CLA-connected projects have received funding from Minnesota's Historical and Cultural Heritage Fund (i.e. Legacy money).

The Department of American Indian Studies has received $270,820 for Phase Two of the Ojibwe People's Dictionary. Phase One launched just this past January 23; Phase Two promises to be even more of what you can find in the current dictionary, but will enhance the virtual museum, make the dictionary more friendly to younger students, and incorporate feedback from users.

Friends of the Immigration History Research Center, received $23,794 for the project Houses of Worship: The Mosaic of Religion and Ethnicity in the Twin Cities, 1849-1924, co-led by Jeanne Kilde (Religious Studies). The goal of this project is to bring together qualitative and quantitative data -- stories and numbers -- about the ethnic and immigration history that has been at the University's doorstep for the last century. Researchers from the project are using resources at the Minnesota Population Center and GIS projects on campus, and their materials will be housed at the IHRC when the project is completed.

Post-Doc Associate Wadad Kadi (History) was awarded the Middle East Medievalists association's Lifetime Achievement Award in December. This comes as a recognition for her distinguished scholarship and seminal contribution to knowledge of the Islamic world and scholarship in the Middle Ages.

Professor Irv Gottesman (Psychology) will be awarded the Honorary Fellowship of King's College, London, in a ceremony this July. The Honorary Fellowship recognizes, "the exceptional distinction achieved on the part of the holder through their public and professional life." Professor Gottesman's long and rich relationship with King's College dates back to 1963, when he was awarded a post-doc fellowship to study the genetics of schizophrenia using the college's twins database.

The Minnesota State Arts Board recently announced its 2012 grants supporting a wide variety of artistic organizations and portions of their operating budgets throughout the state. Three prestigious grants were awarded to three different arts groups led by Carl Flink, Toni Pierce-Sands, and Luverne Seifert, all members of the University of Minnesota's Theatre Arts and Dance faculty.

Minneapolis's Black Label Movement dance company, along with Duluth's Zeitgeist Arts, will present Associate Professor Carl Flink's evening length works Field Songs and Wreck, during a multiple venue tour to Duluth that will include educational activities for Duluth young and adult learners.

The innovative dance collaborative TU Dance, headed by Dance Teaching Specialist Toni Pierce Sands and Uri Sands, was awarded grants to create a "path for diverse Minnesota students to explore dance, advance dance education at the TU Dance Center, and receive professional training toward career development." An additional grant provides operating support and financial resources to bring the company to Red Wing, Worthington, and Bigfork to present public performances and conduct master classes.

Finally, actor-director and Theatre Teaching Specialist Luverne Seifert will present Chekhov's classic The Cherry Orchard to five rural communities in summer 2012. Each production will be presented in an historic home and feature six professional Twin Cities actors, four local actors, and two or three local musicians.

Fall 2011 Grants-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship were awarded to:

Associate Professor David Chang, History
Assistant Professor Lisa Channer, Theatre Arts & Dance
Assistant Professor Giovanna Dell'Orto, Journalism and Mass Communication
Assistant Professor Bonnie Klimes-Dougan, Psychology
Associate Professor Kathryn Pearson, Political Science
Assistant Professor Michael Sommers, Theatre Arts and Dance

The Institute for Advanced Study just announced their 2012-13 fellows:

Associate Professor David Chang, History
Associate Professor Michael Gaudio, Art History
Professor John Nichols, American Indian Studies
Professor David Pellow, Sociology
Associate Professor Shaden Tageldin, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature

Associate Professor Lisa Sun-Hee Park (Sociology) has published Entitled to Nothing: The Struggle for Immigrant Health Care in the Age of Welfare Reform (NYU Press). Lisa investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined. Documenting the formal return of the immigrant as a "public charge," or a burden upon the State, she shows how the concept has been revived as states adopt punitive policies targeting immigrants of color and require them to "pay back" benefits for which they are legally eligible during a time of intense debate regarding welfare reform.

Professor Tom Holmes (Economics) was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society, one of the highest honors in economics. Of the 16 new fellows, three have strong U of M ties. Besides Tom, former faculty member Sam Kortum and Ph.D. Albert Marcet have also received this honor this year.

Associate Professor Carl Flink (Theatre Arts & Dance), with members of his Black Label Movement company, presented at TEDxBrussels on November 22. The first presentation contended that dancers should follow astronauts into space--and did so entirely without words. The second presentation was made with John Bohannon, science journalist and founder of the Dance Your PhD online contest. Titled "Modest Proposal," it included choreography by Carl and asked the question, What if we replaced PowerPoint with dancers? Watch the video.

Associate Professor Dan Philippon (English) is serving as a Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany, from September 2011 to February 2012, after which he will be a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Turin and the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy from March through June 2012.

Associate Professor Dona Schwartz (Journalism and Mass Communication) placed third in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize competition. More than 2,500 photographers entered the competition. The photograph will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London along with 60 other works selected for the exhibit, which will be on display through February 12, 2012.

Schwartz was also recently nominated for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography, a biennial, nomination-only award. The prize winner will be announced in December.

Assistant Professor Peter Campion (English) was awarded the 2011 Poetry Magazine Editors Prize for Reviewing. Campion will be the judge of the Milkweed Editions first annual Lindquist & Vennum Prize, a major new poetry prize which will carry a $10,000 award along with publication.

Professor Charles Baxter's (English) collection Gryphon: New & Selected Stories was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2011 by The New York Times. Also, his review of Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 appeared in the December 8, 2011 New York Review of Books

Professor James Dillon's (Music) Oslo/Triptych had its world premiere, performed by Cikada Ensemble, in the November Musik International Festival for Contemporary Music (Hertongenbosch, Holland) on November 12.

Elaine Tarone (Professor of Second Language Studies, Director of CARLA) is the recipient of the American Association for Applied Linguistics' Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award for 2012. She will receive the award on the opening day of the 2012 AAAL conference in Boston in March and have the opportunity to deliver the DSSA special lecture. Elaine will also be a visiting professor teaching graduate courses at the University of Vienna in May-June 2012.

Professor Tom Rose (Art) has an exhibition of fabrications, The Chinese Pictures, at Runner Runner Gallery in Minneapolis's Warehouse District. The pieces feature photographs taken of the Pace Gallery under construction in Beijing. Tom has been instrumental in building a formal relationship between our Department of Art and the Beijing Film Academy, and he just closed an exhibition of his work at Timeless Gallery in Beijing.

Associate Professor Diane Willow (Art) is part of a design team who won the Plaza Design Competition sponsored by the Weisman Art Museum Target Studio for Creative Collaboration. The team, which also includes the firm VJAA, will eventually redesign the space between the Weisman and the STSS building, transforming it "into a more artful and meaningful experience for its users." The competition was juried and creative products from each team are on display in the Target Studio at the Weisman. More info

Government of Finland/David & Nancy Speer Visiting Professor Minna Rainio (Art) coordinated the exhibition Regarding Place at the Photographic Centre Peri in Turku, Finland. The exhibition featured associate professors Jan Estep and Jim Henkel, lecturer Justin Newhall, and graduate students Erin Hernsberger, Areca Roe, Stefanie Motta, Andy Mattern, and Sam Hoolihan, all from the Department of Art.

Graduate student Basit Qureshi (History) has won the Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society's 2011 George P. Hammond Prize for best paper by a graduate student for "A Hierophany Emergent: Conceptualizations of the Urban Landscape of Jerusalem in Pilgrimage Accounts from the Twelfth Century."

Graduate student Andy Mattern (Art) has been awarded a $5,000 scholarship from Infinite Editions, a printing and fine art publishing studio. Designed to support emerging artists who "push the boundaries of photography and traditional image making," the Infinite Ideas Scholarship provides access to Infinite Edition's fine art digital printmaking services for the recipient's thesis exhibition. As the first annual recipient of the scholarship, Mattern will work in close collaboration with the Infinite Editions team in the production stages of his exhibition.

CLA's Reach magazine received the gold Award of Excellence from the Minnesota Magazine and Publishers Association for Mary Pattock's (Media and Public Relations) editorial in the "Can We Imagine Peace" feature package. Find it online.

Members of our CLA community, primarily in the Dance Program, did us proud at the 2011 Sage Awards, which honor choreographers, dancers, educators, presenters, scenic and lighting designers, visual artists and others who continue to make the Twin Cities a national center of dance.

Marcus Dilliard (Assistant Professor, Theatre Design/Tech) was the lighting designer for "Heaven" by Flying Foot Forum, whose creative team won a design award.
Toni Pierce-Sands (Teaching Specialist, Dance) was named Outstanding Dance Educator.
Linda Shapiro (former Cowles Program coordinator), a longtime dance writer and critic, won the Special Citation.
Emily Johnson's (BA Dance '98) company Emily Johnson/Catalyst won one of three Outstanding Performance awards for their production of "The Thank-you Bar."
Kaleena Miller (BFA Dance '06) and Galen Higgins (BA student, Dance)were double winners, receiving one of three Outstanding Performance awards for Rhythmic Circus's production of "Feet Don't Fail Me Now!" and the Outstanding Ensemble award.
Finally, the costume design award went to Sonya Berlovitz for "Journey", a play based on the classic story "Hayy ibn Yaqzan" which was produced by Bill Beeman (Professor and Chair, Anthropology) for the Shared Cultural Spaces conference on Islam and the humanities, which took place at the U last February.

Associate Professor Bianet Castellanos (American Studies) is the recipient of a U of M Access Achievement Award. She was honored for her efforts to make her classroom materials accessible to all students.

Associate Professor Enid Logan's (Sociology) book, 'At This Defining Moment': Barack Obama's Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race, has been published by New York University Press.

Professor Joachim Savelsberg (Sociology) and Prof. Ryan King (Ph.D. '05, Sociology; now at SUNY- Albany) have published American Memories: Atrocities and the Law (Russell Sage Foundation).

Grad student Heather O'Leary (Anthropology) has just received a Wenner-Gren Fellowship to support her ongoing research in India on water and water consumption in Delhi.

It's part two of our beginning-of-fall-semester Jumbo Edition of Accolades!

Here's the special end-of-summer, back-to-school Jumbo Edition of CLA Accolades, Part 1.

It's our end-of-the-year mega list of awards, publications, and grants for CLA's faculty, staff and students.

Assistant Professor Bianet Castellanos (American Studies) published A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún in fall 2010. It is the first book to come out with the First Peoples Series (funded by the Mellon foundation) at the University of Minnesota Press.

Associate Professor Michelle Mason (Philosophy) has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend for 2011 for her project Valuing Persons, a book project that investigates the place of esteem-based, person-focused emotions (e.g., forms of love, pride, shame, and contempt) in a compelling moral psychology.

CLA Adviser Rebecca Raissier is one of the recipients of the John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. Rebecca is a coordinator of CLA's Individually Designed Programs (including the BIS--bachelor of individualized studies--and IDIM--Individually Designed Interdepartmental Major). She also coordinates the college's Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP).

The Stark Award recognizes students with unique contributions to human rights. The award and financial grant are given to a student for distinguished service, writing, teaching, involvement, and leadership in support of civil liberties, civil rights, public education, and social justice. This year's winner is Kong Pha. Honorable mentions go to Yefei Jin, Lolla Mohammed, Uriel Rosales-Tlatenchi, and Elora Turner.

Three undergraduate students in the Chinese language program were first place winners at the Chinese Speech and Performance Contest of the Midwest Area, held at Purdue University on April 23. Peter Wagner won the only first prize for level one; Anthony Dodge and Heather Kaus won the only first prizes for level two. Heather will compete at the 10th Chinese Bridge international competition in Changsha, China in August. Coaching of the team was led by Ling Wang, lead Chinese instructor for Asian Languages and Literatures. Their trip was supported by ALL and the Confucius Institute.

It's awards season! Ananya Chatterjea has a Guggenheim, Gary Cohen is now a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and many, many more for faculty, grad students, and undergraduates.

Distinguished McKnight Professor, Teaching Awards, Undergraduate Sullivan Scholar, and more in this edition of Accolades.

Imagine Fund special events grants, new publications, and a variety of awards in today's Accolades.

Technology grants have been awarded--lots of them! Plus more good news in this edition of Accolades.

Congratulations to CLA's Institute for Advanced Study Faculty Fellows for 2011-12: Cawo Abdi (Sociology), Joe Allen (Asian Languages and Literatures), Tracey Deutsch (History), Karen Ho (Anthropology), Amy Kaminsky (Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies), Brenda Kayzar (Geography), and Rachel Schurman (Sociology/Global Studies).

Assistant Professor Alexander Fiterstein (Music, clarinet) was recently named in The League of American Orchestra's Symphony magazine's 2011 annual listing of emerging artists. Symphony magazine's annual listing of emerging soloists and conductors is inspired by the breadth and sheer volume of young classical talent. The New York Times has praised Fiterstein's playing for possessing a "beautiful liquid clarity." Read more

Professor Mary Schuster (Writing Studies) with Professor Amy Propen of York College (Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication Ph.D. alumna) have been awarded the Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research for 2010 for their article "Understanding genre through the lens of advocacy: the rhetorical work of the victim impact statement," published in Written Communication, 27(1). The award will be presented at the Writing Research Across Borders conference on February 17 in Fairfax, Virginia.

The Fall 2010 Grants-in-Aid of Artistry, Research or Scholarship have been announced, someone on the faculty was on the cover of last weekend's New York Times Book Review, and our first ACLS fellow for this year has been announced.

We've got new internal awards for faculty and departments, end-of-year best-of's, and more in this edition of Accolades.

Lots of interesting awards and activities by our faculty, spanning the globe from Berlin to Beijing and back to Blegen (or Lind or Ferguson). Plus, a full list of all CLA Outstanding Service Award winners.

Grad Student
Denis Evstuhin (D.M.A. candidate, piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) was one of five finalists at the Paderewski International Piano Competition and finished the competition in 4th place. As part of the prize, he received invitations to festivals in France and Poland. He performed Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 on Friday, November 19. The two week long competition, held in Bydgozcz, Poland, began on November 9 with 40 participants selected from applicants from around the world. Evstuhin is currently featured on Minnesota Public Radio's website. Evstuhin was also invited to make his New York debut playing a recital at the International Keyboard Festival at Mannes College.

Assistant Professor Matthew Canepa's (Art History) The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran (University of California Press, 2009) was awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize by the American Historical Association for being the best book in English in any field in history prior to 1000 CE.

Associate Professor Dara Strolovitch (Political Science) has been elected to the American Political Science Associations Council.

Professor James Dillon (Music) was featured in Ivan Hewitt's article "James Dillon: Many rivers to cross..." in The Telegraph. Dillon's orchestral epic Nine Rivers received its world premiere by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at Glasgow City Halls and Fruit Market on Sunday, November 14 and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 next year. Dillon's premiere was also featured in The Guardian (scroll down), where he was called "Scotland's greatest living composer."

Associate Professor Giancarlo Casale (History) was a finalist for the Cundill Prize. As reported earlier, he was among three authors shortlisted for the 2010 prize, and as a finalist he receives the "Recognition of Excellence" US$10,000 prize for his book The Ottoman Age of Exploration. Diarmid MacCulloch is the winner of the Cundill Prize for A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years. The Cundill Prize is administered by McGill University in Montreal.

Affililiate Faculty Member Barbara Nordstrom-Loeb (Dance) has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the University of Tallinn, Estonia in the Spring 2011. Nordstrom-Loeb will teach courses in dance/movement psychotherapy and consult with the university to help them develop their creative arts therapies department. She will also teach workshops for local psychotherapists and be a presenter at several professional conferences.

Faculty
Associate Professor Hiromi Mizuno (History) received the 2009 Outstanding Academic Title Award from the American Library Association and its journal CHOICE for her book Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan (Stanford University Press). This study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the absolute core of its national identity, come to promote the advancement of science and technology? Using what logic did wartime Japanese embrace both the rationality that denied and the nationalism that promoted this mythology?

Associate Professor Eric Grodsky (Sociology) with Michal Kurlaender are the editors of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education: The Past and Future of California's Proposition 209 (Harvard). This timely book examines issues pertaining to equal opportunity--affirmative action, challenges to it, and alternatives for improving opportunities for underrepresented groups--in higher education today. Its starting point is California's Proposition 209, which ended race-based affirmative action in public education and the workplace in 1996.

Professor Andrew Oxenham (Psychology) is part of one of only two groups in the U.S. to be part of a Erasmus Mundus-funded project in auditory cognitive neuroscience. Erasmus Mundus is a European Union funded initiative that fosters collaboration and exchange between research institutions in the EU and North America. Professor Oxenham's project is the only U.S. application approved and funded this year and will enable an exchange of students between Minnesota and partner institutions in Europe. Read more

Graduate Students
Ph.D. student Lauren Wilcox (Political Science) is the winner of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section's 2010 Graduate Student Paper Award. The award was given for the paper Lauren presented at the 2010 International Studies Association meetings, "Explosive Bodies: Suicide Bombing as an Embodied Practice and the Politics of Abjection." The award comes with a check for $100 and a peer review of the paper by the International Feminist Journal of Politics.

A big, exciting award for Giancarlo Casale, lots of Anthropology publications, a world premiere, a professorship in Germany, and much more.

Associate Professor Kevin Murphy (History) and members of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project are celebrating the publication of Queer Twin Cities (U of Minnesota Press). In addition to Professor Murphy, members of the editorial board include Michael David Franklin (American Studies Ph.D. candidate), Associate Professor Larry Knopp (formerly Geography at UMD, now U of Washington), Ryan Patrick Murphy (American Studies Ph.D. candidate), Associate Professor Jennifer L. Pierce (American Studies), Jason Ruiz (Ph.D. 09 American Studies), and Alex Urquhart (American Studies Ph.D. candidate).

Many of the volume authors have U connections. These include several with Ph.D.s: Pamela Butler (American Studies), Mark Soderstrom (History), and Amy Tyson (American Studies); two current Ph.D. candidates: Charlotte Karem Albrecht and Jessica Giusti (both GWSS); Megan McDonald, a postdoctoral associate (American Indian Studies); and Associate Professor Susan Craddock (GWSS and Global Studies).

The project has been supported from its inception by College of Liberal Arts, Graduate Research Partnership Program, and Institute for Advanced Studies. The book launch party is Friday, October 22 from 7 - 9 p.m.
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Associate Professor and Chair Carl Flink (Theatre Arts and Dance) was part of a team that won an outstanding overall production Ivey award for "Mary's Wedding," produced in 2009 at the Jungle Theater. Carl provided choreography for a production directed and designed by Joel Sass.

Associate Professor Rich Lee (Psychology) has been elected as the next president of the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA). He will serve as president-elect from 2010-2011 and then his residential term will run from 2011-2013. AAPA was founded in 1972 and is the largest organization of faculty, students, researchers, and practitioners interested in Asian American psychology. The election represents the high regard in which Rich is held nationally, and is an important leadership position.

Professor Gabriel Weisberg (Art History) curated the exhibition "Illusions of reality: Naturalist painting, photography and cinema, 1875-1918" at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The exhibition opens on October 8 and gives an overview of Naturalist painting in relation to photography and film, with work by artists including Léon Lhermitte and Jules Bastien-Lepage (France), Albert Edelfelt (Finland), Károly Ferenczy (Hungary), Anders Zorn (Sweden), and Thomas Anschutz (United States). Read more

Professor Julie Schumacher (English) has been awarded a residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy for spring 2011. Schumacher plans to work on a collection of short stories, Passengers.

Professor Gary Jahn (Slavic Languages & Literatures) has been named Post-secondary Teacher of the Year by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.

Associate Professor Erika Lee (History) is on a national book tour for her new book, Angel Island - Immigrant Gateway to America. She's had lots of great news coverage and has been on several California radio shows. See links to some of the media.

Associate Professors Joanne Miller and Dara Strolovitch (Political Science), with co-authors Seth Masket (University of Denver) and Michael Heaney (University of Michigan), received the American Political Science Association's Political Organizations and Parties Section award for the best paper delivered at the 2009 Meetings of the APSA for the paper, "Networking the Parties: A Comparative Study of Democratic and Republican National Convention Delegates in 2008."

Faculty
Professor Bernard Levinson (Classical and Near Eastern studies) was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research, the organization of the senior scholars of the field, the oldest professional organization of Judaica scholars in North America. His election reflects the high regard in which his peers in Jewish studies regard his research and writing. Levinson is Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible.

Charles Baxter's (English) short story, "The Cousins," which appeared in Tin House, won a Pushcart Prize and has been selected by Richard Russo for Best American Short Stories 2010. Baxter is Edelstein-Keller Professor in Creative Writing.

Regents Professor Patricia Hampl (English) collaborated with composer Alvin Singleton on the new work Brooklyn Bones, which premiered April 26, 2010, at Carnegie Hall.

Professor Paula Rabinowitz (English) will hold the Distinguished Fulbright Lectureship in American Literature in the People's Republic of China at East China Normal University in Shanghai for spring 2011.

Assistant Professor Siobhan Craig (English) published Cinema After Fascism: The Shattered Screen with Palgrave Macmillan (July 2010).

In Psychology, Chad Marsolek (professor), Becky Deason (Ph.D. 2008), Nick Ketz (B.A. 2007), Pradeep Ramanathan (Ph.D. 2009 in SLHS), Vaughn Steele (grad student), Ed Bernat (former research assistant professor), and Chris Patrick (former professor) have received the 2010 Neuroimage Editors' Choice Award (Cognitive Neuroscience Section) for their article, "Identifying objects impairs knowledge of other objects: A relearning explanation for the neural repetition effect."

Professor Joachim Savelsberg (sociology) has published Crime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities (Sage), "a much-needed criminological insight to the subject, exploring explanations of and responses to human rights abuses."

Assistant Professor Teresa Gowan (sociology) has published Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco (U of Minn. Press), which "vividly depicts the lives of homeless men in San Francisco and analyzes the influence of the homelessness industry on the streets, in the shelters, and on public policy."

Associate Professor Rachel Schurman (sociology) has published Fighting for the Future of Food (U of Minn. Press) with co-author William A. Munro. It "details how the anti-biotech movement managed to alter public perceptions about genetically modified organisms in the world food supply."

Professor Raymond Duvall (political science) has been named the inaugural recipient of the Interpretive Methodologies and Methods group's Grain of Sand Award, to be awarded at the American Political Science meeting in Washington, DC. The award is given "to honor a political scientist whose contributions to interpretive studies of the political, and to the discipline itself, its ideas and its persons, have been longstanding and merit special recognition."

Associate Professor Ronald Krebs (political science) published In War's Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy (Cambridge University Press), co-edited with Elizabeth Kier, University of Washington.

Assistant Professor Shawn Treier (political science) received the Gregory Luebbert article prize for the best article published in 2008-09 in the field of comparative politics. This award is from the American Political Science Association's organized section on Comparative Politics. Shawn received it for his 2008 American Journal of Political Science article, "Democracy as a Latent Variable" with Professor Simon Jackman, Stanford University.

Graduate Students
Ben Garthus and Bart Vargas, MFA students in Art, are among a handful of students to win the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, presented each year by the international Sculpture Center. This is the most prestigious sculpture award for graduate students in the United States. Their work will be featured in the October issue of Sculpture magazine and displayed at the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey from October 10, 2010 to January 9, 2011.

Sheryl Lightfoot (Ph.D. 2009, political science) won the American Political Science Association's 2010 Best Dissertation on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Award for her dissertation Indigenous Global Politics.

Units
The Religious Studies program received a grant of $170,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a conference and community workshop titled "Crossing Cultural Spaces: Islam and the West in Arts and Sciences." Nabil Matar (English) is the principal investigator.

Institute for Global Studies has received Title VI funding from the federal Department of Education for two National Resource Centers. The European Studies Consortium will receive $1.2 million over four years that includes 11 FLAS fellowships for graduate and undergraduate students. The International Studies NRC will also receive $1.2 million over four years for similar programming.

Faculty

Regents Professor
William Iacono, psychology, has been named a Regents Professor.

2009-10 Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award Recipients
The College is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2009-10 Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award. The winners will be recognized at next year's commencement.

• Teresa Gowan, Sociology
• Kurt Kipfmueller, Geography
• Keith Mayes, African American & African Studies
• Philip Sellew, Classical and Near Eastern Studies

The First Annual COGS Outstanding Faculty Award
This award, organized by graduate students, recognizes faculty members for their exceptional contributions to graduate education. CLA recipients are
• Robert (Robin) Brown, Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
• Christopher Nappa, Associate Professor, Classical and Near Eastern Studies
• David Pellow, Professor, Sociology
• Margaret Werry, Associate Professor, Theatre Arts and Dance

OIP Global Spotlight Grant
The Office of International Programs awarded Sociology Assistant Professor Cawo (Awa) Abdi a Global Spotlight Grant for research related to Africa and Water in the World. This funding is for her project: "Divergent Migrations: Somali Experience in South Africa, America, and the United Arab Emirates." Her study pursues core theoretical questions that further our understanding of migration, globalization, and identity formations in different regions.

McKnight Artist Fellowship
Andréa Stanislav, associate professor of art, has won a 2010-2011 McKnight Artist Fellowship in visual arts. Her upcoming solo exhibitions through 2011 include: Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis; Jonathan Shorr Gallery, New York; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, N.D.; and Yuanfen New Media Art Space, Beijing, China.

Luce Senior Fellowship in Religion
Bernard Levinson, Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible and professor of classical and Near Eastern studies, has received the Luce Senior Fellowship in Religion at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park (North Carolina) for 2010-11.

Books Published
Tracey Deutsch, assistant professor in history, has published "Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century" (University of North Carolina). In her examination of the history of food distribution in the United States, Deutsch demonstrates the important roles that gender, business, class, and the state played in the evolution of American grocery stores.

Josephine Lee's book The Japan of Pure Invention: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado was published in May 2010 with the University of Minnesota Press. She is a professor in English.

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley's (English) Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature is published in 2010 with Duke University Press. She is an associate professor in English.

Staff

Book Published
Ravi Prasad, lead teacher and lecturer of Hindi in Asian Languages and Literatures, has published "Language, Caste and Ethnicity: an Ethnolinguistic Perspective" (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller). Based on an extensive research conducted in the Indian town of Hazaribag, this book discusses the nature of variations in tribal identity and the sociolinguistic parameters causing such a shift, in the context of language conflict, language choice, language usage and the impact caused by the ever-changing political scene at the regional and national level.

Graduate Students

OIP Doctoral Fellowship
The University of Minnesota's Office of International Programs (OIP) recently awarded one of its very few 2010-11 Doctoral Fellowships for International Research to fourth-year sociology graduate student Shannon Golden for her dissertation, "After Atrocity: Community Reconciliation in Northern Uganda." Shannon will use the fellowship proceeds to travel to Uganda where she plans to live for at least a year while conducting her research.

Best Dissertation Awards
Winners of the Best Dissertation Award are selected in four categories. This year's recipients each received Ph.D.s and are working in their fields. CLA's recipients are:

Arts and humanities: Elizabeth Weixel, English. Adviser: John Watkins.
Social and behavioral sciences and education: Michael Vuolo, sociology. Adviser: Christopher Uggen.

Each year, directors of graduate studies select from a pool of more than 1,000 eligible students in a competition for the Best Dissertation Award, administered through the Graduate School. The selection committee also forwards nominations to represent the University of Minnesota in a national competition sponsored by the Council of Graduate Schools.

NSF Graduate Fellowships
Psychology graduate students Stephanie Cantu, Antonia Kaczkurkin, Rachael Klein, and Alex Maki were awarded NSF Graduate Fellowships. These fellowships are highly competitive and provide financial support (including stipend, tuition, insurance, fees) for 3 years that can be used at the discretion of the recipient over a 5 year period.

Sociology graduate student Hollie Nyseth was awarded a 2010 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Undergraduate Students

Beinecke Scholarship
Undergraduate Paige M. Patchin, an honors junior majoring in history and geography, has been awarded a 2010 Beinecke Scholarship. She is one of 20 students nationwide to receive this prestigious award for outstanding undergraduates who intend to pursue graduate study in arts, humanities or social science fields. Beinecke Scholars receive $34,000 toward their graduate education. Paige is the fourth CLA student in five years to win this coveted award.

Linguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America recognized undergraduate Ethan Poole (Scandinavian studies/linguistics) for his meritorious service to the Society; this is the first time in memory that this award has been given to an undergraduate. Since joining the LSA as a student member, Ethan has performed significant volunteer services and donated a website domain name for use by the Society: www.linguisticsociety.org. Since Feb. 2009, he has served as a volunteer webmaster for the LSA's website, patiently working to improve both the content and navigability of the site, donating many hours of his time.

Units

CAPA Outstanding Unit Award
The Department of Theatre Arts and Dance has been awarded the 2010 CAPA Outstanding Unit Award.