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American Culture Studies
Wayne Fields, 2009 Outstanding
Faculty Mentor award from the
Graduate Student Senate in Arts &
Sciences
Anthropology
Rebecca Lester, 2009 Stirling Prize for
Best Published Work from the Society
for Psychological Anthropology
Art History and Archaeology
Angela L. Miller, 2009 Outstanding
Faculty Mentor award from the
Graduate Student Senate in A&S
Biology
Garland E. Allen, named Fellow of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), the
world's largest general scientific society
Roger Beachy, asked by President
Obama to lead a new federal agency to
transform the way that plant science
research is funded in the United States
Jonathan M. Chase, Outstanding St.
Louis Scientist Innovation Award from
the Academy of Science of St. Louis
Ursula Goodenough, named 2009
Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts & Sciences
Victoria L. May, Outstanding St. Louis
Science Educator Award from the
Academy of Science of St. Louis
Barbara Schaal,
appointed by
President Obama to the President's
Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology (PCAST); was installed
as the first Mary-Dell Chilton
Distinguished Professor in Arts
& Sciences
Chemistry
J. Dewey Holten, 2009 Outstanding
Faculty Mentor award from the
Graduate Student Senate in Arts
& Sciences
Classics
Susan Rotroff, awarded archaeology's
2011 gold medal for achievement from
the Archaeological Institute of America
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Robert Criss, inaugural Barry
Commoner Science in Environmental
Service Award from the Missouri
Coalition for the Environment
International Astronomical Union
(IAU) named Haskin Crater on the
moon after the late Larry Haskin,
former professor of earth and planetary
sciences, department chair, and
member of the McDonnell Center
for the Space Sciences
Proposed Moon mission, MoonRise,
one of three finalists bidding on a $650
million NASA space science mission,
researchers Bradley Jolliff (principal
investigator), Randy L. Korotev and
Ryan Zeigler
Economics
James C. Morley, 2009 Outstanding
Faculty Mentor award from the
Graduate Student Senate in Arts
& Sciences
English
Carl Phillips, selected for the third
time as a finalist for the 2009 National
Book Award in poetry for his 10th
collection of poetry, Speak Low
Gary S. Wihl, named the Hortense and
Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor
in the Humanities
Film and Media Studies
Gaylyn Studlar, named the David May
Distinguished University Professor in
the Humanities
Germanic Languages
and Literatures
The Max Kade Center on Contemporary
German Literature, directed by Paul
Michael Lützeler
celebrated 25 years
Gerhild S. Williams, named vice
provost
History
St. Louis Public Schools' social studies
teacher of the year award was named in
honor of David T. Konig
Steven Hause, awarded Innovative
Entrepreneurship Education Course
Award from the U.S. Association of
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
for his course "Economic History
and Entrepreneurialism in Modern
Western Civilization"
Elizabeth Borgwardt, winner of
the 2009 Stuart L. Bernath Lecture
Prize from the Society for Historians
of American Foreign Relations
International and Area Studies
Priscilla Stone, named assistant
provost for international education
James V. Wertsch, named a 2009
Fellow of the American Academy
of Arts & Sciences; appointed as
university associate vice chancellor
for international affairs
Performing Arts
Sean Savoie, received 2009 Rising
Star Award from the U.S. Institute for
Theatre Technology
Carter Lewis, Best New Play,
Evie's Waltz, from Repertory of
St. Louis.
Philosophy
Mark Rollins, named to the newly
created position of Faculty Fellow
in the Office of the Provost
Political Science
Matthew Gabel, selected for 2010 John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation Fellowship
Mona Lena Krook, 2009 Outstanding
Faculty Mentor award from the Graduate
Student Senate in Arts & Sciences
Norman J. Schofield, received the
W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-
Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover
Institution, Stanford University, to
work on an original research project,
"The Political Economy of Democracy
and Autocracy"
James F. Spriggs, 2009 Outstanding
Faculty Mentor award from the Graduate
Student Senate in Arts & Sciences
Psychology
Henry L. "Roddy" Roediger, III,
received 2009 Washington University
Arthur Holly Compton Award for Faculty
Achievement
Physics
Thomas J. Bernatowicz, professor,
received the 2009 inaugural Arts &
Sciences David Hadas Teaching Award.
Ramanath Cowsik, 2009 O'Ceallaigh
Medal by the International Union of
Pure and Applied Physics' Cosmic Ray
Commission and the Dublin Institute
for Advanced Studies
Romance Languages
and Literatures
Stephanie Kirk, 2009 Outstanding
Faculty Mentor award from the Graduate
Student Senate in Arts & Sciences
Elzbieta Sklodowska, received 2009
Washington University Distinguished
Faculty Award; 2009 inaugural Arts
& Sciences Distinguished Leadership
Award; named to the newly created
position of Faculty Fellow in the Office
of the Provost
Women, Gender and
Sexuality Studies
Mary Ann Dzuback, received 2009
inaugural Arts & Sciences Distinguished
Leadership Award
A C H I E V E M E N T S A N D A W A R D S
S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I O N S
Anthropology
John Bowen
Can Islam be French? Pluralism and
Pragmatism in a Secularist State,
Princeton University Press (2009)
Bret Gustafson
New Languages of the State: Indigenous
Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge
in Bolivia
, Duke University Press (2009)
Shanti Parikh
The Secret: Love, Marriage and HIV,
co-authored, Vanderbilt University
Press (2010)
Art History and Archaeology
William E. Wallace
Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and
His Times
, Cambridge University Press
(2010)
Alicia Walker
Negotiating Secular and Sacred in Medieval
Art: Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist
,
co-edited with Amanda Luyster, Ashgate
Publishers (2009)
Asian and Near Eastern
Languages and Literatures
Robert Hegel
True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China:
Twenty Case Histories
, University of
Washington Press (2009)
Marvin Marcus
Reflections in a Glass Door: Memory and
Melancholy in the Personal Writings of
Natsume So-sek
, University of Hawaii
Press (2009)
English
Mary Jo Bang
The Bride of E, Graywolf Press (2009)
Gerald Early
Best African American Essays 2010, Best
African American Fiction 2010, Best
African American Essays 2009, and Best
African American Fiction 2009
, New York:
Bantam Books (2009, 2010)
Marina MacKay
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature
of World War II
, Cambridge University
Press (2009)
Robert Milder
The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne
in His Notebooks
, co-edited, Ohio State
University Press (2009)
Carl Phillips
Speak Low, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
(2009)
Economics
Michele Boldrin
Tremonti, istruzioni per il disuso, with
Alberto Bisin, Sandro Brusco, Andrea Moro,
Giulio Zanella,
Ancora del Mediterraneo
(2010)
Germanic Languages
and Literatures
William Layher, Gerhild Williams
Consuming News: Newspapers and Print
Culture in Early Modern Europe (1500-
1800)
. Editors, Amsterdam: Rodopi
(2009)
Paul Michael Lutzeler
Buergerkrieg Global: Menschenrechtsethos
und deutschsprachiger Gegenwartsroman
,
Munich: Fink (2009)
Lynne Tatlock
Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg:
Meditations on the Incarnation, Passion
and Death of Jesus Christ, (The Other
Voice in Early Modern Europe)
, edited,
introduced, and translated, University
of Chicago Press (2009)
History
Lori Watt
When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation
and Reintegration in Postwar Japan
,
Cambridge: Harvard University Asia
Center (2009)
Mathematics
David Wright
Mathematics and Music, American
Mathematical Society (2009)
Music
Peter Schmelz
Such Freedom, If Only Musical: Unofficial
Soviet Music During the Thaw
, Oxford
University Press (2009)
Philosophy
Christopher Wellman
A Theory of Secession: The Case for
Political Self-Determination
, Cambridge
University Press (2009)
Political Science
Mona Lena Krook
Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and
Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide
,
New York: Oxford University Press
(2009)
William R. Lowry
Repairing Paradise: The Restoration of
Nature in America's National Parks
,
The Brookings Institution (2009)
Douglass C. North
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual
Framework for Interpreting Recorded
Human History
, Cambridge University
Press (2009)
Guillermo Rosas
Curbing Bailouts: Bank Crises and
Democratic Accountability in
Comparative Perspective
, University
of Michigan Press (2009)
Norman J. Schofeld
The Political Economy of Democracy
and Tyranny
, Oldenbourg (2009)
Andrew Sobel
Challenges of Globalization: Immigration,
Social Welfare, Global Governance
, edited.
Routledge (2009)
Stephanie Springer
Reforming the Presidential Nomination
Process, co-edited
, Brookings Institution
Press (2009)
Psychology
Pascal Boyer and James Wertsch
(Anthropology)
Memory in Mind and Culture,
New York: Cambridge University
Press (2009)
Dawn Brancati
Peace by Design: Managing Ethnic
Conflict through Decentralization
,
Oxford and New York (2009)
Randall Larsen
Personality Psychology, with David
Buss, New York: McGraw-Hill (2010)
Henry L. Roediger, III
Experimental Psychology:
Understanding Psychological Research
,
Wadsworth (2009)
Romance Languages
and Literatures
William G. Acree, Jr.
Building Nineteenth-Century
Latin America: Re-Rooted Cultures,
Identities, and Nations
, co-edited,
Nashville: Vanderbilt University
Press (2009)
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Naciones intelectuales. Las fundaciones
de la modernidad literaria mexicana
(1917-1959)
, West Lafayette, IN:
Purdue University Press (2009)
Elzbieta Sklodowska
Espectros y espejismos: Haiti? en el
imaginario cubano (Specters and
Mirages: Haiti in Cuban Imaginary)
,
Madrid: Iberoamericana (2009)
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