Summer-Fall 2001
Awards and accolades
Faculty & Staff | Students
History professor Allen Isaacman, a specialist in African history, has been named Regents' Professor--the U's highest faculty honor. The University's 20 Regents' Professors, 7 of them from CLA, are chosen for academic distinction, scope and quality of their scholarly or artistic contributions, teaching quality, and contributions to the public good. The author of five books and recipient of Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships, Isaacman also helped set up and run an interdisciplinary program on global change that has trained more than 180 graduate students.
Scoring a hit
Music professor and composer Judith Lang Zaimont was recognized as an Honored Composer and one of two prize winners in the inaugural American Composers Invitational competition sponsored by the Van Cliburn Foundation.
Zaimont's composition "Impronta Digitale" was performed by both gold medal winners at the 11th Van Cliburn Internation Competition.
For more information about Zaimont's works, go to http://www.joblink.org/jzaimont.
Recipients of CLA's Outstanding Service Awards for 2000 are:
Peggy Berkowitz (CLA administration), Margaret Demmessie (Spanish and Portuguese), Leslie Denny (CLA administration), Rochelle Emmel (theatre arts and dance), Elizabeth Gates (psychology), Susan Halvorson (art), Lisa Higgs (journalism and mass communication), Mark Ireland (Career and Community Learning Center), John Libra (Asian languages and literatures), Sally Lieberman (CLA honors), Jenneke Arnolda Oosterhoff (German, Scandinavian, and Dutch), Diane Rackowski (CLA Language Center), Eugenia Smith (CLA Today editor and CLA communications director), and Joel Wurl (Immigration History Research Center).
Faculty & Staff
Sociology professor Christopher Uggen received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the University of Minnesota Mortar Board National Honor Society for his "superior dedication to undergraduate research."
Photo by Diana Watters
Anatoly Liberman (German, Scandinavian, and Dutch) and Sara Evans (history) were awarded research fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies.
Indira Junghare (Institute of Linguistics, English as a Second Language, and Slavic Languages and Literatures) is one of six honorees to receive the University of Minnesota Outstanding Community Service Award.
Turtle Pictures, a book of poetry by Ray Gonzalez (English), won a Minnesota Book Award.
Communication disorders professor and chair Charles Speaks received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Ananya Chatterjea, assistant professor of theatre arts and dance; Marge Maddux, associate professor of theatre arts and dance; Susan Noakes, professor of French and Italian; and Oliver Nicholson, associate professor of classical and Near Eastern studies received the McKnight Arts and Humanities Endowment Award.
Thomas Rose, professor of art, and Kathryn Reyerson, professor of history, received the McKnight Research Award for 2001.
George Sheets, associate professor of classical and Near Eastern studies, was the inaugural recipient of the Excellence in College Teaching Award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Frank Sorauf, Regents' Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former College of Liberal Arts (CLA) dean, received one of 12 President's Awards for Outstanding Service for 2001.
Jack Zipes, professor of German and international expert on fairy tales, was named to the KARE 11 TV's Eleven Who Care and to the Volunteer Hall of Fame by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine for his service to public school students. Zipes directs the Neighborhood Bridges story-telling program for elementary schools.
Sociology professor Barbara Laslett received the 2001 Jessie Bernard Award in recognition of scholarly research about the role of women in society.
Professor Jeffrey Broadbent was the first sociologist ever to receive the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize for studies contributing to development of good political policies.
Professor Kenneth Doyle (journalism) has been appointed to the advisory board of the new Center for Mental Health and Media at Harvard University, where he will advise primarily on the connections between mental health and money in various cultures around the world.
Journalism professors Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Kathleen Hansen, and Daniel Sullivan were honored as distinguished mentors at the President's Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program.
Barry Feld, associate member of the sociology faculty and Centennial Professor at the Law School, received the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court (Oxford 1999).
Professor Chin-Chuan Lee (journalism) has been appointed vice chair of the international advisory committee of the first Center for Media and Social Studies in China, under the auspices of the Chinese Ministry of Education.
Sociology professor Karen Lutfey received the 2001 Roberta G. Simmons Dissertation Award from the American Sociology Association Medical Sociology Section.
Thomas Rose, professor of art (sculpture, multi-media), has been named Fesler-Lampert Chair in Humanities. Appointment to the chair recognizes his contributions as a distinguished scholar and teacher at the University.
Students
Anne MacKenzie Kustritz, senior in cultural studies/comparative literature and psychology, has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies for 2001.
Susie Vang, freshman, was named a Star Tribune Foundation Scholar. The award includes a tuition scholarship to pursue a journalism degree and a guaranteed internship with the Minneapolis Star Tribune upon graduation.
Nicole Gary, a senior advertising major in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication was recently named one of "25 Superstars" by Ad Age. She will graduate in 2002 and plans to attend law school to specialize in intellectual property.
Sociology graduate student Switbert Kamazima was one of two recipients of the 2001 Dunn Peace Scholarship Award. Kamazima, also a Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellow, will do field research in the Tanzania and Uganda border region.
Sociology graduate student Lisette Haro has been awarded the American Sociology Association Minority Fellowship Program predoctoral fellowship for the 2000-2001 academic year.
A paper by journalism students Shirley Fang Wan and Patrick Meirick--"How Does Political Commentary Shape Perceptions of Political Candidates?"--was selected as the Top Student Paper in the Communication Theory and Methodology division by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Three CLA graduate students received Fulbright grants: Jodi Horne (feminist studies) will travel to Namibia; Cecily Marcus (comparative studies in discourse and society) will travel to Argentina; and Caitlin Verfenstein (classics) will conduct research in Greece.
Jason Peck (graduate student, German) and Marc Teichman (senior, German) received research fellowships to Germany from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).