Prestigious Guggenheim Awarded to Two College of Liberal Arts Faculty Members
Minneapolis/St. Paul (4/02/2008)- Two College of Liberal Arts (CLA) faculty members at the University of Minnesota have received 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships in the 84th annual U.S. and Canadian competition sponsored by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
The 2008 Guggenheim fellows from CLA are Kathryn Sikkink, professor in the Department of Political Science, and Robin Stryker, professor in the Department of Sociology. The two received funding based on distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
“Kathryn Sikkink, Robin Stryker, and Douglas Arnold are three of our very finest scholars. They amply deserve the important national recognition of a Guggenheim Fellowship for their wide-ranging and extraordinary achievements. The three awards underscore the remarkable breadth and depth of faculty at the University of Minnesota. On behalf of the University I congratulate each,” said E. Thomas Sullivan, Senior Vice President fo
r Academic Affairs and Provost at the University.
Kathryn Sikkink, a Regents Professor and a McKnight Distinguished University Professor
Sikkink in the Department of Political Science, was heralded by the Guggenheim Foundation for her work on the origins and effects of human rights trials in the world. Her research also includes U. S. human rights policy; women’s rights; transnational advocacy networks; social justice; political activism; Latin America politics; grassroots politics; war crimes tribunals; and international human rights norms and law. She is author of Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms; Activists Beyond Borders; Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina; and Mixed Messages: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America.
Robin Stryker, professor in the Department of Sociology and Scholar of the College
Stryker was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of her work in social science in governmen
t regulation of equal employment opportunity. In general, Stryker’s areas of focus include law and society, political sociology, economic sociology, comparative and historical sociology, theory, stratification, historical methods, and culture. She is the author of Social Science in Government Regulation Robin Stykerof Equal Employment Opportunity, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, and nine other recent publications, including Half Empty, Half Full or Neither? Law, Inequality and Social Change; Law and Economy, with Lauren Edelman; The Strength of a Weak Agency: Early Enforcement of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Expansion of State Capacity, with Nichol Pedriana; and Political Culture Wars 1990s Style: The Drum Beat of Quotas in Media Framing of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, with Martha Scarpellino and Mellisa Holtzman.
Also honored by the Guggenheim Foundation was Douglas Arnold, professor in the Institute of Technology’s School of Mathematics.