| Stanley Aronowitz (Sociology and Urban Education, GC, Distinguished Professor) delivered the commencement speech for the January 2009 commencement exercises at the University of New Haven, where he was also awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters. Paul Attewell (Sociology and Urban Education, GC) is a 2009–10 fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Beth Baron (History, GC/City; Co-director of Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center) has begun a five-year term as editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Marvin Carlson (Theatre, GC, Distinguished Professor) was honored by his students with the publication of Changing the Subject: A Festschrift for Marvin Carlson, edited by Joseph Roach (University of Michigan Press, 2009). Mary Ann Caws (French, English, and Comparative Literature, GC, Distinguished Professor) has been elected a member of the 2009 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Michelle Fine (Psychology and Urban Education, GC, Distinguished Professor) was named a 2008 American Educational Research Foundation Inaugural Fellow in recognition of her outstanding accomplishment in education research. Marilyn Hacker (French, GC/City) won the 2009 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the 2008 Robert Fagles Translation Prize for Marie Etienne, King of a Hundred Horsemen (Roi des cent cavaliers) (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2008). Charles Kadushin (Psychology, Sociology, GC, emeritus) was honored with the Marshall Sklare Award for distinguished professional achievement from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Thomas G. Karis (Political Science, GC, emeritus) received an honorary doctorate from the University of South Africa in Pretoria in recognition of his scholarship on South Africa. Philip Kasinitz (Sociology, GC/Hunter) and John H. Mollenkopf (Political Science, Sociology, GC, Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for Urban Research) co-authored Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (Russell Sage Foundation; Harvard University Press, 2008), which won the 2009 Thomas and Znaniecki Award for best book of the year from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association. The cover of Organic and Bimolecular Chemistry (July 2009) ,the Royal Society of Chemistry’s magazine, featured a paper by Mahesh K. Lakshman (Chemistry, GC/City) and Josh Frank about their groundbreaking research: “A simple method for C-6 modification of guanine nucleosides.” David S. Reynolds (English, GC, Distinguished Professor) is the author of Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson (Harper/Harper Collins, 2009), which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2008 and was listed as one of The Washington Post’s Best Books of 2008. Susan Saegert (Environmental Psychology, GC) received the 2009 Committee on Socioeconomic Status Award for Distinguished Leadership at the American Psychological Association’s annual convention, held in Toronto. |
