Faculty Awards

Clare Carroll (Comp. Lit.) has been awarded a Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Irish Studies from Concordia University in Montreal for fall 2007. While on sabbatical this year, she gave lectures at the Irish Historical Society and the University College in Dublin, at the Moore Institute on Migration and the National University of Ireland in Galway, at Fatih University in Istanbul, and at the Irish Pontifical College in Rome.

Kimiko Hahn (English) was awarded the Shelley Memorial Prize by the Poetry Society of America. Past recipients of the prize include former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky and Marie Ponsot (English, Emerita).

For her work on behalf of indigenous peoples, riverine communities, and forests in the headwaters of the Amazon, Judith Kimerling (Political Science) has won the 2007 Parker/Gentry Award for Conservation Biology. The award honors outstanding individuals, teams, or organizations whose efforts have had a significant impact on preserving the world’s natural heritage.

Mandana Limbert (Anthropology) has won the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for 2007–08, which supports research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels. Limbert’s work focuses on Oman and the Indian Ocean and is based on ethnographic and archival research in Oman, Zanzibar, and London. She is beginning a project on notions of identity, the history of servitude, and marriage practices among Omanis in Oman and Zanzibar.

For his work promoting conservation in the borough of Queens, Allan Ludman (SEES) received one of the first “Our Green Queens” awards from City Councilman James Gennaro.

To a list of honors that includes a Ford Foundation individual grant and a Guggenheim fellowship, Jacqueline D. Malone (Drama) can add the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship for 2007–2008. The award recognizes exceptionally promising and accomplished scholars, scientists, artists, and writers who wish to pursue work in the creative arts. Malone is a historian of American dance and a former member of the Eleo Pomare Dance Company.

Morris Rossabi (History) has been awarded honorary lifetime membership in the Central Eurasian Society for his contributions to Central Asian Studies. The author of numerous books, articles, and speeches on Mongolian and East Asian history, Rossabi is one of only five scholars ever to receive this honor.