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FOR RELEASE: Thursday, April 27, 2006
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PULITZER, NATIONAL ACADEMY MEMBERSHIP, GUGGENHEIMS AWARDED TO WW FELLOWS, NEW WW PRESIDENT
PRINCETON, NJ—Spring 2006 saw a spate of national honors for Fellows from a range of Woodrow Wilson programs, including a prestigious Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction awarded to an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies for her first book.
Caroline Elkins, a 1994 Mellon Fellow, won the Pulitzer in April 2006 for Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain 's Gulag in Kenya. Based on her doctoral dissertation, the book documents brutality by British occupying forces against Kenya's Kikuyu people during the 1950s—a story of colonial violence previously covered up by officials, and revealed through Dr. Elkins’ interviews with survivors of detention camps. Dr. Elkins is now the Hugo K. Foster Associate Professor of African Studies at Harvard University.
Spring 2006 accolades also went to Arthur E. Levine, president-elect of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and 15 of the original Woodrow Wilson Fellows, all elected to membership in the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences (full list below). Collectively the group accounts for nearly 10% of the 175 members elected to the Academy this year. Founded during the American Revolution, the Academy each year recognizes “exceptional achievement” in the arts and sciences, professions, and public service by prominent Americans and a handful of Foreign Honorary Members.
In addition, seven more of the original Woodrow Wilson Fellows, as well as two Mellon Fellows, a WW Women’s Studies Fellow, and a founding faculty member in Woodrow Wilson’s Teachers As Scholars program received 2006 Guggenheim Fellowships in April (full list below). The prestigious awards, made annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, recognize significant achievement by established scholars and professionals, and are intended to support their ongoing creative projects. The 11 new Guggenheim Fellows affiliated with Woodrow Wilson were among 187 selected nationwide.
A partial list of some of the many distinguished Fellows from various Woodrow Wilson programs is available on the Woodrow Wilson Web site at http://www.woodrow.org/fellowships/about_fellows. Contact Beverly Sanford, at (609) 452-7007, ext. 181 or sanford@woodrow.org, for additional information.
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The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has its origins in a now-famous fellowship program, begun in 1945, which helped the United States create a great generation of college teachers and intellectual leaders. Today’s Woodrow Wilson continues to cultivate excellence in teaching and learning at every level of education, putting the arts and sciences at the service of democracy.
Dudley Andrew WF ’67
R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature • Yale University
Christopher R. Browning WF ’67
Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of History • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jeff Cheeger WF ’64
Professor of Mathematics • New York University
William A. Graham WF ’66
Dean, John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, and
Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies • Harvard Divinity School
Kenneth T. Jackson WF ’61
Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and
Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History • Columbia University
Richard A. Kieckhefer WF ’68
Professor of Religion and History • Northwestern University
David R. Knechtges WF ’64
Professor of Asian Languages and Literature • University of Washington
Richard Kraut WF ’65
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities and
Professor of Philosophy and Classics • Northwestern University
Dominick C. LaCapra WF ’61
Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies • Cornell University
Arthur E. Levine President-elect, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Professor and President • Teachers College, Columbia University
J. Andrew McCammon WF ’69
Professor of Pharmacology and Chemistry • University of California, San Diego
Michael Murrin WF ’60
David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Humanities • University of Chicago
Richard Taruskin WF ’65
Class of 1955 Professor of Music • University of California, Berkeley
Craig A. Tracy WF ’67
Distinguished Professor of Mathematics • University of California, Davis
Ellen Bryant Voigt WF '64
Poet • Marshfield, Vermont
Nicholas Wolterstorff WF ’53
Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology • Yale University
ABBREVIATIONS:
WF = Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Patricia Cline Cohen WF ’68
Professor of History • University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas and Mary Gove Nichols and marriage reform in antebellum America
Julia V. Douthwaite TAS (founding faculty)
Professor of French and Assistant Provost for International Studies • University of Notre Dame
A literary history of the French Revolution
Robert S. Edelman WF
Professor of History • University of California, San Diego
Moscow soccer audiences and popular attitudes toward communism
Paula S. Fass WF ’67 H
Margaret Byrne Professor of History • University of California, Berkeley
Parents and children in American history, 1800-2000
Barbara Fuchs MN ’92
Associate Professor of Romance Languages • University of Pennsylvania
“Moorish” culture and the conflictive construction of Spain
Karen V. Hansen WS ’87
Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies • Brandeis University
The Dakota Sioux and Scandinavian homesteaders, 1900-1930
Deidre S. Lynch MN ’83
Associate Professor of English • Indiana University, Bloomington
A cultural history of the love of literature
Arden Reed WF ’70
Arthur M. and Fanny M. Dole Professor of English • Pomona College
Slow art, from tableaux vivants to James Turrell
William C. Taubman WF ’62
Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science • Amherst College
A biography of Mikhail Gorbachev
Noël Valis WF ’68
Professor of Spanish • Yale University
Catholicism in modern Spanish narrative
Anne Winters WF ’68
Poet/Professor of English • University of Illinois, Chicago
Poetry
ABBREVIATIONS:
MN = Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies
TAS = Teachers As Scholars
WF = Woodrow Wilson Fellow
WS = Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow in Women’s Studies
H = Honorary
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