Spring honors and awards

Adrian W.B. Randolph, dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and professor of art history, received the top honor in the 2016 American Association of Italian Studies' Book Award competition in the category of Renaissance, 18th and 19th century. Randolph’s book, “Touching Objects,” examines a range of objects from Italian Renaissance society that span the fields of art history, material culture and gender studies. The award recognizes the most distinguished critical studies of Italian literature, history and culture. 

Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, a professor of neurobiology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2016 Searle Scholar. The Searle Scholars Program is a limited-submission award program that provides grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding early-career scientists. The $300,000 award will help fund Kozorovitskiy’s research on the human brain over the next three years.  Kozorovitskiy has already received a Beckman Young Investigator award and a Sloan fellowship for her contributions to the field of neurobiology.

Daniel Immerwahr, an assistant professor of history in theWeinberg College of Arts and Sciences, received the prestigious 2016 Merle Curti Awardfrom the Organization of American Historians for his book“Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development.” The award is given annually for the best books published in American intellectual and social history. In precise prose that is by turns “impatient, witty and compassionate,” Immerwahr explores the theory and practice of community development in the U.S., India and the Philippines. Rather than ending poverty and enabling change from below, the community-based initiatives usually failed to reduce inequality while becoming entangled -- intentionally or unintentionally -- with local power relations according to Immerwahr’s account.

Jaimie Morse, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of sociology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’ department of sociology, and Sarah Roth, a Ph.D. candidate in English in Weinberg, have both received a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women Studies. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation awarded 10 fellowships for $5,000 each to support the final year of dissertation writing for doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses women’s and gendered issues in interdisciplinary and original ways.  Morse’s dissertation, “Documenting Mass Rape: The Emergence and Implications of Medical Evidence Collection Techniques in Settings of Armed Conflict and Mass Violence,” traces the history and use of medical evidence to document political and sexual violence as a means of human rights advocacy since the 1970s. Roth's dissertation, "An Interesting Condition: Reproduction and the Un-Domestication of the Victorian Novel," examines how repression of reproduction in Victorian novels operates differently, and for a different purpose, than its repression of sexuality. 

Richard Kraut, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities, has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by encouraging research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions irrespective of race, color or creed. Kraut holds appointments in the departments of philosophy and classics in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. His work focuses on contemporary moral and political philosophy, as well as the ethics and political thought of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.