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Faculty Appointments
Dean Sam Preston
announced eight endowed chair appointments:
Joanne Gowa, the Walter H. Annenberg Chair in the Social Sciences;
Michael Katz, the Walter H. Annenberg Professorship in History;
Edward Mansfield, the Hum Rosen Professorship;
David Roos, the Merriam Professorship in Biology;
Rogers Smith, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professorship.

Sociology professor Tukufu Zuberi was named director of the Afro-American Studies program. The interdisciplinary program helps students understand and evaluate human, cultural, social, and economic factors that have shaped the African American experience and other forms of the African Diaspora.

Faculty Awards
The James Russell Lowell Prize for 2001 was awarded to Peter Stallybrass, the Kahn Term Professor of English, and Ann Rosalind Jones of Smith College for their book, Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory. The Modern Language Association bestows the prestigious award annually for an outstanding scholarly book by a member of the association.

Russell P. Sebold, emeritus professor of Romance languages, was awarded the International Elio Antonio de Nebrija Prize, considered the highest award of its kind in the field of Hispanism. Sebold is an expert in 18th Century Spanish and Spanish Romanticism.

Making the World Safe
The Honorable Janet Reno, attorney general under the Clinton administration, received the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology Award at the October 15 dedication of the new Jerry Lee Center. The center strives to make a safer and more democratic world by uncovering the causes of crime and ways to prevent it. Philadelphia police commissioner John Timoney was also honored. Lawrence W. Sherman, the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations and head of the Fels Center, is director of the new center.

Coming Up
The 2002 Dean's Forum next spring will feature J. Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics, which led the private-sector effort to decode the human genome. The forum will be held February 28 at 4:30 p.m. in Houston Hall.



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