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Adams, Rachel
Baswell, Christopher
Biers, Katherine
Bizup, Joseph
Blount, Marcellus
Claybaugh, Amanda
Cole, Sarah
Crane, Susan
Crawford, Julie
Dailey, Patricia
Dames, Nicholas
Davidson, Jenny
Delbanco, Andrew
Douglas, Ann
Eden, Kathy
Edwards, Brent
Gamber, John
Golston, Michael
Gray, Erik
Griffin, Farah
Hart, Matt
Hartman, Saidiya
Hirsch, Marianne
Horejsi, Nicole
Howard, Jean
Jin, Wen
Johnson, Eleanor
Kroeber, Karl
Marcus, Sharon
Mendelson, Edward
Murray, Molly
Negrón-Muntaner, Frances
O'Meally, Robert
Posnock, Ross
Puchner, Martin
Quigley, Austin
Robbins, Bruce
Rosenthal, Michael
Rosner, Victoria
Shapiro, James
Slaughter, Joseph
Spiegel, Maura
Spivak, Gayatri
Stewart, Alan
Strand, Mark
Strohm, Paul
Tawil, Ezra
Viswanathan, Gauri
Yerkes, David
Emeritus FacultyFerrante, Joan
Franco, Jean
Hanning, Robert
Marcus, Steven
Meisel, Martin
Mirollo, James
Rosenberg, John
Seidel, Michael
Stade, George
Tayler, Edward
Associated Faculty Cloud, Gerald
Ferguson, Robert
Gillooly, Eileen
Gourgouris, Stathis
Hamilton, Ross
Jaanus, Maire
Martinsen, Deborah
Prescott, Anne
Wallack, Nicole

Adjunct FacultyBrietzke, Zander
Cohen, Monica
Giordani, Marianne
Kucukalic, Lejla
Lamb, Kevin
Legassie, Shayne
Massimilla, Stephen
Matto, Michael
Muller, Jill
Phillipson, Mark
Robinson-Appels, John
Sacks, Richard
Violi, Paul

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FACULTY ON LEAVE 2009-10

For the academic year:  Profs. Claybaugh, Edwards, Golston, Griffin, Murray, Puchner, Rosenthal, Slaughter, Spivak, Strand, and Strohm
 
For Fall 2009:  Profs. Blount, Cole, Crane, Crawford, Dailey, and Jin

For Spring 2010:
 Profs. R. Adams, Davidson, Delbanco, and Eden



FACULTY NEWS




KARL KROEBER delivers Phi Beta Kappa Graduation speech

"I begin by apologizing to the parents of today’s honorees, because some things I say may distress you.  If it helps, I am a parent of three children, so I understand the financial sacrifices you have undergone for the past 4 years.  I am also aware that these splendid young adults whose accomplishments we celebrate, you knew just a few years ago as adolescents –  and adolescence has been described as extended familial suffering for no discernible reason. Finally, as a teacher I have one overriding commitment:  to speak only the truth as I see it to your children  -- and I think you deserve the same respect.   
To you splendid students I say:  bravely done!  You richly deserve the honor bestowed on you today.  You have achieved more than success –  you have met the highest standards of intellectual accomplishment of one of the world’s most distinguished universities.  You today join in a larger fellowship with women and men of many universities and colleges bound together solely by merit of four years of outstanding intellectual performance that required more than the  gift of intelligence  --including the courage often to resist the seductive temptation of not doing your very best.  You remind us that in any serious work of the mind only excellence is adequate."

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CONGRATULATIONS to Professor MARK STRAND

He has been awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

This award is given every six years to honor the distinguished career of a poet. It is considered the highest honor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Past Winners include W.S. Merwin, John Ashbery, Richard Wilbur, Robert Penn Warren, Archibald MacLeish, John Crowe Ransom, Wystan Hugh Auden, William Carlos Williams, Conrad Aiken, Marianne Craig Moore, Robert Frost, Edwin A. Robinson, and James Whitcomb Riley.        

The American Academy of Arts and Letters was established in 1898 to “foster, assist, and sustain an interest in literature, music, and the fine arts.” Election to the Academy is considered the highest formal recognition of artistic merit in this country. Founding members include William Merritt Chase, Kenyon Cox, Daniel Chester French, Childe Hassam, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Vedder, and Woodrow Wilson. The Academy is currently comprised of 250 of America’s leading voices in the fields of Art, Architecture, Literature, and Music. The Academy presents exhibitions of art, architecture, and manuscripts; and readings and performances of new musicals throughout the year, and is located in three landmark buildings designed by McKim, Mead & White, Cass Gilbert, and Charles Pratt Huntington, on Audubon Terrace at 155 Street and Broadway, New York City.

Since 1909 the Academy has awarded Gold Medals for distinguished achievement in several different categories of the arts. Gold Medals are given for the entire work of the recipient. The medal itself was designed in 1916 by Academician and noted sculptor and numismatist James Earle Fraser.

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CONGRATULATIONS to Professor EILEEN GILLOOLY

She
has been named a 2009-10 Fellow at the National Humanities Center.

She will work at the Center on her project: ANXIOUS AFFECTION: PARENTAL FEELING IN A NINETEENTH-CENTURY MIDDLE-CLASS BRITAIN.

The National Humanities Center is the only major independent American institute for advanced study in all fields of the humanities. Privately incorporated and governed by a distinguished board of trustees from academic, professional, and public life, the Center was planned under the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and began operation in 1978. It provides a national focus for the best work in the liberal arts, drawing attention to the enduring value of ancient and modern history, language and literature, ethical and moral reflection, artistic and cultural traditions, and critical thought in every area of humanistic investigation. By encouraging excellence in scholarship, the Center seeks to insure the continuing strength of the liberal arts and to affirm the importance of the humanities in American life.

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CONGRATULATIONS
to Professor ROSS POSNOCK

He has been named a been named a 2009 fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


Five Columbia professors have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious honorary society and center for independent policy research founded in 1780, bringing “the arts and sciences into constructive interplay with the leaders of both the public and private sectors,” according to its website.

The new inductees from Columbia join 207 new fellows and 19 foreign honorary members inducted from a broad range of disciplines and professions—artists and scientists, jurists and scholars, corporate and civic leaders. The academy's new members come from universities, museums, national laboratories, private research institutes, businesses and foundations.

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CONGRATULATIONS to Professor JOSEPH SLAUGHTER

He has been awarded a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.

The fellowship is given in recognition of an individual's "exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."

"We are proud to announce that seven of this year's Guggenheim Fellowships have been awarded to men and women from Columbia," said Provost Alan Brinkley. "These awards reflect the breadth and diversity of our faculty's achievements. On behalf of the University, I want to offer our congratulations to them all."

Guggenheim fellows receive a cash award, which they are allowed to spend as they wish. The amounts vary, as they are adjusted to the needs of each recipient; the average grant in 2008 was $43,200. Since 1925, there have been more than 16,000 Guggenheim fellows, including 100 Nobel Prize Winners and 32 Poet Laureates.

Columbia's new Guggenheim fellows are among 180 who were selected from a pool of more than 3,000 applicants. The John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation was established in 1925 to "add to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific power" of the United States, "and also to provide for the cause of better international understanding."

Click here to read more about the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.




CONGRATULATIONS to Professor MICHAEL GOLSTON

He has been named a 2009-2010 fellow at The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

He will be working on his project:
ALLEGORY, SURREALISM, AND POSTMODERN POETIC FORM



The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers international fellowship program is open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A.Schwarzman Building – including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets). The Center appoints 15 Fellows a year for a nine-month term at the Library, from September through May. In addition to working on their own projects, the Fellows engage in an ongoing exchange of ideas within the Center and in public forums throughout the Library.

Click here to read more about The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.