Robert Somerville

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has announced the appointment of three senior faculty to named professorships. E. Tory Higgins was named the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology, Robert Somerville the Ada Tremaine Professor of Religion and Michael Rosenthal the Roberta and William Campbell Professor in the Teaching of Literature Humanities. The University Trustees made the appointments at their Oct. 6-7 meeting.

Higgins, Columbia Ph.D. '73, has been a psychology professor at Columbia since 1989 and is currently the department's chairman. In 1996, he received the Donald T. Campbell Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology-the highest honor for the field of social psychology-and in 1999 the Thomas Ostrom Award in Social Cognition. In 2000, Higgins received the William James Award from the American Psychological Society for Distinguished Achievements in Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award. Higgins has also received grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation. Higgins has published more than 140 articles and book chapters and has edited 15 books on various aspects of social behavior.

Somerville, Yale Ph.D. '68, has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 1969. A fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, he is widely recognized as one of the world's leading researchers on the medieval church. Somerville has authored or edited nine books on various aspects of the history of pre-modern Western Christianity. He has done research on the medieval papacy, papal documents and the history of canon law. His recently published works include Papacy, Councils and Canon Law in the 11th and 12th Centuries (Variorum), Pope Urban II, The Collection Britannica, and the Council of Melfi, 1089 (Clarendon), and Prefaces to Canon Law Books in Latin Christianity, Selected Translations (Yale University Press).

Rosenthal, Columbia Ph.D. '67, a professor of English and comparative literature, served as associate dean of Columbia College from 1972 to 1989. The Columbia students awarded him the Mark Van Doren Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1994. Rosenthal also won the Alexander Hamilton Medal, Columbia College's highest award, in 1989. Rosenthal, a scholar of the modern novel, has also received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Spencer Foundation. He is author of Virginia Woolf (Columbia University Press) and The Character Factory: Baden Powell's Boy Scouts and the Imperatives of Empire (Pantheon). Rosenthal is currently working on a biography of former Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler.

Michael Rosenthal	E. Tory Higgins