Carolyn Walker Bynum, the Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor of History, has been selected for the 1995 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for her book, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, published by Columbia University Press.

The book award is given in December by the Phi Beta Kappa Society and carries a prize of $2,500.

Established in 1960, the award goes to the author selected for an outstanding book published in the United States on the intellectual and cultural condition of man.

Columbia faculty members who have won the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award in the past have included Richard Hofstadter for Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963) and John Herman Randall, Jr. for The Career of Philosophy: From the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin (1966).

Bynum's book is the third published by Columbia University Press to win the award.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society Book Awards will be presented at a dinner in Washington, D.C. Dec. 8. Bynum's award will be presented by the University of Pennsylvania's Bruce Kuklick.

Columbia University Record -- December 8, 1995 -- Vol. 21, No. 12