Keeril Makan received the Rome Prize in Music Composition.
Suzanne Berger was awarded the Medal of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur.
Nine Former and Emeritus members of the School's Economics Faculty have received the Nobel Prize.
Vivek Bald, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media, received the New York University Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship.
Abhijit Banerjee, Ford International Professor of Economics, Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, along with Rachel Glennerster, Executive Director the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab were awarded the First BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Development Cooperation. The Frontiers Awards honor fundamental disciplinary or supradisciplinary advances in a series of basic, natural, social and technological sciences as well as other cultural areas.
Alisa Kim Braithwaite, Assistant Professor of Literature, received a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Professor Braithwaite will begin work on a manuscript that will address Caribbean literature and the genre of science fiction/fantasy during her fellowship.
Ricardo Caballero, Ford International Professor of Economics and Department Head, along with Takeo Hoshi, and Anil K. Kashyap, received an Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence from the American Economic Review for “Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan." In its thirteenth year, these distinguished awards recognize the 50 outstanding articles published by the top 400 management journals in the world.
Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, received the Inaugural Calvó-Armengol Prize. Established in the memory of Prof. Antoni Calvó-Armengol, the Calvó-Armengol Prize is awarded biannually to an economist/social scientist under the age of 40 for his or her contributions to the understanding of social structure and its implications for economic interactions and recognizes exceptional achievement in research.
David Jones, Associate Professor of the History and Culture of Science and Technology, was awarded the MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. The MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program was named to honor the life and contributions of Margaret MacVicar, Professor of Physical Science and Dean for Undergraduate Education at the time of her death in 1991.
Paul Joskow, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management, received the 2009 USAEE Adelman-Frankel Award for “Unique and Innovating Contributions to the Field of Energy Economics" from the United States Association for Energy Economics.
Professor of Writing and Humanistic Studies, Robert Kanigel, received a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts. The Fellowships are given to those who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.
Guido Lorenzoni, Pentti J.K. Kouri Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics, received a 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. It is awarded yearly to early-career scientists and scholars who show unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.
Anne McCants, MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Professor of History and Section Head, received the Elizabeth Topham Kennan Award, given periodically to an outstanding alumna educator. The award honors the service given to the College, and to education in general, by former Mount Holyoke president Elizabeth Topham Kennan. Only the third recipient since the award's inception in 1995, Professor McCants received Kennan Award on the occasion of her 25th reunion at Mount Holyoke College.
Shigeru Miyagawa, Kochi Prefecture - John Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture and Section Head, was awarded the Franklin R. Buchanan Prize from the Association for Asian Studies for his project Visualizing Cultures. The Franklin R. Buchanan Prize was established in 1995 by the AAS Committee on Educational Issues and Policy and the Committee on Teaching about Asia and is awarded annually to recognize an outstanding curriculum publication on Asia designed for any educational level, elementary through university.
Heather Paxson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, is the first recipient of the Belasco Prize for Scholarly Excellence from the Association for the Study of Food and Society, for "Post-Pasteurian Cultures: The Microbiopolitics of Raw-Milk Cheese in the United States," published in Cultural Anthropology 23(1):15-47. The prize recognizes a peer-reviewed article that exhibits superior research, a unique perspective and methodological approach, and novel insights for the study of food.
Agustin Rayo, Associate Professor of Philosophy, was awarded the Burkhardt Residential Fellowship. The Fellowship supports recently tenured scholars in the humanities and social sciences in the crucial years immediately following the granting of tenure, and provide potential leaders in their fields with the resources to pursue long-term, unusually ambitious projects.
Susan Silbey, Professor of Anthropology and Section Head, received the 2009 Harry J. Kalven Jr. Prize from the Law and Society Association. The award is given in recognition of a body of scholarly work, and goes to individuals who have demonstrated empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society.
The Organization of American Historians named Merritt Roe Smith, Leverett Howell and William King Cutten Professor of the History of Technology, a Distinguished Lecturer. The OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program features more than three hundred and fifty historians who have made major contributions to the study of American history.
Jing Wang, S C Fang Professor of Chinese Language & Culture, received a two-year grant (2009-2011) from the Ford Foundation in Beijing for “Chinese NGOs in the Web 2.0 Environment.” It is a project undertaken in collaboration with the University of Science and Technology of China and three Chinese NGO partner organizations.
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