Said and Done | Honors and Awards | Summer 2015

 

HISTORY
Eric Goldberg awarded fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton
During the fellowship, Goldberg will research social history of hunting from the fall of the Roman Empire to ca. 1000 CE. He specializes in the history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, and his research focuses on the politics and culture of the Merovingian, Carolingian, and Anglo-Saxon worlds.
About the Fellowship | Goldberg website | Institute for Advanced Studies
 

ARTS AT MIT
Mellon makes $1.5 million grant MIT's Center for Art, Science and Technology
CAST HAS received a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, bringing the foundation's total support for CAST to $3 million, among the largest gifts received by the arts at MIT.
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DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Professor Esther Duflo awarded Spain's Princess of Asturias social science prize
Duflo, director of MIT's Jameel Poverty Action Lab, has received the award for her work to alleviate poverty in developing countries. The organizers of the prize said that Duflo has “profoundly changed strategies for education, health and employment in Africa, Asia and Latin America.”
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ECONOMICS
Parag Pathak receives 2016 Social Choice and Welfare Award
The prize honors young scholars of excellent accomplishment in the area of social choice theory and welfare economics. The SCW prize medal La Pensée (The Thought) is by Frech sculptor Raymond Delamarre (1890-1986).
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ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthropologist Susan Silbey receives Mentorship Award
The award from the Law and Safety Association is given to an outstanding mentor for graduate, professional or undergraduate students who are working on issues of law and society. The citation reads, in part: “Silbey's wisdom, energy, commitment, generosity, and enthusiasm have deeply affected our collective experience, transformed our academic work, and provided a model for academic life.”
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ANTHROPOLOGY
Tragic Spirits on ICAS book prize short list | Buyandelger
About  | Interview with Buyandelger in Anthropology News
 

SCIENCE WRITING
Seth Mnookin wins 2015 Eric Martin Award
Mnookin received the award (for an article for a Public or Health Care Consumer Audience) for his longform article One of a Kind: What Do You Do if Your Child Has a Condition That Is New to Science? in The New Yorker (July 21, 2014).
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GLOBAL STUDIES AND LANGUAGES
Vivian Tran ’16 and Caleb Lin ’16 win the 2015 Isabelle de Courtivron Prize 
Two juniors with a strong commitment both to technical majors and to creative writing have been awarded the 2015 Isabelle de Courtivron Prize for Expository and Creative Writing.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Andreas Wiedemann receives Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship 
PhD student in Political Science, Social Science Research Council
Bio Note | SSRC website


MUSIC AND THEATER ARTS
Three MIT students receive Institute Awards in the Arts
The MIT Council for the Arts Awards Committee has conferred to three Music and Theater Arts students the following Institute Awards in the Arts: The Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts: Peter Godart, Mechanical Engineering and Music; The Laya and Jerome Wiesner Awards in the Arts: Otto Briner '15, Mechanical Engineering and Music, as well as Majdolene Khweiss '15, Civil Engineering and Theater.
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COMPARATIVE MEDIA STUDIES / WRITING
Junot Díaz receives Premio Metropolis Azul Prize
The prize is given by the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal to an author from any country or region, for a work of fiction written in Spanish, English, or French, which explores some aspect of Spanish-language culture or history.
About | Diaz MIT webpage
 

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Teppei Yamamoto receives Miller Prize, awarded Hayes Career Development Professorship
Yamamoto has won the Society for Political Methodology’s 2015 Miller Prize for the best article published in Political Analysis.  The article written with Jens Hainmueller and Dan Hopkins entitled “Causal Inference in Conjoint Analysis.” Yamamoto has also been awarded the Hayes Career Development Professorship. 
About | Yamamoto webpage
 

LINGUISTICS
DeGraff project video receives "Public Choice Award"
Opening up education in Haiti received the public Choice Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 
More | MIT-Haiti


POLITICAL SCIENCE
Noel Anderson, Alec Worsnop receive Dissertation Fellowships
The Graduate students received the awards from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Dan de Kadt is co-winner of the Fiona Macgillivray Award
DeKadt received the award for the best Political Economy paper presented at the previous year’s annual APSA meeting. His co-authored paper is titled “Agents of the Regime? Traditional Leaders and Electoral Clientelism in South Africa.”
De Kadt biographical note | APSA

 

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