FACULTY AWARDS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS

2007-08

MARY GORDON
Professor of English. has been named New York’s new State Author for 2008-2010. The citation, established in 1985 by the governor and state legislature to promote fiction within the state, is awarded biennially under the aegis of the New York State Writers Institute

LYNN GARAFOLA
Professor of Dance, is the recipient of the 34th Annual Emily Gregory Award, which recognizes one Barnard College professor for outstanding performance in the classroom. Nominated by a Barnard student through a formal essay, the recipient will be honored for having made a significant contribution to the academic community
through his or her teaching.

SHERI BERMAN
Associate professor of political science, awarded honorary degree by Uppsala University in Sweden.

HILARY CALLAHAN
Assistant professor of biological sciences, has been awarded tenure.

STEPHANIE PFIRMAN
Professor of environmental science and department chair, has been elected President of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD). CEDD is an association of 148 leaders from campuses across the country who come together to improve the quality, stature and effectiveness of academic environmental programs at U.S. colleges and universities.

STEPHANIE PFIRMAN
Professor of environmental science and department chair, is one of three co-PI's for Project Kaleidoscope which has been awarded $500,000 by the W.M. Keck Foundation in support of a three-year project: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Learning.

LALITH MUNASINGHE
Associate professor of economics, along with Nachum Sicherman of Columbia, has been awarded the Eckstein Prize by the Eastern Economic Association, recognizing the best article published in the Eastern Economic Journal (EEJ) in 2005 and 2006. Munasinghe and Sicherman's paper, “Why Do Dancers Smoke? Smoking, Time Preference, and Wage Dynamics,” was published in fall 2006.

KRISTIN MAMMEN
Assistant professor of economics, was awarded the Steven H. Sandell Grant from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College for her project, "The Long Term Effects of the Divorce Revolution: Health, Wealth, and Labor Supply."

DEBORAH COEN
Assistant professor of history, her book Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life won the 2007 Susan Abrams Prize for best book on the history of science published between 2005 and 2007 by the University of Chicago press.

KIMBERLY MARTEN
Professor of political science, has received a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation to support her research on "Dealing with Warlords: Lessons from History."

JOHN MAGYAR
Assistant professor of chemistry was awarded the Dreyfus Faculty Start-up Award by The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. The award provides an unrestricted research grant of $30,000 to support the scholarly activity of new faculty at primarily undergraduate institutions.

ESHKOL RAFAELI
Assistant professor of psychology, along with Columbia colleagues Geraldine Downey and Kathy Berenson, awarded a 4-year $1.5 million grant to study affective and social-cognitive features of individuals with borderline personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder, or depression from the National Institute of Mental Health

PERRY MEHRLING
Professor of economics, awarded Best Book 2007 by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought for his work, Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance

MARY GORDON '71
Millicent C. McIntosh Professor in English and Writing, inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters

BARBARA NOVAK '50
Professor emerita, receives an honorary doctorate from Columbia

ALEXANDER COOLEY & SASKIA HAMILTON
Assistant professors of political science and English respectively, win the Gladys Brooks Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award

PATRICIA D. STOKES
Adjunct associate professor of psychology wins the 33rd Annual Emily Gregory Award (2006–07)

MARK CARNES
Professor of history, awarded an institutional grant from the Teagle Foundation

SASKIA HAMILTON
Assistant professor of English, awarded a Literature Fellowship in Poetry Grant

JANET JAKOBSEN
Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women awarded an institutional grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York

LORRAINE MINNITE
Assistant professor of political science, received a sponsored research grant from the Carnegie Corporation for The Myth of Voter Fraud

BRIAN MORTON
Associate professor of biological sciences, is involved in a grant-supported consortium of liberal arts colleges working on the Genomics Curriculum Project and was awarded a grant by the Teagle Foundation

ACHSAH GUIBBORY
Professor of English elected to the Modern Language Association's (MLA) Division Executive Committee on Literature and Religion

JANNA LEVIN '88
Assistant professor of physics and astronomy wins PEN/Bingham award

SASKIA HAMILTON
Assistant professor of English, wins NEA grant

MARY GORDON '71
Millicent C. McIntosh Professor in English and Writing, wins The Story Prize

PETER BOWER
Senior lecturer in environmental science, wins $450,000 NSF Grant to Develop & Expand Brownfield Action Application

KRISTINA MILNOR
Associate professor of classics Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit

SPRING 2007

ACHSAH GUIBBORY
Elected to the Modern Language Association's (MLA) Division Executive Committee of on Literature and Religion

JANNA LEVIN '88
PEN/Bingham award

SASKIA HAMILTON
NEA grant

MARY GORDON '71
The Story Prize

PETER BOWERS
$450,000 NFS Grant to Develop & Expand Brownfield Action Application

KRISTINA MILNOR
Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit

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