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Isidore Dorpenyo, associate professor of English, has received the 2024 Ken Rainey Award for Distinguished Research from the Society for Technical Communication. This is an award presented to a single individual whose research has positively and significantly impacted the practice and instruction of technical and professional communication. It honors a lifetime of exceptional research in technical and professional communication. Congratulations, Isidore!
Alexandria “Xandy” Frisch, assistant professor of religious studies and Judaic studies scholar, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania’s Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies for the fall 2024 semester. While in residence at Penn, Frisch will continue her research and writing of her second book project, “Healing the Traumatized Body in Second Temple Judaism.” She is specifically researching the effects of collective trauma on oppressed people and how it shapes communal memories, narratives, and practices. Congratulations, Xandy!
Sam Lebovic, professor in the Department of History and Art History and historian of U.S. politics, culture, civil liberties, and foreign relations, is the recipient of the 2024 Organization of American Historians (OAH)/Japanese Association for American Studies (JAAS) Japan Residency at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Program. Supporting American scholars’ short-term residencies in Japan, this program is supported by funding from the Japan-US Friendship Commission and is awarded to a OAH member who is an established American scholar affiliated with an American or Canadian university interested in teaching advanced undergraduates and graduate students in seminars and courses focusing on the U.S. history topics requested by the host institutions. The purpose of the program is to facilitate scholarly dialogue and contribute to the expansion of scholarly networks among students and professors of American history in both countries. Sam was presented the award during OAH’s 2024 Conference on American History. Congratulations, Sam!
A shoutout to Andrew D. Thrasher, adjunct faculty in Religious Studies, whose first monograph has just been published! The book interrogates the ideas of immanence and transcendence through an advaitic critique of modernity. It engages an interreligious theologian with contemporary Philosophical Theology. Check out the book here!
David Weisburd, distinguished professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, is now ranked as the 7th most cited criminologist in the world! Some of David’s research interests include police innovation, evidence-based policing, and white-collar crime. He has won numerous awards in the past such as the Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2010) and the Rothschild Prize for Social Science (2022). Congratulations, David! View the list here.
May 14, 2024