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2019 FACULTY DISTINCTION CELEBRATING THE AWARDS, HONORS, AND RECOGNITION OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS & SCIENCES INTRODUCTION he Faculty of Arts & Sciences is the intellectual heart of Columbia University. Our pursuit of fundamental knowledge and understanding spans the arts, Thumanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. The excellence of our faculty is recognized each year with numerous awards and honors. As is tradition, the Executive Committee hosts this event annually to thank the many remarkable faculty who bring such pride and honor to the Arts and Sciences and to Columbia. It is truly extraordinary to read about the scope of your accomplishments, which reinforces our commitment to support and empower the faculty to continue to work at their highest level. Carlos J. Alonso Maya Tolstoy James J. Valentini Dean of the Graduate School Interim Executive Vice Dean of Columbia College of Arts & Sciences President for Arts & Sciences Vice President for Vice President for Graduate Dean of the Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Education Education & Sciences Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Morris A. and Alma Professor of Earth and Professor Schapiro Professor in the Environmental Sciences Humanities HUMANITIES HUMANITIES Art History and Archaeology Zainab Bahrani Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art History and Archaeology Andrew Carnegie Fellow Humanities War and Peace Initiative Grant Barry Bergdoll Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History Elected Cattedra Borromini, Accademia di Architettura, Universita de la Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio, Switzerland James A. D. Cox Lecture, University of Virginia Zeynep Çelik Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology Charles Rufus Morey Award, College Art Association David Freedberg Pierre Matisse Professor of Art History; Director, Italian Academy Sigillum Magnum, University of Bologna Accademico Onorario, Accademia Nazionale di Agricoltura, Bologna 2 Columbia University | Faculty of Arts & Sciences HUMANITIES Meredith Gamer Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology Columbia University Faculty Mentoring Award Kellie Jones Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award, American Book Awards, for South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s Branden Joseph Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Matthew McKelway Takeo and Itsuko Atsumi Professor of Japanese Art History Annual Rijksmuseum/IIAS Lecture, Rijksmuseum, Netherlands Humanities 3 HUMANITIES HUMANITIES Eleonora Pistis Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology Michael I. Sovern/Columbia University Affiliated Fellow, American Academy in Rome Avinoam Shalem Riggio Professor of Art History Getty Scholar in Residence, Getty Research Institute Scholar in Residence, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max Planck-Institute Scholar in Residence, Bildevidenz, Free University of Berlin Zoë Strother Riggio Professor of African Art Getty Scholar in Residence, Getty Research Institute Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History Lecture Series, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville Lisa Trever Lisa and Bernard Selz Associate Professor of Pre-Columbian Art History and Archaeology Provost’s Grant for Faculty Who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University Postdoctoral fellowship, “Global Horizons in Premodern Art,” Institut für Kunstgeschichte, University of Bern 4 Columbia University | Faculty of Arts & Sciences HUMANITIES Classics Carmela Vircillo Franklin Professor of Classics Board of Trustees, Israel Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Joseph Howley Associate Professor of Classics Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant John Ma Professor of Classics; Chair, Department of Classics Nirit and Michael Shaoul Fellow, 2018–2019, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University Humanities War and Peace Initiative Grant Deborah Steiner Jay Professor of Greek and Latin Languages Heyman Center Fellowship Humanities 5 HUMANITIES HUMANITIES Karen Van Dyck Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Hellenic Studies Cotsen Fellow, American School of Classical Studies, Athens Katharina Volk Professor of Classics National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship East Asian Languages and Cultures Paul Kreitman Assistant Professor of Japanese History Leopold-Hildy Award for Best Article, American Society for Environmental History Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Ulug Kuzuoglu Lecturer in Chinese Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship 6 Columbia University | Faculty of Arts & Sciences HUMANITIES Eugenia Lean Associate Professor of Chinese History Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Research Fellowship Fumiko Nazikian Senior Lecturer in Japanese NRC/FLAS Grant for “Working at the Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age: Social Network Approaches (SNA) to the Pedagogy of Language Teaching” Consortium Workshop Award for “Working at the Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age: Social Network Approaches (SNA) to the Pedagogy of Language Teaching” Jisuk Park Lecturer in Japanese Consortium Workshop Award for “Working at the Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age: Social Network Approaches (SNA) to the Pedagogy of Language Teaching” Ying Qian Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures Sydney China Fellowship, University of Sydney Tsunoda Senior Fellowship, Waseda University Global Humanities Projects Grant Humanities 7 HUMANITIES HUMANITIES Zhongqi Shi Senior Lecturer in Chinese Chinese Language Teacher Association Study Abroad Award Haruo Shirane Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature; Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Yamagata Banto Prize for Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts Winner of a 12th Hakuho Japanese Fellowship Sonam Tsering Lecturer in Tibetan Language Support Grant, National Resource Center, to develop textbook for third-year modern Tibetan course Asami Tsuda Lecturer in Japanese Language Consortium Grant for “Learning Japanese Prosody in Context: Finding and Creating One’s Voice” 8 Columbia University | Faculty of Arts & Sciences HUMANITIES Gray Tuttle Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award Ling Yan Senior Lecturer in Chinese EALAC Language Lecturer Conference Award English and Comparative Literature Rachel Adams Professor of English and Comparative Literature Guggenheim Fellowship Grant from Philanthropy Lab for course on Philanthropy and Social Difference Center for the Study of Social Difference Project Grant Humanities 9 HUMANITIES HUMANITIES Branka Arsi´c Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature Guggenheim Fellowship President, Herman Melville Society Named one of the 2019 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation Denise Cruz Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Provost’s Grant for Faculty Who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University Andrew Delbanco Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies Lionel Trilling Book Award Mark Lynton History Prize 84th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2019 Lukas Prize, Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard New York Times Critics’ Best Book of 2018 10 Columbia University | Faculty of Arts & Sciences HUMANITIES Jenny Davidson Professor of English and Comparative Literature Choice Outstanding Academic Title for Reading Jane Austen Kathy Eden Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and Professor of Classics Visiting Fellowship, CRASSH, Cambridge University Brent Hayes Edwards Professor of English and Comparative Literature ASCAP Foundation Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism T. Austin Graham Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature NEH Fellowship Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant Humanities 11 HUMANITIES HUMANITIES Jack Halberstam Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Stubbs Lecture, University College, University of Toronto Matthew Hart Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award Provost Leadership Fellow Saidiya Hartman Professor of English and Comparative Literature Faber Lecture, Princeton University Distinguished Critical Inquiry Professor, University of Chicago Arden Hegele Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities Provost’s Interdisciplinary Teaching Award 12 Columbia University | Faculty of Arts & Sciences HUMANITIES Marianne Hirsch William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature Summer 2019 Humanities War and Peace Initiative Grant Jean Howard George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities Wake Forest Dean Family Lecture Sharon Marcus Orlando Harriman Professor of English ACLS Public Fellow Award for Public Books Edward Mendelson Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities Schoff Lectures, Columbia University Humanities 13 HUMANITIES HUMANITIES Frances Negrón-Muntaner Professor of English and Comparative Literature Frank Bonilla Public Intellectual Award, Latin American Studies Association Ross Posnock Anna S. Garbedian Professor of the Humanities Visiting Professor, La Sapienza University, Rome Bruce Robbins Old Dominion Foundation