Yale Bulletin and Calendar

December 7, 2001

Volume 30, Number 13

Junior faculty members win University fellowships

Twenty-one junior faculty members have been selected to receive University fellowships for the academic year 2002-2003, Yale College Dean Richard H. Brodhead has announced.

The fellowships are awarded annually to outstanding junior faculty members to help advance their research at a critical period in their careers. The recipients are freed from classroom teaching responsibilities and are given leave with salary to allow them to concentrate on their research.

Ten of the fellowships are in the humanities, three are in the natural sciences and eight are in the social sciences. The humanities fellowships are funded by an endowment established through the bequest of the late Susan A. Ensign Morse, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and by the Sid R. Bass Fellowship Fund. The natural and social science fellowships are funded by support from the Sid R. Bass Fellowship Fund and by the Wendell W. Anderson Fellowship Fund, the Chauncey Keep Hubbard Fellowship Fund, the Allan Shelden Fellowship Fund, the Weyerhaeuser Family Teaching Fellowship Fund and the Woods Fellowship Fund.

This year's recipients are:

Fellowships in the humanities

Katalin Balog, assistant professor of philosophy

Jennifer Baszile, assistant professor of history and African American studies

Nadine George-Graves, assistant professor of theater studies and African American studies

Amy Hungerford, assistant professor of English

Guillermo Irizarry, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Kellie Jones, assistant professor of history of art and African American studies

Farid Laroussi, assistant professor of French

John MacKay, assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures

Diana Paulin, assistant professor of American studies and English

Kristin Phillips, assistant professor of Italian

Fellowships in the natural sciences

S.P. Dinesh-Kumar, assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology

Robert Schoelkopf, assistant professor of applied physics

Weimin Zhong, assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology

Fellowships in the social sciences

Patrick Bayer, assistant professor of economics

Jose Cheibub, assistant professor of political science

Kamari Clarke, assistant professor of anthropology

Geoffrey Cohen, assistant professor of psychology

Karyn Frick, assistant professor of psychology

John Lapinski, assistant professor of political science

Maria Pinango, assistant professor of linguistics

Mitchell Prinstein, assistant professor of psychology

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Theologian wins $200,000 award

Junior faculty members win University fellowships

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Historians both oppress and liberate the past, says Gaddis

Naomi Schor, noted French literature scholar and critic, dies suddenly

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Two researchers honored with election to Institute of Medicine

Galley of Gifts

ISPS talk to explore ethics of biotechnology, conservation

Yale Books in Brief

Campus Notes