Ivo Banac, a specialist on the 19th- and 20th-century history of Southeastern Europe, particularly the former Yugoslavia, has been named the Bradford Durfee Professor of History by vote of the Yale Corporation.
Professor Banac, who is also an expert on the history of the world Communist movement, is the author of two award-winning books: "The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics," which received the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and "With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist Splits in Yugoslav Communism," which won the Josip Juraj Strossmayer Award of the Zagreb Book Fair. He has also edited or coedited a number of books, including "Eastern Europe in Revolution," "Concepts of Nationhood in Early Modern Eastern Europe" and "The Nobility in Russia and Eastern Europe" (with Yale historian Paul Bushkovitch).
Professor Banac earned a B.A. from Fordham University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. He taught at San Francisco State University and Stanford before joining the Yale faculty as an assistant professor in 1977. He was promoted as an associate professor in 1982 and as a full professor in 1988.
He has held many administrative posts at the University, including master of Pierson College (1988-96), director of undergraduate studies and of graduate studies in both the history department and Russian and East European Studies, and departmental advisor in several of the residential colleges, among other positions.
A corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Professor Banac has been editor of East European Politics and Societies and is a member of several additional editorial boards. He has also been a member of a number of national committees.
Heinrich von Staden, a long-time member of the faculty whose varied specialties include classical philosophy and literature, as well as myth, and ancient medicine and science, has been named the William Lampson Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature by vote of the Yale Corporation.
In 1995, an anonymous donor created in his honor the Heinrich von Staden Fellowship, a grant for graduate students in the classics department. Professor von Staden has also received two of the top teaching prizes awarded to faculty members: the William Clyde DeVane Medal for outstanding teaching and scholarship and the Yale College-Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.
He teaches courses on myth, science, philosophy, Greek and Latin authors, classical literary theory, and ancient medicine and science. He has also written extensively on these subjects. His 1989 book "Herophilus, The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria," was awarded the Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association and the William H. Welch Medal by the American Association for the History of Medicine. His other books include the first volume of "Western Literature: The Ancient World" and the "Instructor's Manual for Western Literature," which Professor von Staden coauthored with Yale faculty member Peter Brooks and with Robert Hollander.
A 1961 graduate of Yale College, Professor von Staden holds a doctorate from the Universität Tübingen. He joined the Yale faculty in 1968 and has served in a number of administrative posts, including master of Ezra Stiles College (1980-86), director of Special Programs in the Humanities, chair of the classics department and director of graduate studies in both the classics and comparative literature departments. He is a fellow of the British Academy, among other scholarly organizations.
Stuart B. Schwartz, an expert on the history of Latin America, has been appointed as the George Burton Adams Professor of History by vote of the Yale Corporation.
Professor Schwartz has focused much of his scholarly attention on the colonial history of Brazil, examining, in particular, slavery in that country. He is the author or coauthor of the books "Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court of Bahia and Its Judges, 1609-1751," "Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil," "Sugar Plantations and the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia 1550-1835," "Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery" and "World Civilizations." He also edited "Implicit Understandings," a book exploring the encounter between Europeans and other peoples in the early modern era, and is coeditor of the South America volume of the "Cambridge History of Native American Peoples." He has been editor-in-chief of the Cambridge University Press book series "Peoples, Events, Controversies in Latin America."
Professor Schwartz graduated from Middlebury College and studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico before earning his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. He taught at the University of Minnesota for 29 years before joining the Yale faculty last year. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in Brazil and in the United States, as well as at the University of Puerto Rico, and has been an invited lecturer at universities throughout the Americas and Europe.
Professor Schwartz serves on the editorial boards of a number of professional journals. His many honors include the Bolton Prize in Latin American History, several awards for distinguished teaching and a Fulbright Lectureship to Brazil. He is a corresponding member of the Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasileiro.
Judith Resnik, the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, has joined the Law School faculty as the first Arthur Liman Professor of Law.
Professor Resnik's teaching and writing topics concentrate on legal procedure, the federal courts, federalism, large-scale litigation and feminist theory. She has had several previous affiliations with the Law School, serving as a lecturer and supervising attorney there 1977-79, as acting director of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Program in Criminal Justice 1979-80 and as a visiting professor in 1989. In addition, she coauthored her two books -- "Procedure" and "The Federal Procedural System: A Rule and Statutory Sourcebook" -- with Law School professors Owen Fiss and the late Robert Cover. Professor Resnik has also authored chapters in books, monographs and reports.
Professor Resnik is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the New York University School of Law. She joined the faculty at the University of Southern California in 1980, having previously taught at the New York University School of Law. She was a law clerk to the Honorable Charles E. Stewart Jr. of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. She has been a visiting faculty member at the Harvard and University of Chicago law schools. She was a member of the Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force, the first in the country to consider the effects of gender on federal courts, and is currently a consultant to RAND's Institute for Civil Justice. Her professional affiliations include the Society of American Law Teachers, the National Judicial Education Project and the Judicial Academic Network of the National Association of Women Judges. Her honors include the association's Florence K. Murray Award in 1993.
The Arthur Liman Professorship was established last year by friends of the 1957 graduate of the Law School. Mr. Liman has had a career in both private and public law and gained attention nationwide as Senate counsel to the Iran-Contra Committee. The professorship in his honor is held "by a teacher who exemplifies in his or her teaching, scholarship and professional life the qualities of independence and integrity that Arthur Liman has demonstrated throughout his career as a trial lawyer, a counselor and a devoted servant of the public good."