Honors and Achievements

Martin Brückner, associate professor of English and material culture studies, has been awarded the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ 2006-07 Louis Gottschalk Prize for his book The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy and National Identity. One of the most prominent scholarly awards in 18th-century literary studies publishing, the Gottschalk Prize is given to an outstanding historical or critical study on the 18th century.

Margaret L. Andersen, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology, has been awarded the prestigious Robin M. Williams Jr. Lectureship for 2007-08 by the Eastern Sociological Society. Andersen, whose research focuses on race and gender, will deliver lectures at two schools as part of the award, which is presented
for outstanding scholarship
in sociology.

Lawrence Nees, professor of art history, has been elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, an honor awarded to those “excelling in the knowledge of antiquities and the history of this and other nations.” One of the United Kingdom’s oldest learned societies, it held its
first official meeting in 1707 and received its Royal Charter in 1751.

Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies, was one of five invited speakers at the Bibliographical Society of America conference, “Birth of the Bestseller: The 19th-Century Book in Britain, France and Beyond,” held in March in New York City. The conference connected to three major exhibitions in New York, one of which included items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection in the UD Library’s Special Collections department.

The University of Delaware Library has been named a co-recipient of the 2007 Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Award for the exhibition catalog Ezra Pound in His Time and Beyond: The Influence of Ezra Pound on 20th-Century Poetry, created by assistant librarian Jesse Rossa. UD shares the highly competitive honor, sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, with Duke University.

Four faculty members are among the 16 Delawareans receiving 2007 Delaware Division of the Arts individual fellowships, which are based on the excellence of the artists’ work, judged by out-of-state experts in different artistic fields. Jennifer Margaret Barker, associate professor of music, received the “established professional, music composition” award; Anne Colwell, associate professor at the UD Academic Center in Georgetown, received the “emerging professional, fiction” award; Priscilla Smith, associate professor of art, received the “established professional, photography” award; and Peter Williams, professor of art, received the “established professional, painting” award.

Sunil K. Agrawal, professor of mechanical engineering, received the Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. One of the top research awards given by the German government to renowned scientists and scholars worldwide, the Humboldt recognizes the recipients’ lifetime achievements and provides funding to enable them to study with colleagues in Germany.

David Herman, Trustees Distinguished Professor of Music and University Organist, who has played some of the world’s greatest organs in recital in the United States and Europe, added two more in January, with recitals in London’s Church of St. Lawrence and Temple Church. His performances included two premieres of organ music, one by Jennifer Margaret Barker, UD associate professor of music.

Steven Eidelman, Robert Edelsohn Chair in Disabilities Studies, has been appointed to the United Nations Expert Group on Ensuring Access in Support of the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In the group, consisting of members from around the world, Eidelman will focus on deinstitutionalization and community inclusion of adults with intellectual disabilities.

Wendy Bellion, assistant professor of art history, delivered the Doris and Harry Rubin Lecture on American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May, speaking on “A Ghost Story: Reviving George Washington in the Early 19th Century.” Her talk focused on a portrait of Washington by Rembrandt Peale painted in 1824, a quarter-century after Washington’s death.