Academic Year 2009-2010
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David Laurence Ager, Lecturer on Sociology
Awarded the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize (2010) by the Harvard Undergraduate Council.  

George Angelo Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Received the Young Investigator Award from the Vision Sciences Society, 2010.

David Richard Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History
Elected Corresponding Fellow, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2010.

Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins, Harvard Art Museum Lecturer on the Classics
Elected President of the International Numismatic Council, 2009.

Michael J. Aziz, Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies
Named a 2010 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow.

Debra Auguste, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award.

Mahzarin R. Banaji, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics
Received the Carol and Ed Diener Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology, 2009.

Named the Herbert A. Simon Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2009.

Elected President, Association for Psychological Science, 2009.

Muhammet Ali Bas, Assistant Professor of Government
Received the 2009 Warren Miller Prize for the “Best Article Published in Political Analysis in 2008.”

Efraim Benmelech, Associate Professor of Economics
Received the National Science Foundation Career Award, 2009.

Robin Bernstein, Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and  Sexuality and of History and Literature 
Received (for her 2009 Social Text article, "Dances with Things: Material Culture and the Performance of Race") the “Outstanding Article in a Journal” Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the Research, and the Publication Award, given by the American Theatre and Drama Society for the best essay published in English. 

Received a Harrington Fellowship at UT Austin, 2010. 

Theodore C. Bestor, Professor of Anthropology
Received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Fairhaven College of Western Washington University, 2010.

Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities (Department of English), Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard
Received an honorary degree from the University of Paris VIII–Vincennes-Saint Denis.

Elected to serve as a juror at the 53rd International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in June.

Ann Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History
Elected to the American Philosophical Society, 2009.

Named a Harvard College Professor, 2009.

Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies
Became a member of the Scientific Committee of the Musée Barbier-Mueller, in Geneva, 2009.

Named the Paul Mellon Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, in the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts, 2009.

Allan Brandt, Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, and Professor of the History of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Received the Media Award of the National Institute of Drug Abuse/College on Problems on Drug Dependence for The Cigarette Century, 2010.

Michael Brenner, Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics

Named a Harvard College Professor.

Vincent Brown, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History
Received the 2009 John E. O’Connor Film Award of the American Historical Association and Best Documentary from the Hollywood Black Film Festival for “Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness”

Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship, Harvard University, 2009.

Received the Organization of American Historians’ Merle Curti Award, James A. Rawley Prize, and Louis Gottschalk Prize for The Reaper’s Garden, 2009.

Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science
Named a Harvard College Professor.

Elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
Awarded the Phi Beta Kappa teaching prize.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Associate Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Anthropology
“Sweetgrass,” an unsentimental elegy to the American West following the last sheepherders to trail their flocks up into Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, was selected as the New York Times 2010 Critics' Pick and Der Tagesspiegel 2009 'Top' Film of Berlinale, among other international awards (http://sweetgrassthemovie.com).

David Charbonneau, Professor of Astronomy
Received the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award, 2009.

Yiling Chen, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.

David Clarke, Gordon McKay Professor of Materials
Named a 2009 Distinguished Life Member of the American Ceramic Society (ACS).

Kathleen Coleman, Professor of Latin
Elected an Honorary Member of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (2010), and President of the American Philological Association for 2011.

Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor
Honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, 2010.

Arthur Dempster, Research Professor of Theoretical Statistics
Received an Honorary Doctorate in Economics, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic, in 2009.

Emma Dench, Professor of Classics and of History
Appointed a Harvard College Professor, 2010.

Daniel Donoghue, Professor of English
Awarded the 2009 Alpha-Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and the Peter T. Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Award.

Catherine Dulac, Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Scott Edwards, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Named President-elect of the American Genetics Association.

Mark Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History

Wilt Idema, Professor of Chinese Literature
Received the Walter Channing Cabot Fellow Award. 

Caroline Elkins, Professor of History
Received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2010.

Received the ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship (to be taken at the Radcliffe Institute), 2010.

James Engell, Guerney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
Awarded a Senior Fellowship, from the National Center for the Humanities, for the 2010-11 academic year.

Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History and Professor of Business Administration
Awarded the International Emmy award for Best Documentary for the PBS series “The Ascent of Money,” 2009.

Darcy Frey, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English
Awarded a Nieman Fellowship for 2010-11.

Duana Fullwiley, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies
Received a National Science Foundation award for “Mark(er)ing Race: An Ethnographic Study of Human Difference in Contemporary Genetics,” 2009-10.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor
Received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Genealogy and Genetics, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2010.

Received the 2010 NAACP Image Award: Literary Work, Non-Fiction, for In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past

Received the World’s Best Work Award (New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards) and Best National Outreach Campaign (National Educational Telecommunications Association) for “Looking for Lincoln,” 2010.

Received the Empire State Archives and History Award from the Class of Stewards of the Archives Partnership Trust, 2009.

Received the annual Morry Award from Project Morry, a nonprofit, year-round youth development organization dedicated to giving inner-city children from New York and Connecticut life-enhancing learning opportunities, 2009.

Received the Madison Freedom Award, which is given to someone who is instrumental in educating the public about the history of the rights instituted by the nation’s founding fathers and the importance of preserving them, 2009.

Daniel Todd Gilbert, Professor of Psychology
Elected to Fellowship in the Society of Experimental Psychologists, 2009.

Received the Massachusetts Psychological Association Presidential Citation for co-writing and hosting the PBS television series "This Emotional Life," 2010.

Gonzalo Giribet, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Named President-elect of the International Society of Invertebrate Morphology, 2008-11.

Alyssa Goodman, Professor of Astronomy

Elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Peter Gordon
Named a Harvard College Professor, 2010

Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies
Received the Aaron Wildavsky Award from the Policy Studies Organization and the Public Policy Section of the APSA for a book that continues to influence the study of public policy one to two decades after its publication (for “Governing the Economy”), 2009.

Received the Award from the Section on European Politics and Society of the APSA for best paper on European politics presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the APSA (for “The Social Sources of the Gradient”), 2009.

Anne Harrington, Professor of the History of Science
Awarded the Eric Carlson Award, 2010.

David Haig, George Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Lene Hau, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics
Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Received a 2010 National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship.

Elhanan Helpman, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade 
Received the Nemmers Prize, 2010.

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of  African and African American Studies
Elected into the American Philosophical Society, 2009.

Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies
Awarded the John R. Kluge Chair in American Governance and Law, Library of Congress, 2010.

Awarded the Best Paper Prize for the 2008, Public Policy Section of APSA, for “The Shifting Politics of Multiracialism in the United States,” with Vesla Weaver.

Awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, 2010-2013 (with Maya Sen).

John P. Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Elected as a Foreign Member of The Royal Society, 2009.

Jill Miranda Hooley, Professor of Psychology
Elected president of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, 2009.

Michael J. Hopkins, Professor of Mathematics
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2010.

Evelyn L. Hu, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Peter Huybers, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Awarded the David and Lucille Packard Fellowship, 2009.

Received a Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union, 2009.

Donald Ingber, Professor of Bioengineering
Awarded the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship for 2009.

Miaki Ishii, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Received the Charles F. Richter Early Career Award from the Seismological Society of America, 2009.

Received a Macelwane Medal from American Geophysical Union, 2009.

Maya Jasanoff, Associate Professor of History
Received the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, 2010.

Received the Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the oldest artists' colony in the United States, and at the International Center for Jefferson Studies, adjoining Monticello, 2009-10.

Farish A. Jenkins, Jr., Professor of Biology,Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Received the Romer-Simpson Medal from The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2009.

Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies
Recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2010.

Recipient of fellowship from American Philosophical Society, 2010.

Recipient of a Radcliffe Fellowship, 2010.

Christopher Jones, George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics and of History (Emeritus)
Named an Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa, 2010.

Sun Joo Kim, Professor of Korean History
Received an ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship, 2009-11.

Gary King, Albert J. Weatherhead, III University Professor
Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2009

Named Albert J. Weatherhead University Professor, Harvard University, 2010.

Robert Kirschner, Clowes Professor of Science
Received an Honorary Degree from the University of Chicago, 2010.

Andrew Knoll, Fisher Professor of Natural History and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, 2010.

Janos Kornai, Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics, Emeritus
Received Leontief Medal and Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, 2010.

Samuel Kou, Professor of Statistics
Received the American Statistical Association Outstanding Statistical Application Award, 2010.

Served as the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion Lecturer, 2009.

Received the Raymond J. Carroll Young Investigator Award, 2009.

Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
Began a three-term guest professorship at the Guoxueyuan of Remin University of China, Beijing, in the summer of 2009, and was awarded a one-term guest professorship at the Zangxue Yanjiusuo of Sichuan University, Chengdu, in Winter 2009-10.

Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies
Recognized as a "master mentor" by the Office of the Senior Vice-Provost on Faculty Development and Diversity, 2010.

Received the GSAS Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, 2010.

Appointed to President Nicolas Sarkozy's Haut Conseil de la Science et de la Technologie, 2010.

Charles Langmuir, Higgins Professor of Geochemistry
Awarded the 2010 Urey Medal from the European Association for Geochemistry (EAG).

Received the Astor Lectureship from Oxford University, 2010.

Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History
Served as the Hewitt Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado, 2010.

Honored as a “Literary Light” by the Boston Public Library, 2010.

Elected to the Executive Board of the Society of American Historians, 2009.

Robert Levin, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Music
Received an Honorary doctorate from the Curtis Institute of Music where he was commencement speaker.

Received an Honorary doctorate from Klausenburg (Cluj-Napoca) Academy of Musical Arts, Romania, in December 2009.

Matthew Liebmann, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Awarded the William and Rita Clements Research Fellowship by the Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, 2010.

Marko Loncar, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Named a Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2010.

Robert J. Madix, Senior Research Fellow in Chemical Engineering and the Charles Lee Powell Professor, Emeritus, at the Stanford School of Engineering
Received the 2010 Garbor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Work in Catalysis by the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics
Named a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.

Received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History
Awarded a Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, 2010.

Harvey Claflin Mansfield, Jr., William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government
Named a Distinguished Visitor, American Academy in Berlin, 2009.

David McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature and director of the Korea Institute
Honored with a Sijo Festival held at Ewha Woman's University.

James J. McCarthy, Professor of Biological Oceanography
Received an Honorary Doctorate from Bates College, 2010

Richard J. McNally, Professor of Psychology
Received the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, 2010.

Wendy Mendes, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Received an award for best paper of the year from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Received the SAGE Young Scholar Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2009.

Xiao-Li Meng, Whipple V.N. Jones Professor of Statistics
Served as the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion Lecturer, 2010.

Ian Miller, Assistant Professor of History
Received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2009.

Jason Paul Mitchell, Associate Professor of Psychology
Received the International Social Cognition Network (ISCON) Early Career Award, 2009.

Named a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, 2009.

Received the Janet T. Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions (American Psychological Society), 2010.

Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, supported by the Time Warner Endowment
Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2009-10.

Served as the 2009-10 Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.

David J. Mooney, Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

James Moran, Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

John Emery Murdoch, Professor of the History of Science
Received the Sarton Medal for lifetime achievement in the history of science by the History of Science Society.

Ramash Narayan, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences (Astronomy)
Elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Daniel Needleman, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics (SEAS) and Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the Division of Physics (Physics of Living Systems) of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Martin Nowak, Professor of Mathematics and of Biology
Received an Honorary degree from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi Romania.

Anthony G. Oettinger, Gordon McKay Research Professor of Applied Mathematics and Research Professor of Information Resources Policy
Received the National Intelligence Medallion "in recognition of outstanding service from August, 1997 to September, 2009 in support of the Director of National Intelligence as Chairman of the Intelligence Science Board.”

Carol Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music
Named the Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellow at Wellesley College for 2008-09.

(Edward) Roger (John) Owen, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History
Honored for services to Middle East Studies by the World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies, Barcelona, 2010.

Honored for services to Middle East Studies by the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies, London, 2009.

Kit Parker, Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Applied Science and Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Honored by the American Heart Association for collaborative work on stem cell research. The AHA named a study, "Generation of functional ventricular heart muscle from mouse ventricular progenitor cells," published in the October 16 issue of Science (Science 2009; 326; 426-29) as among the top research in 2009.

Received the New England Achievement Award on February 12, 2010.

Ann Pearson, Professor of Biogeochemistry
Received a Radcliffe Fellowship, 2009-10.

Elizabeth Jean Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government
Received the Heinz I Eulau Award of the APSA, 2009 for best article in PERSPECTIVE ON POLITICS (“Chinese Conceptions of ‘Rights”), 2009.

Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology
Received the George A. Miller Prize, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2010.

Awarded the Best American Essays (Christopher Hitchens, Ed.), and Best American Science Writing (Jerome Groopman, Ed.), for “My Genome, Myself,” 2010.

Serghi Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History
Awarded with the Early Slavic Studies Association Distinguished Scholarship Award.

Michael O. Rabin, Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Computer Science
Among the 2010 laureates of the Dan David Prize.

Shriram Ramanathan, Assistant Professor of Materials Science, has won a Faculty Early Career
Received the Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Alexander Rehding, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music
Awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an ACLS Fellowship Wellesley Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellowship, 2009-10.

Sindhumathi Revuluri, Assistant Professor of Music
Awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Penn Humanities Forum for academic year 2009-10.

James Robinson, David Florence Professor of Government
Received the Trevor Swan Distinguished Lecture, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2009.

James Robson, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
His publication, Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak/ (Nanyue 南嶽) /in Medieval China, received the Stanislas Julien Prize for 2010 by the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres [Prix Stanislas Julien by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Institut de France).  

Peter Rogers, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering
Selected by the Environmental Water Resources Institute to receive the 2010 Julian Hinds Award.

Kenneth Rogoff , Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2010.

Charles Rosenberg, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences
Awarded a lifetime achievement award by the American Association for the History of Medicine.

Nancy Lipton Rosenblum, Senator Joseph S Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government
Elected President, American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy, 2009.

Donald B. Rubin, John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2010)

Elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, London, U.K., 2009.

Awarded the Mitchell Prize, International Society for Bayesian Analysis/Section and Bayesian Statistical Sciences of the American Statistical Association (With H. Jin), 2009.

Received the Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, 2009.

Judith Ryan, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Received of a Humboldt Foundation research prize, 2009.

Stephanie Sandler, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Awarded the Barbara Heldt Prize for Best Article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies in Fall, 2009 for “Visual Poetry After Modernism: Elizaveta Mnatsakanova,” which appeared in Slavic Review.

Awarded the Three Percent Best Translated Book Award for Poetry in 2010 for her translation (with Genya Turovskaya) of Elena Fanailova's book, The Russian Version.

Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor Aesthetics and General Theory of Value
Received an Honorary Degree from Northwestern University, in June 2010

Margo Seltzer, Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science and a Harvard College Professor
Received the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising.

Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music
Received the Kenneth H. Peacock Distinguished Visitor Medal, University of Toronto, School of Music.

Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science
Elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies
Named the Phi Beta Kappa/Frank M. Updike Memorial Scholar for 2010-11.

James Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and of African and African American Studies
Named a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

Beth Simmons, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs
President-elect, International Studies Association, 2010-11.

Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology
Inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, 2009.

Diana Sorensen, James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Dean for the Humanities
Elected a juror for the Premio Principe de Asturias Award for Letters to be awarded in Oviedo, Spain, on June 7, 8 and 9, 2010.

Awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship, 2010-11.

Elizabeth S. Spelke, Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology
Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, Utrecht University, 2010.

John Stauffer, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies
Served as the Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, 2009-10.

His book GIANTS was awarded the Iowa Author Award for the best prose book and the Boston Authors Club award for 2009.

Purdue University Distinguished Alumni Award (2009).

Sarah Stewart-Mukhopdhyay, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences
Awarded the Harold C. Urey Prize, given by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, 2009.

Zhigang Suo, Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett Professor of Mechanics and Materials
Honored with a Humboldt Research Award.

Richard Tarrant, Harvard College Professor, Pope Professor 
of the Latin Language and Literature
Recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa teaching prize, 2010.

Clifford Taubes, William Petschek Professor of Mathematics
Awarded the Shaw Prize, 2009.

Gordon Teskey, Professor of English
Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2010-11.

Dennis F. Thompson, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in the John F. Kennedy School of Government
Received a Lifetime Achievement Award, Association of Practical and Professional Ethics

Karen Thornber, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Received a Junior Scholar Award from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for Green Paradoxes: East Asian Literatures and Environmental Crises (2009-10). 

Mary C. Waters, M. E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2010.

Received the Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association for Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age with Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, and Jennifer Holdaway, 2010.

Daniel Wegner, Professor of Psychology
Belle van Zuylen Chair, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 2009-10.

David A. Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 2010.

William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor
Received honorary doctorates from New York University and North Carolina State University.

Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit
Received an Honorary Membership (Ehrenmitglied) in the German Oriental Society, 2009.

Robert Wood, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Received a President Early Career Award.

Patrick Wolfe, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, SEAS, and Affiliate, Department of Statistics
Received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2009.

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, 2009.

Shing-Tung Yau, William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics
Awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2010.

Honorary Degrees from Lehigh University and the National Cheng Kung University of Taiwan, 2009-10.

Alan Zaslavsky, Professor of Health Care Policy, HMS, and Affiliate, Department of Statistics
Received the Long-Term Excellence Award, Section on Health Policy Statistics, American Statistical Association, 2010.

Daniel Ziblatt, Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy
Awarded the 2009 Gregory Luebbert Prize, for Best Paper Published in Comparative Politics, APSA, Comparative Politics Section, for “Does Landholding Inequality Block Democratization?”

Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin
Elected an international editorial board member for the four-volume publication of the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages.