Faculty & Staf f
Pro f ile: Composer Morton Subotnick was an Arts and Humanities Artist-in-Residence in the School of Music last year, presenting lectures, master classes and performances to include a revival of his classic work “Silver Apples of the Moon” and a concert featuring the Verge Ensemble and UMD faculty and students.
14 Outstanding & Diverse New Faculty
Looking Forward
2011-12
Fatemeh Keshavarz-Karamustafa has been appointed the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Chair in Persian Studies and Director of the Roshan Center for Persian Studies in SLLC.
ARHU Staff Council: A town hall was called
Back Row L-R: Ashley Smith (TDPS), Oliver Gaycken (ENGL), Ashwini Tambe (WMST), Matthew Suriano (JWST), Rudolph Matthee (SLLC), Scott Wible (ENGL), Luka Arsenjuk (SLLC). Front Row L-R: Perla M. Guerrero (AMST), Jessica Enoch (ENGL), Melanie Kill (ENGL), Naomi Feldman (LING), Kenneth Elpus (MUSC), Peter Glanville (SLLC) . Not photographed: Mikhail Dolbilov (HIST)
last semester to explore the establishment of a staff council to share information, identify staff issues and establish action goals, and build community among staff. Working groups are meeting to consider interest in and structure for the group.
Fac ul t y & S taf f
Tenured/Tenure Track ■ 143 professors ■ 127 associate professors ■ 63 assistant professors
■ 190 lecturers ■ 324 staff
Award-winning Faculty Books
Addi t ional Fac ul t y Ac hie ve me nt s ■ Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award: Colin Phillips, Linguistics ■ Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award: Rick Bell, History ■ D.C. Humanities Council Distinguished Service to the Humanities: Ira Berlin, History ■ Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Finalist: Hasan Elahi, Art
■ Tara Rodgers’ “Pink Noises: ■ Carla Peterson’s “Black Gotham: Women on Electronic Music and A Family History of African- Sound”–2011 Pauline Alderman Americans in Ninteenth-Century Book Award from the InternatNew York City”–2011 New York ional Alliance for Women in Music City Book Award for History from ■ Orin Wang’s “Romantic the New York Society Library Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, ■ Jeffrey Herf’s “Nazi Propaganda Commodification, History”–2011 for the Arab World”–2011 Sybil Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for the Halpern Milton prize Milton Prize year’s best book in Romanticism for work published between from the International Conference 2009-2010 from the German on Romanticism Studies Association
■ Jason Farman’s “Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media”–2012 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Book Award ■ Jeanne Fahnestock’s “Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion”–2012 Book Award from the Rhetorical Society of America
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