Faculty & Staff

Profile: 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 2011-12

Looking Forward

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.

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)

Award-winning Faculty Books ARHU Staff Council: A town hall was called 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.

Faculty & Staff

Additional Faculty Achievements

Tenured/Tenure Track ■ 143 professors ■ 127 associate professors ■ 63 assistant professors ■ 190 lecturers ■ 324 staff

■ 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: Women on Electronic Music and Sound”–2011 Pauline Alderman Book Award from the Internat ional Alliance for Women in Music ■ Orin Wang’s “Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History”–2011

Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for the year’s best book in Romanticism from the International Conference on Romanticism

■ Carla Peterson’s “Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Ninteenth-Century New York City”–2011 New York City Book Award for History from the New York Society Library ■ Jeffrey Herf’s “Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World”–2011 Sybil Halpern Milton prize Milton Prize for work published between 2009-2010 from the German 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