Faculty

Our humanities programs have advanced as far as they have because of the excellent faculty members we have recruited and retained.

Among those are a dozen who are presidents, presidents-elect, or past presidents of professional societies: Lilly Chen (Chinese language), International Chinese-American Educational Research and Development Conference; Krista Comer (English), Western Literature Association; Steven Crowell (philosophy), Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Suzanne Kemmer (linguistics), International Cognitive Linguistics Association; Mark Kulstad (philosophy), Leibnitz Society of North America; Sydney Lamb (emeritus, linguistics), Linguistics Association of Canada and the United States; Michael Maas (history), Byzantine Studies Conference; Meredith Skura (English), Shakespeare Society of America; Gale Stokes (history), American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; Martin Wiener (history), North American Conference on British Studies; Edith Wyschogrod (religious studies), American Academy of Religion; and Jack Zammito (history), International Herder Society.

In 2001–02, many other humanities faculty received important awards and appointments. Among them are Baruch Brody (philosophy), elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; Alex Byrd (history), recipient of a fellowship from the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton; Carl Caldwell (history), who spent a semester in Germany as a Humboldt Fellow; Coulter George (classical studies), winner of a four-year research fellowship at Trinity College–Cambridge; and Todd Porterfield (art and art history), who traveled to France as a Fulbright Scholar.