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AROUND THE QUADS
Howell earned a Guggenheim award for her study of market culture in cities of late medieval northern Europe. She is a specialist in early modern European social and women’s history, concentrating on the Burgundian Netherlands, northern France and Germany. Howell’s publications include From Reliable Sources (with Walter Prevenier, Cornell University Press, 2001), The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300–1550 (with Catherine R. Stimpson, University of Chicago Press, 1998) and Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities (also with Stimpson, University of Chicago Press, 1986). Howell’s current research project explores the tensions attending the explosion of commercial wealth in Europe between about 1300 and 1600, and she plans to use the Guggenheim to continue her work in Belgium and France. “I am of course thrilled to have received the fellowship, not just for the honor it bestows,” Howell told the University Record, “but also because it allows me to expand my research base.” Stark, who will use his Guggenheim to explore the network properties of East European capitalism, is the author of “Accounts of Worth in New Media Projects” in Theory, Culture and Society (forthcoming 2002); “Ambiguous Assets for Uncertain Environments: Heterarchy in Postsocialist Firms” in The Twenty-First-Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective (Princeton University Press, 2001); and Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1998). He is currently studying the co-evolution of collaborative organizational forms and interactive technologies. Stark, who has served as chair of the sociology department and a director of the Center on Collaborative Organization and Digital Ecologies (CODES), will be a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City in 2002–03. He will travel to Budapest for some of his research and plans to branch out to supplement his earlier ethnographic research with new methods of analysis. Artist Vu-Daniel earned a Guggenheim to support his painting. Vu-Daniel — whose wife, Jennifer Nuss, also is a 2002 Guggenheim fellow for her work in painting — said the award was “an opportunity to travel back to Vietnam where most of my work and history has been greatly involved.” Vu-Daniel is director of Columbia’s Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies, which was founded to promote printmaking through education, production, and exhibition of prints. He will produce a short film while visiting Vietnam in a few months and will then return to his studio to work on a new series of painting and prints. The two other Columbia Guggenheim recipients are Rita Charon, a
professor of clinical medicine at P&S and director of the
program in narrative medicine, who will use her grant to explore
the role of narrative medicine as a model for empathy and clinical
courage, and Adjunct Professor of Writing Paul LaFarge, the author
of The Artist of the Missing (Farrar Straus & Giroux,
1999) and Haussmann, or the Distinction: A Novel (Farrar
Straus & Giroux, 2001), who will use his Guggenheim for fiction
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GUGGENHEIMS: Martha C. Howell, Gustave Berne Professor of
History, David Stark, Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of Sociology and
International Affairs, and Tomas Vu-Daniel, associate professor of
art, are among five Columbia professors who have received 2002 John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships. This total ties Columbia
with UCLA and Wisconsin for the most fellowships received at a
single institution this year.
