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IN LUMINE TUO

AWARDED

Four Columbia professors — Matthew Connelly, William Harris, Alice Kessler-Harris and Adam Kosto — were awarded five of the American Historical Association’s scholarly book prizes, which were presented in Chicago in January.

Connelly received two prizes, the George Louis Beer Prize and the Paul Birdsall Prize. The Beer prize is awarded each year to recognize outstanding historical writing in European international history since 1895, while the Birdsall prize is awarded biennially for a major work on European military and strategic history since 1870. Connelly received the two awards for the same work, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford University Press, 2002). Connelly specializes in international and diplomatic history.

Harris received the James Henry Breasted Prize, which is given annually for the best book in English in any field of history prior to 1000, for Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (Harvard University Press, 2002). Harris, the William R. Shepherd Professor of History, specializes in the history of ancient Greece and Rome.

Kessler-Harris was awarded the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, offered each year for the best work in women’s history and/or feminist theory, for In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2001). Kessler-Harris previously received the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Philip Taft Labor History prize for this book. Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History and specializes in the history of American labor and the academic exploration of women and gender.

Kosto was presented with the Premio del Rey Prize, which honors a distinguished book in English in the field of early Spanish history, for Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000–1200 (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Kosto specializes in the social and institutional history of medieval Europe, focusing on Catalonia and the Mediterranean.

FELLOWSHIPS

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named five Columbia professors — Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Guillaume Bal, Andrei Beloborodov, Virginia Cornish ’91 and Mu-Tao Wang — among its “most promising young researchers of 2003.” Each faculty member received a Sloan Research Fellowship worth $40,000 and was among the 117 scientists and scholars around the country who were selected in March.

Bal and Wang won prizes for mathematics, Abdulkadiroglu for economics, Beloborodov for physics and Cornish for chemistry. Beloborodov is an associate professor; the others are assistant professors.

HONORED

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society, received an honorary doctorate at the Sorbonne from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes on January 14 in Paris.

Yerushalmi received his Ph.D from Columbia in 1966, studying under Salo Baron. For the next 14 years, he taught at Harvard, where he rose to become Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization and chair of the department of near Eastern languages and civilizations. His scholarly interests range through medieval and modern times with an emphasis on the history of Spanish and Portuguese Jewry, modern German Jewry, the history of psychoanalysis and Jewish historiography.

Yerushalmi returned to Columbia in 1980 when he was invited to assume the new chair in history named for his mentor, Baron, and take over directorship of Columbia’s Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, which acts as an umbrella to coordinate research, publications, symposia and conferences, and to foster relations with other major centers of Jewish learning. Yerushalmi’s books have been translated into seven languages.

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