Sturken Receives Transdisciplinary Award
Professor Marita Sturken is the recipient of the Institute for Humanities Research first Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award for Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero.
Sociologist Richard Sennett Honored
The Henkel Foudation has awarded Richard Sennett the Gerta Henkel prize. Richard will receive this great honor on November 10 in Dusseldorf. Sennett has also been awarded The European Craft Prize for 2008. The award is voted by craft unions and craft workshops in the EU. Richard will receive the prize in Cologne from the German Minister of Labour in November.
Journalism Professor Wins Fringe First Award
The play of Journalism professor Yvonne Latty's book, In Conflict, won a "Fringe First" award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and opens off-Broadway.
Klinenberg Awarded Stanford Fellowship
Eric Klinenberg, Department of Sociology faculty, has been awarded a fellowship at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences for the 2007-8 academic year.