Journalism's Katz Wins Harry Chapman Award
NYU Department of Journalism Professor Katz won the 2009 Harry Chapman award for her piece, "There Goes the Neighborhood," published in The American Prospect.
Anthropology's Schieffelin and Grant win Golden Dozens Teaching Awards
The Department of Anthropology congratulates, Professors Bambi B. Schieffelin and Bruce Grant on winning Golden Dozens Teaching Awards from CAS for 2010.
Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program (MIAP) Receives $500,000 Grant from Mellon Foundation to Study Video at Risk
The MIAP program was recently awarded $500,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore the preservation issues associated with circulating video collections held in academic libraries. Over their six-year partnership, the Preservation Department of NYU Libraries and the MIAP program have done important research into the preservation of moving image and audio materials in research libraries. This research has produced principles and methodologies for assessing the physical condition of video holdings as well as an array of data describing their condition. This next phase will explore the daunting task of preserving the largely commercial circulating video collection held by NYU Libraries.
Anthropology Professor Sally Merry Awarded J.I. Staley Prize
The Department of Anthropology congratulates Professor Sally Merry, who is the winner of the J.I. Staley Prize for her book, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice, University of Chicago Press, 2006.