2012 Faculty Awards & Fellowships

Michael Miller, professor of history, was awarded the 2013 Hagley Prize for the best book in business history, broadly defined, and the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award for 2010-2012 for his book, Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History (Cambridge University Press, 2012).


M. Brian Blake, professor of computer science, recieved the Pioneer of the Year Award from the National Society of Black Engineers.


M. Brian Blake, professor of computer science, was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures.


Ashli White, professor of history, was awarded an NEH Summer Stipend.


Donald Spivey, professor of history, received the Robert Peterson Recognition Award for his recent book: If You Were Only White!


Eduardo Elena, associate professor of history, received Honorable Mention (for the 2012 Crader Family Book Prize in American Values) from Southwest Missouri State University.


Michael Bernath, associate professor of history, was awarded a Filson Fellowship from the Filson Historical Society.


Dominique Reill, associate professor of history, received Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies at the American Academy in Rome.


Dominique Reill, associate professor of history, received Title VIII/ACLS Fellowship in East European Studies from the American Council of learned Societies.


Guido Ruggiero, professor of history, was named Rome Scholar in Residence by the American Academy in Rome.


Guido Ruggiero, professor of history, served as Robert Lehman Visiting Professor in Residence at Havard's Villa I Tatti, Florence.


Anne Cruz, professor of modern languages and literatures, was elected as a Corresponding Member of Spain's Royal Academy of History.


Maxim Kontsevich, distinguished professor of mathematics, received the Shaw Prize in the Mathematical Sciences from the Shaw Prize Foundation.


Maxim Kontsevich, distinguished professor of mathematics, was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Applied Physics, launched by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and venture capitalist Yuri Milner.


Joe Parent, associate professor of political science, received a Fellowship at the Nobel Institute.


Charles Carver, professor of psychology, was awarded the Jack Block Award by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.


Neil Schneiderman, professor of psychology, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Behavioral Medicine.