CLASS Newsletter:
Faculty Honors and Awards, 2006-7
University of Houston Honors:
Kenneth Brown, Department of Anthropology, Faculty Award for Mentoring Undergraduate Research
David Francis, Department of Psychology, Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award
Kairn Klieman, Department of History, Teaching Excellence Award
Jim Johnson, School of Theatre and Dance, Teaching Excellence Award
Lois Zamora, Department of English, John and Rebecca Moores Professorship
CLASS Honors:
Margot Backus, Department of English, Ross Lence Teaching Excellence Award, Humanities
Tracy X. Karner, Department of Sociology, Ross Lence Teaching Excellence Award, Social Sciences
Blake Wilkins, Moores School of Music, Ross Lence Teaching Excellence Award, Visual and Performing Arts
International, National, and State Honors and Awards:
Alessandro Carrera, Modern and Classical Languages, Bertolucci Prize for literary criticism from the city of Parma, Italy, for his book I poeti impossibili [Poets are Impossible] (Edizioni
Il Filo)
Paul Collins, Department of Political Science, U.S. Council of Graduate Schools/University Microforms International Distinguished Dissertation Award in the social sciences
Hannah Decker, Department of History, Eric Carlson Award for Excellence in the Study of the History of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College, Cornell University
Steven Deyle, Department of History, Bennett H. Wall Award from the Southern Historical Association for best book on southern business or economic history, for his book Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life (Oxford University Press).
Nicolas Kanellos, Modern and Classical Languages and Arte Publico Press, Texas Association for Bilingual Education Award for Contributions to Higher Education
Martin Melosi, Department of History and Center for Public History, Fulbright Senior Specialist award
Eric Walther, Department of History, Jefferson Davis Award for best book in 2006 on the Confederate experience, for his book William Lowndes Yancy and the Coming of the Civil War (UNC Press).
Lois Zamora, Department of English, Harry Levin Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association, for her book The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction (University of Chicago Press).
Graduate Student and Staff Awards
Ana Maria Medina, doctoral student in Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Cynthia Bowden, staff undergraduate advisor in the School of Art, George Magner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising
