FACULTY NEWS

ACCOLADES

Professor of Communication Science Xiaoli Nan and Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture Saúl Sosnowski were named 2020–21 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers at the University of Maryland.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology Emily Egan was a 2019–20 Fellow in Aegean Art at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., to work on her monograph on Late Bronze Age Greek painting and the decoration of floor surfaces at the “Palace of Nestor” at Pylos.

English Professor Orrin Wang received the 2020 Keats-Shelley Association of America’s Distinguished Scholar Award, which recognizes his scholarship on English Romantic poets, including John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Professor Hervé-Thomas Campangne in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures was awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society for his article “Framing the early modern best seller: American settings for Belleforest’s Histoires tragiques.”

Senior Lecturer in history Robert Chiles was awarded for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the State Archives by the New York State Archives and the Archives Partnership Trust for his scholarship on New York Governor Alfred E. Smith.

History of science author and editor Melinda Baldwin became the university’s first American Institute of Physics (AIP) Endowed Professor in the History of Natural Sciences, thanks to a $1 million pledge by AIP.

OUTSTANDING NEW FACULTY

Back row L–R: Tess Korobkin (Art History and Archaeology), Erin Mosely (History), Katherine Wasdin (Classics), Elizabeth Alice Honig (Art History and Archaeology) | Middle row L-R: Bayley Marquez (American Studies), Tamanika Ferguson (Communication), Melissa Blanco Borelli (School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies), Paolo Santorio (Philosophy) | Front row L-R: Josh Alvizu (School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures), Jessica V. Gatlin (Art), Quincy T. Mills (History) | Inset: David Neely (School of Music).

NOTABLE FACULTY BOOKS

Mary Corbin Sies was the co-editor of “Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change,” which received the best edited prize for 2020 by the International Planning History Society.

Richard Bell’s “Stolen,” a microhistory of the reverse underground railroad, was featured in numerous reviews in the national media and on several podcasts, and was a finalist for the 2020 George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. Bell’s national book tour took him to over 50 talks.

Rion Amilcar Scott’s collection of stories “The World Doesn’t Require You” was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and made waves nationally as it appeared on many end-of-year best-of lists, after being widely reviewed in top-tier newspapers and periodicals.