Faculty honors and awards
Samuel Kassow ’66, Charles H. Northam Professor of History, has won the 2008 AAASS/ Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies for Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive. The prize is sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Kulczycki, owners of the Orbis Books Ltd. of London, England, and is awarded annually for the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs.
The Association of Puerto Rican Historians has invited Associate Professor of History Luis Figueroa to be the keynote speaker at their annual meeting in November.
Susan Masino, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, has been named the Annette and Kingsbury Browne Volunteer Conservationist of the Year by The Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit land preservation group. Masino, a Simsbury resident, was presented with the award, along with co-winner Diane Nash. The two activists were honored for spearheading efforts to preserve 334 acres in Simsbury known as the Ethel Walker Woods. The women founded and led Keep the Woods, a local organization that was instrumental in conserving the property. In addition to Masino’s work as a conservationist, she was honored this year by the Connecticut Technology Council, which named her a finalist for a Women of Innovation award. The program recognizes women who are innovators, role models, and leaders in their field.
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?, which has been called “an exhaustively researched story of assassination, impunity and justice in Guatemala,” has won the first annual WOLA-Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America The book was written by novelist Francisco Goldman, the Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Trinity. WOLA, a human rights research and advocacy group, and Duke University created the prize to honor the best current nonfiction book published in English on human rights, democracy, and social justice in contemporary Latin America. The New York Times put The Art of Political Murder on its list of 100 Notable Books of 2007.
The Dean Arthur H. Hughes Award for Achievement in Teaching, a gift of former president and trustee of Trinity, G. Keith Funston, is named in honor of Arthur Hughes, who, in his 36-year career at Trinity, served as professor of German, chairman of the Department of Modern Languages, dean of the College, dean of the faculty, and, on two occasions, acting president. The Dean Arthur H. Hughes Award recognizes relatively new and/or junior members of the faculty for achievement in teaching. This year’s recipients were Chloe Wheatley, assistant professor of English, and Anne Gebelein, visiting assistant professor of modern languages and literature.
