March
22, 2002
Kudos
Column
Prize-Winning
Poetry Solving for X, a new collection of poetry by
Professor of English Robert Shaw, has been awarded the Hollis
Summers Prize by Ohio University Press.
For They Are Jolly
Good Fellows A number of faculty members have recently won
residential fellowships. Nancy Campbell, associate professor of
art, has been selected for Michigan State's program in Hikone,
Japan. Next spring, she will become a visiting scholar at the
Japan Center for Michigan Universities, located on the shore of
Lake Biwa in the city of Hikone (Shiga Prefecture) in Japan. Indira
Peterson, professor and chair of Asian studies, has been awarded
a monthlong residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center in
Bellagio, Italy, for June and July to complete her translation
of an eighteenth-century Tamil drama, The Fortune-Teller of
Kurralam. Roberto Marquez, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor
of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, has also been awarded
a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center in Bellagio
for August through September. He will complete his study and anthological
book of original translations, Borinquen to El Barrio and Beyond:
Puerto Rican Poetry from Aboriginal Times to the Present.
Gail Scanlon, librarian and director of access services, has been
accepted for this year's Frye Leadership Institute at Emory University.
The institute runs a prestigious summer program that trains the
next generation's leaders in the library and information technology
fields.
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Anna
Morawiec Mansfield '96
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In addition, Anna
Morawiec Mansfield '96 has been named one of thirty recipients
of the 2002 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans,
a program established in 1997 to support graduate study by immigrants
and children of immigrants. More than 1,000 applicants representing
141 national origins and 360 colleges and universities competed
for this year's fellowships. Mansfield, a student at Columbia
University Law School, was born in Poland and immigrated to the
United States when she was four. At MHC she majored in political
science, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and interned in the mayor's
office in Springfield. While studying on a Fulbright Fellowship
in Poland, she became affiliated with an American Bar Association
project to strengthen legal education and institutions in Central
and Eastern Europe. In this capacity, both in Europe and Washington,
D.C., she helped develop legal clinics and workshops to acquaint
citizens with their legal rights and to educate officials on new
anticorruption legislation as well as on methods to fight crime.
Mansfield also spent two-and-one-half years in Bosnia-Herzegovina
as governance coordinator for the Organization of Security and
Cooperation in Europe. She was responsible for addressing governance
first at the municipal level, then at the regional level. Finally,
she drafted steps for reviving the state legislature in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
a design that has been implemented. Currently gaining a formal
training in law with a specialty in human rights, international
law, and public interest law, Mansfield plans a career in international
efforts to strengthen governance and in ensuring human rights
in the United States. Paul and Daisy Soros, both raised in Hungary,
established their charitable trust of $50 million to thank the
United States for the life it has provided them and their children.
The beneficiaries of the trust are selected from all fields and
receive annually a $20,000 stipend plus half tuition for up to
two years of graduate study in the United States.
Grant Granted
Mimi Hellman, visiting assistant professor in the art department,
has received a National Endowment for the Humanities research
fellowship of $40,000 for her project titled "Architecture,
Interior Decoration, and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century
France."
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