Faculty Accomplishments

Awarded the 2012 Meribeth E. Cameron Prize for Scholarship for his stunning achievement as a scholar of cultural and social theory and his ability to open students’ minds.

Served as the stage director for the World Premiere of Mystery of the Missing Music: A Musicological Whodunit with the Pioneer Valley Symphony, which performed on April 8 and 10, 2021.

Directed and starred as Derryberry in the Trembling Stage production of “The Day the Bird Flu Came - A Radio Play” by Jonathan Yukich. The recording is available at tremblingstage.com through December 20, 2020.

Awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, on April 26, 2007. The German government recognized Van Handle for her achievements in promoting German language and culture in the United States.

Vavova, K. (2020) The Limits of Rational Belief Revision: A Dilemma for The Darwinian Debunker. Noûs, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12327.

Watson, M. C. and Cornfeld, L. (2023). Donna Haraway. In J. L. Jackson (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies in anthropology.

Watson, M. C. (2023). Funding values in highland Chiapas: How Harvard anthropology naturalized the Mexican state. In F. Armstrong-Fumero and B. W. Fallaw (Eds.), The transnational construction of Mayanness: Reading modern Mesoamerica through U.S. archives (pp. 99-124). Denver: University Press of Colorado.

Watson, M. C. (in press). Rearview mirrors: Harvard Land-Rover interviews and the ethnographic drive in midcentury Chiapas. Anthropology & Humanism.

Watson, M. C. (2020). Afterlives of affect: Science, religion, and an edgewalker's spirit. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Was a William S. Willis Jr. Fellow of the American Philosophical Society in March 2023.