POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES FOR 2004-2005

Bryn Mawr will offer a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities for 2004-2005 will be in the field of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology. Ph.D. required; degree date no earlier than 1998 or later than May 2003; applications from those who have been teaching three years or more are encouraged. The Fellow will have visiting faculty status and must teach one course each semester. Applicants should also plan to complete a major publication using the resources of the Rhys Carpenter Library. Participation in one or more of Bryn Mawr's four interdisciplinary Centers for 21st Century Inquiry is encouraged. Send letter of application, c.v., description of publication project, statement of teaching interests, and three letters of reference to: Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 (fax 610-526-5076; e-mail graddean@brynmawr.edu). Deadline: March 15, 2004.

EVENTS

The Fourth Biennial Bryn Mawr College Graduate Student Symposium: "Head to Toe: (un)Covering the Human Body", was held on October 10-11, 2003. Following a keynote address by Helen Rodnite Lemay of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, ten graduate students presented studies of the imagery and presentation of the body in contexts including classical Athens, Spain and colonial Mexico, and the 20th-century U.S. Participants came from Brown, Cornell, Rutgers, San Francisco State, and Temple Universities and the Universities of Minnesota, Texas at Austin, and Wisconsin at Madison. For abstracts see http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Arch/schedule.html.

FACULTY AWARDS

PRESIDENT OF KYRGYZSTAN AWARDED MEDAL TO BMC PROFESSOR OF RUSSIAN

Former President Askar Akaev of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan presented Bryn Mawr College Professor of Russian and Second Language Acquisition DAN DAVIDSON with the Kyrgyz State Presidential Medal of Honor in recognition of Davidson's extraordinary contribution to education in the former Soviet republic. Davidson, president and co-founder of the American Councils for International Education, was honored for his work on a new system of standardized tests for university admissions and educational reform in the post-Soviet republics.

BARBARA LANE AWARDED MELLON EMERITUS FELLOWSHIP

BARBARA MILLER LANE, Emeritus Professor in the Humanities and McBride Professor of History of Arts and Cities, has been awarded a Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellowship to study American tract houses, the Levittowns of the 1950s and 1960s. Lane, one of 14 scholars across the country chosen to receive these awards, joined the Bryn Mawr faculty in 1962 and retired in 1999. The recipient of more than a dozen major grants and fellowships throughout her career, Lane has been a visiting Professor at the Columbia School of Architecture, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study, Berlin, and a member of the "City Forum," an advisory group on planning Berlin after German unification. She is the author of a classic work on German architecture and politics before and during the Second World War.

THE 2005 FACULTY WINNER OF THE MCPHERSON AWARD

President Nancy J. Vickers announced the 2005 faculty winner, MARION REILLY Professor of Physics Al Albano. Among his past honors, Albano was named the 1996 Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. He also received the college's Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching that year. Albano retired at the conclusion of the spring semester, after a 35-year career at Bryn Mawr. A nominator from the Committee on Appointments noted, "Al has been one of the most respected faculty members for many years: he has been elected repeatedly to important leadership roles, has provided a voice of calm intelligence during faculty deliberations on important issues, and has received national recognition for his teaching and scholarship." Albano's McPherson Award was $5000 in research funds.

BRYN MAWR ART HISTORIAN WINS GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP
STEVEN Z. LEVINE of the Department of History of Art was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2003-04, for work on a book titled "Face Painting: Self-Representation in France from Montaigne and Poussin to Duchamp and Derrida". He is Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and the founding director of the Center for Visual Culture.

ISABELLE WALLACE IS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW IN THE HUMANITIES
In 2003-2004 Bryn Mawr's Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities is held by ISABELLE WALLACE, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts and Women's Studies at the University of New Orleans. Prof. Wallace will work on her first book, "Subjectivity, Signification and Sisyphus: Reflections on Art History and the Paintings of Jasper Johns". In semester I she is teaching a graduate seminar on Appropriation in 20th Century Art.

STUDENT AWARDS

NEH Curatorial and Exhibitions Interns Catherine Person and Sarah Hafner present two new exhibits from the College Collections.

Graduate Student Association awarded the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students Award for Development. more...

2005 MCPHERSON AWARDS ANNOUNCED

At the annual GSAS Awards Reception, Dean Dale Kinney announced the GSAS student winner winner of the McPherson Award for Excellence and Service, ROBERT EKEY, a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate studying molecular photophysics. In announcing the award, the Dean said, "Throughout his career at Bryn Mawr, Bob has been a diligent and productive researcher whose skill with delicate equipment is much admired. He has been a beloved teaching assistant, winning the Doris Sill Carland Prize for Teaching Excellence in 2003. The service for which the McPherson Prize confers special recognition includes his two years as co-convenor of the Graduate Student Association in 2003, his two years of student representative to the Graduate Council, and his efforts as Bryn Mawr's representative to the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students. Bob's self-effacing concern for the well-being of his fellow students is polite, persistent, and persuasive." Ekey received a $5000 award.

GRADUATE STUDENTS AWARDED THE DORIS SILL CARLAND PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING IN 2004-2005

JENNIFER BIRD, in History of Art. Jennifer is honored for her work as TA in History of Art 104, "The Classical Tradition," and HArt 107, "Self and Other in the Arts of France, 1500-2000." Undergraduates wrote that they can hardly wait for Jenny to become a professor; "she has all the components of what makes a great professor: intelligence, kindness, care for students, and a willingness to help all who need it." "A brilliant lecturer," great discussion leader; "I have learned as much from her as I have from my other profs." "On a scale of 1-10: 10.5!"

BETH CAMPBELL HETRICK, in Mathematics. Beth was commended by a faculty member for her success in running problem sessions for Linear Algebra (Math 203) and Real Analysis (Math 301-302), which were attended by students in different sections of courses taught by different professors, sometimes at different paces and in one case even using different textbooks! Remarkably, one student wrote that "she never seems to be in a bad mood!" Others praised her patience, approachability, skill at posing questions from several perspectives, subject knowledge and enthusiasm. "She gets you to enjoy the sessions and gets everyone to share ideas."

JENNIFER WEBB, in History of Art and Cities. Jennifer has been an excellent TA in her home discipline, History of Art, but she is especially commended for outstanding work in courses in the Growth and Structure of Cities program, Form of the City (City 190) and Modern Architecture (City 254). Her faculty supervisors in Cities praised her conscientiousness, initiative, organization, logistical and technological support, "great rapport" with the students, and excellent lectures. Students added that they could easily imagine her as a professor, especially at a small liberal arts college, "because she cares about the students and gets to know them ... [as can be] seen in the thoughtfulness of her teaching, personal grading, and friendliness in and outside of class."

GRADUATE STUDENT IN FRENCH WINS INTERNATIONAL ESSAY PRIZE

CAMILLE DAUPHIN-PERSUY, an M.A. candidate in French, has won the 2004 Women in French Graduate Student Essay Award for her paper "'L'aventure li manderai!':Désir de communication dans les Lais de Marie de France." The essay will appear in the journal Women in French Studies. Professor Grace Armstrong, who supervised Camille's work, was also honored for this project; see below under "News of the Faculty." Professor Grace Armstrong supervised Camille's work and was also honored for this project.

EXHIBITION CURATED BY BEN ANDERSON
BENJAMIN ANDERSON, a second-year graduate student in History of Art, is curator of "The Invention of Antiquity," on display September 20-December 17, 2005 in Canaday Library.

SCIENCE, MATH, AND PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH PRESENTATION AWARDS
Award-winners for best presentations at the 2003 Graduate Research Symposium in Science, Mathematics and Clinical Developmental Psychology are LAURA KELLOGG (Geology), for her poster "Mid-crustal plutons in the Coast Mountains"; TINA ROSS (Chemistry) for "Transition State Mechanism of Protease Inhibition"; and MARY BETH ERTEL (Clinical Developmental Psychology) for "The Double Dose Message of Slimness". The presentations were judged by Dr. Josephine Norquist, statistician, Merck & Co.; Prof. Eric Wickstrom, Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology and Structural Biology, Thomas Jefferson University; and Prof. Deanna Zubris, Dept. of Chemistry, Villanova University. For more information and the complete program see http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Chem/gradsympabstracts/gradsympindex.html.

MCPHERSON AWARD TO JENNIFER WEBB
President Vickers announced in May that the winner of Bryn Mawr's annual McPherson Award for graduate students is JENNIFER WEBB in the Department of History of Art. McPherson Awards honor excellence and service to the community by faculty, staff, and students. Awardees are chosen on the basis of nominations received from community members. Jennifer's nominator praised her many efforts on behalf of the Graduate Student Association, the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics and History of Art, incoming graduate students, and undergraduates. She did the groundwork for a graduate mentoring program for undergraduates, and she has represented the graduate students on many campus committees. The weekly happy hour initiated by Jennifer and her husband Geoff Compton is much appreciated. "Always warm, friendly, and willing to lend a hand, she has made life at Bryn Mawr easier for her fellow students". Jennifer is a fourth-year student who earned her M.A. degree in 2001. She is writing her dissertation under the direction of Prof. David Cast on court culture in Urbino under Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza. For more news about Jennifer Webb, see below.

DORIS SILL CARLAND PRIZES FOR TEACHING
President Vickers announced two winners of the annual Carland Prizes for Outstanding Teaching on May 17. ROBERT EKEY, a fourth-year graduate student in Physics, was commended for his work in Physics labs at beginning and advanced levels. Called by one appreciative student "my saving grace when it came to Physics 101", Bob is an experienced T.A. with a gift for helping students find answers independently, rather than simply telling them what to do. He is writing his dissertation in the field of molecular photophysics under the direction of Prof. Elizabeth McCormack. ELIZABETH SHEA won her Prize for co-teaching Biology 309, Biological Oceanography, with Prof. Stephen Gardiner. The subject of the course is related to her dissertation on the "Ultrastructure and Development of the Proboscis in Ommastrephid Squids". Students loved her enthusiasm for the material and her knack for clear explanation. One wrote, "if I ever go on to grad work in bio, I hope that I have Liz's love of the subject matter and enthusiasm for both teaching and learning".

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AT THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES, ATHENS
DIMITRA ANDRIANOU, M.A(Penn) '96, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr) '03, will spend the coming year at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens as Postdoctoral Fellow preparing her dissertation, "Epipla: Reconstructing Furnished Interior in Hellenistic Greece" for publication. Demi looks forward to the opportunity to review some of the archaeological material for her project on site and to participate in the stimulating scholarly environment of the American School.

LUCE FOUNDATION/ACLS DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
DEBORAH BARKUN, MA '01 (History of Art) is the recipient of a Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art for 2003-2004. The dissertation explores the relationship between artistic collaboration fueled by the AIDS epidemic and transformations of corporeal imagery, focusing in particular on the art collectives General Idea, Gran Fury, and Group Material and the single-authored work of participating artists AA Bronson, Donald Moffett, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Deborah's research will take her to New York, to the archives of the New York Public Library, and to the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

BRYN MAWR GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDED FULBRIGHT GRANT
LINDA LEEUWRIK, M.A. ’01 in History of Art, has been awarded two grants for dissertation research in Munich, a Fulbright Travel Grant and the Germanistic Society of America/Quadrille Ball Fellowship. Linda will be studying the visual and written work of Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in the context of the cultural, intellectual and spiritual environment of Munich before World War I, when Kandinsky and Marc both lived there. She is especially interested in evidence of apocalyptic thinking in relation to a specifically German tradition of apocalypse.

SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP
JEANNE-MARIE MUSTO (History of Art) will begin her second year (2003-04) as Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellow at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, continuing research for her dissertation on the intersection between politics and the development of art history as a discipline in early nineteeth-century Germany. She describes the project as "geographically challenging" because it focuses on the study of medieval architecture in the Rhineland in the context of Bavarian and Prussian political ambitions. With the additional support of a Fulbright Travel Grant, Jeanne-Marie will be able to enjoy a secondary affiliation with the Technische Universität-Berlin to do research in Berlin during the fall. After the winter in Munich, she will visit the Rhineland for additional research there.

SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP
The Kress Foundation has awarded a 2003-2004 Travel Fellowship to JENNIFER WEBB to support research for her dissertation on the artistic culture of the ducal court of Urbino. Jennifer will be investigating the physical environment of the town in the fifteenth century, and the way in which the Duke and Duchess, Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza, employed architecture in the context of a wider artistic program to project an image of the court's military, cultural, and political successes.

A.B./MA
BRYN MAWR AB/MA STUDENT NAMED SECRETARY-GENERAL OF NATIONAL MODEL U.N.
KATHRYN KLEPPINGER, who plans to graduate from Bryn Mawr with a joint AB/MA in French in 2004, will oversee a conference of more than 2,000 high-school delegates that is organized and run by a volunteer staff of 69 college students.

ALUMNAE/I NEWS

CHEMISTRY

PAMELA KAY STRONG, '72-'74, Principal Engineer/Scientist on Boeing's B-1B program in Long Beach, CA, was elected a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE), which represents "prestigious recognition of a SAMPE member for distinguished contributions in the fields of materials and processes." The honor from SAMPE was recognized by Boeing through its Amelia Earhart Society, which presented her with its Achievement Award in November 2004. In April, 2005 she was presented with the Society of Automotive Engineers/WEC BREED Award for Women's Leadership in the field of engineering, an award for women in the "mobility industry" for leadership, technical contributions, and "innovation and uniqueness in achieving corporate and personal goals." Strong is the acknowledged expert in nonmetallic manufacturing processes, and known for her role in the manufacture of liquid and solid rockets for the Delta, Titan and Space Shuttle programs.

JEWEL (JILL) SHAPIRO SIDEMAN, MA '63, PhD '65, joined Bryn Mawr's Board of Trustees as a Special Representative in the Fall of 2004. She is a past president of the National Association for Women in Science, and currently is Vice President of CH2M Hill, Ltd., an employee-owned global engineering and construction firm.

CLASSICAL AND NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY

JOAN BRETON CONNELLY, MA '79, PhD '84, is director of a field school on Yeronisos Island, off Cyprus. When not in the field Dr. Connelly is a Lillian Vernon Professor of Teaching Excellence at New York University, and she is also a member of President Bush's Cultural Property Advisory Committee. Yeronisos Island Expedition

An exhibition of objects from the collection of LUCY SHOE MERITT, MA '28, PhD '35, was recently on display in the reading rooms of the Rhys Carpenter Library at Bryn Mawr. Curated by current MA candidate Catherine Person, the exhibition included pottery, lamps, glass vessels, metal objects, and architectural fragments collected by Lucy Shoe in Greece and Italy in the decades before and after World War II. The Private Collection of Lucy Shoe Meritt

Bryn Mawr's Board of Trustees welcomed new Board member GUY HEDREEN, MA '83, PhD '88, at its first meeting of 2004-2005. Dr. Hedreen is Associate Professor of Art at Williams College.

GREEK, LATIN AND CLASSICAL STUDIES

RACHEL STERNBERG, PhD '98 (Greek), has joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University. Co-author with T.J. Figueira and T.C. Brennan of Wisdom from the Ancients: Enduring Business Lessons from Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and the Illustrious Leaders of Ancient Greece and Rome (Perseus Publishing, 2001), Sternberg is currently preparing Tragedy Offstage: Responses to Suffering in Everyday Ancient Athens.

JUDITH FLETCHER, PhD '95 (Greek), has a three-year grant from Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council for a book on oaths in Greek drama. She was the co-organizer of a conference on "The Oath in Greek Society" that took place in Nottingham in the summer of 2004, which will yield another publication, to be called Horkos.

DOUG OLSON, MA '84, PhD '87 (Greek) has been named Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, where he is on the faculty in Classical and Near Eastern Studies. The Professorship recognizes and rewards the University's most outstanding mid-career faculty. Prof. Olson was ecognized in particular for his four critical editions with commentary of plays of Aristophanes. The award carries a $100,000 grant to be expended over five years.

HISTORY OF ART

SUSAN DACKERMAN, MA '91, PhD '95, is the new Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge . Dr. Dackerman had been head of the prints, drawings, and photographs department at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The official announcement of the appointment noted that her "insights as a scholar and educator and her expertise in curatorial affairs make her an ideal choice to lead [Harvard's] teaching, collecting, and program efforts in the area of prints, and a worthy successor to Jerry [Marjorie] Cohn."

VIDA HULL, PhD '79, has been promoted to the rank of full professor at East Tennessee State University . In 2003 she won the Southeastern College Art Conference Award for Excellence in Teaching, and she has recently published articles in Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 73 (2004) and Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage , vol. 1 (Brill, 2004).

CHIYO ISHIKAWA, MA '83, PhD '89, won the 2005 Eleanor Tufts Award of the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies for her book, The Retablo de Isabel la Católica by Juan de Flandes and Michel Sittow (Brepols, 2004).

MARCIA WERNER, MA '85, PhD '96, published Pre-Raphaelite Painting and Nineteenth-Century Realism (Cambridge University Press, 2005), based on her Bryn Mawr dissertation.

SARAH BOEHME, MA '73, PhD '94, John S. Bugas Curator of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for an exhibition of the work of William Ranney, which will be seen in Philadelphia in 2007.

TINA WALDEIER BIZZARRO, PhD '85, is director of a Mediterranean Studies Summer Program hosted by the University of Messina, Sicily. The program includes courses in history of art and fine arts and a ten-day excursion to the principal sites on the island.

KAREN-EDIS-BARZMAN, MA '80, is now Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Binghamton University. She has won a Fulbright Grant to do research in Naples for a book on perceptions of Islam in early modern Italian art.

OTHER NEWS

MELLON FOUNDATION AWARDS $2 MILLION GRANT TO SUPPORT TRI-COLLEGE ISLAMIC/MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES INITIATIVE

Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges have received a $2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a new faculty position in Arabic language study to be shared among the three colleges. The Tri-College Islamic/Middle Eastern Studies Initiative is anchored by new courses in Modern Standard Arabic. In addition, the initiative will foster new opportunities for Tri-College study abroad and faculty development.

NEW FACULTY: MEHMET-ALI ATAÇ

In September 2005, the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology welcomed MEHMET-ALI ATAÇ as a new assistant professor. Born and raised in Ankara, Turkey, Ataç graduated from the Middle East Technical University in 1993 . He came to the U.S. as a Fulbright Scholar and earned his Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture at Harvard in 2003. Prof. Ataç will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the archaeology and art of ancient Assyria and Egypt.

PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR TO DIRECT HOMELAND SECURITY CENTER

CLARK MCCAULEY, Professor of Psychology, was recently named co-director of the Homeland Security National Center for Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (NC-START). McCauley will be one of three co-directors of the consortium and leader of a research team that will focus on the dynamics of terrorist groups. He will continue to teach half-time at Bryn Mawr. McCauley began studying terrorism in the 1980s as a consultant at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and has been a member of the Bryn Mawr faculty since 1970.