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2013 AUTHOR AWARDS

ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY:

James Binney, author (with Scott Tremaine) of Galactic Dynamics (First and Second Editions), and, (with Michael Merrifield) of Galactic Astronomy

  • Winner of the 2013 Eddington Medal, Royal Astronomical Society

    Donald K. Yeomans, author of Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us, and Comets: A Chronological History of Observation, Science, Myth, and Folklore

  • One of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people 2013

    ECONOMICS:

    Raghuram G. Rajan, author of Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, and coauthor of both Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity and The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System

  • Winner of the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics 2013, The Center for Financial Studies

    RELIGION:

    Timothy Matovina, author of Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America's Largest Church

  • Winner, 2013 Paul J. Foik, C.S.C. Award from the Texas Catholic Historical Society

    2012 AUTHOR AWARDS

    BIRDS AND NATURAL HISTORY:

    Richard Crossley, author of The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds

  • Winner of the 2012 ABA Robert Ridgway Award for Publications in Field Ornithology, American Birding Association

    EARTH SCIENCES:

    Jean Jouzel, author of The White Planet: The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World

  • One of Two Winners of The 2012 Vetlesen Prize of the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation

    MATHEMATICS:

    Joseph Warren Dauben, author of Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey and Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite.

  • Winner of the 2012 Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize, American Mathematical Society

    Dana Mackenzie, author of The Universe in Zero Words: The Story of Mathematics as Told through Equations.

  • Winner of the 2012 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award

    POETRY:

    Michael Hofmann, translator of Angina Days: Selected Poems

  • Winner of the 2012 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation, American Academy of Arts and Letters

    POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY:

    Avishai Margalit, author of On Compromise and Rotten Compromises

  • Winner of the 2012 Ernst-Bloch-Prize, awarded annually by the city of Ludwigshafen by the Rhine

    SOCIAL SCIENCES:

    Martha C. Nussbaum , author of Aristotle's De Motu Animalium, Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, and Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, as well as co-editor of Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?, On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future and commentator in Goodness and Advice

  • Recipient of the 2012 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

    WORLD HISTORY/COMPARATIVE HISTORY:

    Jürgen Osterhammel, co-author of Globalization: A Short History

  • Winner of the 2012 Gerda Henkel Prize, of the Gerda Henkel Foundation

    2011 AUTHOR AWARDS

    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

    Edwidge Danticat, author of Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

  • Honored with the 2011 Langston Hughes Medal, City College of New York

    ECONOMICS:

    Thomas J. Sargent, author of The Conquest of American Inflation, and coauthor of both The Big Problem of Small Change and Robustness

  • Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics

    HUMANITIES:

    Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of The Ethics of Identity, and coeditor of Buying Freedom and coauthor of Color Conscious

  • Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal

    Andrew Delbanco, author of College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be

  • Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal

    Teofilo F. Ruiz, author of A King Travels, The Terror of History, and From Heaven to Earth

  • Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal

    MATHEMATICS

    Joseph Warren Dauben, author of  Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey and Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite.

  • Winner of the 2011 Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America

    John Willard Milnor, author of: Characteristic Classes. (AM-76), Dynamics in One Complex Variable. (AM-160), Introduction to Algebraic K-Theory. (AM-72), Morse Theory. (AM-51), Singular Points of Complex Hypersurfaces. (AM-61), and Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint

  • Winner of the 2011 Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
  • Winner of the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, American Mathematical Society

    POETRY:

    Charles Simic, author of  Oranges and Snow: Selected Poems of Milan Djordjevic.

  • Winner of the 2011 Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America

    2010 AUTHOR AWARDS

    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

    Mario Vargas Llosa, author of  The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérables.

  • 2010 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

    ECONOMICS:

    Kenneth S. Rogoff, author of  This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

  • Recipient of the 2011 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics, Center for Financial Studies

    JEWISH STUDIES:

    Mark R. Cohen, author of:
    Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages,The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza, Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt, and The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life of Judah

  • Winner of the 2010 Goldziher Prize from The Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations at Merrimack College.

    MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES:

    Gudrun Krämer, author of  A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel.

  • Winner of the 2010 Gerda Henkel Prize from the Gerda Henkel Foundation

    POETRY:

    Peter Cole, author of  The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid, and  Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  • Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
  • Recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship.

    WORLD HISTORY / COMPARATIVE HISTORY:

    Lorenz M. Lüthi, author of  The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World.

  • Co-winner of the 2010 Marshall Shulman Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

    Mary Elise Sarotte, author of  1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe.

  • Co-winner of the 2010 Marshall Shulman Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

    2009 AUTHOR AWARDS

    ECONOMICS:

    Elinor Ostrom, author of  Understanding Institutional Diversity.

  • Cowinner of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
    Sponsored by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

    MATHEMATICS:

    Ivor Grattan-Guinness, author of  The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940 and From the Calculus to Set Theory 1630-1910.

  • Recipient of the KENNETH O. MAY MEDAL AND PRIZE for contributions to the History of Mathematics.
    Sponsored by the International Commission for the History of Mathematics.

    PHILOSOPHY:

    Samuel Fleischacker, author of  On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion

  • Winner of the 2009 JOSEPH B. GITTLER AWARD for the book, On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion.
    Sponsored by the American Philosophical Association.

    2008 AUTHOR AWARDS

    APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING:

    Rubin H. Landau, one of the authors of  A Survey of Computational Physics: Introductory Computational Science

  • Winner of the 2008 UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES AWARD for the book, A Survey of Computational Physics: Introductory Computational Science.
    Sponsored by The Krell Institute.

    2007 AUTHOR AWARDS

    HISTORY:

    Richard S. Wortman, author of  Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy from Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas II

  • Winner of the 2007 DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTIONS TO SLAVIC STUDIES AWARD.
    Sponsored by The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

    MATHEMATICS:

    John Adam, author of  Mathematics in Nature

  • Winner of the 2007 recipient of the VIRGINIA OUTSTANDING FACULTY AWARD.
    Sponsored by State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.

    RELIGION:

    Peter Schäfer, author of  Jesus in the Talmud, The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other, Mirror of His Beauty: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah, and The Origins of Jewish Mysticism

  • Winner of the 2007 DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

    2006 AUTHOR AWARDS

    APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING:

    Rubin H. Landau , author of  A First Course in Scientific Computing

  • Winner of the 2006 UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES AWARD.
    Sponsored by The Krell Institute.

    Angela B. Shiflet , coauthor of  Introduction to Computational Science

  • Winner of the 2006 UNDERGRADUATE COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES AWARD.
    Sponsored by The Krell Institute.

    HISTORY:

    Wolf Lepenies, author of  The Seduction of Culture in German History

  • Winner of the 2006 PEACE PRIZE.
    Sponsored by German Booksellers’ Association.

    POLITICAL SCIENCE:

    Aharon Barak, author of  The Judge in a Democracy

  • Winner of the 2006 GRUBER JUSTICE PRIZE.
    Sponsored by Peter Gruber Foundation.

    Stephen P. Nicholson, author of  Voting the Agenda

  • corecipient of the 2006 EMERGING SCHOLAR AWARD.
    Sponsored by Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section, American Political Science Association.

    2005 AUTHOR AWARDS

    HISTORY OF SCIENCE:

    Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, authors of  Leviathan and the Air-Pump

  • Winners of the 2005 ERASMUS PRIZE.
    Sponsored by Praemium Erasmianum Foundation.

    MATHEMATICS:

    Elias M. Stein, coauthor of  Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, and Fourier Analysis; and author of Harmonic Analysis.

  • Winner of the 2005 STEFAN BERGMAN PRIZE.
    Sponsored by American Mathematical Society.

    POLITICAL SCIENCE:

    Elinor Ostrom, author of  Understanding Institutional Diversity

  • Winner of the 2005 JAMES MADISON AWARD.
    Sponsored by American Political Science Association.

    2004 AUTHOR AWARDS

    ART and ARCHITECTURE:

    Vincent Scully, author of  Modern Architecture and Other Essays

  • A 2004 NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS RECIPIENt.
    Sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts.

    HISTORY:

    Allan C. Stam, coauthor of  Democracies at War

  • Winner of 2004 KARL DEUTSCH AWARD.
    Sponsored by International Studies Association.

    POETRY:

    Robert Pinsky, author of  Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry

  • Winner of PEN/VOELCKER CAREER-ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for Poetry.
    Sponsored by PEN American Center.

    POLITICAL SCIENCE:

    Fred I. Greenstein, author of  The Presidential Difference

  • Recipient of 2004 PRESIDENCY RESEARCH GROUP CAREER SERVICE AWARD.
    Sponsored by American Political Science Association.

    Marc J. Hetherington, author of  Why Trust Matters

  • Winner of the 2004 EMERGING SCHOLAR AWARD.
    Sponsored by Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section, American Political Science Association.

    2003 AUTHOR AWARDS

    ECONOMICS:

    Darrell Duffie, author of  Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory, Third Edition, coauthor of  Credit Risk

  • Winner of 2003 FINANCIAL ENGINEER OF THE YEAR.
    Sponsored by SunGard/International Association of Financial Engineers.

    2002 AUTHOR AWARDS

    ASTRONOMY & COSMOLOGY:

    Donald E. Osterbrock, author of  Walter Baade

  • Winner of LEROY E. DOGGETT PRIZE.
    Sponsored by Astronomical Association Society's Historical Astronomy Division.

    Alan Rubin, author of  Disturbing the Solar System

  • In honor of Professor Rubin, an asteroid, the 13th magnitude object orbiting 3.22 AU from the Sun has been named the 6227 ALANRUBIN.
    Sponsored by Committee for Small-Body Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union.

    HISTORY:

    Dan Reiter, coauthor of  Democracies at War

  • Winner of 2002 KARL DEUTSCH AWARD.
    Sponsored by International Studies Association.

    POLITICAL SCIENCE, LAW, MILITARY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:

    R. Michael Alvarez, , coauthor of  Hard Choices, Easy Answers

  • Winner of EMERGING SCHOLAR AWARD.
    Sponsored by American Political Science Association Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section.

    RELIGION:

    John Polkinghorne, author of The Faith of a Physicist, One World, and The Quantum World

  • Winner of TEMPLETON PRIZE for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual
         Realities.
    Sponsored by John Templeton Foundation.

    SOCIOLOGY:

    Glenn R. Carroll and Michael T. Hannan, coauthors of  The Demography of Corporations and Industries

  • cowinners of MAX WEBER AWARD
    Sponsored by American Sociological Association.

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