Awards and Recognition of WFF Members
Mary Miller, Vincent Scully Prof History of Art
Mary E. Miller, Sterling Professor of the History of Art and Master of Saybrook College, was appointed the next Dean of Yale College, effective December 1.
Last spring, the Yale Corporation appointed Mary as a Sterling Professor, which is the highest honor bestowed on members of the Yale faculty. She is a specialist on Mesoamerican Art and is particularly known for her scholarship on Maya art and architecture. She has published six major books and dozens of articles on these subjects. Before her appointment to the Sterling Professorship, she held the Vincent J. Scully Professor of the History of Art since 1998. She has been chosen to deliver the two most prestigious lecture series in her discipline. She will give the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in the spring semester of 2010 and the Slade Lectures at Cambridge University in 2014-2015. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Miller also has been an exemplary academic citizen. She served with distinction as Director of Undergraduate Studies for History of Art and as Chair of the Department. She also chaired the Council on Latin American Studies and served as Director of Graduate Studies in Archeological Studies. She has served on the Steering Committee of the Women Faculty Forum at Yale, and she was an active member of the Study Group to Consider New Residential Colleges.
Mary has devoted her entire career to Yale. After graduating summa cum laude from Princeton in 1975, she earned her Ph.D. at Yale in 1981 and immediately joined the faculty. She rose to become a full professor in 1990. She is currently Acting Director of the Division of the Humanities.
Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Yale University
Professor Mazure is the 2008 recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Leadership Award. This award recognizes innovative research accomplishment and leadership that improve women’s lives and advance health outcomes.
Dr. Mazure‘s research focuses on understanding depression and, more recently, addictive
disorders, with a special emphasis on gender-based analyses. She is the founding Director of Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY), the largest interdisciplinary
women’s health research program of its kind in the country. WHRY investigates the
effects of gender on health and disease and is committed to developing new knowledge of practical value to women. The consortium of Yale researchers funded by WHRY focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the most pressing health concerns for women today.
Professor Mazure also is the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Yale School of
Medicine. She has been previously honored in 2007 with the National Organization for
Women’s Elizabeth Blackwell Award and the Institute for Women’s Health and
Leadership’s Marion Spencer Fay Award.
Serene Jones, Titus Street Professor of Theology
Professor Jones was appointed Dean of Union Seminary. She will begin in the Fall of 2008.
Ruth Barcan Marcus, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus
Professor Marcus is the recipient of the 2008 Lauener Prize for an Outstanding Oeuvre in Analytical Philosophy.
The Lauener Prize 2008 is given for Barcan Marcus' body of philosophical work. Professor Barcan Marcus has been one of the leading exponents of analytical philosophy since the mid-20th century. She has done ground-breaking work in Philosophy of Logics, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics as well as in Ethics. Her pioneering development of quantified modal logic and its interpretation, which goes back to the 1940's, has shaped various important philosophical debates about modalities concerning e.g. the relation of logical consequence, the necessity of identity, direct reference, sets and attributes, quantification, actualism, an essentialism. Furthermore she has been giving fresh impetus to significant ethical and epistemological issues such as moral dilemmas and consistency or belief and rationality. What is more, Barcan Marcus' highly polished essays have often served as models for contemporary philosophical writing.
Priyamvada Natarajan, Associate Professor of Astronomy and Physics
Professor Natarajan is a 2008-209 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard.
Judith Resnick, Arthur Liman Professor of Law
Professor Resnick received the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Outstanding Scholar of the Year Award in 2008.
Carolyn J. Sharp, Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at the Yale Divinity School:
Professor Sharp the first woman to be tenured in Old Testament/Hebrew Scriptures in the history of Yale Divinity School. She is also the winner of the 2007 Fortress Press Teacher of the Year Award for Innovative Teaching at the Graduate Level.
Jing Tsu, Director of Undergraduate Studies for East Asian Languages and Literature
Professor Tsu received a Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for 08-09, where she will be working on her second book, Bend the Mother Tongue: Sound and Script in Modern Chinese Literature.
