Cabot Fellows Named in FAS

Four senior members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been awarded Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships for 1996-97.

The recipients are Lawrence Buell, John P. Marquand Professor of English; Jorge Dominguez, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs; Neil Levine, Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Fine Arts; and Jan Ziolkowski, Professor of Medieval Latin and Comparative Literature.

These fellowships are awarded annually to recognize achievements and scholarly eminence in the fields of literature, history, or art "as such terms may be liberally interpreted." The fund was established in 1905 by Walter Channing Cabot's wife, Elizabeth Rogers Cabot, and their children.

Faculty Win Award for Book on Human Rights

Charles V. Willie, professor of education and urban studies, and Patricia Perri Rieker, associate professor of psychiatry (sociology) at the Medical School, are winners of the Outstanding Book Award presented by the Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, for Mental Health, Racism and Sexism, which they coedited with Bernard Kramer, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts/Boston, and Bertram Brown, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health. The book was published in 1995 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The Center identifies, awards, and publicizes outstanding books about human rights in North America.

Farmer, Connors, and Simmons, All of HMS, Publish Book on Women and AIDS

Three Medical School affiliates wrote Women, Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Structural Violence. Paul Farmer, assistant professor at HMS and a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, conducts research and medical practice in rural Haiti, and was awarded a MacArthur "genius" award for his work. Margaret Connors, a medical anthropologist, is a fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at HMS. Janie Simmons, a critical ethnographer, is a fellow in the Division of Aging in the Department of Social Medicine at HMS. All three are affiliated with the Institute for Health and Social Justice (IHSJ) in Cambridge: Farmer is director, Connors is associate director, and Simmons is a fellow. IHSJ is a forum for discourse on the impact of poverty and inequality on health, bringing together scholars and community-based workers who work in research and education.