NewsMakers

Four Graduate Students Receive Newcombe Dissertation Fellowships

Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowships have been awarded to 35 graduate students from graduate schools in the United States whose doctoral dissertations focus on topics of ethical or religious values.

Harvard's winners, their concentrations, and dissertation titles: Scott Karambis, English, "By Merit Raised: The Uneasiness of Achievement in Eighteenth-Century England"; Sianne Ngai, English and American literature, "Reading Distressed"; Jennifer G. Pitts, government, "Liberal Imperialism and Burkean Universalism: International Morality in Historical Perspective"; and Corinna A. Treitel, history, "The German Occult and the German Modern, 1884-1937."

The winners of the 1998 competition were chosen from 424 applicants at 93 graduate schools. Each fellow will receive $15,000.

Faculty Members Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected to membership the following fellows: James Carroll, Constance L. Cepko, Drew Fudenberg, Daniel L. Hartl, Christopher P. Jones, Randall L. Kennedy, Gary King, Richard J. Light, Curtis T. McMullen, Ken Nakayama, and Yum-Tong Siu.

The Academy, founded in 1780 by John Adams and other leaders of the young republic, was created as a learned society to "cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people."

This year's inductees join a membership of approximately 4,000 fellows nationwide, including 160 Nobel laureates and 65 Pulitzer Prize winners, who have been recognized for their contributions to sciences, scholarship, public affairs, and the arts.

Siegel Appointed to National Humanities Center

Jonah Siegel, fellow in English, was among the 38 Fellows appointed to the National Humanities Center, 1998-99, for "The Haunted Museum: The Nineteenth-Century Romance of Art."

Chosen from more than 500 applicants, most of the Fellows will be in residence for the academic year and will work individually on research projects in the humanities, ranging from the ancient world to contemporary issues. Together they will exchange ideas in seminars, lectures, and conferences.

The National Humanities Center is a privately incorporated independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. Since 1978 the Center has awarded fellowships to leading scholars in the humanities, whose work has resulted in the publication of more than 600 books, many of which have won awards. The Center also sponsors programs to strengthen teaching in high schools and colleges, and it seeks to communicate the best work in the humanities to a broad national audience through its own publications and Website.