Faculty News, including prizes and grants, Spring 1999


San Xavier del Bac Mission, Arizona. Story, such as it is, follows below. It's here because the page needed something colorful. Photo credit: Michael F. Brown

It has been a good year for ANSO's assistant professors, two of whom succeeded in winning major fellowships for their upcoming research leaves. James L Nolan, Jr, a sociologist, received a National Endowment of Humanities Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship. Nolan's project, titled "Reinventing Justice: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Drug Court Movement" will explore "how the institutionalization of therapeutic ideals and practices in criminal law, as represented in the drug court movement, redefines public understandings of justice, guilt, and the purposes of criminal adjudication." His most recent book, The Therapeutic State, was mentioned favorably in a syndicated article by the columnist George Will early in 1999. Jim will spend next year working with colleagues in the United Kingdom.


Jim Nolan and Antonia Foias

Antonia Foias, the college's first-ever archaeologist, won a fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks, a famous research facility familiar to residents of Georgetown and the Washington, D.C. area. Antonia will be writing up the results of her archaeological investigations of the Maya. She expects to continue her excavations at Motul de San José, Guatemala, during the summer of 1999 under the auspices of the National Science Foundation, which has awarded her a six-figure research grant.    [Williams Record on Prof. Foias's NSF award.] [NSF announcement of award.]
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation of New York recently announced that Robert Jackall had won its international competition for the best proposed syllabus for an undergraduate course on the subject of violence. In its announcement, the foundation declared that Professor Jackall "has produced a comprehensive, well-integrated integration introduction to the role of violence in human behavior that draws on relevant material from ancient Greece to the present . . . The readings and the provocative questions that accompany them are an exceptional introduction to understanding the human capacity for violence." Jackall will be teaching the award-winning course during the 99-00 academic year. (For additional information about Professor Jackall's prize-winning syllabus, click here.)
David Edwards, Associate Professor of Anthropology, is currently an NEH Fellow at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is completing the second book of his projected trilogy on Afghanistan. [For details, click here.]


David stokes his Southwestern-style fireplace in Santa Fe, early 1999 (Photo: Michael F. Brown)

Robert Jackall and Janice Hirota will soon publish their study of public relations and advertising, Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy. The publisher, The University of Chicago Press, should have the book ready for shipment early in 2000.
Michael Brown continues work on a new book about controversies related to the ownership of the intellectual and cultural property of the world's native peoples. During his recent participation in a conference dealing with these issues sponsored by the National Park Service, he took the photograph of the San Xavier del Bac Mission shown above. San Xavier is located in the San Xavier District of the Tohono O'odham Nation, nine miles south of Tucson.