FACULTY AWARDS

Kerry Ann Rockquemore, associate professor in the departments of African American studies and sociology, co-authored The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure—Without Losing your Soul, published by Lynn Rienner Press on July 30, 2008.

Molly Doane, assistant professor of anthropology, received the Junior Scholar Award from the American Anthropological Association for a 2007 article that appeared in American Anthropologist, entitled "Political Economy of the Ecological Native."

Hui-Ching Chang, associate professor of communication, is the author of Clever, Creative, Modest: The Chinese Language Game, published in Shanghai, China, by the Shanghai Foreign Language Press.

Jean Bogner, research professor of earth and environmental sciences, received the Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Journal of Environmental Quality.

Frank Chaloupka, UIC distinguished professor of economics, is the author of Smoke Free Policies: IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention, Vol. 13, published by the International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2009.

Evelyn Lehrer, professor of economics, is the author of Religion, Economics, and Demography: The Role of Religion in Education, Work, and the Family, published by Routledge Press in 2009.

Lawrence H. Officer, professor of economics, is the author of Everyday Economics: Honest Answers to Tough Questions, published by Palgrave Macmillan in May 2009. In an easy-to-understand Q&A format, the book addresses more than 100 common questions, including whether it’s better to pay off credit cards in full or maintain a balance, and the difference between a recession and a depression. The goal of the book is to show that economics is “a practical tool of knowledge that is applicable to ordinary people in their daily decisions and in their thought processes regarding the national and international forces over which they have no control,” Officer said.

In November 2008, University of Chicago Press published LAS distinguished professor of English and disabilities studies Lennard Davis’ Obsession: A History. Earning wide critical acclaim, including a place on the Chicago Tribune’s Top Five Books by Chicagoans in 2008, Obsession combines examples from literature, history, art and medicine to demonstrate how society both rewards and criticizes obsessive behavior.

Lennard Davis is also the author of Go Ask Your Father: One Man’s Obsession to Find his Origins through DNA Testing, published by Random House in May 2009. In contrast to Obsession, Go Ask Your Father takes a personal turn, combining memoir, mystery and science narratives in telling the story of the author's own quest to learn his genetic heritage.

Ann Feldman, professor, is the author of Making Writing Matter: Composition in the Engaged University, published by the State University of New York Press in January of 2009.

Cris Mazza, professor of English, is the author of Trickle-Down Timeline, a collection of short stories published by Red Hen Press in 2009.

Luis Alberto Urrea and Cris Mazza, professors of English, were listed among Chicago’s top writers in NewCity’s 2008 “Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago.”

Walter Benn Michaels, professor of English, is the author of La Diversité Contre l’Egalité, published in Paris by Raisons d’Agir in 2008.

Christina Pugh, associate professor of English, is the author of Restoration, a book of poetry published by Northwestern University Press in 2008.

Praised for its vivid prose and compelling story of a young woman's sudden sainthood and a destiny tied to the Mexican Revolution, The Hummingbird's Daughter, by Luis Alberto Urrea, professor in the department of English, was chosen to be Pasadena’s 2009, "One City, One Story" choice. Similarly, his novel The Devil’s Highway was chosen by New Mexico State University for their Reading in Common program.

"The bandidos came to the village at the worst possible time. Of course, everyone in Mexico would agree that there is no particularly good time for bad men to come to town." Thus begins Into the Beautiful North, the latest release from Luis Alberto Urrea. Published by Little Brown on May 19, 2009, the novel tells the story of 19 year-old protagonist Nayeli, who serves tacos by day, and hatches improbable plots to protect her town by night. With three friends, she heads north to find seven Mexican men—her own "Siete Magníficos"—and bring them back to Mexico to secure and defend their town.

History

Robert Remini, professor emeritus of history, is the author of A Short History of the United States, published by Harper in October 2008. A Short History of the United States was inspired by Remini’s belief that U.S. history doesn’t have to come in multi-volume sets or large tomes. "What American people really need is something they could sit down with—a book of reasonable length—and find out something about their country," he said.

Philosophy

Professor of Philosophy Sam Fleischacker won the American Philosophical Association’s Joseph B. Gittler Award for 2009 for his book On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion.

Sally Sedgwick, professor of philosophy, is the author of Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: An Introduction, published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.

Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese

Luís López-Carretero, professor and head of the department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, is the author of A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, published by Oxford University Press in 2009.