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April 26, 2004
Humanities Division launches new Distinguished
Professors program; five faculty honored
By Scott Rappaport
UCSC’s Humanities Division celebrated the launch of a new program
to recognize the academic achievement of its faculty at an awards reception
held on April 15 at the University Center.
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From left, Professors David Hoy, James Clifford, Carla Freccero,
Gail Hershatter (front), and Geoffrey Pullum, with Acting Chancellor
Martin M. Chemers and Dean of Humanities Wlad Godzich, at a University
Center reception for the new Humanities Distinguished Professors
program.
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Dean of Humanities Wlad Godzich announced the selection of Professors
James Clifford (History of Consciousness), Carla Freccero (Literature),
Gail Hershatter (History), David Hoy (Philosophy), and Geoffrey Pullum
(Linguistics) as the first recipients of the UCSC Humanities Distinguished
Professor Award. Each professor will receive an unrestricted $5,000
per year research stipend for four consecutive years.
“Astonishingly, some of our outstanding faculty are well known
to the rest of the world, but are not known to this campus,” Godzich
said in his awards ceremony introduction. “So we wanted to acknowledge
them and mark on campus who they are.”
All of the award-winning professors said they would primarily use the
funds to support graduate students in their departments. Clifford noted
that because graduate programs represent the cutting edge of research,
the work of graduate students is intimately related to the work of professors.
“Graduate students are crucial to a healthy research environment,”
Clifford observed. “Often what grad students are doing for their
doctorates is pushing the limits of our own research.”
Freccero said she would also utilize the funds for travel to meet with
people who might have ideas for joint-funding projects at UCSC. She
noted that she recently traveled to New York to meet with the executive
vice president for programming and acquisitions at the Sundance cable
television channel “to see if they might want to invest in some
creative endeavors.”
The five Distinguished Professors were selected from a group of 11
faculty nominated by departments in the Humanities Division, as well
as by individual members of the division’s faculty. The list was
reviewed by the Divisional Committee on Academic Personnel and names
were submitted to Godzich, who said that he accepted the committee’s
final recommendation.
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