Honors for Arts & Sciences

David T. Gies, Commonwealth Professor of Spanish, received U.Va.’s highest honor, the Thomas Jefferson Award; David Lee Rubin, professor of French, was elected to the editorial board of the British Society for 17th-Century French Studies; and Kandioura Drame, associate professor of French, has been elected vice-president of the African Literature Association. In English, Deborah Eisenberg, professor of creative writing, won the Rea Award for the Short Story; Lisa Russ Spaar, poet and director of the creative writing program, received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award; lecturer Lotta Lofgren was chosen to receive the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s 2000 Translation Prize; and Jerry McGann, John Stewart Bryan University Professor, received a $198,000 grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust for his hypermedia research archive on Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Also, Steven Nock, professor of sociology, was given the 1999 William J. Goode Book Award by the American Sociological Association; Paul S. Shoup, professor of government and foreign affairs, received the Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association; Emlyn Eisenach, a recent doctoral graduate in history, was awarded the 2000 prize for the best dissertation in Italian history by the Society for Italian Historical Studies; Bob Swap, assistant research professor of environmental sciences, was appointed by NASA to be the U.S. coordinator for the Southern Africa Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI) 2000; and John Alberston, assistant professor of environmental sciences, received the USDA-ARS Natural Resource Institute Outside Collaborator of the Year Award.