Senior lecturer Karen Teigiser, AM'71, received the SSA award for excellence in teaching, while the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies named Don Coursey and Robert LaLonde, AB'80, professors of the year. Their three-year project will study protein folding and may provide insight into the cause of Alzheimer's disease. The grant will be used to repair the fragile originals, microfilm the archive, and digitize the first decade of the journal, founded in 1912. Saba Mahmood has been appointed assistant professor of the history of religions as well as in anthropology, and Paul Mendes-Flohr has been appointed professor of modern Jewish thought. Gender director English professor Lauren Berlant has replaced historian Leora Auslander as director of the Center for Gender Studies.
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