Faculty and Professional Kudos

Congratulations to the following colleagues for their recent awards and accomplishments:

• Edna Acosta-Belen (LACS and Women's Studies) was appointed Chair of the Women's Issues Section for the 1992 LASA Congress, and elected to membership in the MLA national Committee on the Literatures and Languages of America.

• Chris Bose (Sociology, LACS and Women's Studies) received an NYS/UUP Excellence Award and a grant from the University's Center for Social and Demographic Analysis for her research on "Historical Demography: U.S. Women's Work at the Turn of the Century."

• Iris Berger (History, Africana Studies and Women's Studies) received a Faculty Research Award for her research in South Africa on "Black Women in Johannesburg: A Social History, 1945-1965." She also received a Ford Foundation individual grant to take part in the Conference on Women and Gender in Southern Africa at the University of Natal-Durban last winter.

• Helen DesFosses (Public Affairs and Policy Studies) was Co-Winner of the 1991 Exceptional Merit in Media Award, given by the National Women's Political Caucus.

• Gloria DeSole (Affirmative Action and Women's Studies) was awarded the first SUNY Faculty Senate Award for Excellence in Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. She also served as a member of the Evaluation Team for a university reaccreditation by the Commission on Higher Education.

• Sandra Fischer (English) will be a seminar fellow at the Folger Shakespeare library this fall, working on "The Awareness of Words in the English Renaissance."

• Jan Hagen (Social Welfare) has has just completed a two year term as Chair, National Committee on Women's Issues, the National Association of Social Workers. With Irene Lurie she has obtained 1.5 million in grants to conduct a three-year implementation study of the new Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program for AFDC recipients.

• June Hahner (History, Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women's Studies) was elected to the General Committee of the Conference of Latin American History of the American Historical Association.

• Gail Landsman (Anthropology) received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.

• Karyn Loscocco (Sociology) received a University Award for Excellence in Teaching.

• Linda Nicholson (Educational Administration and Policy Studies, and Women's Studies) was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship through the Center for Research on Women (Duke University and UNC). She was also awarded (but declined) a fellowship at the Society for Humanities of Cornell University and chosen as alternate for an American Association of University Women fellowship.

• Linda Pershing (Women's Studies) was awarded NYS/UUP New Faculty Development and Faculty Research Awards.

• Bonnie Spanier (Women's Studies) was invited to join the editorial board of NWSA Journal.

• Anne F. Roberts (Library) received the Hudson Mohawk Association Distinguished Service Award and an NYSCA grant for the Albany Print Club.

• Glenna Spitze (Sociology and Women's Studies) was promoted to Full Professor. She was also elected to the council of the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association.