Recent Faculty Honors and Awards
Brooklyn College faculty garner national and international honors and awards in the fields of education, technology, the arts, literature, the natural and social sciences, law and economics, among others. Recent accolades include:
Carolina Bank Muñoz, Sociology, won a Fulbright Visiting Scholars grant to spend the spring 2011 semester in Chile, studying the impact of the 2009 purchase of the country’s Líder retail chain by Wal-Mart while also teaching two courses at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado.
Alberto Blasi, Modern Languages and Literatures, received the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques (Knight in Order of Academic Palms) by the French government for services rendered to French culture.
Anthony Cucchiara and the Archives and Special Collections unit of the Brooklyn College Library obtained a grant of more than $300,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the project “Beyond the Ring: Arranging and Describing the Hank Kaplan Boxing Archive, 1812–2007.”
Jason Eckardt, Music, received a $4,000 recording grant from the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University.
Christian Grov, Health and Nutrition Sciences, received $448,000 for a three-year National Institutes of Health study, “HIV Risk and Venues for Meeting Sex Partners.”
Tania León, Music, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Sophia Perdikaris, Anthropology and Archaeology, co-author of “Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland: Historical Ecology of Human Impact and Climate Fluctuation on the Millennial Scale,” was a co-recipient of the American Anthropological Association Archaeology Division’s 2010 Gordon R. Willey prize, awarded for the most outstanding archaeology article appearing in American Anthropologist during the past three years (2007–09).
Vanessa Pérez Rosario, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, received the Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Peter Taubman, Education, won the Outstanding Book Award, given by Division B of the American Educational Research Association, the largest organization for educators in the country, for Teaching by Numbers: Deconstructing the Discourse of Standards and Accountability in Education.
