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Dames, Gasparov Selected for Van Doren, Trilling Awards
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(Left to right) Celebrating at the May 8 ceremony were College staff and Academic Awards Committee members Rose Razaghian, executive
director, planning and analysis; Dean Emeritus of Columbia College and the Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature Austin E.
Quigley; AAC Co-chair Sahng-Ah Yoo ’15; Aidan Mehigan ’16; Dorothy Chen ’13; honoree Nicholas Dames; Alan Timberlake, who accepted on
behalf of honoree Boris Gasparov; AAC Co-chair Lindsay White ’13; and AAC Co-chair Cathi Choi ’13.
PHOTO: CHRIS BALMER ’07
The Columbia College Student
Council’s Academic Awards
Committee presented the 2013
Mark Van Doren Award to
Nicholas Dames, the Theodore Kahan
Professor of Humanities and chair of the
Department of English and Comparative
Literature, and the Lionel Trilling Award
to Boris Gasparov, the Boris Bakhmeteff
Professor of Russian and East European
Studies. The awards were presented
on May 8 in the Faculty Room of Low
Library. Alan Timberlake, professor of
Slavic languages and director, Institute
of East Central Europe, accepted on
Gasparov’s behalf.
The Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching
has been awarded annually since
1962 in recognition of a faculty member’s
humanity, devotion to truth and inspiring
leadership. The award was established
in honor of Mark Van Doren ’21 GSAS,
a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, novelist,
playwright, critic, editor and biographer
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Columbia faculty member.
The Lionel Trilling Book Award is
awarded annually to a member of the
faculty whose book was published in the
previous year and upholds a level of excellence
commensurate with the work of
Lionel Trilling ’25, ’38 GSAS. The award
was established in 1976 in honor of Trilling,
a gifted and dedicated Columbia
professor who was committed to undergraduate
education, as well as a public
intellectual known for his scholarship
and literary criticism, which appealed to
a wide audience. Gasparov was honored
for his book Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand
de Saussure’s Philosophy of Language and Its
Ten Arts and Sciences faculty members
have been honored with the
Lenfest Distinguished Columbia
Faculty Awards for their ability to engage,
challenge and inspire students in the
classroom.
Established in 2005 by University
Trustee Gerry Lenfest ’58L, the awards are
given annually to recognize and reward
exceptional teaching and mentoring. This
year’s recipients, who were honored at a
dinner at the Italian Academy on February
28, each will receive $25,000 per year
for three consecutive years. They are
Frances A. Champagne, associate professor
of psychology; Jean Cohen, the Nell
Early Romantic Antecedents.
The awards are the only academic
honors judged and presented by students.
The 15–25 Academic Awards
Committee members are selected by the
co-chairs so the group represents a crosssection
of classes and majors. The committee
seeks nominations for the awards
and committee members audit the classes
of Van Doren Award nominees, read
books under consideration for the Trilling
Award and have discussions before deciding
on the finalists.
To view photos from the ceremony, go to
facebook.com/columbiacollege1754/photos
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Ten Faculty Members Honored with Lenfest Awards
and Herbert Singer Professor of Contemporary
Civilization and Political Thought;
Giuseppe Gerbino, associate professor
of music and chair of the Department of
Music; Don J. Melnick, the Thomas Hunt
Morgan Professor of Conservation Biology
in the Department of Ecology, Evolution
and Environmental Biology; Rosalind C.
Morris, professor of anthropology; Gerard
Parkin, professor of chemistry; Caterina
Pizzigoni, associate professor of Latin
American history; Ovidiu Savin, professor
of mathematics; Melissa Schwartzberg,
associate professor of political science;
and Joseph Slaughter, associate professor
of English and comparative literature.
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