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8 DEPARTMENTS Prizes & Awards Professors Fox and King to Share 2004 Distinguished Chair in American Studies THE FUNNEL • VOLUME 40 • NUMBER 2 • SUMMER 2004 Dr. William F. Fox Dr. William F. (Bill) Fox of the University of Tennessee and Dr. John King of the University of Michigan will share this year’s Distinguished Chair at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Fox, who will hold the chair during the winter semester, is currently the William B. Stokely Distinguished Professor of Business and the Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He is past President of the National Tax Association and recipient of its Steven D. Gold Award as well as former Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Tennessee. He has held visiting appointments as a professor at the University of Hawaii and as a scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Fox has served as a consultant in approximately 25 countries and more than ten U.S. states on a wide range of public policy issues. He has published extensively in academic and nonacademic journals and is a frequent speaker to business, government, and academic audiences around the world. His current research focuses on improving tax structures and tax policies and enhancing regional economic development. He will spend the semester in Frankfurt teaching seminars on fiscal federalism. Dr. John King is the Dean of and a professor at the School of Information at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. King, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of California Irvine, was the Canon Visiting Professor at Nanyang Business School in Singapore before taking up his current position in 2000. King has taught a variety of classes dealing with information technology and the impact it has on economics, management, and social interaction as well as research and development. In Frankfurt, King will research and lecture on the long-term transformation of the American automobile industry through information technology.
Stefan Mittnik, Professor of Financial Econometrics at the University of Munich since April 2003, has been named 2004 Distinguished Chair in German Studies. When he arrives at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, to begin his year of research and teaching, it will be a homecoming of sorts, Mittnik received his Ph.D. in economics there in 1987. In addition to teaching, Mittnik is also Research Director at the Ifo Institute of Eco- nomic Research in Munich and heads the financial management research program at the Center for Financial Studies in Frankfurt. Prior to that, from 1987 to 1994, he was first Assistant and later Associate Professor of Economics at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. From 1994 to 2003 he held the Chair of Statistics and Empirical Economics and was Director of the Institute of Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Kiel in Germany. He held visiting positions at the DEPARTMENTS 9 Stefan Mittnik Named 2004 Distinguished Chair in German Studies Fulbright Alumnus Lützeler Wins Prestigious Goethe Medal For His Promotion of the German Language On March 22, 2004, the Goethe Institute honored Fulbright Alumnus Paul Michael Lützeler with its prestigious Goethe Medal for his encouragement of the study of the German language in the United States. The Goethe Medal, awarded in Leipzig every year on the anniversary of the death of the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was first presented in 1954. It goes to men and women who have shown extraordinary service in the promotion of the German language and international cultural exchange abroad. Lützeler, a 1968 student grantee from the Free University Berlin to Indiana University, is now Director of the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He founded the Center in 1984 to provide a forum for visiting authors, critics, and scholars as well as to grant stipends and organize symposia. According to the Goethe Institute, “As Director of the Max Kade Center [Lützeler] has succeeded in building up a center for contemporary German literature in the USA unparalleled in vitality and radiating power.” Besides teaching German and European studies, and comparative literature, Lützeler has established student and faculty exchange programs with several German universities. He was the Director of the European Studies Program at Washington University for 20 University of Lancaster in England, the Technical University Vienna and the Free University of Amsterdam. Mittnik obtained an engineering degree from the Technical University Berlin in 1981 and in 1982 a master’s degree in development economics from the University of Sussex in England. His research focuses on empirical economics and finance and covers both applied and methodological issues. years and is the author of ten books on German and European literature and cultural history. Dr. Lützeler during the award ceremony in Leipzig He has received many awards including the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, the Austrian Cross of Honor in Arts and Science First Class, and the German Cross of Merit First Class. Lützeler was introduced at the ceremony by Franziska Augstein a Hamburg journalist currently with the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Five others were honored as well: Mohan Agashe, Anatoli A. Michailow, Sergio Paulo Rouanet, and Imre Kertész, 2002 Nobel Prize winner in literature. THE FUNNEL • VOLUME 40 • NUMBER 2 • SUMMER 2004
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