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Professor of History Casey Blake and Professor of Sociology
Priscilla Ferguson were among 175 scholars awarded National
Endowment for the Humanities research fellowships for fiscal year
2001. Blake, who is author of the forthcoming The Arts of
Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the American State,
specializes in American studies and intellectual and cultural
history. He joined the faculty in 1999. Ferguson, who is the
director of graduate studies in the sociology department, works in
the area of cultural sociology, with a particular focus on
19th-century France. Her current research involves the sociology of
food and cuisine.
Professor of History Richard Wortman received the George L.
Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association for his
Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy.
Volume 2: From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II
(Princeton University Press). The AHA committee that made the
selection hailed Wortman's book as "tour de force of historical
research and imagination." The Mosse prize is awarded to "an
outstanding major work of extraordinary scholarly distinction,
creativity, and originality in the intellectual and cultural
history of Europe since the Renaissance." Wortman, a specialist in
Russian history, received the award at the AHA's annual meeting in
Boston in January 2001.
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