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Faculty Research Awards
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the recipients of this year's 2009 Faculty Research Awards:
- 2009 Career Achievement in Research: not awarded
- 2009 Distinguished Research Achievement Award: Dana Luciano
Faculty Research Awards
Previous award recipients include:
Faculty Research Awards Competition
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is pleased to solicit nominations from members of the Main Campus ordinary faculty for its 2009 Faculty Research Awards. Two different awards are available:
: to honor the contributions of a scholar to her/his field over the course of a career. The basis of this award is the standing which the faculty member enjoys in his or her scholarly discipline. Nominations should be accompanied by evidence that the nominees' work is recognized as distinguished and influential well beyond the Georgetown community. Moreover, nominees should be at a stage in their career appropriate for an assessment of long term contributions and influence. Normally, only one of these awards will be made each year and this prize can be received once by any single individual.
: to recognize a single distinguished achievement in scholarship and research. We do not wish to impose excessive limits on the kinds of achievements suitable for recognition. However, the types of achievement envisaged include the winning of a prestigious book prize, the receipt of distinguished awards from one's peers, or the receipt of a major center grant. It is expected that such achievements will be relatively recent, certainly within the last five years. Junior as well as senior faculty may be nominated for this award. A maximum of one award per year will be made. If circumstances warrant, this award can be received more than once.
The awards include a $10,000 cash prize, an award, and presentation and recognition at the Graduate Commencement ceremony in May. The most valuable prize, however, will be the recognition of achievement awarded by colleagues.
Eligibility: only members of the Main Campus ordinary faculty may be nominated for either award.
Nomination process: ordinary members of the Main Campus faculty should submit their nominations for either award to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences via our proposal routing system available at the following: https://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gsas_www/gu_awards/
In addition to the on-line application, nominating officials/departments also should provide a letter of nomination, a current version of the candidate's vita, and scholarly materials sufficient to allow evaluation of her/his merits. All of the internally produced material can be uploaded directly to the system as separate documents; hard copy materials such as books or journals can be submitted directly to Maria Snyder (302 ICC). Supporting materials from other individuals or institutions also may be submitted on-line (by naming the individual as an "evaluator") or in hard copy to Maria Snyder.
Review process: recipients of both awards will be selected by the Research Steering Committee. The Committee has the option of declining to make either or both of the awards in a given year if, in its judgment, no nomination is sufficiently compelling.
Deadline: nominations are due to the Graduate School no later than TBA
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is proud to honor Dana Luciano, Associate Professor of English, with its Distinguished Achievement in Research Award for her receipt of the Modern Language Association’s 2008 First Book Prize. The Prize recognizes the excellence of her book, Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth Century America.
With over thirty thousand members in one hundred countries, most of whom are college and university faculty in departments of English and foreign languages, the Modern Language Association is perhaps the most intellectually diverse of the academic professional societies. Every year many excellent first books are published across a rich and diverse array of topics. Professor Luciano’s achievement in winning this recognition is a testament to the extraordinarily high quality of her academic work.
The real achievement, of course, is the book itself. It is a creative, disciplined and elegant examination of how the experience of grief played an essential role in the cultural imagination of the United States in the nineteenth century. Professor Luciano argues that cultural treatments of mourning contributed to alternative images of temporality that differed from both the progressive organization of time as a linear sequence of controllable events and the melancholic suspension of time within an endless repetition of feeling. Instead, the grief represented within some of the most striking cultural images of this period provided a resource for conceiving different national futures that could be achieved through democratic agency. This task was essential for a country grappling with the experiences and aftermaths of slavery and civil war.
Professor Luciano makes her case through close and illuminating readings of texts, careful research into cultural history and an endlessly engaged critical intelligence.
Her book contributes to the fields of literary criticism, social history, philosophical psychology and democratic political theory in ways that allow each to illuminate all. It is easy to understand why her professional colleagues have recognized the excellence of her work. Georgetown is very pleased to do the same.
(Excerpted from the presentation speech given by Timothy A. Barbari, Associate Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, at the 2009 Graduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 15, 2009)
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