Burton and Barbara Langley Family Foundation Scholarship Winners

Recipients of the Honor for Scholarship

2012 Kinesthesia Award Recipients

Colin Dueck

Colin Dueck, associate professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs, is an expert in U.S. foreign policy, international strategy, diplomacy, and bourgeois American politics. Throughout his career, he has written articles for a diverseness of prestigious publications, such as International Security, Orbis, Political Science Quarterly, the Review of International Studies, Security Studies, and World Policy Journal. In his work, he examines American strange policy and international strategy from a variety of angles. His 2010 Policy Review article is titled, "Regaining a Realistic Foreign Policy." He is the writer of two books, well-nigh recently, "Hard Line: The Republican Political party and U.S. Foreign Policy since Globe War II," published in 2010.

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The Center of Excellence in Neuroergonomics, Technology, and Cognition

The Centre of Excellence in Neuroergonomics, Technology, and Cognition (CENTEC) was launched on July 15, 2010 and is funded by the U.s.a. Air Force, initially for a menstruation of five years with a grant of $7.five million. The center conducts inquiry on neuroergonomics, a relatively new field that examines encephalon function in relation to performance, safety and efficiency in practical and work environments. The centre works on projects for the Air Force, with the aim of enhancing man effectiveness in air, infinite and cyberspace operations. The Air Force is currently interested in how brain mechanisms affect regular tasks. CENTEC staff is tackling this mandate with iii areas of focus: scholarly inquiry, graduate student and postdoctoral swain training (CENTEC funds eight-10 students each year), and collaboration with Air Force scientists, including an exchange program with scientists at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Since the middle's inception, CENTEC scholars take been published in a variety of journals, including NeuroImage, Public Library of Science Ane, and the Periodical of Neuroscience.

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2011 Faculty Award Recipients

Martin De Nys

Martin De Nys, a professor in the Department of Philosophy, spent the get-go half of his academic career studying historical figures and texts in the field of philosophy, writing commentaries and analyses on some of the almost intriguing and difficult works he came across. He and then spent time writing about philosophical bug, using his previous historical analyses to inform his work. His areas of expertise include the works of philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, philosophical theology and political philosophy. He published two books in 2009: Hegel and Theology, which is an analysis of Hegel'due south understanding of Christianity, and Considering Transcendence, a piece of work that explores different approaches to real life. A sequel to Because Transcendence is in the works, in which De Nys explores philosophical issues surrounding the idea of God. Some other philosophical heavyweight, Martin Heidegger, will be under the De Nys microscope shortly; the professor plans to release a book that will take a critical and appreciative await at Heidegger'due south ideas.

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Rosemarie Zagarri

Rosemarie Zagarri, a professor in the Section of History and Art History, studies colonial American history, women'due south history and 18th-century transatlantic history. She published her showtime academic book in 1987, The Politics of Size: Representation in the United states, 1776-1850, and has since published two others, A Woman'southward Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution, and Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic. She has too edited a volume on George Washington. Zagarri has won numerous awards and grants for her work, and has appeared on such networks as C-Bridge and PBS. After publishing Revolutionary Backfire in 2007, Zagarri began piece of work on a biography of Thomas Law, an important reformer in the days of the early United states.

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2010 Faculty Laurels Recipient

Alan Cheuse

 Alan Cheuse received his PhD in comparative literature from Rutgers Academy in 1974.  He is author of the novelsThe Bohemians, The Grandmothers' Club, The Low-cal Possessed, To Catch the Lightening, andSong of Slaves in the Desert, plus several collections of brusque fiction and a pair of novellas published equallyThe Fires.  He besides published nonfiction work titledFall Out of Sky:An Autobriographical Journey.  As a book commentator, Cheuse is a regular correspondent to National Public Radio'due south All Things Considered.  He has edited with Caroline Marshall a volume of curt stories,Listening to Ourselves,with Nicholas Delbanco,Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work, and with Lisa Alvarez Writers Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction.  His brusque stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Blackness Warrior Review, The Idaho Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere.  A collection of his travel writing,A Trance After Breakfast, was published in the summer of 2009.  The 2nd edition of his introduction to literary study--Literature:Craft & Voice--which he wrote with Nicholas Delbanco has recently come out from McGraw-Loma.

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2009 Faculty Accolade Recipients

Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is the Holbert C. Harris Chair of Economics and a professor at George Stonemason University and the Eye for Study of Public Choice. He besides is managing director of the Mercatus Centre.

Cowen is the coauthor of and daily blogger on the earth-renowned economics blog Marginal Revolution, which has had more than 23 one thousand thousand unique visits. A columnist with the New York Times and Coin, Cowen is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio.  He has written many journal articles and ten books, including his latest work Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered Globe.

He has been described as a "libertarian bargainer," that is, someone of libertarian ideals who is not so radical that he cannot influence the currently powerful. His areas of research and the focus of his writing are the economic science of culture, globalization, microeconomics, and political philosophy.

Cowen received an undergraduate degree from Stonemason in 1983 and a PhD in economics from Harvard Academy in 1987.

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Jagadish Shukla

Jagadish Shukla, Academy Professor, is the founding chair of the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences and the Climate Dynamics PhD Plan at George Mason University. He also serves as president of the Found of Global Surroundings and Society.

Shukla has made meaning contributions to the science of meteorology and global lodge through fundamental scientific advances, institution building, and international cooperation in meteorology for the edification of humankind worldwide. His work has had a considerable influence on the agreement of the predictability of weather condition and climate, including Asian monsoon dynamics, deforestation, and climate change. His research has established that there is predictability in the midst of chaos and a scientific basis for brusque-term climate prediction.

The author or coauthor of 200 scientific papers and the editor of and contributor to four books, Shukla was a lead author of the 2007 IPCC written report that shared the Noble Peace Prize with Al Gore.  In 2008, he was appointed to the Commission on Climate change by the governor of Virginia.

Shukla has been a thesis advisor for numerous doctoral students. He besides was instrumental in establishing research centers in Republic of india and Italy, as well as founding Gandhi College for the instruction of rural women in the hamlet of his birth in India.

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2008 Faculty Honour Recipients

Professor June Tangney

June Cost Tangney received her PhD in clinical psychology from UCLA.  After teaching for ii years at Bryn Mawr College, she joined the Psychology Department at George Stonemason University in 1988, where she is currently university professor of psychology.  A Boyfriend of APA's Partitioning of Personality and Social Psychology, Professor Tangney is coauthor (with Ronda Dearing) of Shame and Guilt, coeditor (with Kurt Fischer) of Self-conscious emotions:  Shame, guilt, embarrassment, and pride, and co-editor (with Mark Leary) of the Handbook of Self and Identity.

She has served as Associate Editor for Self and Identity, Consulting Editor for Periodical of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Psychological Assessment, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, and Journal of Personality, and is currently Associate Editor of American Psychologist.  Her research on the development and implications of moral emotions has been funded by NIDA, NICHD, NSF, and the John Templeton Foundation. Currently, her work focuses on moral emotions among incarcerated offenders.  A recipient of GMU's Teaching Excellence Honour, she strives to integrate service, teaching and clinically-relevant enquiry in both the classroom and her lab.

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Professor Shobita Satyapal

Shobita Satyapal is an Acquaintance Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at George Mason Academy.  She works in the area of observational infrared extragalactic astronomy and instrumentation, and the spectroscopy of agile, interacting, and ultraluminous galaxies.  Her current research interests focus on understanding the connection between supermassive black holes and the galaxies in which they reside.   This enquiry, which has resulted in 23 refereed publications, utilizes primarily space-based imaging and spectroscopic observations using Chandra and the Spitzer Infinite Telescope, with the ultimate aim of agreement the office of such galaxies in galactic germination and development.

Dr. Satyapal's research on blackness holes plant in distant galaxies has received considerable media attention in 2008.  Her piece of work has been supported by over $2 million in NASA grants on which she was the PI on about a substantial fraction. Her most prestigious honors include a $500 m dollar Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers bestowed in 1998 – which is the highest honor bestowed by the government to young scientists.   She has also received several National Inquiry Council Fellowships, a Garber Fellowship honor, and a Smithsonian Fellowship Award .While at GMU she has engaged sixteen undergraduates and 6 graduate students in research projects.

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2007 Faculty Honor Recipients

Michael E. Summers

Michael Due east. Summers is a planetary scientist who studies the structure, origin, and evolution of planetary atmospheres. Summers received his Ph.D. from the California Establish of Technology in 1985. His research has dealt with the atmospheres of the Earth and near of the other planets in our solar system along with several of their moons. He has collaborated on numerous NASA planetary, satellite, and infinite shuttle missions.

Summers is currently a member of the scientific discipline squad of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and its moon Charon, which was launched in January, 2006, performed a flyby of Jupiter in February 2007 on its way to a rendezvous with Pluto in 2015. His work on Mars deals with the possibility of subsurface life and methods of its detection. He is a member of the NASA/Langley Mars Aeroplane team that is planning the first plane to fly on another planet. His research on World's temper has focused on atmospheric ozone and the germination of noctilucent clouds, which are the highest clouds on Earth. He is a member of the scientific discipline team of the AIM satellite mission that was launched in 2007 to study the function of these clouds as mayhap the about sensitive indicator of global climate change.

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James Due east. Maddux

The Manager of the Clinical Psychology doctoral program, Dr. Maddux is a clinical psychologist whose major interest is the integration of theory from clinical, social, and health psychology. His research is concerned primarily with understanding the influence of behavior about personal effectiveness and control on psychological adjustment and wellness-related behavior. He is the Editor of the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Practical Social Psychology and Self and Identity. He has published papers in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Wellness Psychology, and American Psychologist. He is co-author of Social Cognitive Psychology: History and Current Domains and co-editor of Psychopathology: Foundations for a Gimmicky Agreement. He as well is a member of the Examination Committee of the Clan of Land and Provincial Psychology Boards, which creates the Exam for the Professional Practice of Psychology. Dr. Maddux is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association'south Divisions of Full general, Clinical, and Wellness Psychology.

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2006 Kinesthesia Award Recipients

Susanne Denham

Susanne A. Denham is an applied developmental psychologist and professor of psychology at George Stonemason University. Her research focuses on children's social and emotional evolution. She is specially interested in the role of emotional competence in children's social and bookish operation. She is also investigating the evolution of forgiveness in children.

Denham's program on social-emotional cess for school readiness is currently funded by the National Constitute for Child Health and Human Development. In addition, her piece of work on the intra- and interpersonal contributors to children's forgiveness, and her longitudinal investigation on the development of emotional competence are ongoing. She is the author of two books Emotional Development in Young Children and, with Dr. Rosemary Burton, Social and Emotional Prevention and Intervention Programming for Preschoolers too equally numerous scholarly articles. Having served equally a member of several editorial boards, Denham is currently the editor of Early Pedagogy and Development. Denham received her MA from The Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Maryland, Baltimore Canton.

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Lance Liotta

Lance A. Liotta, professor of life sciences at George Stonemason University, was i of the commencement scientists to investigate the procedure of tumor invasion and metastasis at a molecular level. Scientists in his Laboratory of Pathology discovered a serial of novel genes and proteins that regulate cancer invasion and metastasis, providing new strategies for cancer diagnosis and treatment. His groundbreaking work has led to the invention of technologies used in more than than 1,000 labs worldwide.

Liotta is co-managing director of the GMU Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine. The goal of the Centre is to detect new proteins useful for the early detection and individualized therapy of cancer and other diseases. He holds more than xc patents for his work and has published more than 600 papers. Liotta is the recipient of numerous scientific awards for cancer research, including the U.Southward. Surgeon General's Medal. He earned an Doc/PhD from Case Western Reserve Medical School. His PhD is in biomedical technology.

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2005 Faculty Award Recipient

Linda J. Seligmann

Linda J. Seligmann is a professor of anthropology and director of Graduate Studies of the Anthropology Program at George Mason University. She has served equally coordinator of the Anthropology Program and director of the Heart for the Study of the Americas at George Bricklayer. She is a specialist in the Andean region of Latin America with research interests in agrarian issues, political economic system, and the dynamics of gender, class, and ethnicity in the informal economy, and she has spent more than twenty years doing field research in both urban and rural regions of the Andes. Her published books include Peruvian Street Lives: Culture, Ability and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco; an edited volume, Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares; and Between Reform and Revolution: Political Struggles in the Peruvian Andes, 1969-1991.

She has besides published numerous manufactures in Comparative Studies in Society and History, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Urban Anthropology and Ethnohistory. Her current research is on transnational and transracial adoption and changing assumptions about American families.

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2004 Kinesthesia Accolade Recipient

Debra B. Bergoffen

Debra B. Bergoffen is professor of philosophy and is a fellow member of both the Women'due south Studies and Cultural Studies faculties. Bergoffen's philosophical and interdisciplinary research is rooted in the continental and feminist traditions. She is the author of numerous periodical manufactures and anthology chapters, and the co-editor of several collections of philosophical essays. Her volume, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities details the significance of Beauvoir's atypical philosophical voice and examines its touch on contemporary philosophical and feminist theory. Bergoffen's research probes the ways in which U.N. Tribunal judgments in the wake of the genocides in the onetime Yugoslavia and Rwanda direct united states to revisit our concepts of humanity, human being dignity, and homo rights.

Bergoffen chaired the Section of Philosophy and Religious Studies from 1980-1987, and was Manager of the Women's Studies Research and Resource Center from1998-2002. She received George Mason's Distinguished Kinesthesia Award in 1989 and Didactics Excellence Accolade in 1993.

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2003 Faculty Award Recipients

Barbara Melosh

Barbara Melosh is a professor of English and History who serves on the faculties of Cultural Studies and Women'southward Studies. She held an appointment as curator of medical sciences at the National Museum of American History during her first 7 years at George Mason. She received her PhD in American civilization from Brown University in 1979. Melosh's career reflects her broad interests in American social and cultural history. She has authored The Physician'southward Mitt: Work Civilization and Conflict in American Nursing (Temple Univ. Press, 1981), Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Bargain Art and Theatre (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), and Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption, (Harvard Univ. Press, 2002).

An adoptive mother herself, Melosh tells the story of how men and women without children sought to care for and nurture other people'south children as their own. She is currently preparing for a second career equally an ordained minister, studying for her Principal of Divinity at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. She is working on a volume-length memoir of her recent feel as a hospital clergyman.

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Vernon Smith

Vernon 50. Smith, Nobel Prize winner in Economics, 2002, is currently professor of economics and police at George Mason University, a research scholar in the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), and a Fellow of the Mercatus Center all in Arlington, VA. He received his PhD in economic science from Harvard. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles and books on uppercase theory, natural resources economics, and experimental economics. He serves on or has served on the lath of editors of numerous journals, as president of various societies, equally professor of several universities, and as a Fellow with many organizations. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Economical Association, an Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year, the 1995 Adam Smith award recipient conferred by the Association for Private Enterprise Education.

The Cambridge University Press published his Papers in Experimental Economics in 1991, and they published a second drove of more recent papers, Bargaining and Market Beliefs, in 2000.

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2002 Faculty Honour Recipient

Robert Ehrlich

Robert Ehrlich is writer or editor of 19 books, including Ix Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Fifty-fifty Be True, (Princeton Univ. Press, 2001). He has written numerous articles in the areas of particle physics, nuclear arms control, and physics education. He has been an associate editor of the American Journal of Physics and has received several grants. Recently, he was honored as the recipient of the 2001 American Association of Physics Teacher's honor for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Ehrlich has lectured widely on his piece of work in the United States and abroad.

Ehrlich is a professor of physics and serves in the Schoolhouse of Computational Sciences at George Mason University since 1977. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1964. While at Columbia he worked on the "two-neutrino" experiment for which his thesis advisor Jack Steinberger shared the Nobel Prize. He has had faculty appointments at Rutgers Academy, SUNY New Paltz, and has besides chaired two physics departments—SUNY's between 1970 and 1977, and George Mason's betwixt 1977 and 1989.

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2001 Faculty Award Recipient

Kevin Avruch

Kevin Avruch is writer or editor of v books, including Data Campaigns for Peace Operations (2000) and Culture and Conflict Resolution (1998). He has written numerous articles and essays on civilization theory and disharmonize analysis, nationalist and ethnoreligious social movements, politics and society in contemporary State of israel, international migration, among other topics. Avruch has been book review editor of Anthropological Quarterly and serves on several editorial boards. He has lectured widely in the Usa and abroad, and his work has been recognized by the International Association of Conflict Management and the United States Institute of Peace, where he spent ane year as senior fellow in the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace.

Avruch is professor of anthropology and served as its coordinator from 1990-1996. He is an affiliated faculty member of the Found for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and kinesthesia and senior boyfriend in the Program on Peacekeeping Policy (School of Public Policy), at George Mason University, where he has been since 1980. He received his PhD from the University of California at San Diego. He has taught at UCSD, the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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2000 Faculty Award Recipient

Peter Brunette

Peter Brunette is recognized nationally and internationally as a film scholar and critic. He has written or edited 6 books on film, including The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (Cambridge Academy Press, 1998) and Martin Scorsese: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 1999). His 1987 volume Roberto Rossellini (republished past University of California, 1996) remains the definitive study in English on Rossellini's films. His scholarly work has centered chiefly around European movie theater and the application of poststructuralist literary theory to film. He is a weekly film critic for Motion picture.com, and just in the last yr, he served on panels at the Palm Springs Film Festival, the Sundance Picture Festival, and the Rotterdam Film Festival. He is also the artistic manager of the Fundamental Sun Cinema Club with branches in six cities.

Brunette received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1975 and joined the kinesthesia of George Mason Academy that aforementioned twelvemonth. His scholarship has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, and George Stonemason University.

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1999 Faculty Award Recipient

James Pfiffner

James P. Pfiffner is a nationally-recognized expert on the Usa presidency. Pfiffner's scholarly agenda for 2 decades has focused on the U.S. presidency and the national government. Among his influential publications are dozens of articles and ten books, including The Strategic Presidency: Hitting the Ground Running (second edition 1996) and The Modern Presidency (third edition 1999). He co-edited a special outcome of Presidential Studies Quarterly on "The Crisis in the Clinton Presidency." Pfiffner'due south substantive contribution to that book is titled "Sexual Probity and Presidential Graphic symbol." Not only an outstanding scholar, Pfiffner is an uncommonly effective instructor and lecturer. He is invited to speak regularly at conferences and seminars, as well equally at briefings of domestic and foreign government officials.

Pfiffner was a faculty member in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University since 1984. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, taught at the University of California, Riverside, California State University Fullerton, and served in the United states of america Ground forces in Vietnam and Cambodia, where he earned an Army Commendation Medal of Valor.

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1998 Kinesthesia Award Recipient

Lois Due east. Horton

Lois E. Horton is a professor of folklore and sits on the faculties of Cultural Studies and Women's Studies. She received her PhD from Brandeis Academy in 1977 and served at the University of Hawaii, Amerika Institute of Frederick Maximilian University in Munich, and as the chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Stonemason from 1995-1997. She has lectured in Europe and Asia. Horton addresses various aspects of American and African American social and cultural life, focusing especially on race, gender, and social change in her scholarship.

She is coeditor of A History of the African-American People, contributing author to City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of the District of Columbia (1983), and coauthor of Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Protest, and Customs Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860, and Von Republic of benin Nach Baltimore, which was published in Frg.

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1997 Faculty Award Recipient

Carol Mattusch

Ballad Mattusch joined the faculty of George Mason University in 1977 and chaired the Department of Art and Fine art History from 1982 until 1992. Her didactics has been in art history, in classical archæology, and in several interdisciplinary programs, primarily at the undergraduate level. At the same fourth dimension she has lectured for the Archaeological Institute of America and for the Smithsonian Establishment Resident Associates Plan, been a visiting professor at the University of Virginia, and served as news editor of Archaeological News.

In her scholarship, she uses an expertise in ancient bronze-LAHSting to illuminate the broader implications of ancient applied science upon Classical sculpture, in order to reach equally broad an audience every bit possible, making connections for them with their ain experience in the modern world. Her work has received support from George Bricklayer University, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the National Gallery of Fine art, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institute in Berlin, where she has since been appointed a Corresponding Member.

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