Anthropology professors Susan Russell and Katharine Wiegele won international recognition last month in the 27th National Book Awards.
The National Book Development Board and the Manila Critics Circle announced the best published books of 2007 at the Yuchengco Museum in the Philippines.
Russell’s chapter in the book that won the best anthology is the following:
Russell, S. (2007). Feasts of merit: the politics of ethnography and ethnic icons in the Luzon highlands. In: “Cordillera in June: Essays Celebrating June Prill-Brett, Anthropologist, ed. Ben Tapang,” pp.30-61. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.
Wiegele’s book that won the best book in theology and religion is the following:
Wiegele, K. (2007). Investing in Miracles: El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the Philippines. Quezon City: ADMU Press.
Brian Sandberg, assistant professor in the Department of History, has been awarded a 2009-10 Solmsen Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Institute for Research in the Humanities.
The institute, housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offers three one-year Solmsen Postdoctoral Fellowships each year to scholars from other universities working on literary and historical studies of the European Classical, Medieval and Renaissance periods.
The fellowships are awarded through an annual competition. The award this year is $40,000 for the academic year.
Sandberg is conducting research on the gendered dimensions of violence in the French wars of religion.
NIU’s Doctor of Audiology program participated in the 2008 Chicago Walk4Hearing this fall to benefit the Hearing Loss Association of America. The annual walk was held in Chicago’s Lincoln Park.
NIU audiology students, their family members and friends raised more than $1,100, which will be used to increase knowledge of hearing-related issues and advocacy for persons affected by hearing impairment.
The NIU audiology program is a four-year, clinically intensive training program culminating in the Doctorate in Audiology (Au.D.). NIU graduated its first class of seven Au.D.s in 2008.