Faculty News

Outstanding faculty recognized C. _• _ ii

Three professors were singled out for their exceptional contributions to either teaching or writing. Kenneth Shewmaker, professor of history and editor of the dip- lomatic papers of Daniel Webster from 1970 to 1984, received the annual Distinguished Teaching Award at Class Day ceremonies in June. He holds degrees from UC-Berke- ley and Northwestern University and came to Dartmouth in 1967.

Associate Professor of Visual Studies Esme Thompson received the J. Kenneth Huntington Memorial Award for Outstand- ing Teaching for 1986. The recipient of the award, a gift of John M. Manley '4O, is de- termined by the dean of the faculty in con- sultation with the associate deans of the faculty. Thompson holds graduate degrees from the University of lowa and Yale and has been at Dartmouth since 1979.

Adjunct Professor of Policy Studies Do- nella Meadows won a Champion-Tuck Me- dia Award for her weekly column "The Global Citizen" which appears in The ValleyNews. She is a graduate of Carleton College and Harvard and joined Dartmouth's fac- ulty in 1972.

Fulbright-bound to Greece

Peter A. Bien, professor of English, has been awarded his third Fulbright grant for foreign research and/or teaching. He will spend four months in 1987 researching let- ters of Nikos Kazantzakis, a noted Greek author and journalist who died in 1957, for a book he has contracted with Princeton University Press. Bien was commissioned to edit the volume of annotated letters by the widow of Kazantzakis.

Bien joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1961, the same year he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is a specialist in modern British and modern Greek lit- erature, and is the author of several books, including the first oral-aural textbook for teaching modern Greek, co-authored with John Rassias and Chrysanthi Bien.

Smallwood honored on retirement

Room 208 of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences will be named the Frank Smallwood Seminar Room in honor of Frank Smallwood '5l, who has served as director of the Center since its opening in 1983. Smallwood joined Dart- mouth's faculty in 1960 and has served in many College administrative and faculty posts, as well as serving in the Vermont senate for two years. He currently holds the title of Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government and following a year as an ac- ademic visitor at Nuffield College in Ox- ford, England, will return to teaching in the government department.

Faculty promotions announced

The Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has announced the fol- lowing faculty promotions: promoted to professor are Faith Dunne, education; Rus- sell P. Hughes, chemistry; Elaine Jahner, English/Native American Studies; Richard Joseph, government/Afro-American Stud- ies; Walter Lawrence, physics and astron- omy; Donald Pease, English; Barry Scherr, Russian; Brenda Silver, English; Karen Wet- terhahn, chemistry; and Horst Richter, en- gineering sciences. Promoted to associate professor are Michael Fanselow and How- ard Hughes, psychology; Cleopatra Mathis, English; Melinda O'Neal, music; John Thor- stensen, physics and astronomy; and Es- ther Rashkin, French and Italian. Promoted to assistant professor are Melissa Zeiger and Matthew Rowlinson, English, and Beatriz Jaquaribe De Mattos, Spanish and Portu- guese.