Faculty Honors and Awards
2013-2014 Academic Year
Erik C. Andersen, Molecular Biosciences
2014 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
Nir Avni, Mathematics
2014 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
Yarrow Axford, Earth and Planetary Sciences
2014 ISEN Early Career Investigator Award for Energy Research
Mira Balberg, Religious Studies
2014-2015 Fellowship from the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan
Martha Biondi, African American Studies and History
2013 Wesley-Logan Prize for her book Black Revolution on Campus (University of California Press, 2012)
Geraldo L. Cadava, History
2014 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians for his book Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland (Harvard University Press, 2014)
Francesco Calegari, Mathematics
Elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
S. Hollis Clayson, Art History
Named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques (Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms) by the French Ministry of Education
Deborah Cohen, History
Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain (Oxford University Press, 2013) named one of the best non-fiction books of the year by Public Books
Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain picked as subject of round-table in History Workshop Journal
Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain named a best book of the year by writers at three United Kingdom publications: The Spectator, The Sunday Times and The Times Literary Supplement
Eric Dahl, Physics and Astronomy
2014 U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Award
James N. Druckman, Political Science
Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence
Jeanne Dunning, Art Theory and Practice
2014 Art Journal Award for her article “Tom Thumb, the New Oedipus”
Alice Eagly, Psychology
Leadership Legacy Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association
Eminent Leadership Scholar Award from the Network of Leadership Scholars in the Academy of Management
Timothy Earle, Anthropology
Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Gary Fine, Sociology
2014-2015 Fellowship from the School of Social Science Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University
Caitlin A. Fitz, History
2014 Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies
Danna Freedman, Chemistry
2014 Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Jonathon Glassman, History
2014-2015 Fellow of the National Humanities Center
Paul Goerss, Mathematics
Elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Robert Gordon, Economics
Elected Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
Nina Gourianova, Slavic Languages and Literatures
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages Award for Outstanding Book in Literary/Cultural Studies for 2013 (The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Avant-Garde, University of California Press, 2013)
William Halperin, Physics and Astronomy
Elected Vice-Chair of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics of the American Physical Society
Elad Harel, Chemistry
2013 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Grant
T. David Harris, Chemistry
2014 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Named U.S. Army Research Office Young Investigator
Peter Hayes, History
Appointed chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s academic committee
Larry Hedges, Statistics
2013-2014 Statistician of the Year Award from the Chicago chapter of the American Statistical Association
2014 AERA Presidential Citation for Research Excellence from the American Education Research Association
Darlene Clark Hine, African American Studies
2014 National Medal of Humanities
Joel Horowitz, Economics
Honorary Doctorate from the Humboldt University of Berlin
Joseph T. Hupp, Chemistry
2014 Stephanie L. Kwolek Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Steven Jacobsen, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
E. Patrick Johnson, African American Studies and Performance Studies
Otto René Castillo Award for Political Theatre
Kate Juschenko, Mathematics
2014 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Vicky Kalogera, Physics and Astronomy
Elected Trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics
Mercouri Kanatzidis, Chemistry
Plenary Lecturer of the 2013 International Conference on Directions in Materials Science
Named a 2014 Einstein Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2014 International Thermoelectric Society Outstanding Achievement Award
Neil Kelleher, Molecular Biosciences and Chemistry
Allen Distinguished Investigator Award from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
Bryna Kra, Mathematics
American Mathematical Society Arnold Ross Lecturer
Jörg Kreienbrock, German
2014 Humbolt Research Fellowship form the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Phyllis Lassner, Writing Program
Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellowship at Southampton University
Yoram Lithwick, Physics and Astronomy
2014 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Charles Manski, Economics
Elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
Tobin Marks, Chemistry
2014 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Kate Masur, History
2014-2015 Fellowship from the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University
Kelly Mayo, Molecular Biosciences
2013 Women in Endocrinology Mentor Award
Dan P. McAdams, Psychology and SESP
Selected to give one of five American Psychological Association Master Lectures at the 2015 APA Convention
Chad Mirkin, Chemistry
Named a 2013 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate in its annual pre-Nobel Prize study
Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Elected Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society
Distinguished Medical Science Award from the Friends of the National Library of Medicine
2013 Vittorio deNora Award from the Electrochemical Society
2014 American Chemical Society Nano Lectureship Award
2014 U.S. Department of Defense National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow
2015 Emerson Center Lectureship Award from Emory University
Richard I. Morimoto, Molecular Biosciences
2014 Feodor Lynen Medal of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Adilson Motter, Physics and Astronomy
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Edward Muir, History
Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Society of Italian Historical Studies Citation For Career Achievement
Aaron Naber, Mathematics
2014 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
Aviv Nevo, Economics
Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society
Teri Odom, Chemistry
Appointed Executive Editor for new journal ACS Photonics
2014 Carol Tyler Award from the International Precious Metals Institute
Thomas O'Halloran, Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
2014 Bioinorganic Chemistry Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Ann Orloff, Sociology
2014-2015 Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University
Susan Pearson, History
2014-2015 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
Christian Petersen, Molecular Biosciences
New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health
Frank Petriello, Physics and Astronomy
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Elected Co-Spokesperson of the CTEQ Collaboration
Monica Prasad, Sociology
Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from the American Sociological Association for her book The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty (Harvard Press 2012)
Owen Priest, Chemistry
Named one of 175 Faces of Chemistry by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Indira Raman, Neurobiology
Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Mark A. Ratner, Chemistry and Interim Dean Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
2013 Chaim Weizmann Memorial Lecturer at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Amy Rosenzweig, Molecular Biosciences
Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2014 Joseph Chatt Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
James Sauls, Physics and Astronomy
2014 Distinguished Lecturer of the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
Ian Savage, Economics
Best Academic Paper at the 2014 Global Level Crossing and Trespass Prevention Symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John Schafer, Classics
2014-2015 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship
George C. Schatz, Chemistry
2014-2015 Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry from the Theoretical Chemistry Institute at the University of Wisconsin
Toru Shiozaki, Chemistry
2014 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2014 Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
David Shyovitz, History
2014-2015 Yad Hanadiv/Beracha Foundation Fellowship in Jewish Studies
Richard Silverman, Chemistry
Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Northwestern University Trustee Medal for Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship
2014 iCON Innovator Award from the iBIO Institute
Scott Sowerby, History
2013 Whitfield Prize from the Royal Historical Society for his book Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2013)
Seth Stein, Earth and Planetary Sciences
2014 Price Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society
Nathaniel Stern, Physics and Astronomy
2014 U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Award
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Chemistry
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
2013 North America Chemical Engineering Project of the Year Award from the Institution of Chemical Engineers
2014 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Krista Thompson, Art History
2013 Creative Capital Award from the Warhol Foundation of Arts Writers Grant Program
Helen Tilley, History
Ludwig Fleck Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science, given for the best book in science and technology studies published between 2010 and 2013 (Africa as a Living Laboratory, University of Chicago Press, 2011)
David Uttal, Psychology and SESP
Elected president of the Cognitive Development Society
Richard P. Van Duyne, Chemistry
2014 E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy from the American Chemical Society
Elected Fellow of the Society of Applied Spectroscopy
2014 Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy from the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies
Kari Vilonen, Mathematics
Simons Fellow in Mathematics
Emily Weiss, Chemistry
Chosen to Present the 2014 Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecture
Elected to the Washington, DC Department of Forensic Science Advisory Board, 2014
Steve Zelditch, Mathematics
2013 Stefan Bergman Prize from the Stefan Bergman Trust
Laurie Zoloth, Religious Studies
Elected President of the American Academy of Religion
University and College Teaching Awards
Susie Phillips, English
Alumnae of Northwestern Teaching Professorship
Jeanne Weiland Herrick, Writing Program
Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lectureship
Gary Saul Morson, Slavic Languages and Literatures
E. LeRoy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching
Carole LaBonne, Molecular Biosciences
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award
Scott Sowerby, History
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award
Wendy Pearlman, Political Science
Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award
Benjamin Gorvine, Psychology
Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award
Amy Partridge, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award
Elisa Baena, Spanish and Portuguese
Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award
William Murphy, Anthropology
Weinberg College Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research