Seventeen members of the faculty from a wide range of disciplines at the university faculty have obtained new appointment. Some of the appointments was November 1, 2002, while others were effective January 1st

Five members of the Faculty of Arts of the University, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Jeffrey Harvey, Thomas Holt, Peter McCullagh, Janel Mueller, and David Oxtoby, have benefited from services is distinguished professor. Twelve teachers honored recently named chairs are: Albert Alschuler, Lisa Bernstein, Mary Anne Case, Charles Cohen, Donald Lamb, John Lucy, Jean-Luc Marion, Thomas Pavel, Eric Posner, Michael Stein and Kenneth Warren.

Dipesh Chakrabarty
Dipesh Chakrabarty, a professor of languages and cultures of South Asia, and the College has the name of Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor.

Chakrabarty research interests are modern South Asian history and historiography, postcolonial theory and their impact on the history of writing, and comparative studies of the politics of modernity. He is currently working on a book on multiculturalism and democracy, and another on literature and history. His latest book is Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies.

He is a founding member of the series Subaltern Studies, co-editor of the criticism of the Commission of Inquiry, and a founder and editor of the journal of post-colonial studies. He has also worked on the editorial board of public culture and the American Historical Review.

Other publications are Provincializing Europe: Post Colonial Thought and Historical difference and Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal, 1890-1940. He also co-edited with his colleague cosmopolitanism Sheldon Pollock, George V. Brobinskoy professor of languages and cultures of South Asia and the College, Carol Breckinridge and former Chicago professor Homi Bhabha.

A volume of his tongue Bengali Essays, Itihash Title: torke-bitorke (Talk about history), is published by Ananda Publishers, Calcutta, India.

After studying physics in Calcutta a grundständiges studies at the University and the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, Chakrabarty went to earn Ph.D. In the history of the Australian National University in 1984. He taught at the University of Melbourne, before the Faculty of Chicago in 1995.

Jeffrey Harvey
Jeffrey Harvey, theoretical studies, the behaviour of fundamental particles of matter, it was known as Enrico Fermi, the Distinguished Service Professor. He was previously Professor Louis block in physics and the university.

Harvey specializes in string theory, particle physics and cosmology. Much of his current work focuses on string theory. Thongs are the theoretical part in the context of the statement of how the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity, electromagnetism and the nuclear material strong and weak armed forces fit together.

Harvey has been Professor of Physics at Chicago in 1990. Previously, he was a member of the faculty at Princeton University.

He was the beneficiary of Alfred Sloan Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. He was also an elected member of the American Physical Society.

He is co-editor of four books, String Theory and Quantum Gravity’91, String Theory and Quantum Gravity’92, Recent Directions of the theory of particle physics, the superb string of black holes and on the standard model, and chains, Branes and gravity.

Harvey received his B.Sc. In physics and mathematics from the University of Minnesota, Phi Beta Kappa, with distinction and a doctorate in physics from California Institute of Technology.

Thomas Holt
Thomas Holt, one of the greatest scholars of the nation Afro-American history, has the reputation of a Distinguished Service Professor. The distinction has been added to his songs, cases of the West Holt James Thompson, Distinguished Service Professor in the full story.

Holt is a specialist in the emancipation of American slavery, race relations and freedom of movement. He is the author of “The Problem of Race in the 21st Century, published in 2002 1832-1938 1992, and black and white: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina for Reconstruction (1977).

Vice President of Research for David Schramm, a world leader in theoretical astrophysics, has been awarded a Distinguished Service Professor Ship. Nine other faculty members, in fields ranging from ancient cultures to cancer research, to have been named endowed chairs: Herbert Abelson, Homi Bhabha, Harry Hoffner, J. Paul Hunter, Albert Madansky, Dolores Norton, Martha Nussbaum, William Sewell and Richard Strier. The appointments were effective July 1

David Schramm

Schramm, the Louis Block Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science and the College, has been named Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor.

Research by Schramm, who is a leading authority on the Big Bang model of the universe, has helped merge the fields of particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics in the study of the early universe. He is the author of more than 350 scientific research papers, and he has written or edited more than 10 books. In 1993, he was awarded the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize from the American Physical Society “for his manifold contributions to nuclear astrophysics.” He received the Helen B. Prize Warner from the American Astronomical Society in 1978, as well as numerous other awards and named lectureships. In 1994, he received the University’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is chairman of the board on physics and astronomy of the National Research Council. He received his S.B. In 1967 from MIT and his Ph.D. In 1971 from Caltech. He was on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin before joining the Chicago faculty in 1974. He has been a professor since 1985 block Louis.

Herbert Abelson

Abelson, Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics, has been named the George M. Professor Eisenberg.

A pediatric oncologist and cancer researcher, Abelson joined the University faculty in 1995. Before coming to Chicago, he was professor and chairman of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, where he was also pediatrician-in-chief and director of the department of medicine at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center.

Abelson has held academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Center for Cancer Research at MIT. His research interests include mechanisms of action of chemotherapy agents and treatment of childhood anemia. He received his A.B. In 1962 from the University of Illinois and his MD in 1966 from Washington University School of Medicine.

The George M. Professor Eisenberg Ship was established in 1993 by the Foundation for Eisenberg Charities in memory of the founder of American Manufacturing decal.

Homi Bhabha

Bhabha, Professor in English Language & Literature, Art and the College, has been named the Chester D. Tripp Professor.

Bhabha is one of the world’s foremost authorities on post-colonial theory - the rethinking of the experience of countries with a colonial past, such as Bhabha’s native India. His work illuminates the complexity of colonial societies and our newly examine what lessons can learn international culture from them. He is perhaps best known for his book The Location of Culture (1994), a collection of essays on the conceptual and political ramifications of colonialism and post-.

Prior to joining the University faculty in 1994, he had taught at Sussex University, England, since 1978. After receiving his B.A. From the University of Bombay, Bhabha studied at Oxford, where he received his MA, M. Phil. And his D. Phil.

The Chester D. Ship Tripp Professor in the Humanities was established through an endowment by Tripp, a mining and industrial and metallurgical engineering consultant.

Harry Hoffner

Hoffner, a professor at the Oriental Institute, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Linguistics and the College, has been named the Professor John A. Wilson in the Oriental Institute.

One of the world’s leading authorities on Hittite culture, Hoffner is Editor-in-Charge of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary, Hittite: a guide to literature and culture as well as a reference work on the meaning of words Hittite. The Hittite Empire flourished in central and northwestern Turkey Syria between 1750 1200 BC and Hoffner’s recent work has included translations of the entire corpus of mythological Hittite texts. He has been commissioned to produce a new edition of the law code Hittite.

Hoffner received his A.B. From Princeton in 1956, his Th.M. In 1960 from Dallas Theological Seminary and his MA and his Ph.D. In 1963 from Brandeis. He joined the Chicago faculty in 1974 after teaching at Wheaton College, Brandeis and Yale.

Professor John A. Wilson Ship was established in 1968 through an anonymous gift in honor of Wilson, then the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor and Director General of the Oriental Institute.

J. Paul Hunter

Hunter, Professor Chester D. Tripp in English Language & Literature and the College and the recently appointed Director of the Humanities Institute of Chicago, has been named the Barbara E. And Richard J. Franke professor.

Hunter specializes in history and criticism relating to 17th-and 18th-century English texts. His book Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of English Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1990) won the 1991 Louis Gottschalk Prize as the best book in 18th-century studies in any discipline. He is the author of two widely used college textbooks, both in their sixth editions: Norton Introduction to Poetry and Norton Introduction to Literature, co-written by Jerome Beaty.

Hunter came to Chicago in 1987 from the University of Rochester, where he was dean of arts and science. He received his A.B. In 1955 from Central College in Indiana, his MA From Miami in 1957 and his Ph.D. In the 1963 University from Rice. Presently on sabbatical, he will return to CHI direct in the fall.

Barbara E. Richard J. Franke and established the professorship that bears their name in 1992. University Trustee Richard Franke recently retired as CEO of John Nuveen & Co. In Chicago. The professorship is coterminous with the director of the Humanities Institute of Chicago.

Albert Madansky

Madansky, Professor of Business Administration in the Graduate School of Business, has been named the HGB Alexander teacher.

Madansky’s research has focused on econometrics, statistics in the social sciences, and statistical computing science in the management of markets. He received his A.B. In 1952, his S.M. In 1955 and his Ph.D. In 1958, all from Chicago.

What Madansky for the Deputy Dean at the Faculty GSB from 1990 1993 and Associate Dean for Ph.D. Studies from 1985 to 1990. He is currently Director of the school’s Center for International Business Education and Research.

The H.G.B. Professor Alexander Ship was created in 1963 through an endowment established by Herbert Alexander before his death in 1928. Alexander was president of the Continental Casualty Company and Continental Insurance Company.

Dolores Norton

Norton, a professor at the School of Social Service Administration, has been named the french professor Samuel SSA.

Norton, who has taught at SSA since 1976, early child development studies, family life patterns, and social and cognitive development of children, with an emphasis on early school achievement. Her major research is a longitudinal study, “Children at Risk: The Infant Development Study,” a study of inner city children from birth to age 14 Among her many publications are multiple and Ecology (1989), Environment and Linguistic Preschool Early School Achievement ( 1996), Early Socialization Temporal and Development (1993) and The Dual Perspective: Inclusion of Ethnic Minority Content in the Social Work Curriculum (1978).