McCrea

Salvato

Van Dyke

Woubshet

The College of Arts and Sciences has announced that faculty members Lawrence McCrea and Nick Salvato have been awarded Robert and Helen Appel Fellowships for Humanists and Social Scientists, and Alison Van Dyke and Dagmawi Woubshet have been awarded Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Academic Advising Awards. They were honored May 26 at a trustee-faculty dinner recognizing universitywide teaching and advising awardees and newly tenured faculty.

McCrea, assistant professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Asian studies department, was recently granted tenure, effective July 1. He specializes in South Asian languages and civilizations. In 2010, McCrea was a faculty fellow in residence at the Society for the Humanities. His books include "The Teleology of Poetics in Medieval Kashmir" (Harvard Oriental Series, 2009) "Buddhist Philosophy of Language in India: Jnanasrimitra on Exclusion" (co-authored) (Columbia University Press, 2010) and "New Directions in South Asian Studies: Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock" (co-edited, in press).

Salvato, assistant professor in theater, film and dance and a member of the graduate faculty of English, was also recently granted tenure as of July 1. His research focuses on performances, representational practices, discourses and dispositions that are figured by critics as minor or that announce themselves deliberately as minor. His article "Uncloseting Drama: Gertrude Stein and the Wooster Group" won the journal Modern Drama's award for Outstanding Essay of 2007. The article was adapted from his first book, "Uncloseting Drama: American Modernism and Queer Performance" (Yale Studies in English series, 2010). He guest-edited "Gossip," a special issue for Modern Drama, where he is the book review editor.

Van Dyke, a senior lecturer in theatre, film and dance, has taught advanced acting techniques and performance speech and dialects at Cornell for more than 30 years. She took over as director of undergraduate services for all department majors in fall 2010 and has also taken on a leadership role as acting co-chair of the committee planning the department's new curriculum.

Woubshet, assistant professor of English, teaches courses on the literature of the Black Atlantic and the literature and music of the 1980s. He has served on the advisory board of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program and has worked with many campus groups, including Black Students United and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students and Allies. He is working on a book, "Looking for the Dead: AIDS, Poetics and Politics," and is a co-editor of two forthcoming volumes "Imaging Ethiopia: Monarchy to Modernity" and a special issue on Ethiopia in the journal Callaloo.

Established in 1995, The Robert and Helen Appel Fellowships for Humanists and Social Scientists reward faculty excellence. The fellowships enable newly tenured associate professors to take a semester's sabbatical leave at full salary to write, develop new courses, conduct research or otherwise enrich their teaching and scholarship.

Established in 1992, the Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Endowment for Academic Advising enables the College of Arts and Sciences to honor undergraduate advisers who make a difference in the lives of their Cornell students. Each recipient receives a semester's leave with full salary and fringe benefits.

Linda B. Glaser is staff writer for the College of Arts and Sciences.