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Thea J. Autry Named Founder’s Medalist for Graduate School

Oct. 22, 2020—Thea J. Autry, Ph.D.’20 (English) was named the 2020 Founder’s Medalist for the Graduate School. The Founder’s Medal is a 143-year-old tradition that recognizes the top graduating student from each of Vanderbilt’s 10 schools and colleges. Autry’s research and teaching focus on U.S. literature and visual arts of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, with...

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Jennifer Fay Wins Chancellor’s Award for Research

Oct. 22, 2020—Professor Jennifer Fay has been named a recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Research for her book Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene (Oxford University Press, 2018). The Chancellor’s Awards for Research recognize excellence on the part of faculty for published research, scholarship, or creative expression. The awards are given for works presented...

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Houston A. Baker Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Oct. 22, 2020—Distinguished University Professor Houston A. Baker was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in early 2020. Founded in 1780 by John Adams and John Hancock, among others, the AAAS has previously elected luminaries and leaders such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Martha Graham, Margaret Mead, and Martin Luther...