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Miriam Kingsberg (History) received the 2015 Eugene R. Kayden Book Award and the Provost's Award for Faculty Achievement for her book, Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History (UC Press, 2013). The Kayden Award workshop in February 2016 included four outside scholars and several CU faculty who convened to discuss themes raised in the book.
Ariana Maki (Art and Art History) conducted field research in Bhutan in summer 2015 with the support of a Collaborative International Research Grant awarded by the American Academy of Religion. The project, Historical Artists of Bhutan, is a research project in partnership with Dr. Yonten Dargye of the National Library and Archives of Bhutan.
Suranjan Ganguly (Film Studies) published The Films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan: A Cinema of Emancipation (Anthem Press, UK) in May 2015.
Liora R. Halperin published her first book, Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 (Yale University Press, 2015), for which she won the Shapiro Award for best book from the Association for Israel Studies. Halperin was appointed to the new Endowed Professorship in Israel/Palestine Studies in fall 2015, created by an anonymous donation to the CU Program in Jewish Studies.
Photos from Ariana Maki's field research: