Honors & Awards
PHILIPPE BUC, professor of history, has been awarded a fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies to spend up to a year researching a project titled "Genealogies of Medieval Violence: Martyrdom, Holy War, Purification and Terror in the European West, ca. 1 CE-ca. 2001." Buc was one of 60 scholars selected from 926 applicants for the fellowship.
HERMAN WINICK, assistant director and research professor emeritus of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Division of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and research professor emeritus of applied physics, has been awarded the New York Academy of Sciences’ 2005 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights Award jointly with Zafra Lerman, who heads the Institute for Science Education and Science Communication at Columbia College in Chicago. The award recognizes “effective and tireless work on behalf of dissident scientists throughout the world.” Winick was active on behalf of Iranian scientists; Lerman supported Middle Eastern scientists. In the July 2005 issue of Physics Today, Iranian physicist Mohammad Hadi Hadizadeh Yazdi credits a petition spearheaded by Winick and signed by 33 Nobel laureates with enabling him to come in 2003 to the United States, where he is now a visiting professor at Ohio University, after being jailed in Iran in 2001 for his pro-democracy political views. Winick and Lerman will receive their awards Sept. 29 in New York at the academy’s annual meeting.
ELENA DANIELSON, who became archivist emerita of the Hoover Institution on Sept. 2, received the Ernst Posner Award at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists on Aug. 19. Danielson received the honor for her article titled "Privacy Rights and the Rights of Political Victims: Implications of the German Experience," a chapter in a book on privacy issues published by the society in 2004. Danielson, retired associate director of the Hoover Institution, joined the institution in 1978 and was named archivist in 1997.