Honors & Awards

Matthew Jockers

Michael Friedman

MATTHEW JOCKERS, a consulting assistant professor of English, was recently re-elected to a three-year term on the executive council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the principal professional organization for digital humanists in the United States. Jockers, who is also an academic technology specialist with Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources, has been an advocate, practitioner and teacher of computing methods for humanities research at Stanford. He was elected last year to fill a one-year vacancy.

MICHAEL FRIEDMAN, the Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities, has been selected to receive a Humboldt Research Award. He is co-chair of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Program and director of the Patrick Suppes Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology. Offered through the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the 60,000 euro (approximately $76,000) award enables winners to spend up to one year working with specialist colleagues at research institutions in Germany. Friedman will begin research next year at the University of Konstanz, the University of Bielefeld and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

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