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Nina Baym
Peter Beak
Donald L. Burkholder
Hans Frauenfelder
Maurice Friedberg
Wolfgang Haken
Karl Hess
Jiri Jonas
Braj B. Kachru
Marianne Kalinke
Miles V. Klein
Wayne R. LaFave
James W. Marchand
David Pines
Charles P. Slichter
Jack Stillinger
Philip Teitelbaum
Ralph S. Wolfe
John C. Wustman
R. Tom Zuidema



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Nina Baym
CAS Professor Emerita of English
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Professor Baym is a distinguished revisionary historian and critic of American literature, specializing in nineteenth-century writers, women writers, fiction, nonfiction prose, and the relations of literary culture to other aspects of nineteenth-century American society. She serves as general editor of the Norton Anthology of American Literature, the most widely used college anthology in the field. Her most recent book, American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences, was published in January 2002 and selected by Choice magazine as an outstanding academic title for the year. She is currently researching American women writers from the Old West (1865-1925).

Other books include American Woman Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860 (1995), which traces themes and variations in history writing by women; The Shape of Hawthorne's Career (1976), studying Nathaniel Hawthorne's literary output in the context of literary movements of his own day; Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820-70 (2nd ed., 1992), which helped to establish and shape what is now a very large field of study focused on American women writers; and Novels, Readers and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America (1984, 1987), which attempted to retrieve the original conditions under which novels were read by studying numerous contemporary reviews of nineteenth-century fiction. A collection of her critical essays originally published during the 1980s, Feminism and American Literary History, appeared in 1992. Her work has been recognized through election to the American Antiquarian Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society. She has won the Hubbell Lifetime Achievement Medal, awarded by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association. In all she has written eight scholarly books, edited another seven, and published more than 60 articles, as well as more than 125 scholarly book reviews. She regularly teaches the large undergraduate lecture-survey of American literature to 1870 and has directed 38 Ph.D. dissertations to completion. She served with distinction as director of the University's School of Humanities (1976-87), was named in the first class of Senior University Scholars (1985), and was appointed a Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1988, the first year of that program as well. She was appointed to a Swanlund Endowed Chair in 1997. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow (1975) and an NEH Fellow (1982).

baymnina@illinois.edu




Peter Beak
CAS Professor of Chemistry
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Professor Beak has made fundamental contributions to organic chemistry that have provided unifying concepts and opened new areas of investigation. His work has clarified the effect of molecular environment on structure-stability relationships, provided new reactions that are widely used for chemical synthesis, and identified novel reactive intermediates. His current research involves the determination of reaction trajectories in atom-transfer reactions and asymmetric synthesis.

He has held editorships, lectureships, and leadership positions in professional organizations. He has received a number of awards, lectured around the world, and served as research advisor for more than 100 graduate and postdoctoral students who are making significant independent contributions to their fields. Professor Beak is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds the James R. Eiszner Distinguished Chair in Chemistry.
beak@illinois.edu




Donald L. Burkholder
CAS Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
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Professor Burkholder has made deep contributions to the mathematics of Brownian motion, martingales, functional analysis, probability theory, the geometry of Banach spaces, and other parts of pure and applied mathematics.

He has given approximately 300 invited lectures and lecture series in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America; these include the 1986 Mordell Lecture at Cambridge University and the 1988 Zygmund Lectures at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

donburk@illinois.edu




Hans Frauenfelder
CAS Professor Emeritus of Physics

Professor Frauenfelder repeatedly crosses disciplinary lines, making significant contributions to biochemistry and biological physics, and demonstrates how developments in one scientific field can transform the development of another. He is widely recognized for his contributions to many fields of physics, the structure of surfaces and solids, and space-time symmetries in nuclear and particle physics. He is currently at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he continues his work on the dynamics and function of biomolecules.

He is the author of several well-known monographs and textbooks. In 1992 he received the Biological Physics Prize of the American Physical Society. He received honorary degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Technical University of Munich, Stockholm University, and University of Zürich. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academy Leopoldina, American Philosophical Society; and a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. In 1999 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
frauenfelder@lanl.gov




Maurice Friedberg
CAS Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Professor Friedberg is a specialist in the interaction of literature and society in Russia and is best known for his study of Soviet literary censorship and the Communist Party's efforts to harness and direct the ideological potential of non-Soviet writing published in the USSR. His most recent article explores "A Possible Inspiration for Babel's 'Pan Apolek'" in Depictions: Slavic Studies in the Narrative and Visual Arts in Honor of William E. Harkins.

Earlier works include Russian Classics in Soviet Jackets, about the legacy of prerevolutionary literature; A Decade of Euphoria, which examines the role of translated Western fiction, poetry, and drama in post-Stalin Russia; and Literary Translation in Russia, which discusses the role of translation in the overall literary process, including censorship, beginning with the eighteenth century and continuing through the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.

His work has been published in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Korean, and Japanese. Chinese translations have appeared in Beijing for some years; Russian ones began to be printed only after the collapse of the Soviet State. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships (1971, 1982) and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He directed seminars for the NEH, Social Science Research Council, and American Council of Learned Societies. He has served for many years on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals and on the boards of various professional organizations. In May 1988 he was invited to the White House to brief President Ronald Reagan on problems of Soviet culture prior to the President's state visit to Moscow.

He was elected to full membership in the Russian Academy of the Humanities. He served as a member of the International Board of Advisors for the four-volume Censorship: A World Encyclopedia (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001). In 2002 he received the Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

friedbrg@illinois.edu




Wolfgang Haken
CAS Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Professor Haken is completing work on the Recognition Problem of the 3-dimensional Sphere and on a new, faster algorithm for the Knotting Problem. His earlier solution of the Knotting Problem—an open problem since 1847—used radically unconventional methods to find an algorithm to determine whether a given closed polygon in 3-space is knotted. These same methods led to the solution of the Decision Problem in a great variety of cases.

With Kenneth Appel he completed a proof of the Four Color Conjecture that had been considered the major outstanding problem in graph theory, open since its formulation in 1852. For this work, he and Appel received the Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize in Discrete Mathematics awarded by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Programming Society.

haken@symcom.math.illinois.edu


Karl Hess
CAS Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor Hess is a founder of the area of computational electronics. He has also contributed substantially in the areas of solid-state electronics; the physics and chemistry of molecular and electronic nanostructures; and theory and simulation of solid-state electronic devices, including optoelectronic devices such as diode lasers. He helped to create a Center for Computational Electronics at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at UIUC. During the formative years of the Beckman Institute, he chaired the committee that formulated the proposal for the Beckman Institute from the physical science community.

Over the past fifteen years, with his graduate students, he developed the Full Band Monte Carlo method. With his coworkers he developed the most complete existing computer-aided design tool for quantum well laser diodes. Other work contributed to the theory of electronic transport, in particular to transport between different solids (real space transfer), and to the discovery of a giant isotope effect in the aging of integrated circuits in silicon technology (chips).

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Physical Society, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the J.J. Ebers Award; Sarnoff Technical Field Award; Heinrich Welker Memorial Award; and an honorary Doctor of Science degree, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. At UIUC he has been a Center for Advanced Study Associate, University Scholar, Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Awardee, and Swanlund Endowed Chair.

k-hess@illinois.edu


Jiri Jonas
CAS Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
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Professor Jonas is a physical chemist who conducts high-pressure studies of the dynamic structure of liquids and biological systems. His research interests include physical chemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance, Raman and Rayleigh spectroscopy, high-pressure studies of the dynamic structure of liquids and proteins, and organizational aspects of academic multidisciplinary research. He was director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology from 1993 to 2001.

His awards include the American Chemical Society's Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids, Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany, and Doctor Honoris Causa from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2003 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. He has held fellowships from, among others, the Alfred P. Sloan and J.S. Guggenheim foundations. From 1985 to 1988 he was a University Senior Scholar at UIUC. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Physical Society. To date he has published more than 300 scientific articles.
jonas@illinois.edu




Braj B. Kachru
CAS Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
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Professor Kachru has pioneered, shaped, and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and coeditor of World Englishes, associate editor of the The Oxford Companion to the English Language, and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more than 25 authored and edited volumes and more than 100 research papers, review articles, and reviews.

He received the Joint First Prize in the Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition for The Alchemy of English (1986) and has held fellowships and awards from, among others, the British Council, the Ford Foundation, the East-West Center, The Institute of International Studies, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. He holds joint appointments with the College of Education, Program in Comparative and World Literature, and Division of English as an International Language. He headed the Department of Linguistics (1968-79), directed the Division of English as an International Language (1985-91), and was director of the Center for Advanced Study (June 1996-January 2000). He was director of the Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America (1978), president of American Association of Applied Linguistics (1984), and president of the International Association for World Englishes (1997-99). He was named Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UIUC in 1992; Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University in 1998; and honorary fellow of the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India, in 2001.

In October 2002 UIUC hosted the International Association for World Englishes annual conference, which included a one-day symposium titled "World Englishes: Perspective on the 21st-Century" and dedicated to Professor Kachru. In 2003 he was selected a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development and Linguistics and the Human Sciences. His recently authored and coedited volumes include Asian Englishes: Beyond the Canon (2004), World Englishes: Critical Concepts (6 vols., 2005), and The Handbook of World Englishes (2005).

b-kachru@illinois.edu



Marianne Kalinke

CAS Professor Emerita of Germanic Languages and Literatures
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Professor Kalinke is an international authority on cultural and literary relations between Scandinavia and the continent in the medieval and early modern period. In her books and articles she has addressed the transmission of continental literature to Scandinavia, the nature of translation in the Middle Ages, and the impact of medieval French romance on the development of Old Icelandic literature. Her groundbreaking study of the transmission of the Arthurian legend to Norway and Iceland, King Arthur, North-by-Northwest (1981), led to a reconsideration of the impact of continental romance on the development of indigenous Icelandic saga genres. Subsequently, Bridal-Quest Romance in Medieval Iceland (1990), which dealt with the introduction and development of new types of fiction in Iceland, initiated a revision of the received classification of Icelandic literary genres. With The Book of Reykjahólar: The Last of the Great Medieval Legendaries (1996) her study of romance broadened to include sacred romance and the role played by Iceland in preserving medieval German literature that has otherwise been lost.

Her current research focuses on the rise of vernacular fiction in the medieval German-language area from Latin historiographical and hagiographical models. This development is traced in her most recent book, St. Oswald of Northumbria: Continental Metamorphoses (2005). In addition to her books and more than 50 articles on literary history, she has edited and translated medieval Icelandic sagas; her three-volume edition and translation of medieval Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Arthurian literature was published in 1999.

She has served as president of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (1995-97) and has served on and chaired the grants and fellowships board of the American-Scandinavian Foundation (1999-2004). She has been an ACLS Fellow (1978), Snorri Sturluson Fellow (1994), and Fulbright Fellow (1985-86). In 1987 she was Visiting Professor of German and of Scandinavian Studies at the Georg-August Universität in Göttingen, Germany. In 2005 she was appointed Trowbridge Chair in Literary Studies. Since 1981 she has been managing editor for German and Scandinavian of the Journal of English and Germanic Philology.
kalinke@illinois.edu




Miles V. Klein

CAS Professor Emeritus of Physics
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Professor Klein has long used Raman spectroscopy and other optical techniques to study the vibrational and electronic excitations in semiconductors and semiconductor superlattices. He has used the same techniques to study vibrational, electronic, and magnetic excitations in metals, especially superconductors. His group was the first to measure the superconducting gap using Raman spectroscopy, and the resulting experimental and theoretical work from the group has laid the foundation for most of the Raman work on high-temperature superconductors.

He received the Frank Isakson Prize of the American Physical Society and was a Sloan Foundation fellow and a University of Illinois Scholar. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He continues the study of superconductors using Raman and other optical techniques, primarily through collaborations.
mvklein@illinois.edu




Wayne R. LaFave
CAS Professor Emeritus of Law
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Professor LaFave is a prominent scholar and expert in the field of criminal justice. He has written extensively on criminal law and criminal procedure, especially on the subject of arrest, search, and seizure. His work has had a profound influence on judicial decisions in these areas; his writings have been quoted or cited in more than 10,000 reported state and federal appellate court opinions, including more than 120 U.S. Supreme Court cases.

His book on arrest is the leading empirically based study on police practices. His treatise on search and seizure, published in a 6-volume fourth edition in 2004, is the standard reference work on that subject. He is the author of a treatise on criminal procedure published in a 6-volume second edition in 1999 with Jerold H. Israel and Nancy J. King; and of a treatise on substantive criminal law published in a 3-volume second edition in 2003. He was a Guggenheim Fellow (1974-75) and was named the David C. Baum Professor (1978).

Professor LaFave is currently working on a new fourth edition of the search and seizure treatise, annual updates for the other two treatises, revised editions of several books in the field of criminal procedure, and an extended analysis of how the Fourth Amendment should apply to so-called "routine traffic stops."

wlafave@law.illinois.edu




James W. Marchand
CAS Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literatures

In recent years Professor Marchand has used computer technology to decipher early manuscripts, particularly palimpsests, opening new areas of inquiry and drawing wide attention to his work. His reputation as a scholar rests largely on his publications in linguistics and philology, and he has been acknowledged as the most original personality in the study of Gothic for many years. Among the subject matters he taught were older Germanic literatures, Celtic literature, medieval music, the Western texts of Matthew, New Testament Greek, Medieval Latin, Old Irish, mechanical aids for teaching, mathematical models for linguists, computer programming, Dante, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Arthurian romance, and college-level German.

In May 2003 the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo) included a session and reception held in his honor. His work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Russian, and Japanese. He was a Guggenheim Fellow (1958) and received a research scholarship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1975-76).

marchand@illinois.edu




David Pines
CAS Professor Emeritus of Physics
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Professor Pines has received national and international recognition for his contributions to the theory of many-body systems and to theoretical astrophysics. He carried out ground-breaking studies of classical and quantum plasmas, electrons in metals, collective excitations in solids, superconductivity, superfluidity, nuclear structure, compact X-ray sources, elementary excitations and transport in helium liquids, superfluidity in neutron stars, heavy fermion systems, and, most recently, high-temperature superconductors and complex adaptive matter. The founding director of the Center for Advanced Study (1968-71), he is the founding editor of the series "Frontiers in Physics" that began in 1961, and for many years was editor of Reviews of Modern Physics. An active contributor to the National Research Council, he has been influential as an organizer of international symposia, workshops, and scientific exchange programs.

He received the Freimann Prize in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Dirac Silver Medal for the advancement of theoretical physics, Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal "for his contributions to the theory of many-body systems," and Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award (1994) of the UIUC College of Engineering for his "exemplary contributions to the understanding of physics."

He was a Guggenheim Fellow (1963, 1970), Lorentz Professor at the University of Leiden (1971), Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at CalTech (1977-78), B.T. Matthias Visiting Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1986), a visiting professor at the Collège de France (1989), S. Ulam Visiting Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1997), Regent’s Lecturer in the UCLA Department of Physics (2000), and Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, University of Cambridge (spring 2000). He is a cofounder and member of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute, where he has served as chair, board of trustees, vice-president, and cochair of the Science Board and Science Steering Committee. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; and an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is the founding codirector of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter, a multidisciplinary research program of the University of California; a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Research Professor of Physics at UIUC.

pines@lanl.gov




Charles P. Slichter
CAS Professor Emeritus of Physics
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Professor Slichter works in the area of magnetic resonance and is a leading innovator in applications of resonance techniques to understanding the structure of matter. He has worked on a variety of problems with impacts in the areas of chemistry and physics, winning broad recognition in the field of solid-state physics. His book on magnetic resonance is the standard work at its level.

He received the Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics of the American Physical Society (1969), the triennial prize of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (1986), the Comstock Prize of the National Academy of Sciences (1993), and the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize of the American Physical Society (1996). He received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo (1993) and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard University (1996). He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1955-61); a member of the Corporation of Harvard University (1970-95; the Senior Fellow, (1985-95) and a director of the Polaroid Corporation (1975-97); and served as president of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (1986-89). He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1967), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969), and the American Philosophical Society (1971).

cslichte@illinois.edu




Jack Stillinger
CAS Professor Emeritus of English
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In the 1980s Professor Stillinger launched a large theoretical and historical project on the nature of authorship to consider such basic questions as how and why writers write; how they develop; and how they interact with editors, publishers, and other collaborators. Results of this project are the books: The Eve of St. Agnes: The Multiples of Complex Literary Transaction (1999); Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems (1994); and Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius (1991). His most recent work is Romantic complexity: Keats, Coleridge, and Wordsworth (2006).

His earlier scholarship includes editions of J.S. Mill and William Wordsworth and a series of critical studies, collected in The Hoodwinking of Madeline (1971), emphasizing the realistic, skeptical, essentially antiromantic tendencies of English Romantic poetry. He has also explored the textual and publishing history of John Keats, producing first The Texts of Keats's Poems (1974) and then the definitive Harvard edition The Poems of John Keats (1978) and several volumes devoted to Keats's manuscripts. He has published 27 books and numerous articles and reviews, mainly on nineteenth-century English literature. He has held fellowships and awards from, among others, the Woodrow Wilson and Guggenheim foundations, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was the 1986 recipient of the Keats-Shelley Association’s Distinguished Scholar Award. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
jstill@illinois.edu





Philip Teitelbaum
CAS Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Professor Teitelbaum's findings in the behavioral study of hypothalamic functions have had a major influence in the area for more than thirty years. He opened up another important area of hypothalamic research, that of sensory neglect. His application of an Israeli movement-notation system to the analysis of movement disorders has led to new psychological and pharmacological insights into Parkinson's disease and related neurological disorders. He is currently applying this system to the early diagnosis of Autism. With it, he can diagnose Autism as early as six months of age—two years earlier than the age at which Autism is usually diagnosed. He has recently applied movement notation to the diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome. He can diagnose Asperger's syndrome (as a form of Autism) at six months, in comparison to the ordinary age of diagnosis at six years of age. Currently he is a graduate research professor in psychology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, working on a book titled Hierarchical Physiological Psychology.

With psychologist Evelyn Satinoff, he coedited Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology: Motivation (1983). He received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He served as president of the Division of Comparative and Physiological Psychology of the American Psychological Association (1975). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Society of Experimental Psychologists.





Ralph S. Wolfe
CAS Professor Emeritus of Microbiology
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Professor Wolfe is a general microbiologist equally at home with the biology, physiology, and chemistry of a diverse range of microbes. He is an authority on anaerobic bacteria, in particular the methanogens. He has discovered several new vitamins and coenzymes unique to methanogens and to the biochemistry of methanogenesis, fundamental contributions in an increasingly important area of microbial biochemistry.

He received the Carski Distinguished Teaching Award of the American Society for Microbiology (1971), the Selman Waksman Award in microbiology from the National Academy of Sciences (1995), the Abbott Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology (1996), and the Proctor and Gamble Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (1999). He was a Guggenheim Fellow (1960, 1975). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.





John C. Wustman
CAS Professor Emeritus of Music

A widely distinguished vocal coach-accompanist, Professor Wustman helps singers and accompanists reach their professional goals as performers, vocal and opera coaches, and teachers. In 2001 he taught a guest course at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna and master classes at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest; and traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, to serve as a jury member for the International Elena Obraztsova Opera Competition.

He has accumulated substantial expertise through accompanying Birgit Nilsson, Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergozi, Regine Crespin, and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; and coaching many of the world's greatest singers, Erie Mills, Zhou Zheng, Jerry Hadley, William Stone, Susan Dunn, Eric Halfvarson, and Nathan Gunn. Many of his former students are on the voice or accompanying faculties of major colleges and universities worldwide. He has been honored professionally with invitations to present master classes at hundreds of colleges, conservatories, and universities. He was awarded the 2007 World of Song Award by the Board of Directors of the Lotte Lehman Foundation.

jwustman@illinois.edu




R. Tom Zuidema
CAS Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

Professor Zuidema studies South American anthropology and ethnohistory. His scholarship on Inca society began in the 1960s with his dissertation on the Ceque System, the organizational framework of space and people that governed the Royal City of Cuzco and, by extension, the whole of the Inca Empire before its destruction by Pizarro in 1532-34. His early book The Ceque System of Cuzco (1964) was translated into Italian (1971) and into Spanish (1995) with a new evaluation of the problem. His lectures on Inca civilization, delivered in 1984 at the Collège de France, Paris, led to his book La Civilization Inca au Cuzco (1986) and were also published in both Spanish (1990) and English (1990). His recent publications are all related to Andean concepts of time. This year a book on the calendar in Cuzco as used by the Inca bureaucracy and in rituals ADD: will be published in Spanish.

He was appointed by Queen Juliana to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He received the François Premier Medal of the Collège de France and honorary degrees from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Lima, Peru (1993) and the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru (2003). The University of Bologna, Italy, where he lectured in 2001 and 2002, has now appointed him to life membership in its Center of Advanced Studies. He received a “Mención de Honor, International Congress of Americanists. He received a doctorate honoris causa, University of Cuzco, Peru (2006).

rtzuidem@illinois.edu



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