James R. Aist, professor of plant pathology, was named one of 10 new Fellows of the American Phytopathological Society (APS) at the society's annual meeting in July in Indianapolis. The 5,000 members of APS in the United States and 90 other countries are devoted to plant health management in agricultural, urban and forest settings.
Society for the Humanities Fellows and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows have been appointed for the 1996-97 academic year. Both fellowship programs are administered by Cornell's Society for the Humanities. Society Fellowships are awarded to scholars from other universities and members of the Cornell faculty released from regular duties. Candidates' research must be related to a particular theme, which changes annually: for the 1996-97 year, the theme is "Mapping and Remapping the Disciplines." Society Fellows spend most of their time in research and writing, but are encouraged to offer an informal seminar related to their research, explore topics they would not normally teach and experiment freely with both the content and method of their courses. The Society Fellows for 1996-97 are: Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam; Timothy Brennan (SUNY Stony Brook); Cesare Casarino (SUNY Albany); Lisa Duggan (New York University); Keith Moxey (Barnard College/Columbia University); Roy Sellars (University of Geneva, Switzerland); John Tagg (SUNY Binghamton); Ernst van Alphen (University of Leiden); Cathryn Vasseleu (University of New South Wales); and, from Cornell, Karen-Edis Barzman (History of Art), Susan Buck-Morss (Government), Daniel Gold (Asian Studies), Natalie Melas (Comparative Literature) and Sunn Shelley Wong (English/Asian American Studies Program).
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships are designed to provide postdoctoral fellowships for non-tenured scholars and teachers in the humanities and to encourage the academic growth of promising humanists with recent doctoral degrees. Mellon Fellows are affiliated with specific departments during their year at Cornell and offer one course per term under the auspices of the department. The Mellon Fellows for 1996-97 are: Hugh de Ferranti (University of Sydney, Australia); Elizabeth Digeser (University of California, Santa Barbara); Elizabeth Dillon (UC Berkeley); Steven Rubenstein (Georgetown University); and Irene Tucker (UC Berkeley).