{"id":53036,"date":"2012-03-23T08:33:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T12:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=53036"},"modified":"2022-12-05T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:10:50","slug":"named-professorships-2012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/named-professorships-2012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointees to professorships \u2014 in colleagues&#8217; words"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53201\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/named-professorships-2012-2\/web_120308_faculty_celebration_8455\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53201\" class=\"wp-image-53201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/web_120308_Faculty_Celebration_8455.jpg\" alt=\"Former Bates President Don Harward chats with Glen Lawson (left) and Marcus Bruce, during a reception for them and others recently appointed to named professorships.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/web_120308_Faculty_Celebration_8455.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/web_120308_Faculty_Celebration_8455-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Bates President Don Harward chats with faculty members Glen Lawson (left) and Marcus Bruce during a reception for them and others recently appointed to named professorships. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Late in the afternoon of March 8, a substantial gathering of Bates faculty, staff and students in Pettengill Hall\u2019s Perry Atrium enjoyed two kinds of warmth \u2014 the rising temperatures of early spring and a very personal celebration of outstanding scholarship, teaching and service.<\/p>\n<p>The occasion was a reception honoring six faculty members recently appointed to named professorships at the college. (One could not be present.) What made the event so personal was that, instead of the appointees speaking, each was spoken about by a faculty colleague who described their work and contributions \u2014 to their field, to Bates and to larger communities. Each of the appointees will give presentations next fall during separate events sponsored by their respective departments.<\/p>\n<p>The appointees are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Marcus C. Bruce &#8217;77, Professor of Religious Studies \u2013 Benjamin E. Mays Professorship.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/named-professors-2012-bruce\/\"><em>Remarks:<\/em> Professor Thomas F. Tracy.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jane T. Costlow, Professor of Environmental Studies \u2013 Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/named-professors-2012-costlow\/\"><em>Remarks:<\/em> Professor Emeritus Carl Benton Straub.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rebecca Herzig, Professor of Women and Gender Studies \u2013Christian A. Johnson Professor \u00a0of Interdisciplinary Studies.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/named-professors-2012-herzig\/\"><em>Remarks:<\/em> Dean of the Faculty Pam Baker.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>T. Glen Lawson, Professor of Chemistry \u2013 Charles A. Dana Professorship.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/named-professors-2012-lawson\/\"><em>Remarks:<\/em> Professor Thomas J. Wenzel.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lynne Y. Lewis, Professor of Economics \u2013 Elmer W. Campbell\u00a0 Professor of Economics.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/named-professors-2012-lewis\/\"><em>Remarks:<\/em> Professor Michael P. Murray.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Erica Rand, Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Women and Gender Studies \u2013 Whitehouse Professorship.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/named-professors-2012-rand\/\"><em>Remarks:\u00a0<\/em>Professor Emily W. Kane.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interim President Nancy J. Cable welcomed the audience, which included the sixth president of Bates, Donald W. Harward, who helped recruit some of the appointees to the college; and Clayton Spencer, who will take office in July as Bates\u2019 eighth president.<\/p>\n<p>Cable set the tone of the event. \u201cWhat a good time to gather to celebrate the most fundamental purpose and reason for our relationship with Bates College \u2014 the cultivation of the life of the mind and the joy of our academic work together,\u201d she said. \u201cToday we honor faculty colleagues and scholars who have contributed in significant and meaningful ways to the quality of our academic program \u2014 as faculty, as advisors, as leaders and scholars in their respective fields.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pam Baker, dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs, offered perspective on the reasons such positions exist and their significance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEndowed professorships are established by generous donors who have a particular commitment to the intellectual life of the college and work to recognize faculty excellence in the liberal arts tradition,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that Bates currently confers more than 20 named professorships, Baker also said, \u201cThrough our endowed professorship program, Bates honors individual faculty members who have made singular contributions in their field with their inspiring teaching, inventive scholarship and dedicated service. By extension, endowed professorships honor all the faculty of the College by recognizing the importance of effective teaching and scholarly contributions of new knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Bates faculty members were honored as 2012 appointees to named professorships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-bates-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53036"}],"version-history":[{"count":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150236,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53036\/revisions\/150236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}