November 18, 2004

Honors

Three noted art historians will come to Northwestern as Visiting Mary Jane Crowe professors of art history during this academic year.

They are Susan Huntington, Distinguished University Professor in the department of history of art at The Ohio State University; Michael Ann Holly, director of research and academic programs at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass.; and Keith Moxey, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University.

Huntington, who also is vice provost for graduate studies and dean of the Graduate School at Ohio State, has been described as this country’s foremost expert on Hindu art and architecture. Her book, “Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain” (1985) has been called the bible for studying early Indian art.

Holly’s primary area of research is the intellectual history of the discipline of art history. She is author or co-editor of several books and essays, including “The Subjects of Art History: Historical Objects in Contemporary Perspective” (1998).

Moxey is the author of several books on the historiography and philosophy of the history of art, including “The Practice of Persuasion: Politics and Paradox in Art History” (2001), which has been translated into Korean and Spanish.

Albert Alschuler, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Chicago Law School, has been named the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor.

Alschuler has written on legal history and ethics, American legal theory, William Blackstone and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as on topics in criminal justice such as confessions, courtroom conduct, plea bargaining, sentencing reform, privacy, search and seizure, and jury selection.

David Austen-Smith, professor of managerial economics and decision sciences, has been named the Earl Dean Howard Distinguished Professor of Political Economy.

Austen-Smith transferred to the Kellogg School in September from the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences where he was Ethel and John Lindgren Professor of Political Science and Economics. He also is director of the Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences Masters Program

Austen-Smith’s teaching and research interests are in positive political theory, political economy, social choice and game theory.

Steven Calabresi, professor of law, has been named the George C. Dix Professor of Constitutional Law.

From 1985 to 1990 Calabresi served in the Reagan and Bush administrations in turn as special assistant to the assistant to the president for domestic affairs, as a speechwriter to Vice-President Dan Quayle, and as a special assistant to Attorney General Edwin Meese III.

Calabresi was a research associate at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research from 1988-90. He served as law clerk to Antonin Scalia, justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and has also clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals judges Robert H. Bork and Ralph K. Winter.

In 1982 Calabresi co-founded The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.

Richard W. Carthew, professor of biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology, has been named the Owen L. Coon Professor in Molecular Biology.

Carthew’s research explores how molecular signals are decoded into information that controls cell differentiation and morphogenesis during development using the fruit fly Drosophila as a model system. A major focus of the laboratory is the cellular and molecular events underlying the patterning and differentiation of photoreceptor cells in the eye.

One of the more remarkable stories in biology over the past decade has been the discovery that an unusual form of RNA mediates silencing of genes in eukaryotes.

S. Hollis Clayson, professor of art history, has been named the Martin J. and Patricia Koldyke Outstanding Teaching Professor.

A historian of modern art, Clayson specializes in 19th century Europe with a particular concentration on France. Her current work centers on late 19th-century American artists in Paris.

She is author or editor of three books, most recently “Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life Under Siege (1870-71),” published in 2002.