BUCH Director Professor Susan Mizruchi Installed as William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities
On November 21st, Center for the Humanities Director Professor Susan Mizruchi will be installed by Dean Ann Cudd as the inaugural William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities in an event celebrating the installment of five newly appointed CAS endowed chairs at the university.
The gift agreement with the Arrowsmith family states that “the William Arrowsmith Professor should be a person of clear vision of education that grows out of a mastery of a traditional scholarly discipline in classics or the humanities, a mastery demonstrated both in teaching and in publications.” In her letter to Professor Mizruchi, Dean Cudd noted: “Your distinguished career has produced a considerable body of scholarship at the intersection of social, religious, and literary studies, including five acclaimed books and many articles in leading peer-reviewed journals. You have also been awarded some of your field’s highest honors, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library, and the Fulbright Scholars Program. These achievements make you a very worthy inaugural holder of this distinguished chair.”
The titles of Professor Mizruchi’s books are: Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work (Norton, 2015); The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915 (UNC, 2008); Religion and Cultural Studies (Princeton, 2001); The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory (Princeton, 1998); and The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser (Princeton, 1985).