{"id":2740,"date":"2018-01-25T16:21:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2018-01-25T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:21:07","slug":"yannakakis-and-rogers-honored-with-named-chair-professorships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2018\/01\/25\/yannakakis-and-rogers-honored-with-named-chair-professorships\/","title":{"rendered":"Yannakakis and Rogers Honored with Named Chair Professorships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2741 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2018\/01\/yy_tdr.png\" alt=\"yy_tdr\" width=\"429\" height=\"556\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/yannakakis-yanna.html\">Yanna\u00a0Yannakakis<\/a> and Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/rogers-thomas.html\">Thomas D. Rogers<\/a> for receiving named chair professorships. Associate Professor of History and a specialist in colonial Mexico, Yannakakis received the\u00a0Winship Distinguished Research Professorship in History for the 2018-2021 term. Rogers is Associate Professor of Modern Latin American History and will serve as the\u00a0NEH\/Arthur Blank Distinguished Teaching Professor for the same period. Read more about these named chairs below, and view others available to Emory Faculty <a href=\"http:\/\/college.emory.edu\/main\/news\/newsletter\/faculty-focus\/2017-04-07-newsletter.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> Winship Distinguished Research Award <\/strong>is given to tenured faculty who demonstrate singular accomplishments in research. Such recognition should honor achievement and further scholarly research and research-based teaching. Awarded for a three-year term.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> Arthur Blank\/NEH Chair in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences <\/strong>is given to tenured faculty in the humanities and\/or humanistic social sciences with a record of exemplary teaching and a commitment to pedagogical rigor and innovation. Appointees are expected to organize programming designed to enhance pedagogy and curricular development in the College, and continue teaching in her\/his department(s), including at least one introductory level course each year. One leadership function of the NEH professors will be to serve on a newly formed advisory committee on Pedagogy and Curriculum. Awarded for a three-year term.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr. Yanna\u00a0Yannakakis and Dr. Thomas D. Rogers for receiving named chair professorships. Associate Professor of History and a specialist in colonial Mexico, Yannakakis received the\u00a0Winship Distinguished Research Professorship in History for the 2018-2021 term. Rogers is Associate Professor of Modern Latin American History and will serve as the\u00a0NEH\/Arthur Blank Distinguished Teaching Professor for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,19,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-faculty","category-research","category-teaching","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}