Lifetime Achievement Award Research Articles

New in Translation: South Asian Literature in Translation: A Preview of Notable 2021 Titles

Notebook 9 new in translation South Asian Literature in Translation A Preview of Notable 2021 Titles by Jenny Bhatt SOUTH ASIA—which, per the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation definition, includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan , and the Maldives—is the most linguistically diverse region with more than 650 individual languages across six major language families: Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, AustroAsiatic , Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, and Great Andamanese. That figure does not include the many language isolates or dialects that are impossible to fully account for. Over the last decade or so, we’ve had a profusion of literary translations from many of these languages into English . While this has amply proved that some of the best literature from the subcontinent has been and continues to be written in non-English languages, there is a lack of global visibility and, indeed, demand for these works. Below is a small selection of notable 2021 books in English translation—as highlighted by their publishers—from Assamese, Gujarati, Marathi, and Tamil. While most will be initially released first in India, several will also be published in the US and the UK. Indira Goswami Five Novellas about Women Trans. Dibyajyoti Sarma Niyogi Books These impactful narratives, translated from the Assamese, depict the lives of the rural poor, the circumstances of widows, the plight of the urban underclass, and the various social constraints under which such people are forced to live. The deft use of language, striking imagery, and strong characters are hallmarks of Indira Goswami’s writing. Manada Devi An Educated Woman in Prostitution: A Memoir of Lust, Exploitation, Deceit Trans. Arunava Sinha Simon & Schuster India The 1920 Bengali classic Shikshita Patitar Atmacharit is Manada Devi’s life story. During her time, she became one of Bengal’s most powerful women. The book, translated from the Assamese, covers her upper-middle-class Calcutta roots, elopement with her lover at a young age, abandonment on getting pregnant, seeking refuge in a brothel, and more. 6 WLT SPRING 2021 Kaajal Oza Vaidya Krishnayan Trans. Subha Pande Amazon Westland (EKA Editions) Krishnayan is Gujarati literature’s biggest best-seller, having sold over two hundred thousand copies. The story starts when Krishna is injured by Jara’s arrow, per Hindu mythology, and chronicles Krishna’s last moments on earth. The most important women in his life—Radha, Rukmini, Satyabhama, and Draupadi—appear before him. The novel delves into their relationships with Krishna and what they meant to him. Sane Guruji Shyamchi Aai Trans. Shanta Gokhale Penguin Random House India (Puffin) Pandurang Sadashiv Sane, known as Sane Guruji to his students and followers , was a Marathi author, teacher, social activist, and freedom fighter. This seminal Marathi classic is a poignant account of a life of poverty, hard work, sacrifice, and love for one’s mother. Writer and translator Shanta Gokhale is a winner of the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award. Perumal Murugan Four Strokes of Luck Trans. Nandini Krishnan Juggernaut From one of India’s most acclaimed and beloved modern writers, this is a collection translated from the Tamil that will delight every admirer of Perumal Murugan and introduce new readers to his hallmark empathy, humanity, and humor. These stories of lives on the margins, of loners and outcasts seeking meaning and happiness, are tender, heartbreaking, and always surprising. Jenny Bhatt (jennybhattwriter.com) is a writer, literary translator, book critic, and the host of the Desi Books podcast. Her story collection, Each of Us Killers, was out in the US in September 2020, and her literary translation, Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, appeared in India in October 2020. She lives in the Dallas, Texas, area and teaches fiction at Writing Workshops Dallas. Visit worldlit.org to read a longer version of this piece, with more of Bhatt’s recommendations. WORLDLIT.ORG 7 ...

INVITED ARTICLE FROM THE 2021 TEXAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE TEXAS DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST

Donna Shaver is the Chief of the Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery at Padre Island National Seashore and the Texas Coordinator of the U.S. Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sea Turtle Society in 2018, the 2013 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Recovery Champion Award for Agency Partner in 2014, the Corpus Christi Caller Times 2011 Newsmaker of the Year in 2012, and she was the ABC World News Tonight’s Person of the Week on July 29, 2005. She has studied Texas sea turtles since 1980 and is well known for her leadership role in the recovery of the critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. Her studies describing sea turtle migratory and foraging habitat use, as well as nesting and stranding trends, have led to increased protections for sea turtles in Texas and beyond. With over 400 scientific publications and presentations, Shaver is distinguished as one of the top sea turtle biologists in the USA and was named the 2021 Texas Distinguished Scientist at the annual meeting of the Texas Academy of Science. Shaver oversees a variety of sea turtle research and conservation projects conducted in Texas, collaborates with other researchers in the USA and Mexico, and provides training and leadership to hundreds of biologists and volunteers working with sea turtles in Texas.

UAAC/AAUC Recognition Award and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020

UAAC/AAUC Recognition Award and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 / Le prix de reconnaissance et le prix pour l’ensemble des réalisations de l’UAAC / AAUC pour l’année 2020. Un article de la revue RACAR : Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review (Volume 46, numéro 1, 2021, p. 3-134) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

A journey through psychiatry - A personal perspective.

A journey through psychiatry - A personal perspective.

Tony Gershlick: pioneering cardiologist

Photo credit: British Heart Foundation Tony Gershlick, professor at the University of Leicester, was at the forefront of cardiology research for more than 30 years, despite struggling at school with...

Colloquy: Shadow Culture Narratives: Race, Gender, and American Music Historiography

Colloquy: Shadow Culture Narratives: Race, Gender, and American Music Historiography

Daniel A. Strickman 1953–2020

The field of Medical Entomology has lost a valued entomologist, contributor, colleague, and friend. I have personally lost a close friend with whom I have spent years with discussing pressing challenges in mosquito biology and control. I first met Dan when we both were graduate students with Professor William R. Horsfall at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dan earned his MS in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1978. We both worked on floodwater mosquitoes. Dan and I used to jokingly argue about who processed more dirt from Allerton Park on the Sangamon River floodplain looking for eggs and oviposition sites. We both learned operational mosquito control as entomologists for the Macon Mosquito Abatement District in Decatur, IL. Dan was a quiet man with a unique sense of humor coupled with an outstanding logic for problem solving. He was naturally inquisitive and definitely not dogmatic. He was open and loved to discuss well thought out mosquito and vector control challenges, especially when based on data, observation, or documented information.Dr. Strickman was interested in insects and arthropods at an early age and began his pursuit towards his future professional career as a biologist/entomologist at Dartmouth College and received his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of California-Riverside in 1974.During his career, Dr. Strickman worked in a broad scope of professional responsibilities including medical entomology, operational pest and vector control, research, and management. His career spanned areas from a field researcher to administrative positions in the US military as Chief of Department of Entomology at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and the US Department of Agriculture where he held the position of National Program Leader for Veterinary Medical and Urban Entomology and the Acting Director of Overseas Biological Control Laboratories. Although his dominant research focused on mosquitoes, he also worked and contributed knowledge from his studies of tabanids, chiggers, and rodents. His expertise on the parasites and insect vectors causing rickettsia, malaria, and dengue were also key areas and research challenges that intrigued him. His contributions made a significant impact to our knowledge of these vectors regarding both their biology and control. He authored 115 peer-reviewed articles, 16 book chapters, and four books. During his career, an example of his valued expertise is illustrated in the breadth of positions he held, beginning with the US State Department (Peace Corps), the US military (22 years in the Air Force and Army), mosquito abatement (Santa Clara County, CA), the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (National Program Leader for Veterinary, Medical, and Urban Entomology and Director of Overseas Laboratories), and finally the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Senior Program Officer, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases). Even in retirement Dan drove to his entomological roots by volunteering his expertise to the Burke Museum of Natural History at the University of Washington, working to curate and examine the museum's collection of fossil insects.During his career, he spent 10 years in countries outside of the USA, including in Latin America, Southwest Asia, East Asia, and Europe. His awards reflect his quality and contributions, including the US military's Legion of Merit and Bronze Star, the US EPA Bronze Medal, the Presidential GreenGov award, the American Mosquito Control Association's John Belkin Award, and the Society for Vector Ecology's Lifetime Achievement Award. Dan was instrumental in supporting the Society of Vector Ecology's annual student competition as our Gates Foundation representative. Dan served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association for 13 years.His most recent book is Mosquitoes of the World, to appear in print in 2020 (D. Strickman, R.C. Wilkerson, and Y.-M. Linton, Johns Hopkins University Press). This final work by Dan will be published posthumously. A tribute for a true medical entomologist, a vector control specialist and biologist. He will be missed by many. We have lost a dedicated scholar, colleague, and friend of the American Mosquito Control Association.

Catherine Lord: changing futures for people with autism

“I'm not sure how interested people will be”, starts clinical psychologist Catherine Lord (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA). In 2019, Lord received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), in recognition of more than five decades invested in the study of autism and related disorders. I have a hunch that Lord, currently the George Tarjan Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, will have an interesting tale, or two.

John F. Santos (1924–2020).

John F. Santos, a pioneer in gerontology, was born May 23, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Following World War II Army service, he completed bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in psychology from Tulane University (PhD, 1958). John married Mary Alice Nesmith in 1946. They had five children. Recognition of Santos's service and contributions included APA's Division 20 fellow (1985), the division's 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award for Continuous Support of Research & Training in the Psychology of Adult Development and Aging, and the 2009 creation of the John Santos Distinguished Program Development in Clinical Gerontology Award, with John being the first recipient. Notre Dame's Psychology Department established the John F. Santos Award for Distinctive Achievement in Psychology in 1991. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

American Society for Ethnohistory Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 Recipients

Research Article| October 01 2020 American Society for Ethnohistory Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 Recipients Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (4): 665–669. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8579622 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation American Society for Ethnohistory Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 Recipients. Ethnohistory 1 October 2020; 67 (4): 665–669. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8579622 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsEthnohistory Search Advanced Search Elizabeth Hill Boone, Professor, Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art, Tulane University. Elizabeth Hill Boone has, for several decades, been among the leading voices in the study of Indigenous arts and culture in Mexico. Elizabeth completed her PhD in art history at the University of Texas in 1977, and she went on to serve as the director of Pre-Columbian Studies and curator of the Pre-Columbian Collection at Dumbarton Oaks from 1983–95. In 1995, Elizabeth joined the faculty at Tulane University, where she currently holds the Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art.Elizabeth’s intellectual endeavors have shaped the way we understand Aztec art, pictorial codices, and the relationship between art and writing. Trying to distill decades worth of Elizabeth’s accomplishments into a few brief paragraphs proved impossible. The list of meaningful honors and publications is too long to include here, to say nothing of the... Issue Section: Articles You do not currently have access to this content.

No sense of place in a biodiversity hotspot

This essay is based on my 2019 George Seddon Memorial Lecture at the University of Western Australia. Professor George Seddon AM (1927–2007), had a Ph.D. in geology but held the Chair of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales and later became Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies and the Dean of Architecture and Planning at Melbourne University. Across five decades he held Chairs in four different disciplines (English, University of Western Australia; Geology, University of Oregon; History and Philosophy of Science, University of New South Wales; Environmental Science, University of Melbourne) and taught at universities in Lisbon, Toronto, Bologna, Rome, Venice, Minnesota and Oregon. He was awarded the Eureka Prize from the Australian Museum in 1995, the Mawson Medal from the Academy of Science in 1996 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Planning Institute of Australia.

Editorial introductions

Editorial introductions

Editorial introductions

Editorial introductions

The Revolution in Pediatric Drug Development and Drug Use: Therapeutic Orphans No More.

This lecture was given by Dr. Burckart in association with presentation of the 2014 Sumner J. Yaffe Lifetime Achievement Award in Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics, which is selected by the Pediatric Pharmacy Association. Multiple factors make conducting drug studies in the pediatric population difficult, resulting in a historic lack of information surrounding safe and efficacious drug dosing in children. The paradigm in pediatric drug development has shifted from normal science being that children are therapeutic orphans in the drug development system, to a model drift caused by pediatric legislation, to a model crisis caused by failed pediatric drug development trials, to finally a model revolution that includes pediatric patients routinely in drug development. Major regulatory actions and the accumulation of scientific evidence has created an environment where clinicians can expect properly labeled drug usage information for the pediatric population.

ASR News & Announcements

In many ways, the Association for the Sociology of Religion is in excellent shape as we enter 2021. The planning for our meeting in Chicago—“Communicating Religion’s Relevance”—is underway, and we continue moving forward with Oxford University Press as the publisher of our journal, Gerardo Marti as its outgoing editor, and Joseph O. Baker as its incoming editor. The 2021 meeting is being organized by our Program Committee, ASR 2020–2021 President, James C. Cavendish, our Program Chair, Brian Starks, and me as your Executive Officer. We can look forward to engaging sessions, Presidential and Furfey (Kelsey Burke) lectures, and receptions. Our opening night reception will be on Saturday, August 7 during which we will have our awards ceremony to recognize the winners of the McNamara Student Paper Award, Distinguished Sociology of Religion Article Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. We will continue our two-day meeting pattern with approximately five to seven simultaneous sessions taking place throughout Sunday and Monday, August 8 and 9.

Reflections upon receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award

“Behind every great man is a wife rolling her eyes.” —Jim CarreySeveral years ago, I was fortunate to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia chapter of the American College of Cardio...

In Memoriam: Susan E. Bennett (1955–2020)

It is impossible to fully capture the extraordinary life of Susan E. Bennett in a few paragraphs. For over 40 years, Sue dedicated her life to serving her patients, students, and the rehabilitation profession. After graduating with her physical therapy degree in 1977, Sue had an immediate fondness for treating patients with neurologic dysfunction and often spoke of the experience that sparked her interest in multiple sclerosis (MS). During a roundtable meeting, a person with MS challenged her by stating that physical therapists had “no idea how to treat” people with the disease. Sue took this message to heart and initiated one of the very first studies examining how exercise affects MS symptoms and quality of life. She always said “and guess what… they got better!” With the evidence to support her, Sue developed an MS wellness program in 1994 that still runs today!As her expertise in MS developed, Sue’s national presence in the field of neurologic rehabilitation increased as well. She was an accomplished professor and scholar who published impactful original research in major scientific journals. Sue was actively sought out as a highly regarded speaker both nationally and internationally. Her interest in MS eventually led her to take on multiple leadership positions within the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC). In 2004, Sue, along with other contributors, started the “Rehabilitation Research Interest Group,” which then blossomed into the International Organization of MS Rehabilitation Therapists (IOMSRT). By 2008 she was elected to the executive committee as Treasurer and assisted in the creation of the MS Rehabilitation Therapy Specialty Training in 2009. In 2010 she received the CMSC’s Labe Scheinberg Award for research most likely to impact care in MS. Sue went on to eventually be appointed to the position of President of the CMSC in 2012. In 2016 the CMSC awarded her with the Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes an individual whose decades-long commitment has driven significant advances in the care of people with MS. She was the first rehabilitation professional to have received this award.Her accolades are too vast to mention them all, and she would be the first one to gloss over them. Personally, Sue was dedicated to helping those in her community. For many years she celebrated Thanksgiving by making meals and delivering them to her homebound patients. In 2015, she founded a not-for-profit organization (The WNY Center for Neurologic Wellness) to support wellness services for individuals with neurologic conditions. She even spent time mentoring foster children. Sue loved to travel and socialize with friends, and she was an avid bike rider. She also had an incredibly caring heart for all animals, especially golden retrievers.From her first experience with physical therapy until her last weeks of life, Sue was dedicated to improving her patients’ lives, even while battling her own physical symptoms. Sue has touched the lives of and imparted her values of service, dedication, and empathy to many thousands of patients, students, friends, and health care providers. She was so much to so many people and will be profoundly missed.

The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America: Their Societies, Cultures, and Histories

One of the inaugural recipients of our Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award, anthropologist Robert M. Carmack continues to enrich the field of Mesoamerican studies, the book under review one of several publications to appear since his retirement, a prodigiously fruitful one, after more than three decades of distinguished service at SUNY Albany. Compact yet wide ranging, The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America is a synthesis of sorts, distilling the findings of Carmack’s sustained, assiduous labors since he filed his doctoral dissertation over half a century ago (Carmack 1965). That he draws still on data first unearthed in the archives or generated in the field when he was a graduate student at UCLA under the supervision of the inimitable H. B. Nicholson (1925—2007) says much about research forays undertaken not only to acquire a PhD but also to ensure outcomes that endure and continue to be relevant, a source of knowledge for generations to come.In an introduction that spells out what lies ahead for the reader—these days not always the case in many such endeavors—Carmack states succinctly that his goal is to “elaborate on the overarching history of the Central American native peoples, with references also to Mesoamerican influence on them through time.” He opts to “describe these little-known native peoples in highly humanistic terms,” doing so by placing “considerable emphasis on the nature of their indigenous societies, cultures, and countless internal and external struggles over many centuries” (ix).Carmack begins his honed narration with a discussion of the advanced, sophisticated character of the peoples under study. His first three chapters steer us, in turn, through (1) Spanish exploratory voyages and Central American geography, delineating the region’s teeming resources; (2) the state of cultural development in the three broad units that constitute his spatial embrace, which he identifies as northern (including the Yucatán peninsula and highland Guatemala), central (western Honduras, El Salvador, and the Pacific coast of Nicaragua), and southern (Costa Rica and Panama); and (3) contact scenarios between invading Spanish forces and the indigenous groups to which their imperial ventures exposed them. Chapter 4 relays how Mesoamerican influences emanating from Mexico shaped Central American mores. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 offer case studies over the longue durée from the three units identified as northern, central, and southern, set (respectively) among the K’iche’ Maya of Guatemala; the Chorotegas of Masaya, in Nicaragua; and the Chibchans of Buenos Aires, Costa Rica. Carmack concludes proceedings adroitly in chapter 8, viewing the experiences of the native groups examined “as the result of both external and internal sociocultural forces that prevailed in the Central American regions during their pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern historical time periods” (xi). His exposition, beginning to end, is effectively a summing up of his life’s work.Carmack levels with readers at the outset, stating plainly that he has “drawn freely from a previous book in Spanish which deals exclusively with the Central American region” (xi), a volume that he edited and to which he contributed two substantive chapters (Carmack 1994). This is important to note, because a good number of the sources cited in The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America do not appear in its bibliography but in that of the volume Carmack edited a quarter-century ago. The decision not to include them is a pity, indeed a curious editorial choice given Carmack’s acumen, prowess, and precision in that regard in other undertakings, best exemplified by Quichean Civilization, his magnum opus (Carmack 1973). Perhaps this might be borne in mind when a future edition of the book is contemplated. So, too, might other infelicities be attended to, among them locating Tikal in “Yucatan, Mexico” (34) (it is in Guatemala’s Petén region); denoting encomiendas as “royal land grants” (117) (they were awards of Indian tribute, not territory); and misspelling Colombia on figure 1.1 (2) as “Columbia.” These are minor snafus easily fixed, and they in no way detract from a stellar offering from, as Allen Christenson conveys on his back-cover endorsement, “one of the great scholars of our time.”Carmack closes with some trenchant thoughts on indigenous legacy. “The fact that descendants of former Central American native peoples have remained almost equal in numbers (around 5 million) to the total aboriginal population encountered in the region at the time of Spanish contact,” he observes, “is truly an extraordinary human survival achievement.” This is emphatically the case “in the context of the continued repression to which they have been subjected through the centuries” (119), nowhere more tragically so than in Guatemala in the early 1980s and the past two years in Nicaragua. Despite the iniquities inflicted on them, the indigenous peoples of Central America endure.

Society for palliative radiation oncology: report from the Sixth Annual Meeting [2019

The Society for Palliative Radiation Oncology (SPRO) is an international professional group dedicated to advancing the field of palliative radiation oncology by promoting evidence-based palliative radiotherapy and excellence in primary palliative care through research, education, collaboration, and patient advocacy. SPRO held its 6th Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, USA on September 15th, 2019. The goals from SPRO's 5th Annual Meeting and progress towards those goals were reviewed, new research and educational opportunities were discussed, short- and long-term goals for the Society were detailed, and research and lifetime achievement awards were bestowed. This Meeting Report summarizes the proceedings of the 6th Annual Meeting and described future directions for SPRO.

Building Teams and Trust: An Interview With Ann Marie T. Brooks.

This year, Ann Marie T. Brooks, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, FACHE, FNAP, President at Mount Carmel College of Nursing, Columbus, Ohio, received the American Organization for Nursing Leadership's (AONL's) prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors an AONL member recognized by the nursing community as a significant leader in the nursing profession and who has served AONL in an important leadership capacity. Brooks served as president of the AONL board of directors and previously received AONL's Mentor Award. In her career, she held a series of executive nurse positions at universities, academic health centers, and community hospitals, such as dean at the Catholic University of America and chief nurse executive at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York.Dr Brooks has extensive global nursing leadership experience including serving as chief nursing officer at King Faisal Hospital & Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her experience as a Magnet appraiser for the past 18 years keeps her current with how nurse leaders and clinical nurses develop and embed leading practices in nursing and healthcare. To learn more about her insights and hopes for nurse leaders, AONL Managing Editor Terese Hudson Thrall posed these questions.