Santa Clara University

University Award for Recent Achievement in Scholarship

The University Award for Recent Achievement in Scholarship recognizes scholarly or creative work over the previous five years by a faculty member that represents a major contribution to a field of knowledge or to the arts.

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2012 Award Winner

Lisa Kealhofer

Anthropology

Lisa Kealhofer demonstrates the power of interdisciplinarity to shed new light on long-standing questions. An expert in identifying things that are so small that they can be seen only with a microscope, our colleague then links them to the big questions of how cultures develop and decline. A recognized expert in the archaeology of southeast Asia and Turkey, she has been awarded significant research support by the National Science Foundation, the Australian Research Council and the School for Advanced Research. Her work has influenced the scope of research questions addressed in her field and the methodologies used to address those questions. And, she has pushed for regional-scale archaeological research to demonstrate that examining patterns across multiple sites within a region can shed new light on long-standing anthropological questions.

2011  Award Winner

Fabio Lopez-Lazaro

History

Fabio Lopez-Lazaro has produced an extraordinary body of excellent scholarship over the last five years, including two important books, five major articles, and scholarly papers delivered around the world. His wide-ranging and meticulously researched works deal with law, ethnobotany, history, gender, early modern political theory, and pirates. His range of thematic concerns parallels his cultural and linguistic interests: eight research languages, archival work all over the world, and conference presentations in London, Spain, Morocco and Holland. His most recent book represents an extraordinary scholarly breakthrough. Through painstaking archival sleuthing, he overturned 400 years of “common knowledge” by discovering solid evidence that a work which for centuries has been presumed to be a novel is in fact a historical text about a historical figure. The resulting study has already begun to have a significant impact on his and related fields as scholars now rethink earlier analyses and assumptions about the (now) non-fiction narrative The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez.

Faculty Development Program

Eileen Razzari Elrod
Assoc. Vice Provost for Faculty Development
St. Joseph's Hall, #124
408-554-4136

Anne Riconosciuto
Administrative Associate
St. Joseph's Hall, #113
408-554-2746

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