Tambiah Named Winner of Huxley Medal

Stanley Tambiah, the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, was elected the Huxley Memorial Lecturer and Medalist for 1997. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

The award ceremony and lecture took place last month in London. Tambiah's topic was "Transnational Movements, Multiculturalism, and Ethnonationalism."

This was the second major honor Tambiah received in 1997. In November, he was awarded the Balzan Prize, considered by many to rival the Nobel Prize in prestige (see the Oct. 23, 1997, Gazette). Tambiah is known for his studies of Buddhist societies and of ethnonationalist conflicts and collective violence in South Asia.

Venkatesh Recogized for Research on Youth

The National Academy of Sciences has recognized Sudhir Venkatesh, Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows, for his research, "Toward Community-Based Interventions Into Street Gang Activity." His was one of nine awards to young and midcareer scholars whose research on children, youth, and families warrants the attention of national decisionmakers. All of the scholars will present their research at a May 7 symposium.

Kleinman Lectures at Finnish Society of Anthropology

Arthur Kleinman, professor of social anthropology and Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Medical School, recently delivered the annual Edvard Westermarck Lecture to the Finnish Society of Anthropology in Helsinki. His talk was titled, "From One Human Nature to Many Human Conditions: An Anthropological Enquiry into Suffering as Moral Experience in a Disordering Age."

Voigt Elected President of Fundraising Group

Bradford W. Voigt, director of Leadership Gifts for the Kennedy School of Government, has been elected president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives (NSFRE). Voigt has been a fundraising executive for the past 15 years, during which time he has directed 11 capital campaigns and raised more than $130 million, as well as directed a number of successful capital campaigns for nonprofit organizations in New England, including the Boston Ballet and Beth Israel Hospital.