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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES NewsMakers
Bell Garners French Award, Re-releases Book Daniel Bell, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, is the recipient of the Tocqueville Prize of France, which is given to a thinker whose work exemplifies the spirit of Alexis de Tocqueville. Previous winners have included philosopher Karl Popper and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. In addition, Bell's The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, will be republished by Basic Books in an anniversary edition with a new 30,000-word foreword by Bell. Finally, Bell participated this summer in a Library of Congress symposium – "The Frontiers of the Mind: The 21st Century" – in which 20 leaders from various disciplines presented papers on the history and the prospects of their disciplines. Bell read a paper on "The End-Game of Western Sociology."Business School's Caves Receives Honorary Degree The London Business School has bestowed an honorary degree on Richard E. Caves, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, in recognition of "his outstanding contribution to research and teaching excellence in business economics." A member of both the Business School and Economics faculties for many years, Caves focused on industrial economics, especially in regard to international markets and multinational enterprises. He chaired Harvard's Ph.D. Program in Business Economics for more than a decade. Graduate Student Wins Woodrow Wilson Fellowship A Woodrow Wilson dissertation grant in women's studies, awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, has been awarded to Kirsten D. Sword, a graduate student in the history of American civilization, whose project is "Wayward Wives, Runaway Slaves, and Limits of Patriarchal Authority in Early America." The grant award is $1,500. The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies was the first program to encourage scholarship about women and is still the only national source of support in the field for graduate students who are completing their doctoral studies in preparation for careers as scholars and teachers.
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