Academic Awards Committee

The Academic Awards Committee of the Columbia College Student Council is recruited each fall for the purpose of selecting the winners of the Mark Van Doren Award and Lionel Trilling Book Award.

Members of the committee observe the classroom teaching of faculty members nominated for the Van Doren Award, and read all the book-length scholarly publications by faculty members in the previous calendar year for the Trilling Award.

Committee members then host a dinner during which they present the awards to the selected faculty members.

Winners of the Lional Trilling Book Award

• 1976 - Edward W. Said (English and Comparative Lit.), Beginnings
• 1977 - Fritz Stern (History), Gold and Iron: Bismark, Bleichroder, and the Building of the German Empire
• 1978 - Morton Smith (History), Jesus the Magician
• 1980 - Istvan Deak (History), The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849
• 1981 - Peter Pouncey (Classics), Necessities of War: A Study of Thucydides’ Pessimism
• 1982 - Arthur C. Danto (Philosophy), The Transfiguration of the Commonplace
• 1983 - Wm. Theodore deBary (EALAC), Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind-and-Heart
• 1984 - W.T.H. Jackson (German, posthumous), The Hero and the King: An Epic Theme
• 1987 - Carol Gluck (History), Japan’s Modern Myths
• 1988 - Robert Murphy (Anthropology), The Body Silent
• 1989 - Eric Foner (History), Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
• 1990 - Andrew Delbanco (English and Comparative Lit.), The Puritan Ordeal
• 1991 - David Cannadine (History), The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
• 1992 - Caroline Walker Bynum (History), Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
• 1993 - Karl Kroeber (English and Comparative Lit.), Retelling: Rereading the Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times
• 1994 - Edward W. Said (English and Comparative Lit.), Culture and Imperialism
  • Diana Trilling (special award), The Beginning of the Journey; The Marriage of Lionel and Diana Trilling
• 1995 - Robert Pollack (Biology), Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA
• 1996 - Ann Douglas (English and Comparative Lit.), Terrible Honesty: The Mongrelization of Manhattan in the 20s
  • Simon Schama (History), Landscape and Memory
• 1997 - Ira Katznelson (History), Working Class Formation
• 1998 - Robert Jervis (Political Science), System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life
• 1999 - Robert Lieberman (Political Science), Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State
• 2000 - Hamid Dabashi (MEALAC), Truth and Narrative. The Untimely Thoughts of ‘Ayn al-Qudat al Hamadhan.
  • Brian Greene (Mathematics), The Elegant Universe
• 2001 – Jonathan Crary (Art History), Suspension or Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture
• 2002 – Nicholas B Dirks (Anthropology) Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India
• 2003 – William V. Harris (History) Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity
• 2004 – Philip Kitcher (Philosophy) In Mendel’s Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology
• 2005 – Alan D.E. Cameron (Classics) Greek Mythography in the Roman World
• 2006 – Andrew Delbanco (English) Melville: His World and Work
• 2007 – Sheldon Pollock (MEALAC) The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture and Power in Premodern India
• 2008 – Joseph Massad (MEALAC) Desiring Arabs
• 2009 – Mark Mazower (History) Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
• 2010 – Katharina Volk (Classics) Manilius and His Intellectual Background.
• 2011 – James Shapiro (English & Comparative Literature) Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
• 2012 - David Lurie (EALAC) Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing
• 2013 - Boris Gasparov (Slavic Languages) Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de Saussure’s Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents

External links

• http://www.college.columbia.edu/aboutcc/news/vandoren_trilling.php