NEW YORK – Two faculty members from Amherst College and one from Smith College are among the winners of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellowships, which provide stipends to support scholars who are addressing challenges to democracy and international order.
Lawrence Douglas and Katharine R.E. Sims of Amherst College are joined by Daniel K. Gardner of Smith College and 30 other fellows from around the country. Each fellow is awarded a $200,000 stipend to allow the academics time to devote to their research and writing.
Douglas is chairman of Amherst College’s department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought and a faculty member of the Creative Writing Center. Much of his research focuses on the exploration of war crimes trials as tools for responding to mass atrocities.
His most recent book, “The Right Wrong Man” assesses the struggles that the American, Israeli and German legal systems faced in dealing with collaborators in the Nazi genocide, according to the college website.
Sims is an assistant professor of economics at Amherst whose research focuses on how land conservation policies affect environmental and economic outcomes.
One of her most recent projects explored the effectiveness of a Mexican program that pays landowners for protecting forests, both in terms of environmental conservation and the alleviation of poverty, according to the college website.
Gardner is a professor of history at Smith who specializes in the history of pre-modern China and environmental issues in that country today.
His book “Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know,” is set to be released soon, according to the college website.
The fellowships are awarded by the Carnegie Corporation, which was founded in 1911.
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