Winners of Bushnell Faculty Award in teaching and writing announced
WILLIAMSTOWN - Williams College has announced the recipients of the college's Nelson S. Bushnell '20 Faculty Awards. Since 1995, the annual award has honored faculty members whose practice in writing and in teaching conforms notably to standards of good usage. The recipients are Michael J. Lewis (art), Laurie Heatherington (psychology), and David Richardson (chemistry).Lewis is the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art History. He specializes in American art as well as European architectural history.
He is the author of "American Art and Architecture" (Thames & Hudson, 2006), "Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind" (W. W. Norton, 2001), and "August Reichensperger: The Politics of the German Gothic Revival" (Architectural History Foundation, 1993), which won the Society of Architectural Historians' Alice Davis Hitchcock Prize for book of the year. His essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, and Commentary.
Recently awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship grant, he will spend next year at work on "Cities of Refuge: The Pietist Tradition in Town Planning."
Before joining the Williams faculty in 1993, Lewis taught at Bryn Mawr College and McGill University. He received his B.A. in economics from Haverford College and his Ph.D. in architectural history from the University of Pennsylvania. He also studied at the University of Hanover, Germany.
Heatherington is chair and the Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of Psychology. Her work focuses on family therapy change processes, the therapeutic alliance, cognition in family relationships, and gender and social relationships.
She serves on the editorial boards of Psychotherapy Research, Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, and Psychotherapy Theory, Research, Practice, Training and has published numerous empirical and theoretical articles in these and other scholarly journals. She is co-author of "Therapeutic Alliances in Couple and Family Therapy" (American Psychological Association, 2006) and "The Psychology of Adjustment" (Allyn & Bacon, 1998).
Her series of studies in the 1990s on gender differences among first-year college students in forecasting their GPAs, received attention from mainstream media, including Redbook Magazine and NPR. She has held grants from NIMH, NSF-ILIP program, and the Radcliffe College Research Support Program.
Heatherington taught at the University of Scranton before joining the Williams faculty in 1984. Among the courses she teaches at Williams are "Clinical and Community Psychology" and "Psychotherapy: Theory and Research."
She received her B.A. from Miami University and her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut.
Richardson is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry. His research interests include the isolation, characterization, and synthesis of natural products. His studies have spanned toxic compounds in tree resins used on poison-tipped darts, the chemical ecology of a plant growing in Hopkins Forest, and PCB pollution in the Hoosic River watershed. His research has appeared in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Tetrahedron, Journal of Chemical Ecology, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, and Journal of Chemical Education.
Richardson teaches a number of organic chemistry courses and a course titled "Toxicology and Cancer." He has won numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, and with support from the Ford Foundation, developed an advanced research-oriented lab course for students in intermediate-level organic chemistry.
He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined Williams College in 1986, after completing postdoctoral studies at Cornell University.
