Four UNLV faculty members have been selected to receive Barrick Awards for the 2000-2001 academic year in recognition of their record of distinguished research or creative activity.
The recipients of the Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award are English professor John Bowers, English professor Mark Weinstein, and history professor Hal Rothman. Each will receive an unrestricted cash award of $5,000.
The recipient of the Barrick Scholar Award is tourism and convention administration professor Zheng Gu. This award carries with it an unrestricted cash award of $2,500.
The professors were recommended for the awards by a faculty selection committee. Funding for the Barrick Awards is provided to UNLV by Las Vegas philanthropist Marjorie Barrick.
Bowers, who last year won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, is a medieval literature expert who has been a member of the faculty since 1987. He has received both a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship and a Visiting Research Fellowship at Merton College, Oxford, and is the author of numerous books including, The Politics of 'Pearl': Court Poetry in the Age of Richard II.
Weinstein, who teaches 19th century British literature, has been a member of the faculty since 1970. He is the author of more than two dozen scholarly articles as well as of the book, William Edmonstoune Aytoun and the Spasmodic Controversy. He edited three volumes of Sir Walter Scott's work including two novels, Saint Ronan's Well and The Pirate, for the Edinburgh edition of Waverley Novels.
Rothman has been a member of the faculty since 1992. He teaches environmental history, history of the U.S. West, and public history. He is the author of several books including his most recent, Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth Century American West, and also is the editor of the journal Environmental History.
Gu teaches courses for and is the director of the masters degree program in tourism & convention administration. He has been a member of the faculty since 1991. His research interests are financial management and operation analyses for the hospitality, tourism and gaming industries and he has won a series of awards for his research papers.
For additional information about the Barrick Awards, contact the provost's office at ext. 3301.
