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| GRESHAM RILEY AWARD RECIPIENT 2002 |
Susan Ashley
Susan A. Ashley joined the faculty in 1970 as an instructor in
history. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1973 and to
associate professor in 1979; serving as chair of the history department
1988-1997. Susan also accepted the Carlton Professorship of Social
Sciences in 1986 and is currently the Hochman Professor of History.
She has a bachelor's degree in French with a minor in history
from Carleton College, where she graduated summa cum laude with
distinction in French, was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar
Board, and won the Noyes Prize for distinguished scholarship and
the Virginia McKnight Binger Award in the humanities. Susan also
has master's and Ph.D. degrees in history from Columbia University,
where she received a certificate from the European Institute.
She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1965-66, a President's Fellow
in 1966-67, an Alice Stetton Fellow in the Columbia School of
International Affairs in the summer of 1967, and a Ford Foreign
Area Fellow from 1968 to 1971. In 1973 she received an award for
the best unpublished manuscript in Italian history for her dissertation
from the Society for Italian Historical Studies.
Her area of specialization is modern French and Italian history.
She wrote a master's thesis on "Ministerial responsibility
in Restoration France," her Ph.D. dissertation on "In
pursuit of stability: parliamentary politics in France (1879-1893)”
and Italy (1870-1893) and has published numerous scholarly articles.
Working with others, Susan developed the Perspectives on the Western
Tradition program and chaired the General Education Committee
that came up with the current general education requirements.
She was instrumental in passing the Writing Emphasis courses and
writing evaluation program as part of the package. Additionally,
she chaired the Academic Program Committee and served on the Committee
on Committees.
More recently Ashley chaired the First-Year Experience committee,
which developed the current First-Year Experience program, then
chaired the oversight committee for FYE the last two years. Susan
says she got involved in athletics somewhat by accident and served
for many years on the Athletics Board and as the college's representative
to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Western Collegiate
Hockey Association.
Her book on Italian liberalism is slated for publication sometime
in the coming year and she has also served for a number of years
on the Governing Council of the Western Society for French History
and as President of the organization in 1997-98.
Susan and her husband, Robert D. Lee, a political science professor,
have two sons.
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