Julie Thompson Klein receives 2014 Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Fellowship

Professor Julie Thompson Klein has received a 2014 2014 Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. In 1974, the Board of Governors, in conjunction with the president, established an annual Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award to be given each year to members of the regular fulltime faculty in recognition of a particular work of merit brought to fruition in the 12-month period immediately preceding the year of the award. Awards made in 2014 are based on accomplishments in 2012-13. The work of merit is a single act or event that constituted an outstanding contribution to scholarship and learning. Since 1975, 201 faculty members have received this award.

Dr. Klein received her award at the WSU Academic Recognition Ceremony on April 24, 2014. According to the program,

Professor Julie Thompson Klein, an internationally recognized scholar of interdisciplinarity, proposes for her fellowship period a scholarly monograph entitled Boundary Work: Beyond Interdisciplinarity. In this work, Klein will describe and analyze new formulations of integrative knowledge that transcend interdisciplinarity. She argues that transdisciplinarity is emerging to describe the changes to disciplines and professions; these new developments require new modes of learning. Klein's long record of scholarship in interdisciplinarity has prepared her well for this project. Author of four books on the topic and editor or co-editor of six volumes or special issues of journals, she has received numerous honors in her field. She received the Kenneth Boulding Award in 2003 for outstanding work on interdisiciplinarity; the Yamamoorthy and Yeh Distinguished Transdisciplinary Achievement Award in 2010; and the Joseph Katz Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Practice and Discourse of General and Liberal Education, also in 2010. Klein's reputation has resulted in her appointment to institutions in Japan, Nepal, New Zealand and Quebec. Wayne State University has also repeatedly recognized Klein with its highest honors, such as the Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award (1991), a previous Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Fellowship (1993-95), and election to the Academy of Scholars in 2002.