Four members of Harvard's Medieval Studies Committee have been honored at Harvard and beyond for excellence in teaching and scholarship. Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies, has been named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Khaled El-Rouayheb, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History, has received a five-year appointment as Harvard College Professor. Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, has been awarded a Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship, given annually to a small number of faculty for outstanding scholarly work "in the fields of literature, history, or art, or as such terms may be liberally interpreted." Professor Hamburger's research on the visual and cultural history of the book also has been recognized by the International Gutenberg Society and the city of Mainz with their annual Gutenberg Prize. Finally, Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Chair of Medieval Studies' Events and Research Committee, has received support from the Arts and Humanities Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship.