Professor Sherwood Honored

Please join us in congratulating Professor Peter Sherwood, who has been honored by the International Association for Hungarian Studies with the its János Lotz medal for 2011 in recognition of his work in promoting Hungarian studies abroad.

Established in 1977 with a secretariat in Budapest, the IAHS is a forum for scholars of Hungarian studies (i.e. Hungarian language, litertaure, ethnography, and culture broadly defined) both within and outside the Republic of Hungary. It has been a member of the Unesco-affiliated Fédération Internationale des Languages et Littératures Modernes since 1979.  In addition to publishing an English-language journal, Hungarian Studies, and the multilingual Lymbus: resources and documents in Hungarian studies, the IAHS organizes every five years an international conference in a country with a tradition of Hungarian studies, the most recent one being held in Cluj/Kolozsvár, Romania, in August, 2011. On these occasions it is its custom to award the János Lotz medal to scholars based outside Hungary deemed to have distinguished themselves in the field of Hungarian studies. The medal is named in honor of János (John) Lotz (1913-1973), a seminal figure in the study and promotion of Hungarian language and literature, who spent much of his working life in the USA.