This ongoing roundup showcases the accomplishments of faculty, staff, and community members in the UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. From awards and publications to public events and professional honors, this series highlights the many ways our CLAS community is making an impact on campus and beyond.
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Richard Langlois Wins the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award
Richard Langlois, professor and head of economics, has won the 2022-2024 Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award for his book, The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: the History of American Business Enterprise (Princeton University Press, 2023).
This award is given out once every three years by The Harvard Business School’s Business History Review to the best book in the field of business history that was published in the United States, as determined by a vote of the Editorial Advisory Board of Business History Review.
In addition to the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award, The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: the History of American Business Enterprise has also received the Alice Hanson Jones Prize from the Economic History Association and was a finalist for the George R. Terry Book Award of the Academy of Management.
Nelson Maldonado-Torres Keynote Speaker for UNESCO Conference
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, professor of philosophy, served as the keynote speaker for the 2025 UNESCO Conferencia de América Latina y el Caribe, held Oct. 28–Nov. 1 at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
The gathering brought together scholars and UNESCO Chairs from across the region to advance goals of fostering dialogue, strengthening collaboration, and developing joint initiatives to support higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Maldonado-Torres is co-chair of the Frantz Fanon Foundation and president emeritus of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2008-2013). He has published extensively on topics including modernity and coloniality, Africana and Latin American philosophy, race, religion, ethnic studies, political movements, phenomenology, and liberation ethics.
