FACULTY AWARD: Bass receives Cundill Prize for 'Blood Telegram'

Gary Bass, a professor of politics and international affairs, is the winner of the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature for his book, "The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide." The Cundill Prize is given annually to an individual who has published a book "determined to have a profound literary, social and academic impact in the area of history." Bass was awarded the prize at a Nov. 19 ceremony in Toronto.