Two members of the University faculty, history professor Michael Gordin and music professor Simon Morrison, have received 2011 Guggenheim Fellowships, the University announced this week.
The fellowships are awarded to “men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts,” according to the foundation’s website. The foundation selects around 220 recipients out of 3,500–4,000 applicants annually.
The award consists of a condition-free grant made over a six- to 12-month period that may be used at the discretion of the recipient.
Gordin, the director of the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, received the award for his project titled “Scientific Babel: Communication and identity in Western Chemistry Since the Fall of Latin.”
Morrison received the fellowship for a project titled “The Secret Archive of Prokofiev.”
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