Paige West, Environmental Anthropologist, Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
(Ben Ruli)
Paige West has won her second prestigious award of 2021 and it’s only April. News of her Guggenheim Fellowship win this month follows closely on the heels of her selection as one of the Explorer’s Club 50 in February. She is one of two Earth Institute faculty to win the Guggenheim Fellowship this year, joining her colleague Sidney Hemming from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.(
West, who is the Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University, reflected on her career thus far, and shared thoughts on what she’s doing next and what the Fellowship means for her.
Orange Coast College photography professor Richard Kraft has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for film/video. Kraft is the only full-time community college professor to be awarded the prestigious fellowship in 2021, which offers financial support to artists and scholars from a wide range of backgrounds and fields of study.
Orange Coast College Professor of Photography Richard Kraft. Courtesy photo.
Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually through the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, to support “exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions,” according to the foundation’s website. Fellows are chosen through a rigorous peer-review process.
Credit NMSU - Professor Connie Voisine
LAS CRUCES - Connie Voisine, New Mexico State University English professor and Creative Writing director, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was created in 1925 by U.S. Sen. Simon Guggenheim and Olga Guggenheim in memory of their son, John Simon Guggenheim. The Foundation offers fellowships to individuals who exceed in scholarship as artists, writers, scientists, historians and scholars in a variety of disciplines to assist them in furthering their work.
“I didn’t believe it at first,” Voisine said. “I’m thrilled. It’s a wonderful opportunity and it will definitely help me get some more time to write.”
Vartan Gregorian championed a strong HE system in Africa
29 April 2021
Vartan Gregorian, the president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the former president of Brown University and the New York Public Library in the United States, illustrious scholar and steward of Andrew Carnegie’s legacy, died aged 87 on 15 April. Gregorian had been hospitalised for testing related to stomach pain.
Gregorian, a distinguished historian and humanities scholar, was the 12th president of Carnegie Corporation of New York.
During his tenure, from 1997 to the present, he championed the causes of education, immigration and international peace and security – key concerns of the foundation’s founder, Andrew Carnegie.
Sama Alshaibi is among a group of 184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists to be awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. The School of Art professor's fellowship project will be a work using images, videos and text to explore legal frameworks in Iraq that impact the lives of Iraqi women and girls.