Faculty Grants & Fellowships Blog

Philip V. Bohlman, the Mary Werkman Professor in Music and the College, received the Derek Allen Prize for Musicology from the British Academy for The Music of European Nationalism: Cultural Identity and Modern History.

Jason Bridges, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, was awarded a Research Fellowship for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the Humanities Division and the College. This fellowship, which provided him with a year of research leave in 2007/08, is made possible by a generous grant from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.

Tania Bruguera, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, exhibited “Delayed Patriotism” at Performa 07 in New York City. Her works were also exhibited at the Moscow Biennale.

Steven Collins, Professor and Chair of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, and Professor in the College, has been named the Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities.

Arnold Davidson, Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, the Divinity School, the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science and the College, was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Pisa.

Fred M. Donner, Professor of Near Eastern History in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2007/08).

Sascha Ebeling, Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, has been awarded a Research Fellowship for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the Humanities Division and the College. This fellowship, which provides him with a year of research leave in 2008/09, is made possible by a generous grant from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.

Christopher Faraone, The Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities and in the College, is the recipient of a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton (for Fall 2008) and a fellowship from the Getty Research Center (Spring 2009). Faraone also received a grant from the Loeb Classical Foundation in support of his 2008/09 research leave.

Martha Feldman, Professor of Music and the College, received the Ruth A. Solie Award for best multi-author collection of essays for (with Bonnie Gordon of the University of Virginia) The Courtesan’s Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Oxford University Press [NY], 2006). She also was also appointed the Ernest Bloch Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.

Christiane Frey, Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies and the College, received a fellowship from the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel.

Victor Friedman, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Slavic Languages & Literatures and Linguistics, has been awarded a number of fellowships and grants to support his 2008/09 research leave, including an Individual Advanced Research Opportunity grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board; a Fulbright Scholar grant from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars; a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; and a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education. Friedman also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Skopje in the summer of 2007.

Susan Gal, the Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics and the College, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor of English Literature and Language and the College, received the William Sanders Scarborough Prize of the Modern Language Association for her book A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature, which was also a finalist for the Lora Romero First Book Publication Award of the American Studies Association.

John Goldsmith, the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics, Computer Science and Physical Sciences Collegiate Division, and Senior Fellow of the Computation Institute, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Linguistics Society of America.

Philip Gossett, the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the College, received the Otto Kinkeldey award for best monograph by a senior scholar for his Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera. Gossett also received a two-year grant from the Packard Humanities Institute to prepare a multi-volume set of the Works of Gioachino Rossini.

Jason Grunebaum, Senior Lecturer in Hindi in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, has received a fellowship from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.

Miriam B. Hansen, Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, received a fellowship from the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2007/08).

Donald Harper, Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies in support of his 2008/09 research leave.

Elizabeth Helsinger, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, was named the 2007/08 M.H. Abrams Fellow by the NationalHumanities Center.

Wu Hung, the Harrie H. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching from the University of Chicago. He was also appointed a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition, he received the Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award from the College Art Association, a fellowship from the Franke Institute, and a faculty award from IBM.

Loren Kruger, Professor of English Language and Literature, the Committee on African Studies and the College, was a recipient of a research fellowship from the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program.

Laura Letinsky, Professor and Chair of Visual Arts, Professor in the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, exhibited “Dirty Pretty Things” at Brancolini Grimaldi in Italy and “To Say It Isn’t So” at the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City and at Monique Meloche in Chicago.

David Levin, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, has been appointed Co-chair of Master of Arts Program in the Humanities.

Bruce Lincoln, the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of Divinity, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Committee on the History of Culture, and Associate Member of Anthrophology and Classics, received the 2007 Frank Moore Cross Book Award for Religion, Empire and Torture: the Case of Achaemenian Persia with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib from the American Schools for Oriental Research.

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Professor of Visual Arts, was featured as a subject in PBS’s Art:21 Documentary series.

Emanuel Mayer, Assistant Professor of Classics, received a fellowship from the Radcliffe Insitute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University.

Carla Mazzio, Assistant Professor of English, was awarded a fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2007/08).

W. J. T. Mitchell, the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History, has been named a Visiting Scholar at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. He will be in residence at the Clark in the fall of 2008.

Farouk Mustafa, the Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Modern Arabic Language in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, was the recipient of the Saif Ghobash-Bonipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation from the Society of Authors.

Dennis Pardee, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, Committee on Jewish Studies and the College, gave a lecture on “Ugaritic and the beginnings of the West-Semitic literary tradition,” as part of The Schweich Lectures series at the British Academy in November 2007.

Mark Payne, Assistant Professor of Classics and the College, received a fellowship from the Franke Institute.

Marta Ptaszynska, Helen B.& Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Composition, was commissioned to write a work by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. The work, Lumen, was premiered in a performance on March 30, 2008. The commission also was supported by a grant from the Fromm Music Foundation.

Tahera Qutbuddin, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, has been named a 2008 Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Michael Raine, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, received a fellowship from the Franke Institute.

Shulamit Ran, the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the College, and the Artistic Director of Contempo, was named to a three-year term as Vice-President for Music of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. “Legends for Orchestra” CD of Ran’s works performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was released in December 2007.

Srikanth “Chicu” Reddy, Assistant Professor of English, received a fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council (2007/08).

Valerie Ritter, Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, received the Senior Short-term Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Anne Walters Robertson, the Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music, received the H. Colin Slim Award for best article by a senior scholar of the American Musicological Society for “The Savior, the Woman, and the Head of the Dragon in the Caput Masses and Motet” in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. She also received the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School Alumni Association for outstanding achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration and public service.

Jerry Sadock, the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics, was named a fellow of the Linguistics Sociaty of America.

Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Jason Salavon’s “Currents” is on display at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Ohio, through May 4, 2008.

Howard Sandroff, Senior Lecturer of Music and the Director of the Computer Music Studio, received the ASCAPLUS Award from ASCAP.

Jennifer Scappettone, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature and the College, received a fellowship from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She hs also been awarded a grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to support research she will be conducting in Venice, Italy.

Edward Shaughnessy, Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in Early Chinese Studies, received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Mark Slouka, Professor and Chair of the Committee on Creative Writing and Professor of English Language and Literature, received the Guggenheim Fellowship.

Ulrike Stark, Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a fellowship from the Franke Institute.

Josef Stern, Professor of Philosophy, Jewish Studies and the College, received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Catherine Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, exhibited “Triangle of Need” at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minn., and is part of a Smart Museum video installation exhibition, “Adaptation,” on display through May 4, 2008. Sullivan also was featured as a subject in PBS’s Art:21 Documentary series.

Kotoka Suzuki, Assistant Professor of Music, has been awarded a fellowship by the Howard Foundation in support of her 2008/09 research leave.

Yuri Tsivian, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Art History, Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College, was appointed Visiting Professor at Harvard University for 2007-08. He also received the Digital Innovation Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Theo van den Hout, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute and the College, was named Corresponding Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences and gave his first lecture as member in November 2007.

Candace Vogler, Professor of Philosophy, received a fellowship from the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2007/08).

David Wellbery, the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature and the College, was elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Rebecca West, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies and the College, was named a Visiting Professor at Yale University.

Christopher Woods, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a fellowship from the Franke Institute.

John Woods, Professor of History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, was the recipient of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching from the University of Chicago.

Alan Yu, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, received a fellowship from the Franke Institute.

Rebecca Zorach, Associate Professor of Art History and the College, has been awarded the Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.