Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships
Awarded to Seven CUNY Faculty
in the Arts
Two novelists,
a poet and a choreographer are among seven City University
of New York professors awarded the highly competitive and prestigious
Guggenheim Fellowships for 2004. The seven CUNY faculty joined
185 artists, scholars, and scientists selected nationwide from more than 3,200 applicants for awards totaling $6,912,000.
The
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced
professionals in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences,
humanities and creative arts. The Foundation offers fellowships
to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting
them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and
creation in any of the arts, “under the freest possible conditions
and irrespective of race, color, or creed.” Decisions
are based on recommendations from hundreds of expert advisors
and are approved by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
“CUNY’s
world-class faculty continues to receive recognition for high
quality scholarship and research,” said Chancellor Matthew
Goldstein. The 2004 Guggenheim Fellows include:
Susan Choi,
an assistant adjunct professor
of English and Ernesto Mestre, an assistant professor of fiction, both at Brooklyn
College, for fiction.
Renowned poet
Grace Schulman, Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch
College, will use her fellowship to add to her considerable
oeuvre.
The
multi-media artist SOL’SAX, (Trevor Jemal Holtham)
a lecturer in art at Medgar Evers College, is well known
for his complex and richly symbolic sculptural installations
that join contemporary African-American culture and Yoruban
traditions of West Africa.
Distinguished
Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature Angus
S.J. Fletcher, who taught at the Graduate Center, will use
his fellowship to study temporal representations in poems of
the environment.
Distinguished
Professor Emeritus of Music Leo Treitler received his fellowship
for “A Study of Discourse About Music.”
Choreographer
Yin Mei, Professor of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Queens College,
will use her fellowship to go to China “to do research
in ancient Chinese sources of language and interpretive ritual.”#
