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Guggenheim Fellowships supporting research and artistic creation were awarded recently to two professors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 Guggenheim Fellowships supporting research and artistic creation were awarded recently to two professors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, based in New York City, appoints fellows based on prior achievement and exceptional promise. This year’s UNC recipients, both from the College of Arts and Sciences, and the projects they will undertake with their fellowships, are:

  • W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Ph.D., William B. Umstead Distinguished Professor of History, will write a book with the working title “Torture in America: The Long History,” which will examine torture in U.S. history. Brundage has written about lynching and utopian socialism in the “New South” and researched white and black historical memory in the South since the Civil War.
  • Monika Truemper, Ph.D., associate professor of classics, will write a book about bathing culture in the ancient Greek world. Truemper is an archaeologist whose research encompasses Hellenistic and Roman art and architecture. She has done extensive fieldwork on Greek baths in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt, South Italy and Sicily.

The foundation awarded 180 fellowships to a diverse group of scholars, artists and scientists across 62 disciplines and from 74 academic institutions. The candidates were chosen from among a group of almost 3,000 applicants. Many Nobel, Pulitzer and other prize winners are fellowship alumni.

Foundation news release: http://www.gf.org/news-events/Guggenheim-Fellowship-Awards-for-the-United-States-and-Canada-2011/
List of 2011 fellows: http://www.gf.org/fellows/current/

College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu
News Services contact: L.J. Toler, (919) 962-8589

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