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The Facultad de Medicina “San Fernando,” of the San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, where history professor Bianca Premo researches medical papers and documents about the “youngest mother in the world.
Historian awarded prestigious Guggenheim fellowship to study Peruvian girl who gave birth at 5
History professor Bianca Premo received a $50,000 grant for her book about a Peruvian girl known as the youngest mother in the world
May 7, 2021 at 12:00pm
History professor Bianca Premo has been named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and will receive $50,000 to research and publish her book, which examines the troubling case of a young Peruvian girl who gave birth at the age of 5 in 1939.
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.”
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Credit: Lehigh University
Roslyn Weiss, professor of philosophy at Lehigh University, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the 2021 year. She is among 184 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists to receive this year s award. An expert in ancient philosophy, Weiss is recognized by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for her work on Plato. Her current project, for which she was awarded the fellowship, focuses on the first book of Plato s
Republic. Here Socrates, in his idiosyncratic way, tries to get his interlocutors to appreciate that being just is life-enhancing, that, even though it is true that just people finish last, nevertheless, there is no life as good as the just one, explains Weiss.
By Susan Gonzalez
April 14, 2021
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Top row: Isabela Mares, Tisa Wenger; Bottom row: Robyn Creswell, Marisa Anne Bass
Four Yale faculty members are among a group of 184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists awarded 2021 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Marisa Anne Bass, Robyn Creswell, Isabela Mares, and Tisa Wenger were chosen through a rigorous peer-review process from almost 3,000 applicants on the basis of their prior achievements and exceptional promise. Bass is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Art; Creswell is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature; Mares is a professor in the Department of Political Science; and Wenger is associate professor at Yale Divinity School with courtesy appointments in the American Studies program and the Department of Religious Studies.