Six Johns Hopkins Faculty Named Guggenheim Fellows

Office of News and Information - Johns Hopkins University - 901 South Bond Street, Suite 540 - Baltimore, Maryland 21231 - Phone: 443-287-9960 | Fax: 443-287-9920 Six faculty members in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University are among the 180 artists, scholars and scientists who have been named 2009 Guggenheim Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Chosen from nearly 3,000 applicants from the United States and Canada, the fellows were appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. The grant period is the 2009-2010 academic year. The new fellows are Amanda Anderson and Richard Halpern, both in the Department of English ; Veena Das, in Anthropology ; Barbara Landau, in Cognitive Science ; Theodore Lewis, in Near Eastern Studies ; and Robert Moffitt, in Economics . "The Guggenheim is one of the most prestigious fellowships awarded in American academia, especially in the humanities and social sciences," said David A. Bell, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and dean of the school's faculty. "This year the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, which has fewer than 300 tenured and tenure-track faculty members, won as many Guggenheims as all but one other university in the United States, including five awards in the humanities and social sciences," Bell said. "This is a truly extraordinary achievement, which testifies to the exceptionally high quality of our faculty, to the vitality of the intellectual life on our campus and to Johns Hopkins' leading role in the entire spectrum of American academic research." The Guggenheim Fellowship recognizes scholars of various ages and interests.