Three SAS Professors Receive 2012 Guggenheim Fellowships

Jamal J. Elias, Class of 1965 Term Professor, Justin McDaniel, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, and Benjamin Nathans, Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History have been awarded 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships. 

They are among 181 scholars, artists, and scientists selected from a field of nearly 3,000 applicants in the Guggenheim’s 88th annual competition for the United States and Canada. Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. For more information, click here to read the full release.

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Melissa Wilde Named Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College

Wilde’s research focuses on how religious groups respond to societal change.

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Karen Redrobe Receives Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Pedagogy Award

Redrobe, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Endowed Professor in Film Studies, was honored for “outstanding pedagogical achievements.”

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Assistant Professor Simcha Gross Wins Jewish Book Council Award

His book “Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity” was honored in the category of scholarship.

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Nikhil Anand Named Daniel Braun Silvers, W’98, WG’99, and Robert Peter Silvers, C’02, Family Presidential Associate Professor of Anthropology

Anand is an environmental anthropologist whose research focuses on cities, infrastructure, state power, and climate change.

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Timothy Rommen Named Martin Meyerson Endowed Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies

Rommen, Penn’s inaugural Vice Provost for the Arts, specializes in the music of the Caribbean with research interests that include popular music, sacred music, critical theory, and more.

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Adriana Petryna named Francis E. Johnston Term Professor of Anthropology

Petryna focuses on the socio-political nature of science, how populations are enrolled in experimental knowledge-production, and what becomes of citizenship and ethics in the process.

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