FACULTY AWARD: Seven win Guggenheim Fellowships

By Staff on April 11, 2014, 9 a.m.

Seven Princeton faculty members have received 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships: Mung Chiang(Link is external), the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, for “Information Engineering for Effective Learning at Massive Scale”; Andrew Cole(Link is external), associate professor of English, for “The Renaissance of Late Medieval England”; Devin Fore(Link is external), associate professor of German, for “All the Graphs: Soviet Factography and the Emergence of Avant-Garde Documentary”; Meghan O’Rourke(Link is external), lecturer in creative writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts, for “What’s Wrong with Me: The Uncertainties of Chronic Illness”; Serguei Oushakine(Link is external), associate professor of anthropology and Slavic languages and literatures, for “Disowned History: Soviet Pasts in the Afterlives of Empire”; Emily Thompson(Link is external), professor of history, for “Sound Effects: Technicians and the Talkies in the American Film Industry, 1925-1933"; and Claire Watkins(Link is external), visiting assistant professor of creative writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts, for fiction.

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