Three Ohio State Professors Win Guggenheim Fellowship
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Three humanities faculty have been named John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship recipients for 2004.
These fellowships help scholars and artists by "assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions," according to the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Scholars also receive these fellowships – appointments usually last one year – based on their proven "exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."
More than 3,200 scholars and artists from the United States and Canada applied for this year's fellowships; the Foundation chose 185. The average grant size is $37,362.
"This kind of recognition represents the outstanding creative and scholarly work that is always underway at the university," said Tom Rosol, interim vice president for research at Ohio State. "It's a prestigious honor that exemplifies the many great accomplishments of these professors."
Ohio State's Guggenheim fellowship winners this year are:
Fritz
Graf
Andrew
Hudgins
J.
Marshall Unger
Fritz
Graf, professor of Greek
and Latin, for his work on festivals in cities of the Greek
East during the Roman imperial epoch. His research focuses on Greek
and Roman religion, festivals, epigraphy and the classical tradition.
Graf has authored or co-authored more than 70 papers and has written
or co-edited more than a dozen books and collective works on ancient
Greek life. His books on Greek mythology have been translated from French
into English, German and Italian. Graf received his Ph.D. from the University
of Zurich.
Andrew
Hudgins, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English,
for poetry. Hudgins' poetic genres include modern poetry, contemporary
poetry and nineteenth-century American poetry. His poems have appeared
in American Poetry Review, The New Yorker and The Hudson Review. The
recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts awards, the Ohioana
Award for lifetime poetry and The Poet's Prize, among others, Hudgins
was also a finalist for the both the Pulitzer Prize and the National
Book Award. He received his M.F.A in poetry from the University of Iowa.
J.
Marshall Unger, a professor of Japanese and the chairman of the
department of East Asian languages
and literatures. Unger will use the fellowship to continue
his study on language contact in early Japanese history. The author
of seven books on Japanese linguistics and literacy, Unger has also
written more than 50 journal articles and reviews on various aspects
of Japanese linguistics. Unger, who joined Ohio State's faculty in 1996,
received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University.
The purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program, according to the Foundation, is give scholars and artists blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible. Fellows may spend their grant funds in any manner they deem necessary to their work.
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Written by Holly Wagner, (614) 292-8310; Wagner.235@osu.edu.
