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Guggenheims

Five Columbia faculty members — Zainab Bahrani, Siu-Wai Chan ’80E, Matthew Connelly ’90, Steven Feld and David Scott Kastan — have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellows with a grant on the basis of distinguished past achievement with exceptional promise for the future. Guggenheim fellows use blocks of time that range from 6 to 12 months to work freely on their creative endeavors.

Bahrani is Edith Porada Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology and a specialist in the art and architecture of the ancient Near East. She has written extensively on Mesopotamian art and on the cultural heritage of Iraq.

Chan is a materials science professor in the department of applied physics and applied mathematics. Her research specialty is oxide interfaces, including oxide nanoparticles and high temperature superconductors. She is the recipient of an IBM Faculty Award, two DuPont Faculty Awards and the Presidential Faculty Award from the White House and National Science Foundation.

Connelly is an associate professor of history. His first book, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford University Press, 2002), received the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize for European international history since 1895 and Paul Birdsall Prize for European military and strategic history since 1870. He is working on a history of the international campaign to control population growth, to be published by Harvard University Press.

Feld came to Columbia in 2002, having held previous appointments at NYU, UC Santa Cruz, Texas and Penn. His anthropology of sound research involves intersections of music, linguistics, acoustic ecology and media studies. His main ethnographic project since the mid 1970s, and many of his print and sound publications, concern the acoustemology of Kaluli people of the Bosavi rainforest in Papua New Guinea.

Kastan is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities. He is a specialist on Shakespeare and early modern culture, and is among the most widely read of contemporary Renaissance scholars. His Shakespeare and the Book, based on the Lord Northcliffe lectures at the University of London, appeared in 2001 from Cambridge, and was the catalyst for an exhibition of early modern books in Columbia’s Rare Book Room. Kastan taught at Dartmouth prior to coming to Columbia. He is a former chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. In 2000, he was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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