We are pleased to note that several Press authors have been awarded Guggenheim fellowships for 2006. The Guggenheim Foundation supports "the development of 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 and irrespective of race, color, or creed."
Recipients include:
Douglas Biow, author of Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy
Julia V. Douthwaite, author of The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment
David Garland, author of The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society and Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory
Arthur Goldhammer, translator of several Press titles
Mark Halliday, author of Jab and Selfwolf
Joseph Leo Koerner, author of The Reformation of the Image and The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
Donald S. Lopez Jr., author and editor of several Press titles.
Deidre Shauna Lynch, author of The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning
Carlo Rotella, author of Cut Time: An Education at the Fights
John David Skrentny, author of Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Civil Rights Options for America and The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America
Anne Winters, author of The Displaced of Capital and The Key to the City
View the complete list of 2006 Guggenheim fellows.