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JUNE 2004


Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships
Awarded to Seven CUNY Faculty in the Arts

Two novelists, a poet and a choreographer are among seven City University of New York professors awarded the highly competitive and prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships for 2004. The seven CUNY faculty joined 185 artists, scholars, and scientists selected nationwide from more than 3,200 applicants for awards totaling $6,912,000.

The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and creative arts. The Foundation offers fellowships to further 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.” Decisions are based on recommendations from hundreds of expert advisors and are approved by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.

“CUNY’s world-class faculty continues to receive recognition for high quality scholarship and research,” said Chancellor Matthew Goldstein. The 2004 Guggenheim Fellows include:

Susan Choi, an assistant adjunct professor
of English and Ernesto Mestre, an assistant professor of fiction, both at Brooklyn College, for fiction.

Renowned poet Grace Schulman, Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, will use her fellowship to add to her considerable oeuvre.

The multi-media artist SOL’SAX, (Trevor Jemal Holtham) a lecturer in art at Medgar Evers College, is well known for his complex and richly symbolic sculptural installations that join contemporary African-American culture and Yoruban traditions of West Africa.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature Angus S.J. Fletcher, who taught at the Graduate Center, will use his fellowship to study temporal representations in poems of the environment.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music Leo Treitler received his fellowship for “A Study of Discourse About Music.”

Choreographer Yin Mei, Professor of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Queens College, will use her fellowship to go to China “to do research
in ancient Chinese sources of language and interpretive ritual.”#

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