April 6-19, 2007 Addendum
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COLLEGE NEWS
Guggenheim Fellowship Award
The College of Liberal Arts is pleased to announce that three CLA faculty members received the 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship Award at the 83rd annual U.S. and Canadian competition sponsored by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This year's recipients join a highly distinguished group of 79 University of Minnesota faculty who have received Guggenheim Fellowships while serving at the University. This award was based on distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishments. The recipients of this prestigious award are:
Daphne Berdahl – associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Global Studies. Professor Berdahl is the author of Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland and co-editor of Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union. She is currently completing her second book on the politics of memory in the former German Democratic Republic. In addition, Berdahl is working on a project focusing on the relationship between mass consumption, globalization and changing practices of citizenship in post-Berlin Wall Germany.
Hisham Bizri – practicing filmmaker from Lebanon and an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. Professor Bizri is founding director of the U of M Institute for Advanced Study Film Collective and in 2006 presented a first-of-its-kind symposium on film and culture in the Arab world. He is also the co-founder of the Arab Institute of Film in Amman, Jordan. Bizri's films have been shown internationally including the Louvre, Cairo Opera House, Biennale des Cinema Arabes (Paris), Milan Film Festival (Italy), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), Harvard Film Archives (Cambridge), Museum of Modern Art (New York) and Cinematheque Francaise (Paris).
David Treuer – associate professor in the Department of English. Professor Treuer teaches Native American literature, the modernist novel, Nabokov and Proust, and he is the translator of many Ojibwe stories and texts. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Canada, a Pushcart Prize, the 1996 Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the Pen West prize in 1999. He has held a Bush Artists Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowship and a U of M McKnight Land-Grant Professorship. Treuer's latest novel, The Translation of Dr Apelles, was named a "Best Book of 2006" by the Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, City Pages and Time Out.
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