Guggenheim Fellowship

Department of Art History

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Professor Carl Knappett (supplied image)

Carl Knappett, a professor in the department of art history in the Faculty of Arts & Science, has been awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Presented by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 1925, the prestigious fellowships support mid-career professionals who have shown exceptional capacity as scholars or artists.

Knappett’s research concerns the character and organization of Bronze Age societies in the eastern Mediterranean as revealed through pottery production, exchange and use. Author of the book Aegean Bronze Age Art: Meaning in the Making, Knappett is currently directing fieldwork at Palaikastro on the island of Crete in Greece, and also conducts research on pottery from a variety of other Aegean sites.

“It is really invigorating to be recognized in this way, and to join such a cohort of scholars and artists,” said Knappett, who holds the Walter Graham/��TVr Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory. “This fellowship will allow me to write my next book – on practices of containment. I will look at the fundamental role containers have played in humanity’s past, and how they continue to shape contemporary lifeways, in ways we often to choose to overlook or forget.”

“Working at the intersection of art, history and archaeology, Professor Knappett’s work continues to reveal the richness and complexity of material culture in the Aegean Bronze Age,” said Professor Melanie Woodin, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science. “It is my honour to congratulate him on being named as a 2024 Guggenheim fellow.”

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Kamari Clarke awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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Kamari Clarke awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies

Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies

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Kamari Clarke, a distinguished professor at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto, has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

A legal scholar and anthropologist, Clarke’s career spans more than two decades as an expert in such areas as international justice, religious nationalism, and the politics of globalization and race. Her award-winning research has shown how different legal frameworks, shaped by forces such as neocolonialism, both influence and are influenced by contemporary social movements.

The author and editor of numerous books, Clarke is currently completing a book describing how social movements in the developing world are using modern technologies – such as mobile phones, GPS and others – to challenge the way justice has been traditionally accessed and delivered.

“It’s a recognition of lifetime achievement; It’s a grant to continue to write and to think about the core issues that I’m committed to,” Clarke says. “In many ways, it will map the next 10 years of the contribution that I’ll make to the field.”

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Amira Mittermaier awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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Amira Mittermaier awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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Department for the Study of Religion

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Amira Mittermaier, a professor in the departments for the study of religion and the department of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Mittermaier’s work weaves textual analysis with ethnographic fieldwork. Her research focuses on modern Islam in Egypt.

“I’m thrilled and honored to have received a Guggenheim Fellowship,” Mittermaier said. “I look forward to getting started on my book about God and humans in Egypt today. My recent half-sabbatical was taken over by COVID-19 so I’m doubly grateful for this extra time coming my way.”

Mittermaier’s first book, Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination, explores Muslim practices of dream interpretation, as they are inflected by Islamic reformism, Western psychology and mass mediation. Her more recent work, Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times, describes a religious ethics of giving in which believers engage with God by way of giving to the poor.

“The question of how theologies shape lives has stayed with me throughout my career,” she says. “Working with Egyptian interlocutors with whom I have established long-term relationships, I study and write about Islam as it unfolds in the midst of their everyday lives.”

Mittermaier describes her upcoming book as her most ambitious to date: an ethnographic study of God. In this work, she will apply her expertise in Islam and work with other scholars in the Abrahamic faiths.

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Eugenia Kumacheva awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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Eugenia Kumacheva awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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Department of Chemistry

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Women in STEM

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University Professor Eugenia Kumacheva, a distinguished professor of chemistry in the Faculty of Arts & Science, has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Kumacheva’s research explores the field of “soft matter” or polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, hydrogels and living matter. She has designed and developed soft materials for use in an extraordinarily broad range of areas, including telecommunications, security, data storage, drug delivery and tissue engineering.

A native of Ukraine, Kumacheva holds a Canada Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Materials. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada and was the first Canadian winner of the L’Oreal-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science.

Kumacheva, who is cross-appointed to the Institute of Biomedical Engineering is now collaborating with Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik, a professor of chemistry and computer science, on the development of innovative anti-cancer therapies.

“The Guggenheim Fellowship is a mark of recognition and one of the great career achievements for a scientist,” says Kumacheva. “It will support the collaborative research with Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik, with an ambitious goal to accelerate anticancer drug discovery.”

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Kevin Lewis O'Neill awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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Kevin Lewis O'Neill awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies