/ en /celebrates/three-university-toronto-professors-honoured-prestigious-guggenheim-fellowships <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Three University of Toronto professors honoured with prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2020-04-22T14:17:46-04:00" title="Wednesday, April 22, 2020 - 14:17" class="datetime">Wed, 04/22/2020 - 14:17</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/guggenheim-fellowships" hreflang="en">Guggenheim Fellowships</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-law" hreflang="en">Faculty of Law</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-chemistry" hreflang="en">Department of Chemistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-germanic-languages-literatures" hreflang="en">Department of Germanic Languages &amp; Literatures</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-philosophy" hreflang="en">Department of Philosophy</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/anne-tanenbaum-centre-jewish-studies" hreflang="en">Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/centre-diaspora-transnational-studies" hreflang="en">Centre for Diaspora &amp; Transnational Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/guggenheim-2020.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">From left: David Dyzenhaus, Anna Shternshis and Douglas W. Stephan</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Three University of Toronto scholars – <strong>David Dyzenhaus</strong>, <strong>Anna Shternshis</strong> and <strong>Douglas W. Stephan</strong> – are among the recipients of <a href="https://www.gf.org/news/foundation-news/2020-guggenheim-fellowship-winners-announced/">this year’s prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships</a>.</p> <p>“Congratulations to Professors Dyzenhaus, Shternshis and Stephan,” said <strong>Melanie Woodin</strong>, dean of the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science. “Receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship is one of the great career achievements for a researcher and these three stellar scholars could not be more deserving of this prestigious recognition.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/">Dyzenhaus is a University Professor </a>of law and philosophy, whose academic career has been devoted to the study of how law can at one and the same time be a tool of oppression and emancipation. He joined the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science in 1990 and is the recipient of numerous awards and honours including a Fellowship from the Royal Society of Canada.</p> <p><a href="/celebrates/david-dyzenhaus-receives-guggenheim-fellowship">Read more about Dyzenhaus</a></p> <p>Shternshis is a scholar of Yiddish and Russian Jewish history and culture who joined U of T in 2001. She is the Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish studies in the department of Germanic languages and literatures and the Centre for Diaspora &amp; Transnational Studies and director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science.&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="/celebrates/anna-shternshis-receives-guggenheim-fellowship">Read more about Shternshis</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/">University Professor</a> Stephan is a global leader in the field of inorganic chemistry and catalysis. He joined the department of chemistry at U of T in 2008 as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and is a Fellow of the Royal Societies in the UK and Canada, a Corresponding Member of North-Rhein-Westfaelia Academy of the Sciences and Arts and an Einstein Visiting Fellow at Technischen Universität Berlin.&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="/celebrates/douglas-w-stephan-receives-guggenheim-fellowship">Read more about Stephan</a>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://www.gf.org/">The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has offered fellowships</a> to artists, scholars and scientists in all fields annually since 1925. This year, 175 writers, scholars, artists and scientists were selected through a rigorous peer-review process from almost 3,000 applicants.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/three-scholars-honoured-prestigious-guggenheim-fellowships">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">A&amp;S</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:17:46 +0000 lanthierj 164211 at