Three faculty members have received Guggenheim Fellowships for research in the varied fields of technopolitics, quantum field theory and Greek tragedy. Paul Edwards, associate professor in the School of Information; Martin Einhorn, professor in the Physics Department; and Yopie Prins, associate professor of English and comparative literature, and adjunct associate professor of classical studies were among the 184 artists, scholars and scientists selected from a pool of more than 3,200 applicants. Awards for all winners totaled $6.75 million. Edwards, also the director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, is the first Guggenheim fellow from the School of Information. The fellowship will allow him to spend a year in South Africa researching a book on the technopolitics of information in that country during the later apartheid era, the transition to democracy and the creation of an open government. He defines technopolitics as “the strategic practice of designing or implementing technologies to enact political goals.” Einhorn will use the fellowship for further study of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. He describes quantum field theory as the “mathematical language that is used to talk about natural phenomena.” During the next year, he will conduct research at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara; at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem through a visiting professorship from the Lady Davis Fellowship Trust; and at the Center for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. Prins’ fellowship is for her project entitled "Ladies’ Greek," a book about the entry of women into Greek studies in Victorian England and America. “I am especially interested in how women learned to translate and to perform Greek tragedy during the formation of women’s colleges,” she said. “Through their identification with letters of the Greek alphabet, Victorian women of letters give us another perspective on the history of Classics.” She will travel to women’s colleges and look through their archives, in search of first-hand accounts from women learning ancient Greek. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment, according to the Guggenheim Foundation. Since 1925, the foundation has granted more than $220 million in fellowships to more than 15,200 people. The full list of year 2003 fellows is http://www.gf.org

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