Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies / en Three University of Toronto professors honoured with prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships /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 鶹Ƶ 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 鶹Ƶ 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