Four Northwestern faculty named Guggenheim fellows

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EVANSTON - Four Northwestern University faculty members have earned 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships.The newly announced fellows include Shalini Shankar of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, J.P. Sniadecki of the School of Communication, Hans Thomalla of the Bienen School of Music and Teresa Woodruff of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded the 2017 fellowships to a diverse group of 173 people from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants from the United States and Canada.The prestigious fellowships are granted to scholars, artists and scientists “on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.”Shalini ShankarShankar is a professor of anthropology and the director of the Asian American Studies Program. She is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist concerned with issues of race and ethnicity, diaspora and migration, language use and media.She has conducted ethnographic research with South Asian American youth and communities in Silicon Valley, with advertising agencies in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles and with spelling bee participants and producers around the U.S.During the Guggenheim Fellowship year, Shankar will be based in Brooklyn, New York. She will research Generation Z, exploring how this demographic category can be defined in ways that more centrally account for the contributions of immigrants and minorities. J.P. SniadeckiSniadecki is an assistant professor of radio, television and film and serves as core faculty for the MFA in Documentary Media program. As a filmmaker and anthropologist active in China and the United States, his work explores collective experience, sensory ethnography and the possibilities of cinema.His films are in the permanent collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and they have been exhibited at the 2014 Whitney Biennale, the 2014 Shanghai Biennale, The Guggenheim, the MAK Museum Vienna, Beijing’s UCCA, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Shenzhen ...

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