Endi Poskovic Awarded Guggenheim

A&D Associate Professor Endi Poskovic has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011 – 2012 in recognition of his exceptional creative ability in the arts.

On April 7, 2011, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 180 Fellowships to a diverse group of scholars, artists, and scientists in its eighty-seventh annual competition for the United States and Canada. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.

The great variety of backgrounds, fields of study, and accomplishments among Guggenheim Fellows is one of the hallmarks of the Fellowship program. This year’s Fellows range in age from twenty-seven to eighty-four, and originate from towns and cities across the United States and Canada. Their Fellowship projects will carry them to all parts of the world.

Since its establishment in 1925, the Foundation has granted nearly $290 million in Fellowships to more than 17,000 individuals. Time and again, the Foundation’s choice of Fellows has proved prescient: thousands of celebrated alumni and scores of Nobel, Pulitzer, and other prizewinners grace its rolls. 

In a time of decreased funding for individuals in the arts, humanities, and sciences, the Guggenheim Fellowship program is all the more important. The continued and ever more generous donations from friends, Trustees, former Fellows, and other foundations have ensured that the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation will be able to continue the mission Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim set for it: to ​“add to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific power of this country, and also to provide for the cause of better international understanding.”

URecord — U‑M faculty members awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for research
Current Fellows — John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation