Vivien Schmidt, a Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and College of Arts & Sciences professor of international relations and of political science, won the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. The grant will help Schmidt advance her research on the “rhetoric of discontent” in our modern political landscape.

Schmidt is one of 175 people this year to receive a Guggenheim, among the most notable honors in academia. With about 3,000 annual applicants, the fellowships are given to those who have “demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” Read more at BU Today.

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