Prof. Uden wins New Directions Fellowship from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Congratulations to Associate Professor James Uden, who has won a New Directions Fellowship from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fellowship, which is awarded to 12-15 recipients nationally each year, gives mid-career scholars in the humanities the time and resources to develop skills in a new field of research. Professor Uden is the second faculty member from Boston University to win this fellowship, which was first held by Professor Wiebke Denecke (Department of World Languages and Literatures) in 2014.
The New Directions fellowship is designed to help scholars branch out in their work into areas that require specialist training. Professor Uden will be taking courses over the next two years in Medical Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Practice at the Boston University School of Medicine. The skills he will learn will assist him in his new book project, which analyzes the relationship between medical science and literary form in the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity (1st to 6th centuries CE). This book grows out of Professor Uden’s teaching of the undergraduate course ‘The History of Medicine in Greece and Rome’, which he has taught three times since its inception in 2016.
Please join us in congratulating Professor Uden!