Prof. James McCann Wins Guggenheim and Fulbright
McCann wins Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships Prof James McCann has received official word this week that he has won a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for his sabbatical year 2012-2013. That fellowship was awarded for a project entitled “Mindscapes of Malaria, Landscapes of History.”
Prof. McCann also learned that he has won a Fulbright Fellowship for fall semester 2012 for research and writing in Ethiopia. This grant for fall semester in Ethiopia, along with the Guggenheim Fellowship in the spring will allow him to spent the full sabbatical year on research and writing in Hamburg, Germany, Ethiopia, and Boston.
In May-July Prof. McCann will serve as the Hiob Ludolf Visiting Professor at the University of Hamburg in Germany. He will begin writing his monograph on malaria and teaching a short-course on the environmental history of the Blue Nile Valley.
