Director ad interim James McCann Receives Guggenheim Award

Professor James McCann, the Director ad interim for the The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study into the Longer-Range Future has been selected for a Guggenheim Fellowship to write about his five years of research studying malaria in Africa.

“What the Guggenheim allows me to do is to use my sabbatical leave to write up an account of the nature of this very usual disease as ecological history,” says Prof. McCann.

He is one of 181 scholars, artists, and scientists selected from 3,000 applicants in the United States and Canada. The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is distinct for the diversity of award recipients. This year 54 disciplines and 77 different academic institutions are represented.

For more information on Prof. McCann’s Guggenheim Award click here.

Click below to watch a video and a BU Today interview of Prof. McCann and his work with maize and malaria.