Return to Table of ContentsMay 1998
Guggenheim Fellowship Awarded to Art Professor Prof. Anne McCauley of the art department has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 1998. McCauley was one of 168 Fellows chosen out of 3,014 applicants this year. She was chosen on the basis of "impressive past achievement in the field of photography studies, and for exceptional promise for future accomplishment," according to the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
McCauley will use her grant to research "Photography and the art-historical imagination, 1839-1939." She will look at ways in which the development of photography contributed to the discipline of art history over a century.
Fellowship decisions for the 74th annual Guggenheim competition were based on recommendations from many artists, scientists and scholars. The Foundation awards totalled $5,376,000 this year.