Three FAS Professors Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

      Three professors in NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science have been awarded 2009 Guggenheim Fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, which recently announced 180 fellowship awards totaling more than $6 million.
      This year’s NYU recipients, chosen from nearly 3,000 applicants in the United States and Canada, are Eliot Borenstein, a professor in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies; Kanchan Chandra, an associate professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics; and Leslie Peirce, a professor in the Department of History.
      Borenstein, who directs the Morse Academic Plan in NYU’s College of Arts and Science, has authored Men Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, among other works. Under his fellowship, Borenstein will work on his forthcoming book, Catastrophe of the Week: Apocalyptic Entertainment in Post-Soviet Russia.
      Chandra, whose published works include Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Headcounts in India, specializes in comparative politics, with a focus on ethnic politics, political parties, and democracy. Under her fellowship, Chandra will continue work on a book on the relationship between ethnic diversity and democracy.
      Peirce, a Silver Professor of History at NYU, focuses on the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period. Her published works include The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Under her fellowship, she will study abduction and the politics of sexuality in the Ottoman world.
      —James Devitt