Stony Brook University Professor Eric Zolov was named to the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows by the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, according to a May 8 announcement.
Zolov, who teaches in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of History, is one of 223 scholars selected from nearly 5,000 applicants across 55 disciplines. The fellowship recognizes both career achievement and future promise through a rigorous application and peer review process.
His award supports his new project titled The Bossa Nova Moment: Harmonizing Pan-Americanism in the Era of the Cuba Revolution. This research explores how bossa nova music influenced culture and geopolitics during the long 1960s in Latin America. “The Department of History is extremely proud of Eric Zolov’s Guggenheim Fellowship,” said Sara Lipton, professor and chair of the College of Arts and Sciences Department of History. “It’s an extremely prestigious and competitive fellowship, awarded only to the most accomplished and talented scholars, writers and artists; generally, only a handful of historians make the final cut. But more important than the prestige of the award is the quality and importance of Eric’s project. His study of the political and racial aspects of the bossa nova movement in the long 1960s is a creative and ambitious interdisciplinary endeavor, which should help remind the world that the humanities and arts are central to all aspects society…a point too often forgotten lately.” David Wrobel, dean at Stony Brook’s College Arts & Sciences said: “Congratulations to Professor Eric Zolov on receiving a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. The conferral this highly prestigious award is a confirmation groundbreaking field-changing originality as well as intellectual sophistication rigor The Bossa Nova Moment.”
Zolov recently received another honor with Wayne Shirley Fellowship for research at Library Congress from Society American Music.
Established in 1925 by Senator Simon Guggenheim, this fellowship provides financial support so recipients can pursue independent work under what it calls “the freest possible conditions.” Edward Hirsch, president John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation said: “Our new class Guggenheim Fellows representative world’s best thinkers innovators creators art science scholarship As Foundation enters its second century looks future I feel confident that this new class individuals will do bold inspiring work undaunted by challenges ahead We are honored support their visionary contributions.”
Since its founding nearly $450 million has been granted through fellowships to more than nineteen thousand people including Nobel laureates members national academies Pulitzer Prize winners Fields Medalists Turing Award recipients Bancroft Prize honorees National Book Awardees others recognized internationally.
