Four Barnard Alumnae Are Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
Suki Kim (Photo: Dwayne Freeman)
Rebecca Goldstein (Photo: Miriam Berkley)
Susan Brind Morrow (Photo: E.C. Warner)
Paula S. Fass
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Writers Suki Kim '92, Rebecca Goldstein '72, and Susan Brind Morrow '78 and historian Paula S. Fass '67 have been awarded prestigious Guggenheim fellowships in recognition of their exceptional talent and creativity as writers and scholars.
Suki Kim was born and raised in South Korea and came to New York at age 13. Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and Newsweek. Her first novel, The Interpreter, published in 2003, won the PEN Beyond Margins Award, Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and was a runner up for the PEN Hemingway Prize.
Rebecca Goldstein graduated Barnard summa cum laude in philosophy and, after receiving her PhD at Princeton, returned to Barnard to teach philosophy. It was during a summer break that she wrote The Mind-Body Problem, her first book which fictionalizes philosophy. This was followed by The Late-Summer Passion of Woman of Mind,The Dark Sister, which won The Whiting Writer's Award, Mazel, which won The National Jewish Book Award in 1995 and The Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and Properties of Light. Goldstein received a MacArthur "genius" Fellowship in 1996, and was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.
After studies of Arabic and Egyptian hieroglyphs at Barnard, leading to her first archaeological survey in Egypt in 1980, Susan Brind Morrow traveled extensively in the Middle East and Africa. She lived with nomadic tribes, courted adventure, and recorded her experiences in the 1997 book The Names of Things, which Library Journal described as "a mixture of prose, Linnaean descriptions, and etymological pleasures...Morrow becomes a part of her desert milieu, in a region where women have had little freedom. This work imparts a quality not unlike the writing of Isak Dineson or Jane Goodall." Morrow has also translated contemporary Arabic poetry and ancient Egyptian folktales into English, and has served as a fellow of the Crane-Rogers Foundation in Egypt and Sudan.
Paula S. Fass, Margaret Byrne Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society , coeditor with Mary Ann Mason of Childhood in America, and author of The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s , Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education , and Kidnapped: A History of Child Abduction in the United States.
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