{"id":1440,"date":"2025-05-06T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2025-05-06T13:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T13:44:21","slug":"4-tisch-and-cas-professors-honored-as-guggenheim-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/4-tisch-and-cas-professors-honored-as-guggenheim-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Tisch and CAS professors honored as Guggenheim Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Four NYU professors are <\/span>recipients of this year\u2019s Guggenheim Fellowship<\/span><\/a>, earning grants to further their projects in the creative arts, sciences and humanities. They were each selected alongside 194 other scholars across 53 fields and 83 North American universities for the prestigious program\u2019s <\/span>100th class<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tisch professors Jessica Bardsley and Rub\u00e9n Polendo were honored for their work in film and performance, respectively, while CAS professors Katie Kitamura and Nicole Eustace were selected under the fiction and American history categories. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation allocated varying amounts of funding to each recipient, reflective of their other resources and scope of their projects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In an interview with WSN, Eustace said she plans to use the money to advance progress on her short book titled \u201cUnsettling Question,\u201d which examines British colonialism. She explained that her book is in tandem with the publisher W. W. Norton and Company\u2019s initiative to feature works of \u201c<\/span>bold thinking and fresh perspectives<\/span><\/a>\u201d in under 200 pages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am the child of immigrants, and I was really interested in trying to understand America,\u201d Eustace said. \u201cI was trying to make sense of this country and wanted to start at the beginning. Certainly the contemporary moment is interesting, but I wanted to kind of find out how it all started.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides teaching history at NYU, Eustace is the director of the university\u2019s Atlantic History Workshop \u2014 which holds regular sessions for attendees to share and discuss analytical papers on historical topics from across the world. Eustace also won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bardsley, an experimental filmmaker, said she plans to allocate the Guggenheim Fellowship funding toward her next film, \u201cA Cave Without a Name.\u201d She described that the feature documentary is about forms of resistance and their relationship with the nighttime. Her other films, including \u201cLife Without Dreams\u201d and \u201cThe Blazing World,\u201d explore themes of insomnia and depression.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can\u2019t dream, you can\u2019t imagine other world possibilities,\u201d Bardsley told WSN. \u201cMy film is about the kind of experience of being alienated from nights \u2014 being depressed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A clinical professor at NYU\u2019s Creative Writing program, Kitamaru received the fellowship just one week after publishing her suspense novel \u201cAudition,\u201d which follows the stories of both an accomplished actress and a younger man throughout their relationship. Kitamaru has written numerous other critically-acclaimed novels such as \u201cIntimacies\u201d and \u201cA Separation,\u201d and has had her work published in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Polendo serves as an associate dean of Tisch\u2019s Institute of the Performing Arts and in 1997, founded Theater Mitu \u2014 an interdisciplinary theater company based in Brooklyn that has been recognized by organizations like the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council for the Arts. At NYU Abu Dhabi, Polendo also founded and directed the theater program and continues to work as an affiliated faculty member at the campus.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bardsley emphasized the importance of the Guggenheim Fellowship for recognizing impressive artistic and scholarly work, especially in a context where economic production is often prioritized over artistry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t live in a country that has tons of support for the arts, especially right now,\u201d Bardsley said. \u201cI think it\u2019s really amazing that there are foundations that award artists fellowships like this, because it recognizes how long and hard we work and also appreciates the quality of the work that we do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Yanik Jhaveri at news@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

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