Two faculty members have been named among 175 scholars, artists, writers and scientists receiving Guggenheim fellowships this year.
, professor and associate chair of history, was awarded a fellowship supporting research for a book tentatively titled 鈥淎 World Without Race: The Dream of a Universal Republic in the Revolutionary French Caribbean, 1794-1802.鈥
Professor of music 鈥檚 fellowship will support work on his book project, 鈥淪ebastian Laughs: J.S. Bach as Musical Humorist.鈥
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the 2018-19 fellowship winners April 4. The diverse group was chosen on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise from nearly 3,000 applicants from across the United States and Canada to the foundation鈥檚 94th annual competition.
Friedland joined the Department of History in 2014. He is a political, cultural and intellectual historian of France and the French Atlantic, specializing in the period of the French Revolution.
Friedland is the author of 鈥淪eeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France鈥 (2012) and 鈥淧olitical Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution鈥 (Cornell University Press, 2002), winner of the Society for French Historical Studies鈥 David Pinkney Prize, awarded for the best book in the field.
He has been a fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University and a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, located at Princeton. His honors include fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Yearsley came to Cornell in 1997 and is a music historian and performer. His scholarly work investigates literary, social and theological contexts for music and music making. He has written on topics ranging from music and death to the joys of the keyboard duet, and sonic representations of public spaces in film.
He is the author of 鈥淏ach and the Meanings of Counterpoint鈥 (2002), 鈥淏ach鈥檚 Feet鈥 (2012), winner of the Organ Historical Society鈥檚 Ogasapian Book Prize, and the forthcoming 鈥淪ex, Death and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks.鈥 He has held fellowships from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Yearsley performs on historical and modern keyboards, has won top prizes at the Bruges Early Music Festival, and is a member of the synthesizer ensemble Mother Mallard鈥檚 Portable Masterpiece Company. His recent recordings 鈥淏ach & Sons鈥 (2017) and 鈥淏ach: Six Trio Sonatas鈥 (2015) both feature the baroque organ in Anabel Taylor Chapel. He also is a music journalist with a weekly column for .
At Cornell he teaches courses on Bach and Handel, music and travel, the organ, music theory, and film music.
Other Cornellians among this year鈥檚 class of fellows include three alumni of the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频. They are composer MFA 鈥15, DMA 鈥17; and anthropologists 鈥86 of the University of St. Andrews and , Ph.D. 鈥06, of Dartmouth College.
Ko鈥檚 fellowship will support musical composition projects. Hyland鈥檚 research is on 鈥淗idden Texts of the Andes: Deciphering the Cord Writing (鈥楰hipu鈥) of Peru.鈥 Craig is continuing research for her book 鈥淭he Ends of Kinship: Care and Belonging Between Nepal and New York City.鈥
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