Historian/Latinist Celenza Wins Guggenheim
Fellowship
By Amy Lunday Homewood
Christopher Celenza, a professor in the Department of German and
Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins, is
among 190 artists, scholars and scientists who have been
named 2008
Guggenheim Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation. Chosen from more than
2,600 applicants from the United States and Canada, the
fellows were appointed on the basis of
distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional
promise for future accomplishment.
A historian and Latinist who studies European
intellectual history, Celenza will use his fellowship
to examine humanism, language and philosophy from Petrarch
(1304-74) to Angelo Poliziano (1454-94).
He said he hopes to illuminate a period he refers to as
"Italy's long 15th century" that is usually
missing from the history of Western philosophy.
Celenza holds two doctorates: in history, from Duke
University, and classics and neo-Latin
literature, from the University of Hamburg. He has authored
several articles and books, including The
Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians and Latin's
Legacy, published in 2005 by Johns
Hopkins University Press. The book won the Renaissance
Society of America's 2005 Phyllis Goodhart
Gordan Prize; in 2006 it was issued in paperback and
selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic
Title. Celenza holds secondary appointments in History,
Classics and the Humanities Center, all in the
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
The American Council of Learned Societies awarded
Celenza a Frederick Burkhardt Residential
Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars in 2003. He also
has been awarded a fellowship by Villa I
Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian
Renaissance Studies, and a Rome Prize from the
American Academy in Rome. From 2002 to 2005, he served as
director of the Summer Program in
Applied Palaeography at the American Academy in Rome. He is
active in the Renaissance Society of
America.
The Guggenheim Fellowship recognizes scholars of
various ages and interests. The foundation
considers applications in a wide variety of fields from the
natural sciences to the creative arts,
including physical and biological scientists, social
scientists, scholars in the humanities, writers,
painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers and
choreographers. A total of $8.2 million was
awarded this year, with the average award being $43,158.
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