OU PROFESSORS AWARDED NATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS FROM AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES

NORMAN – Two University of Oklahoma faculty members recently were awarded national fellowships during the 2005-2006 fellowship competition from the American Council of Learned Societies. The council awarded fellowships totaling more than $5.5 million to more than 200 scholars.

The 2005-2006 fellowship awardees from OU are Hunter Crowther-Heyck, assistant professor in the Department of History of Science, and Francesca Sawaya, associate professor in the Department of English. Both recipients are faculty in OU’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Crowther-Heyck was awarded the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship for his project “The Branching Tree: Organization, Process, and Hierarchy in 20th-Century Biological and Social Science.” The Charles A. Ryskamp fellowship, funded through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and named for a literary scholar, distinguished library and museum director, and long-serving trustee of the Mellon Foundation, recognizes individuals whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and who have well-designed and carefully developed plans for new research. Out of a total of 161 applicants, Crowther-Heyck was one of 11 scholars who received the award.

Sawaya was awarded the ACLS Fellowship for her project “Power and Art: Patronage and Modern American Literature.” The ACLS Fellowship is given to a scholar for postdoctoral research in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. These awards, which totaled just under $2.3 million, are funded through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the council’s college and university associates, and former Fellows and individuals of the ACLS. Out of a total of 878 applicants, Sawaya was one of 60 scholars who received the award.

 The ACLS is a private, non-profit federation of 68 national scholarly organizations. Their mission is “the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences, and the maintenance and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such studies.”

For more information about the ACLS and their fellowship and grant competitions, visit the Web site at www.acls.org.