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<p>Eight Columbia faculty members have won 2011 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships in recognition of their exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.</p>
<p>The Columbia Guggenheim recipients include Gregory Amenoff, Janine Antoni, Jonathan R. Dee, Katherine Franke, Tom Kalin, Bruce Robbins, Alan Stewart and Deborah Valenze.
Columbias new Guggenheim Fellows are among 180 who were selected from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants. The John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation was established in 1925 to add to the educational, literary, artistic and scientific power of the United States, and also to provide for the cause of better international understanding.</p>
<p>Guggenheim fellows receive a cash award, which they are allowed to spend as they wish. The amounts vary, as they are adjusted to the needs of each recipient; the average grant in 2008 was $43,200. Since 1925, there have been more than 17,000 Guggenheim Fellows, including Nobel Prize Winners, Poet Laureates and other major prizewinners.</p>