Professor Dyan Elliott, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History, was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
With the fellowship, Elliott will work on her project “The Quick and the Dead: The Medieval Church and the Exhumation of Christians.” This project will reveal how the desecration of Christian bodies was destined to become one of its most fearsome and effective instruments of terror.
“My work has been immeasurably enriched by the community of Northwestern scholars — both students and fellow faculty members,” Elliott said. “I am honored and deeply grateful to be a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.”
This year, the Foundation awarded 175 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists. 2020 Fellows are drawn from 53 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 78 different academic institutions, 31 states and the District of Columbia, and 2 Canadian provinces.
Visit Professor Elliott’s faculty biography.
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