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Professor Shari Huhndorf Receives Guggenheim Fellowship

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April 4, 2018

Professor Shari Huhndorf has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for the 2018-2019 year to pursue a work on her third book, “Indigeneity and the Politics of Space:  Gender, Geography, Culture.”  Shari (who is Yupik, from Alaska) has written two previous books Going Native:  Indians in the American Cultural Imagination (Cornell, 2001) and Mapping the Americas:  The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture (Cornell, 2009).  Shari is Class of 38 Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies