On April 6, 2023, it was announced that Liana Finck, adjunct assistant professor of English, has been selected to receive a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in the category “General Nonfiction.” Professor Finck competed against nearly 2,500 applicants and is one of only 171 scientists, writers, and scholars awarded this honor across 48 fields in 2023. In addition to her work at Barnard, Professor Finck authors graphic novels and regularly publishes cartoons in The New Yorker.
Since 1925, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has sought to “further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions.” World-renowned writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, who in 1928 became Barnard’s first black graduate, received the Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction in 1936 and 1937.