Johns Hopkins University faculty members Lawrence Jackson and Matthew Porterfield have been named 2019 Guggenheim Fellows, a prestigious distinction that recognizes achievements and exceptional promise. They are among a group of 168 scholars, artists, and writers selected from nearly 3,000 applicants.<\/p>\n
Jackson, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor who teaches in the departments of English and history, received a fellowship in the field of general nonfiction. He is an expert in 20th century African-American literary history, and his book Chester B. Himes: A Biography<\/a> was a finalist for the Pen\/Faulkner award. A Baltimore native, he founded and directs the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts<\/a>, which aims to foster the robust intellectual and artistic exchange between members of the university’s Homewood campus and historic Baltimore neighborhoods. The Guggenheim Fellowship will support Jackson’s development of a monograph project entitled Christmas in Baltimore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Johns Hopkins University faculty members Lawrence Jackson and Matthew Porterfield have been named 2019 Guggenheim Fellows, a prestigious distinction that recognizes achievements and exceptional promise. They are among a group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":2678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/africana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}