Program of Liberal professor Gretchen Reydams-Schils chosen for prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Gretchen Reydams-Schils has been awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of her career achievements and exceptional promise.
The professor in the Program of Liberal Studies is one of just 188 scholars, scientists, and artists chosen from approximately 3,000 applicants for the fellowship created in 1925 to add to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific power of the country.
Guggenheim Foundation President Edward Hirsch said the fellows are meeting the profound existential challenges facing humanity head-on and are “generating new possibilities and pathways across the broader culture.”
In her project, “‘Becoming like God’: Perfection in Platonism and Stoicism (1c. BCE-2c. CE),” Reydams-Schils will seek to retrieve aspects of human perfection in Antiquity — ancient times before the Middle Ages — that are empowering and relevant.
Reydams-Schils, who has concurrent appointments in classics, philosophy, and theology, and is a fellow of the Medieval Institute, directs Notre Dame's Workshop on Ancient Philosophy. Her publications include Demiurge and Providence, Stoic and Platonist Readings of Plato's Timaeus; The Roman Stoics: Self, Responsibility, and Affection; and Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus: Greek Philosophy, Latin Reception, and Christian Contexts.
Now in its 99th year, the Foundation has granted more than $400 million in Fellowships to more than 19,000 people, including 125 Nobel laureates and winners of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
Originally published by at pls.nd.edu on April 12, 2024. Republished with edits at medieval.nd.edu and April 29, 2024.