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April 5, 2006

NC State History Professor Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dr. Anthony LaVopa

Dr. Anthony LaVopa, professor of history at North Carolina State University, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2006-07.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards the fellowships on the basis of distinguished achievement and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. The 2006 fellowship winners include artists, scholars, and scientists selected from the United States and Canada.

He will spend his fellowship period at the University of Edinburgh, where he intends to study the European Enlightenment. His project is titled “Manly Thoughts: The Labor of the Mind and the Specter of Effeminacy in Enlightenment Cultures.”

“I am curious about the ways in which Enlightenment thinkers distinguished between male and female kinds of intelligence, particularly as these were represented in speech and in writing,” LaVopa says. “Even as they granted women a superior social intelligence, especially in conversational skills and matters of taste, they insisted that other cognitive territories required kinds of intellectual labor exclusive to males. Certainly, some of the vestiges of their thinking are still alive and well today.”

LaVopa has also been awarded a Leverhulme Fund visiting professorship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.

LaVopa began his NC State teaching career in 1975, after receiving his doctorate at Cornell University. He teaches German history, history of the Enlightenment, and 20th century world history.

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