Travisano Becomes First Hartwick Faculty Member to Win Guggenhein Fellowship

Dr. Thomas Travisano, a Professor of English at Hartwick College, has been named a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow in the category of "Creative Arts - Biography."

Now in its 89th year, the annual award given by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is among the most distinctive and prestigious honors an artist or a scholar can achieve.

Recommended by peer scholars throughout his field, Travisano is among a diverse group of 175 scholars, artists, and scientists in the United States and Canada who have been awarded a 2013 Guggenheim fellowship.

Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, Travisano was selected from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants. According to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the award is intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship and creative ability in the arts.

Travisano is the first Hartwick Faculty member to ever receive a Guggenheim Fellowship.