KU anthropology professor wins Guggenheim fellowship
Arienne Dwyer is a Kansas University professor of linguistic anthropology.
A Kansas University anthropology professor has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, the university announced.
Arienne Dwyer was named a 2014 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for her study of Inner Asian languages.
Dwyer will take the fellowship in the 2015-16 academic year to work on a book about language convergence in Inner Asia. The book argues that the dominant Tibetan and Chinese languages were influenced by nondominant languages of the area.
Dwyer also received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the academic year.
Along with being a professor of linguistic anthropology, Dwyer is co-director of the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities.
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