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UGA History Professor Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

UGA History Department

University of Georgia history professor Cindy Hahamovitch has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Hahamovitch is a Professor of Southern History at UGA whose scholarship focuses on Southern, immigration, and labor history, and is the author of two books. Her fellowship project will be a book, “That Same Old Snake: Slaves, Coolies, Guestworkers, and the Global History of Human Trafficking,” that seeks to explore guest-worker programs around the world.

“There is significant literature on indentured servitude and migration in the 19th century, and a growing amount of scholarship on guest workers, modern labor migrants who work on temporary contracts,” Hahamovitch said, speaking to UGA Today's Alan Flurry.“What strikes me is how similar they are. Both are ostensibly free labor systems, but both are designed to mobilize and then immobilize labor. They’ve done so on a massive global scale.”

Hahamovitch is one of 184 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists chosen through a peer-review process from almost 3,000 applicants. According to the Fellowship's website, she is one of four Georgians to be awarded the prestigious Fellowship in 2021.

Fellowships are awarded to individuals in 49 disciplines ranging from applied mathematics to English literature to choreography.