Edie Meidav has been selected as a fellow by the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center to further her work by writing a book this summer. As part of the fellowship, she will spend one month on the 50-acre property located at the heart of Lake Como in Northern Italy.
Each year, the Bellagio residency program offers up to 100 best-in-class practitioners, scholars, writers, policy-makers and artists from around the world for these month-long residencies to advance their work and engage with a globally diverse community of residents. Former residents include Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, renowned authors Maya Angelou and Michael Ondaatje, and international policy-makers such as Mary Robinson and Montek Ahluwalia.
“In the time I’ve been at UMass, I’ve been deeply grateful to the vision of the greater school, as well as to my department and program for the inspired students and colleagues I’ve felt lucky to get to know,” says Meidav. “UMass demonstrates its support for research in so many meaningful ways, helping make pathways available to staff, community members, students, and faculty. Considering just this past year, I was happy to teach and mentor graduate students, teach my first undergraduate class, work with local prisons, be a climate fellow at the Institute for Genocide, Holocaust, and Memory Studies, serve as a Fulbright mentor, and begin collaborating with a musician and architect-artist on a futuring conference. These are just a few examples of the way that UMass offers a strong core so everyone connected to it can reach outward. Every institution balances tradition and innovation, yet some kind of magic inheres within UMass and its creation of such a wonderful seedbed, such cross-pollination.”
For more on Meidav’s work, see the full UMass News article or view her faculty profile.