Ed Pavlić earns Guggenheim Fellowship to support work on James Baldwin biography
Ed Pavlić, Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies, has been named a 2026 Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, one of the most prestigious individual awards in the humanities, arts, and natural and social sciences. Pavlić is a recent Willson Center Faculty Fellow whose work on an upcoming biography of the writer James Baldwin was featured in a February profile for @UGAResearch. The Guggenheim Fellowship will support the completion of Darker than Blue: A Radical Life of James Baldwin, which is under contract with Henry Holt and Company for publication in 2028. Congratulations to Prof. Pavlić, and you can read more about the award from UGA Today.