Huge congratulations to Professor Elina Gertsman, who has been named a Guggenheim Fellow! According to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, this year’s 175 fellows, “appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise … were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Foundation’s ninety-sixth competition.” The winners’ names were published in the New York Times on April 9, and Professor Gertsman is proud to be part of such a brilliant cohort that includes extraordinary thinkers, writers, and artists. During the period of her fellowship, she will work on her next book, Withdrawal and Presence: Visualizing Medieval Abstraction, which aims to tackle the concept of medieval abstraction from a multitude of perspectives—formal, semiotic, iconographic, material, phenomenological, and epistemological. For the full list of fellows, see https://www.gf.org/fellows/current/