The UIUC News Bureau reports that Antoinette Burton, co-editor of the recent University of Illinois Press book Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire, has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

The prestigious fellowships are awarded “on the basis of achievement and exceptional promise,” according to a release from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This year’s fellows were chosen from a group of about 3,000 applicants and the rolls of past winners include “thousands of celebrated alumni and scores of Nobel, Pulitzer, and other prizewinners,” according to the foundation.