Historian Georg Michels awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Georg Michels, a professor of history at UC Riverside, has won the 2026 Richard F. Gustafson Guggenheim Fellowship in Slavic Studies, one of only three named fellowships awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

By John Sanford |

NEH grant supports book on 1600s Ukrainian resistance

Georg Michels, a UCR professor of history, has received a $60,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, or NEH, to support an upcoming book project. The title of Michels’ accepted NEH proposal is “Protect Us Against the Cruelty… of Christian Monarchs: Ottoman Support for Ukrainian Resistance Against the Russian Empire (1660...

By John Warren |