Two health professionals working for the Argentine Team of Psycho-Social Work and Research (EATIP), an accredited member of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT), have been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Lucila Edelman, Director of EATIP and member of the IRCT Council, and Diana Kordon, Coordinator at EATIP, were recognised for their research project “Multigenerational psychological effects of dictatorial repression”. They have been working in this special field for 25 years.
– What especially interests us is approaching the consequences of conditions of social context, in this case a disastrous situation, as well as the subjectivity and the processes of transgenerational transmission. The intellectual validation of such a prestigious international institution is unquestionable, the two experts working against torture expressed.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded thirty-six Fellowships, with a total grant allocation of 1,188.000 US dollar, to advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, humanities, creative arts) from Latin America and the Caribbean according to Edward Hirsch, the Foundation President. There were 819 applicants.
Countries represented this year by the new Fellows include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievements in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishments, and selected on the basis of two separate competitions, one for the United States and Canada, the other for Latin America and the Caribbean.
