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.
“I am overjoyed and deeply honored to receive this award,” said Michels, a historian of early modern Russia and Ukraine. “It is a wonderful recognition of my scholarly career, and also of the relevance of 17th-century history for today’s world.”