U of I professor wins fellowship for study of violin in UK

A University of Illinois music professor has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Musicology professor Christina Bashford was awarded one of 188 humanities grants across the nation receiving $30.9 million. She will use the grant on a book project about the impact of the violin on Great Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

U of I Chancellor Robert J. Jones noted that the fellowship is one of the nation's more competitive humanities programs. The NEH awards an average of 79 grants a year out of 1,100 applications received.

Jones said that Bashford's “selection recognizes her outstanding scholarship in the field and we're proud to have her among our faculty.”