Idrissou Mora-Kpai, Assistant Professor at Park School of Communications is among 171 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships.
The awards, made annually by the the Guggenheim Foundation, recognize both prior achievement and exceptional promise. The honorees were chosen through a rigorous peer-review process from almost 2,500 applicants.
Mora-Kpai will use his Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue work on “Border Life,” a feature-length creative documentary on Seme, a bustling border town between Nigeria and Benin where the lives of peddlers, smugglers, travelers, and ordinary citizens are deeply intertwined in ways that open a window into the localization of global economic exchanges.