Guggenheim Fellow

DR. ARTHUR M. WILSON JR., assistant professor of Biography at Dartmouth, was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation late in March. He will devote next year to the preparation of a biography of Diderot, the great 18th century French encyclopaedist and man of letters. Professor Wilson's Study of French Foreign Policy during the Administration of Cardinal Fleury was recently awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association.

Professor Wilson has been at Dartmouth since 1933. He received his A. B. degree at Yankton College in 1922, and then went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, receiving the B.A. degree in 1926, the Litt.B. degree in 1927, and later in 1931 the A.M. degree. At Harvard University he was awarded the Master's degree in 1930 and the Doctor's degree in 1933. Before coming to Dartmouth as instructor in 1933, he was instructor in History at Grinnell College from 1927 to 1929, and successively assistant, instructor and tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics at Harvard from 1929 to 1933. During summer sessions he has also taught at the University of Missouri and the University of Washington.