GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2018 FELLOWS

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced that it is awarding 173 fellowships, including two joint fellowships, to a group of scholars, artists, and scientists. The recipients were chosen from a pool of three thousand applicants and were selected based on their prior achievements and potential to make significant contributions to their fields.

Among the recipients from the cultural sector are Nora Chipaumire and Jen Rosenblit in the choreography category; David Maisel and Hank Willis Thomas in the photography category; and Dave Hullfish Bailey, Amy Feldman, Kate Gilmore, and David Schutter in the fine arts category.

“It’s exceptionally satisfying to name 175 new Guggenheim Fellows. These artists and writers, scholars and scientists, represent the best of the best,” Edward Hirsch, the president of the foundation, said. “Each year since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has bet everything on the individual, and we’re thrilled to continue to do so with this wonderfully talented and diverse group. It’s an honor to be able to support these individuals to do the work they were meant to do.”

Since its establishment in 1925, the foundation has granted fellowships totaling more than $360 million to over eighteen thousand individuals. This year’s fellows hail from forty-nine scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, sixty-nine different academic institutions, thirty-one states, and three Canadian provinces, and they range in age from twenty-nine to eighty. The complete list of fellows is as follows:

NATURAL SCIENCES

Applied Mathematics:

Edriss S. Titi

Astronomy–Astrophysics:

Shri Kulkarni

Chemistry:

Will Dichtel

Christy L. Haynes

Computer Science:

Ariel D. Procaccia

Earth Science:

Alexey Fedorov

Engineering:

Arup K. Chakraborty

Mathematics:

Moon Duchin

Medicine and Health:

Charles L. Bosk

Carl Elliott

Molecular and Cellular Biology:

Antonis Rokas

Neuroscience:

Aniruddh D. Patel

Organismic Biology and Ecology:

Robert B. Jackson

Anne D. Yoder

Physics:

Lisa Randall

Michael T. Woodside

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Anthropology and Cultural Studies:

Sienna R. Craig

Stefan Helmreich

Sabine Hyland

Constitutional Studies:

Carol Anderson

Geography and Environmental Studies:

Jesse Ribot

Law:

Jessica Silbey

Political Science:

Peter A. Hall

Vivien A. Schmidt

Psychology:

Fei Xu

Sociology:

Christopher A. Bail

Robert J. Sampson

HUMANITIES

African Studies:

Nancy Rose Hunt

Architecture, Planning, and Design:

Edward Dimendberg

Charlie Hailey

Classics:

Alain Bresson

Brooke Holmes

Dance Studies:

Mark Franko

East Asian Studies:

Martin Kern

Wai-yee Li

Nicolas Tackett

English Literature:

Devoney Looser

European and Latin American History:

Rita Chin

Ada Ferrer

Paul Friedland

Joel F. Harrington

Thomas Miller Klubock

Edward Wright-Rios

European and Latin American Literature:

Eleanor Kaufman

Film, Video, and New Media Studies:

Alison Griffiths

Fine Arts Research:

Jean Campbell

Branden W. Joseph

History of Science, Technology, and Economics:

Joyce E. Chaplin

Erik M. Conway

Robert G. Morrison

Thomas S. Mullaney

Naomi Oreskes

Ekaterina Pravilova

Intellectual and Cultural History:

Irena Grudzińska Gross

Saidiya Hartman

Scott Johnson

Marci Shore

Stefania Tutino

Linguistics:

Lenore A. Grenoble

Charles Yang

Literary Criticism:

Anna Brickhouse

Theo Davis

Martin Hägglund

Shari Huhndorf

Medieval and Renaissance Literature:

Stratis Papaioannou

Michelle R. Warren

Music Research:

David Yearsley

Philosophy:

Sally Haslanger

John Heil

Religion:

Bart D. Ehrman

Nile Green

Jeremy Schipper

South Asian Studies:

Christian Lee Novetzke

Archana Venkatesan

Translation:

Esther Allen

US History:

Kathleen DuVal

Aaron Spencer Fogleman

Martha Hodes

CREATIVE ARTS

Choreography:

Nora Chipaumire

John Heginbotham

Heather Kravas

Aparna Ramaswamy

Ranee Ramaswamy

Jen Rosenblit

Kota Yamazaki

Drama and Performance Art:

Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas

Annie Dorsen

Robin Frohardt

Dohee Lee

David Levine

Fiction:

Rachel Cusk

Andrew Sean Greer

Lauren Groff

Jennifer Haigh

Min Jin Lee

China Miéville

Deb Olin Unferth

Film-Video:

Gina Petra Abatemarco

Marsia Alexander-Clarke

Peter Burr

William D. Caballero

Alexandra Cuesta

Carol Dysinger

Eliza Hittman

Shevaun Mizrahi

Nicolás Pereda

Lee Anne Schmitt

Parvez Sharma

Nandini Sikand

Brett Story

Fine Arts:

Dennis Adams

Mequitta Ahuja

Dave Hullfish Bailey

Janet Biggs

Phillip Chen

Julia Christensen

Esperanza Cortés

Craig Drennen

Amy Feldman

Richard Fleischner

Kate Gilmore

Todd Gray

Hiroyuki Hamada

Dave Hardy

Stephen Hayes

Lies Kraal

Elizabeth LaPensée

Chris Larson

Robert L. Lobe

Nicole Miller

Amy Pleasant

Annabeth Rosen

Margo Sawyer

David Schutter

Charles Yuen

General Nonfiction:

Nicholson Baker

Teju Cole

Robert Finch

Roxane Gay

Jane Kamensky

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Lily Tuck

Music Composition:

Eugene Birman

Du Yun

Michael Harrison

Edward Jacobs

Tonia Ko

Eric Lyon

Farangis Nurulla

Yoshiaki Onishi

Mika Pelo

Felipe Salles

Carl Schimmel

Anna Webber

Photography:

Tsar Fedorsky

Lukas Felzmann

Anthony Hernandez

David Maisel

Pradip Malde

Rania Matar

Nicholas Muellner

Kristine Potter

Meghann Riepenhoff

Nadia Sablin

Hank Willis Thomas

Ian van Coller

Poetry:

Reginald Dwayne Betts

Amy Gerstler

Tyehimba Jess