List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1990 [1]
| Fellow | Category | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|
| V. Kofi Agawu | Humanities | Folklore & Popular Culture |
| Mindy Aloff | Humanities | Dance Studies |
| Robert W. Amberg | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Albert J. Ammerman | Humanities | Classics |
| Ida Applebroog | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| John Ash | Creative Arts | Poetry |
| Lyn Austin | Humanities | Theatre Arts |
| Paula R. Backscheider | Humanities | English Literature |
| Vivian E. Barnett | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
| Paul Barolsky | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
| Francisco José Barrantes | Natural Sciences | Neuroscience |
| Jack J. Beatty | Creative Arts | Biography |
| Connie Beckley | Fine Arts | |
| Michael Dougall Bell | American Literature | |
| Jeffrey M. Blake | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Daniel F. Bogenhagen | Medicine & Health | |
| David Jay Bordwell | Film, Video, & Radio Studies | |
| George Edward Pelham Box | Statistics | |
| Kazimierz P. Braun | Theatre Arts | |
| Jean P. Brodie | Astronomy—Astrophysics | |
| Eva Buchmuller | Fine Arts | |
| John David Buckmaster | Applied Mathematics | |
| Jeremy Keith Burdett | Chemistry | |
| Roger G. Burns | Earth Science | |
| Vincent R. Carelli | Video & Audio | |
| Evan Bruce Carton | American Literature | |
| Joan L. Chase | Fiction | |
| Norman Cohn | Video & Audio | |
| Robert L. Constable | Computer Science | |
| Bonnie Costello | American Literature | |
| Jeffery V. Cotton | Music Composition | |
| William George Crozier | Fine Arts | |
| John M. Darley | Psychology | |
| Robert Heater Davis | Engineering | |
| Vidya Dehejia | South Asian Studies | |
| Andrew H. Delbanco | American Literature | |
| Mary Ann Doane | Film, Video, & Radio Studies | |
| Georges Dreyfus | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Peter Norman Dunn | Spanish & Portuguese Literature | |
| Helen Escobedo | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Heide Fasnacht | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Michael Stephen Flier | Humanities | Slavic Literature |
| Enrique Florescano Mayet | Humanities | Iberian & Latin American History |
| Victoria E. Foe | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
| Elaine Ford | Creative Arts | Fiction |
| Lynn R. Freed | Creative Arts | Fiction |
| Igor B. Frenkel | Natural Sciences | Mathematics |
| Christine Froula | Humanities | Literary Criticism |
| Drew Fudenberg | Social Sciences | Economics |
| Luis Javier Garrido | Political Science | |
| Patrick J. Geary | Medieval History | |
| Xavier Gomez-Mont | Mathematics | |
| Vivian Gornick | General Nonfiction | |
| Philip Kan Gotanda | Drama & Performance Art | |
| Donald Grantham | Music Composition | |
| Zvi Griliches | Economics | |
| Ian MacDougall Hacking | Humanities | Philosophy |
| Joan Ungersma Halperin | Fine Arts Research | |
| Ron Hansen | Fiction | |
| Oscar J. Hijuelos | Fiction | |
| John T. Ho | Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Garrett K. Hongo | Creative Arts | Poetry |
| Roni Horn | Fine Arts | |
| Tina Howe | Drama & Performance Art | |
| Ana Istarú | Creative Arts | Drama & Performance Art |
| Michiko Itatani | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Fabián Miguel Jaksic | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| John Jesurun | Drama & Performance Art | |
| Kenneth R. Johnston | English Literature | |
| Frank Conrad Keil | Psychology | |
| Linda K. Kerber | U.S. History | |
| Donald R. Kinder | Political Science | |
| Alan Sydney Knight | Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Paul Kos | Video & Audio | |
| Robert Francis Kozma | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Paul Lansky | Music Composition | |
| Thomas W. Laqueur | British History | |
| Ramón R. Latorre | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Arnold J. Levine | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Susan Story Marshall | Creative Arts | Choreography |
| Douglas S. Massey | Social Sciences | Sociology |
| Thomas James Mathiesen | Humanities | Music Research |
| J. Richard McIntosh | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Louis Menand | American Literature | |
| Narciso G. Menocal | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
| Jack Miles | Religion | |
| Nancy Mitchnick | Fine Arts | |
| Albert Frank Moritz | Poetry | |
| Gerardo Mosquera | Fine Arts Research | |
| Paul B. Muldoon | Poetry | |
| Mitzi Myers | English Literature | |
| Richard T. Notkin | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Miguel Octavio | Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Timothy Richard Oke | Natural Sciences | Earth Science |
| Patricia M. Oleszko | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Glending Olson | Humanities | Medieval Literature |
| Juan M. Ossio | Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
| Craig Packer | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Gail K. Paster | English Literature | |
| Henry Petroski | History of Science & Technology | |
| Marlene Nourbese Philip | Poetry | |
| Darryl E. Pinckney | General Nonfiction | |
| Robert Charles Post | Law | |
| David Marshall Prescott | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Anne Elizabeth Pusey | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Susan Taft Quinn | Creative Arts | Biography |
| Albert Jordy Raboteau | Religion | |
| Juan Antonio Ramos | Fiction | |
| Timothy J. Reiss | French Literature | |
| Eric Rentschler | German & Scandinavian Literature | |
| Leonard Robert Roberts | Poetry | |
| David J. Robinson | Geography & Environmental Studies | |
| Jesusa Rodríguez Ramírez | Drama & Performance Art | |
| Amélie O. Rorty | Philosophy | |
| Ellen Rosand | Music Research | |
| Christopher C. Rouse | Music Composition | |
| Guido Ruggiero | Renaissance History | |
| Sheron A. Rupp | Creative Arts | Photography |
| J. Richard Russo | Fiction | |
| Mary P. Ryan | U.S. History | |
| Dianne F. Sadoff | Literary Criticism | |
| Wolfgang Schivelbusch | General Nonfiction | |
| Wolfgang M. Schmidt | Mathematics | |
| Naomi Schor | French Literature | |
| Michael S. Schudson | Sociology | |
| Frank Sellitto | Creative Arts | Photography |
| William H. Sewell | Sociology | |
| Bright Sheng | Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Stuart Sherman | Drama & Performance Art | |
| Robert J. Shiller | Economics | |
| Javier Silva Meinel | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Regina S. Silveira | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Carroll Smith-Rosenberg | U.S. History | |
| Glenn Herald Snyder | Political Science | |
| Art Spiegelman | Fine Arts | |
| Walter M. Spink | Fine Arts Research | |
| Nicholas Canaday Spitzer | Neuroscience | |
| Michael F. Stanislawski | Russian History | |
| Rodolfo Stavenhagen | Sociology | |
| Daniel Andrew Stein | Drama & Performance Art | |
| Steve J. Stern | Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Patrick Strzelec | Fine Arts | |
| Jon Tetsuro Sumida | British History | |
| Louise A. Tilly | Humanities | French History |
| Juan Carlos Torre | Social Sciences | Sociology |
| Livio Romano Tragtenberg | Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Minh-ha Trinh | Creative Arts | Film |
| Michel-Rolph Trouillot | Humanities | Iberian & Latin American History |
| P. Chase Twichell | Creative Arts | Poetry |
| Dell Upton | Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
| William L. Vance | Humanities | American Literature |
| Gauri Viswanathan | Humanities | South Asian Studies |
| Andrzej S. Walicki | Humanities | Intellectual & Cultural History |
| Mac Wellman | Creative Arts | Drama & Performance Art |
| Dianaruthe Wharton | Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Carl Edwin Wieman | Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Sean Wilentz | Humanities | U.S. History |
| Trevor Winkfield | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Marc F. Wise | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Susan J. Wolfson | Humanities | English Literature |
| Ilan Ziv | Creative Arts | Film |