List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2018: Guggenheim Fellowships have been awarded annually since 1925, by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." [1] The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of 173 Guggenheim Fellowships, including two joint Fellowships, chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Foundation’s ninety-fourth competition. [2] [3]
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Choreography | Nora Chipaumire | Choreography | [2] [4] | |
John Heginbotham | Princeton University | [2] | |||
Heather Kravas | [5] [6] | ||||
Aparna Ramaswamy | Ragamala Dance Company | [7] [8] [9] | |||
Ranee Ramaswamy | [7] [8] [9] | ||||
Jen Rosenblit | [10] | ||||
Kota Yamazaki | [11] | ||||
Drama and Performance Art | Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas | Bard College | [12] | ||
Annie Dorsen | [12] [4] | ||||
Robin Frohardt | University of North Carolina (fellow) | [13] [14] | |||
Dohee Lee | Local immigrant and refugee migration stories | [15] [4] [16] | |||
David M. Levine | Harvard University | [17] | |||
Fiction | Rachel Cusk | Writing | [18] | ||
Andrew Greer | Santa Maddalena Foundation | [15] [18] [19] | |||
Lauren Groff | Friends of Writers | [20] [18] [21] | |||
Jennifer Haigh | [18] | ||||
Min Jin Lee | [22] [18] | ||||
China Miéville | [18] [20] | ||||
Deb Olin Unferth | [18] | ||||
Film - Video | Gina Petra Abatemarco | [7] | |||
Peter Burr | [23] | ||||
William D. Caballero | [24] [25] | ||||
Marsia Alexander-Clarke | Video symphony inspired by Pablo Neruda's Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada | [26] | |||
Alexandra Cuesta | Documentary about life in the village of Susudel in southern Ecuador | [25] [4] [27] | |||
Carol Dysinger | New York University Tisch School of the Arts | Live documentary installation | [28] [29] [30] | ||
Eliza Hittman | Pratt Institute | [24] [4] | |||
Shevaun Mizrahi | Massachusetts College of Art and Design | [31] | |||
Nicolás Pereda | Mason Gross School of the Arts | [25] [32] | |||
Lee Anne Schmitt | California Institute of the Arts | [33] [4] | |||
Parvez Sharma | [9] | ||||
Nandini Sikand | Lafayette College | Documentary about women and mass incarceration in Pennsylvania | [9] [34] | ||
Brett Story | Ryerson University | The Hottest August | [35] | ||
Fine Arts | Dennis Adams | Cooper Union | [36] [37] | ||
Mequitta Ahuja | Self-portraiture | [9] [36] [38] | |||
Dave Hullfish Bailey | Sculpture | [36] [39] [4] | |||
Janet Biggs | Lengths of human movement and ambition; filming in the Horn of Africa and at the Mars Desert Research Station | [7] [36] [40] | |||
Phillip Chen | Drake University | "Printmaking’s ability to proliferate critical pronouncements on behalf of social justice" | [41] [36] [42] [43] | ||
Julia Christensen | Oberlin College | Impact of technological "upgrade culture" on institutions, archives, and scientific research | [36] [44] | ||
Esperanza Cortés | [36] | ||||
Craig Drennen | Georgia State University | Painting | [36] [45] | ||
Amy Feldman | Painting, drawing, ceramics | [36] [46] | |||
Richard Fleischner | [36] | ||||
Kate Gilmore | State University of New York | Series of exhibitions and live performances addressing "our current state, how we choose to participate in it, and how we as a community can demand it change" | [36] [47] | ||
Todd Gray | Colonized people and places in Africa | [36] [4] [48] | |||
Hiroyuki Hamada | Sculpture | [49] [36] | |||
Dave Hardy | [36] | ||||
Stephen Hayes | Work on his In the Hour Before painting series, which reimagines settings of tragedies | [50] [36] [51] [52] | |||
Lies Kraal | Painting | [36] | |||
Elizabeth LaPensée | State University of New York at Purchase | Merging virtual reality and 360 film to express Indigenous scientific teachings | [53] [36] | ||
Chris Larson | University of Minnesota | Art inspired by how workspaces impact the way people understand social class and identity | [36] [54] [55] | ||
Robert L. Lobe | Sculpture | [36] | |||
Nicole Miller | University of California, San Diego | [4] [36] | |||
Amy Pleasant | Painting | [36] [42] | |||
Annabeth Rosen | University of California, Davis | Sculpture | [15] [36] [56] | ||
Margo Sawyer | University of Texas at Austin | Designs of spaces transcendent, such as "public places that foster contemplation" | [57] [36] | ||
David Schutter | University of Chicago | Project using Thomas Eakins' archives | [36] [58] | ||
Charles Yuen | Painting | [36] | |||
Music Composition | Eugene Birman | Hong Kong Baptist University | Commission for a leading British vocal ensemble on the topic of fake news and Russian foreign policy | [15] [59] | |
Du Yun | Peabody Institute | Composition | [60] | ||
Michael Harrison | New work for Alarm Will Sound | [61] [62] | |||
Edward Jacobs | East Carolina University | Work on composition commissions | [63] [64] | ||
Tonia Ko | Work on an opera with five soloists (Mapmakers) and a bubble wrap concerto with a chamber orchestra | [65] [66] | |||
Eric Lyon | Virginia Tech | Spatial audio research and composition | [67] | ||
Farangis Nurulla-Khoja | "Sounds unheard and forms unseen" | [68] | |||
Yoshiaki Onishi | Ensemble Exophonie Tokyo | Composition | [64] [69] | ||
Mika Pelo | University of California, Davis | Writing an opera | [15] [56] [64] | ||
Felipe Salles | Composition | [61] | |||
Carl Schimmel | Illinois State University | Exploration of methods of expressing narrative in musical form | [70] | ||
Anna Webber | Composition | [61] | |||
Photography | Tsar Fedorsky | Taft School | [36] | ||
Lukas Felzmann | Stanford University | Creation of a new photographic archive of California | [15] [36] [71] | ||
Anthony Hernandez | Abstract and minimal landscape photographs | [36] [4] [72] | |||
David Maisel | Dugway Proving Ground | [15] [36] [73] | |||
Pradip Malde | University of the South | Female genital mutilation through the lens of loss and sacrifice | [9] [36] [74] | ||
Rania Matar | Massachusetts College of Art and Design | Transitional period of leaving home for the first time | [36] [75] [76] | ||
Nicholas Muellner | Ithaca College | [36] | |||
Kristine Potter | Bodies of water with violent or ominous names | [77] [36] | |||
Meghann Riepenhoff | [15] [36] | ||||
Nadia Sablin | State University of New York at New Paltz | Passage of seasons in Alekhovshchina, Russia | [36] [78] | ||
Hank Willis Thomas | [36] [4] | ||||
Ian van Coller | Montana State University | Evolution of polar ice | [79] [36] [80] | ||
Poetry | Reginald Dwayne Betts | Yale University (PhD candidate) | Writing | [18] [21] [81] | |
Amy Gerstler | University of California, Irvine | [7] [18] [4] [82] | |||
Tyehimba Jess | College of Staten Island | [18] [83] | |||
Ilya Kaminsky | San Diego State University | [18] [84] | |||
Joan Naviyuk Kane | [18] | ||||
Dunya Mikhail | Oakland University | [18] [85] | |||
Srikanth Reddy | University of Chicago | [18] [9] [58] | |||
Anya Krugovoy | Mercer University | [18] [86] | |||
Monica Youn | Princeton University | [2] [7] [18] [87] [21] | |||
Humanities | African Studies | Nancy Rose Hunt | University of Florida | "Ideation as History" | [88] |
Architecture, Planning and Design | Edward Dimendberg | University of California, Irvine | Architecture and urbanism | [89] | |
Charlie Hailey | University of Florida | How climate, building, and community overlap in meaningful ways and how architecture and the humanities intertwine | [90] [91] | ||
Classics | Alain Bresson | University of Chicago | Specific form taken by money in the ancient Greek world, with a central focus on the question on why the Greeks "invented" coinage | [58] | |
Brooke Holmes | Princeton University | Greco-Roman roots of Western ideas about the physical body, the natural world, matter and the non-human | [87] | ||
Dance Studies | Mark Franko | Temple University | French dance and politics in the first half of the 20th century | [92] | |
East Asian Studies | Martin Kern | Princeton University | Textual culture of Chinese antiquity during the first millennium BCE | [87] | |
Wai-yee Li | Harvard University | Intersections of material culture, aesthetics, literature, and intellectual history in late imperial China | [17] [93] | ||
Nicolas Tackett | University of California, Berkeley | Rise of merit over ancestry as a primary marker of status in China during the 10th and 11th centuries | [94] | ||
English Literature | Devoney Looser | Arizona State University | Jane and Anna Maria Porter | [95] | |
European and Latin American Literature | Eleanor Kaufman | University of California, Los Angeles | Structure: A Counterhistory of Twentieth-Century French Philosophy | [96] | |
European and Latin American History | Rita Chin | University of Michigan | Invisible Labor: A History of Female Migrant Domestics in Postcolonial Europe | [97] | |
Ada Ferrer | New York University | Popular history of Cuba | [29] [30] | ||
Paul Friedland | Cornell University | A World Without Race: The Dream of a Universal Republic in the Revolutionary French Caribbean | [65] | ||
Joel F. Harrington | Vanderbilt University | Hans Staden | [98] | ||
Thomas Miller Klubock | University of Virginia | History of water and water wars in modern South America | [99] | ||
Edward Wright-Rios | Vanderbilt University | Pilgrimage in modern Mexico | [98] | ||
Film, Video and Radio Studies | Alison Griffiths | Baruch College | Expedition film, a genre during the interwar period, and intellectual roots in earlier moments and practices of travel | [100] | |
Fine Arts Research | C. Jean Campbell | Emory University | Imitative practice and pictorial invention in the art of Pisanello | [101] | |
Branden W. Joseph | Columbia University | Works by Kathy Acker, Jack Smith, Lee Lozano, and Carolee Schneemann | [102] | ||
General Nonfiction | Nicholson Baker | Government secrets and the Freedom of Information Act | [18] [103] | ||
Teju Cole | [7] [18] | ||||
Robert Finch | [18] | ||||
Roxane Gay | Purdue University | Collection of essays exploring television and American culture | [18] [104] [4] | ||
Jane Kamensky | Harvard University | History of the sexual revolution as revealed by the biography of feminist sex radical Candida Royalle | [17] [18] [105] | ||
John Jeremiah Sullivan | The Paris Review | [18] [106] | |||
Lily Tuck | [18] | ||||
History of Science, Technology and Economics | Joyce Chaplin | Harvard University | Climate change in colonial Africa | [17] | |
Erik M. Conway | California Institute of Technology | [107] | |||
Robert G. Morrison | Bowdoin College | Jewish scholarly intermediaries between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Italy | [108] | ||
Thomas S. Mullaney | Stanford University | Global history of non-Latin typography and type design in the modern era | [15] [71] | ||
Naomi Oreskes | Harvard University | [17] | |||
Ekaterina Pravilova | Princeton University | History of the Russian ruble (1768-1917) | [87] | ||
Intellectual and Cultural History | Irena Grudzińska-Gross | Polish Academy of Sciences | [109] | ||
Saidiya Hartman | Columbia University | Social upheaval and radical transformation of everyday life in the emergent Black ghetto in the early 20th century | [110] | ||
Scott Johnson | University of Oklahoma | Cultural biography of Syriac | [111] | ||
Marci Shore | Yale University | Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe | [112] | ||
Stefania Tutino | University of California, Los Angeles | 17th-century forgery case that provoked a 20-year-long debate in the Roman Curia over the authenticity of the documents on which the forgery was based | [96] | ||
Linguistics | Lenore A. Grenoble | University of Chicago | Relationship between language and well-being among Arctic Indigenous peoples in the face of rapidly changing social and environmental conditions, including urbanization and climate changes | [58] | |
Charles Yang | University of Pennsylvania | How children learn to count and how they develop the conceptual understanding of numbers | [113] | ||
Literary Criticism | Anna Brickhouse | University of Virginia | Earthquake Aesthetics: Catastrophe and the Forms of Critique | [99] | |
Theo Davis | Northeastern University | New theory of ornamentation that emphasizes attention and accompaniment rather than materiality | [114] | ||
Martin Hägglund | Yale University | New vision of leading a secular life, both individually and collectively | [112] | ||
Shari Huhndorf | University of California, Berkeley | Indigeneity and the Politics of Space: Gender, Geography, Culture | [94] | ||
Medieval and Renaissance Literature | Stratis Papaioannou | Brown University | Narrative history of Byzantine literature | [115] | |
Michelle R. Warren | Dartmouth University | Production and reception of a single medieval manuscript across 800 years | [116] | ||
Music Research | David Yearsley | Cornell University | Humorous side of Johann Sebastian Bach | [65] | |
Philosophy | Sally Haslanger | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Social practices and social structure with an emphasis on the materiality of social practices and the role of ideology | [7] [117] | |
John Heil | Washington University in St. Louis | Relation between the world as it appears to us and the world as it is revealed by fundamental physics | [118] | ||
Religion | Bart D. Ehrman | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill | How early Christian conceptions of the afterlife were formed by and also shaped their respective contexts | [119] | |
Nile Green | University of California, Los Angeles | What global Islam is and where it came from | [96] [4] | ||
Jeremy Schipper | Temple University | Biblical interpretation in the defense and prosecution of Denmark Vesey | [119] [92] | ||
South Asian Studies | Christian Lee Novetzke | Jackson School of International Studies | Work on two books projects: the first looks at the role of devotionalism in the creation of political ethics in Maharashtra over the last 700 years; the second explores yoga as a political idea in India and globally | [120] | |
Archana Venkatesan | University of California, Davis | Festival of Recitation at Visnu temples in Tamil Nadu | [15] [9] [56] | ||
Translation | Esther Allen | Baruch College | Completion of translations of Antonio Di Benedetto's El silenciero (1964) and Las suicidas (1968) | [121] | |
United States History | Kathleen DuVal | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | American Indian dominance in the centuries before 1850 | [122] | |
Aaron Spencer Fogleman | Northern Illinois University | Monograph: Immigrant Voices: European and African Stories of Freedom, Unfreedom, and Identity through Four Centuries of Transatlantic Migrations to the Americas | [123] | ||
Martha Hodes | New York University | Semi-autobiography recounting a 1970 airplane hijacking in Jordan | [29] [30] | ||
Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Edriss S. Titi | Texas A&M University | Advancement of the mathematical study and justification of the atmospheric dynamics climate models with moisture, and to investigate and develop downscaling algorithms for data assimilation of weather and climate predictions | [124] |
Astronomy and Astrophysics | Shri Kulkarni | California Institute of Technology | Exotic cosmological explosions | [9] [4] [107] | |
Chemistry | William Dichtel | Northwestern University | Very early-stage effort to understand and react to form materials with designed, uniform structures and tiny voids | [125] | |
Christy L. Haynes | University of Minnesota | Adaption of analytical methods to characterize novel, technologically relevant nanomaterials in an environmental matrix | [126] [55] | ||
Computer Science | Ariel D. Procaccia | Carnegie Mellon University | Mechanisms that would enable voters to participate in the process of allocating a city's budget | [127] | |
Earth Science | Alexey Fedorov | Yale University | Global ocean circulation in warm climates | [112] | |
Engineering | Arup K. Chakraborty | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Induction of broadly neutralizing antibodies against highly mutable pathogens | [9] | |
Mathematics | Moon Duchin | Tufts University | Geometric group theory and gerrymandering | [7] [128] | |
Medicine and Health | Charles L. Bosk | University of Pennsylvania | Tension between professional and managerial definitions of "error" and why improvements in patient safety and quality of care have been elusive | [113] | |
Carl Elliott | University of Minnesota | Human subjects research scandals exposed by whistleblowers in four different countries | [55] | ||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Antonis Rokas | Vanderbilt University | How the study of fungi can expand common views in evolutionary biology | [7] [98] | |
Neuroscience | Aniruddh D. Patel | Tufts University | Evolutionary music cognition | [9] [128] | |
Organismic Biology & Ecology | Robert B. Jackson | Stanford University | Soil fertility and water supply in plants | [15] [71] | |
Anne D. Yoder | Duke University | Family tree of mouse lemurs | [129] | ||
Physics | Lisa Randall | Harvard University | [17] | ||
Michael T. Woodside | University of Alberta | How evolution shapes the folding of individual proteins by reconstructing ancient versions of modern-day proteins to discover how the folding process has changed | [130] | ||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Sienna R. Craig | Dartmouth College | Literary ethnography and short stories that discuss immigration between Nepal and New York | [65] |
Stefan Helmreich | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Ethnographic account of how scientists measure, model, and monitor ocean waves in an era of climate change | [131] | ||
Sabine Hyland | University of St Andrews | Hidden Texts of the Andes | [65] [132] | ||
Constitutional Studies | Carol Anderson | Emory University | [101] | ||
Geography and Environmental Studies | Jesse Ribot | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Book about his field research in the Sahel region and multiple comparative studies on human rights, representation, rural food security and theoretical work on climate-related vulnerability | [133] [134] | |
Law | Jessica Silbey | Northeastern University | Intellectual property debates in law and culture as a bellwether of changing social justice needs in the 21st century | [7] [114] | |
Sociology | Christopher A. Bail | Duke University | Social media "echo chamber" | [7] | |
Robert J. Sampson | Harvard University | Transition to adulthood under conditions of mass incarcteration | [17] | ||
Political Science | Peter A. Hall | Harvard University | Relationship between changes in the political economy and changes in electoral policies | [17] | |
Vivien A. Schmidt | Boston University | Rhetoric of discontent through a transatlantic investigation of the populist revolt against globalization and Europeanization | [135] | ||
Psychology | Fei Xu | University of California, Berkeley | Cognitive and language development in children, particularly the "rational constructionism" approach | [94] |
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated distinguished accomplishment in the past and potential for future achievement. The recipients exhibit outstanding aptitude for prolific scholarship or exceptional talent in the arts.