Announcing the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists

Announcing the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s 101st Class of Fellows Taps 223 Trailblazing Artists, Scientists, and Scholars Across 55 Fields
Meet the 101st Class of Guggenheim Fellows
(New York, NY--April 14, 2026)
-- The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced today their appointment of the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows, including 223 distinguished individuals working across 55 disciplines. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants, the Class of 2026 Guggenheim Fellows was tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise. As established in 1925 by founder Senator Simon Guggenheim, each Fellow receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under “the freest possible conditions.”
“Our new class of Guggenheim Fellows is representative of the world’s best thinkers, innovators, and creators in art, science, and scholarship,” said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and President of the Guggenheim Foundation. “As the Foundation enters its second century and looks to the future, I feel confident that this new class of 223 individuals will do bold and inspiring work, undaunted by the challenges ahead. We are honored to support their visionary contributions.”
The Guggenheim Foundation has always been committed to awarding Fellowships at the highest level. Since its founding in 1925, the Foundation has awarded nearly $450 million in fellowships to more than 19,000 Fellows. This year, applications in the Creative Arts and Humanities were up by 50% and applications in the Sciences were up by 86%. At a time when intellectual and creative life is under attack, the Foundation continues to demonstrate its commitment to supporting extraordinary individuals breaking new ground in the Creative Arts, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and a range of interdisciplinary fields.
In all,
55
scholarly disciplines and artistic fields,
97
academic institutions,
33
US
states and the District of Columbia,
three
Canadian provinces, and
eight
countries beyond the United States and Canada are represented in the 2026 class. The Fellows range in age from
28 to 76,
and around one third do not hold a full-time affiliation with a college or university.
Fellows' projects grapple with timeless themes and timely issues. They explore the promise and perils of artificial intelligence, propose life-changing advancements in medical technology, unearth the historical roots of contemporary crises, and forge new directions in artistic expression.
This year, the Guggenheim Foundation is proud to have three named Fellowships:
The Dorothy Tapper Goldman Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies
has been awarded to
Gerard N. Magliocca
The
Richard F. Gustafson Guggenheim Fellowship in Slavic Studies
has been
awarded to
Georg B. Michels
The
Kayden Guggenheim Fellowship in Climate Studies
has been awarded to
Michael Kaplan
Generous gifts from friends and previous Fellows have supported this year’s Fellows:
Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick
have underwritten a Fellowship in General Nonfiction in honor of
Stacy Schiff, Fellow 1996
, awarded to
Donovan Hohn.
Pat Ferrero, Fellow 1982,
has underwritten a Fellowship in Film-Video awarded to
Adam James Smith
The Robert Frank Foundation
has underwritten a Fellowship in Photography in honor of
Robert Frank, Fellow 1955 and 1956
, awarded to
Jeremiah Ariaz.
The Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation
has underwritten a Fellowship in Indigenous Studies, awarded to
John Borrows
Stacy Schiff, Fellow 1996, and Marc de la Bruyère
have underwritten a Fellowship in Fiction, awarded to
Namwali Serpell.
The
Eleanor Schwartz Charitable Foundation
has underwritten a Fellowship in Medicine & Health, awarded to
Alexander Ploss.
The Estate of Geraldine Jonçich Clifford, Fellow 1965,
has underwritten a Fellowship in Education, awarded to
Matthew Kraft
The Estate of Margaret W. Rossiter, Fellow 1981,
has underwritten a Fellowship in a natural science field, awarded to
Alexandra Z. Worden
A generous bequest from the estate of
Philip Roth
, 1959 Fellow, provides partial support of writers.
Fellows in the creative arts are partially supported by the
Joel Conarroe Fund
, named for a former President of the Foundation who was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1977.
About the Guggenheim Foundation
Created and initially funded in 1925 by US Senator Simon and Olga Guggenheim in memory of their son John Simon, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has sought to “further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions.”
Since its establishment, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted nearly $450 million in Fellowships to more than 19,000 individuals, among whom are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award, and other internationally recognized honors. The broad range of fields of study is a unique characteristic of the Fellowship program. The Fellowship is application-based, and open to U.S. and Canadian citizens or permanent residents.
The Guggenheim Foundation centers the talents and instincts of the Fellows, whose passions often have broad and immediate social impact. For example, in 1936,
Zora Neale Hurston
wrote
Their Eyes Were Watching God
with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship and dedicated it to the Foundation’s first president, Henry Allen Moe. Photographer
Robert Frank
’s seminal book,
The Americans
, was the product of a cross-country tour supported by two Guggenheim Fellowships. The accomplishments of other early Fellows like
e.e. cummings,  Jacob Lawrence, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Martha Graham,
and
Linus Pauling
also demonstrate the strength of the Guggenheim Foundation’s core values and the power and impact of its approach.
Dropdown items
Kyle Abraham
Choreography
Brooklyn, NY
Ran Abramitzky
Economics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
John Ahearn
Fine Arts
New York, NY
Andre Alexis
Fiction
Toronto, ON, Canada
Jessica Anthony
Fiction
Bates College
Portland, ME
Raymond Antrobus
Poetry
New Orleans, LA
Samantha Appleton
Photography
Rockport, ME
Penny Arcade
Drama & Performance Art
New York, NY
Haleh Ardebili
Engineering
University of Houston
Sugar Land, TX
Jeremiah Ariaz
Photography
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA
Mathew Arrellín
Music Composition
Chicago, IL
Nathan Arrington
Fine Arts Research
Princeton, NJ
American Artist
Fine Arts
Brooklyn, NY
Fia Backström
Fine Arts
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Brooklyn, NY
Elena Bajo
Fine Arts
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art
New York, NY
Alan Baker
Philosophy
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA
Regina Baucom
Biology
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Dexter, MI
Emily Benedek
General Nonfiction
New York, NY
Anya Bernstein
Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Chris Aluka Berry
Photography
Marshall, NC
Amy Bessone
Fine Arts
Los Angeles, CA
Paula Bohince
Poetry
Pittsburgh, PA
Raymond Boisjoly
Fine Arts
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC, Canada
John Borrows
Indigenous Studies
University of Toronto
Victoria, BC, Canada
Harlan Bozeman
Photography
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
Neil Brenner
Architecture, Planning, & Design
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Claudia Brittenham
Fine Arts Research
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Margaret Brown
Film-Video
Austin, TX
Joel Cabrita
African Studies
Stanford University
San Francisco, CA
Yin Cao
Data Science
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Brian M. Cassidy
Film-Video
Montreal, QB, Canada
Jonathan Michael Castillo
Photography
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
Yanira Castro
Choreography
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Matias D. Cattaneo
Data Science
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Damon Centola
Sociology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Heather Christle
Poetry
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Mina Cikara
Psychology
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Sonya Clark
Fine Arts
Amherst College
Amherst, MA
Heather Cleary
Translation
Ciudad de México, México
Sivan Cohen Elias
Music Composition
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
Elena Conis
History of Science, Technology, & Economics
University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Michael Cosmopoulos
Classics
University of Missouri - St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Seán Curran
Choreography
New York University
New York, NY
Edward E. Curtis IV
Religion
Indiana University-Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN
Andrea Damascelli
Physics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Marlene Daut
European & Latin American History
Yale University
Woodbridge, CT
Reid Davenport
Film-Video
CUNY Hunter College
Beacon, NY
Bedross Der Matossian
Near Eastern Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE
William Deresiewicz
General Nonfiction
Portland, OR
Ilias Diakonikolas
Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
Lawrence Douglas
Law
Amherst College
Sunderland, MA
Justin Driver
Constitutional Studies
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Tarek Elgindi
Applied Mathematics
Duke University
Durham, NC
Kota Ezawa
Fine Arts
California College of the Arts
Oakland, CA
Stephen Ferry
Photography
International Center of Photography
New York, NY
Stephanie Fleischmann
Drama & Performance Art
Columbiaville, NY
Daniel Forger
Applied Mathematics
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Dov Fox
Law
University of San Diego
San Diego, CA
Elisa Gabbert
General Nonfiction
Providence, RI
Angela Garcia
Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Stanford University
San Francisco, CA
Raven Garvey
Anthropology & Cultural Studies
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Amitav Ghosh
General Nonfiction
Brooklyn, NY
Cate Giordano
Film-Video
Brooklyn, NY
Randall H. Goldsmith
Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
Elizabeth Goodstein
General Nonfiction
Emory University
Avondale Estates, GA
Jacqueline Goss
Film-Video
Bard College
Tivoli, NY
Allison Grant
Photography
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL
Jude Griebel
Fine Arts
New York, NY
Iva Gueorguieva
Fine Arts
Claremont Graduate University
Los Angeles, CA
Karl Haendel
Fine Arts
Los Angeles, CA
Fariba Hajamadi
Fine Arts
Los Angeles, CA
Erika Hamden
Astronomy–Astrophysics
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Allison Janae Hamilton
Fine Arts
New York, NY
LaMont Hamilton
Fine Arts
New Orleans, LA
Myronn Hardy
Poetry
Bates College
Portland, ME
Christopher Harris
Film-Video
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Richard Hasen
Law
University of California-Los Angeles
Studio City, CA
Brian Christopher Hawkins
Film-Video
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Harrisonville, MO
Faith Hillis
Intellectual & Cultural History
Chicago, IL
James Hoff
Fine Arts
New York, NY
Donovan Hohn
General Nonfiction
Wayne State University
Ann Arbor, MI
K.J. Holmes
Choreography
New York University
New York, NY
Madeleine Hunt - Ehrlich
Film-Video
CUNY Queens College
Brooklyn, NY
Oswald Huỳnh
Music Composition
American Academy in Rome
Portland, OR
Jon Irabagon
Music Composition
University of Illinois at Chicago
Park Ridge, IL
Christoph Irmscher
Literary Criticism
Indiana University-Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Noah Isenberg
Film, Video, & New Media Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
New York, NY
Kristen Iversen
Biography
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
Lucy Ives
Fiction
Corinth, VT
Zubin Jacob
Engineering
Purdue University-Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN
Marlon James
Fiction
Brooklyn, NY
Zhu Jia
Film-Video
South Pasadena, CA
Bret Anthony Johnston
Fiction
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Ieva Jusionyte
Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Brown University
Cambridge, MA
Michael Kaplan
Climate Studies
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Westchester, NY
Christopher Kempf
Poetry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Suji Kwock Kim
Poetry
Princeton, NJ
jaamil olawale kosoko
Choreography
Philadelphia, PA
David Kosower
Physics
Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay
Paris, France
Matthew Kraft
Education
Brown University
Belmont, MA
Jamie Kreiner
Medieval & Early Modern Studies
University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Julia M. Kunin
Fine Arts
The Allen-Stevenson School
Brooklyn, NY
Edgar Kunz
Poetry
Virginia Commonwealth University
Baltimore, MD
Kapulani Landgraf
Photography
University of Hawaiʻi, Windward Community College
Kane'ohe, HI
Sarah Lasley
Film-Video
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt
Eureka, CA
Ingrid Laubrock
Music Composition
Columbia University in the City of New York
Brooklyn, NY
Rickey Laurentiis
Poetry
New Orleans, LA
Haruna Lee
Drama & Performance Art
Brooklyn, NY
Matthew Leifheit
Photography
Yale University
Oakland Park, FL
John J. Lennon
General Nonfiction
Ossining, NY
James Brandon Lewis
Music Composition
Brooklyn, NY
Pixy Liao
Photography
Tokyo, Japan
Molly Rose Lieber
Choreography
CUNY Queens College
Brooklyn, NY
Erik Linstrum
European & Latin American History
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Charlottesville, VA
nia love
Choreography
Florida State University
New York, NY
David Serkin Ludwig
Music Composition
The Juilliard School
New York, NY
Joseph Luzzi
General Nonfiction
Bard College
Tivoli, NY
Gerard N. Magliocca
Constitutional Studies
Indiana University
Indianapolis, IN
Steve Maing
Film-Video
Ridgewood, NY
Monica Majoli
Fine Arts
University of California-Irvine
Los Angeles, CA
Megha Majumdar
Fiction
CUNY Hunter College
Brooklyn, NY
Kris Manjapra
Intellectual & Cultural History
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Kate Manne
Philosophy
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Elizabeth Mansfield
Fine Arts Research
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
State College, PA
James Marcus
General Nonfiction
New York University
New York, NY
Rudolph Matthee
Medieval & Early Modern Studies
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
Heather Maynard
Chemistry
University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Aspen Mays
Fine Arts
California College of the Arts
Richmond, CA
Mitch McCabe
Film-Video
Detroit, MI
Chris McCaw
Photography
Pacifica, CA
Christian W. McMillen
U.S. History
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Charlottesville, VA
Sarah McNamer
Medieval & Early Modern Studies
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Leeza Meksin
Fine Arts
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Kate Merkel-Hess
Asian Studies
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
State College, PA
Adam Mestyan
Intellectual & Cultural History
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Sean Metzger
Theatre Arts & Performance Studies
University of California-Los Angeles
Pacific Palisades, CA
Georg B. Michels
Slavic Studies
University of California-Riverside
Riverside, CA
John Miller
Fine Arts
Barnard College
New York, NY
Modney
Music Composition
Brooklyn, NY
Natalia Molina
U.S. History
University of Southern California
Pasadena, CA
Reinaldo Manuel Moya
Music Composition
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA
Don Moynihan
Political Science
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Sharon Ann Murphy
U.S. History
Providence College
Providence, RI
Vivek Narayanan
Poetry
George Mason University
Arlington, VA
Rasmus Nielsen
Biology
University of California-Berkeley
Kensington, CA
Anders Nilsen
Fiction
Los Angeles, CA
Amy O'Neal
Choreography
Seattle, WA
Emily Ogden
General Nonfiction
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Charlottesville, VA
Linda May Han Oh
Music Composition
Cambridge, MA
Kristina Reiss Olson
Psychology
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Ed Pavlić
American Literature
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
V. Penelope Pelizzon
Poetry
University of Connecticut
Chaplin, CT
Ralph B. Peña
Drama & Performance Art
New York, NY
Pamela Petro
General Nonfiction
Northampton, MA
Tenzin Phuntsog
Film-Video
Menlo Park, CA
Raymond Pinto
Choreography
Bridgeport, CT
Stephen Platt
Asian Studies
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Florence, MA
Alexander Ploss
Medicine & Health
Princeton, NJ
Aaron Pollack
Mathematics
University of California-San Diego
San Diego, CA
P. David Polly
Earth Science
Indiana University-Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Allison Pugh
Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
Washington, DC
Scott Redford
Architecture, Planning, & Design
SOAS, University of London
London, United Kingdom
Steve Reinke
Film-Video
Chicago, IL
Xuefei Ren
Geography & Environmental Studies
Michigan State University
Chicago, IL
Kay Kyurim Rhie
Music Composition
University of California-Los Angeles
Santa Monica, CA
Nicole R. Rice
English Literature
Saint John's University
Brooklyn, NY
Eric Richards
Biology
Boyce Thompson Institute
Ithaca, NY
Silas Riener
Choreography
Princeton University
Margaretville, NY
Fred Ritchin
Photography
International Center of Photography
Bronx, NY
Alva Rogers
Drama & Performance Art
New York, NY
Elaine Romero
Drama & Performance Art
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Marina Rosenfeld
Fine Arts
Brooklyn, NY
Michael Ross
Fine Arts
Brooklyn, NY
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Fiction
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
New Orleans, LA
Francis Ruyter
Fine Arts
Vienna, Austria
Anna Samo
Film-Video
Brooklyn, NY
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Film-Video
Bennington College
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Andrew Sartori
Asian Studies
New York University
New York, NY
Collier Schorr
Photography
Yale University
Brooklyn, NY
Gina Schouten
Philosophy
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Laurie Schwartz
Music Composition
Berlin, Germany
Namwali Serpell
Fiction
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Melanie Shatzky
Film-Video
Outremont, QB, Canada
Kate Shepherd
Fine Arts
New York, NY
W. Anthony Sheppard
Music Research
Williams College
Pownal, VT
Claire Sherman
Fine Arts
Drew University
Guttenberg, NJ
Sang-Heon Dan Shim
Astronomy–Astrophysics
Arizona State University-Tempe
Chandler, AZ
Lara Shipley
Photography
Michigan State University
Huntington Woods, MI
Afreen Siddiqi
Geography & Environmental Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sharon, MA
Fern Silva
Film-Video
Athens, Greece
Adam James Smith
Film-Video
University of Cambridge
Lake Peekskill, NY
Eleanor Smith
Choreography
Brooklyn, NY
Sheida Soleimani
Photography
Brandeis University
Providence, RI
Andrew Stauffer
English Literature
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Frederick, MD
Karen Stern
Classics
CUNY Brooklyn College
New York, NY
riel Sturchio
Photography
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
John Wood Sweet
U.S. History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Kenneth Tam
Fine Arts
Rice University
Houston, TX
Alina Tenser
Fine Arts
Lehigh University
Brooklyn, NY
Kathleen Thelen
Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brookline, MA
Madeleine Thien
Fiction
CUNY Brooklyn College
Montréal, QB, Canada
Mark Christian Thompson
European & Latin American Literature
Johns Hopkins University
Brooklyn, NY
Marcelo Toledo
Music Composition
New York, NY
Julie Turnock
Film, Video, & New Media Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Somerville, MA
Juana Valdes
Fine Arts
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Miami, FL
Bridgett vonHoldt
Biology
Princeton University
Lawrenceville, NJ
Sadie Wechsler
Photography
Portland, OR
Claire Wendland
African Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
Jennifer West
Fine Arts
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Robb Willer
Sociology
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
Anne Wilson
Fine Arts
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Evanston, IL
Alexandra Z. Worden
Earth Science
Marine Biological Laboratory
Lexington, MA
Guanyu Xu
Photography
Chicago, IL
Sheng Xu
Engineering
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
Samira Yamin
Photography
Art Center College of Design
Los Angeles, CA
Michael Yartsev
Neuroscience
University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Anya Yermakova
Music Composition
Willamette University
Salem, OR
Harvey Young
Theatre Arts & Performance Studies
Boston University
West Newton, MA
Sera Young
Geography & Environmental Studies
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Hannah Zeavin
History of Science, Technology, & Economics
University of California-Berkeley
Oakland, CA
Daniel Ziblatt
Political Science
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Eric Zolov
European & Latin American History
Stony Brook University
Queens, NY
African Studies
Joel Cabrita
Stanford University
San Francisco, CA
Claire Wendland
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
American Literature
Ed Pavlić
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Anya Bernstein
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Angela Garcia
Stanford University
San Francisco, CA
Raven Garvey
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Ieva Jusionyte
Brown University
Cambridge, MA
Applied Mathematics
Tarek Elgindi
Duke University
Durham, NC
Daniel Forger
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Architecture, Planning, & Design
Neil Brenner
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Scott Redford
SOAS, University of London
London, United Kingdom
Asian Studies
Kate Merkel-Hess
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
State College, PA
Stephen Platt
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Florence, MA
Andrew Sartori
New York University
New York, NY
Astronomy–Astrophysics
Erika Hamden
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Sang-Heon Dan Shim
Arizona State University-Tempe
Chandler, AZ
Biography
Kristen Iversen
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
Biology
Regina Baucom
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Dexter, MI
Rasmus Nielsen
University of California-Berkeley
Kensington, CA
Eric Richards
Boyce Thompson Institute
Ithaca, NY
Bridgett vonHoldt
Princeton University
Lawrenceville, NJ
Chemistry
Randall H. Goldsmith
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
Heather Maynard
University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Choreography
Kyle Abraham
Brooklyn, NY
Yanira Castro
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Seán Curran
New York University
New York, NY
K.J. Holmes
New York University
New York, NY
jaamil olawale kosoko
Philadelphia, PA
Molly Rose Lieber
CUNY Queens College
Brooklyn, NY
nia love
Florida State University
New York, NY
Amy O'Neal
Seattle, WA
Raymond Pinto
Bridgeport, CT
Silas Riener
Princeton University
Margaretville, NY
Eleanor Smith
Brooklyn, NY
Classics
Michael Cosmopoulos
University of Missouri - St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Karen Stern
CUNY Brooklyn College
New York, NY
Climate Studies
Michael Kaplan
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Westchester, NY
Computer Science
Ilias Diakonikolas
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Somerville, MA
Constitutional Studies
Justin Driver
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Gerard N. Magliocca
Indiana University
Indianapolis, IN
Data Science
Yin Cao
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Matias D. Cattaneo
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Drama & Performance Art
Penny Arcade
New York, NY
Stephanie Fleischmann
Columbiaville, NY
Haruna Lee
Brooklyn, NY
Ralph B. Peña
New York, NY
Alva Rogers
New York, NY
Elaine Romero
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Earth Science
P. David Polly
Indiana University-Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Alexandra Z. Worden
Marine Biological Laboratory
Lexington, MA
Economics
Ran Abramitzky
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Education
Matthew Kraft
Brown University
Belmont, MA
Engineering
Haleh Ardebili
University of Houston
Sugar Land, TX
Zubin Jacob
Purdue University-Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN
Sheng Xu
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
English Literature
Nicole R. Rice
Saint John's University
Brooklyn, NY
Andrew Stauffer
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Frederick, MD
European & Latin American History
Marlene Daut
Yale University
Woodbridge, CT
Erik Linstrum
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Charlottesville, VA
Eric Zolov
Stony Brook University
Queens, NY
European & Latin American Literature
Mark Christian Thompson
Johns Hopkins University
Brooklyn, NY
Fiction
Andre Alexis
Toronto, ON, Canada
Jessica Anthony
Bates College
Portland, ME
Lucy Ives
Corinth, VT
Marlon James
Brooklyn, NY
Bret Anthony Johnston
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Megha Majumdar
CUNY Hunter College
Brooklyn, NY
Anders Nilsen
Los Angeles, CA
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
New Orleans, LA
Namwali Serpell
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Madeleine Thien
CUNY Brooklyn College
Montréal, QB, Canada
Film-Video
Margaret Brown
Austin, TX
Brian M. Cassidy
Montreal, QB, Canada
Reid Davenport
CUNY Hunter College
Beacon, NY
Cate Giordano
Brooklyn, NY
Jacqueline Goss
Bard College
Tivoli, NY
Christopher Harris
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Brian Christopher Hawkins
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Harrisonville, MO
Madeleine Hunt - Ehrlich
CUNY Queens College
Brooklyn, NY
Zhu Jia
South Pasadena, CA
Sarah Lasley
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt
Eureka, CA
Steve Maing
Ridgewood, NY
Mitch McCabe
Detroit, MI
Tenzin Phuntsog
Menlo Park, CA
Steve Reinke
Chicago, IL
Anna Samo
Brooklyn, NY
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Bennington College
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Melanie Shatzky
Outremont, QB, Canada
Fern Silva
Athens, Greece
Adam James Smith
University of Cambridge
Lake Peekskill, NY
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Noah Isenberg
The University of Texas at Austin
New York, NY
Julie Turnock
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
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John Ahearn
New York, NY
American Artist
Brooklyn, NY
Fia Backström
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Brooklyn, NY
Elena Bajo
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art
New York, NY
Amy Bessone
Los Angeles, CA
Raymond Boisjoly
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sonya Clark
Amherst College
Amherst, MA
Kota Ezawa
California College of the Arts
Oakland, CA
Jude Griebel
New York, NY
Iva Gueorguieva
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Los Angeles, CA
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Los Angeles, CA
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New York, NY
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New Orleans, LA
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New York, NY
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California College of the Arts
Richmond, CA
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New York, NY
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Brooklyn, NY
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Brooklyn, NY
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Vienna, Austria
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New York, NY
Claire Sherman
Drew University
Guttenberg, NJ
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Houston, TX
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Miami, FL
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Anne Wilson
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Evanston, IL
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Princeton, NJ
Claudia Brittenham
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Chicago, IL
Elizabeth Mansfield
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State College, PA
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New York, NY
William Deresiewicz
Portland, OR
Elisa Gabbert
Providence, RI
Amitav Ghosh
Brooklyn, NY
Elizabeth Goodstein
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Avondale Estates, GA
Donovan Hohn
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Ann Arbor, MI
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Ossining, NY
Joseph Luzzi
Bard College
Tivoli, NY
James Marcus
New York University
New York, NY
Emily Ogden
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Charlottesville, VA
Pamela Petro
Northampton, MA
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Chicago, IL
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sharon, MA
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Evanston, IL
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Berkeley, CA
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Oakland, CA
Indigenous Studies
John Borrows
University of Toronto
Victoria, BC, Canada
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Faith Hillis
Chicago, IL
Kris Manjapra
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Adam Mestyan
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
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Amherst College
Sunderland, MA
Dov Fox
University of San Diego
San Diego, CA
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University of California-Los Angeles
Studio City, CA
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Indiana University-Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
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San Diego, CA
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Princeton, NJ
Medieval & Early Modern Studies
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Los Angeles, CA
Rudolph Matthee
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
Sarah McNamer
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
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Chicago, IL
Sivan Cohen Elias
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Minneapolis, MN
Oswald Huỳnh
American Academy in Rome
Portland, OR
Jon Irabagon
University of Illinois at Chicago
Park Ridge, IL
Ingrid Laubrock
Columbia University in the City of New York
Brooklyn, NY
James Brandon Lewis
Brooklyn, NY
David Serkin Ludwig
The Juilliard School
New York, NY
Modney
Brooklyn, NY
Reinaldo Manuel Moya
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Wellesley, MA
Linda May Han Oh
Cambridge, MA
Kay Kyurim Rhie
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Santa Monica, CA
Laurie Schwartz
Berlin, Germany
Marcelo Toledo
New York, NY
Anya Yermakova
Willamette University
Salem, OR
Music Research
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Williams College
Pownal, VT
Near Eastern Studies
Bedross Der Matossian
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Lincoln, NE
Neuroscience
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Berkeley, CA
Philosophy
Alan Baker
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA
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Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Gina Schouten
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Photography
Samantha Appleton
Rockport, ME
Jeremiah Ariaz
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA
Chris Aluka Berry
Marshall, NC
Harlan Bozeman
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
Jonathan Michael Castillo
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
Stephen Ferry
International Center of Photography
New York, NY
Allison Grant
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL
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Kane'ohe, HI
Matthew Leifheit
Yale University
Oakland Park, FL
Pixy Liao
Tokyo, Japan
Chris McCaw
Pacifica, CA
Fred Ritchin
International Center of Photography
Bronx, NY
Collier Schorr
Yale University
Brooklyn, NY
Lara Shipley
Michigan State University
Huntington Woods, MI
Sheida Soleimani
Brandeis University
Providence, RI
riel Sturchio
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Sadie Wechsler
Portland, OR
Guanyu Xu
Chicago, IL
Samira Yamin
Art Center College of Design
Los Angeles, CA
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University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
David Kosower
Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay
Paris, France
Poetry
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New Orleans, LA
Paula Bohince
Pittsburgh, PA
Heather Christle
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Myronn Hardy
Bates College
Portland, ME
Christopher Kempf
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Champaign, IL
Suji Kwock Kim
Princeton, NJ
Edgar Kunz
Virginia Commonwealth University
Baltimore, MD
Rickey Laurentiis
New Orleans, LA
Vivek Narayanan
George Mason University
Arlington, VA
V. Penelope Pelizzon
University of Connecticut
Chaplin, CT
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Don Moynihan
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Kathleen Thelen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brookline, MA
Daniel Ziblatt
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Psychology
Mina Cikara
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Kristina Reiss Olson
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Religion
Edward E. Curtis IV
Indiana University-Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN
Slavic Studies
Georg B. Michels
University of California-Riverside
Riverside, CA
Sociology
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Allison Pugh
Johns Hopkins University
Washington, DC
Robb Willer
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
Theatre Arts & Performance Studies
Sean Metzger
University of California-Los Angeles
Pacific Palisades, CA
Harvey Young
Boston University
West Newton, MA
Translation
Heather Cleary
Ciudad de México, México
U.S. History
Christian W. McMillen
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Charlottesville, VA
Natalia Molina
University of Southern California
Pasadena, CA
Sharon Ann Murphy
Providence College
Providence, RI
John Wood Sweet
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
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