List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2018


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." 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.
CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicRef
Creative ArtsChoreographyNora ChipaumireChoreography
Creative ArtsChoreographyJohn HeginbothamPrinceton UniversityChoreography
Creative ArtsChoreographyHeather KravasChoreography
Creative ArtsChoreographyAparna RamaswamyRagamala Dance CompanyChoreography
Creative ArtsChoreographyRanee RamaswamyRagamala Dance CompanyChoreography
Creative ArtsChoreographyJen RosenblitChoreography
Creative ArtsChoreographyKota YamazakiChoreography
Creative ArtsDrama and Performance ArtJorge Ignacio CortiñasBard College
Creative ArtsDrama and Performance ArtAnnie DorsenBard College
Creative ArtsDrama and Performance ArtRobin FrohardtUniversity of North Carolina
Creative ArtsDrama and Performance ArtDohee LeeLocal immigrant and refugee migration stories
Creative ArtsDrama and Performance ArtDavid M. LevineHarvard University
Creative ArtsFictionRachel CuskWriting
Creative ArtsFictionAndrew GreerSanta Maddalena FoundationWriting
Creative ArtsFictionLauren GroffFriends of WritersWriting
Creative ArtsFictionJennifer HaighWriting
Creative ArtsFictionMin Jin LeeWriting
Creative ArtsFictionChina MiévilleWriting
Creative ArtsFictionDeb Olin UnferthWriting
Creative ArtsFilm - VideoGina Petra Abatemarco
Creative ArtsFilm - VideoPeter Burr
Creative ArtsFilm - VideoWilliam D. Caballero
Creative ArtsFilm - VideoMarsia Alexander-ClarkeVideo symphony inspired by Pablo Neruda's Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada
Creative ArtsFilm - VideoAlexandra CuestaDocumentary about life in the village of Susudel in southern Ecuador
Creative ArtsFilm - VideoCarol DysingerNew York University Tisch School of the ArtsLive documentary installation
Creative ArtsFilm - VideoEliza HittmanPratt Institute
Creative ArtsFilm - VideoShevaun MizrahiMassachusetts College of Art and Design
Creative ArtsFilm - VideoNicolás PeredaMason Gross School of the Arts
Creative ArtsFilm - VideoLee Anne SchmittCalifornia Institute of the Arts
Creative ArtsFilm - VideoParvez Sharma
Creative ArtsFilm - VideoNandini SikandLafayette CollegeDocumentary about women and mass incarceration in Pennsylvania
Creative ArtsFilm - VideoBrett StoryRyerson UniversityThe Hottest August
Creative ArtsFine ArtsDennis AdamsCooper Union
Creative ArtsFine ArtsMequitta AhujaSelf-portraiture
Creative ArtsFine ArtsDave Hullfish BaileySculpture
Creative ArtsFine ArtsJanet BiggsLengths of human movement and ambition; filming in the Horn of Africa and at the Mars Desert Research Station
Creative ArtsFine ArtsPhillip ChenDrake University"Printmaking’s ability to proliferate critical pronouncements on behalf of social justice"
Creative ArtsFine ArtsJulia ChristensenOberlin CollegeImpact of technological "upgrade culture" on institutions, archives, and scientific research
Creative ArtsFine ArtsEsperanza Cortés
Creative ArtsFine ArtsCraig DrennenGeorgia State UniversityPainting
Creative ArtsFine ArtsAmy FeldmanPainting, drawing, ceramics
Creative ArtsFine ArtsRichard Fleischner
Creative ArtsFine ArtsKate GilmoreState University of New YorkSeries 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"
Creative ArtsFine ArtsTodd GrayColonized people and places in Africa
Creative ArtsFine ArtsHiroyuki HamadaSculpture
Creative ArtsFine ArtsDave Hardy
Creative ArtsFine ArtsStephen HayesWork on his In the Hour Before painting series, which reimagines settings of tragedies
Creative ArtsFine ArtsLies KraalPainting
Creative ArtsFine ArtsElizabeth LaPenséeState University of New York at PurchaseMerging virtual reality and 360 film to express Indigenous scientific teachings
Creative ArtsFine ArtsChris LarsonUniversity of MinnesotaArt inspired by how workspaces impact the way people understand social class and identity
Creative ArtsFine ArtsRobert L. LobeSculpture
Creative ArtsFine ArtsNicole MillerUniversity of California, San Diego
Creative ArtsFine ArtsAmy PleasantPainting
Creative ArtsFine ArtsAnnabeth RosenUniversity of California, DavisSculpture
Creative ArtsFine ArtsMargo SawyerUniversity of Texas at AustinDesigns of spaces transcendent, such as "public places that foster contemplation"
Creative ArtsFine ArtsUniversity of ChicagoProject using Thomas Eakins' archives
Creative ArtsFine ArtsCharles YuenPainting
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionEugene BirmanHong Kong Baptist UniversityCommission for a leading British vocal ensemble on the topic of fake news and Russian foreign policy
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionDu YunPeabody InstituteComposition
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionMichael HarrisonNew work for Alarm Will Sound
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionEdward JacobsEast Carolina UniversityWork on composition commissions
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionTonia KoWork on an opera with five soloists and a bubble wrap concerto with a chamber orchestra
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionEric LyonVirginia TechSpatial audio research and composition
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionFarangis Nurulla-Khoja"Sounds unheard and forms unseen"
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionYoshiaki OnishiEnsemble Exophonie TokyoComposition
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionMika PeloUniversity of California, DavisWriting an opera
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionFelipe SallesComposition
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionCarl SchimmelIllinois State UniversityExploration of methods of expressing narrative in musical form
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionAnna WebberComposition
Creative ArtsPhotographyTsar FedorskyTaft School
Creative ArtsPhotographyLukas FelzmannStanford UniversityCreation of a new photographic archive of California
Creative ArtsPhotographyAnthony HernandezAbstract and minimal landscape photographs
Creative ArtsPhotographyDavid MaiselDugway Proving Ground
Creative ArtsPhotographyPradip MaldeUniversity of the SouthFemale genital mutilation through the lens of loss and sacrifice
Creative ArtsPhotographyRania MatarMassachusetts College of Art and DesignTransitional period of leaving home for the first time
Creative ArtsPhotographyNicholas MuellnerIthaca College
Creative ArtsPhotographyKristine PotterBodies of water with violent or ominous names
Creative ArtsPhotographyMeghann Riepenhoff
Creative ArtsPhotographyNadia SablinState University of New York at New PaltzPassage of seasons in Alekhovshchina, Russia
Creative ArtsPhotographyHank Willis Thomas
Creative ArtsPhotographyIan van CollerMontana State UniversityEvolution of polar ice
Creative ArtsPoetryReginald Dwayne BettsYale University Writing
Creative ArtsPoetryAmy GerstlerUniversity of California, IrvineWriting
Creative ArtsPoetryTyehimba JessCollege of Staten IslandWriting
Creative ArtsPoetryIlya KaminskySan Diego State UniversityWriting
Creative ArtsPoetryJoan Naviyuk KaneWriting
Creative ArtsPoetryDunya MikhailOakland UniversityWriting
Creative ArtsPoetrySrikanth ReddyUniversity of ChicagoWriting
Creative ArtsPoetryAnya KrugovoyMercer UniversityWriting
Creative ArtsPoetryMonica YounPrinceton UniversityWriting
HumanitiesAfrican StudiesNancy Rose HuntUniversity of Florida"Ideation as History"
HumanitiesArchitecture, Planning and DesignEdward DimendbergUniversity of California, IrvineArchitecture and urbanism
HumanitiesArchitecture, Planning and DesignCharlie HaileyUniversity of FloridaHow climate, building, and community overlap in meaningful ways and how architecture and the humanities intertwine
HumanitiesClassicsAlain BressonUniversity of ChicagoSpecific form taken by money in the ancient Greek world, with a central focus on the question on why the Greeks "invented" coinage
HumanitiesClassicsBrooke HolmesPrinceton UniversityGreco-Roman roots of Western ideas about the physical body, the natural world, matter and the non-human
HumanitiesDance StudiesMark FrankoTemple UniversityFrench dance and politics in the first half of the 20th century
HumanitiesEast Asian StudiesMartin KernPrinceton UniversityTextual culture of Chinese antiquity during the first millennium BCE
HumanitiesEast Asian StudiesWai-yee LiHarvard UniversityIntersections of material culture, aesthetics, literature, and intellectual history in late imperial China
HumanitiesEast Asian StudiesNicolas TackettUniversity of California, BerkeleyRise of merit over ancestry as a primary marker of status in China during the 10th and 11th centuries
HumanitiesEnglish LiteratureDevoney LooserArizona State UniversityJane and Anna Maria Porter
HumanitiesEuropean and Latin American LiteratureEleanor KaufmanUniversity of California, Los AngelesStructure: A Counterhistory of Twentieth-Century French Philosophy
HumanitiesEuropean and Latin American HistoryRita ChinUniversity of MichiganInvisible Labor: A History of Female Migrant Domestics in Postcolonial Europe
HumanitiesEuropean and Latin American HistoryAda FerrerNew York UniversityPopular history of Cuba
HumanitiesEuropean and Latin American HistoryPaul FriedlandCornell UniversityA World Without Race: The Dream of a Universal Republic in the Revolutionary French Caribbean
HumanitiesEuropean and Latin American HistoryJoel F. HarringtonVanderbilt UniversityHans Staden
HumanitiesEuropean and Latin American HistoryThomas Miller KlubockUniversity of VirginiaHistory of water and water wars in modern South America
HumanitiesEuropean and Latin American HistoryEdward Wright-RiosVanderbilt UniversityPilgrimage in modern Mexico
HumanitiesFilm, Video and Radio StudiesAlison GriffithsBaruch CollegeExpedition film, a genre during the interwar period, and intellectual roots in earlier moments and practices of travel
HumanitiesFine Arts ResearchC. Jean CampbellEmory UniversityImitative practice and pictorial invention in the art of Pisanello
HumanitiesFine Arts ResearchBranden W. JosephColumbia UniversityWorks by Kathy Acker, Jack Smith, Lee Lozano, and Carolee Schneemann
HumanitiesGeneral NonfictionNicholson BakerGovernment secrets and the Freedom of Information Act
HumanitiesGeneral NonfictionTeju Cole
HumanitiesGeneral NonfictionRobert Finch
HumanitiesGeneral NonfictionRoxane GayPurdue UniversityCollection of essays exploring television and American culture
HumanitiesGeneral NonfictionJane KamenskyHarvard UniversityHistory of the sexual revolution as revealed by the biography of feminist sex radical Candida Royalle
HumanitiesGeneral NonfictionJohn Jeremiah SullivanThe Paris Review
HumanitiesGeneral NonfictionLily Tuck
HumanitiesHistory of Science, Technology and EconomicsJoyce ChaplinHarvard UniversityClimate change in colonial Africa
HumanitiesHistory of Science, Technology and EconomicsErik M. ConwayCalifornia Institute of Technology
HumanitiesHistory of Science, Technology and EconomicsRobert G. MorrisonBowdoin CollegeJewish scholarly intermediaries between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Italy
HumanitiesHistory of Science, Technology and EconomicsThomas S. MullaneyStanford UniversityGlobal history of non-Latin typography and type design in the modern era
HumanitiesHistory of Science, Technology and EconomicsNaomi OreskesHarvard University
HumanitiesHistory of Science, Technology and EconomicsEkaterina PravilovaPrinceton UniversityHistory of the Russian ruble
HumanitiesIntellectual and Cultural HistoryIrena Grudzińska-GrossPolish Academy of Sciences
HumanitiesIntellectual and Cultural HistorySaidiya HartmanColumbia UniversitySocial upheaval and radical transformation of everyday life in the emergent Black ghetto in the early 20th century
HumanitiesIntellectual and Cultural HistoryScott JohnsonUniversity of OklahomaCultural biography of Syriac
HumanitiesIntellectual and Cultural HistoryMarci ShoreYale UniversityPhenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe
HumanitiesIntellectual and Cultural HistoryStefania TutinoUniversity of California, Los Angeles17th-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
HumanitiesLinguisticsLenore A. GrenobleUniversity of ChicagoRelationship between language and well-being among Arctic Indigenous peoples in the face of rapidly changing social and environmental conditions, including urbanization and climate changes
HumanitiesLinguisticsCharles YangUniversity of PennsylvaniaHow children learn to count and how they develop the conceptual understanding of numbers
HumanitiesLiterary CriticismAnna BrickhouseUniversity of VirginiaEarthquake Aesthetics: Catastrophe and the Forms of Critique
HumanitiesLiterary CriticismTheo DavisNortheastern UniversityNew theory of ornamentation that emphasizes attention and accompaniment rather than materiality
HumanitiesLiterary CriticismMartin HägglundYale UniversityNew vision of leading a secular life, both individually and collectively
HumanitiesLiterary CriticismShari HuhndorfUniversity of California, BerkeleyIndigeneity and the Politics of Space: Gender, Geography, Culture
HumanitiesMedieval and Renaissance LiteratureStratis PapaioannouBrown UniversityNarrative history of Byzantine literature
HumanitiesMedieval and Renaissance LiteratureMichelle R. WarrenDartmouth CollegeProduction and reception of a single medieval manuscript across 800 years
HumanitiesMusic ResearchCornell UniversityHumorous side of Johann Sebastian Bach
HumanitiesPhilosophySally HaslangerMassachusetts Institute of TechnologySocial practices and social structure with an emphasis on the materiality of social practices and the role of ideology
HumanitiesPhilosophyJohn HeilWashington University in St. LouisRelation between the world as it appears to us and the world as it is revealed by fundamental physics
HumanitiesReligionBart D. EhrmanUniversity of North Carolina-Chapel HillHow early Christian conceptions of the afterlife were formed by and also shaped their respective contexts
HumanitiesReligionNile GreenUniversity of California, Los AngelesWhat global Islam is and where it came from
HumanitiesReligionJeremy SchipperTemple UniversityBiblical interpretation in the defense and prosecution of Denmark Vesey
HumanitiesSouth Asian StudiesChristian Lee NovetzkeJackson School of International StudiesWork 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
HumanitiesSouth Asian StudiesArchana VenkatesanUniversity of California, DavisFestival of Recitation at Visnu temples in Tamil Nadu
HumanitiesTranslationEsther AllenBaruch CollegeCompletion of translations of Antonio Di Benedetto's El silenciero and Las suicidas
HumanitiesUnited States HistoryKathleen DuValUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel HillAmerican Indian dominance in the centuries before 1850
HumanitiesUnited States HistoryAaron Spencer FoglemanNorthern Illinois UniversityMonograph: Immigrant Voices: European and African Stories of Freedom, Unfreedom, and Identity through Four Centuries of Transatlantic Migrations to the Americas
HumanitiesUnited States HistoryMartha HodesNew York UniversitySemi-autobiography recounting a 1970 airplane hijacking in Jordan
Natural SciencesApplied MathematicsEdriss S. TitiTexas A&M UniversityAdvancement 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
Natural SciencesAstronomy and AstrophysicsShri KulkarniCalifornia Institute of TechnologyExotic cosmological explosions
Natural SciencesChemistryWilliam DichtelNorthwestern UniversityVery early-stage effort to understand and react to form materials with designed, uniform structures and tiny voids
Natural SciencesChemistryChristy L. HaynesUniversity of MinnesotaAdaption of analytical methods to characterize novel, technologically relevant nanomaterials in an environmental matrix
Natural SciencesComputer ScienceAriel D. ProcacciaCarnegie Mellon UniversityMechanisms that would enable voters to participate in the process of allocating a city's budget
Natural SciencesEarth ScienceAlexey FedorovYale UniversityGlobal ocean circulation in warm climates
Natural SciencesEngineeringArup K. ChakrabortyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyInduction of broadly neutralizing antibodies against highly mutable pathogens
Natural SciencesMathematicsMoon DuchinTufts UniversityGeometric group theory and gerrymandering
Natural SciencesMedicine and HealthCharles L. BoskUniversity of PennsylvaniaTension between professional and managerial definitions of "error" and why improvements in patient safety and quality of care have been elusive
Natural SciencesMedicine and HealthCarl ElliottUniversity of MinnesotaHuman subjects research scandals exposed by whistleblowers in four different countries
Natural SciencesMolecular and Cellular BiologyAntonis RokasVanderbilt UniversityHow the study of fungi can expand common views in evolutionary biology
Natural SciencesNeuroscienceAniruddh D. PatelTufts UniversityEvolutionary music cognition
Natural SciencesOrganismic Biology & EcologyRobert B. JacksonStanford UniversitySoil fertility and water supply in plants
Natural SciencesOrganismic Biology & EcologyAnne D. YoderDuke UniversityFamily tree of mouse lemurs
Natural SciencesPhysicsLisa RandallHarvard University
Natural SciencesPhysicsMichael T. WoodsideUniversity of AlbertaHow evolution shapes the folding of individual proteins by reconstructing ancient versions of modern-day proteins to discover how the folding process has changed
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural StudiesSienna R. CraigDartmouth CollegeLiterary ethnography and short stories that discuss immigration between Nepal and New York
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural StudiesStefan HelmreichMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyEthnographic account of how scientists measure, model, and monitor ocean waves in an era of climate change
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural StudiesSabine HylandUniversity of St AndrewsHidden Texts of the Andes
Social SciencesConstitutional StudiesCarol AndersonEmory University
Social SciencesGeography and Environmental StudiesJesse RibotUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignBook 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
Social SciencesLawJessica SilbeyNortheastern UniversityIntellectual property debates in law and culture as a bellwether of changing social justice needs in the 21st century
Social SciencesSociologyChristopher A. BailDuke UniversitySocial media "echo chamber"
Social SciencesSociologyRobert J. SampsonHarvard UniversityTransition to adulthood under conditions of mass incarcteration
Social SciencesPolitical SciencePeter A. HallHarvard UniversityRelationship between changes in the political economy and changes in electoral policies
Social SciencesPolitical ScienceVivien A. SchmidtBoston UniversityRhetoric of discontent through a transatlantic investigation of the populist revolt against globalization and Europeanization
Social SciencesPsychologyFei XuUniversity of California, BerkeleyCognitive and language development in children, particularly the "rational constructionism" approach