Simon Guggenheim, founder of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. (Photo by Oscar ... [+]
The Guggenheim Fellows for 2024 have been announced by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This year’s winners include 188 highly accomplished scholars, artists, photographers, scientists and writers selected via a rigorous peer review process from nearly 3,000 initial candidates. The full list of winners can be found here.
The new fellows represent 52 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields and are affiliated with 84 academic institutions. They range in age from 28 to 89. The majority of the fellows hold an academic appointment, but more than 40 do not have a full-time affiliation with a college or university.
According to the foundation’s press release, many of this cohort’s projects addressed issues such as democracy and politics, identity, disability activism, machine learning, incarceration, climate change and community.
Each fellow receives a monetary stipend of varying amounts depending on the project to assist them “to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions.”
“Humanity faces some profound existential challenges,” said Edward Hirsch, the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, in a news release. “The Guggenheim Fellowship is a life-changing recognition. It’s a celebrated investment into the lives and careers of distinguished artists, scholars, scientists, writers and other cultural visionaries who are meeting these challenges head-on and generating new possibilities and pathways across the broader culture as they do so.”
Princeton University and Yale University had the most fellows this year, with seven each. Northwestern University had six fellows. Rounding out the top five higher education institutions were Harvard University and Columbia University with five and four fellows, respectively.
Included in the 2024 class of Guggenheim Fellows are academic scholars and artists working in such diverse areas as:
Paul Newton, Professor, Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California.
Paul Hardin Kapp, Associate Professor, School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Marc Kamionkowski, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in theWilliam H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University.
Corina E. Tarnita, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University.
Teri W. Odom, Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University.
Abby Zbikowski, Associate Professor of Dance at The Ohio State University.
Gretchen Reydams-Schils, Professor, Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Gene Tsudik, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.
Emily Wilcox, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at the College of William and Mary.
Martin J. Wainwright, Cecil H. Green Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Krista Thompson, Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art History at Northwestern University.
Other noteworthy fellows in this class include:
Jonathan Alter, award-winning political writer and columnist.
Martyna Majok, a dramatist who won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her Broadway debut play, Cost of Living.
Tracy K. Smith, a former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Emma Straub, an acclaimed author of several novels.
Julia Wolfe, a composer, who will be creating an a cappella spatial choral work.
Since its founding by Simon and Olga Guggenheim in 1925, the foundation has awarded over $400 million in fellowships to more than 19,000 fellows. Included among past winners of Guggenheim Fellowships are are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, Pulitzer Prize winners, and recipient of Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award, and several other widely recognized honors.
