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Announcing the 2024 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows


The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Taps 188 Artists, Scholars, Photographers, Novelists, Essayists, Poets, Historians, Choreographers, Environmentalists, and Data Scientists to the Ranks of 19,000 Fellows Honored Since 1925 *** Now in 99th year, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recognizes & awards monetary prizes to the 2024 class of trail-blazing fellows across 52 fields

NEW YORK , April 11, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced today their appointment of 188 Guggenheim Fellowships to a distinguished and diverse group of culture-creators working across 52 disciplines. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants, the Class of 2024 Guggenheim Fellows was tapped on the basis of 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."

"I truly believe that this remarkable cohort of Guggenheim fellows, one by one, are going to make this a better world to live in." - Edward Hirsch, president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

To see the full list of new Fellows, please visit www.gf.org.

"Humanity faces some profound existential challenges," said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. "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."

In all, 52 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 84 academic institutions, 38 US states and the District of Columbia, and four Canadian provinces are represented in the 2024 class, who range in age from 28 to 89. More than 40 Fellows (roughly 1 out of 4) do not hold a full-time affiliation with a college or university. Many Fellows' projects directly respond to timely issues such as democracy and politics, identity, disability activism, machine learning, incarceration, climate change and community. Since its founding in 1925, the Foundation has awarded over $400 million in fellowships to more than 19,000 fellows.

The 2024 class of Guggenheim Fellows' notable projects, including:

Generous gifts from friends and previous Fellows have helped support this year's Fellows:

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 Foundation has granted over $400 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 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, Jennifer Doudna, Jacob Lawrence, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Martha Graham, and Linus Pauling also demonstrate the strength of the Foundation's core values and the power and impact of its approach. More information at gf.org

2024 Guggenheim Fellows, alphabetized by field of study

African Studies

American Literature

Anthropology & Cultural Studies

Applied Mathematics

Architecture, Planning, & Design

Astronomy?Astrophysics

Biography

Biology

Chemistry

Choreography

Classics

Computer Science

Constitutional Studies

Dance Studies

Data Science

Drama & Performance Art

Earth Science

East Asian Studies

Education

Engineering

European & Latin American History

European & Latin American Literature

Fiction

Film-Video

Film, Video, & New Media Studies

Fine Arts

Fine Arts Research

General Nonfiction

Geography & Environmental Studies

History of Science, Technology, & Economics

Intellectual & Cultural History

Law

Linguistics

Literary Criticism

Mathematics

Medicine & Health

Medieval & Early Modern Studies

Music Composition

Music Research

Neuroscience

Philosophy

Photography

Physics

Poetry

Political Science

Religion

Science Writing

Sociology

South & Southeast Asian Studies

Theatre Arts & Performance Studies

Translation

U.S. History

Media Contact

Eric Gewirtz, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1 212-843-8290, [email protected], www.gf.org

SOURCE John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation



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