Many academics were among the 178 scholars, artists, and scientists named as John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2016 Fellows. Listed below are the fellows who are affiliated with colleges or universities, along with their fields of study. Winners who are independent scholars or artists, and for whom no current academic affiliation was mentioned, are omitted from this list.
Julia F. Andrews, professor, Ohio State University, fine-arts research
Beth Bachmann, poet and fall-term writer-in-residence, Vanderbilt University, poetry
Jesse Ball, professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, fiction
Dennis Baron, professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, linguistics
Rick Barot, associate professor, Pacific Lutheran University, poetry
Peter Bearman, professor, Columbia University, sociology
Janet L. Beizer, professor, Harvard University, European and Latin American literature
Jonathan Berger, professor, Stanford University, music composition
Adam J. Berinsky, professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, political science
Lauren Berlant, professor, University of Chicago, literary criticism
Jonathan David Bobaljik, professor, University of Connecticut, linguistics
Nick Bromell, professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, American literature
Jericho Brown, associate professor, Emory University, poetry
Stephen Burt, professor, Harvard University, poetry
Edmund Campion, professor and director of the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, University of California at Berkeley, music composition
JoAnne Carson, professor, University at Albany, fine arts
Victor Caston, professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, philosophy
Anjan Chakravartty, professor and director of the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, University of Notre Dame, philosophy
Anthony Cheung, assistant professor, University of Chicago, music composition
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, professor and chair of the department of modern culture and media, Brown University, film, video, and radio studies
Catherine Clinton, professor, University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S. history
Karin A. Dahmen, professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, physics
Sue de Beer, associate professor, New York University, fine arts
Jerrilynn D. Dodds, professor, Sarah Lawrence College, fine-arts research
Charles R. Doering, professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, applied mathematics
Angela Dufresne, assistant professor, Rhode Island School of Design, fine arts
Cheryl Dunye, assistant professor, San Francisco State University, film-video
Nadja Durbach, professor, University of Utah, European and Latin American history
Hasan Elahi, associate professor, University of Maryland at College Park, photography
Michelle Ellsworth, associate professor, University of Colorado at Boulder, choreography
Roxanne L. Euben, professor, Wellesley College, political science
Stephen M. Fallon, professor, University of Notre Dame, English literature
Laurie Fendrich, artist and professor emerita, Hofstra University, fine arts
Chris Fromme, associate professor, Cornell University, molecular and cellular biology
Daniel Garber, professor, Princeton University, philosophy
Neil K. Garg, professor, University of California at Los Angeles, chemistry
Kathleen Gerson, professor, New York University, sociology
Pamela K. Gilbert, professor, University of Florida, English literature
Gonzalo Giribet, professor, Harvard University, organismic biology and ecology
Eliga H. Gould, professor and chair of the department of history, University of New Hampshire, U.S. history
Susan Greenhalgh, professor, Harvard University, anthropology and cultural studies
Zsuzsanna Gulacsi, professor, Northern Arizona University, religion
Lyle Ashton Harris, associate professor, New York University, photography
Dee Hibbert-Jones, associate professor, University of California at Santa Cruz, film-video (jointly with the filmmaker Nomi Talisman)
H. Mack Horton, professor, University of California at Berkeley, East Asian studies
Cynthia Huntington, professor, Dartmouth College, poetry
Rebecca Jordan-Young, associate professor and chair of the department of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, Barnard College, science writing
Katrina Karkazis, senior research scholar with the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University, science writing
Dean Karlan, professor, Yale University, economics
Sally Keith, associate professor, George Mason University, poetry
James Kimbrell, professor, Florida State University, poetry
Manfred Kirchheimer, professor, School of Visual Arts, film-video
Adam Kirsch, director of the master’s program in Jewish studies at the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University, general nonfiction
Craig Koslofsky, professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, intellectual and cultural history
Richard Kraut, professor, Northwestern University, philosophy
Amitava Kumar, professor, Vassar College, general nonfiction
Mei-Po Kwan, professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, geography and environmental studies
Laila Lalami, professor, University of California at Riverside, fiction
Deborah Landau, clinical professor and director of the creative-writing program, New York University, poetry
George Legrady, professor and director of the Experimental Visualization Lab, University of California at Santa Barbara, fine arts
Thomas Levenson, professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, science writing
Paul Lisicky, assistant professor, Rutgers University at Camden, general nonfiction
Ralph W. Mathisen, professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, classics
Andrea G. McDowell, professor, Seton Hall University, law
Darrin M. McMahon, professor, Dartmouth College, intellectual and cultural history
Mitchell B. Merback, professor, Johns Hopkins University, medieval and Renaissance history
Katharyne Mitchell, professor, University of Washington, geography and environmental studies
Fred Moten, professor, University of California at Riverside, literary criticism
Diana C. Mutz, professor, University of Pennsylvania, political science
Stella Nair, associate professor, University of California at Los Angeles, architecture, planning, and design
Alexandra Natapoff, associate dean for research and professor, Loyola Marymount University, law
Eileen Neff, adjunct professor, the University of the Arts, photography
Victoria Nelson, faculty member in M.F.A. in creative-writing program, Goddard College, literary criticism
Mark Newman, professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, applied mathematics
Andrew Norman, assistant professor, University of Southern California, music composition
Marcy Norton, associate professor, George Washington University, European and Latin American history
Jenny Offill, visiting writer, Syracuse University, fiction
Helen O’Toole, professor and chair of the painting and drawing program, University of Washington, fine arts
Feryal Özel, professor, University of Arizona, astronomy and astrophysics
Cynthia D. Packert, professor, Middlebury College, South Asian studies
Carla L. Peterson, writer and professor emerita at the University of Maryland at College Park, American literature
Derek R. Peterson, professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, African studies
Amanda Petrusich, assistant clinical professor, New York University, general nonfiction
John Douglas Powers, assistant professor, University of Tennessee, fine arts
Laura Pulido, professor, University of Southern California, geography and environmental studies
David M. Rabban, professor, University of Texas at Austin, Constitutional studies
Rajesh P.N. Rao, professor and director of the NSF Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, University of Washington, neuroscience
Robert F. Reid-Pharr, professor, City University of New York Graduate Center, literary criticism
David N. Reznick, professor, University of California at Riverside, organismic biology and ecology
Justin B. Richland, associate professor, University of Chicago, anthropology and cultural studies
Timothy Rommen, professor, University of Pennsylvania, music research
Jess Row, associate professor, College of New Jersey, fiction
Aaron D. Rubin, professor, Pennsylvania State University, Near Eastern studies
Alberto E. Saal, associate professor, Brown University, earth science
Laurie San Martin, professor, University of California at Davis, music composition
Robin Schwartz, associate professor, William Paterson University of New Jersey, photography
Naomi Seidman, professor, Graduate Theological Union, literary criticism
Juri Seo, assistant professor, Princeton University, music composition
Daniel Sheehy, director and curator of Smithsonian Folkway Recordings, Smithsonian Institution, folklore and popular culture
Anna Deavere Smith, professor, New York University, theater arts
Robert Spoo, professor, University of Tulsa, English literature
Zrinka Stahuljak, professor, University of California at Los Angeles, medieval and Renaissance literature
René Steinke, professor and director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing, Fairleigh Dickinson University, fiction
Coleen Sterritt, professor, Long Beach City College, fine arts
Columba Andrew Stewart, professor, Saint John’s University (Minn.), religion
Glenn Davis Stone, professor, Washington University in St. Louis, anthropology and cultural studies
Robert Storr, dean of the School of Art, Yale University, general nonfiction
Rebecca Stumpf, associate professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, anthropology and cultural studies
Joseph Subotnik, associate professor, University of Pennsylvania, chemistry
Lida Suchy, professor, Onondaga Community College, photography
Matthew Avery Sutton, professor, Washington State University, U.S. history
William G. Thomas III, professor, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, U.S. history
Melanie Rae Thon, professor, University of Utah, fiction
Heidi Tinsman, professor, University of California at Irvine, European and Latin American history
Valerie Traub, professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, intellectual and cultural history
Jing Tsu, professor, Yale University, East Asian studies
Brian Turner, chair of the M.F.A. program, Sierra Nevada College, poetry
Theo van den Hout, professor, University of Chicago, Near Eastern studies
Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp, professor, Harvard University, religion
Ge Wang, assistant professor, Stanford University, music research
Dalit Hadass Warshaw, visiting adjunct professor, City University of New York Brooklyn College, music composition
Patrick Webb, professor, Pratt Institute, fine arts
Daniel T. Wise, professor, McGill University, mathematics
Raphael Xavier, guest lecturer, Princeton University, choreography