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.

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic
Creative Arts	Choreography	Nora Chipaumire		Choreography
		John Heginbotham	Princeton University
		Heather Kravas
		Aparna Ramaswamy	Ragamala Dance Company
		Ranee Ramaswamy	Ragamala Dance Company
		Jen Rosenblit
		Kota Yamazaki
	Drama and Performance Art	Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas	Bard College
		Annie Dorsen	Bard College
		Robin Frohardt	University of North Carolina (fellow)
		Dohee Lee		Local immigrant and refugee migration stories
		David M. Levine	Harvard University
	Fiction	Rachel Cusk		Writing
		Andrew Greer	Santa Maddalena Foundation
		Lauren Groff	Friends of Writers
		Jennifer Haigh
		Min Jin Lee
		China Miéville
		Deb Olin Unferth
	Film - Video	Gina Petra Abatemarco
		Peter Burr
		William D. Caballero
		Marsia Alexander-Clarke		Video symphony inspired by Pablo Neruda's Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada
		Alexandra Cuesta		Documentary about life in the village of Susudel in southern Ecuador
		Carol Dysinger	New York University Tisch School of the Arts	Live documentary installation
		Eliza Hittman	Pratt Institute
		Shevaun Mizrahi	Massachusetts College of Art and Design
		Nicolás Pereda	Mason Gross School of the Arts
		Lee Anne Schmitt	California Institute of the Arts
		Parvez Sharma
		Nandini Sikand	Lafayette College	Documentary about women and mass incarceration in Pennsylvania
		Brett Story	Ryerson University	The Hottest August
	Fine Arts	Dennis Adams	Cooper Union
		Mequitta Ahuja		Self-portraiture
		Dave Hullfish Bailey		Sculpture
		Janet Biggs		Lengths of human movement and ambition; filming in the Horn of Africa and at the Mars Desert Research Station
		Phillip Chen	Drake University	"Printmaking’s ability to proliferate critical pronouncements on behalf of social justice"
		Julia Christensen	Oberlin College	Impact of technological "upgrade culture" on institutions, archives, and scientific research
		Esperanza Cortés
		Craig Drennen	Georgia State University	Painting
		Amy Feldman		Painting, drawing, ceramics
		Richard Fleischner
		Kate Gilmore	State University of New York	Series 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"
		Todd Gray		Colonized people and places in Africa
		Hiroyuki Hamada		Sculpture
		Dave Hardy
		Stephen Hayes		Work on his In the Hour Before painting series, which reimagines settings of tragedies
		Lies Kraal		Painting
		Elizabeth LaPensée	State University of New York at Purchase	Merging virtual reality and 360 film to express Indigenous scientific teachings
		Chris Larson	University of Minnesota	Art inspired by how workspaces impact the way people understand social class and identity
		Robert L. Lobe		Sculpture
		Nicole Miller	University of California, San Diego
		Amy Pleasant		Painting
		Annabeth Rosen	University of California, Davis	Sculpture
		Margo Sawyer	University of Texas at Austin	Designs of spaces transcendent, such as "public places that foster contemplation"
		David Schutter [de]	University of Chicago	Project using Thomas Eakins' archives
		Charles Yuen		Painting
	Music Composition	Eugene Birman	Hong Kong Baptist University	Commission for a leading British vocal ensemble on the topic of fake news and Russian foreign policy
		Du Yun	Peabody Institute	Composition
		Michael Harrison		New work for Alarm Will Sound
		Edward Jacobs	East Carolina University	Work on composition commissions
		Tonia Ko		Work on an opera with five soloists (Mapmakers) and a bubble wrap concerto with a chamber orchestra
		Eric Lyon	Virginia Tech	Spatial audio research and composition
		Farangis Nurulla-Khoja		"Sounds unheard and forms unseen"
Yoshiaki Onishi		Ensemble Exophonie Tokyo	Composition
Mika Pelo		University of California, Davis	Writing an opera
Felipe Salles			Composition
Carl Schimmel		Illinois State University	Exploration of methods of expressing narrative in musical form
Anna Webber			Composition
Photography	Tsar Fedorsky	Taft School
	Lukas Felzmann	Stanford University	Creation of a new photographic archive of California
	Anthony Hernandez		Abstract and minimal landscape photographs
	David Maisel		Dugway Proving Ground
	Pradip Malde	University of the South	Female genital mutilation through the lens of loss and sacrifice
	Rania Matar	Massachusetts College of Art and Design	Transitional period of leaving home for the first time
	Nicholas Muellner	Ithaca College
	Kristine Potter		Bodies of water with violent or ominous names
	Meghann Riepenhoff
	Nadia Sablin	State University of New York at New Paltz	Passage of seasons in Alekhovshchina, Russia
	Hank Willis Thomas
	Ian van Coller	Montana State University	Evolution of polar ice
Poetry	Reginald Dwayne Betts	Yale University (PhD candidate)	Writing
	Amy Gerstler	University of California, Irvine
	Tyehimba Jess	College of Staten Island
	Ilya Kaminsky	San Diego State University
	Joan Naviyuk Kane
	Dunya Mikhail	Oakland University
	Srikanth Reddy	University of Chicago
	Anya Krugovoy	Mercer University
	Monica Youn	Princeton University
Humanities	African Studies	Nancy Rose Hunt	University of Florida	"Ideation as History"
	Architecture, Planning and Design	Edward Dimendberg	University of California, Irvine	Architecture and urbanism
	Architecture, Planning and Design	Charlie Hailey	University of Florida	How climate, building, and community overlap in meaningful ways and how architecture and the humanities intertwine
	Classics	Alain Bresson	University of Chicago	Specific form taken by money in the ancient Greek world, with a central focus on the question on why the Greeks "invented" coinage
	Classics	Brooke Holmes	Princeton University	Greco-Roman roots of Western ideas about the physical body, the natural world, matter and the non-human
	Dance Studies	Mark Franko	Temple University	French dance and politics in the first half of the 20th century
	East Asian Studies	Martin Kern	Princeton University	Textual culture of Chinese antiquity during the first millennium BCE
		Wai-yee Li	Harvard University	Intersections of material culture, aesthetics, literature, and intellectual history in late imperial China
		Nicolas Tackett	University of California, Berkeley	Rise of merit over ancestry as a primary marker of status in China during the 10th and 11th centuries
	English Literature	Devoney Looser	Arizona State University	Jane and Anna Maria Porter
	European and Latin American Literature	Eleanor Kaufman	University of California, Los Angeles	Structure: A Counterhistory of Twentieth-Century French Philosophy
	European and Latin American History	Rita Chin	University of Michigan	Invisible Labor: A History of Female Migrant Domestics in Postcolonial Europe
		Ada Ferrer	New York University	Popular history of Cuba
		Paul Friedland	Cornell University	A World Without Race: The Dream of a Universal Republic in the Revolutionary French Caribbean
		Joel F. Harrington	Vanderbilt University	Hans Staden
		Thomas Miller Klubock	University of Virginia	History of water and water wars in modern South America
		Edward Wright-Rios	Vanderbilt University	Pilgrimage in modern Mexico
	Film, Video and Radio Studies	Alison Griffiths	Baruch College	Expedition film, a genre during the interwar period, and intellectual roots in earlier moments and practices of travel
	Fine Arts Research	C. Jean Campbell	Emory University	Imitative practice and pictorial invention in the art of Pisanello
	Fine Arts Research	Branden W. Joseph	Columbia University	Works by Kathy Acker, Jack Smith, Lee Lozano, and Carolee Schneemann
	General Nonfiction	Nicholson Baker		Government secrets and the Freedom of Information Act
		Teju Cole
		Robert Finch
		Roxane Gay	Purdue University	Collection of essays exploring television and American culture
		Jane Kamensky	Harvard University	History of the sexual revolution as revealed by the biography of feminist sex radical Candida Royalle
		John Jeremiah Sullivan	The Paris Review
		Lily Tuck
	History of Science, Technology and Economics	Joyce Chaplin	Harvard University	Climate change in colonial Africa
		Erik M. Conway	California Institute of Technology
		Robert G. Morrison	Bowdoin College	Jewish scholarly intermediaries between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Italy
		Thomas S. Mullaney	Stanford University	Global history of non-Latin typography and type design in the modern era
		Naomi Oreskes	Harvard University
		Ekaterina Pravilova	Princeton University	History of the Russian ruble (1768-1917)
	Intellectual and Cultural History	Irena Grudzińska-Gross	Polish Academy of Sciences
		Saidiya Hartman	Columbia University	Social upheaval and radical transformation of everyday life in the emergent Black ghetto in the early 20th century
		Scott Johnson	University of Oklahoma	Cultural biography of Syriac
		Marci Shore	Yale University	Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe
		Stefania Tutino	University of California, Los Angeles	17th-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
	Linguistics	Lenore A. Grenoble	University of Chicago	Relationship between language and well-being among Arctic Indigenous peoples in the face of rapidly changing social and environmental conditions, including urbanization and climate changes
	Linguistics	Charles Yang	University of Pennsylvania	How children learn to count and how they develop the conceptual understanding of numbers
	Literary Criticism	Anna Brickhouse	University of Virginia	Earthquake Aesthetics: Catastrophe and the Forms of Critique
		Theo Davis	Northeastern University	New theory of ornamentation that emphasizes attention and accompaniment rather than materiality
		Martin Hägglund	Yale University	New vision of leading a secular life, both individually and collectively
		Shari Huhndorf	University of California, Berkeley	Indigeneity and the Politics of Space: Gender, Geography, Culture
	Medieval and Renaissance Literature	Stratis Papaioannou	Brown University	Narrative history of Byzantine literature
	Medieval and Renaissance Literature	Michelle R. Warren	Dartmouth College	Production and reception of a single medieval manuscript across 800 years
	Music Research	David Yearsley [nl]	Cornell University	Humorous side of Johann Sebastian Bach
	Philosophy	Sally Haslanger	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Social practices and social structure with an emphasis on the materiality of social practices and the role of ideology
	Philosophy	John Heil	Washington University in St. Louis	Relation between the world as it appears to us and the world as it is revealed by fundamental physics
	Religion	Bart D. Ehrman	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	How early Christian conceptions of the afterlife were formed by and also shaped their respective contexts
		Nile Green	University of California, Los Angeles	What global Islam is and where it came from
		Jeremy Schipper	Temple University	Biblical interpretation in the defense and prosecution of Denmark Vesey
	South Asian Studies	Christian Lee Novetzke	Jackson School of International Studies	Work 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
	South Asian Studies	Archana Venkatesan	University of California, Davis	Festival of Recitation at Visnu temples in Tamil Nadu
	Translation	Esther Allen	Baruch College	Completion of translations of Antonio Di Benedetto's El silenciero (1964) and Las suicidas (1968)
	United States History	Kathleen DuVal	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	American Indian dominance in the centuries before 1850
		Aaron Spencer Fogleman	Northern Illinois University	Monograph: Immigrant Voices: European and African Stories of Freedom, Unfreedom, and Identity through Four Centuries of Transatlantic Migrations to the Americas
		Martha Hodes	New York University	Semi-autobiography recounting a 1970 airplane hijacking in Jordan
Natural Sciences	Applied Mathematics	Edriss S. Titi	Texas A&M University	Advancement 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
	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Shri Kulkarni	California Institute of Technology	Exotic cosmological explosions
	Chemistry	William Dichtel	Northwestern University	Very early-stage effort to understand and react to form materials with designed, uniform structures and tiny voids
	Chemistry	Christy L. Haynes	University of Minnesota	Adaption of analytical methods to characterize novel, technologically relevant nanomaterials in an environmental matrix
	Computer Science	Ariel D. Procaccia	Carnegie Mellon University	Mechanisms that would enable voters to participate in the process of allocating a city's budget
	Earth Science	Alexey Fedorov	Yale University	Global ocean circulation in warm climates
	Engineering	Arup K. Chakraborty	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Induction of broadly neutralizing antibodies against highly mutable pathogens
	Mathematics	Moon Duchin	Tufts University	Geometric group theory and gerrymandering
	Medicine and Health	Charles L. Bosk	University of Pennsylvania	Tension between professional and managerial definitions of "error" and why improvements in patient safety and quality of care have been elusive
	Medicine and Health	Carl Elliott	University of Minnesota	Human subjects research scandals exposed by whistleblowers in four different countries
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	Antonis Rokas	Vanderbilt University	How the study of fungi can expand common views in evolutionary biology
	Neuroscience	Aniruddh D. Patel	Tufts University	Evolutionary music cognition
	Organismic Biology & Ecology	Robert B. Jackson	Stanford University	Soil fertility and water supply in plants
	Organismic Biology & Ecology	Anne D. Yoder	Duke University	Family tree of mouse lemurs
	Physics	Lisa Randall	Harvard University
	Physics	Michael T. Woodside	University of Alberta	How evolution shapes the folding of individual proteins by reconstructing ancient versions of modern-day proteins to discover how the folding process has changed
Social Sciences	Anthropology and Cultural Studies	Sienna R. Craig	Dartmouth College	Literary ethnography and short stories that discuss immigration between Nepal and New York
		Stefan Helmreich	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Ethnographic account of how scientists measure, model, and monitor ocean waves in an era of climate change
		Sabine Hyland	University of St Andrews	Hidden Texts of the Andes
	Constitutional Studies	Carol Anderson	Emory University
	Geography and Environmental Studies	Jesse Ribot	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Book 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
	Law	Jessica Silbey	Northeastern University	Intellectual property debates in law and culture as a bellwether of changing social justice needs in the 21st century
	Sociology	Christopher A. Bail	Duke University	Social media "echo chamber"
	Sociology	Robert J. Sampson	Harvard University	Transition to adulthood under conditions of mass incarcteration
	Political Science	Peter A. Hall	Harvard University	Relationship between changes in the political economy and changes in electoral policies
	Political Science	Vivien A. Schmidt	Boston University	Rhetoric of discontent through a transatlantic investigation of the populist revolt against globalization and Europeanization
	Psychology	Fei Xu	University of California, Berkeley	Cognitive and language development in children, particularly the "rational constructionism" approach

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