Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. Water Makes Us Wet, Photo by RRJones. Courtesy the artist.
Ranging in age from thirty-one to eighty-five, the fellows were selected from a pool of almost three thousand applicants. Together, they represent forty-nine scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, twenty-eight states and two Canadian provinces, and seventy-three academic institutions. Nearly sixty of the recipients have no full-time academic affiliation.
“A Guggenheim Fellowship has always been meaningful, but this year we know it will be a lifeline for many of the new Fellows at a time of great hardship, a survival tool as well as a creative one, said Edward Hirsch, President of the Foundation. “The work supported by the Fellowship will help us understand more deeply what we are enduring individually and collectively, and it is an honor for the Foundation to help the Fellows do what they were meant to do.”
Since its establishment in 1925, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has granted nearly $400 million in Fellowships to over 18,000 individuals. This year’s fellows in the Creative Arts and Humanities categories are as follows:
CREATIVE ARTS
Biography
Victoria Johnson, New York, NY
Choreography
Tommie-Waheed Evans, Philadelphia, P
Maureen Fleming, New York, NY
Christopher L. Huggins, New York, NY
José Ome Navarrete Mazatl, Oakland, CA
Helen Simoneau, Brooklyn, NY
Christopher Williams, New York, NY
Drama & Performance Art
Mike Lew, Brooklyn, NY
Kaneza Schaal, Brooklyn, NY
Sarah Cameron Sunde, New York, NY
Fiction
Kaitlyn Greenidge, Westborough, MA
Mitchell S. Jackson, Chicago, IL
Tayari Jones, Atlanta, GA
Daniel Mason, Palo Alto, CA
Laura van den Berg, Sanford, FL
Paul Yoon, Sanford, FL
Film-Video
Ephraim Asili, Hudson, NY
Keren Cytter, Elmhurst, NY
Faren Humes, Miami, FL
Richard Kraft, Coxsackie, NY
Irene E. Lusztig, Ben Lomond, CA
Jill Magid, Brooklyn, NY
Alison McAlpine, Montreal, QC, Canada
Alexandre Moratto, Santa Clara, CA
Annie Silverstein, Austin, TX
Cauleen Smith, Los Angeles, CA
Annie Sprinkle, San Francisco, CA
Beth Stephens, San Francisco, CA
Jorge Thielen Armand, London, ON, Canada
Tourmaline, Brooklyn, NY
Jake Yuzna, Minneapolis, MN
Fine Arts
Amy Adler, Los Angeles, CA
Brandon Ballengée, Arnaudville, LA
Lisa Beck, Brooklyn, NY
Dara Birnbaum, New York, NY
A.K. Burns, Stone Ridge, NY
Crystal Z Campbell, Oklahoma City, OK
Enrique Chagoya, San Francisco, CA
William Cordova, North Miami Beach, FL
Luba Drozd, Brooklyn, NY
Emil Ferris, Evanston, IL
Eve Fowler, Los Angeles, CA
Lilian Garcia-Roig, Tallahassee, FL
Michelle Grabner, Fox Point, WI
Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Chicago, IL
Josephine Halvorson, Mill River, MA
Sung Hwan Kim, New York, NY
Jesse Krimes, Philadelphia, PA
Karen Lofgren, Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Malaska, Portland, OR
Pepón Osorio, Philadelphia, PA
Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Brooklyn, NY
Dread Scott, Brooklyn, NY
James Siena, New York, NY
Jane South, Brooklyn, NY
Melissa Thorne, Troy, NY
Peter B. Williams, Wilmington, DE
General Nonfiction
Alexander Chee, Hanover, NH
Ian Frazier, Montclair, NJ
William Giraldi, Cambridge, MA
Farah Jasmine Griffin, New York, NY
Helen Molesworth, Los Angeles, CA
George Prochnik, London, United Kingdom
Wendell Steavenson, London, United Kingdom
Robert Sullivan, Philadelphia, PA
Michelle Tea, Glendale, CA
Kate Zambreno, Brooklyn, N
Music Composition
Rez Abbasi, New York, NY
Ashkan Behzadi, Toronto, ON, Canada
Donnacha Dennehy, Princeton, NJ
Zosha Di Castri, New York, NY
Sky Macklay, Paris, France
Miya Masaoka, New York, NY
Nkeiru Okoye, New Paltz, NY
Igor Santos, Evanston, IL
Ming Tsao, Berlin, Germany
Elio Villafranca, Bronx, NY
Katherine Young, Decatur, GA
Nina C. Young, New York, NY
Photography
Sama Alshaibi, Tucson, AZ
Suzanne Bloom, Houston, TX
Richard Allen Frishman, Langley, WA
Ed Hill, Houston, TX
Zig Jackson, Savannah, GA
Michael Jang, San Francisco, CA
Ken Light, Orinda, CA
Stephen Marc, Tempe, AZ
Tamara Reynolds, Nashville, TN
Jono Rotman, San Francisco, CA
Victoria Sambunaris, Stottville, NY
Bill Sullivan, New York, NY
Ron Tarver, Elkins Park, PA
Rodrigo Valenzuela, Los Angeles, CA
Chris Verene, Brooklyn, NY
Poetry
Ellen Bass, Santa Cruz, CA
Don Mee Choi, Seattle, WA
Andrea Cohen, Watertown, MAS
Stephen Kuusisto, Syracuse, NY
Sandra Lim, Cambridge, MA
Tracie Morris, Brooklyn, NY
Craig Morgan Teicher, Verona, NJ
Roberto José Tejada, Houston, T
Connie Voisine, Las Cruces, NM
Mark Wunderlich, Catskill, NY
HUMANITIES
American Literature
Joshua Bennett, Braintree, MA
Raúl Coronado, San Francisco, CA
Architecture, Planning, & Design
Peter Hewitt Christensen, Rochester, NY
Classics
Paul J. Kosmin, Cambridge, MA
Early Modern Studies
Marisa Anne Bass, Guilford, CT
East Asian Studies
Joan Judge, Toronto, ON, Canada
English Literature
John S. Garrison, Grinnell, IA
Laura Otis, Atlanta, GA
European & Latin American History
Emily Joan Greble, Nashville, TN
Bianca Premo, South Miami, FL
Todd David Shepard, New York, NY
Tara Zahra, Chicago, IL
European & Latin American Literature
Debarati Sanyal, Berkeley, CA
Film, Video, & New Media Studies
Susan Murray, New York, NY
James Tweedie, Seattle, WA
Fine Arts Research
Julie Nelson Davis, Philadelphia, PA
Chon Noriega, Los Angeles, CA
Lisa Pon, Los Angeles, CA
History of Science, Technology, & Economics
Lochlann Jain, San Francisco, CA
Intellectual & Cultural History
Michael Gubser, Manassas, VA
Seth Koven, Havertown, PA
Imani Perry, Glenside, PA
Linguistics
David Goldstein, Los Angeles, CA
Patrick C M Wong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
Literary Criticism
Robyn Creswell, New York, NY
Elizabeth Mary DeLoughrey, Los Angeles, CA
Tarek El-Ariss, Hanover, NH
Medieval & Renaissance History
Vincent Barletta, Palo Alto, CA
Simon Doubleday, Astoria, NY
Philosophy
Lanier Anderson, Mountain View, CA
Jennifer Lackey, Evanston, I
Roslyn Weiss, Oradell, NJ
Religion
Steven P. Hopkins, Swarthmore, PA
Amira Mittermaier, Toronto, ON, Canada
Tisa Wenger, Hamden, CT
South & Southeast Asian Studies
Ali Anooshahr, Sebastopol, CA
Ronit Ricci, Mevasseret Zion, Israel
Theatre Arts & Performance Studies
M. Bogad, Berkeley, CA
Rebecca Schneider, Warwick, RI
Translation
Jessica Cohen, Denver, CO
Edward Gauvin, Sacramento, CA
United States History
Cindy Hahamovitch, Athens, GA
Kevin J. Mumford, Chicago, IL
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Philadelphia, PA
Heather Ann Thompson, Detroit, MI
