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."[1] 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.[2]
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Choreography | Choreography | [3] | ||
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Drama and Performance Art | [9] | ||||
University of North Carolina (fellow) | [10] [11] | ||||
Local immigrant and refugee migration stories | [12] [13] | ||||
[14] | |||||
Fiction | Writing | [15] | |||
Santa Maddalena Foundation | [16] | ||||
Friends of Writers | [17] [18] | ||||
[19] | |||||
Film - Video | [20] | ||||
[21] | |||||
[22] | |||||
Video symphony inspired by Pablo Neruda's Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada | [23] | ||||
Documentary about life in the village of Susudel in southern Ecuador | [24] [25] | ||||
Live documentary installation | [26] [27] | ||||
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[30] [31] | |||||
[32] | |||||
Documentary about women and mass incarceration in Pennsylvania | [33] | ||||
The Hottest August | [34] | ||||
Fine Arts | [35] [36] | ||||
Self-portraiture | [37] | ||||
Sculpture | [38] | ||||
[39] | |||||
"Printmaking’s ability to proliferate critical pronouncements on behalf of social justice" | [40] [41] | ||||
Impact of technological "upgrade culture" on institutions, archives, and scientific research | [42] | ||||
Painting | [43] | ||||
Painting, drawing, ceramics | [44] | ||||
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" | [45] | ||||
Colonized people and places in Africa | [46] | ||||
Sculpture | [47] | ||||
Dave Hardy | |||||
Work on his In the Hour Before painting series, which reimagines settings of tragedies | [48] [49] [50] | ||||
Painting | |||||
Merging virtual reality and 360 film to express Indigenous scientific teachings | [51] | ||||
Art inspired by how workspaces impact the way people understand social class and identity | [52] | ||||
Sculpture | |||||
Painting | [53] | ||||
Sculpture | |||||
Designs of spaces transcendent, such as "public places that foster contemplation" | [54] | ||||
Project using Thomas Eakins' archives | |||||
Painting | |||||
Music Composition | [55] | ||||
Composition | [56] | ||||
[57] [58] | |||||
Work on composition commissions | [59] | ||||
Work on an opera with five soloists (Mapmakers) and a bubble wrap concerto with a chamber orchestra | [60] | ||||
Spatial audio research and composition | [61] | ||||
"Sounds unheard and forms unseen" | [62] | ||||
Ensemble Exophonie Tokyo | Composition | [63] [64] | |||
Writing an opera | [65] | ||||
Composition | |||||
Exploration of methods of expressing narrative in musical form | [66] | ||||
Composition | |||||
Photography | |||||
Creation of a new photographic archive of California | |||||
Abstract and minimal landscape photographs | [67] | ||||
[68] | |||||
Female genital mutilation through the lens of loss and sacrifice | [69] | ||||
Transitional period of leaving home for the first time | [70] [71] | ||||
Bodies of water with violent or ominous names | [72] | ||||
Passage of seasons in Alekhovshchina, Russia | [73] | ||||
[74] [75] | |||||
Poetry | Yale University (PhD candidate) | Writing | [76] | ||
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[79] | |||||
[80] | |||||
[81] | |||||
Humanities | African Studies | "Ideation as History" | [82] | ||
Architecture, Planning and Design | Architecture and urbanism | [83] | |||
How climate, building, and community overlap in meaningful ways and how architecture and the humanities intertwine | [84] [85] | ||||
Classics | Specific form taken by money in the ancient Greek world, with a central focus on the question on why the Greeks "invented" coinage | [86] | |||
Greco-Roman roots of Western ideas about the physical body, the natural world, matter and the non-human | [87] | ||||
Dance Studies | French dance and politics in the first half of the 20th century | [88] | |||
East Asian Studies | Textual culture of Chinese antiquity during the first millennium BCE | ||||
[89] | |||||
Rise of merit over ancestry as a primary marker of status in China during the 10th and 11th centuries | |||||
English Literature | [90] | ||||
European and Latin American Literature | Structure: A Counterhistory of Twentieth-Century French Philosophy | ||||
European and Latin American History | Invisible Labor: A History of Female Migrant Domestics in Postcolonial Europe | [91] | |||
Popular history of Cuba | |||||
A World Without Race: The Dream of a Universal Republic in the Revolutionary French Caribbean | |||||
[92] | |||||
History of water and water wars in modern South America | |||||
Pilgrimage in modern Mexico | |||||
Film, Video and Radio Studies | Expedition film, a genre during the interwar period, and intellectual roots in earlier moments and practices of travel | [93] | |||
Fine Arts Research | [94] | ||||
[95] | |||||
General Nonfiction | [96] | ||||
Collection of essays exploring television and American culture | [97] | ||||
[98] | |||||
The Paris Review | [99] | ||||
History of Science, Technology and Economics | Climate change in colonial Africa | ||||
[100] | |||||
Jewish scholarly intermediaries between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Italy | [101] | ||||
Global history of non-Latin typography and type design in the modern era | [102] | ||||
History of the Russian ruble (1768-1917) | |||||
Intellectual and Cultural History | [103] | ||||
Social upheaval and radical transformation of everyday life in the emergent Black ghetto in the early 20th century | [104] | ||||
[105] | |||||
Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe | |||||
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 | [106] | ||||
Linguistics | 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 | ||||
How children learn to count and how they develop the conceptual understanding of numbers | |||||
Literary Criticism | Earthquake Aesthetics: Catastrophe and the Forms of Critique | [107] | |||
New theory of ornamentation that emphasizes attention and accompaniment rather than materiality | [108] | ||||
New vision of leading a secular life, both individually and collectively | |||||
Indigeneity and the Politics of Space: Gender, Geography, Culture | [109] | ||||
Medieval and Renaissance Literature | [110] | ||||
Production and reception of a single medieval manuscript across 800 years | [111] | ||||
Music Research | [112] | ||||
Philosophy | Social practices and social structure with an emphasis on the materiality of social practices and the role of ideology | [113] | |||
Relation between the world as it appears to us and the world as it is revealed by fundamental physics | [114] | ||||
Religion | How early Christian conceptions of the afterlife were formed by and also shaped their respective contexts | ||||
What global Islam is and where it came from | |||||
[115] | |||||
South Asian 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 | [116] | |||
Translation | Completion of translations of Antonio Di Benedetto's El silenciero (1964) and Las suicidas (1968) | [117] | |||
United States History | American Indian dominance in the centuries before 1850 | [118] | |||
Monograph: Immigrant Voices: European and African Stories of Freedom, Unfreedom, and Identity through Four Centuries of Transatlantic Migrations to the Americas | [119] | ||||
Semi-autobiography recounting a 1970 airplane hijacking in Jordan | [120] | ||||
Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | 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 | [121] | ||
Astronomy and Astrophysics | Exotic cosmological explosions | ||||
Chemistry | Very early-stage effort to understand and react to form materials with designed, uniform structures and tiny voids | [122] | |||
Adaption of analytical methods to characterize novel, technologically relevant nanomaterials in an environmental matrix | [123] | ||||
Computer Science | Mechanisms that would enable voters to participate in the process of allocating a city's budget | [124] | |||
Earth Science | Global ocean circulation in warm climates | [125] | |||
Engineering | Induction of broadly neutralizing antibodies against highly mutable pathogens | ||||
Mathematics | [126] | ||||
Medicine and Health | Tension between professional and managerial definitions of "error" and why improvements in patient safety and quality of care have been elusive | [127] | |||
Human subjects research scandals exposed by whistleblowers in four different countries | [128] | ||||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | How the study of fungi can expand common views in evolutionary biology | ||||
Neuroscience | Evolutionary music cognition | ||||
Organismic Biology & Ecology | Soil fertility and water supply in plants | ||||
Family tree of mouse lemurs | [129] | ||||
Physics | |||||
How evolution shapes the folding of individual proteins by reconstructing ancient versions of modern-day proteins to discover how the folding process has changed | [130] | ||||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Literary ethnography and short stories that discuss immigration between Nepal and New York | |||
Ethnographic account of how scientists measure, model, and monitor ocean waves in an era of climate change | [131] | ||||
Hidden Texts of the Andes | [132] | ||||
Constitutional Studies | |||||
Geography and Environmental Studies | 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 | [133] [134] | |||
Law | Intellectual property debates in law and culture as a bellwether of changing social justice needs in the 21st century | ||||
Sociology | Social media "echo chamber" | ||||
Transition to adulthood under conditions of mass incarcteration | |||||
Political Science | Relationship between changes in the political economy and changes in electoral policies | ||||
Rhetoric of discontent through a transatlantic investigation of the populist revolt against globalization and Europeanization | [135] | ||||
Psychology | Cognitive and language development in children, particularly the "rational constructionism" approach |