The Guggenheim Fellows for 2021 were announced this week. This year’s winners include 184 scholars, artists, scientists and writers selected via a rigorous peer review process from more than 3,000 initial candidates. The full list of winners can be found here.
The fellowships were created in 1925 by Colorado Senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga in memory of their son John Simon Guggenheim. Fellowships are awarded to “exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions.” Recipients are advanced professionals, having “already demonstrated exceptional capacity” in their scholarly or artistic careers.
“I am thrilled to announce this new group of Guggenheim Fellows,” said Edward Hirsch, President of the Foundation, in a press release, “especially since this has been a devastating year in so many ways. 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. 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.”
Fellowships amounts vary and are granted for no less than six months and no more than twelve. There are few strings attached to how the one-time grant money can be used, but its intent is to give recipients the time and freedom to complete their books, research projects, or artistic endeavors. An individual who wins a Guggenheim is not eligible for a second award.
The winners this year represented 49 different scholarly disciplines and artistic fields. They were employed at 73 different academic institutions, and came from 28 states and two Canadian provinces. They ranged in age from 31 to 85. Close to 60 Fellows did not have a full-time affiliation with a college or university, according to the Foundation’s release.
The University of California, Los Angles (UCLA) led the pack with eight winners this year, in fields ranging from anthropology, linguistics and fine arts to engineering, photography and biology.
UCLA was followed by Stanford University with seven fellows in fields such as fine arts, fiction, history, philosophy and political science. Princeton University and Columbia University were tied for fourth with six fellows each, across the sciences, humanities, social sciences and arts.
Rounding out the top ten, with ties, were: University of California, Berkeley (4) University of Chicago (4), Northwestern University (4), Harvard University (4), Yale University (4), Emory University (3), Dartmouth College (3), and City University of New York (3; two at Hunter College and one at College of Staten Island). (Some of the appointees at these institutions were for a one-year term, and some of the recipients hold non-primary appointments at other institutions.)
The prestige of a Guggenheim Fellowship is substantial. Since its inception almost a hundred years ago, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has granted nearly $400 million in Fellowships to over 18,000 individuals. Included in that group 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 several other widely celebrated honors.
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