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Supporters of the FoundationThanks to the continued generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation, some Fellows with no academic or institutional affiliation receive supplemental funding as part of their Guggenheim Fellowship to help cover the costs of their research or artistic endeavors, and their living expenses. |
Guggenheim Fellowship Awards in the United States and Canada, 2010Edward Hirsch, the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, announced today that in its eighty-sixth annual competition for the United States and Canada the Foundation has awarded 180 Fellowships to artists, scientists, and scholars. The successful candidates were chosen from a group of some 3,000 applicants. View the list of 2010 Fellows in the United States and Canada |
Latin American and Caribbean Guggenheim Fellowship Awards, 2010The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded thirty-seven Fellowships to artists, scholars, and scientists from Latin America and the Caribbean, according to Edward Hirsch, Foundation president. The successful Fellows were chosen from almost 500 applicants. This year’s new Fellows are from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela. |
Guggenheim Fellows elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced its newly elected members on Tuesday, April 13. Forty Guggenheim Fellows were among the 2010 winners. Follow this link to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences website to read the Press Release |
2010 Pulitzer Prize announcementsThe 94th annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced April 12. Three Guggenheim Fellows were among the winners. |
Nobel Prizes Awarded to Two Guggenheim FellowsThe roll of Nobel Prize-winning Guggenheim Fellows increased to 102 with the announcements on October 7 and October 12 of this year’s awards in chemistry and economics. |
María Moreno, Fellow in General Nonfiction, 2002, and Helen Zout, Fellow in Photography, 2002
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Charles Ryskamp, Fellow in Eighteenth-Century English Literature, 1966A highly valued member of the Guggenheim Foundation’s Board of Trustees for twenty-seven years (1983-2010), Charles Ryskamp died on March 26, 2010. |
The New Yorker Features Guggenheim FellowsBeginning in its June 14 and 21 double issue, The New Yorker is publishing short stories by up-and-coming as well as more established writers it considers particularly noteworthy. Among the “20 Under 40” writers included in this series are seven Guggenheim Fellows in Fiction: Chris Adrian (2009), Daniel Alarcón (2007), David Bezmozgis (2005), Nell Freudenberger (2010), Philipp Meyer (2010), ZZ Packer (2005), and Salvatore Scibona (2010). |
2010 National Book Critics' Circle AwardsWhen the National Book Critics’ Circle Awards were announced on March 11, two Guggenheim Fellows were among the winners. The biography award went to Blake Bailey, for Cheever: A Life (Knopf, 2009); Mr. Bailey’s 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship helped support his work on this book. The award citation applauded Cheever as “a powerful example of reportage, a close reading of the life and the circumstances that delivers a superlative understanding of who the writer was.” |
American Academy in Berlin Prizewinners, 2009When the American Academy in Berlin announced the winners of its Berlin prizes on September 14, four Guggenheim Fellows were among the recipients: |
Mac Wellman, Fellow in Drama & Performance Art, 1990Mac Wellman, the M.F.A. program coordinator in playwriting and the Donald I. Fine Professor of Play Writing at Brooklyn College has been named a CUNY Distinguished Professor, the university’s highest faculty rank. Wellman has been teaching at Brooklyn College since 1998. |
Lynn Hershman Leeson, Fellow in Film, 2009American artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman has been awarded the 2010 biannual d.velop digital art award (ddaa) from the Digital Art Museum in Berlin, Germany. The award is given to artists who have demonstrated a lifetime of exceptional achievement in the field of new media. As part of the award, Hershman will have a retrospective exhibition accompanied by a catalogue at the Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany. |
Jake Heggie, Fellow in Music Composition, 2005Composer Jake Heggie has been selected as one of seven new members of the Board of Directors of OPERA America, the national service organization for opera. Members of the Board of Directors meet three times a year to oversee and discuss the organization’s range of programs. |
William Craft Brumfield, Fellow in Russian History, 2000Russia Behind the Headlines, an international publication project of the Russian daily newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, has published a series of articles with text and photo illustrations by William Brumfield on some of the architectural treasures of Russia. A Professor of Slavic Studies at Tulane University and author of A History of Russian Architecture, Mr. Brumfield has devoted many years to researching, writing about, and preserving through photographs the beautiful and idiosyncratic architecture of Russia, and was awarded his Guggenheim Fellowship for a study of the architecture of the Russian North. |
Rolando Peña, Fellow in Installation Art, 2009In his latest exploration of the symbolic meaning of oil, now on exhibit at the library of the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Rolando Peña uses sixteen oil barrels, arranged in three color groups—black, gold, and silver—to represent the basic building blocks of the universe: bosons, quarks, and leptons. The accompanying ten-minute video discusses the scientific discoveries about the origins of the universe. Together, the elements of the installation offer Mr. Peña’s newest commentary on the relationship of oil to Venezuelan and world culture, aesthetics, politics, and ecology. |
Anne Aghion, Fellow in Film, 2005Documentary filmmaker Anne Aghion has been screening her latest work, My Neighbor My Killer, on three different continents. The film, which deals with the subject of Rwandan genocide, has earned uniformly rave reviews. After showing it in Los Angeles in mid May, she screened it in Dieulefit the south of France, and then in Rwanda, including at the Unity Club retreat in Kigali under the auspices of Rwanda’s First Lady, Jeannette Kagame. |
Frederick Wiseman, Fellow in Film, 1980Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman will receive a lifetime achievement award at the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' 31st News and Documentary Emmys in New York on September 27th. Described as “a true pioneer whose body of work comprises a chronicle of American life unmatched by perhaps any other filmmaker," Wiseman has created more than forty documentaries and has won two Emmys. |
Scott Russell Sanders, Fellow in Nonfiction, 1992Scott Russell Sanders was named the National recipient of the 2010 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award. The award is meant to honor and recognize the work of Indiana writers who have made significant contributions to the literary world. |
Moses Chao, Fellow in Molecular & Cellular Biology, 1994NYU School of Medicine professor Moses Chao, PhD was named president-elect of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), one of the largest organizations dedicated to the advancement of neuroscience research. Chao will concentrate on public awareness of brain and nervous system research, the push for further research on neurodegenerative diseases, among other issues. Chao will serve a three year term: as president-elect, president and past president. |
Tony Bentley, Fellow in General Nonfiction, 2008A noted writer and frequent contributor to many major newspapers and periodicals, Toni Bentley offers her review of the Royal Mansour hotel in Marrakech, Morocco, in the Wall Street Journal online. |
Lisa Kron, Fellow in Drama & Performance Art, 2005Arena Stage has announced Lisa Kron as one of five resident playwrights of the American Voices New Play Institute. Best known for her works 2.5 Minute Ride and Well, Kron has received two Tony nominations and an Obie award, among others. |
Jeffrey S. Vitter, Fellow in Computer Science, 1986Professor of Computer Science and former Provost at Texas A&M University, Jeffrey Vitter has just been appointed Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor and Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas. |
Edith Grossman, Fellow in Translation, 2008Why Translation Matters, Edith Grossman’s latest work, has just been published by Yale University Press. Perhaps best known for her widely celebrated translation of Don Quixote (Ecco Press, 2003), Edith Grossman has won plaudits for her translations of the works of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, among many others. |
Roya Hakakian, Fellow in General Nonfiction, 2008An expert on Middle Eastern culture and politics, Roya Hakakian offers her insights into the volatile situation in Iran and several other current issues in a number of recently published articles. |
Mary Anne Weaver, Fellow in General Nonfiction, 2004In January 2010 Farrar, Straus & Giroux will be issuing Pakistan: Deep Inside the World's Most Frightening State, a revised edition of Mary Anne Weaver’s highly praised 2003 study of that troubled country and its relations with the United States. As a foreign correspondent for such publications as The New Yorker, Washington Post, and The Times of London, Ms. Weaver has been observing firsthand and reporting on the cultures and politics of the Middle East for years. |
Jeannie Suk, Fellow in Law, 2009Yale University Press has just released Jeannie Suk’s latest treatise: At Home in the Law. In it Ms. Suk gives a highly readable analysis of the unpredicted inroads the law has made into our domestic life as feminists sought to ensure the safety and equality of women in the home, becoming so paternalistic that even over the objections of the victim arrests for suspected domestic violence are mandatory and orders of protection can be put in place. |
Robert Edelman, Fellow in Russian History, 2006In Spartak Moscow (Cornell UP), Robert Edelman brings to bear his expertise in both Russian history and sports history to draw an intriguing picture of the political significance of soccer in the USSR. Subtitled A History of the People’s Team in the Workers’ State, the book details how the dissent quashed in daily life found expression on the pitch and in the stands, as people vociferously and ardently supported the Spartak Moscow team in its quest to best the KGB-sponsored Dinamo club. Mr. Edelman’s Guggenheim Fellowship supported his work on this book. |
John Irving, Fellow in Fiction, 1976Last Night in Twisted River, Mr. Irving’s latest novel, has just been published by Random House. Mr. Irving won the National Book Award in 1980 for The World According to Garp, and an Oscar in 2000 for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. He discusses his latest work at length on his website. |
Tracy Daugherty, Biography, 2006When the 23rd Annual Oregon Book Awards were announced on October 26, Tracy Daugherty was once again among the winners. Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme (St. Martin’s Press, 2009), the project for which Mr. Daugherty received his Guggenheim Fellowship, garnered the Oregon Book Awards program’s Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction. This is the fourth time he has won an Oregon Book Award, but the first time in the nonfiction category. Follow the link for more information. |
Susan Middleton, Fellow in Science Writing, 2009A champion of biodiversity preservation, Susan Middleton celebrates the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species in her photographs for Evidence of Evolution, to be issued by Abrams Books in October. Her photographs of exquisite specimens from the collection of the California Academy of Sciences, where she is a research associate, complement and enrich the text by Mary Ellen Hannibal. Ms. Middleton's work was supported in part by her Guggenheim Fellowship. To learn more about this book and Ms. Middleton, follow these links: |
Judith H. Dobrzynski: "A Gallery of Guggenheims"Judith Dobrzynski, a consultant to the Leon Levy Foundation, generously featured a number of 2009 Guggenheim Fellows in fine arts in two of her recent realcleararts blogs on artsjournal.com. Her blogs provide tantalizing images of their works and in many cases links to their individual websites. To read Ms. Dobrzynski's blogs and view her interesting sampling of Fellows' artworks, follow these links: Judith H. Dobrzynski: "A Gallery of Guggenheims" Part I Judith H. Dobrzynski: "A Gallery of Guggenheims" Part II |
David M. Lee, Fellow in Physics, 1966, 1974Texas A & M has announced that Nobel Prize winner David M. Lee has joined its department of physics, and will be spending six months each year in the department’s condensed matter program. Follow the link to read the notice on the Texas A & M website. |
Max Bañados, Fellow in Physical Sciences, 2009Even the Large Hadron Collider is limited in the amount of energy it can generate for scientists' researches into the most fundamental particles in the universe, but if Max Bañados and his collaborators, Stephen West of Royal Holloway, University of London, and Joseph Silk of the University of Oxford, are right, black holes may succeed where man fails. Jessica Griggs discusses their findings, which were just published in Physical Review Letters, in an article in the September 9 issue of New Scientist, entitled "Black Holes are the Ultimate Particle Smashers." Follow this link to view the Guggenheim profile for Max Bañados. |
Brian Ulrich, Fellow in Photography, 2008Janet Babin interviewed Brian Ulrich on the NPR program The Story. Follow this link to hear the interview which includes a discussion of Brian's work, including his 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship. |
American Chemical Society's Inaugural Class of Elected Fellows
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Vartan Gregorian, Fellow in Russian History, 1971Vartan Gregorian, former head of the New York Public Library and currently President of the Carnegie Corporation in New York, has been appointed to the President's Commission on White House Fellowships. |
C. D. Wright, 1987 Fellow in Poetry, and A. F. Moritz, 1990 Fellow in PoetryEach year since 2000, the Griffin Poetry Prize, Canada's most sought-after poetry award, has been given to one Canadian poet and one poet from another country. This year, the international winner is C. D. Wright, who was recognized for her work Rising, Falling, Hovering. Canadian A. F. Moritz, who teaches at the University of Toronto, was honored for his collection The Sentinel. Saskia Hamilton, a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, was among this year's judges. For more information on Ms. Wright, Mr. Moritz, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, follow this link. |
Alessandra Sanguinetti, Fellow in Photography, 2000The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has awarded photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti its Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography for 2009. This Fellowship will help support Ms. Sanguinetti's project entitled "The Life That Came." For more information, follow this link. |
Elizabeth Spencer, Fellow in Fiction, 1953Supported by the Southern Documentary Fund, filmmaker Kevin McCarthy is currently working on a documentary about the life of Elizabeth Spencer, the award-winning author and short story writer whose work exploring race relations in the South, a taboo topic in the 1930s, not only earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship but disinheritance by her father. To learn more about Ms. Spencer and Mr. McCarthy's profile of her, entitled "Elizabeth Spencer: Landscapes of the Heart," follow the link. |
Donal Fox, Fellow in Music Composition, 1997Donal Fox, who received his Fellowship in music composition, has been named a Martin Luther King Visiting Professor at MIT for the 2009-10 academic year. |
James Edward Wright, Fellow in United States History, 1973
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Guggenheim Fellows - MacArthur Foundation 2009 Fellowship recipientsThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced its 2009 Fellowship recipients on September 22. Among the twenty-four people awarded the so-called “genius” grants were five Guggenheim Fellows: Rackstraw Downes, Fellow in Fine Arts, 1998, Deborah Eisenberg, Fellow in Fiction, 1987, L. Mahadevan, Fellow in Applied Mathematics, 2006, Heather McHugh, Fellow in Poetry, 1989, and Richard Prum, Fellow in Organismic Biology and Ecology, 2007. More information about these extraordinarily talented individuals is available in their Guggenheim profiles.
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We note the passing of the following Fellows. The Foundation always appreciates receiving information about Guggenheim Fellows. |
Guggenheim Foundation "Firsts" |
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On May 28, 1925, the first class of Guggenheim Fellows was appointed. Culled from a field of only seventy-four applicants, the fifteen 1925 Fellows included composer Aaron Copland. Somewhat ahead of its time in recognizing the accomplishments of women, the Foundation also appointed Violet Barbour, a professor of history at Vassar College. The next year the field of applicants grew to nearly 900; of these thirty-nine received Fellowships, and five Fellows from the inaugural class received second Fellowships. |