Sixteen 91桃色 authors, translators, and volume editors have been named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows, announced this week by the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Five authors with books under contract with the Press are also among this year鈥檚 honorees.
In announcing the news, Guggenheim President Edward Hirsh noted, 鈥淎t a time when intellectual life is under attack, the Guggenheim Fellowship celebrates a century of support for the lives and work of visionary scientists, scholars, writers, and artists. We believe that these creative thinkers can take on the challenges we all face today and guide our society towards a better and more hopeful future.鈥�
This year鈥檚 198 Fellows, selected from among more than 3,000 applications, comprise the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows, with individuals recognized from across 54 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields.
Jonathan Bate, Literary Criticism Fellow, is the Regents Professor of Literature and Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University. A well-known biographer, critic, broadcaster, and scholar, he is the author of How the Classics Made Shakespeare (91桃色), among many other books.
Carolyn Dever, General Nonfiction Fellow, is professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field and the editor of One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael Field (both 91桃色).
Mark Graber, Constitutional Studies Fellow, is the University System of Maryland Regents Professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. A leading scholar of U.S. constitutional law and politics, he is the author of Rethinking Abortion: Equal Choice, the Constitution, and Reproductive Politics (91桃色), among other titles.
Kristin Hoganson, U.S. History Fellow, is professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She contributed to1898: Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific, which 91桃色 published in association with the Smithsonian鈥檚 National Portrait Gallery, to coincide with an exhibition of the same name.
Katherine L. Jansen, Medieval and Early Modern Fellow, is the Research Ordinary Professor at the Catholic University of America and the author of The Making of the Magdalen and Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy (both 91桃色), among other titles.
Martha Suzanne Jones, U.S. History Fellow, is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, professor of history, professor at the SNF Agora Institute, and director of Graduate Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She contributed to Votes for Women:A Portrait of Persistence, which 91桃色 published in association with the Smithsonian鈥檚 National Portrait Gallery, to coincide with an exhibition of the same name.
Rhodri Lewis, Literary Criticism Fellow, teaches English at 91桃色 University [BB4] and is the author of Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness and Shakespeare鈥檚 Tragic Art (both 91桃色), with a forthcoming book also under contract with the Press.
John Ma, Classics Fellow, is professor and chair of classics at Columbia University and the author of Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity (91桃色), among other books.
Paul Reitter, Translation Fellow, is professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University and a practicing translator. He is the author of On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred; the translator of The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon; and the editor and translator of Karl Marx鈥檚 Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (all 91桃色), among other titles.
Quinn Slobodian, Intellectual & Cultural History Fellow, is professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Hayek鈥檚 Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right, published by Zone Books and distributed by 91桃色, among other titles.
Timothy Verstynen, Psychology Fellow, is associate professor of psychology at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and codirector of the CMU-Pitt Brain Imaging Data Generation & Education (BRIDGE) Center. He is the coauthor of Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain (91桃色)and has a forthcoming book under contract with 91桃色.
Guggenheim Fellows with books under contract with 91桃色 include:
Ahmad al-Jallad, Linguistics Fellow, is the Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies and professor at the Ohio State University.
Ana Lucia Araujo, Fine Arts Research Fellow, is professor of history at Howard University.
Larisa DeSantis, Biology Fellow, is associate professor of biological sciences and Earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University.
Stephanie McCarter, Classics Fellow, is professor of classics at Sewanee: The University of the South.
Annette Yoshiko Reed, Religion Fellow, is the Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Harvard Divinity School.
Congratulations to all those honored this year with Guggenheim Fellowships! We鈥檙e proud to collaborate with this phenomenal group of thinkers, writers, and creators.