On April 6, 2017, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of 173 Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of scholars, artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Foundation’s ninety-third competition. The full press release is available here.
MARCH would like to congratulate all the 2017 Fellows and recognize the following humanities and creative arts professors and professionals who, according to information available on the recipients page of the Guggenheim website, are living and working in the Mid-Atlantic region:
Robert Aronowitz, University of Pennsylvania
Edward E. Baptist, Cornell University
Signe Baumane, Brooklyn, NY
Marina Berio, New York City
Mahir Cetiz, Columbia University
Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania
Michael David-Fox, Georgetown University
Lesley Dill, Brooklyn, NY
Keely Garfield, New York
Masha Gessen, New York
Annie Gosfield, New York
Jennifer Grotz, Rochester
Alec Hall, New York City
Matthea Harvey, Sarah Lawrence College
Jochen Hellbeck, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Elana Herzog, New York City
Samantha Hunt, Tivoli, NY
Ishion Hutchinson, Cornell University
Kirsten Johnson, New York University
Byron Kim, Brooklyn, NY
Aaron Landsman, Princeton University (visiting associate professor)
Jennie Jieun Lee, Brooklyn, NY
Jen Liu, New York
Fiona Maazel, Brooklyn, NY
Sharon Marcus, Columbia University
Rogelio Martinez, New York
Shari Mendelson, Brooklyn, NY
Gregory Pardlo, Rutgers University-Camden
Hunter Reynolds, New York
Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
A.V. Rockwell, New York City
Patrick Rosal, Rutgers University-Camden
Paul Rucker, Baltimore, MD
Cynthia Saltzman, New York
Zina Saro-Wiwa, Artist-in-Residence, Pratt Institute
Brian Seibert, Brooklyn, NY
Jeanne Silverthorne, New York
Michael Strevens, New York University
Sarah Wagner, George Washington University
Leslie Wayne, New York City
Afaa Michael Weaver, Drew University
Marianne Weems, Carnegie Mellon University and New York
Stacy Wolf, Princeton University
Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University and School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study (2017-18)