Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

s were awarded in 1988 to 280 people.

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Marilyn McCord Adams Marilyn McCord Adams (October 12, 1943–March 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and Episcopal priest. She specialized in the philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and medieval philosophy. She was Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of H ...

* Chester A. Alper * Joel B. Altman * Patricia Rieff Anawalt *

Stephen R. Anderson Stephen Robert Anderson (born 1943) is an American linguist. He is the Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics Emeritus at Yale University and was the 2007 president of the Linguistic Society of America. He received a B.S. in linguistics from ...

* T. J. Anderson *

Richard N. Aslin Richard N. Aslin (born August 9, 1949) is an American psychologist. He is currently a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories. Until December, 2016, Dr. Aslin was William R. Kenan Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Vision sci ...

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* Annette C. Baier *

Bonnie J. Blackburn Bonnie Jean Blackburn (born July 15, 1939, Albany, New York) is an American musicologist. Career She graduated in 1970 from the University of Chicago with a PhD. She studied with Edward Lowinsky and Howard Mayer Brown. She was lecturer at Nor ...

Brent Berlin Overton Brent Berlin (born 1936) is an American anthropologist, most noted for his work with linguist Paul Kay on color, and his ethnobiological research among the Maya of Chiapas, Mexico. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 196 ...

* Carl David Benson *

Christopher Benfey Christopher Benfey (born October 28, 1954) is an American literary critic and Emily Dickinson scholar. He is the Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. Early life and education Benfey was born in Merion, Pennsylvania, but spent ...

* Edward Bradford Burns * Eileen Blumenthal * Fakhri A. Bazzaz *

Howard Brenner Howard Brenner (16 March 1929 – 17 February 2014) was a professor emeritus of chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research profoundly influenced the field of fluid dynamics, and his research contribution to fundam ...

James Lee Burke James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won Edgar Awards for ''Black Cherry Blues'' (1990) and ''Cimarron Rose'' (1998), and has also been presented with the Grand Master ...

* Jeanne Bamberger * Jonathan French Beecher * Lee Knowlton Blessing * Leland S. Burns * Michael Brewster * Michael C. Blumenthal *

Philip Benedict Philip Benedict is an American historian of the Protestant Reformation in Europe, currently holding the title of Professor Emeritus (profeseur honoraire) at the University of Geneva’s Institute for Reformation History (l'Institut d'histoire de ...

* Robert Turner Boyd * Roger David Blandford * Ross Bauer * Sara Sweezy Berry * Steve Brand * Suzanne Blier *

T. Coraghessan Boyle Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, also known as T. C. Boyle and T. Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948), is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published sixteen novels and more than 100 short stories. He won the ...

* Thomas A. Brady

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* William A. Camfield *

Jay Cantor Jay Cantor (born 1948 New York City) is an American novelist and essayist. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA, and from University of California, Santa Cruz with a Ph.D. He teaches at Tufts University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachuse ...

* Jack Carnell * Arnaldo Córdova * Sucheng Chan * Jerome Colin Christensen * Elizabeth Ann Clark * Carmine Domenic Clemente * Carol J. Clover * Robert Brady Cochran II * Alan Dodd Code * Richard John Cole * Jules L. Coleman * Roy Colmer * Antoine Compagnon * Dimitri N. Coucouvanis * Ruth Schwartz Cowan * Jerry Allen Coyne *

Pablo Antonio Cuadra Pablo Antonio Cuadra (November 4, 1912 – January 2, 2002) was a Nicaraguan essayist, art and literary critic, playwright, graphic artist and one of the most famous poets of Nicaragua. Early life and career Cuadra was born on November 4, 1912 ...

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* Michael James Dear * Marianne DeKoven * Deborah Digges * Elizabeth F. Diggs * David P. Dobkin * Louise Dolan * Alfredo Osvaldo Donoso *

Laurence Dreyfus Laurence Dreyfus, FBA (born 1952) is an American musicologist and player of the viola da gamba who was University Lecturer and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Early life Dreyfus was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and lived in Ch ...

* Bruce M. Duffy * Richard Timothy Durrett * Robert W. Dutton

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* Richard A. Easterlin * Anthony S.G. Edwards *

Gretel Ehrlich Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer, poet and essayist. Biography Born in 1946 in Santa Barbara, California, she studied at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She began to write full-time in 1978 while living on a Wyoming ranch ...

Elizabeth Diggs Elizabeth Diggs is an American playwright. She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. Early life and education Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1939 to attorney James B. Diggs and Virginia Francis Diggs, Diggs attended Brown University, where she fir ...

Joseph J. Ellis Joseph John-Michael Ellis III (born July 18, 1943) is an American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America. '' American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson'' won a National Boo ...

Jon Elster Jon Elster (; born 22 February 1940, Oslo) is a Norwegian philosopher and political theorist who holds the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University. He received his PhD in social science from the École Normale Su ...

* Peter Entell * Martha N. Evans * Peter Brandt Evans

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Gerd Faltings Gerd Faltings (; born 28 July 1954) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry. Education From 1972 to 1978, Faltings studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. In 1978 he received his PhD in mathema ...

* Philip M. Fearnside * Thomas P. Fehlner * Stefano Fenoaltea *

Norma Field Norma M. Field is an author and emeritus professor of East Asian studies at the University of Chicago. She has taught Premodern Japanese Poetry and Prose, Premodern Japanese Language, and Gender Studies as relating to Japanese women. Her areas o ...

* Jaroslav T. Folda * Charles William Fornara * Donald W. Forsyth *

Thomas L. Friedman Thomas Loren Friedman (; born July 20, 1953) is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for ''The New York Times''. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global ...

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* Frantisek W. Galan * M. Catherine Gallagher * Brendan James Galvin * James Augustin Galvin * Michael James Gandolfi * Carlos A. García Canal *

Magali García Ramis Magali García Ramis (born 1946, Santurce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican writer. Biography Magali García Ramis was born in 1946 in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico and spent her childhood there with her mother, father and brothers, near her m ...

* Timothy Jackson Geller * Robert B. Gennis * Ernest B. Gilman * Janusz Glowacki * Glenn S. Goldberg *

Betty Goodwin Betty Roodish Goodwin, (March 19, 1923 – December 1, 2008) was a multidisciplinary Canadian artist who expressed the complexity of human experience through her work. Early life Goodwin was born in Montreal, the only child of Romanian imm ...

* Michael Jay Graetz * Anthony T. Grafton * Emily Rolfe Grosholz * Sidney T. Guberman * Victor William Guillemin * Richard F. Gustafson

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Rachel Hadas Rachel Hadas (born November 8, 1948) is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. Her most recent essay collection is ''Piece by Piece: Selected Prose'' (Paul Dry Books, 2021), and her most recent poetry collection is ''Love and Dread'' ...

* Carol Haerer *

Daniel Halpern Daniel Halpern (born September 11, 1945) is the founder of Ecco Press, an imprint of the publisher HarperCollins. He is also the author of nine books of poetry, as well as the co-founder, along with Paul Bowles, of the literary magazine ''Antaeus'' ...

Patricia Hampl Patricia Hampl (born March 12, 1946) is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center. Life Patric ...

* Barbara A. Hanawalt * Geoffrey G. Harpham * James Burkett Hartle * Larry C. Heinemann * Susanna Heller * Edward Henderson *

Linda Dalrymple Henderson Linda Dalrymple Henderson (born 1948) is a historian of art whose research involves the connections between modern art, science and technology, and the occult. She is the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History at the University of T ...

* Juan Carlos Herken Krauer * Cynthia B. Herrup * Cheng-Teh James Huang * John Crandall Hudson * Sylvia Jean Huot * Isabelle Hyman

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Graciela Iturbide Graciela Iturbide (born May 16, 1942) is a Mexican photographer. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in many major museum collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The J. Paul Getty Museum. Biograp ...

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* William M. Jackson * Margaret C. Jacob * Mary Longstaff Jacobus * Myra Jehlen * William D. Jones * Miguel José-Yacamán

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* Walter Emil Kaegi * Tamara Kamenszain * Peter Joachim Katzenstein * William Keach * Steven W. Keele * Bernice G. Kert *

Alice Kessler-Harris Alice Kessler-Harris (June 2, 1941, Leicester) is R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History at Columbia University, and former president of the Organization of American Historians, and specialist in the American labor and comparative ...

Philip Kitcher Philip Stuart Kitcher (born 20 February 1947) is a British philosopher who is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. He specialises in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of mathema ...

* William Klein * Fred S. Kleiner * Judith Pollack Klinman * Kenneth A. Kobland * Mimi Alma Ruth Koehl * Richard Karl Koehn *

Harry Kondoleon Harry Kondoleon was a gay American playwright and novelist. He was born on February 26, 1955. He died of AIDS' companion infections in New York City on March 16, 1994, aged 39.Rudy John Koshar * William B. Krantz *

David M. Kreps David Marc "Dave" Kreps (born 1950 in New York City) is a game theorist and economist and professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University (since 1980). The Stanford University Department of Economics appointed Kreps the A ...

* Richard F. Kuisel

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Ernesto Laclau Ernesto Laclau (; 6 October 1935 – 13 April 2014) was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher. He is often described as an 'inventor' of post-Marxist political theory. He is well known for his collaborations with his long-term partner ...

* Gabriel Laderman * Naomi R. Lamoreaux * Suzanne Lebsock * John Emmett Lesch * Wendy C. Lesser * Ronald L. Levao * Joseph M. Levine (1933-2008) *

George A. Lindbeck George Arthur Lindbeck (March 10, 1923 – January 8, 2018) was an American Lutheran theologian. He was best known as an ecumenicist and as one of the fathers of postliberal theology. Early life and education Lindbeck was born on March 10, 1923 ...

* Scott Allen Lindroth *

Donald Lipski Donald Lipski (born May 21, 1947) is an American sculptor best known for his installation work and large-scale public works. Early life and education Donald Lipski was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1947. He was raised in the northern suburb of ...

* Jane S. Livingston * Jorge Simon Lomnitz Adler *

Phillip Lopate Phillip Lopate (born 1943) is an American film critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher. He is the younger brother of radio host Leonard Lopate. Early life Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with a BA degr ...

Reagan Louie Reagan Louie (born 1951, San Francisco, California) is an American photographer and artist whose photography and installations explore cross-cultural identity and global transformation in Asia and in Asian communities in the United States. His ...

Thomas Lux Thomas Lux (December 10, 1946 – February 5, 2017) was an American poet who held the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and ran Georgia Tech's "Poetry @ Tech" program. He wrote fourteen ...

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* Pauline Alice Rubbelke Maier * Mary Biggar Main * Marilú Mallet * Roberta Thompson Manning *

Patricio Manns Iván Patricio Eugenio Manns de Folliot (3 August 1937 – 25 September 2021) was a Chilean singer, composer, author, poet, novelist, essayist, play writer and journalist. He is known for his 1965 song " Arriba en la Cordillera". Life and car ...

* Richard Spencer Markovits * Jonathan Evan Maslow * John Norman Mather * Randall McLeod *

Diane Wood Middlebrook Diane Helen Middlebrook ( Wood; April 16, 1939 – December 15, 2007) Cynthia Haven"Diane Middlebrook, professor emeritus and legendary biographer, dies at 68" ''Stanford Report'', December 15, 2007. was an American biographer, poet, and tea ...

Bebe Miller Bebe Miller (born 1950) is an American choreographer, dancer, and director. Career Miller was born in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York. Following her graduation from Ohio State University with a degree in dance, Miller danced in the troupe of Nina Wie ...

* Jane R. Miller *

Jayadev Misra Jayadev Misra is an Indian-born computer scientist who has spent most of his professional career in the United States. He is the Schlumberger Centennial Chair Emeritus in computer science and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus ...

* Eric H. Moe * Robert Ray Morgan * Michael Edward Moseley * Alexander Phoebus D. Mourelatos * Stephen Murray * Fred R. Myers

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* Gloria Naylor * Andrew Noren * Jack Richard Norton

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* Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy * Elvira Amanda Orphée

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* Patricia Anne Parker * Robert B. Partridge * Sharon Patten * Jeffrey M. Perl * Edward M. Peters *

Margot Peters Margot Peters (born May 13, 1933, died June 18, 2022) was an American novelist and biographer, including of Charlotte Brontë, George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the Drews and Barrymores, May Sarton, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. She w ...

* Stephen J. Petronio *

Jayne Anne Phillips Jayne Anne Phillips (born July 19, 1952) is an American novelist and short story writer who was born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. Education Phillips graduated from West Virginia University, earning a B.A. in 1974, and later g ...

Alexander Pines Alexander Pines (born June 22, 1945) is an American chemist. He is the Glenn T. Seaborg Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berke ...

* Osmar Pinheiro de Souza Jr * Jorge Emilio Ponce-Hornos *

Harold S. Powers Harold Stone Powers (August 5, 1928 – March 15, 2007) was an American musicologist, ethnomusicologist, and music theorist. Career Born in New York City on August 5, 1928, he earned his B.Mus. in piano from Syracuse University in 1950 and an M ...

* Francisco Thaine Prada * Donald Ross Prothero *

Robert D. Putnam Robert David Putnam (born 1941) is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. Putnam devel ...

* Jon Pynoos

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David Quammen David Quammen (born February 24, 1948) is an American science, nature, and travel writer and the author of fifteen books. His articles have appeared in '' Outside Magazine'', '' National Geographic'', '' Harper's'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''The New Yo ...

* David C. Queller

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Gregory Rabassa Gregory Rabassa, ComM (March 9, 1922 – June 13, 2016), was an American literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English. He taught for many years at Columbia University and Queens College. Life and career Rabassa was born in Yonkers, ...

* Anson G. Rabinbach * Mario Rajchenberg * Alberto Alvaro Ríos *

Marcus Rediker Marcus Rediker (born 1951 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American professor, historian, writer, and activist for a variety of peace and social justice causes. He graduated with a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1976 and attended the U ...

David Reed David Reed may refer to: Entertainment * David Vern Reed (1924–1989), American comics writer * David E. Reed (1927–1990), ''Reader's Digest'' editor * David Reed (artist) (born 1946), American artist * David Jay Reed (born 1950), artist * Da ...

* Ramon J. Rhine * Jens Rieckmann * Luis Felipe Rodríguez * Wendy L. Rogers * Maria de Los Angeles Romero Frizzi * Michael Morris Rosbash * Morris Rosenberg *

J. Philippe Rushton John Philippe Rushton (December 3, 1943 – October 2, 2012) was a Canadian psychologist and author. He taught at the University of Western Ontario until the early 1990s, and became known to the general public during the 1980s and 1990s for resea ...

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* Alberto Ruy Sanchez Lacy * Donald Gene Saari * David Warren Sabean * Pierre Saint-Amand * Dana A. Salvo * Juan Sanchez * Ed Parish Sanders * Lucy Freeman Sandler * Bernabé Santelices * Joseph William Santore *

Valeria Sarmiento Valeria Sarmiento (born 29 October 1948) is a film editor, director and screenwriter best known for her work in France, Portugal and her native Chile. She has worked both in film and television, directing 20 feature films, documentaries and te ...

* Ernesto Carlos Schóó * Raymond P. Scheindlin * Jonathan Edward Schell *

Allen Schick Allen Schick is a governance fellow of the Brookings Institution and also a professor of political science at the Maryland School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park. He is known as an authority on budget theory and the feder ...

* Carl W. Schmid *

Joanna Scott Joanna Scott (born June 22, 1960) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Her award-winning fiction is known for its wide-ranging subject matter and its incorporation of historical figures into imagined narratives. A native of ...

* David O. Sears *

Ian Shapiro Ian Shapiro (born September 29, 1956) is a Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He served as the Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center at Yale University from 2004 to 2019. He is known primarily for interventions i ...

* Tobin Anthony Siebers * Lee A. Siegel * Eric D. Siggia * Joel H. Silbey * Sally R. Silvers *

Barry Simon Barry Martin Simon (born 16 April 1946) is an American mathematical physicist and was the IBM professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and no ...

* Mona E. Simpson * Christine Smith * Jordan F. Smith * Karen Spalding * Elizabeth S. Spelke * Thomas G. Spiro * Keith W. F. Stavely * Jeanne Mager Stellman * Alexander Stephan * Gary P. Stephan * Harry S. Stout * Lynn Ray Sykes

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* Jorge Tacla * Sandra Annear Thompson * Lawrence A. Thornton * Jean M. Tirole * Alan Turner

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Jeffrey Ullman Jeffrey David Ullman (born November 22, 1942) is an American computer scientist and the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. His textbooks on compilers (various editions are popularly known as the dr ...

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* Mark Lindsey Van Stone * Carlos E. Vasco-Uribe *

Laura Volkerding Laura Volkerding (1939–1996) was an American photographer. Education Volkerding received a BFA degree from the University of Louisville in 1961 and an MA degree in graphic design from the Institute of Design in Chicago in 1964. Career Her ...

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* Anne M. Wagner * Melinda Jane Wagner * Marvalee H. Wake * David Walker * Don E. Wayne * Howard D. Weinbrot *

Richard Wendorf Richard Harold Wendorf (born 17 March 1948) is an American art historian, literary critic, and museum and library director. He served as the director of the American Museum and Gardens near Bath, England (formerly the American Museum in Brita ...

* Scott Wheeler * Halbert L. White * James D. White * James P. White * Randall K. White * William H. Wiggins Jr * George C. Williams *

John J. Winkler John Jack Winkler (11 August 1943, in St. Louis – 26 April 1990, in Stanford, California) was an American philologist and Benedictine monk. Winkler studied classical studies at Saint Louis University from 1960 to 1963 and then went to England, ...

Michael S. Witherell Michael Stewart Witherell (born 22 September 1949) is an American physicist and laboratory director. He has been the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2016. Witherell, a particle physicist, previously served as Director ...

* Colin Allen Wraight * Cheng-Wen Wu * Robert Edward Wyatt

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* James E. Young

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* Jack Zipes

References

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