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Historians Among Recipients of 2020 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships

On April 8, 2020, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 175 scholars, artists, and writers. 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-sixth competition.

HNN Note: Click at bottom to read the full list of recipients in all fields and disciplines. Below, HNN is listing historians among the winners. 

 

Historians Receiving 2020 Guggenheim Fellowships

Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago (Intellectual and Cultural History)

Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Intellectual and Cultural History)

James T. Campbell, Stanford University (United States History)

Dyan Elliott, Northwestern University (Medieval and Renaissance History)

Susan Juster, University of Michigan (United States History)

Vera Keller, University of Oregon (Intellectual and Cultural History)

Bernadette Meyler, Stanford University (Constitutional Studies)

Chris Otter, The Ohio State University (History of Science, Technology and Economics)

H. Glenn Penny, University of Iowa (European and Latin American History)

Kim Phillips-Fein, New York University (United States History)

Camille Robcis, Columbia University (Intellectual and Cultural History)

Erica Schoenberger, Johns Hopkins University (History of Science, Technology and Economics)

David Sepkoski, University of Illinois (History of Science, Technology and Economics)

Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto (European and Latin American History)

Read entire article at John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation