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2021 Winners of the Guggenheim Fellowship are Announced

The linked page contains a full list of awardees in all categories. 

Historians among the winners of this year's Guggenheim fellowships include: 

UNITED STATES HISTORY

Cindy HahamovitchB. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History, University of Georgia

Kevin J. MumfordProfessor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorAssistant Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University

Heather Ann ThompsonCollegiate Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Michigan

CLASSICS

Paul J. KosminPhilip J. King Professor of Ancient History, Harvard University

EUROPEAN & LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

Emily Joan GrebleAssociate Professor of German, Russian and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University

Bianca PremoProfessor of History, Florida International University

Todd David ShepardArthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History, John Hopkins University

Tara ZahraHomer J. Livingston Professor of History, University of Chicago

INTELLECTUAL & CULTURAL HISTORY

Michael GubserProfessor of European Cultural History, James Madison University

Seth KovenG.E. Lessing Distinguished Professor of History and Poetics, Rutgers University

Imani PerryHughes Rogers Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University

CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES

Amalia D. KesslerLewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies and Professor (by courtesy) of History, Stanford University

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE HISTORY

Vincent BarlettaAssociate Professor of Comparative Literature and Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University

Simon DoubledayProfessor of History, Hofstra University

RELIGION

Tisa WengerAssociate Professor of American Religious History, Yale University

SOUTH & SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES

Ali AnooshahrProfessor of History, University of California, Davis

EAST ASIAN STUDIES

Joan JudgeProfessor of History, York University

LAW

Julia RudolphProfessor of History, North Carolina State University

Read entire article at John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation