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Historians Prominent Among 2023 Guggenheim Winners

The scholars affiliated with history departments or conducting historical research as part of their scholarly work include: 

David Greenberg, Writer, New York City; Professor, Departments of History and Journalism & Media Studies, Rutgers University  

Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre, Professor of Distinction, Classics Department, University of Colorado Boulder 

Alex Purves, Professor of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles 

Edward B. Foley, Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law; Director, Election Law, The Ohio State University  

Amy Stanley, Professor of History, Northwestern University  

David L. Hoffmann, Distinguished Professor of History, The Ohio State University  

Jeremy A. Greene, William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Projit Bihari Mukharji, Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania; Visiting Faculty, History, Ashoka University 

Gretchen H. Gerzina, Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography and Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst  

Yuri Leving, Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University  

Mary Ziegler, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, University of California, Davis, School of Law 

Orit Bashkin, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Chicago 

Edward Ball, Writer, Hamden, Connecticut 

Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Professor, Department of Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma

Mabel O. Wilson, Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University 

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