Notable Fellows and Grantees

Notable Fellows and Grantees By the Numbers

94

Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellows

7

Pulitzer Prize Winners

20

College and University Presidents

15

Academic Society Executive Directors and Presidents

Notable award recipients include:

• Guillermo Algaze G’89, Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of California, San Diego, 2003 MacArthur Fellow
• Nana Aba Appiah Amfo F’09, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Ghana, the first woman to serve in this position, President of the International Federation of Modern Languages and Literature, and Founding President of the African Humanities Association
• Carol Anderson F’98, Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies, Emory University, won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
• Elizabeth Anderson F’13, Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor, and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, 2019 MacArthur Fellow
• Ana Lucia Araujo F’24, Professor of History, Howard University, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• Jessica Bardsley F’19, Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media, New York University, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• Jessica Barnes F’15, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, University of South Carolina, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• Ruth Behar F’97, Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1988 MacArthur Fellow
• Ruha Benjamin F’12, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University, 2024 MacArthur Fellow
• Katherine Bergeron F’01, Past President of Connecticut College
• Michael A. Bernstein F’77, F’81, F’84, F’89, President of The College of New Jersey, Past Provost, SUNY Stony Brook and Tulane University 
• Lucas Bessire F’09, F’10, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma; won the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction
• David W. Blight F’88, Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies, Yale University, 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History
• David B. Brakke F’99, Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity and Professor of History, The Ohio State University, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
• Daphne A. Brooks F’18, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music, Yale University, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
• Bernadette Brooten G’92, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies, of Women’s and Gender Studies, of Classical Studies, and of Religious Studies at Brandeis University, 1998 MacArthur Fellow
• Benjamin Brose F’08, F’16, Professor of Buddhist and Chinese Studies and Department Chair, University of Michigan, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow

• Peter Brown F’80, Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Emeritus; Senior Historian Hellenic Studies Princeton University, 1982 MacArthur Fellow
• Anthea Butler F’18, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; Past President, American Society of Church History
• Judith Butler, F’87, F’08, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley, renowned scholar of gender
• Caroline Walker Bynum F’78, Professor Emerita of Medieval European History at the Institute for Advanced Study and University Professor Emerita at Columbia University in the City of New York, 1986 MacArthur Fellow
• John D. Caputo G’73, G’83, Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus, Religion and Humanities, Syracuse University, NY, renowned scholar of postmodern Christianity and continental philosophy of religion
• Christopher S. Celenza F’03, James B. Knapp Dean, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, MD, 2008 Guggenheim Fellow
• Michael Cepek F’15, Professor, Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
• William A. Christian G’75, F’80, Independent Scholar Religious Visions in Modern Spain, 1986 MacArthur Fellow
• Lizabeth Cohen F’92, Past Dean of Radcliffe Institute, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Harvard University, 1993 Guggenheim Fellow
• Matthew Isaac Cohen F’08, Professor in the Department of Dramatic Arts, University of Connecticut, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• Thomas Donald Conlan F’18, Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• John F. Connelly F’97, F’96, G’93, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of European History, Director of Berkeley’s Institute for East European, Eurasian, and Slavic Studies, 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
• Mary Jean Corbett F’14, University Distinguished Professor of English, Miami University, renowned scholar of 19^th-century English and Irish literature
• Jefferson Cowie F’04, James G. Stahlman Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner, 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
• Robert Dallek F’84, Past President of the Society of American Historians
• David C. Danahar F’75, Past President of Southwest Minnesota State University
• Robert Darnton G’82, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Emeritus; University Librarian, Emeritus, 1982 MacArthur Fellow
• Cathy Davidson G’86, G’95, Distinguished Professor of English and in the MA in Digital Humanities and MS in Data Analysis and Visualization at the Graduate Center, CUNY; appointed to the National Council of the Humanities under the Obama administration
• Jack Davis G’91, Past director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
• Lisa Fagin Davis F’96, Executive Director, The Medieval Academy of America
• Andrew Delbanco F’90, F’99, President, Teagle Foundation, NY; Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies, Columbia University, 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship
• John D’Emilio F’85, Professor Emeritus, History, Gender, and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, which later was cited by Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy in the 2003 historic ruling in Lawrence v. Texas striking down sodomy laws
• Carolyn Dever F’96, Past Provost and Professor of English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow

• William C. Dudley F’02, President, Washington & Lee University, VA
• Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre F’06, Professor of Distinction, Classics Department, University of Colorado Boulder, 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
• Nancy Farriss G’71, Professor of History Emerita, University of Pennsylvania, 1986 MacArthur Fellow
• Drew Gilpin Faust G’79, F’86, Past President of Harvard University
• Ada Ferrer F’11, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University; Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History 
• Stanley E. Fish F’65, Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University, leading public intellectual and world-renowned literary theorist and legal scholar
• Nicole Fleetwood F’16, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, 2021 MacArthur Fellow
• Eric Foner F’72, Past President of the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians; 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner
• Pamela Fox G’86, President Emerita, Mary Baldwin University, VA
• Nancy Fraser F’91, Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research, renowned scholar on the theory of justice
• Michael M. Fried F’70, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities and Art History, Johns Hopkins University, renowned scholar of modernism
• Peter Galison F’09, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University; director of the Black Hole Initiative; 1996 MacArthur Fellow; his documentary film, Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know, about his quest to capture the first picture of a black hole debuted on Netflix in June 2021
• Marjorie Garber F’77, Past President of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
• Tamar Szabó Gendler F’02, Professor of Philosophy and inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University (2014-2024)
• Hannah Ginsborg F’04, Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• Rebecca Goldstein F’82, Novelist, 1996 MacArthur Fellow
• Risa L. Goluboff F’12, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law Professor of History, University of Virginia, Appointed by President Biden to Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise
• Anthony Grafton G’77, Past President of the American Historical Association
• Tina Nakada Grandinetti F’23, representative, Hawai’i State Legislature
• Karen Graubart F’09, Associate Professor of History, Notre Dame, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• Katja Guenther F’08, F’18, Professor of History, Princeton University, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
• Amy Gutmann F’78, President Emerita, University of Pennsylvania, retired US Ambassador to Germany
• Steven Hahn F’81, F’87, Professor of History at New York University; 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner
• Jaqueline Dowd Hall F’84, Past President of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association and Founding President of the Labor and Working Class History Association
• Ann Ellis Hanson F’82, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Classics, Yale University, 1992 MacArthur Fellow
• Deborah E. Harkness F’97, Professor of History, University of Southern California, New York Times Bestselling Author

• Nathan Hatch G’76, Past President, Wake Forest University, NC, Past Provost, University of Notre Dame, IN; and Past President of the American Society of Church History
• Michael J. Hathaway F’13, Professor of Anthropology, Associate Member of the School for International Studies, Director of the David Lam Centre for Asian Studies, Simon Fraser University, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
• Gabrielle Hecht F’00, Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
• Edward Hirsch F’81, Past President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1998 MacArthur Fellow, 1985 Guggenheim Fellow
• Sonia A. Hirt F’06, Hughes Professor in Landscape Architecture and Planning, University of Georgia, 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
• Martha Hodes F’94, Professor of History at New York University, 2018 Guggenheim Fellow
• Dorothy L. Hodgson F’05, Past Dean of Arts and Science, Brandeis University; Past President of the African Studies Association
• Kristin Hoganson F’11, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• David L. Hoffmann F’20, Distinguished Professor of History, The Ohio State University, 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
• Lewis Hyde F’03, Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing Emeritus, Kenyon College, 1991 MacArthur Fellow
• Katherine L. Jansen F’06, Research Ordinary Professor of History, The Catholic University of America, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• Thupten Jinpa F’09, Chair and President of the Compassion Institute, CA, Principal English Translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Jacqueline Jones G’77, F’95, Professor Emerita, Ellen C. Temple Chair in Women’s History and Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at University of Texas, Austin, 1999 MacArthur Fellow
• Kellie Jones F’94, Professor in Art History and Archaeology and the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University, 2016 MacArthur Fellow
• Martha Suzanne Jones F’13, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, and Director of Graduate Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• Jeffrey Kallberg G’85, Associate Dean for Arts and Letters, University of Pennsylvania, leading scholar on the life and works of the composer Frédéric Chopin
• Patrick Keating F’14, Professor of Communication, Trinity University, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• David M. Kennedy F’70, G’78, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University, CA; 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner
• Suk-Young Kim F’14, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and External Engagement, Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• Elizabeth Kiss F’95, President, Union College
• Valerie A. Kivelson F’01, F’17, Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
• Alan C. Kors F’75, Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History, University of Pennsylvania, co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)
• Marwan M. Kraidy F’14, Dean and CEO of Northwestern in Qatar, ACLS Board Chair 2024-2027, 2011 Guggenheim Fellow
• Anthea Kraut F’12, Professor in the Department of Dance, University of California, Riverside, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
• Suzanne Lebsock G’78, Emerita Board of Governors and Professor of History at Rutgers University, 1992 MacArthur Fellow
• Paul LeClerc G’73, Past President of Hunter College and past president and CEO of The New York Public Library

My work benefited in multiple ways from the ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship, with released time from teaching and service to conduct research and writing and additional resources, especially travel support. In addition, the fellowship is an important recognition of the work I have been doing over the past twenty years.

Ana Lucia Araujo

2024 ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellow

Professor of History, Howard University

• Mary Lefkowitz F’72, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities Emerita, Wellesley College, MA, renowned scholar in ancient Greek literature and culture
• David Levering Lewis G’72, Julius Silver University Professor Emeritus, History, New York University, 1999 MacArthur Fellow
• Patricia Nelson Limerick F’89, Professor of History of the American West, University of Colorado Boulder, Director of the Applied History Initiative, 1995 MacArthur Fellow
• Vincent W. Lloyd F’15, Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University, 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
• Deborah Lutz F’10, Thruston B. Morton Professor of English, University of Louisville, 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
• Alejandro L. Madrid G’11, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, Harvard University, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
• Pardis Mahdavi F’09, Past President, University of La Verne
• Suzanne L. Marchand F’02, Professor of History, Louisiana State University; President-elect, American Historical Association, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
• Laura Marks F’94, Grant Strate University Professor, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
• Richard L. McCormick F’78, Past President of Rutgers University-New Brunswick
• John T. McGreevy F’96, Charles and Jill Fischer Provost, University of Notre Dame
• Michael S. McPherson F’77, Past President of Macalester College and the Spencer Foundation
• Michael Merrill F’88, Lecturer, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, nationally respected labor educator and historian
• Louise Mirrer F’93, President, The New York Historical
• Brian C. Mitchell G’85, President and Managing Principal, Academic Innovators, MA; Past President, Bucknell University, PA; Washington & Jefferson College, PA; and Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania
• Barbara Montero F’07, Professor of Philosophy, College of Staten Island (CUNY) & University of Notre Dame, 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
• Anna Muenchrath G’22, F’25, Assistant Professor of English, Florida Institute of Technology and Executive Director, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
• Martin Nesvig F’10, Professor of History, University of Miami, 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
• Barbara Newman F’87, John Evans Professor of Latin and Professor of English, Classics, and History, Northwestern University, IL, 2000 Guggenheim Fellow
• Sianne Ngai F’07, Professor of English, University of Chicago, 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
• Viet T. Nguyen F’11, Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity and Department of Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, 2017 Guggenheim Fellow; 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner
• Martha Nussbaum F’01, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy, The University of Chicago, internationally renowned scholar in Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
• Francis Oakley G’65, F’69, President Emeritus of Williams College and Past President of ACLS
• Laura Otis F’97, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emerita of English, Emory University, GA, 2000 MacArthur Fellow
• Lucius Turner Outlaw F’95, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, leading scholar of race and philosophy
• Elaine H. Pagels G’77, Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion, Princeton University, 1981 MacArthur Fellow, New York Times bestselling author
• Shailaja Paik F’20, Charles Phelps Taft Distinguished Research Professor of History and Affiliate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies, University of Cincinnati, 2024 MacArthur Fellow
• Thomas G. Palaima F’83, Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor Emeritus and Director, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP), University of Texas at Austin, 1985 MacArthur Fellow
• Laurie Patton F’03, President, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Past president, Middlebury College, VT
• Margaret Wickens Pearce F’12, Cartographer, Rockland, Maine, 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
• Derek Peterson F’16, Ali Mazrui Collegiate Professor of History and African Studies, Associate Chair, Department of History, University of Michigan, 2017 MacArthur Fellow
• Craig Santos Perez F’20, poet and essayist; 2023 winner of the National Book Award for Poetry
• Sheldon Pollock F’01, Arvind Raghunathan Professor emeritus of South Asian Studies, Columbia University, leading scholar in Sanskrit philology and Indian and comparative intellectual and literary history
• Bianca Premo F’05, F’08, F’18, Distinguished University Professor of History, Florida International University, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
• Alex Purves F’05, Professor of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2023 Guggenheim Fellow

• Arnold Rampersad G’80, F’02, Sara Hart Kimball Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Stanford University, 1991 MacArthur Fellow
• Annette Yoshiko Reed F’20, Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Harvard Divinity School, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• Matthew Reeck F’22, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Saint John’s University, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
• Dorothy E. Roberts F’15, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania, 2024 MacArthur Fellow
• Anne Walters Robertson G’87, Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College at the University of Chicago and past president of the American Musicological Society
• Joel Rogers F’86, Noam Chomsky Professor of Law, Political Science, Public Affairs, & Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995 MacArthur Fellow
• Ellen Rosand G’76, F’79, F’89, Past President of the American Musicological Society, 1990 Guggenheim Fellow
• Lawrence Rosen F’77, William Nelson Cromwell Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Princeton University, 1981 MacArthur Fellow
• Michael Roth F’84, President, Wesleyan University, CT, Past president of California College of the Arts
• Michael Rothberg F’11, Professor of English and Comparative Literature; 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
• Susan Irene Rotroff G’80, ’84, Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor Emerita in Department of Classics, Washington University in St. Louis, 1988 MacArthur Fellow
• Jay Rubenstein F’02, F’06, Professor of History and Religion, University of Southern California, 2007 MacArthur Fellow
• Marina A. Rustow F’09, F’14, Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of History, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and History, Director, Princeton Geniza Lab, Princeton University, 2015 MacArthur Fellow
• Paul K. Saint-Amour F’00, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
• Celeste Schenck G’87, Past President, American University in Paris, France
• Mark Schwehn F’79, Past Provost of Valparaiso University
• Judith R. Shapiro F’79, Past President of Barnard College and Teagle Foundation
• Anna Shields G’14, Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University, 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
• Quinn Slobodian F’17, Professor of International History, Boston University, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• Christina Snyder F’11, McCabe Greer Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University, 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
• Tulasi Srinivas F’18, Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Transnational Studies, Emerson College, 2025-2026 Guggenheim Fellow
• Tracy Steffes F’13, Professor of Education and Chair of History Department, Brown University, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
• Krista Thompson F’12, Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art History, Northwestern University, 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
• Laura D’Andrea Tyson F’75, F’77, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley; first woman to serve as Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors and Director of the National Economic Council
• Elliott Visconsi F’04, Provost and Dean, College of the Holy Cross
• Bret Wallach G’81, Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of Oklahoma, 1984 MacArthur Fellow
• Judith Weisenfeld F’14, Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion, Princeton University, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
• Emily E. Wilcox F’14, Margaret Hamilton Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures/Chinese Studies, William & Mary, 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
• Samuel R. Williamson Jr. G’69, Past President and Vice Chancellor of The University of the South
• Emily Wilson F’05, College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities, Department Chair and Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2019 MacArthur Fellow
• Jiang Wu, F’10, Professor and Director of Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Arizona, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
• Tara Zahra F’09, F’13, Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History, The University of Chicago, 2014 MacArthur Fellow