ACLS Fellows Awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships

ACLS congratulates the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows, including ACLS fellows listed below. This year marks the 101th class of Guggenheim Fellows, made up of 223 individuals working across 55 disciplines. Awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the fellows are recognized for “career achievement and exceptional promise.”

• Anya Bernstein F’17, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
• Claudia Brittenham F’08, Professor of Art History, Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, University of Chicago
• Marlene Daut F’19, Professor of French and African American Studies, Yale University
• Lawrence Douglas F’13, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College
• Faith Hillis F’14, Professor of Russian History, University of Chicago
• Erik Linstrum F’20, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia
• Sarah McNamer F’02, Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Georgetown University
• Kate Merkel-Hess F’09, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, Penn State University
• Georg B. Michels F’13, Professor of History, University of California, Riverside
• Sharon Ann Murphy F’18, Professor of History, Providence College
• Allison Pugh F’16, Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
• Xuefei Ren F’16, Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies, Michigan State University
• Nicole R. Rice F’25, Professor of English, St. John’s University
• Anthony Sheppard F’19, Marylin and Arthur Levitt Professor of Music, Williams College
• Andrew Stauffer F’06, Professor of English, University of Virginia
• Julie Turnock F’08, Professor of Media and Cinema Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Claire Wendland F’19, Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison