Congratulations to the 2013 class of Guggenheim Fellows, announced this week by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The Guggenheim, a “mid-career award,” which honors scholars, scientists, poets, artists, and writers, extends its fellowships to assist with research and artistic creation. As we’ve noted in the past, the fellowship possesses some tortured origins—(John) Simon Guggenheim, who served as president of the American Smelting and Refining Company and Republican senator from Colorado, seeded the award (1925) following the death of this son John (1922) from mastoiditis (Guggenheim’s second son George later committed suicide, and more infamously his older brother Benjamin went down with the Titanic).

We’re delighted to see included among the “professionals who have demonstrated exceptional ability by publishing a significant body of work in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the creative arts,” a roster of fellowship winners affiliated with the University of Chicago Press:

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African Studies

• Jennifer Cole, professor of anthropology in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, author of Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar (2010) and coeditor (with Lynn M. Thomas) of Love in Africa (2009)

Anthropology and Cultural Studies

• Philippe Bourgois, the Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania, contributor to Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines, edited by Jeremy MacClancy (2002)
• Catherine A. Lutz, the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University, coauthor of Reading National Geographic (1993) and author of Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory (1988)

Creative Arts

• Kimsooja, artist (video, performance, installation, and photography) and contributor to The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists, edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner (2010)
• Carrie Moyer, artist (painting and writing) and contributor to The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists, edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner (2010)
• Joshua Weiner, poet and associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, author of The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish (2013), At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn (2009), From the Book of Giants (2006), and The World’s Room (2001)

History of Science, Technology, and Economics

• D. Graham Burnett, professor of history and the history of science at Princeton University, author of The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century (2012) and Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado (2000)

English Literature

• Julia Reinhard Lupton, professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine; author of Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life (2011) and Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology (2005); coeditor (with Graham Hammill) of Political Theology and Early Modernity (2012)

Intellectual & Cultural History

• Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (1998)
• Sophia Rosenfeld, professor of history at the University of Virginia, editorial board member of the Journal of Modern History

Law

• Lee Epstein, the Provost Professor of Law and Political Science and Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, contributor to Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches, edited by Cornell W. Clayton and Howard Gillman (1999)

Medieval & Renaissance Literature

• Karen Sullivan, the Irma Brandeis Professor of Romance Culture and Literature at Bard College, author of The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors (2011) and Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature (2005)

Music Research

• Philip V. Bohlman, the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago and series editor for Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology, editor of Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New (2009); coeditor of Music and the Racial Imagination (2000), Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons (1992), and  Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music (1991)

Near Eastern Studies

• Marc Van De Mieroop, professor of history at Columbia University, cotranslator of Jean Bottéro’s Mesopotamia: Writing, Reason, and the Gods (1995)

Plant Sciences

• Kathleen Donohue, professor of biology at Duke University, editor of Darwin’s Finches: Readings in the Evolution of Scientific Paradigm (2011)

Psychology

• Gary W. Evans, the Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology at Cornell University, contributor to The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion, edited by Richard A. Schweder (2009)

Translation

• Philip Boehm, translator of Peter Schneider’s Couplings (1998)

U.S. History

• Elaine Tyler May, the Regents Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota, author of Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America (1980)