The New York City-based John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the recipients of this year's Guggenheim Fellowship Awards.

Chosen from a pool of nearly three thousand applicants, the 181 scholars, artists, and scientists represent fifty-four disciplines and seventy-seven different academic institutions. Fifty-two of the fellows who are unaffiliated or hold adjunct or part-time positions at universities received partial support from the Leon Levy Foundation. And as in previous years, the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation provided funding for a fellowship in constitutional studies, which this year was awarded to Asifa Quraishi-Landes, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Fellowship winners include Ellen Altfest, visiting artist at Montclair State University; Tonio Andrade, associate professor of history at Emory University; Faith E. Beasley, professor of French and women's and gender studies at Dartmouth College; Peter U. Clark, professor of geosciences at Oregon State University; Katharine Coles, professor of English at the University of Utah and a poet; Ruth Franklin, senior editor at the New Republic; Justin McDaniel, associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania; Judith Pascoe, professor of English at the University of Iowa; and Alan E. Willner, Steven and Kathryn Sample Chair in engineering at the University of Southern California.

Over almost ninety years, the Guggenheim Foundation has awarded more than $298 million in fellowships to more than 17,300 individuals, including a number of Nobel, Pulitzer, and other prize winners. "These artists and writers, scholars and scientists, represent the best of the best," said Edward Hirsch, the foundation's president. "Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has always bet everything on the individual, and we're thrilled to continue the tradition with this wonderfully talented and diverse group."

For a complete list of this year's Guggenheim Fellows, visit the Guggenheim Foundation Web site.