The New York City-based John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the winners of its 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships. 

Selected from nearly 2,500 applicants on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the 180 fellows include artists, writers, and scholars. This year's fellows represent 51 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 81 different academic institutions, 31 states and the District of Columbia, and four Canadian provinces.

This year, recipients include Olufemi O. Vaughan, a professor in Amherst College’s department of Black studies; Heather Clark, a professor of contemporary poetry and director of the Centre for International Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield; and Lek-Heng Lim, a professor in the University of Chicago’s department of statistics. In addition, gifts from previous fellows and friends of the program helped support this year’s cohort of fellows, including actor and director Robert De Niro, who underwrote Mark Thomas Gibson’s fellowship in fine arts in honor of De Niro’s father, Robert Sr., who was a 1968 Guggenheim fellow; Anthony Roberts, who underwrote a fellowship in geography and environmental studies, which was awarded to Elena Bennett of McGill University; and a bequest from the estate of Philip Roth, a 1959 fellow, in support of a variety of writers.

“Now that the past two years are hopefully behind all of us, it is a special joy to celebrate the Guggenheim Foundation’s new class of fellows,” said Edward Hirsch, president of the foundation and a 1985 Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. “This year marks the foundation’s 97th annual fellowship competition. Our long experience tells us what an impact these annual grants will have to change people’s lives. The work supported by the foundation will aid in our collective effort to better understand the new world we’re in, where we’ve come from, and where we’re going. It is an honor for the foundation to help the fellows carry out their visionary work.”

For a complete list of the 2022 Guggenheim Fellows, see the foundation website.

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