The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the winners of its 2011 Latin American and Caribbean Fellowship Awards.

Fellowships were awarded to a diverse group of thirty artists, scholars, and scientists representing Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. Chosen from a pool of almost five hundred applicants, the members of this year's cohort range in age from 36 to 63 and represent twenty-two different fields of study. Guggenheim Fellows are selected on the basis of notable achievement and exceptional promise by a committee of distinguished artists and scholars, all of whom are former Guggenheim Fellows themselves.

The 2011 Guggenheim Latin American and Caribbean Fellows include Raquel Gil-Montero of Argentina, who will conduct a study of miners and herders in the Andes from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; Andres Rivera of Chile, who will study ice dynamic responses to non-climate-related factors; Colombian Alejandro Rosas, who will research the psychology and evolutionary biology of moral judgment; and Catalina Romero of Peru, who will explore religious diversity and its influence on politics in Peru and across Latin America.

For a complete list of this year's Latin American and Caribbean Fellows, visit the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Web site.