Six former CASBS fellows are among a diverse group of 178 scholars, artists, and scientists awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships.
The six former fellows – Adam Berinsky (CASBS class of 2010), Victor Caston (2004), Kathleen Gerson (2012), Diana Mutz (2000), Carla Peterson (1988), and Jing Tsu (2012) – were selected from a pool of approximately 3000 applicants. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the 2016 fellowship winners on April 5.
The foundation was established in 1925 by former U.S. Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, with the aim of adding to “the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific power of this country, and also to provide for the cause of better international understanding.” The fellowships it bestows are intended for people who have demonstrated “exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability” in the arts and sciences. Most winners have a significant record of publication.
The Guggenheim Foundation has composed individual web pages providing biographical sketches of each fellowship recipient, as well as each recipient’s fellowship research plans. Learn more about the six former CASBS fellows and their work by clicking on their names below.
With these six, CASBS now boasts 185 former fellows who have been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship over the past six decades.