Six NYU Professors Receive Guggenheim Fellowships

Six NYU faculty members were awarded fellowships this year from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted almost $240 million in fellowships to more than 15,500 individuals.

The following are NYU’s Guggenheim Fellows: Ulrich Baer, associate professor of German and comparative literature; Catherine Barnett, professor in the McGhee Liberal Arts Program in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies and an adjunct faculty member in the undergraduate Creative Writing Program of the Faculty of Arts and Science; David Garland, Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and a professor of sociology; Rinne Groff, an instructor in the Department of Dramatic Writing at the Tisch School of the Arts; Michael Purugganan, professor in the Department of Biology and at NYU’s Center for Comparative Functional Genomics; and Darin Strauss, an adjunct faculty member in the undergraduate Creative Writing Program.

Scores of Nobel, Pulitzer, and other prize winners appear on the roll of Fellows, which includes Ansel Adams, Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Isamu Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Paul Samuelson, Wendy Wasserstein, Derek Walcott, James Watson, and Eudora Welty.