Simon Guggenheim, founder of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. (Photo by Oscar White/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)Corbis/VCG via Getty ImagesThe Guggenheim Fellows for 2026 have been announced by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This year’s winners include 223 highly acclaimed scholars, artists, photographers, scientists and writers selected via a rigorous peer review process from nearly 5,000 initial candidates. The full list of fellows can be found here.The new fellows represent 55 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields and are affiliated with 97 different academic institutions. They range in age from 28 to 76. The majority of the fellows hold an academic appointment, but about one-third do not have a full-time affiliation with a college or university. According to the foundation, applications in the Creative Arts and Humanities increased by 50% and applications in the Sciences were up by 86% this year.Each fellow receives a monetary stipend of varying amounts depending on the project to assist his or her research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, "under the freest possible conditions.”“Our new class of Guggenheim Fellows is representative of the world’s best thinkers, innovators, and creators in art, science, and scholarship,” said Edward Hirsch, President of the Guggenheim Foundation, in a press release. “As the Foundation enters its second century and looks to the future, I feel confident that this new class of 223 individuals will do bold and inspiring work, undaunted by the challenges ahead. We are honored to support their visionary contributions.” This is the 101st class of fellows, exemplifying the goal of the Guggenheim Foundation to recognize “extraordinary individuals breaking new ground in the Creative Arts, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and a range of interdisciplinary fields.” MORE FOR YOUThe new fellow’s projects will address issues such as the promise and perils of artificial intelligence, introduce advancements in medical technology, study the historical roots of current crises, and explore new territory in artistic expression. Support for their scholarship and creative activities comes at a pivotal time that has seen support for research across a wide swath of academic and artistic fields threatened by the Trump administration. Harvard University had the most fellows this year, with six. UCLA and Stanford University each had five fellows selected. The University of Michigan, Yale University, the University of Chicago, Princeton University, and the University 0f California at Berkeley each had four.Included in the 2024 class of Guggenheim Fellows are academic scholars and artists working in such diverse areas as:Election law scholar Richard L. Hasen, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law;Ed Pavlić, Distinguished Research Professor of English, African American Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia;Erika Hamden, Director of the Space Institute and Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Arizona;Matias D. Cattaneo, Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University;Byron scholar Andrew Stauffer, Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Virginia;Novelist Jessica L. Anthony, a senior lecturer in the Department of English at Bates College;Fiber artist Sonya Y. Clark, the Winifred L. Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Art and the History of Art at Amherst College;Filmmaker Jennifer West, Professor of Practice and Director of MFA Art at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design;Psychologist Mina Cikara, the Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University;Allison Pugh, Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University.About the Guggenheim FoundationSince its founding by Simon and Olga Guggenheim in 1925, the foundation has awarded over $450 million in fellowships to more than 19,000 fellows. Included among past winners of Guggenheim Fellowships are are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, Pulitzer Prize winners, and recipient of Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award, and several other widely recognized honors.