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April 22, 2014

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guggenheimThe John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recently announced the winners of their ninetieth annual competition for fellowships. A group of 178 scholars, artists, and scientists were selected out of a pool of 3,000 applicants on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. We are excited to see over twenty AHA members* and historians among the list of fellows, which we have listed below. Congrats to all of the winners!

Ann Blair*, director of undergraduate studies, Harvard College Professor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Harvard University

Holly Brewer*, Burke Chair of American History and associate professor, University of Maryland, College Park

Deborah Coen*, associate professor of history, Barnard College, Columbia University

Anver Emon, professor of law, University of Toronto

David Engerman, Ottilie Springer Professor of History, Brandeis University

Jack Goldstone, Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University

Lillian Guerra*, professor of Cuban and Caribbean history, University of Florida

Karl Jacoby*, professor of history, Columbia University

Eric Jennings, professor of history, University of Toronto

James H. Johnson*, professor of history, Boston University

Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History, University of California, Los Angeles

Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and chair, History and Literature Program, Harvard University

Michael Nylan, professor of history, University of California, Berkeley

Steven Pincus, Bradford Durfee Professor of History and co-director, CHESS, Yale University

Marina Rustow, Charlotte Bloomberg Associate Professor in the Humanities,Johns Hopkins University

Helmut Smith*, Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History, Vanderbilt University

Victoria Sweet, associate clinical professor, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

Emily Thompson*, professor of history, Princeton University

John Watkins*, professor of English language and literature, University of Minnesota

This post first appeared on AHA Today.

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