The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced last week their appointment of the Foundation’s 100th Class of Fellows, tapping 198 trailblazing artists and scholars across 53 fields—including, in the category of General Nonfiction, Roosevelt House director Harold Holzer.
Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants, the Class of 2025 Guggenheim Fellows was selected based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise. As established in 1925 by founder Senator Simon Guggenheim, each Fellow receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under “the freest possible conditions.”
Notable Individuals in the 2025 class of Guggenheim Fellows include:
Anthropology & Cultural Studies: Carolyn Moxley Rouse, Karen Strassler
Biology: Larisa DeSantis, Marcus Kronforst
Choreography: Monica Bill Barnes & Robbie Saenz de Viteri, Donald Byrd
Fiction: Miranda July, Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Lethem
Fine Arts: Theaster Gates, Raul Guerrero, Julie Tolentino
Music Composition: Katherine Balch, Michael Patrick Dease, Huang Ruo
General Nonfiction: Louis Onuorah Chude-Sokei, Sloane Crosley, Harold Holzer, Nathaniel Rich
Photography: Denis Defibaugh, Farah Al Qasimi
Poetry: Cynthia Cruz, Richie Hofmann, Brandon D. Som
The 100th class of Fellows is part of the Guggenheim Foundation’s yearlong celebration marking a century of transformative impact on American intellectual and cultural life.
“At a time when intellectual life is under attack, the Guggenheim Fellowship celebrates a century of support for the lives and work of visionary scientists, scholars, writers, and artists,” said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and President of the Guggenheim Foundation. “We believe that these creative thinkers can take on the challenges we all face today and guide our society towards a better and more hopeful future.”
To see the full list of the 2025 Fellows, please visit www.gf.org.
