Guggenheim Foundation Grants Fellowships

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced fellowship awards to 181 artists, scientists and scholars today, including six who live or teach in New Jersey.

The foundation said that 54 disciplines and 77 academic institutions were represented by this year’s winners.

“It’s exciting to name 181 new Guggenheim fellows,” said foundation president Edward Hirsh. “These artists and writers, scholars and scientists, represent the best of the best.”

The foundation has awarded $298 million in fellowships to 17,300 individuals, including scores of Nobel, Pulitzer and other prize winners, since its establishment in 1925.

Winners with New Jersey affiliations are:

Ellen Altfest, artist, New York City, and Visiting Artist, Montclair State University: Fine Arts.

Eve Aschheim, artist, New York City, and Senior Lecturer, Visual Arts Program, Princeton University: Fine Arts.

Doug Elkins, choreographer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Choreography.

Kathleen Graber, poet, Wildwood, New Jersey, and Assistant Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University and member of the MFA faculty at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison: Poetry.

Laura Landweber, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University: RNA-mediated epigenetic inheritance and the origin of genetic systems.

Melissa Lane, professor of Politics, Princeton University: The rule of knowledge: platonic psychology and politics.