Princeton faculty members Bhargava, Guenther, Schor and Weisenfeld and Hodder Fellow Gibson receive 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships
Four Princeton faculty members and a Hodder Fellow have received 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships.
Photos of Manjul Bhargava, Katja Guenther and Judith Weisenfeld by Denise Applewhite; photo of Esther Schor by Isometric Studio
The faculty members are Manjul Bhargava, the Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics; Katja Guenther, associate professor of history; Esther Schor, chair of the Humanities Council and the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor of American Jewish Studies and Professor of English; and Judith Weisenfeld, the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion.
Current Hodder Fellow in Lewis Center for the Arts Mark Thomas Gibson is also among the recipients. The actor and director Robert De Niro has underwritten Gibson’s Fellowship in Fine Arts in honor of his father, the painter Robert De Niro Sr., a 1968 Guggenheim Fellow. Gibson’s paintings, inspired by comics, provide commentary on American history and explore Black representation.