NYC Gazette

Four Columbia professors have been selected as recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships, enabling them to embark on independent projects of their choice. These scholars are part of a distinguished group of 188 individuals from the United States and Canada chosen for the 2024 fellowship from a pool of over 3,000 applicants.

Bruno Bosteels, Acting Dean of Humanities, and Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, will delve into the social function of literature and explore literature as a set of forms of reality.

Adama Delphine Fawundu, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Program, School of the Arts, will be working on an experimental film titled Circadian Riddims, filmed entirely in slow motion, with the aim of provoking healing in a time of post-trauma.

Jack Halberstam, David Feinson Professor of Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature, will focus on a new generation of trans and queer artists who draw inspiration from the 1970s, aiming to retrieve a vocabulary that represents sexual and gender variance through unbuilding, unmaking, unbecoming, and undoing.

Nicola López, Associate Professor, Visual Arts Program, School of the Arts, will use her artwork, The Haunting, a series of large-scale drawings with video projections, to explore the intersection of nature and the built environment.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, established in 1925, has a long history of supporting talented individuals, with over $400 million in fellowships awarded to more than 19,000 recipients. Notably, many of its alumni have gone on to receive prestigious honors such as Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and National Book Awards.

The diverse projects that these four Columbians will undertake in the coming year showcase the depth and breadth of creativity and scholarship at Columbia University.