Three of Six Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded Go To BU Social Scientists
For a century, Guggenheim Fellowships have given the nation’s most distinguished scholars and artists—from writer James Baldwin to environmentalist Rachel Carson—the freedom and funding to let their interests and creativity take flight. Now, in the program’s 100th year, six Boston University researchers and scholars have received the honor, including three BU social scientists.
BU’s 2025 Guggenheim Fellows are artist Lynne Allen, writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei (Chair In African American & Black Diaspora Studies, Director Of The African American & Black Diaspora Studies Program), space scientist Merav Opher, physicist Anders W. Sandvik, historian Bruce J. Schulman (William E. Huntington Professor of History), and historian Quinn Slobodian (Professor of International History). Each plans to use the honor to drive an ambitious—and, in one case, out of this world—project.
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