Four Faculty Associates Receive Guggenheim Fellowship

Four Faculty Associates have received a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship—an award for trailblazing artists, scientists, and scholars across a variety of fields: Anya Bernstein, professor of anthropology; Mina Cikara, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society; Adam Mestyan, Ford Foundation Professor of Middle Eastern Studies; and Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government. Guggenheim Fellows are nominated based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise. Established in 1925 by founder Senator Simon Guggenheim, each inductee receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under “the freest possible conditions.” In addition, two former Faculty Associates also join the current class of Guggenheim Fellows: Neil Brenner, Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology at The University of Chicago, and Ieva Jusionyte, Watson Family University Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University.