Angela Creager (History), Rebecca Lazier (Lewis Center for the Arts), Jan-Werner Müller (Politics), Kim Lane Scheppele (SPIA and UCHV), and Anna M. Shields (East Asian Studies) are among Princeton faculty members and alumni to receive 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships.
These humanities faculty are among 188 scholars honored across 52 disciplines and artistic fields of study, appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.
Angela Creager, the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science, joined Princeton in 1994 and is the chair of the Department of History. Her scholarship focuses on the history of 20th-century biomedical research. She was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of history of science, technology and economics.
Rebecca Lazier, professor of the practice and associate director of the Program in Dance in the Lewis Center for the Arts, joined Princeton in 2003. Lazier is a choreographer and dance director in New York. Lazier serves as a member of the executive committee for the Council’s Fund for Canadian Studies. She was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of choreography.
Jan-Werner Müller, the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, joined Princeton in 2005 and specializes in democratic theory and the history of modern political thought. Müller is a member of the Program in European Cultural Studies’ executive committee. He was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of political science.
Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, joined Princeton in 2005 and specializes in ethnographic and archival research on courts and public institutions. Scheppele serves on the Humanities Council’s executive committee, as well as the executive committees for the Program in Humanistic Studies and the Program in European Cultural Studies. She was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of constitutional studies.
Anna M. Shields, the Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies, joined Princeton in 2015 and specializes in classical Chinese literature of the Tang, Five Dynasties and Northern Song eras. She was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of East Asian studies.
