Thomas Conlan (East Asian Studies), Rhodri Lewis (English), and Carolyn Rouse (Anthropology) are among six Princeton faculty members and arts fellows, and nine alumni to receive 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships.
These humanities faculty join the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows, selected “based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise,” according to the announcement from the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This year’s cohort includes 198 scholars working across 58 disciplines.
- Thomas Conlan, professor of East Asian studies and history, was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of Asian studies. Conlan’s scholarship focuses on medieval Japanese history. His most recent book “Kings in All but Name: The Lost History of Ouchi Rule in Japan, 1350-1569” was published in January 2024. This spring, Conlan is teaching the undergraduate course “Living in Japan’s 16th century” and the graduate seminar “The Warrior Culture of Japan.”
- Rhodri Lewis, senior research scholar in English and lecturer with the rank of professor in English, was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of literary criticism. Lewis’ scholarship focuses on the literary, cultural and intellectual histories of the 16th and 17th centuries. This spring, he is teaching the undergraduate course “Rewriting the World: Literatures in English, 1350-1850.” His most recent book “Shakespeare’s Tragic Art” was published in October 2024.
- Carolyn Rouse, the Ritter Professor of Anthropology, was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of anthropology and cultural studies. Rouse’s research focuses on development and education, medical anthropology, religion, race, resistance, social inequality and visualizing complex ethnographic data. Rouse is also a filmmaker, who has produced, directed, and/or edited a number of documentaries. This spring she is teaching the graduate seminar “Field Research Practicum.” She is also a documentary filmmaker.
Two current arts fellows were also awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. yuniya edi kwon, a 2023-25 Princeton Arts Fellow in the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Department of Music, was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of music composition. Peter S. Shin, a 2025-26 Hodder Fellow in the Lewis Center for the Arts, was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of music composition.
