Nathan Arrington (Art & Archaeology), Christopher Harris (Lewis Center for the Arts), and Silas Riener (Lewis Center for the Arts) are among seven Princeton faculty members to receive 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships.
These arts and humanities faculty join the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows, which recognize “both prior career achievement and exceptional promise,” according to the award announcement. This year’s cohort includes 223 scholars working across 55 disciplines.
Nathan Arrington, professor of art and archaeology and Hellenic studies and chair of the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Index of Medieval Art, was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of fine arts research. Arrington specializes in ancient Greek material culture, working in art history, archaeology and classics. This spring he is teaching the graduate seminar “Death in Greece: Archaeological Perspectives,” which is cross-listed in art and archaeology, classics, and Hellenic studies.
Christopher Harris, professor of visual arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts, was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of film-video. Harris makes films and video installations that read African American historiography through the poetics and aesthetics of experimental cinema. This spring he is teaching the undergraduate course “Filmmaking: 16mm Analog Film Production” in the Program in Visual Arts.
Silas Riener, lecturer in dance in the Lewis Center for the Arts, was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of choreography. This semester he is teaching the undergraduate course “Introduction to Contemporary Dance,” in which students observe, perform and choreograph dances.
Two current visiting artists were also awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. Suji Kwock Kim, a 2024-25 Hodder Fellow in the Lewis Center for the Arts, was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of poetry. Kyle Abraham, a former lecturer in dance and a 2025-26 guest artist and choreographer, was awarded the Guggenheim in the field of choreography.
