One hundred and eighty-six Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 2005. Institutional affiliation is listed if applicable.
U.S. and Canadian Fellows
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! Category !! Field of Study !! Fellow !! Affiliated institution !! class="unsortable"| Ref
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| rowspan="70" | Creative Arts || rowspan="5" | Choreography || Alito Alessi || ||
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| rowspan="8" | Fiction || David Bezmozgis || ||
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| Brooks Hansen || ||
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| Adam Haslett || ||
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| ZZ Packer || California College of the Arts ||
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| Jim Shepard || Williams College ||
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| David Gatten || Ithaca College ||
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| Sam Green || University of San Francisco ||
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| Bill Lichtenstein || ||
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| Kimi Takesue || ||
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| Bonnie Collura || Rhode Island School of Design, University of the Arts ||
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| Paul Sietsema || ||
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| rowspan="10" | Music Composition || Susan Botti || University of Michigan ||
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| Don Freund || Indiana University ||
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| Yotam Haber || ||
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| Louis Rosen || ||
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| William Wylie || University of Virginia ||
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| Sarah Arvio || United Nations ||
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| Marianne Boruch || Purdue University ||
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| Tory Dent || ||
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| Harryette Mullen || University of California, Los Angeles ||
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| Spencer Reece || ||
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| Philip Schultz || ||
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| Shelly Silver || School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ||
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| rowspan="2" | American Literature || Arnold Krupat || Sarah Lawrence College ||
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| Biography || Blake Bailey || ||
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| rowspan="2" | British History || Susan Pedersen || Columbia University ||
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| Classics || Daniel Mendelsohn || ||
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| Economic History || Gary R. Saxonhouse || ||
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| rowspan="2" | English Literature || Jenny Davidson || Columbia University ||
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| rowspan="4" | Fine Art Studies || Maud Lavin || School of the Art Institute of Chicago ||
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| || Florida State University ||
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| Philip Nord || Princeton University ||
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| rowspan="8" | General Nonfiction || Mark Abley || ||
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| Jo Ann Beard || ||
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| Fanny Howe || University of California, San Diego, Kenyon College ||
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| Pico Iyer || ||
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| Anne Nelson || Columbia University ||
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| rowspan="2" | German and East European History || Claudia Koonz || Duke University ||
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| David Sorkin || University of Wisconsin–Madison ||
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| Alexander Jones || University of Toronto ||
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| Ruth Rogaski || Vanderbilt University ||
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| Iberian and Latin American History || Janice E. Perlman || Columbia University, World Bank ||
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| rowspan="2" | Intellectual and Cultural History || Mark Edmundson || University of Virginia ||
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| Christopher Lane || Northwestern University ||
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| rowspan="2" | Italian Literature || Geoffrey Brock || ||
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| Victoria Kirkham || University of Pennsylvania ||
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| Latin American Literature || Diana Taylor || New York University ||
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| John Huehnergard || Harvard University ||
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| Judith Irvine || University of Michigan ||
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| Medieval History || Sharon Ann Farmer || University of California, Santa Barbara ||
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| Medieval Literature || D. Vance Smith || Princeton University ||
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| Ian Hodder || Stanford University ||
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| Photography Studies || Deborah Willis || New York University ||
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| rowspan="3" | Religion || Ronald M. Green || Dartmouth College ||
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| Maria Heim || Amherst College ||
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| Donald J. Raleigh || University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ||
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| rowspan="2" | Science Writing || John Fleischman || American Society for Cell Biology ||
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| Jennifer Price || ||
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| Spanish and Portuguese Literature || Fernando Arenas || University of Minnesota ||
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| Theatre Arts || Rhonda K. Garelick || Connecticut College ||
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| rowspan="4" | United States History || Elizabeth A. Fenn || Duke University ||
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| Meenakshi Wadhwa || Field Museum ||
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| Margaret A. Tolbert || University of Colorado Boulder ||
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| John C. Tully || Yale University ||
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| Lai-Sheng Wang || Washington State University ||
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| rowspan="3" | Computer Science || Madhu Sudan || Massachusetts Institute of Technology ||
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| Moshe Y. Vardi || Rice University ||
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| Santosh Srinivas Vempala || Massachusetts Institute of Technology ||
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| Jonathan T. Overpeck || University of Arizona ||
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| rowspan="4" | Engineering || Long-Qing Chen || Pennsylvania State University ||
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| William A. Curtin, Jr. || Brown University ||
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| Yannis G. Kevrekidis || Princeton University ||
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| rowspan="3" | Geography and Environmental Science || Steven M. Gorelick || Stanford University ||
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| Richard Harris || McMaster University ||
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| Bruce L. Rhoads || University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ||
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| rowspan="3" | Mathematics || Ian Agol || University of Illinois at Chicago ||
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| David R. Morrison || Duke University ||
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| Christopher D. Sogge || Johns Hopkins University ||
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| Guohua Li || Johns Hopkins University ||
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| rowspan="2" | Neuroscience || Marc D. Hauser || Harvard University ||
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| rowspan="3" | Organismic Biology and Ecology || David A. Burney || National Tropical Botanical Garden ||
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| Jonathan B. Losos || Washington University in St. Louis ||
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| Trevor Price || University of Chicago ||
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| Susan Ossman || Rice University ||
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| rowspan="2" | Economics || Matthew O. Jackson || California Institute of Technology ||
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| Stephen Morris || Yale University ||
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| Law || Gerald J. Postema || University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ||
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| Linda L. Fowler || Dartmouth College ||
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| Peter Gourevitch || University of California, San Diego ||
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| rowspan="4" | Psychology || Kent C. Berridge || University of Michigan ||
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| Roberto Raschella || ||
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| Film || Eliseo Subiela || ||
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| rowspan="3" | Fine Arts || Arturo Herrera || ||
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| Cristóbal Lehyt || ||
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| Wilfredo Prieto || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Music Composition || Jocy de Oliveira || ||
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| Martín Matalon || ||
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| Poetry || Hugo Padeletti || ||
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| Video and Audio || Andrea Juan || National University of Tres de Febrero ||
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| rowspan="11" | Humanities || Fine Arts Research || José Manuel Valenzuela Arce || ||
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| General Nonfiction || || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Iberian and Latin American History || Brian Connaughton || Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana ||
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| Luis Alberto Romero || National Research Council of Argentina ||
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| rowspan="2" | Latin American Literature || || Center for Advanced Bolivian Studies ||
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| Gonzalo Moisés Aguilar || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Linguistics || Lucía A. Golluscio || University of Buenos Aires, National Research Council of Argentina ||
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| Philosophy || Rodolfo Darío Vázquez Cardozo || Autonomous Technical Institute of Mexico ||
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| Theatre Arts || Todd Gulick || ||
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| rowspan="10" | Natural Sciences || Astronomy and Astrophysics || Dante Minniti || Pontifical Catholic University of Chile ||
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| Earth Science || Gino Casassa || Center for Scientific Studies ||
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| Mathematics || Florian Luca || National Autonomous University of Mexico ||
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| Medicine and Health || Mauro Martins Teixeira || Federal University of Minas Gerais ||
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| Molecular and Cellular Biology || || University of São Paulo ||
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| rowspan="2" | Neuroscience || Cecilia Bouzat || National Research Council of Argentina, National University of the South ||
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| Physics || Karen Hallberg || National Research Council of Argentina, Centro Atomico Bariloche, Balseiro Institute ||
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| Economics || Pablo Andrés Neumeyer || Torcuato di Tella University ||
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| rowspan="2" | Political Science || Daniel Mato || Central University of Venezuela ||
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| René Antonio Mayorga || Bolivian Center for Multi-Disciplinary Studies, Brown University ||
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| Sociology || || University of Buenos Aires ||
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See also
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2004
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2006