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April 29, 2021
Carnegie Corporation of New York Announces 26 Andrew Carnegie Fellows.
• $5.2 million in philanthropic support for significant scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities
New York, NY, April 28, 2021 — To apply scholarly perspectives to some of society’s most important issues, Carnegie Corporation of New York today announced the 2021 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. The philanthropic foundation will grant each fellow $200,000 to fund significant research and writing in the social sciences and humanities that address critical and enduring issues confronting our society.
The Corporation launched the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program in 2015 as an initiative conceived by the late Vartan Gregorian, who was president of the foundation since 1997. Gregorian, a former professor of history and past president of Brown University, aimed to advance and elevate the fellows’ work to reinforce the importance of the social sciences and humanities in academia and American life.
The most generous stipend of its kind, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program has funded a total of 216 scholars, journalists, and authors, representing an investment of $43.2 million. It focuses on subjects such as U.S. democracy, the environment, technological and cultural evolution, and international relations. The criteria prioritize the originality and promise of the research, its potential impact on the field, and the scholar’s plans for communicating the findings to a broad audience.
Among this year’s winning research topics:
Law enforcement: developing tools to analyze policing data, including large volumes of body-worn camera video, to monitor racial bias and suggest evidence-based reforms.
Pandemic recovery: studying the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable families and women in the workforce to identify policies that will help rebuild a more just society.
Voting access: analyzing strategies to modernize the U.S. electoral system, including mail voting, same-day registration, and calls for a National Accessible Election law.
Racial justice: telling the story of mid-19th-century Black New Yorkers who campaigned to desegregate public transit with pioneering civil disobedience strategies.
Rural opportunity: exploring the history of agricultural property law and the views of American farmers to develop a more inclusive and sustainable land ownership system.
“Me Too” movement: documenting the cultural history of the campaign and social media’s ability to expose offenders and hold them accountable.
Immigration: exploring the immigration detention system and its multiple, unseen sites within and outside U.S. borders to understand policies and their impact on migrants.
Climate-change: developing inclusive approaches to climate policy by gathering indigenous knowledge.
Georgetown’s DeGioia, who has been a member of the jury since the start of the program, replaced the founding chair, Susan Hockfield, professor of neuroscience and president emerita of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, Alondra Nelson, president of the Social Science Research Council, stepped down after three years of service on the fellows’ jury when she joined the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as deputy director for science and society. Today, the jury comprises 14 distinguished scholars and academic and intellectual leaders from some of the USA’s most prominent educational institutions, foundations, and scholarly societies.
Carnegie Corporation selected this year’s class of 26 fellows from 311 nominations. The group comprises 18 women and eight men. The program seeks to include emerging and established scholars from across the country and represents public institutions of higher education and private colleges or universities.
As part of the nomination process, 700 individuals — including heads of independent research institutes, societies, and think tanks; university presidents; directors of major university presses; and editors of leading newspapers and magazines — were invited to recommend up to two individuals. All proposals undergo a preliminary, anonymous evaluation by leading authorities in the relevant fields. The top recommendations are then forwarded to the jury for a final review and selection.
The award is for up to two years, and its expected result is a book or major study.
• Class of 2021
- Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat: Barnard College, Columbia University
- Beth Bailey: University of Kansas
- Richard Bell: University of Maryland, College Park
- Deborah A. Boehm: University of Nevada, Reno
- Kristina Maria Guild Douglass: The Pennsylvania State University
- Tanisha M. Fazal: University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Christine Folch: Duke University
- Shana Kushner Gadarian: Syracuse University
- Kali Nicole Gross: Emory University
- Françoise N. Hamlin: Brown University
- Adria L. Imada: University of California, Irvine
- Jeanne-Marie Jackson: Johns Hopkins University
- Dean Knox: University of Pennsylvania
- Daniel Laurison: Swarthmore College
- Sonali Shukla McDermid: New York University
- Léonce Ndikumana: University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Jessica A. Shoemaker: University of Nebraska College of Law
- Stefanie Stantcheva: Harvard University
- Susan C. Stokes: University of Chicago
- Neel U. Sukhatme: Georgetown University Law Center
- Kevin J. A. Thomas: The University of Texas at Austin
- Salamishah Tillet: Rutgers University-Newark
- Caroline Tolbert: University of Iowa
- Jessica Wilkerson: West Virginia University
- Gillen D’Arcy Wood: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Gabriel Zucman: University of California, Berkeley
• Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program Jurors
- John J. DeGioia: President, Georgetown University (Chair)
- Joseph E. Aoun: President, Northeastern University
- Jared L. Cohon: President Emeritus and University Professor of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- Robbert Dijkgraaf: Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
- Jonathan F. Fanton: President Emeritus, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Amy Gutmann: President, University of Pennsylvania
- Rush D. Holt: CEO Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Alberto Ibargüen: President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Ira Katznelson: Interim Provost and Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University
- Arthur Levine: President Emeritus, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
- Earl Lewis: Founding Director, Center for Social Solutions, University of Michigan; Former President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Marcia McNutt: President, National Academy of Sciences
- Louise Richardson: Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford
- Pauline Yu: President Emerita, American Council of Learned Societies
Carnegie Corporation of New York was established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. In keeping with this mandate, the Corporation’s work focuses on the issues that Andrew Carnegie considered to be of paramount importance: education, international peace, and a strong democracy.
Source: Carnegie Corporation of New York
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