The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows, including 198 distinguished individuals working across 53 disciplines. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants, the Class of 2025 Guggenheim Fellows was tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise. As established in 1925 by founder Senator Simon Guggenheim, each Fellow receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under “the freest possible conditions.”
Professor John Ma will pursue research on gender and sexuality in the Hellenistic world, namely the Afro-Eurasian spaces from Italy to Central Asia and the Indus valley, and the Black Sea to Upper Egypt, in the dynamic period defined by the destruction of the Persian empire and the creation of extensive conquest-states with Greek ruling elites. This political watershed was accompanied by shifts in the conception of the self, changes in patterns of consumption and exchange, intensified and multipolar encounters between cultures. The subject is hence the construction of sexual roles and the relationship within sexes in a fascinating period defined by persistence, change, inventivity.
See the list of fellows here.
