$5.2 million in philanthropic support for significant scholarly
research in the social sciences and humanities
With the goal of applying 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 important and enduring issues confronting
our society.
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The Corporation launched the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program in
2015 as an initiative that was conceived by the late Vartan
Gregorian, who served as president of the foundation from 1997
until his death on April 15, 2021. Gregorian, a former professor of
history and past president of Brown University, aimed to advance
and elevate the work of the fellows to reinforce the importance of
the social sciences and humanities in academia and American life.
The program was inspired in part by an early fellowship that
Gregorian received that helped catapult his career.
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 movement 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 centering indigenous knowledge cultivated over
2,000 years of human adaption in Madagascar
“The members of the jury will miss Vartan Gregorian — his
wisdom, his devotion, and his leadership. He took immense pride in
the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program and was deeply involved in
every aspect of the process, personally reviewing each nomination
that was submitted,” said John J. DeGioia, chair of the Andrew
Carnegie Fellows Program jury and president of Georgetown
University. “Vartan and I agreed that the caliber of the proposals
presented by this year’s fellows was exceptional, showing great
potential in helping to solve the social, political, and economic
challenges facing our world today. These projects fulfill Vartan’s
vision of universities, academies, and academic associations
playing an essential role in producing critical information and
advancing knowledge through scholarship. We are grateful for
Vartan’s foresight and are proud to continue his legacy as we
congratulate our newest class of fellows.”
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 was asked
to join the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as
deputy director for science and society. Today, the jury is
comprised of 14 distinguished scholars and academic and
intellectual leaders from some of the nation’s most prominent
educational institutions, foundations, and scholarly societies.
This year’s class of 26 fellows was selected from 311
nominations. The group is made up of 18 women and eight men,
including one transgender person. The program seeks to include
emerging (10) and established scholars (16) from across the
country, and to represent public institutions of higher education
(14) and private colleges or universities (12).
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 proposals are then forwarded to the jury
for a final review and selection.
The award is for a period of up to two years and its anticipated
result is a book or major study. Read more about the Class of 2021,
the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program, the work of past honorees, the
criteria for proposals, and a historical timeline of scholarly
research supported by the Corporation. Celebrate the Class of 2021
with our social media and press kit, and join the conversation
online at #CarnegieFellows and via Facebook, LinkedIn, and
Twitter.
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
CHAIR: John J. DeGioia President,
Georgetown University 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
About Carnegie Corporation of New York
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 of paramount importance: education, international peace,
and a strong democracy.
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