The 2024 class of Guggenheim Fellows was announced today via press release by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The Foundation announced the appointment of 188 Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of individuals across 52 disciplines. The University of Oregon and the College of Design are thrilled to announce that Assistant Professor Tarrah Krajnak earned one of the year's fellowships. Each fellow is chosen after a rigorous application and peer review process, which pulls from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants, and a review of previous career achievements and potential promise. The fellowship is recognition of Krajnak's hard work and future success.
“Humanity faces some profound existential challenges,” said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. “The Guggenheim Fellowship is a life-changing recognition. It’s a celebrated investment into the lives and careers of distinguished artists, scholars, scientists, writers and other cultural visionaries who are meeting these challenges head-on and generating new possibilities and pathways across the broader culture as they do so.”
The Foundation was founded and, intially, funded by US Senator Simon and Olga Guggenheim in 1925. The foundation was created to honor the memory of the couple's son, John Simon, and as a way to help the development of scholars and artists in the "freest possible conditions." The Foundation has granted over $400 million in fellowships to over 19,000 individuals, including 125 Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize, and Bancroft Prize winners. The broad range of studies and awards is indicative of the fellowships ability to help artists, scholars, and researchers alike and is an unique characteristic of this historic program.