News from Past Scholars

Rajbir Judge (2024-25) book Prophetic Maharaja named 2025 Best First Book on the History of Religions by the American Academy of Religion

Heba Gowayed (2022–23) and Peniel Emmaus Joseph (2025–26) named 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellows

Kristin Hoganson, Visitor (2006-07), Wins Guggenheim Fellowship in U.S. History

Magdalena Małecka (2020-21) Receives ERC Consolidator Grant

Ruha Benjamin (2016–17) and Jennifer L. Morgan (2014–15) Awarded 2024 MacArthur Fellowships

Penelope Deutscher (2023-24) Receives Humboldt Research Award

Julia Ticona (2023-24) AI Research Project Receives NEH Grant

Carola Suárez-Orozco (2009–10) and Kim Lane Scheppele Awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships

Kriti Kapila (2023-24) Wins Association for Asian Studies Book Prize

Keisha N. Blain (2021-22) Named A Guggenheim Fellow in U.S. History

Monica Kim (2015-16) and Reuben Jonathan Miller (2016-17) named 2022 MacArthur Fellows

Massimiliano Tomba (2016-17) book, Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity, co-winner of the 2021 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book in liberal and/or democratic theory published in 2019

Bernard E. Harcourt, Visiting Faculty (2016-17),  awarded the 2021 Trilling Book Award

Lucas Bessire (2012-13) book, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, long-listed for 2021 National Book Award

Laurence Ralph (2012-13) receives the 2021 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology

Peter Huang (2005-06) published in SSRN

Susana Narotzky (2019-20) awarded highest distinction in social sciences and humanities in Spain

Jean-Louis Fabiani (2017-18) Wins 2020 CEU Award for Outstanding Research

Orlando Patterson (1975-76) Profiled in The Nation

Fleur Johns (2019-20) Named Australian Research Council Future Fellow

Hector Amaya (2018-19) Named Director of USC Annenberg School of Communication

Laurence Ralph (2012-13) Debuts Animated Film, The Torture Letters

James C. Scott (1986-87) Awarded 2020 Albert O. Hirschman Prize

Mark Granovetter (1981-82) among IAS Scholars Elected to National Academy of Sciences