Past Fellows 1999-2023

Fellows and Their Topics for 2022-2023

Rozina Ali
Daphne A. Brooks
Colin Channer
Raghu Karnad
Margaret Kelleher
Claire Luchette
Neil Maher
Sarah Maza
Patrick Phillips
Daniel Saldaña París
Maurice Samuels
Brandon Taylor
Erin L. Thompson
Francesca Wade
C Pam Zhang

Fellows and Their Topics for 2021-2022

Rich Benjamin
David Wright Faladé
Julia Foulkes
Kaiama L. Glover
David Greenberg
Lewis Hyde
Karl Jacoby
Matthew Karp
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Maaza Mengiste
Nara Milanich
Michael Prior
Josephine M. Rowe
Avi Steinberg
Madeleine Thien

Fellows and Their Topics for 2020-2021

Burkhard Bilger
Barbara Demick
Hernan Diaz
Steven Hahn
Peter Kuper
Jennifer Mittelstadt
Nina Munk
Togara Muzanenhamo
Gregory Pardlo
Hanna Pylväinen
Sophia Roosth
Namwali Serpell
Christopher Shinn
Caroline Weber
Mason B. Williams

Fellows and Their Topics for 2019-2020

Andrés Barba
Susan Bernofsky
Ken Chen
Bill Goldstein
Hua Hsu
Mitchell S. Jackson
Gilbert King
Carol Kino
Sana Krasikov
Ben Marcus
Josephine Quinn
Sally Rooney
Eric Sanderson
Elizabeth Sears
Justin E.H. Smith

Fellows and Their Topics for 2018-2019

David Bell
Jennifer Croft
Mary Dearborn
Ada Ferrer
Vona Groarke
francine j. harris
Faith Hillis
Martha Hodes
Brooke Holmes
Karan Mahajan
Corey Robin
Marisa Silver
Kirmen Uribe
Amanda Vaill
Frances Wilson

Fellows and Their Topics for 2017-2018

Joan Acocella
Sarah Bridger
Ava Chin
Hugh Eakin
Blake Gopnik
Georgi Gospodinov
Nellie Hermann
Frances Jetter
Lynn Melnick
Melinda Moustakis
Lorrie Moore
Eyal Press
Martin Puchner
Magda Teter
Barbara Weinstein 

Fellows and Their Topics for 2016-2017

Carys Davies
Nicole Fleetwood
Angela Flournoy
Jon Gertner
Hilary Hallett
Saidiya Hartman
Jennifer Homans
Daniel Kehlmann
Sally Wen Mao
Natan Meir
George Packer
Michael Reynolds
Salvatore Scibona
Akhil Sharma
Jonathan Stevenson

Fellows and Their Topics for 2015-2016

Annie Baker
Edward Ball
Robin Blackburn
Yasmine El Rashidi
Victoria Johnson
László Krasznahorkai
Sarah Lewis
Vivek Narayanan
Larry Rohter
John Ryle
Vanessa R. Schwartz
Debora Silverman
Nick Wilding
Paul Yoon
Alejandro Zambra

Fellows and Their Topics for 2014-2015

Negar Azimi
Deborah Coen
Carlos Dada
Hal Foster
Keith Gessen
Kenneth Gross
Megan Marshall
Ayana Mathis
Gerard Passannante
Kim Phillips-Fein
Steven Pincus
Jordi Puntí
Dash Shaw
Justin Torres
Michael Vazquez  

Fellows and Their Topics for 2013-2014

Uwem Akpan
Elif Batuman 
Christopher Brown
Linda Colley
Lynn Garafola
Anthony Grafton 
David Grann
Peter Holquist
Paul La Farge 
Arthur Lubow 
Graciela Mochkofsky
Téa Obreht
Rajesh Parameswaran
Elizabeth Rubin 
Damion Searls 

Fellows and Their Topics for 2012-2013

Elizabeth Blackmar
Shimon Dotan
Ruth Franklin
Anthony Gottlieb
Philip Gourevitch
Greg Grandin
Valentina Izmirlieva
Dániel Margócsy
C.E. Morgan
Mae Ngai
Gary Panter
James Ryerson
Lucy Sante
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
John Wray

Fellows and Their Topics for 2011-2012

Chris Adrian
Ian Buruma
Peter Constantine
Bonnie Costello
Robyn Creswell
Àlvaro Enrigue
James Fenton
Evan Haefeli
Shamus Khan
Susan Pedersen
Darryl Pinckney
Adam Shatz
Elizabeth Spires
Kate Walbert
Jacob Weinstein

Fellows and Their Topics for 2010-2011

David Bezmozgis
Geoffrey Brock
Maile Chapman
Mary Gaitskill
Annette Gordon-Reed
David Hinton
Sara Lipton
Larissa MacFarquhar
Michael Meyer
James Romm
David Sandlin
Matthew Stewart
Andrew McConnell Stott
Wells Tower

Fellows and Their Topics for 2009-2010

Esther Allen
Susan Einbinder
Ian Frazier
François Furstenberg
Rivka Galchen
Michael Golston
Nicole Krauss
James Livingston
Andy Martin
Richard McGuire
Joseph O'Neill
Karen Russell
Laura Shapiro
John Tresch

Fellows and Their Topics for  2008-2009

Deborah Baker
Anna Bikont
Akeel Bilgrami
Deborah Cohen
Andrew Sean Greer
Daniel J. Kevles
Hari Kunzru
Robert G. O’Meally
Julie Orringer
Lauren Redniss
Martha Saxton
Laura Secor
Lore Segal
Ezra Tawil
Rosanna Warren

Fellows and Their Topics for 2007-2008

James Cook
Joanne Freeman
Nell Freudenberger
Joel Kaye
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Louis Menand
James Oakes
Han Ong
James Pethica
Owen Sheers
Mark Stevens
Jennifer Vanderbes
Camilo José Vergara
Colson Whitehead
Gaby Wood

Fellows and Their Topics for 2006-2007

Mohammed Naseehu Ali
David W. Blight
Sharon Cameron
Will Eno
Clive Fisher
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Maya Jasanoff
Carla Kaplan
Ben Katchor
James Miller
James Shapiro
Laurie Sheck
Nelson Alexander Smith
Jeff Talarigo
Sean Wilentz

Fellows and Their Topics for 2005-2006

Charlotte Bacon
Brent Hayes Edwards
Robert Jenkins
Wendy Lesser
Lucy McDiarmid
Jill McDonough
Andrew Meier
Mary Morrissy
Joseph O’Connor
Samuel Roberts
Raymond Scheindlin
Rebecca Read Shanor
Kirk Davis Swinehart
Judith Walkowitz
Edmund White

Fellows and Their Topics for 2004-2005

Hilary Ballon
Martha Biondi
George Chauncey
Jennifer Egan
Nathan Englander
Linda Gordon
Elizabeth Kendall
Stephen Kotkin
Hermione Lee
Colum McCann
Pankaj Mishra
Lisandro Pérez
Jose Manuel Prieto
Danzy Senna
T. J. Stiles

Fellows and Their Topics for 2003-2004

Michael Henry Adams
Carol Armstrong
Doron Ben-Atar
Maureen Howard
Patrick Radden Keefe
Sheila Kohler
Herbert Leibowitz
Rachel Manley
Wyatt Mason
Philip Pauly
Melanie Rehak
Katherine Russell Rich
Ned Sublette
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Elizabeth Wyckoff

Fellows and Their Topics for 2002-2003

Donald Antrim
Thomas Bender
Emily Braun
Tom Buk-Swienty
Elisheva Carlebach
Caleb Crain
Paul Freedman
Bei Ling Huang
Roger Keyes
Franziska Kirchner
Caryl Phillips
Stacy Schiff
Philip Steinberg
Jeremy Treglown
Julia Van Haaften

Fellows and Their Topics for 2001-2002

Jeffery Renard Allen
Andrea Barrett
Carmen Boullosa
Maarten Brands
Claudine Cohen
Thadious Davis
Mark Doty
Laura Engelstein
A.M. Homes
Susan Jacoby
Douglas Morris
Josip Novakovich
Carla Peterson
David Waldstreicher
Mike Wallace

Fellows and Their Topics for 2000-2001

André Aciman
Jonathan Bush
Joseph Cady
Ileen A. Devault
Steve C. Fraser
Walter Frisch
Francisco Goldman
Rachel Hadas
Eiko Ikegami
Phillip Lopate
Anne Mendelson
Claudia Roth Pierpont
Bernhard Schlink
Colm Tóibín
Serinity Young

Fellows and Their Topics for 1999-2000

Sven Beckert
Paul Berman
D. Graham Burnett
Kathleen Neal Cleaver
Pamela Clemit
Andrew Delbanco
Gregory K. Dreicer
Christian Fleck
Anthony Holden
Ada Louise Huxtable
Marion Kaplan
Allen Kurzweil
Howard Markel
Francine Prose
Harvey Sachs