Each year, the Guggenheim Foundation awards approximately 175 fellowships to individuals making their mark in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts.
This year, the Guggenheim Foundation has announced their list of 188 appointees in the United States and Canada chosen from nearly 3,000 applicants working across 52 scholarly disciplines, included are the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows in Political Science:
- Kosuke Imai, Professor of Government and of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
- Jessica Pisano, Professor of Politics, The New School, New York, NY
Kosuke Imai, Professor of Government and of Statistics
Kosuke Imai (pronounced K
sk
) is Professor in the Department of Government and the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his office is located. Before moving to Harvard in 2018, Imai taught at Princeton University for 15 years where he was the founding director of the Program in Statistics and Machine Learning. Imai specializes in the development of statistical methods and machine learning algorithms and their applications to social science research. His areas of expertise include causal inference, computational social science, and survey methodology. Imai leads the Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology Project (ALARM) and served as an expert witness for several high-profile legislative redistricting cases. In addition, he is the author of Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2017). Outside of Harvard, Imai served as the President of the Society for Political Methodology from 2017 to 2019. Website: imai.fas.harvard.edu | YouTube: @imaikosuke
Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences
Jan-Werner Müller studied at the Free University, Berlin, University College, London, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and Princeton University. From 1996 until 2003 he was a Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford; from 2003 until 2005 he was Fellow in Modern European Thought at the European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College. Since 2005 he has been teaching in the Politics Department, Princeton University. His history of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, Contesting Democracy, was published by Yale University Press in the summer of 2011. His book Was ist Populismus? was published by Suhrkamp in April 2016; the University of Pennsylvania Press brought out an American version in September of 2016; the book has been published or is scheduled to be published in more than twenty other languages so far. Mueller’s book Furcht und Freiheit: Für einen anderen Liberalismus was published by Suhrkamp in 2019 and won the Bavarian Book Prize. 2021 saw the publication of Democracy Rules by FSG in the US and Penguin in the UK. Website: politics.princeton.edu/people/jmueller
Jessica Pisano, Professor of Politics, The New School for Social Research
Jessica Pisano is Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research. She writes and teaches about contemporary and twentieth century politics in Eastern Europe. Her work focuses on the enclosure of public resources, the constitution of material and social power, and political and social processes of dispossession. She asks how shifts in political economy affect people’s lives, and how those effects translate into changes in local, national, and global politics. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing on archival sources as well as a variety of immersion-based methods, including participant-observation research. Website: jessicapisano.net | Twitter/X: @JessicaPisano6