John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow
Guggenheim fellowships are awarded to mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional creativity or productive scholarship and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. A highly competitive award, out of around 3000 applicants, approximately 175 fellows are chosen through a rigorous selection process.
2024-25 Honorees
Elizabeth Otto
Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor of art history in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies and director of UB’s Humanities Institute, Elizabeth Otto, PhD, is internationally recognized for her scholarship in modern and contemporary art and visual culture and the intersections of gender, history, politics and theory. In particular, she is renowned for her scholarship on Bauhaus, the influential German art and design school. Her most recent honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Catherine A. and Mary C. Gellert Fellowship at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and Senior Fellowship from the Dedalus Foundation to support completion of her forthcoming book on the Bauhaus art movement in the context of German National Socialism. In addition, for the 2024 exhibition “Bauhaus Under National Socialism” in Weimar, Germany, Otto and her co-curators recently received the Justus Bier Prize.