Art and Archaeology expert joins prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Scott Redford, Nasser D Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology, has been awarded with the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship - supporting his work on a new book that explores the art and archaeology of Medieval Turkey.
Recognised amongst over 200 distinguished individuals working across more than 50 disciplines – the fellowship awards the work and expertise of those that are breaking new ground in the Creative Arts, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and other interdisciplinary fields.
The Guggenheim Fellows is representative of the world’s best thinkers, innovators, and creators in art, science, and scholarship.
Speaking on the recognition, Professor Redford said: “I was honoured to be chosen, not only because of the variety and quality of academic disciplines represented by this year’s class, but also because poets, novelists, painters, choreographers, and other non-academic creative people are represented, which is one of the many innovative aspects of this fellowship programme.”
Professor Redford's research focuses on cultural boundaries between communities that shared the geographies and cultures of the areas that now constitute Turkey, the southern Caucasus, northern Mesopotamia, Syria, and Iran during the medieval period. His research explores material culture, including traditional art historical subjects, but also numismatics, epigraphy, ceramics, and other fields allied with archaeology, landscape studies, and the architecture and archaeology of travel.
“Our new class of Guggenheim Fellows is representative of the world’s best thinkers, innovators, and creators in art, science, and scholarship,” added Edward Hirsch, President of the Guggenheim Foundation.
Since its creation in 1925 the Guggenheim Foundation has awarded nearly $450 million in fellowships to more than 19,000 Fellows. The full list of Guggenheim Fellows is now available.
