SNF Agora Institute faculty member Martha Jones has been named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, a prestigious distinction that recognizes achievements and exceptional promise. She is among a group of 198 scholars, artists, and writers selected from nearly 3,500 applicants.
Martha Jones, a Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor in the Department of History and a professor at the SNF Agora Institute, received a fellowship in the field of U.S. history. A writer, historian, legal scholar, and public intellectual, her work is devoted to understanding the politics, culture, and poetics of Black America. Her work has received support and recognition from organizations including The Pulitzer Center, the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the American Society for Legal History. Jones is also the Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department, as well as the director of the Hard Histories at Hopkins project.
“During a time in which historians and the narratives they produce are being vilified, condemned, and suppressed, the support of the Guggenheim Fellowship affirms our place in this democracy, and then it propels us forward even in the face of strong and menacing headwinds,” Jones says.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by U.S. Sen. Simon Guggenheim and his wife as a memorial to their son. Fellowships provide financial assistance to scholars and artists pursuing research in any field of knowledge or arts.