Guggenheim Fellowship 2025

The 100th class of Fellows is part of the Guggenheim Foundation’s yearlong celebration marking a century of transformative impact on American intellectual and cultural life.

Our own Louis Chude Sokei has been selected as a Fellow in the category of General Non-Fiction for his forthcoming book and research exploring  technology, race and the Humanities.

Machines of Flesh and Blood: Race and the Making of Artificial Life (Viking/Random House, 2026) is a cultural history of race and technology, the first of its type. Written by a non-technologist whose goal is to make this material, its history and its consequences, fodder for public conversation, it is also aimed at making technology and the Humanities less segregated from each other by way of the issue of race. After all, the quest for artificial life emerged in direct conversation with notions of human difference, particularly in the eras defined by both slavery and industrialization; and it continues to depends on race as a way of making cultural sense of what has counted and will count as human.