Department of Art History

Professor Claudia Brittenham receives 2026 the Guggenheim Fellowship. She joins the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows, honored for “prior career achievement and exceptional promise.”

During her fellowship year, Brittenham will continue work on her current book project, The Interconnected Mesoamerican World. The project examines how people, objects and ideas moved throughout Mesoamerica—modern-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras—and the history of how we understand and talk about the region.

“The stories we tell about the past are always in some ways stories about the present,” said Brittenham. “In this moment, I feel it is imperative to emphasize that this hemisphere has always been interconnected.”

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