The winners, their titles, and their areas of study are:

Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology, the psychology of affective forecasting; Michael Herzfeld, professor of anthropology, past and present in modern Rome; Lisa L. Martin, professor of government, institutional effects on state behavior; Katharine Park, Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science and Women's Studies, the early history of human dissection; and Maria Tatar, professor of German, "Bluebeard" in folklore, fiction, and film noir.

The Guggenheim Foundation awards annual fellowships to "men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."

The amounts of the grants are adjusted to the needs of the fellows, considering their other resources and the purpose and scope of their plans.