Two Hunter College luminaries — one an alumnus — have won 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships.
The Jonathan F. Fanton Director of Hunter’s Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, Harold Holzer, won for general nonfiction. His latest book is Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration. Associate Professor of Art & Art History Daniel Bozhkov MFA ’96 won for fine arts.
The Guggenheim Fellowships were established in 1925 by the late philanthropist and U.S. Senator Simon Guggenheim and Olga Guggenheim to support exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field and creation in any art form under the freest possible conditions.
Holzer and Bozhkov are among 198 scholars who received Guggenheims this year, which marks the 100th anniversary of the fellowship.
Holzer is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 50 books. Winner of the 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize, he is one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era.
A prolific lecturer and frequent television guest, Holzer served as co-chairman of the U. S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, appointed by President Clinton. President Bush 
awarded Holzer the National Humanities Medal in 2008. In 2013, Holzer wrote an essay on Lincoln for the official program at the re-inauguration of President Obama. He is chairman of The Lincoln Forum. After serving as senior vice president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 23 years, he joined Hunter College as Roosevelt House director in 2015.
A Bulgarian-born artist based in New York City, Bozhkov works in multiple media, including performance and video. He is a recipient of Rome Prize from the American Academy, and grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Andy Warhol Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been presented at MoMA P.S.1, Queens Museum, New York; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, and in international 
exhibitions such as the 33rd São Paulo Biennial in Brazil, 6th Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, United Kingdom; 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil; 9th Istanbul Biennal in Turkey, and 1st Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art, Russia.
Recent Hunter-affiliated Guggenheim Fellows include 2021 winners Urban Policy and Planning Professor Victoria Johnson, Distinguished Lecturer of Studio Art A.K. Burns, 2025 Hunter Alumni Hall of Fame inductee and novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge MFA ’10, and alumna poet Tracie Morris MFA ’01.
