The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation has announced this year’s fellowship winners. A “Guggenheim” is one of the most sought-after honors in academe, the arts, and culture. It helps underwrite a proposed art or scholarly project. Eleven of this year’s 188 recipients live in Greater Boston.
Heading the list is Tracy K. Smith. The Pulitzer Prize-winning former US poet laureate is a professor of English and African American Studies at Harvard. She lives in Waban.
Four other Harvard faculty members are recipients. The National Book Award-winning historian Tiya Miles and literary critic James Wood both live in Cambridge. Carola Suárez-Orozco, who teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, lives in Boston. Kosuke Imai, a Newton resident, teaches government and statistics.
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Three MIT professors are recipients. Roger Philip Levy, professor of brain and cognitive science, lives in Somerville. Both Martin J. Wainwright, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and mathematics, and physicist Tracy R. Slatyer live in Cambridge.
Also a Cambridge resident, Vivek K. Goyal, teaches electrical and computer engineering at Boston University.
There are two recipients in the arts. Composer Yoon-Ji Lee, who lives in Boston, teaches at Berklee College of Music. Visual artist Sónia Almeida teaches at Brandeis and lives in Arlington.
For a full list of recipients, go to www.gf.org/announcements.
Mark Feeney can be reached at mark.feeney@globe.com.