{"id":27471,"date":"2026-04-22T15:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/?p=27471"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:31:23","slug":"natalia-molina-awarded-2026-guggenheim-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/natalia-molina-awarded-2026-guggenheim-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalia Molina awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                          \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/molina-guggenheim-top-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/molina-guggenheim-top-1920x1080.jpg 1920w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/molina-guggenheim-top-1280x720.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/molina-guggenheim-top-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Composite of photo of Natalia Molina with Guggenheim logo\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Natalia Molina, Distinguished Professor and Dean\u2019s Professor of American studies and ethnicity, has spent her career exploring race, citizenship and belonging in the United States. (Composite: Letty Avila; Photo: Jamie Pham.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>Natalia Molina awarded 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  The prestigious honor will advance Molina\u2019s book project on the untold stories of laborers who helped to build the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">USC Dornsife 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href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/natalia-molina\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Natalia Molina<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Distinguished Professor and Dean\u2019s Professor of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American studies and ethnicity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, has been named a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gf.org\/stories\/announcing-the-2026-guggenheim-fellows\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2026 Guggenheim Fellow<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, joining a class of 223 scholars, artists and scientists selected from nearly 5,000 applicants worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fellowship, one of the most prestigious honors in intellectual and creative life, provides recipients with the financial support to pursue independent work \u201cunder the freest possible conditions,\u201d a mission the Guggenheim Foundation has maintained since the organization\u2019s founding in 1925.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not Molina\u2019s first major accolade. In 2020, she was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/natalia-molina-macarthur-fellowship-genius-grant\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">named<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, an honor often dubbed the \u201cgenius grant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her Guggenheim fellowship marks both recognition of<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/nayarit-mexican-restaurant-welcomed-immigrants-lgbtq\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a career<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> spent exploring race, citizenship and belonging in the United States and the opportunity to deepen that work through her current book project, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hidden Histories in the Garden<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The book reveals the untold stories of laborers who helped to build and maintain the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m honored to receive the Guggenheim fellowship, which makes it possible to continue telling histories from the perspectives of those whose voices were never meant to be heard,\u201d says Molina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drawing on census records, archival fragments, maps, photographs and rare interviews, Molina reconstructs the experiences of Mexican and Japanese workers who cultivated and maintained the estate\u2019s landscapes and European immigrants who served as staff and estate engineers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She also uncovers the historical context of the era, including the Indigenous communities dispossessed of their land and Chinese immigrants whose labor on the railroads helped to generate the wealth behind Harry Huntington\u2019s empire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These stories, often absent from official narratives, reveal how cultural institutions are influenced by broader histories of racial hierarchy and exclusion. \u201cThis project asks what it means to reframe cultural institutions through the experiences of those once rendered invisible, and what shifts when we center the stories that were silenced,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her Guggenheim Fellowship cohort includes fellow USC professors <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kaufman.usc.edu\/faculty\/amy-oneal\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amy O\u2019Neal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/roski.usc.edu\/profile\/jennifer-west\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jennifer West<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the USC Roski School of Art and Design.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Molina joins a number of other USC Dornsife faculty who have received Guggenheim Fellowships,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/lisa-pon-guggenheim-fellow\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">most recently<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/lisa-pon\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lisa Pon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, professor of<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ahis\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">art history<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n  \n        \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-related-stories \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-related-stories\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    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