Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Studies

Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation) is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, award winning writer/choreographer, and co-founder of Indigenous Direction, the nation’s leading consulting company for Indigenous arts and audiences. Larissa’s revised book of the beloved Jerome Robbins Broadway musical, Peter Pan, toured nationally and internationally. She made her Broadway debut in the 2022-2023 season with her satirical comedy, The Thanksgiving Play, making her the first known female, Native playwright to be produced on Broadway. The Thanksgiving Play is one of the most produced plays in America and abroad with over 300 separate productions. Additional produced plays include Fake It Until You Make It, For The People, The Democracy Project, What Would Crazy Horse Do?, Landless and Cow Pie Bingo, Average Family, Teaching Disco Squaredancing to Our Elders: a Class Presentation, Fancy Dancer, and Cherokee Family Reunion. She develops work with the top theaters in the nation including Center Theatre Group, The Public, Second Stage, Yale Rep, Cornerstone, and Arena Stage. Larissa is a professor of practice (literature) at Arizona State University’s Department of English.

The Guggenheim Foundation is grateful to the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation for its support of Larissa FastHorse’s Fellowship.

Inga Saffron is the architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. For more than 20 years, she has been a forceful advocate for meaningful design, accessible public spaces and transit, affordable housing, historic preservation and policies that make our cities more liveable and climate resilient. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, the 2018 Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum and a 2012 Loeb Fellowship from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Inga began her career as a municipal reporter in New Jersey, and went on to become a foreign correspondent in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the 1990s, she covered wars in Yugoslavia and Russia, where she witnessed the destruction of Sarajevo and Grozny. She has published two books: Becoming Philadelphia: How an old American city made itself new again, a selection of her Inquirer columns, and Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy, a cultural history of the sturgeon. She is currently working on a social and architectural history of the American newspaper building, tentatively titled Hold the Presses: How Newspaper Buildings Shaped the American City.