Dominique J. Baker is an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware. She is an internationally renowned scholar of higher education policy and a past recipient of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation postdoctoral fellowship (who understands the inherent irony in publishing an essay on fellowship winners).
Dominique J. Baker
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Who Gets Guggenheims?
Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely to receive them.
