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Professor Hathaway Named 2025 Guggenheim Fellow

Oona Hathaway
Professor Hathaway was appointed to the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows on April 15

Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Oona Hathaway ’97 has been named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, one of 198 artists and scholars to be recognized this year across 53 fields.

The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced its appointment of the 100th class of Fellows on April 15.

At the Law School, Hathaway is also the director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State since 2005. 

In 2014–15, she served as Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense, where she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. She is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has published more than 50 law review articles, and “The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World” (with Scott Shapiro, 2017). She is also executive editor of and regular author at Just Security, and she writes often for popular publications such as The Washington Post, New York Times, and Foreign Affairs.

“At a time when intellectual life is under attack, the Guggenheim Fellowship celebrates a century of support for the lives and work of visionary scientists, scholars, writers, and artists,” said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and President of the Guggenheim Foundation, in an announcement. “We believe that these creative thinkers can take on the challenges we all face today and guide our society towards a better and more hopeful future.”

In all, 53 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 83 academic institutions, 32 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, and two Canadian provinces are represented in the 2025 class, according to the foundation.

Since its establishment in 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted over $400 million in Fellowships to more than 19,000 individuals. The foundation has sought to “further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions,” according to an announcement.