ANN ARBOR—Two University of Michigan faculty members are among the 164 artists, scholars and scientists selected as this year’s Guggenheim Fellows, according to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

The U-M recipients, and their research areas, are Jonathan Freedman, associate professor of English, “Jewish and deviant identities in 19th- and 20th-century literature”; and Douglas Richstone, professor of astronomy, “Black holes and the centers of galaxies.”

This year’s Fellows, chosen from among 2,876 applicants, receive fellowship awards totaling $4,890,000. They are appointed on the basis of “unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.”