The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, based in New York, has awarded fellowships worth a total of $6.1-million to 179 artists, scholars, and scientists. The fellows were chosen from nearly 2,800 applicants, “on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.”
Following is a list of the winners, their institutional affiliations, and their areas of study:
- Chris Aiken, choreographer and dancer, Minneapolis; teaching specialist in theater arts and dance, U. of Minnesota: choreography.
- Jonathan Ames, writer, New York: fiction.
- Barbara Watson Andaya, professor of Asian studies, U. of Hawaii at Manoa: a gendered history of early modern Southeast Asia.
- C. Edson Armi, professor of history of art, U. of California at Santa Barbara: the first Romanesque architecture.
- Jon Robin Baitz, playwright, New York; co-director of the dramatic-writing program, Juilliard School: play writing.
- Peter Balakian, professor of English, Colgate U.: a family memoir.
- Lillian Ball, artist, New York: visual art.
- Mary C. Beckerle, professor of biology, U. of Utah: the molecular mechanism of cell movement.
- Robin Behn, poet, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; associate professor of English, U. of Alabama: poetry.
- Andrea Belag, artist, New York; instructor in drawing, School of Visual Arts: painting.
- David N. Beratan, professor of chemistry, U. of Pittsburgh: energy-transduction schemes in biology.
- Janet C. Berlo, professor of gender and women’s studies and professor of history, U. of Rochester: graphic arts of the 19th-century Plains Indian.
- Derek Bermel, composer, Brooklyn, N.Y.: music composition.
- Ben S. Bernanke, professor of economics and public affairs, Princeton U.: economic policy and the Great Depression.
- David Biale, professor of Jewish history and director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union: blood as a symbol and a substance in Western culture.
- Roger Bilham, professor of geological sciences and associate director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, U. of Colorado at Boulder: global urbanization and seismic risk.
- Sheila S. Blair, independent scholar, Richmond, N.H.: a survey of Islamic calligraphy.
- Caroline H. Bledsoe, professor of anthropology, Northwestern U.: body contingency and linearity in the history of Western obstetrics.
- Andrea Blum, artist, New York; associate professor of art, Hunter College of City U. of New York: sculpture and public art.
- David Bottoms, poet, Marietta, Ga.; professor of English, Georgia State U.: poetry.
- Rogers Brubaker, professor of sociology, U. of California at Los Angeles: ethnicity and nationalism in a Transylvanian town.
- Stephen G. Brush, professor of history of science, U. of Maryland at College Park: a comparative study of theory evaluation in different sciences.
- Steven M. Burke, composer, Hopewell Junction, N.Y.: music composition.
- Jacqueline Carey, writer, Missoula, Mont.: fiction.
- Susan Carey, professor of psychology, New York U.: the origin of concepts.
- George Chaconas, professor of biochemistry, U. of Western Ontario: molecular biological studies of the Lyme disease spirochete.
- Gordon H. Chang, associate professor of history, Stanford U.: America’s relationship with Asia.
- Jay Clayton, professor of English and director of graduate studies, Vanderbilt U.: contemporary culture and the 19th-century heritage.
- Daniel A. Cohen, associate professor of history, Florida International U.: Rebecca Reed and the burning of the Charleston convent.
- Bernard Cooper, writer, Los Angeles; member of the core faculty in fiction and creative non-fiction, Antioch U.: a memoir.
- Leda Cosmides, associate professor of psychology, U. of California at Santa Barbara: reason and the evolution of the imagination (in collaboration with John Tooby).
- James Cracraft, professor of history, U. of Illinois at Chicago: the Petrine revolution in Russian culture.
- Blondell Cummings, choreographer, New York: choreography.
- Andrew Cyrille, composer, Montclair, N.J.; member of the faculty in music, New School U.: music composition.
- Frederick T. Davies, Jr., professor of horticulture and of molecular and environmental plant sciences, Texas A&M U.: mycorrhizal fungi as biofertilizers in Peruvian potato-farming systems.
- Dick Davis, professor of Near Eastern languages and cultures, Ohio State U.: translation and literary hybridity.
- Robert C. Davis, associate professor of history, Ohio State U.: Italian responses to enslavement by Barbary Coast corsairs, 1500-1800.
- Victoria de Grazia, professor of history, Columbia U.: American market culture in 20th-century Europe.
- Percy A. Deift, professor of mathematics, New York U.: Riemann-Hilbert problems in pure and applied mathematics.
- Paul DeMarinis, artist, San Francisco; lecturer in sound art, San Francisco Art Institute: sound installation.
- Junot Díaz, writer, New York; assistant professor of creative writing, Syracuse U.: fiction.
- Patsy S. Dickinson, professor of biology, Bowdoin College: long-term control of neural networks and neuronal properties.
- Tamar Diesendruck, composer, Somerville, Mass.; fellow of the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College: music composition.
- Marita Dingus, artist, Auburn, Wash.: sculpture.
- Emmanuel Dongala, writer, Great Barrington, Mass.; member of the faculty in literature and chemistry, Simon’s Rock College of Bard: fiction.
- Christopher B. Donnan, professor of anthropology, U. of California at Los Angeles: ceramic portraits of ancient Peru.
- Linda Dowling, independent scholar, Princeton, N.J.: Charles Eliot Norton and the art of civil life.
- Laura Lee Downs, associate professor of history, U. of Michigan: French children’s summer camps, 1880-1960.
- Ellen C. DuBois, professor of history, U. of California at Los Angeles: women’s enfranchisement worldwide.
- Alessandro Duranti, professor of anthropology, U. of California at Los Angeles: Walter Capps’s campaign for the United States Congress.
- Barry Eichengreen, professor of economics and professor of political science, U. of California at Berkeley: the European economy since 1945.
- G. Barney Ellison, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, U. of Colorado at Boulder: atmospheric processing of organic aerosols.
- Nader Engheta, professor of engineering, U. of Pennsylvania: fractional paradigm of classical electrodynamics.
- Will Eno, playwright, Brooklyn, N.Y.: play writing.
- Eve Ensler, playwright, New York: play writing.
- Kathleen M. Erndl, associate professor of religion, Florida State U.: women, goddess possession, and power in Kangra Hinduism.
- Jason Eskenazi, photographer, Bayside, N.Y.: photography.
- Andrew G. Ewing, professor of chemistry, professor of natural sciences, and adjunct professor of neuroscience and anatomy, Pennsylvania State U.: single-cell membrane structure following exocytosis.
- Carole Fabricant, professor of English, U. of California at Riverside: Anglo-Irish representations of colonial Ireland.
- B.H. Fairchild, poet, Claremont, Cal.; professor of English, California State U. at San Bernardino: poetry.
- Aaron L. Fogelson, professor of mathematics, U. of Utah: the processes of platelet aggregation and coagulation.
- John Foran, professor of sociology, U. of California at Santa Barbara: the origins of third world social revolutions.
- David Frick, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, U. of California at Berkeley: peoples, confessions, and languages in 17th-century Vilnius.
- Peter Fritzsche, professor of history, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: nostalgia and memory.
- Kit Galloway, video artist, Santa Monica, Cal.; co-director, Electronic Cafe International (Santa Monica, Cal.): video (in collaboration with Sherrie Rabinowitz).
- Andrew Garrison, filmmaker, Louisville, Ky.; visiting lecturer in film, U. of Texas at Austin: filmmaking.
- Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology, Harvard U.: the psychology of affective forecasting.
- Scott F. Gilbert, professor of biology, Swarthmore College: the development and evolution of turtle shells.
- Glenda E. Gilmore, associate professor of history, Yale U.: Americans and race from World War I to the Brown decision.
- Warren Ginsberg, professor of English, State U. of New York at Albany: Chaucer’s Italian tradition.
- Robb W. Glenny, associate professor of medicine and of physiology and biophysics, U. of Washington: efficient pulmonary gas exchange.
- Lydia Goehr, professor of philosophy, Columbia U.: the concept of musicality in modernist opera.
- David Goldes, photographer, Minneapolis; professor of media arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design: photography.
- Cameron Gordon, professor of mathematics, U. of Texas at Austin: studies in three-dimensional manifolds.
- Kenneth R. Graves, photographer, State College, Pa.; professor of art, Pennsylvania State U.: photography.
- James E. Haber, professor of biology, Brandeis U.: the mechanisms of recombination and DNA repair.
- Matt Harle, artist, Brooklyn, N.Y.: sculpture.
- Neil Harris, professor of history, U. of Chicago: a history of the American urban newspaper building.
- Jeffrey W. Harrison, poet, Andover, Mass.; writer in residence, Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.): poetry.
- Regina Harrison, professor of comparative literature and Spanish and director of the comparative-literature program, U. of Maryland at College Park: cultural translation in colonial Spanish-Quechua literature.
- Kathryn Hellerstein, lecturer in Yiddish language and literature, U. of Pennsylvania: women poets in Yiddish.
- Paul Hendrickson, staff writer, The Washington Post; visiting lecturer in English, U. of Pennsylvania: the legacy of racism in Mississippi sheriffs’ families.
- Michael Herzfeld, professor of anthropology, Harvard U.: past and present in modern Rome.
- Julia Heyward, multimedia artist, New York; visiting instructor in video production, Pratt Institute: multimedia art.
- Tin-Lun Ho, professor of physics, Ohio State U.: the new physics of quantum gases of alkali atoms.
- Robert Hooper, artist, Killdeer, Ill.; visiting lecturer in art, U. of Chicago: painting.
- Jean E. Howard, professor of English and director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia U.: the social role of the London commercial theater in the early 17th century.
- Terence T.-L. Hwa, associate professor of physics, U. of California at San Diego: statistical mechanics of biopolymer association.
- Tina L. Ingraham, artist, Brunswick, Me.: painting.
- Mikhail Iossel, writer, Schenectady, N.Y.; writer in residence, Union College: fiction.
- Robert G. Irving, independent scholar, West Hartford, Conn.; associate fellow of Berkeley College, Yale U.: a life of Sir Herbert Baker, architect.
- Peter Iverson, professor of history, Arizona State U.: a history of the Navajos.
- David Jablonski, professor of geophysical sciences, U. of Chicago: a synthetic study of macroevolution.
- Ron Jenkins, professor of performing arts, Emerson College: the theatrical artistry of Dario Fo.
- Ha Jin, writer, Lawrenceville, Ga.; associate professor of English, Emory U.: fiction.
- Caroline A. Jones, associate professor of art history, Boston U.: Clement Greenberg and American art.
- William E. Jones, filmmaker, Los Angeles; member of the faculty, California Institute of the Arts: filmmaking.
- Shirley Kaneda, artist, New York: painting.
- Leo Katz, professor of law, U. of Pennsylvania: the perverse logic of law and morality.
- Carol Keller, artist, Boston; assistant professor of art, Boston U.: visual art.
- Jeffrey Knapp, associate professor of English, U. of California at Berkeley: church, nation, and theater in Renaissance England.
- Paul Koonce, composer, Princeton, N.J.; assistant professor of music, Princeton U.: music composition.
- Carol Lansing, professor of history, U. of California at Santa Barbara: the popolo minuto in medieval Bologna.
- Liz Larner, artist, Los Angeles; member of the M.F.A. faculty, Art Center College of Design: sculpture.
- James M. Lattimer, professor of physics and astronomy, State U. of New York at Stony Brook: the equation of state and neutrino opacities in dense matter.
- Tanya Leullieux (La Tania), choreographer, Willits, Cal.; artistic director, choreographer, and dancer, La Tania Flamenco Music and Dance: choreography.
- Yanguang Li, assistant professor of mathematics, U. of Missouri at Columbia; fellow, Institute for Advanced Study: chaos in partial differential equations.
- Ken Lum, artist, Vancouver, British Columbia; associate professor of fine arts, U. of British Columbia: visual art.
- Joseph H. Lynch, professor of history, Ohio State U.: deathbed conversion to the monastic life, 850-1250.
- Sabine G. MacCormack, professor of the study of human understanding, professor of classical studies, and professor of history, U. of Michigan: historical writing in Spain and Peru, 1500-1650.
- Ivan G. Marcus, professor of Jewish history, professor of history and of religious studies, Yale U.: the relationship of medieval Jews and Christians.
- Ingram Marshall, composer, Hamden, Conn.: music composition.
- Emily Martin, professor of anthropology, Princeton U.: a cultural analysis of mental terrain in the United States.
- Lisa L. Martin, professor of government, Harvard U.: institutional effects on state behavior.
- John Mason, director, Yoruba Theological Archministry (Brooklyn, N.Y.): memorial wall-paintings for misspent inner-city youth.
- Sara F. Matthews Grieco, professor of history and coordinator of women’s and gender studies, Syracuse U. in Florence, Italy: printed pictures and the construction of identity in Italy, 1450-1650.
- Peter I. Mészáros, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, Pennsylvania State U.: gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows.
- Linne R. Mooney, associate professor of English, U. of Maine at Orono: professional scribes in medieval England.
- Ketan Mulmuley, professor of computer science, U. of Chicago: studies in geometric complexity theory.
- Robert S. Nelson, professor of art history, U. of Chicago: Hagia Sophia as medieval church and modern monument.
- Richard G. Newhauser, professor of English and medieval studies, Trinity U. (Tex.): the sin of avarice in medieval and Renaissance thought.
- William Royall Newman, professor of history and philosophy of science, Indiana U. at Bloomington: Daniel Sennert and early-modern matter theory.
- Josip Novakovich, writer, Cincinnati; associate professor of English and comparative literature, U. of Cincinnati: fiction.
- Stephen Nowicki, associate professor of zoology, Duke U.: nutrition and song-learning in birds.
- Geoffrey O’Brien, writer, New York; editor in chief, Library of America (New York): popular music in 20th-century American life.
- Alex O’Neal, artist, Brooklyn, N.Y.: painting.
- Steve Orlen, poet, Tucson, Ariz.; professor of English, U. of Arizona; member of the M.F.A. faculty, Warren Wilson College: poetry.
- Katharine Park, professor of history of science and professor of women’s studies, Harvard U.: the early history of human dissection.
- Robert ParkeHarrison, photographer, Worcester, Mass.; assistant professor of art, College of the Holy Cross: photography.
- Pat Passlof, artist, New York; professor of art, College of Staten Island: painting.
- Leighton Pierce, filmmaker, Iowa City; professor of film and video production, U. of Iowa: filmmaking.
- Claudia Roth Pierpont, writer, New York; contributer, The New Yorker: a biography of Lincoln Kirstein.
- David J. Pine, professor of chemical engineering and professor of materials, U. of California at Santa Barbara: the dynamics of mesoscopic glassy materials.
- Russell Pinkston, composer, Austin, Tex.; associate professor of composition and director of the Electronic Music Studios, U. of Texas at Austin: music composition.
- Melissa Ann Pinney, photographer, Evanston, Ill.; adjunct instructor of photography, Columbia College Chicago: photography.
- Robert A. Pollak, professor of economics, Washington U. (Mo.): family bargaining.
- Sherrie Rabinowitz, video artist, Santa Monica, Cal.; co-director, Electronic Cafe International (Santa Monica, Cal.): video (in collaboration with Kit Galloway).
- Peter Railton, professor of philosophy, U. of Michigan: objectivity and value.
- Archie Rand, artist, Brooklyn, N.Y.; professor of visual arts and director of painting and drawing, Columbia U.: painting.
- Susan Rethorst, choreographer, Amsterdam; instructor, School of the Arts (the Netherlands): choreography.
- Michael Riordan, assistant to the director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (Stanford, Cal.); adjunct professor of physics, U. of California at Santa Cruz: the rise and fall of the Superconducting Super Collider.
- Tyson R. Roberts, research associate, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama); research associate in the Biodiversity Research and Training Program, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Thailand): freshwater fishes of tropical Asia.
- Hanneline G. Rogeberg, artist, Hoboken, N.J.; assistant professor of painting, Rutgers U.: painting.
- Peter A. Rogerson, professor of geography, State U. of New York at Buffalo: statistical methods for the surveillance of geographic patterns.
- Kurt Rohde, composer, San Francisco; artistic director, Chamber Music Partnership (San Francisco): music composition.
- Pam Ronald, associate professor of plant pathology, U. of California at Davis: bacterial factors affecting plant-host signal transduction.
- Kristin Ross, professor of comparative literature, New York U.: French cultural memory and the May 1968 upheavals.
- Ira Sadoff, poet, Hallowell, Me.; professor of poetry, Colby College: poetry.
- Roberto H. Schonmann, professor of mathematics, U. of California at Los Angeles: percolation and related processes on graphs.
- Seth Schwartz, associate professor of history, Jewish Theological Seminary: imperialism and Jewish society, 200 B.C.E.-634 C.E.
- Carol Shields, writer, Winnipeg, Manitoba; chancellor, U. of Winnepeg; professor of English, U. of Manitoba: fiction.
- Uri Shulevitz, artist and writer, New York: Sephardic folktales for young readers.
- Montgomery Slatkin, professor of integrative biology, U. of California at Berkeley: population genetics of human genetic diseases.
- Steven B. Smith, photographer, Providence, R.I.; adjunct professor of photography, Rhode Island School of Design: photography.
- C. Christopher Soufas, Jr., professor of Spanish, Tulane U.: Spanish literature in modernist Europe.
- Joel Spruck, professor of mathematics, Johns Hopkins U.: nonlinear problems in geometry.
- Richard Stamelman, professor of Romance languages and literatures, Williams College: the literature and culture of perfume.
- Duncan G. Steel, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and professor of physics, U. of Michigan: semiconductor nanostructures for quantum information.
- Christopher Sullivan, film animator, Chicago; associate professor of filmmaking, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: film animation.
- Katherine H. Tachau, professor of history, U. of Iowa: the creation of the Bibles moralisées in 13th-century Paris.
- Eva Tardos, professor of computer science, Cornell U.: approximation algorithms for network problems.
- Maria Tatar, professor of German, Harvard U.: “Bluebeard” in folklore, fiction, and film noir.
- Roger Tibbetts, artist, Dayville, Conn.; associate professor of painting, Massachusetts College of Art: painting and sculpture.
- John Tooby, professor of anthropology, U. of California at Santa Barbara: reason and the evolution of the imagination (in collaboration with Leda Cosmides).
- Alan M. Wald, professor of English and American culture, U. of Michigan: the American literary left in the mid-20th century.
- Mack Walker, professor of history, Johns Hopkins U.: the Halle enlightenment, 1685-1725.
- Alice Wexler, research scholar in the Center for the Study of Women, U. of California at Los Angeles: chorea and community in East Hampton, N.Y.
- Susan Wheeler, poet, New York; member of the M.F.A. faculty, New School U.: poetry.
- Brian White, professor of mathematics, Stanford U.: minimal surfaces and mean-curvature flow.
- Bruce Winstein, professor of physics, U. of Chicago: polarization measurement of cosmic microwave background radiation.
- Brian Wood, photographer and artist, New York; lecturer in photography, Yale U.: photography and graphic art.
- Martha Woodmansee, professor of English, Case Western Reserve U.: Germany’s contribution to the Western concept of intellectual property.
- Randall Woolf, composer, Brooklyn, N.Y.: music composition.
- James D. Wuest, professor of chemistry, U. of Montreal: molecular tectonics.
- Wu Hung, professor of art history, U. of Chicago: ruins in Chinese visual culture.
- Andrei Y. Yakovlev, professor and director of statistics in the Huntsman Cancer Institute, U. of Utah: oligodendrocyte development in cell culture.
- Reginald Yates, choreographer, Tampa, Fla.; artist in residence, Juilliard School: choreography.
- Eric Zencey, writer, East Calais, Vt.: the Wollemi pines.
- Xin Zhou, associate professor of mathematics, Duke U.: oscillatory Riemann-Hilbert problems.
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