2003
Foundation Program Areas
United States and
Canada
Latin America and
the Caribbean
(Fellows from year(s) 1925-91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03)
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2003 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
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- Gerard Aching, Associate Professor of Spanish and
Portuguese and Director of Graduate Studies, New York University: Black
socialist thought and literature in the Caribbean, 1925-1945.
- Diane Ackerman, Writer, Ithaca, New York: A poetics of
the brain.
- John A. Agnew, Professor of Geography, University of
California, Los Angeles: Europe's margins, national territories, and modern
statehood.
- Catherine L. Albanese, Professor of Religious Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara: A cultural history of American
metaphysical religion.
- Emily Apter, Professor of French and Comparative
Literature, New York University: The political and cultural significance of
translation.
- Judith F. Baca, Artist, Venice, California; Professor of
World Arts and Culture, Cesar Chavez Center, University of California, Los
Angeles; Founding Artistic Director, Social and Public Art Resource Center
(SPARC), Venice: Visual art.
- Zainab Bahrani, Edith Porada Associate Professor of Art
History and Archaeology, Columbia University: The body and violence in
Assyrian art.
- John Balaban, Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence,
North Carolina State University: A translation of Nguyen Du's The Tale of
Kieu.
- Patricia Barber, Composer and Musician, Chicago: Music
composition.
- E. M. Beekman, Professor of Germanic Languages,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst: An edition of the Ambonese Herbal
of Rumphius.
- Charles Beitz, Professor of Politics, Princeton
University: A political theory of human rights.
- Zoe Beloff, Video Artist, New York City; Adjunct
Professor of Media and Communication Arts, City College and Adjunct Professor
of Media Culture, College of Staten Island, City University of New York:
Video.
- Roland Benabou, Professor of Economics and Public
Affairs, Princeton University: Behavioral political economy.
- Carl M. Bender, Professor of Physics, Washington
University, St. Louis: A new approach to quantum field theory.
- Maxine Berg, Professor of History, University of Warwick,
England: Global origins of British consumer goods in the 18th century.
- Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor of
History, University of Maryland, College Park: Movement and place in
African-American life, 1650-2000.
- April Bernard, Poet, New Haven, Connecticut; Professor of
Literature and Member of the MFA Core Faculty, Bennington College: Poetry.
- David A. Bradt, Member of the Faculty, Center for
International Emergency, Disaster & Refugee Studies, The Johns Hopkins
University; Member of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine, Royal Melbourne
Hospital, Victoria, Australia: The ethnographic rescue of the Badui tribe of
Java.
- Joann Brennan, Photographer, Centennial, Colorado;
Assistant Professor of Photography, University of Colorado at Denver:
Photography.
- Martin Bresnick, Composer, New Haven, Connecticut;
Adjunct Professor of Composition, Yale University: Music composition.
- Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., Professor of English,
University of Arkansas: European totalitarianism and the white Southern
imagination, 1930-1950.
- Anthony Brown, Composer, Berkeley, California: Music
composition.
- Peter Cameron, Writer, New York City; Member of the Guest
Faculty, Graduate Writing Program, Sarah Lawrence College: Fiction.
- Jim Campbell, Artist, San Francisco; Research and
Development Engineer, Genesis Microchip, Alviso, California: Visual art.
- Ann Carlson, Choreographer, New York City: Choreography.
- Mary Ellen Carroll, Artist, New York City: Visual art.
- Laura L. Carstensen, Professor of Psychology, Stanford
University: Extended life expectancy in the 21st century.
- Nicole Cattell, Film Maker, New York City; Director and
Producer, Swim Pictures and El Sueńo Productions, New York City: Film making.
- Siu-Wai Chan, Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering, Columbia University: New methods of preparing grain-boundary
junctions of high temperature superconductors.
- Jeffrey A. Cina, Professor of Chemistry and Member,
Oregon Center for Optics, University of Oregon: Studies in ultrafast
electronic energy transfer.
- Robert Cohen, Writer, Middlebury, Vermont; Associate
Professor of English, Middlebury College: Fiction.
- Tom Conley, Professor of Romance Languages, Harvard
University: Topography and literature in Renaissance France.
- Matthew Connelly, Associate Professor of History,
Columbia University: A global history of population control.
- Ted Conover, Writer, Bronx, New York: A book about roads.
- Perry R. Cook, Associate Professor of Computer Science
and Music, Princeton University: Technology and vocal expression.
- Fred Cray, Photographer, Brooklyn, New York: Photography.
- Eve D'Ambra, Associate Professor of Art, Vassar College:
Beauty and the Roman imperial portrait.
- Arnold I. Davidson, Professor of Philosophy, Divinity and
Comparative Literature, University of Chicago: Spiritual exercises in
philosophy.
- Michel C. Delfour, Professor of Mathematics and
Statistics, Center of Mathematics Research, University of Montreal: Intrinsic
theory of thin and asymptotic shells.
- Devin DeWeese, Associate Professor of Central Eurasian
Studies and Director, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana
University at Bloomington: A history of the Yasavi Sufi tradition of Central
Asia.
- Steve DiBenedetto, Artist, New York City; Visiting Artist
and Lecturer, Rutgers University and Cooper Union for the Advancement of
Science and Art: Painting.
- Francis X. Diebold, William Polk Carey Professor of
Economics, University of Pennsylvania: Financial asset returns and underlying
economic fundamentals.
- Heather Dubrow, Tighe-Evans Professor and John Bascom
Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison: The lyric in early
modern England.
- Paul N. Edwards, Associate Professor of History and
Politics of Technology and Director, Science, Technology & Society
Program, University of Michigan: The technopolitics of information
infrastructure in South Africa.
- Martin B. Einhorn, Professor of Physics, University of
Michigan: Quantum field theory in curved spacetime.
- Barbara Alpern Engel, Professor of History, University of
Colorado, Boulder: Marriage and the state in late imperial Russia.
- Nathan Englander, Writer, New York City: Fiction.
- Helen Epstein, Writer, Brooklyn, New York: The AIDS
epidemic in Africa.
- Daniel R. Ernst, Professor of Law, Georgetown University:
The legal profession and the administrative state in 20th-century America.
- Margaret J.M. Ezell, John Paul Abbott Professor of
Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University: Authors, readers, and literary life in
Britain, 1645-1714.
- Steven Feld, Professor of Music and Anthropology,
Columbia University: The anthropology of global music industrialization.
- James W. Fernandez, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology,
University of Chicago: An ethnography of the social imagination in Spain.
- Teresita Fernández, Artist, Brooklyn, New York:
Sculpture.
- Carter Vaughn Findley, Professor of History, The Ohio
State University: D'Ohsson and his Tableau général de l'empire othoman.
- Kathleen Finneran, Writer, St. Louis, Missouri: Essays
about aunts.
- David Froom, Composer, California, Maryland; Professor of
Music, St. Mary's College of Maryland: Music composition.
- Kenneth M. George, Professor of Anthropology, University
of Wisconsin, Madison: Art and post-authoritarian disquiet in Indonesia.
- György Gergely, Professor and Department Head of
Developmental Research, Institute for Psychological Research, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, Budapest: The development of understanding other minds
and intentionality in infancy.
- Michael Geyer, Professor of History, University of
Chicago: The culture of defeat in modern German history.
- Samantha Gillison, Writer, Brooklyn, New York: Fiction.
- Neil Goldberg, Video Artist, New York City: Video.
- Irene Good, Research and Curatorial Associate, Peabody
Museum, Harvard University: A social archaeology of textiles.
- Monica H. Green, Professor of History, Arizona State
University: Medicine and culture in 12th-century Salerno.
- Ariela Gross, Professor of Law and History, University of
Southern California Law School: A history of racial identity on trial in
America.
- Ted Gup, Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism, Case
Western Reserve University: America's culture of secrecy.
- Susan Hahn, Poet, Winnetka, Illinois; Editor,
TriQuarterly Literary Magazine, Northwestern University: Poetry.
- Langdon Hammer, Professor of English, Yale University: A
biography of James Merrill.
- Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of
Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University: The Japanese organization
Science of Happiness.
- Thomas Allen Harris, Film Maker, Brooklyn, New York: Film
making.
- John Haugeland, Professor of Philosophy, University of
Chicago: An interpretation of Heidegger.
- Aleksandar Hemon, Writer, Chicago: Fiction.
- Fred S. Hersch, Composer and Pianist, New York City:
Music composition.
- David Hinton, Writer and Translator, East Calais,
Vermont: A translation of The Book of Songs and of The Mountain
Poems of Meng Hao-jan.
- Gitta Honegger, Professor of Theatre and English, Arizona
State University: A biography of Helene Weigel.
- C. J. Hribal, Writer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Professor of
English, Marquette University: Fiction.
- Cannon Hudson, Artist, New York City: Painting.
- Joseph Michael Hunt, Bank Advisor on Health, Nutrition,
and Early Childhood Development, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines:
Nutrition security of poor women and children in Asia.
- Neil Immerman, Professor of Computer Science, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst: Applications of descriptive and dynamic complexity.
- Sheldon H. Jacobson, Professor of Mechanical and
Industrial Engineering, Willett Faculty Scholar, and Director, Simulation
Optimization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Aviation
security problems and solutions.
- Thomas Joiner, Bright-Burton Professor of Psychology,
Florida State University: A theory of completed suicide.
- Catherine Julien, Associate Professor of History, Western
Michigan University: The Spanish conquest from the persepective of the Inca
Titu Cusi.
- John Justeson, Professor of Anthropology, University at
Albany, State University of New York: The decipherment of epi-Olmec
hieroglyphic writing.
- Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Professor of History and Director,
Division of Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, University of Arizona: The
molding of religious fervor in the German reformations.
- David Scott Kastan, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in
the Humanities, Columbia University: Interactions between authors and
publishers in early modern England.
- Michael Kazin, Professor of History, Georgetown
University: William Jennings Bryan and the rise of celebrity politics in
America.
- Timothy A. Keiderling, Professor of Chemistry, University
of Illinois at Chicago: Beta-sheet formation in peptides and proteins.
- Mike Kelley, Artist, Los Angeles; Member of the Graduate
Faculty, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena: Sculpture.
- Sean Dorrance Kelly, Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Assistant Professor in Neuroscience Program, and Jonathan Edwards Bicentennial
Preceptor, Princeton University: Phenomenology, consciousness, and embodiment.
- Dane Kennedy, Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and
International Affairs, George Washington University: Richard Burton and the
Victorian world of difference.
- Justin Kimball, Photographer, Florence, Massachusetts;
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Photography, Amherst College:
Photography.
- David Kirby, Poet, Tallahassee, Florida; W. Guy McKenzie
Professor of English, Florida State University: Poetry.
- Stuart Klawans, Film Critic, The Nation; Vice
President and Senior Writer, Kreisberg Group, New York City: The films of
Preston Sturges.
- Douglas M. Knight, Jr., Independent Scholar and Musician,
Portland, Maine: A biography of the Indian dancer Balasaraswati.
- Bill Knott, Poet, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Associate
Professor of Writing, Literature and Publishing, Emerson College: Poetry.
- Stephan Koplowitz, Choreographer, Brooklyn, New York;
Director of Dance, Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn: Choreography.
- Gabriel Kotliar, Professor of Physics, Rutgers
University: Studies in correlated electronic structure.
- Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Silver Professor of History, New
York University: The founding of Jamestown in its Atlantic context.
- Greg Kwiatek, Artist, Hoboken, New Jersey; Senior
Security Officer, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Painting.
- Rachel Lachowicz, Artist, Los Angeles; Member of the
Adjunct Faculty in Art, Claremont Graduate University: Sculpture.
- Nicholas Lamia, Artist, New York City; Art Handler and
Preparator, Reece Galleries, New York City: Painting.
- Jessie Lebaron, Artist, New York City: Painting.
- Thomas Lectka, Professor of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins
University: Catalytic asymmetric fluorination reactions.
- Ralph Lee, Theatre Artist, New York City; Artistic
Director, Mettawee River Theatre Company, New York City: A theatre piece.
- Phillis Levin, Poet, New York City; Professor of English
and Poet-in-Residence, Hofstra University: Poetry.
- Neil Levine, Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History
of Art and Architecture, Harvard University: The urbanism of Frank Lloyd
Wright.
- Steven Z. Levine, Leslie Clark Professor in the
Humanities, Bryn Mawr College: Self-representation in France from the 16th
century to the present.
- Bong H. Lian, Professor of Mathematics, Brandeis
University: Studies in mirror symmetry, geometry, and arithmetic.
- Glenn Ligon, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Painting.
- Brian McAllister Linn, Professor of History, Texas
A&M University: War in American military thought.
- Lisa Lowe, Professor of Comparative Literature,
University of California, San Diego: The emergence of modern humanism.
- Gina Magid, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Painting.
- Stephanie McCurry, Associate Professor of History,
Northwestern University: The body politic in the Civil War South.
- Martha McPhee, Writer, New York City; Assistant Professor
of Creative Writing, Hofstra University: Fiction.
- Harold Meltzer, Composer, New York City; Artistic
Director, Sequitur Music Ensemble, New York City: Music composition.
- Christopher L. Miller, Frederick Clifford Ford Professor
of African American Studies and French, Yale University: Literatures and
cultures of the French-Atlantic slave trade.
- Peter N. Miller, Professor of Cultural History, Bard
Graduate Center: The meaning of Fabri de Peiresc's oriental studies.
- Susan Miller, Playwright, New York City: Play writing.
- Kenneth L. Mossman, Professor of Health Physics and
Director, Office of Radiation Safety, Arizona State University: Risk
dimensions and precaution.
- Julia K. Murray, Professor of Art History, University of
Wisconsin, Madison: The history and significance of the Kongzhai shrine to
Confucius.
- Donna J. Nelson, Associate Professor of Chemistry,
University of Oklahoma: Mechanisms of additions to alkenes.
- Jennifer Nelson, Artist, Santa Monica, California;
Artist-in-Residence, Siftung Laurenz Haus, Basel Switzerland: Visual art.
- David Nicholas, Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of
History, Clemson University: The regional identity of Germanic Europe,
1270-1500.
- Jan Nijman, Professor of Geography and Regional Studies,
University of Miami: Miami as a laboratory of urban living.
- Isidore Okpewho, Professor of Africana Studies, English,
and Comparative Literature, Binghamton University, State University of New
York: African mythology in the new world.
- Ken Ono, Professor of Mathematics, University of
Wisconsin, Madison: Studies in number theory.
- Max Page, Assistant Professor of Architecture and
History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: The destruction of New York
in the historical imagination.
- Marie Ponsot, Poet, New York City; Professor Emerita of
English, Queens College, City University of New York: Poetry.
- Yopie Prins, Associate Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, University of Michigan: Translations of Greek tragedy
by Victorian women.
- Robert N. Proctor, Walter L. and Helen Ferree Professor
of the History of Science and Co-Director, Science, Medicine and Technology in
Culture Initiative, Pennsylvania State University: Acheulean handaxes and
human origins.
- Donald Quataert, Professor of History, Binghamton
University, State University of New York: The coal miners of the Ottoman
empire, 1829-1922.
- M. V. Ramana, Research Staff Member, Program on Science
and Global Security, Princeton University: The present and future of nuclear
energy in India.
- Maureen E. Raymo, Research Associate Professor of Earth
Sciences, Boston University: An introduction to global warming.
- Anne Rearick, Photographer, Gloucester, Massachusetts;
Instructor in Photography, Cambridge School of Weston, Massachusetts:
Photography.
- Matthew Restall, Associate Professor of Latin American
History, Anthropology, and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University:
Slavery, society, and African-Mayan relations in colonial Yucatan.
- Jonathan Reynolds, Playwright & Screenwriter, New
York City; Food Columnist, New York Times Magazine: Play writing.
- Reynold Reynolds, Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
- Gene E. Robinson, Professor of Entomology and
Neuroscience and Director, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign: Genes and social behavior.
- Catherine Robson, Associate Professor of English,
University of California, Davis: Victorian life and the memorized poem.
- Kathy Rose, Performance Artist, New York City; Senior
Lecturer in Animation, University of the Arts, Philadelphia: Performance art.
- W. Jackson Rushing, III, Professor of Art History,
University of Houston: Edgar Heap of Birds and contemporary visual arts.
- Subir Sachdev, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics,
Yale University: Competing orders and criticality in quantum matter.
- Pauline Stella Sanchez, Installation Artist, Venice,
California; Member of the Faculty, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena:
Sculpture and installation art.
- Roger Sanjek, Professor of Anthropology, Queens College,
City University of New York: A study of the Gray Panthers.
- Dolph Schluter, Professor of Zoology and Canada Research
Chair, University of British Columbia: The genetic basis of ecological
adaptation.
- Richard Evan Schwartz, Professor of Mathematics,
University of Maryland, College Park: Connections between real and complex
hyperbolic discrete groups.
- Gustavo E. Scuseria, Robert A. Welch Professor of
Chemistry, Rice University: Studies in computational nanotechnology.
- Paul Shambroom, Photographer, St. Paul, Minnesota:
Photography.
- William F. Shannon, Choreographer, New York City:
Choreography.
- Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, Choreographer, Long Beach,
California; Artistic Director and Director of Programs, Khmer Arts Academy,
Long Beach: Choreography.
- Alvin Singleton, Composer, Atlanta, Georgia: Music
composition.
- David K. Skelly, Associate Professor of Ecology, Yale
University: Amphibian decline and biodiversity conservation.
- Jimmy Slyde, Choreographer and Dancer, Hanson,
Massachusetts: Choreography.
- Lynn Staley, Harrington and Shirley Drake Professor of
the Humanities in the Department of English, Colgate University: Chaucer,
Richard II, and the languages of power in 14th-century England.
- Michael P. Steinberg, Professor of Modern European
History, Cornell University: Modernity and secularity in German Jewish thought
and art, 1780-1960.
- Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg, Professor of Biology,
University of Miami: Ant nests and the nutrition of tropical trees.
- Susan C. Stokes, Professor of Political Science,
University of Chicago: Political clientelism in Argentina.
- Deborah Stratman, Film Maker, Chicago; Adjunct Assistant
Professor of Film and Video, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Adjunct
Assistant Professor of Film, University of Illinois at Chicago: Film making.
- David Levi Strauss, Writer; High Falls, New York;
Visiting Critic, Center for Curatorial Studies and The Graduate School of the
Arts, Bard College: Photography and belief.
- Edward J. Sullivan, Professor of Fine Arts, New York
University: The language of objects in Latin America.
- Timothy R. Tangherlini, Associate Professor of Folklore,
The Scandinavian Section, University of California, Los Angeles: Folklore and
rural society in 19th-century Denmark.
- Robert Taplin, Artist, West Haven, Connecticut:
Sculpture.
- Ray Thomas, New Media Artist, New York City and Paris,
France: New media art.
- Henry Threadgill, Composer, New York City: Music
composition.
- Fei-Ran Tian, Associate Professor of Mathematics, The
Ohio State University: Nonlinear dispersive oscillations.
- Natasha Trethewey, Poet, Decatur, Georgia; Assistant
Professor of English, Emory University: Poetry.
- William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media Studies,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The changing definition and deployment
of television.
- Igor Vamos, Assistant Professor of Electronic Art,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: New media art.
- Diane Vaughan, Professor of Sociology, Boston College:
Air-traffic control in the early 21st century.
- Paul Vester, Film Animator, Topanga, California; Visiting
Professor of Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts: Digital
film animation.
- Lynne Viola, Professor of Modern Russian History,
University of Toronto: The birth of the gulag and forced labor in the Soviet
Union, 1930-1953.
- Michael J. Watts, Class of '63 Professor and Director,
Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley:
Petroleum and economies of violence in Nigeria.
- Sam Wells, Film Maker, Princeton, New Jersey: Film
making.
- Joel Werring, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Painting.
- Barbara White, Composer, Princeton, New Jersey; Assistant
Professor of Music, Princeton University: Music composition.
- Wendel A. White, Photographer, Galloway, New Jersey;
Professor of Art, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey: Photography.
- Sabine Wilke, Professor of German, University of
Washington, Seattle: Masochism and the German colonial imagination.
- William Earle Williams, Photographer, Haverford,
Pennsylvania; Professor of Fine Arts and Curator of Photographs, Haverford
College: Photography.
- David Wojahn, Poet, Richmond, Virginia; Professor of
English, Virginia Commonwealth University; Member of the MFA Faculty in
Writing Program, Vermont College: Poetry.
- Thomas A. Woolsey, Professor of Experimental Neurosurgery
and George H. and Ethel R. Bishop Scholar in Neurological Surgery, of
Experimental Neurology and George H. and Ethel R. Bishop Scholar in Neurology,
of Biomedical Engineering, of Anatomy and Neurobiology, and of Physiology,
Washington University School of Medicine: Knowledge of the nervous system
derived from the whisker-barrel system.
- Robert Wuthnow, Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of
Sociology, Princeton University: America's historic self-identity and the
challenges of religious and cultural pluralism.
- Jack Xin, Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas
at Austin: Partial differential equations for processing audio signals.
- Kevin Young, Poet, Bloomington, Indiana; Ruth Lilly
Professor of Poety, Indiana University at Bloomington: Poetry.
- Eviatar Zerubavel, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers
University: The sociology of denial.
- Jianying Zha, Writer, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Research
Scholar, Baker Institute, Rice University: The recent transformation of China.
2003 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
(To be announced
in June 2003)
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