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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