1992

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1992 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

• Héctor D. Abruña, Emile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University: 1992: Structural studies of electrochemical interfaces.
• James S. Ackerman, Art Historian, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus, Harvard University: 1992: A study of classicism.
• Paul Alpers, Class of 1942 Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley: 1992: A definition and literary history of pastoral.
• Richard Argosh, Composer, Oakland, Maine; Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition, Colby College: 1992: Music composition.
• James Atlas, Assistant Editor, The New York Times Magazine: 1992: A biography of Saul Bellow.
• Irit Batsry, Video Artist, New York City: 1992: Video art.
• Regina Bendix, Folklorist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1992: The concept of authenticity in folklore studies.
• Charles Berger, Associate Professor of English, University of Utah: 1992: The centrality of Wallace Stevens.
• Simeon M. Berman, Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University: 1992: Stochastic models of immunological variables in HIV infection.
• Mina J. Bissell, Director, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley: 1992: The regulation of differentiated functions in tissue culture.
• Jean-Paul Bourdier, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley: 1992: Rural dwellings in Senegal.
• Stuart Bowyer, Professor of Astronomy and Director, Center for EUV Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley: 1992: Studies in extreme ultraviolet astronomy.
• Daniel Boyarin, Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, University of California, Berkeley: 1992: Rabbinic representations of the female body.
• Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., Professor of History and Director, Campus Honors Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1992: The emergence of ethology as a scientific discipline.
• James B. Callis, Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director, Center for Process Analytical Chemistry, University of Washington: 1992: The non-invasive spectroscopic monitoring of a bioprocess.
• Ronald Caltabiano, Composer; Member of the Faculty, Manhattan School of Music: 1992: Music composition.
• Ian Carmichael, Professor of Geology and Associate Provost for Research, University of California, Berkeley: 1992: The geological connection of the Jalisco Block to the rest of Mexico.
• Sudip Chakravarty, Professor of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles: 1992: Studies in the superconductivity of fullerenes.
• Rey Chow, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine: 1992: Contemporary Chinese cinema.
• Gale E. Christianson, Professor of History, Indiana State University: 1992: A biography of Edwin P. Hubble.
• Anthony Clarvoe, Playwright, Gambier, Ohio: 1992: Play writing.
• William A. Cramer, Professor of Biological Sciences, Purdue University: 1992: The crystallization of proteins from biological membranes.
• Sebastian Currier, Teaching Fellow, Juilliard School of Music; Member of the Faculty in Composition, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Bowdoin College: 1992: Music composition.
• Whitney Davis, Professor of Art History and Humanities Professor, Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University: 1992: Art historians and their objects.
• Teresa de Lauretis, Professor of the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz: 1992: A feminist reevaluation of Freud's theory of sexuality.
• Robert DeMaria, Jr., Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English, Vassar College: 1992: Samuel Johnson's life of reading.
• Judith F. Dunn, MRC Research Professor, Institute of Psychiatry, London: 1992: Children's family relationships and the development of social understanding.
• Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, Director, Jewish Studies Program, San Francisco State University: 1992: Moses, masculinity, and monotheism.
• Paul G. Falkowski, Senior Scientist, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Sciences, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York; Adjunct Professor, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook: 1992: The molecular ecology of carbon fixation in the ocean.
• Janet D. Fodor, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, Graduate Center, City University of New York: 1992: Phrase structure grammar.
• Walton Ford, Artist, Hillsdale, New York: 1992: Painting.
• Jerald Frampton, Photographer and Printer, New York City: 1992: Photography.
• Douglas J. Futuyma, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook: 1992: Model systems for the study of evolution.
• Mario T. García, Professor of History and Chicano Studies and Director of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1992: Chicanos in Los Angeles, 1965-1975.
• David Gauthier, Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh: 1992: A study of rational commitment.
• Janie Geiser, Theatre Artist, New York City: 1992: A puppet-theatre work.
• John Gibson, Composer; Lecturer in Music, University of Virginia: 1992: Music composition.
• Jill Giegerich, Artist; Lecturer in Art, University of California, Los Angeles: 1992: Sculpture.
• Jan Goldstein, Professor of Modern European History, University of Chicago: 1992: Psychology and selfhood in 19th-century France.
• Guy Goodwin, Artist; Adjunct Instructor, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: 1992: Painting.
• Thomas A. Green, John P. Dawson Professor of Law and Professor of History, University of Michigan: 1992: The American criminal trial jury and concepts of freedom since 1800.
• Neil Greenberg, Artistic Director, Dance By Neil Greenberg, New York City; Lecturer, Dance Division, State University of New York College at Purchase: 1992: Choreography.
• Valerie D. Greenberg, Associate Professor of German, Tulane University: 1992: Freud's readings on language.
• Robert Grudin, Professor of English, University of Oregon: 1992: The nature of free thought.
• Bruce Hajek, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Research Professor of Coordinated Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1992: Stochastic algorithms.
• Robert B. Hallock, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: 1992: Studies in the low-temperature investigation of quantum fluids.
• James Hankins, Professor of History, Harvard University: 1992: A biography of Leonardo Bruni.
• Philip J. Hanlon, Thurnau Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan: 1992: Studies in algebraic combinatorics.
• Jacqueline Hayden, Photographer, Williamsburg, Massachusetts; Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Photography, Hampshire College: 1992: Photography.
• Eric J. Heller, Professor of Physics, Harvard University: 1992: Semiclassical methods applied to atomic and molecular processes.
• Eva Hoffman, Writer, New York City: 1992: A journey through eastern Europe.
• Sharon Horvath, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: 1992: Painting.
• Isabel V. Hull, Professor of History, Cornell University: 1992: Sexuality and the state in Germany, 1700-1815.
• T. R. Hummer, Poet; Program Director and Professor of Creative Writing, University of Oregon: 1992.: Poetry.
• Linda Hutcheon, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto: 1992: A theory of irony.
• Gish Jen, Writer, Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1992: Fiction.
• Flip Johnson, Film Animator; Member of the Faculty, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Adjunct Associate Professor of Film, Boston University: 1992: Film animation.
• Gregory Jusdanis, Associate Professor of Modern Greek, The Ohio State University: 1992: The construction of a modern Greek national culture.
• Jeffrey Kallberg, Associate Professor of Music and Director of Graduate Studies in Music, University of Pennsylvania: 1992: Historical discourses of gender in instrumental music, 1800-1848.
• Jane Kenyon, Deceased. Poetry: 1992: Poetry.
• Robert O. Keohane, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Harvard University: 1992: U.S. compliance with international commitments, 1783-1990.
• Brian Kiteley, Writer, Athens, Ohio; Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Ohio University: 1992.: Fiction.
• Lewis Klahr, Film Animator, New York City: 1992: Film animation.
• Arthur Kleinman, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University: 1992: Social experiences of suffering.
• Edward A. Kravitz, George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School: 1992: The analysis of differences in messenger RNA between identified single neurons.
• Suzanne Lacy, Performance Artist; Dean, School of Fine Arts, California College of Arts and Crafts: 1992: Performance art.
• Barry Ledoux, Artist, New York City; Adjunct Member of the Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College: 1992: Sculpture.
• Erik Levine, Artist, Long Island City, New York: 1992: Sculpture.
• Vicki Mahaffey, Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania: 1992: The politics of representation.
• Norman Manea, Writer, New York City; Fellow, International Academy for Scholarship and the Arts, Bard College: 1992: Fiction.
• Elaine Marks, Germaine Brée Professor of French and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison: 1992: The Jewish presence in French writing.
• Michael B. Mathews, Principal Investigator, Cancer Research Center and Senior Staff Scientist, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Adjunct Professor of Microbiology, State University of New York at Stony Brook: 1992: Control of transcription by the AIDS virus.
• Robert D. Mathieu, Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison: 1992: The evolution of accretion disks in the young binary environment.
• John J. McCarthy, Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: 1992: Prosodic morphology.
• Richard C. McCoy, Professor of English, Queens College and Professor of English and Deputy Executive Officer, Graduate Center, City University of New York: 1992: The historical, cultural, and literary dimensions of England's succession crisis, 1598-1604.
• Richard B. Melrose, Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1992: Analysis and geometry of manifolds with corners.
• Jane Menken, UPS Foundation Term Professor in the Social Sciences and Director, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania: 1992: Fertility and family structure in Bangladesh.
• Nina Menkes, Film Maker; Lecturer in Film, University of Southern California; Member of the Faculty, California Institute of the Arts: 1992: Film making.
• R. J. Dwayne Miller, Professor of Chemistry and Optics, University of Rochester: 1992: Optical studies of the proton switch for the visual response.
• Susan Mitchell, Poet; Mary Blossom Lee Professor in Creative Writing, Florida Atlantic University; Member of the Faculty, MFA Program in Writing, Vermont College: 1992: Poetry.
• James Mobberley, Associate Professor of Music, Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Composer-in-Residence, Kansas City Symphony: 1992: Music composition.
• E. William Monter, Professor of History, Northwestern University: 1992: Persecution in Renaissance France.
• Charles Moskos, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University: 1992: Race relations in the Army.
• Nancy D. Munn, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago: 1992: The cultural constitution of time and space in experience.
• John Newman, Artist, New York City: 1992: Sculpture.
• James Newton, Composer; Member of the Faculty, California Institute of the Arts: 1992: Music composition.
• Michael North, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles: 1992: Race, dialect, and the emergence of modernism.
• Arto V. Nurmikko, Professor of Engineering and Physics and Director, Center for Advanced Materials Research, Brown University: 1992: Optical investigations of semiconductor materials.
• Pat O'Neill, Film Maker, Los Angeles: 1992: Film making.
• Jan Oxenberg, Film Maker, Brooklyn, New York: 1992: Film making.
• Carol A. Padden, Associate Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego: 1992: The early lives of deaf children.
• Irina Paperno, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley: 1992: Suicide as a cultural institution in Russia.
• Jay Parini, Professor of English, Middlebury College: 1992: A biography of John Steinbeck.
• Gilles Peress, Photographer, New York City: 1992: Photography.
• Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Professor of Mathematics, Yale University; Professor of Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University: 1992: Studies in automorphic forms.
• Daniel Poirion, Deceased. Medieval Literature: 1992: The allegorical text of desire in medieval French literature.
• Rona Pondick, Visiting Artist, Parsons School of Design, New York City: 1992: Sculpture.
• Richard Price, Dittman Professor of American Studies and Professor of Anthropology & History, College of William & Mary: 1992.: A comparative study of anthropological museum display (in collaboration with Sally Price).
• Sally Price, Dittman Professor of American Studies and Professor of Anthropology, College of William & Mary: 1992.: A comparative study of anthropological museum display (in collaboration with Richard Price).
• E. Annie Proulx, Writer, Centennial, Wyoming: 1992: Fiction.
• Thomas G. Rawski, Professor of Economics and History, University of Pittsburgh: 1992: Reform and innovation in Chinese industry.
• Wayne A. Rebhorn, Celanese Centennial Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin: 1992: The Renaissance discourse of rhetoric.
• Nancy F. Regalado, Professor of French, New York University: 1992: The Paris Pentecost feast of 1313.
• Donald Revell, Poet; Professor of English, University of Utah: 1992: Poetry.
• Shelley Rice, Writer; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History and Photography, New York University; Member of the Faculty, School of Visual Arts, New York City: 1992: Photography in France and Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris.
• Curt Richter, Photographer; Instructor, International Center of Photography, New York City: 1992: Photography.
• Jeffrey C. Robinson, Professor of English, University of Colorado at Boulder: 1992: Sexuality and the poetry of Keats.
• Renato Rosaldo, Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Stanford University: 1992: Cultural citizenship and educational democracy.
• Israel Rosenfield, Professor of History, John Jay College, City University of New York: 1992: Explanation and prediction in the neurosciences.
• Marlon B. Ross, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan: 1992: A cultural history of romance in Britain, 1760-1900.
• David H. Sacks, Associate Professor of History and Humanities, Reed College: 1992: Monopoly and liberty in early modern England, 1558-1549.
• Scott R. Sanders, Professor of English, Indiana University: 1992: Essays on the sense of place.
• Luc Sante, Writer, Brooklyn, New York: 1992: The idea of nationality.
• Menahem Schmelzer, Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature and Jewish Bibliography, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America: 1992: The Hebrew book and the Jewish mind.
• Thomas W. Schoener, Professor of Zoology and Environmental Studies, University of California, Davis: 1992: The ecology of small tropical islands.
• Mira Schor, Artist, New York City; Visiting Member of the Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College; Co-Editor, M/E/A/N/I/N/G: 1992: Painting.
• Thomas D. Seeley, Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University: 1992: The collective intelligence of honey bees.
• Maureen Selwood, Film Animator; Member of the Faculty, California Institute of the Arts: 1992: Film animation.
• H. A. Shapiro, Professor of Classics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: 1992: A study of Athenian hero cults.
• Drew E. Shiflett, Artist, New York City: 1992: Sculpture.
• Ronald L. Shreve, Professor of Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Los Angeles: 1992: The physics of sand and gravel transport by rivers.
• Irene Silverblatt, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University: 1992: A social history of indigenous Andean ideologies.
• Debora L. Silverman, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles: 1992: Art, craft, and religion in the life and work of Vincent van Gogh.
• Paul F. Slattery, Professor of Physics, University of Rochester: 1992: Direct photon studies and collider experimentation.
• Thomas P. Slaughter, Professor of History, Rutgers University: 1992: The Bartrams, nature, and the American Enlightenment.
• Bonnie G. Smith, Professor of History, Rutgers University: 1992: Gender and the practice of scientific history, 1800-1940.
• Edward E. Smith, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan: 1992: The cognitive neuroscience of categorization and reasoning.
• David M. Spear, Photographer, Madison, North Carolina: 1992: Photography.
• Elizabeth Spires, Writer-in-Residence, Goucher College; Adjunct Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing, The Johns Hopkins University: 1992: Poetry.
• Robert C. Stacey, Associate Professor of History and Member, Jewish Studies Faculty, University of Washington: 1992: The English Jews in the Middle Ages.
• Matthew Stadler, Writer, Seattle, Washington: 1992: Fiction.
• Susan Strasser, Associate Professor of History and American Civilization and Director, University Honors Program, George Washington University: 1992: A social history of household trash in the United States.
• Romey Stuckart, Artist, Hope, Idaho: 1992: Painting.
• Rosemary Sullivan, Professor of English, University of Toronto: 1992: A biography of Gwendolyn MacEwen.
• Luke Tierney, Professor of Statistics, University of Minnesota: 1992: Studies in high-dimensional inference problems.
• Christopher Tilghman, Writer, Harvard, Massachusetts; Instructor in Writing, Emerson College: 1992: Fiction.
• Marc Treib, Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley: 1992: Modern landscape architecture in Europe, 1930-1955.
• Douglas H. Turner, Professor of Chemistry, University of Rochester: 1992: Model systems for predicting tertiary interactions in RNA.
• Mark Turner, Professor of English, University of Maryland at College Park: 1992: The literary mind.
• Mary Ann Unger, Artist, New York City: 1992: Sculpture.
• James Webster, Professor of Music, Cornell University: 1992: The analysis of Mozart's operas.
• Ryan Weideman, Photographer, New York City: 1992: Photography.
• James B. White, Hart Wright Professor of Law, Professor of English, and Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies, University of Michigan: 1992: The rhetorical constitution of authority.
• John P. Wikswo, A.B. Learned Professor of Living State Physics and Professor of Physics, Vanderbilt University: 1992: Magnetic imaging of biological, superconducting, and structural systems.
• Richard Wilson, Composer; Mary Conover Mellon Professor of Music, Vassar College: 1992: Music composition.
• Adam Zagajewski, Poet and Writer, Courbevoie: 1992: Poetry.
• John Zaller, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles: 1992: The role of information in electoral choice.
• Phillip B. Zarrilli, Professor of Theatre and Drama and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison: 1992: Emotional expression in the kathakali theatre of south India.

1992 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

• Hildegart Ahumada, Chief Analyst, Central Bank of the Argentine Republic, Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1992: A dynamic econometric analysis of money and inflation in Argentina.
• Silvia Arango de Jaramillo, Professor of Architecture, National University of Colombia, Bogotá: 1992: A study of contemporary challenges in the aesthetics of modern Latin American architecture.
• Alberto Arregui, Professor of Neurology, University of Peru Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru: 1992: A study of the effects of chronic hypoxia on the brain.
• Blas Atehortúa, Composer; Member of the Music Faculty, Simón Bolivar Conservatory of Music, Caracas, Venezuela; Professor of Music Pedagogy, National Cultural Council (CONAC), Caracas: 1992: Music composition.
• Napoleón Baccino Ponce de León, Writer; Literary Adviser, Ministry of Education and Culture, Montevideo, Uruguay; Director, First International House of Latin American Culture, Montevideo: 1992: Fiction.
• Ignacio Barradas, ch, Guanajuato, Mexico: 1992: An analytical study of species diversity in metapopulations.
• Christiana Borchart de Moreno, Research Professor, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador: 1992: A study of gender and economy in Quito, 1780-1830.
• Carmen Boullosa, Writer, Mixcoac, Mexico: 1992: Fiction.
• Manuel Burga, Professor of History, National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru; President, Andean Foundation, Lima: 1992: A study of the Andean aristocracy, 1680-1780.
• Julio Collado Vides, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Center of Nitrogen Fixation Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico: 1992.: A linguistic theory of the regulation of gene expression.
• Luiz Alberto Nicolaci da Costa, Senior Researcher, National Observatory, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Visiting Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1992: A study of large-scale structure and peculiar motions in the universe.
• Arturo Duclos Zúñiga, Artist, Santiago, Chile: 1992: Painting and installations.
• Eduardo R. Fuentes, Professor of Ecology, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago; Professor of Ecology, University of Chile, Santiago: 1992: A study of the evergreen temperate rainforests of Chile.
• Flavio Garciandía Oraá, Artist; Professor of Fine Arts, Higher Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba: 1992: Painting.
• Guillermo Hare, Photography; Professor of Photography, University of Lima, Peru: 1992: Photography.
• Paulo Herkenhoff, Art Historian, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 1992: A poetics of the Amazon jungle through art.
• Cecilia Hidalgo, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago; Professor of Biophysics, Santiago Center for Scientific Studies (CECS): 1992: A study of the regulation of calcium release from the intracellular stores in skeletal muscle.
• José Carlos Huayhuaca del Pino, Film Maker; Research Professor of Communications, University of Lima, Peru; Professor of Film Studies, Catholic University of Peru, Lima: 1992: Filmmaking.
• Jair Koiller, Research Professor, National Computer Science Laboratory; Associate Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 1992: A study of singularly perturbed Hamiltonian systems.
• Lorenzo Martinez, Professor of Materials Science, Institute of Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City: 1992: A study of the influence of niobium and vanadium on the mechanical properties of microalloyed steels.
• Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher, Deceased. Poetry: 1992: Poetry.
• Caryl Phillips, Writer, St. Kitts, West Indies; Professor of English and Co-Director, Creative Writing Center, Amherst College: 1992: Fiction.
• Teresa Porzecanski, Professor of Anthropology and Director, School of Social Work, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay: 1992: Fiction.
• Diana Raznovich, Playwright, Buenos Aires: 1992: Playwriting.
• Fidel A. Schaposnik, Professor of Physics and Principal Researcher, Buenos Aires Scientific Research Commission, University of La Plata, Argentina: 1992: A study of two- and three-dimensional field theories and their applications.
• Horacio Spector, Dean and Professor of Law, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Law School: 1992: A conceptual, legal, and political analysis of communitarianism and Argentine social thought.
• Victor M. Toledo, Researcher, Center of Ecology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City: 1992: An ethno-ecological analysis of the peasant appropriation of nature.
• Nari Ward, Sculptor, New York City and Jamaica, West Indies: 1992: Sculpture.

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