1997

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1997 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

• André Aciman, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University: An Italian memoir.
• Guenter Ahlers, Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara: Spatio-temporal chaos.
• Millard Alexander, Professor of Chemistry, University of Maryland at College Park: The influence of electrons on chemical reactions.
• Albert W. Alschuler, Wilson-Dickinson Professor and Arnold and Frieda Shure Scholar, University of Chicago Law School: Oliver Wendell Holmes and the decline of rights.
• James E. Alt, Professor of Government, Harvard University: Political parties, institutions, and fiscal policy.
• Maryanne Amacher, Sound Installation Artist, Kingston, New York: Sound installation art.
• Henning Andersen, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles: The emergence of the Slavic languages.
• Eleanor Antin, Installation Artist, Del Mar, California; Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego: Installation art.
• George Arasimowicz, Composer, Lakewood, Colorado; Associate Professor of Music, University of Colorado at Denver: Music composition.
• Kariamu Welsh Asante, Choreographer, Philadelphia; Professor of African and African American Dance, Temple University: Choreography.
• Mahzarin R. Banaji, Associate Professor of Psychology, Yale University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University: The nature of implicit prejudice.
• Andrea Barrett, Writer, Rochester, New York: Fiction.
• Rick Bass, Writer, Troy, Montana: Fiction.
• Mary Berridge, Photographer, New York City; Adjunct Instructor in Photography, School of Visual Arts: Photography.
• Mario Biagioli, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University: Styles of authorship and economies of credit in science.
• Peter W. M. Blayney, Distinguished Resident Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D. C.: The Stationers' Company of London, 1501-1616.
• Jeffrey Bluestone, Charles B. Huggins Professor in the Biological Sciences and Director, Ben May Institute for Cancer Research, University of Chicago: Models of peripheral tolerance and anergy.
• Paul Bochner, Artist, Valley Cottage, New York: Painting.
• Luciano Boi, Associate Professor of Philosophy and History of Modern Mathematics and Physics, University of Quebec at Montreal: Mathematical developments in the geometrization of theoretical physics.
• Gregg Bordowitz, Film Maker, Brooklyn, New York; Member of the Visiting Faculty, Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art: Film making.
• Sugata Bose, Professor of History and Diplomacy, and Director, Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University: Culture, economy, and politics on the Indian Ocean rim, 1790-1990.
• John L. Brooke, Associate Professor of History, Tufts University: Civil society in the Hudson valley, 1776-1846.
• Caroline Astrid Bruzelius, Director, American Academy in Rome; Professor of Art History, Duke University: The churches of the Angevin kings of Naples.
• Norman Bryson, Professor of Art History, Harvard University: Art, gender, and nation in Japanese visual culture.
• Louise M. Burkhart, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany: The Virgin Mary in early Nahuatl literature.
• John Burt, Associate Professor of English, Brandeis University: Lincoln, Douglas, and the political culture of freedom.
• Robert A. Burt, Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law, Yale University: The administration of death in American medicine, law, and culture.
• Jesse L. Byock, Professor of Old Norse and Medieval Scandinavian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles: The excavation of a Viking chieftain.
• Rafael Campo, Poet, Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston: Poetry.
• Glenn R. Carroll, Paul J. Cortese Professor of Management, University of California, Berkeley: The strategy and organization of specialty producers.
• Paul Michael Chaikin, Professor of Physics, Princeton University: The structure and dynamics of complex fluids and biological systems.
• Ivan V. Cherednik, Professor of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Studies in representation theory and its applications.
• Sallie W. Chisholm, McAfee Professor of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Studies in ocean fertilization.
• Thomas Cogswell, Associate Professor of History, University of Kentucky: The transformation of English political culture before the Civil War.
• Vincent Crawford, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego: Experimental studies of strategic behavior and cognition.
• Lydia Davis, Writer, Port Ewen, New York; Adjunct Professor, Writing Program in Fiction and Poetry, Bard College: Fiction.
• Nicholas Dawidoff, Writer, New York City: A biographical memoir of Alexander Gerschenkron.
• Carolyn J. Dean, Associate Professor of History, Brown University: Pornography, violence, and French politics, 1870-1940.
• David G. De Long, Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania: 20th-century alterations to significant American buildings.
• Eduardo Del Valle, Photographer, Miami; Associate Professor of Art, Florida International University: Photography.
• Barbara B. Diefendorf, Professor of History, Boston University: Politics and piety in Counter-Reformation Paris.
• Nathaniel Dorsky, Film Maker, San Francisco: Film making.
• Persis S. Drell, Associate Professor of Physics, Cornell University: Experimental prospects for strong electroweak symmetry-breaking.
• Thomas A. DuBois, Associate Professor of Scandinavian Studies and of Comparative Literature, University of Washington: The aesthetics and meaning of the North European lyric.
• Maud Ellmann, University Lecturer in English and Fellow, King's College, Cambridge, England: Dynamics of exchange in modernist fiction.
• Laura Engelstein, Professor of History, Princeton University: Christian eunuchs in Tsarist and Soviet Russia.
• Gordon L. Fain, Professor of Physiological Science and Opthalmology, University of California, Los Angeles: The role of calcium in photoreceptor degeneration.
• Donal Fox, Composer, Roxbury, Massachusetts: Music composition.
• Jonathan Freedman, Associate Professor of English and American Culture, University of Michigan: Jewish and deviant identities in 19th- and 20th-century literature.
• Judith Freeman, Writer, Los Angeles; Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Southern California: Fiction.
• Alan Frieze, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University: Algorithms and probability.
• Harry L. Frisch, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, State University of New York at Albany: The kinetics and statistical mechanics of high polymers.
• Patricia Fumerton, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara: The culture of vagrancy in early modern England.
• Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Artist, Culver City, California; Graduate Advisor, M.F.A. Program, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena: Painting.
• Karin F. Giusti, Installation Artist, New York City; Assistant Professor of Art, Brooklyn College, City University of New York: Sculpture installation.
• Mirta Gómez Del Valle, Photographer, Miami; Associate Professor of Art, Florida International University: Photography.
• James Goodman, Associate Professor of History and of Social Studies, Harvard University; Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University, Newark: Liberals and radicals who changed their minds about race, 1965-1995.
• Elliott J. Gorn, Professor of History and American Studies, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio: A biography of Mother Jones.
• Elizabeth Graver, Writer, Lincoln, Massachusetts: Assistant Professor of English, Boston College: Fiction.
• Slawomir Grünberg, Film Maker, Spencer, New York; Producer, Director, and Writer, Log In Productions: Documentary film making.
• John Hagan, Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Toronto: American draft dodgers in Canada.
• Joanna Haigood, Choreographer, Lagunitas, California; Artistic Director, ZACCHO Dance Theatre, San Francisco: Choreography.
• Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Irving E. Houck Associate Professor in the Humanities, Oberlin College: The art of female monasticism in the Holy Roman Empire.
• Michele Hannoosh, Professor of French, University College London: A new edition of Delacroix's journal.
• Miriam Bratu Hansen, Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago: The Frankfurt School on film and mass culture.
• Anne Harris, Artist, South Portland, Maine; Assistant Professor of Art, Bowdoin College: Painting.
• Stephen Hartke, Composer, Glendale, California; Associate Professor of Composition, University of Southern California: Music composition.
• Ross Hassig, Professor of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma: Power and ideology in Aztec society.
• Douglas J. Henderson, Professor of Chemistry, Brigham Young University: The structure of inhomogeneous fluids.
• Jeffrey Henderson, Professor of Classical Studies, Boston University: An edition and study of Aristophanes's Knights.
• Gilbert Herdt, Professor of Human Development, University of Chicago: Ritual rebirth in Sambia initiation.
• George C. Herring, Alumni Professor of History, University of Kentucky: America's foreign relations since 1776.
• Michael Nathaniel Hersch, Composer, Baltimore, Maryland: Music composition.
• Jennifer Elaine Higdon, Composer, Philadelphia; Professor of Music Theory, Curtis Institute of Music: Music composition.
• Mary T. Hufford, Folklife Specialist, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress: Time, space, and historical discourse in central Appalachia.
• Melissa Hui, Composer, Menlo Park, California; Assistant Professor of Music, Stanford University: Music composition.
• Terence Irwin, Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters, Cornell University: The development of ethics.
• Allen F. Isaacman, Professor of History and Scholar of the College of Liberal Arts, and Director, MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Peace and International Cooperation, University of Minnesota: The Chikunda of south-central Africa, 1650-1920.
• Yvonne Jacquette, Artist, New York City; Visiting Critic, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts: Painting.
• Melinda James, Artist, Woodmont, Connecticut: Painting and drawing.
• Iain M. Johnstone, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, Stanford University: Sparsity in nonparametric function estimation.
• Nicole Jordan, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago: European power politics, 1914-1941.
• Lily E. Kay, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Warren S. McCulloch and the making of modern neuroscience.
• Boaz Keysar, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago: Knowledge in language use.
• Charles B. Kimmel, Professor of Biology and Member, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon: Developmental patterning of the vertebrate head.
• Lynn Marie Kirby, Film Maker, Paris, France; Professor of Film and Video, California College of Arts and Crafts: Film making.
• Mark Kirkpatrick, Professor of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin: The evolution of breeding systems.
• Sergiu Klainerman, Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University: Nonlinear wave equations.
• Daniel J. Klionsky, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Associate Microbiologist, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of California, Davis: Studies in the molecular basis of autophagy.
• Geoffrey Koziol, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: Monks, marriage, and discourses of power in 10th-century France.
• Mark LaPore, Film Maker, Brookline, Massachusetts; Professor of Film Making, Massachusetts College of Art: Film making.
• James Lasdun, Poet, Shady, New York; Instructor in Creative Writing, Bennington College: Poetry.
• An-My Lê, Photographer, New York City: Photography.
• Barbara Lebow, Playwright, Atlanta, Georgia; Playwright-in-Residence, Academy Theatre, Atlanta: Play writing.
• Thomas M. Liggett, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles: Stochastic models of interacting systems.
• Judith Linhares, Artist, New York City; Member of the Faculty, School of Visual Arts; Instructor in Painting, New York University: Painting.
• Lydia H. Liu, Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley: Missionary linguistic enterprise in 19th-century China.
• Margot Livesey, Writer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Writer-in-Residence, Emerson College: Fiction.
• Charles Long, Artist, New York City: Sculpture and installation art.
• Marvin W. Makinen, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago: Magnetic resonance studies of metallo-ribozymes.
• Jacqui Malone, Associate Professor of Drama, Theatre, and Dance, Queens College, City University of New York: The life of Cholly Atkins.
• Charles R. Marshall, Associate Professor of Paleobiology, University of California, Los Angeles: Studies in analytical paleontology.
• Anthony W. Marx, Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia University: The nation-state and its exclusions.
• Khaled Mattawa, Poet and Translator, Los Angeles: Poetry and translation.
• Mercedes Matter, Artist, East Hampton, New York; Founder, Dean Emeritus, and Instructor in Painting and Sculpture, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture: Painting and drawing.
• Donald McDonagh, Lecturer in Dance History, Purchase College, State University of New York; Adjunct Associate Professor of Humanities, New York University: Balanchine as teacher, 1957-1967.
• Sheila McTighe, Assistant Professor of Art History, Barnard College, Columbia University: Studies in Italian and French genre art, 1580-1720.
• Helena Michie, Professor of English, Rice University: Victorian honeymoons.
• James Miller, Professor of Political Science and Director of Liberal Studies, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School for Social Research: A cultural history of rock and roll.
• Michael B. Miller, Professor of History, Syracuse University: European ports and world shipping in the 20th century.
• Susan Morgan, Professor of English and Faculty Affiliate of Women's Studies, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio: A biography of Anna Leonowens.
• Deborah Muirhead, Professor of Art, University of Connecticut: Painting.
• Robert E. Norton, Professor of German, Vassar College: Stefan George and his circle.
• Naomi Shihab Nye, Poet and Editor, San Antonio, Texas: Poetry.
• Kira Obolensky, Playwright, Minneapolis: Play writing.
• Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Professor of English, University of Notre Dame: Constructions of self in Anglo-Saxon texts.
• Jacob K. Olupona, Professor of African-American and African Studies, University of California, Davis: Yoruba thought and culture.
• Jacqueline Osherow, Poet, Salt Lake City; Associate Professor of English, University of Utah: Poetry.
• Cara Perlman, Artist, New York City: Sculpture.
• Carl Phillips, Poet, St. Louis; Associate Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies, and Director of Creative Writing Program, Washington University at St. Louis: Poetry.
• Andrew Pickering, Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Intersections of human and material agency.
• Robert Polito, Director, The Writing Programs, New School for Social Research: The lives of seven noir artists.
• David Politzer, Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology: Studies in theoretical physics.
• Paras N. Prasad, Photonics Science Professor of Chemistry and Director, Photonics Research Laboratory, State University of New York at Buffalo: High-density three-dimensional optical memory.
• Larry Racioppo, Photographer, Belle Harbor, New York; Staff Photographer, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development: Photography.
• Ronald Radano, Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies and of the School of Music, University of Wisconsin, Madison: The American idea of "black music.".
• Debraj Ray, Professor of Economics, Boston University: The economic impact of inequality.
• Angeles B. Ribera, Associate Professor of Physiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver: Ion-channel mutations affecting embryonic development.
• Alan Richardson, Professor of English, Boston College: British literature, culture, and the brain, 1780-1830.
• Douglas Richstone, Professor of Astronomy, University of Michigan: Black holes and the centers of galaxies.
• Dagmar Ringe, Lucille P. Markey Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Brandeis University: Science policy in an age of limits.
• Russell L. Roberts, Artist, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Painting.
• Peter J. Rossky, George W. Watt Centennial Professor of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin: Molecular details of solution structure and dynamics.
• Joan Shelley Rubin, Professor of History, University of Rochester: Poetry and the reading public in America.
• Allen Ruppersberg, Artist, New York City: Visual art.
• Michael J. Ryan, Clark Hubbs Regents Professor in Zoology, University of Texas at Austin: Neural nets and the evolution of female mating preferences.
• Peter Sacks, Poet, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Professor of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University: Poetry.
• Eric Maurice Saks, Film Maker, San Francisco; Producer and Director, Golden Mean Productions: Film making.
• Barbara A. Schaal, Professor of Biology, Washington University at St. Louis: Evolution in the tropical plant genus Manihot.
• Raymond W. Schmitt, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts: Double diffusive convection and oceanic mixing.
• Michael A. Sells, Emily Judson Baugh and John Marshall Gest Professor of Comparative Religions, Haverford College: The poetics of the classical Arabic Qasida.
• Adrian Shubert, Professor of History, York University: A social history of Spanish bullfighting.
• Pierre Sikivie, Professor of Physics, University of Florida: The axion as a dark-matter candidate.
• Laurie Simmons, Artist, New York City; Visiting Critic in Art, Yale University: Visual art.
• Pamela H. Smith, Assistant Professor of History, Pomona College; Director of European Studies, Claremont Graduate School: The representation of material things in early modern Europe.
• Rolf Sternglanz, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Brain proteins that interact with glutamate receptors.
• Susan Straight, Writer, Riverside, California; Associate Professor of Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside: Fiction.
• Arthur Sze, Poet, Sante Fe, New Mexico; Professor of Creative Writing, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe: Poetry.
• Denyse Thomasos, Artist, New York City; Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Rutgers University: Painting.
• Michael Tomasello, Professor of Psychology, Emory University: The phylogenetic and ontogenetic origins of human cultural learning.
• Muriel Topaz, Writer, Milford, Connecticut; Freelance Writer and Editor, Dance Magazine: A biography of Antony Tudor.
• Trimpin, Sound Installation Artist, Seattle, Washington: Music composition.
• Kari Vilonen, Professor of Mathematics, Brandeis University: Geometric methods in representation theory and automorphic forms.
• Paul S. Weiss, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University: Studies of single biomolecular complexes.
• Dan Welcher, Composer, Bastrop, Texas; Professor of Composition, University of Texas at Austin: Music composition.
• Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: Christianity and the regulation of sexuality, 1450-1750.
• David R. Williams, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Optics, and the Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester: The cone mosaic and color vision.
• Terry Tempest Williams, Writer, Salt Lake City: Literary nonfiction.
• Jennifer Wolch, Professor of Geography and Urban and Regional Planning, University of Southern California: Urban poverty and the production of place.
• Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Class of 1922 Professor of Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: A biographical study of Willa Cather.
• Bill Young, Choreographer, New York City; Artistic Director, Bill Young & Dancers: Choreography.
• Lai-Sang Young, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles: The mathematical theory of dynamical systems.
• Caveh Zahedi, Film Maker, Venice, California: Film making.
• James E. G. Zetzel, Professor of Classics, Columbia University: A study of Cicero's De re publica.

1997 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

• Jorge Enrique Adoum, Poet and Writer, Quito, Ecuador: A memoir of writers and artists.
• M. Jacqui Alexander, Visiting Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, and Cultural Studies, New School for Social Research, New York City: The struggle over memory and spiritual practice in 19th-century Trinidad.
• Francisco Javier Alvarez-Leefmans, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxology, Center of Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico City; Head of Neurobiology Section, Mexican Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City: Intracellular chloride regulation and osmotic equilibrium in nerve cells.
• Juan J. Armesto, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Chile: Ecosystem management and education.
• Eduardo Arzt, Career Investigator, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET); Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Buenos Aires: Studies on the regulatory interaction between cytokines and glucocorticoids.
• Carmen Berenguer, Poet and Writer, Santiago, Chile: Fiction.
• Ricardo Brey, Artist, Gent, Belgium: Installation art and sculpture.
• Rimer Cardillo, Artist, New York City; Associate Professor of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz: Installation art.
• Mario Carretero, Professor of Psychology, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Buenos Aires, Argentina: National identity and the understanding of history in South America.
• Olivier Debroise, Scholar and Writer, Mexico City; Director, Curare, Espacio Crítico para las Artes, Mexico City: Sergei Eisenstein at Tetlapayac, Mexico.
• Arturo Escobar, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Cultural and biological diversity in the late 20th century.
• Abelardo José Estorino López, Playwright, Havana, Cuba; Artistic Director, Cia. Teatral Hubert de Blanck, Havana: Play writing.
• Jorge Fons, Film Maker, Mexico City: Film making.
• María Cristina Fraire, Photographer, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Photography.
• Luis Miguel Glave, Historian, Institute of Peruvian Studies, Lima, Peru: The transformation of the indigenous world of the Andean altiplano.
• Daniel Eduardo Gómez, Professor of Molecular Biology and Head, Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Quilmes National University, Buenos Aires, Argentina: The inhibition of angiogenesis by TIMP-1.
• Ivan Antonio Izquierdo, Professor of Neurochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil: The role of the amygdala and hippocampus in the formation of aversive memory.
• Carlos Eugênio Marcondes de Moura, Research Fellow, Institute of Brazilian Studies, University of São Paulo, Brazil: Images of the Negro in the illustrated magazines of the Brazilian Empire, 1837-89.
• Jean Meyer, Research Professor, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), Mexico City: French military officers in Mexico, 1862-67.
• Carlos Monsiváis, Researcher, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico City: A century of Americanization in Mexico.
• Eduardo J. Muñoz-Ordoqui, Photographer, Tucson, Arizona: Photography.
• Nadín Ospina, Artist, Bogotá, Colombia: Sculpture.
• Paulo Antonio Paranaguá, Journalist, Radio France International, Paris, France: An analysis of the person and the films of Cantinflas.
• Luis Raul Pericchi, Professor of Software Mathematics and Statistics, Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, Venezuela: Bayes factors for model selection and prediction.
• Pedro Prieto, Professor of Physics, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia: Photoresponse in HTc superconducting thin films.
• Rafael Quintero López, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Central University of Ecuador, Quito: Tendencies of public opinion and political power in Ecuador.
• J. Edgardo Rivera Martínez, Writer, Lima, Peru; Professor Emeritus of Literature, University of San Marcos, Lima.: Fiction.
• Guillermo Orlando Rojas Feliz, Film Maker, Cuban Institute of Art and Film Making, Havana, Cuba: Film making.
• Federico J. Sabina, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Systems Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City: Overall properties and waves in composite materials.
• Ernesto Vila, Artist, Montevideo, Uruguay; Artistic Advisor, Museo Torres García, Montevideo: Painting and collage.
• Alicia Villarreal Mesa, Artist, Santiago, Chile; Professor of Graphics and Analytical Drawing, Universidad Arcis, Santiago: Multimedia installation art.
• Jorge Zanelli Iglesias, Professor of Physics, Center for Scientific Study, Santiago; Professor of Physics, University of Santiago, Chile: Geometry and quantum mechanics.

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