List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1987
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Guggenheim Fellowships have been awarded annually since 1925, by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922...

 to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." The following is a list of the fellowships that were awarded in 1987:
Fellow Category Field of Study
Elsa Beatriz Abuin Natural Sciences Chemistry
Dennis Adrian Humanities Fine Arts Research
Yuz Aleshkovsky
Yuz Aleshkovsky
Iosif Efimovich Aleshkovsky , known as Yuz Aleshkovsky , is a modern Russian writer, poet, playwright and performer of his own songs.-Biography:...

Creative Arts Fiction
Dudley Andrew
Dudley Andrew
Dudley Andrew is an American film theorist. He is R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he has taught since the year 2000. Andrew is "one of the most influential scholars in the areas of theory, history and criticism," particularly specializing in...

Humanities Film, Video, & Radio Studies
Jean-Marie Apostolidès
Jean-Marie Apostolidès
Jean-Marie Apostolidès is a French novelist, essayist, playwright, theater director, and university professor. He was born in Saint-Bonnet-Tronçais, France, on November 27, 1943.- Biography:...

Humanities French Literature
Arakawa
Shusaku Arakawa
was a Japanese artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with writer and artist Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades.-Life:...

Creative Arts Fine Arts
R. Douglas Arnold Social Sciences Political Science
W. Brian Arthur
W. Brian Arthur
William Brian Arthur is an economist credited with influencing and describing the modern theory of increasing returns. He has lived and worked in Northern California for many years. He is an authority on economics in relation to complexity theory, technology and financial markets...

Social Sciences Economics
Jelle Atema Natural Sciences Organismic Biology & Ecology
Apostolos N. Athanassakis
Apostolos Athanassakis
Apostolos N. Athanassakis is a classical scholar and Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara . Professor Athanassakis, or "Professor A" as he is often referred to by students, currently serves as the faculty in residence in Manzanita Village....

Humanities Classics
Charles Atlas
Charles Atlas
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Creative Arts Film
Bernard Avishai
Bernard Avishai
Bernard Avishai, Contributing Editor of Harvard Business Review, splits his time between Jerusalem and Wilmot, New Hampshire. He has taught at Duke, MIT, and was director of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel. From 1998 to 2001 he was International...

Creative Arts Biography
Reinaldo Ayerbe-Chaux Humanities Spanish & Portuguese Literature
Mardges Bacon Humanities Architecture, Planning, & Design
Arnold J. Band Humanities Near Eastern Studies
Joseph Bartscherer Creative Arts Photography
Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson is an American writer and cultural anthropologist.A graduate of the Brearley School, Bateson is the daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Since 1960, she has been married to Barkev Kassarjian, a professor of business management at Babson College...

General Nonfiction
Kamaljit S. Bawa Plant Sciences
John Maurice Beattie Humanities British History
Vereen M. Bell English Literature
May R. Berenbaum Organismic Biology & Ecology
Alan E. Bernstein Medieval History
Lawrence F. Bernstein Music Research
Robert C. Berwick Computer Science
Robert J. Bezucha Intellectual & Cultural History
Susan Morton Blaustein
Susan Morton Blaustein
Susan Morton Blaustein is an American pianist and composer. She was born in Palo Alto, California, and studied piano and composition at Pomona College with Karl Kohn, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1975. She continued her studies in composition at the Liege Conservatory in Belgium...

Music Composition
Lisa Block de Behar Latin American Literature
Leon H. Borensztein Creative Arts Photography
Robert Bringhurst
Robert Bringhurst
Robert Bringhurst is a Canadian poet, typographer and author. He is the author of The Elements of Typographic Style – a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric arrangement of type...

Poetry
William A. Brock Economics
Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey, born Aaron Roy Weintraub was an American writer, and novelist.-Life:Brodkey was raised in University City, Missouri outside St. Louis...

Fiction
Jeffrey Peter Brooks Russian History
Lawrence Ingalls Buell American Literature
Melissa Meriam Bullard Renaissance History
Jon Butler
Jon Butler
Jon Butler is a historian and Howard R. Lamar Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University. He earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota, and is known for his research on the role of religion in early American history...

U.S. History
Joan L. Bybee Linguistics
Robert S. Cantwell Folklore & Popular Culture
T. Carmi
T. Carmi
-Biography:He was born Carmi Charny in New York City. Hebrew was his mother tongue and his family used it as the spoken language of their home. He moved to Israel just before the outbreak of the Israeli War of Independence...

Poetry
John Miller Chernoff Folklore & Popular Culture
Alexandre Joel Chorin Applied Mathematics
Robert Christgau
Robert Christgau
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Folklore & Popular Culture
Shih-I Chu Chemistry
Yoshiko Chuma
Yoshiko Chuma
is a dancer, a choreographer and the director of the Bessie Award winning performance art group The School of Hard Knocks. Described in 2007 by Bloomberg as "a fixture on New York's downtown scene for over a quarter- century", her work spans from early "absurdist gaiety" to more recent serious...

Creative Arts Choreography
Vèvè A. Clark Dance Studies
Kevin Clinton
Kevin Clinton
Kevin Clinton is a retired American soccer goalkeeper who played professionally in the North American Soccer League and third American Soccer League....

Classics
Laurie Colwin
Laurie Colwin
Laurie Colwin was an American author. Her published works include Passion and Affect , Shine on, Bright and Dangerous Object , Happy All the Time , The Lone Pilgrim , Family Happiness , Another Marvelous Thing , Home Cooking , Goodbye without Leaving , More Home Cooking...

Fiction
Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé is a Guadeloupean, French language author of historical fiction, best known for her novel Segu . Maryse Condé was born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, the youngest of eight children. In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon and Sorbonne in Paris,...

Fiction
Frank Conroy
Frank Conroy
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Fiction
John M. Cooper
John M. Cooper
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Philosophy
Roger C. Cramton Law
Alfred W. Crosby Intellectual & Cultural History
Ellen Currie Fiction
Allan Matthew D\'Arcangelo Fine Arts
Gonzalo Díaz Cuevas Fine Arts
Luciano Debeljuk Neuroscience
Andrew E. DePristo Chemistry
David J. DeRosier Molecular & Cellular Biology
Stuart Diamond Fine Arts
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Philip-Lorca diCorcia is an American photographer. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Afterwards diCorcia attended Yale University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1979. He now lives and works in New York, and teaches at Yale University in New...

Creative Arts Photography
William Doppmann Music Composition
Ellen Driscoll Fine Arts
John S. Earman Philosophy
Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich
-Early life:Ehrenreich was born Barbara Alexander to Isabelle Oxley and Ben Howes Alexander in Butte, Montana, which she describes as then being "a bustling, brawling, blue collar mining town."...

General Nonfiction
Deborah Eisenberg Fiction
Roberto Horacio Elía Creative Arts Fine Arts
Richard Hall Elphick Humanities African Studies
James L. Enyeart
James L. Enyeart
James L. Enyeart is an American photographer, scholar and museum director.-Career:Enyeart was Director of George Eastman House from 1989 to 1995. Before that he served as Director of the Center for creative Photography at the University of Arizona from 1977 to 1989...

Humanities Photography Studies
Irving Robert Epstein Natural Sciences Chemistry
Robert A. Ferguson Social Sciences Law
Albert Feuerwerker Humanities East Asian Studies
Morgan Hall Fisher Creative Arts Film
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Sheila Fitzpatrick is an Australian-American historian. She teaches Soviet History at the University of Chicago.-Biography:Sheila Fitzpatrick attended the University of Melbourne and received her DPhil from St...

Humanities Russian History
Lazar Fleishman Humanities Slavic Literature
Aaron Moses Fogel Humanities Literary Criticism
Hugh Douglas Ford Creative Arts Biography
Carol Ann Fowler Social Sciences Psychology
Richard G. Fox Social Sciences Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Richard Wightman Fox Humanities U.S. History
Steven D. Fraade Humanities Religion
Andrew D. Frank Creative Arts Music Composition
Michael Friedman
Michael Friedman (philosopher)
Michael Friedman is a philosopher of science interested in Immanuel Kant and the post-analytic movement in philosophy. Friedman earned his A.B from Queen's College in New York and his PhD from Princeton University. He is Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities at Stanford University...

Humanities Philosophy
Annabelle Gamson
Annabelle Gamson
Annabelle Gamson is a renowned American dancer and choreographer. Although she has had a number of successes within the field of ballet, Gamson is particularly known for her work within the area of modern dance. As a dancer she drew particular acclaim for her interpretations of the works of...

Creative Arts Choreography
Graziano Gasparini Architecture, Planning, & Design
Raif Salim Geha Medicine & Health
Irving Geis
Irving Geis
Irving Geis was an American artist who worked closely with biologists. Geis's hand-drawn work depicts many structures of biological macromolecules, such as DNA and proteins, including the first crystal structure of sperm whale myoglobin.-Early life and education:Geis was born in New York City,...

Fine Arts
Eugene D. Genovese
Eugene D. Genovese
Eugene Dominic Genovese is an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He has been noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and slaves in the South. His work Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the...

U.S. History
Adolfo Gilly
Adolfo Gilly
Adolfo Atilio Gilly Malvagni , is an author of various books on the history of and politics of Mexico and Latin America and professor of History and Political Science at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City where he has been...

Political Science
Michael Gitlin
Michael Gitlin
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Fine Arts
Thomas F. Glick
Thomas F. Glick
Thomas F. Glick Ph.D. has been a professor at Boston University since 1972. He teaches in the departments of history and gastronomy. He served as the history department's chairperson from 1984 to 1989, and again from 1994 to 1995. He has also been the director of the Institute for Medieval...

Iberian & Latin American History
Claudia Goldin
Claudia Goldin
Claudia Goldin is an American economist and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University.Goldin is a director of the Development of the American Economy Program, and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research , located in Cambridge, Massachusetts...

Economic History
Merle Goldman East Asian Studies
Samuel Goldstein Medicine & Health
Roberta M. Golinkoff Social Sciences Psychology
Reginald George Golledge Geography & Environmental Studies
Gene Howard Golub Applied Mathematics
James Gould Organismic Biology & Ecology
Jeffrey Brent Graham Organismic Biology & Ecology
Clive W. J. Granger Economics
Jerry Richard Green Economics
Debora Greger
Debora Greger
Debora Greger is an award-winning American poet as well as a visual artist.She was raised in Richland, Washington....

Poetry
Nigel D.F. Grindley Molecular & Cellular Biology
Patricio Gross Architecture, Planning, & Design
Julie M. Gustafson Video & Audio
Ralph Hanna Medieval Literature
Michael T. Hannan Sociology
Joe Harris (mathematician) Mathematics
Oliver D\'Arcy Hart Economics
Allan Havis
Allan Havis
Allan Havis is a playwright with pronounced political themes and probes on colliding cultures. His works range from minimal language texts to ambiguous, ironic narratives that delineate the genesis, paradoxes, and seduction of evil. Several of his dramas involve Jewish identity, cultural...

Drama & Performance Art
John M. Hayes Organismic Biology & Ecology
Barry William Caldwell Higman Iberian & Latin American History
Robert Hillmann Creative Arts Film
Thomas Spight Hines Architecture, Planning, & Design
Stephen Holmes Political Science
Thomas C. Holt
Thomas C. Holt
Thomas Cleveland Holt is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago; he has produced a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora....

U.S. History
Sarah B. Hrdy Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Marie Hélène Huet French Literature
Clark Hulse English Literature
Jeffrey M. Hurwit Fine Arts Research
Mahir Saleh Hussein Physics
Richard W. Hyman Molecular & Cellular Biology
Kamran Ince
Kamran Ince
Kamran N. İnce is a Turkish-American composer.- Life :Ince was born in Glendive, Montana, and at the age of six moved with his family to Turkey. He entered the Ankara State Conservatory at the age of ten, in 1971, where he began studying cello and piano, and took composition lessons with İlhan Baran...

Creative Arts Music Composition
Stephen C. Innes Humanities U.S. History
Arthur J. Jelinek Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Len Jenkin Drama & Performance Art
Klavs Flemming Jensen Engineering
Charles R. Johnson
Charles R. Johnson
Charles R. Johnson is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. Johnson, an African-American, has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Middle Passage and Dreamer....

Fiction
Richard A. Joseph African Studies
Donald R. Kaplan Plant Sciences
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus is an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist. He has been Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University since 1979...

Chemistry
Michael T. Kaufman
Michael T. Kaufman
Michael T. Kaufman was a writer for the New York Times. He won the 1978 George Polk Award for foreign reporting for coverage of Africa. He died at St...

General Nonfiction
Alice A. Kelikian Italian Literature
William J. Kennedy Italian Literature
Charles F. Kennel Natural Sciences Astronomy--Astrophysics
J. Jorge Klor de Alva Anthropology & Cultural Studies
John Koethe
John Koethe
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Poetry
John B. Kogut Physics
Melvin L. Kohn
Melvin L. Kohn
Melvin L. Kohn is an American sociologist and past president of the American Sociological Association. He is currently a professor at Johns Hopkins University and conducts research on social structure and personality....

Sociology
Paul J. Korshin English Literature
Edward J. Kramer Engineering
Shigeko Kubota
Shigeko Kubota
is a visual and performance artist born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, in 1937. She studied sculpture at the Tokyo University of Education, and completed her studies at New York University and at the New School for Social Research in the early 1960s. She became vice chairman of the Fluxus...

Creative Arts Video & Audio
John Kucich Humanities English Literature
Carol Laderman
Carol Laderman
Carol Laderman , was a groundbreaking medical anthropologist, specializing in the study of pregnancy and childbirth practices, shamanism, and Southeast Asian cultures, particularly Malays in rural Terengganu, Malaysia...

Anthropology & Cultural Studies
David Lang
David Lang (composer)
David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:...

Music Composition
Richard A. Lanham
Richard A. Lanham
Richard A. Lanham is probably most widely known for his textbooks on revising prose to improve style and clarify thought. He is also a notable scholar of the history of rhetoric who has published notable books on the subject....

Literary Criticism
Antonio C. Lasaga Earth Science
Mario Lavista
Mario Lavista
Mario Lavista is a Mexican composer and writer. He has had numerous pieces published, especially chamber music, but also incidental music for plays, film scores, orchestral pieces, and vocal music....

Music Composition
Sydney W. Lea
Sydney Lea
Sydney Lea is an American poet, novelist, essayist, editor, and professor. His most recent book is A Little Wildness: Some Notes on Rambling , and he has a ninth collection of poetry, Young of the Year, forthcoming from Four Way Books...

Poetry
Jonathan D. Lear Philosophy
Pedro E. León Azofeifa Molecular & Cellular Biology
Ming Cho Lee
Ming Cho Lee
Ming Cho Lee is a Chinese-born American theatrical set designer and a longtime professor at the Yale School of Drama....

Theatre Arts
Hyam Lerner Leffert Medicine & Health
Stephen R. Leone Chemistry
James Lepowsky
James Lepowsky
James Lepowsky is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Previously he taught at Yale University. He received his Ph.D from M.I.T. in 1970 where his advisor was Bertram Kostant. Lepowsky graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1961, 16 years after Kostant...

Mathematics
Richard M. Lerman Video & Audio
Shirley Robin Letwin Law
Michael Lieb English Literature
Philip Lieberman
Philip Lieberman
Philip Lieberman is a linguist at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Originally trained in phonetics, he wrote a dissertation on intonation. The remainder of his career has focused on topics in the evolution of language, and particularly the relationship between the...

Psychology
Chung Laung Liu
Chung Laung Liu
Professor Chung Laung Liu , or C. L. Liu is an ethnic Chinese computer scientist. Born in Guangzhou, he spent his childhood in Macau. He received his B.Sc. degree in Taiwan, Master Degree and PHD in United States.-Biography:...

Computer Science
Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez
Barry Holstun Lopez is an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its environmental and social concerns.-Biography:...

General Nonfiction
Edward A. Love Fine Arts
Margot Lovejoy
Margot Lovejoy
Margot Lovejoy is a digital artist and historian of art and technology. She is Professor Emerita of Visual Arts at the State University of New York at Purchase and author of the books "Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age" and "Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic...

Fine Arts
Robin Warren Lovin Religion
Craig Lucas
Craig Lucas
Craig Lucas is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director.-Biography:...

Drama & Performance Art
Marc Mangel Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics
Sally Mann
Sally Mann
Sally Mann is an American photographer, best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.-Early life and education:...

Creative Arts Photography
Patrick Manning
Patrick Manning
Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning was the fourth and sixth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the former Political Leader of the People's National Movement . He served as Prime Minister from 17 December 1991 to 9 November 1995 and held that office again from 24 December 2001 until 26...

African Studies
J. Patrice Marandel Fine Arts Research
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez was an Argentine journalist and writer.-Life and work:Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an MA at the University of Paris...

Fiction
Lorna Martens German & Scandinavian Literature
Jane Roland Martin
Jane Roland Martin
Jane Roland Martin is an emerita professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has published a number of works relating to issues of gender in education.-Bibliography:Jane Roland Martin's books include:...

Education
Jaime Mas-Oliva Molecular & Cellular Biology
Gary G. Matthews Neuroscience
J. D. McClatchy Poetry
Terrence J. McDonald U.S. History
Paul Mendes-Flohr Religion
Pedro Meyer
Pedro Meyer
Pedro Meyer is a well-known photographer based in Mexico. He is one of the pioneers of the digital revolution in contemporary photography...

Creative Arts Photography
Dennis Martin Mills Applied Mathematics
Igor Félix Mirabel Astronomy--Astrophysics
Antonio F. Mitre Canahuati Iberian & Latin American History
Ewa Morawska Sociology
Segundo E. Moreno Yánez Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Ira J. Mowitz Music Composition
Alfred H. Mueller Physics
John E. Mueller Political Science
Basim Fuad Musallam History of Science & Technology
Alexander Nagel Natural Sciences Mathematics
Rainer Nägele Humanities German & Scandinavian Literature
Ulric Neisser
Ulric Neisser
Ulric Neisser is an American psychologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a faculty member at Cornell University. In 1995, he headed an American Psychological Association task force that reviewed The Bell Curve and related controversies in the study of intelligence. The task...

Psychology
Joshua Neustein
Joshua Neustein
Joshua Neustein is a contemporary visual artist living and working in New York and Tel Aviv. He is known primarily for his environmental installations and Post Minimalist torn paper works, as well as his series of large-scale map paintings. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of...

Fine Arts
William I. Newman Astronomy--Astrophysics
Stephen G. Nichols Medieval Literature
Margot Norris English Literature
Denis L. Norton Natural Sciences Earth Science
Joseph O'Rourke
Joseph O'Rourke (professor)
Joseph O'Rourke is the Olin Professor of Computer Science at Smith College and the chair of the Smith computer science department. His main research interest is computational geometry....

Natural Sciences Computer Science
Richard A. Olshen Natural Sciences Statistics
Maria Esther Orozco O. Natural Sciences Molecular & Cellular Biology
Diane Orr Creative Arts Film
David W. Oxtoby
David W. Oxtoby
David William Oxtoby is the ninth and current president of Pomona College. He has held this position since July 1, 2003. A theoretical chemist, he received his undergraduate education at Harvard University and his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley...

Natural Sciences Chemistry
Stevenson J. Palfi Video & Audio
Alberto Palloni Sociology
Richard Pare
Richard Pare
Richard Pare is an English photographer known for his work documenting Soviet modernist architecture. He was born in Portsmouth, England, on 20 January 1948. He studied graphic design and photography at Winchester and Ravensbourne College of Art before attending the Art Institute of Chicago...

Creative Arts Photography
Kathlyn A. Parker Chemistry
David Parry
David Parry
David Parry was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Cheshire...

Creative Arts Film
Esther Pasztory
Esther Pasztory
Esther Pasztory is a professor of Pre-Columbian art history at Columbia University. Since 1997 she has held the Lisa and Bernard Selz Chair in Art History and Archaeology. Among her many publications are the first art historical manuscripts on Teotihuacan and the Aztecs...

Fine Arts Research
Lee Patterson
Lee Patterson
Lee Patterson was a Canadian film and television actor.After attending Ontario College of Art, Patterson moved to England, where he specialized in playing virile American types in British films...

Medieval Literature
John Pencavel Economics
Vivian Perlis Music Research
Ruth Perry
Ruth Perry
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English Literature
Carl Forbes Petry Near Eastern Studies
Carla Rahn Phillips Iberian & Latin American History
Liz Phillips
Liz Phillips
Liz Phillips is an American artist specializing in sound art and interactive art. She was one of the first artists to make interactive sound sculpture. Her installations create sounds in relation to live forms. Phillips has exhibited her work at numerous art museums, alternative spaces, festivals,...

Fine Arts
Howardena D. Pindell Fine Arts
Alejandro Enrique Planchart Music Research
Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt is an American feminist poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry...

Poetry
Mary Louise Pratt
Mary Louise Pratt
Mary Louise Pratt is a Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University.Her first book, Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse, made an important contribution to critical theory by demonstrating that the foundation of written...

Literary Criticism
Rodolfo Oscar Rabanal Fiction
Rudolf A. Raff Organismic Biology & Ecology
Terrence Rafferty
Terrence Rafferty
Terrence Rafferty is a film critic, notably serving a regular post at The New Yorker during the 1990s. His writing has also appeared in Slate, The Atlantic Monthly, The Village Voice, The Nation, and The New York Times...

Film, Video, & Radio Studies
Lee Rainwater Sociology
Tilottama Rajan English Literature
Victor Alberto Ramos Earth Science
Arnold Rampersad
Arnold Rampersad
Arnold Rampersad is a biographer and literary critic. The first volume of his Life Of Langston Hughes was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He was born in Trinidad and Tobago....

American Literature
Roger L. Ransom Economic History
Mark Rappaport
Mark Rappaport
Mark Rappaport is an American independent/underground film director who has been working sporadically since the early 1970s. A lifelong New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated from Brooklyn College in 1964...

Creative Arts Film
Marina Ratner
Marina Ratner
Marina Ratner is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in ergodic theory. Around 1990 she proved a group of major theorems concerning unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces, known as Ratner's theorems. Ratner was awarded the Ostrowski Prize in 1993 and...

Mathematics
William Reddy French History
Michele H. Richman French Literature
Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold is an African American artist, best known for her painted story quilts. She is professor emeritus in the University of California, San Diego visual art department.-Life and artwork:...

Fine Arts
C Larry Roberts Creative Arts Film
James N. Rosenau
James N. Rosenau
James N. Rosenau was an American political scientist and international affairs scholar. He served as President of the International Studies Association from 1984 to 1985.-Life:...

Political Science
David Rosner
David Rosner
David Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Professor of History in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University...

History of Science & Technology
Norman Rush
Norman Rush
Norman Rush is an American novelist whose introspective novels and short stories are set in Botswana in the 1980s. He is the son of Roger and Leslie Rush...

Fiction
Daniel Russell French Literature
Evelyn Satinoff Neuroscience
Elaine Scarry
Elaine Scarry
Elaine Scarry , a professor of English and American Literature and Language, is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University...

Philosophy
Miriam Schapiro
Miriam Schapiro
Miriam Schapiro is a Canadian-born artist based in America. She is a pioneer of feminist art. She is also considered part of the Pattern and Decoration art movement....

Fine Arts
William R. Schowalter Engineering
Buky Schwartz
Buky Schwartz
-Biography:Schwartz was born in Jerusalem in 1932. From 1956 to 1958, he studied sculpture with Yitzhak Danziger at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. In 1959, he moved to London, where he studied at the St. Martin's School of Art from 1959 to 1962. After returning to Israel in...

Video & Audio
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was an American academic scholar in the fields of gender studies, queer theory , and critical theory. Her critical writings helped create the field of queer studies...

Literary Criticism
Enrique Semo Iberian & Latin American History
Barbara J. Shapiro British History
Douglas Y. Shapiro Organismic Biology & Ecology
K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless
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Chemistry
Sydney Shoemaker
Sydney Shoemaker
Sydney Shoemaker is an American philosopher. Until his retirement, he was a Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. He holds a PhD from Cornell and BA from Reed. In 1971, he delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University...

Philosophy
Maxine F. Singer Molecular & Cellular Biology
Brian Skyrms
Brian Skyrms
Brian Skyrms is a Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine and a Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He has worked on problems in the philosophy of science, causation, decision theory, game theory, and the...

Philosophy
Nicolas Slonimsky
Nicolas Slonimsky
Nicolas Slonimsky was a Russian born American composer, conductor, musician, music critic, lexicographer and author. He described himself as a "diaskeuast" ; "a reviser or interpolator."- Life :...

Music Research
Richard E. Spear
Richard E. Spear
Richard E. Spear is an American art historian and professor who specializes in Italian Baroque painting.- Education and academic career :...

Fine Arts Research
Jonathan Sperber German & East European History
Gabrielle M. Spiegel
Gabrielle M. Spiegel
Gabrielle Michele Spiegel is an American historian of medieval France, and the current Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University where she served as Chair for the history department for six years and Acting and Interim Dean of Faculty...

Medieval History
Carol B. Stack Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Sharon Sheehe Stark Fiction
W. Dabney Stuart
W. Dabney Stuart
Walker Dabney Stuart III is an American poet.He graduated from Davidson College, with a BA in English in 1960, and from Harvard University, with an MA in English in 1962....

Poetry
Susan Rubin Suleiman French Literature
Murad S. Taqqu Natural Sciences Mathematics
Edward H. Thorndike Natural Sciences Physics
Richard Toensing
Richard Toensing
Richard Toensing is an American composer and music educator. He studied composition at St. Olaf College and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1967...

Creative Arts Music Composition
James Stanley Trefil Natural Sciences Earth Science
José Francisco Triana Perez Creative Arts Drama & Performance Art
Lee Tribe Creative Arts Fine Arts
Endel Tulving
Endel Tulving
Endel Tulving is an experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist whose research on human memory has influenced generations of psychological scientists, neuroscientists, and clinicians...

Social Sciences Psychology
Robert L. Uffen Natural Sciences Molecular & Cellular Biology
Jorge Velazco Humanities Music Research
Miguel Angel Virasoro
Miguel Angel Virasoro
Miguel Angel Virasoro is an Argentine physicist who did most of his work in Italy. The Virasoro algebra is named after him. Together with Giorgio Parisi and Marc Mezard he discovered the...

Natural Sciences Physics
Robert von Hallberg Humanities American Literature
Catherine Wagner
Catherine Wagner
-Life:Wagner lived in Asia and the Middle East until 1977, when her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland.She graduated from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, University of Iowa , and University of Utah ....

Creative Arts Photography
Gary F. Waller Humanities English Literature
Kang Lung Wang Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics
Alvin C. Warren Social Sciences Law
Jon August Wellner Natural Sciences Statistics
Richard S. Westfall
Richard S. Westfall
Richard S. Westfall was an American academic, biographer and historian of science. He is best known for his biography of Isaac Newton and his work on the scientific revolution of the 17th century.-Life:...

Humanities History of Science & Technology
Alec Wilkinson
Alec Wilkinson
Alec Wilkinson is a writer who has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer he is among the "first rank of" contemporary American "literary journalists... of Naipaul, Norman Mailer and Agee." He is the author of nine books: "Midnights," , "Moonshine,"...

Creative Arts General Nonfiction
William T. Williams
William T. Williams
William T. Williams was born in Cross Creek, North Carolina, United States. He received a BFA degree from Pratt Institute in 1966 and studied at The Skowhegan School of Art. In 1968 he received an MFA degree from Yale University School of Art and Architecture...

Creative Arts Fine Arts
Neil Winokur Creative Arts Photography
Bryan Jay Wolf Humanities Fine Arts Research
Julian Wolpert Social Sciences Geography & Environmental Studies
C. D. Wright
C. D. Wright
Carolyn D. "C. D." Wright is an American poet.-Biography:Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas to a chancery judge and a court reporter. She earned a BA from Memphis State College in 1971 and briefly attended law school before leaving to pursue an MFA from the University of Arkansas, which...

Creative Arts Poetry
Renata Wulff Natural Sciences Plant Sciences
Aram A. Yengoyan Social Sciences Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Saúl Yurkievich Humanities Latin American Literature
Richard Zenith
Richard Zenith
Richard Zenith is an American writer and translator.-Awards:* 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship* 2006 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award-Reviews:...

Humanities Spanish & Portuguese Literature
Ahmed Hassan Zewail Natural Sciences Chemistry
Jeffrey I. Zink Natural Sciences Chemistry
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