List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1994
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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1994
| Fellow | Category | Field of Study |
| Carolyn Abbate Carolyn Abbate Carolyn Abbate is a musicologist whose research focuses primarily on the operatic repertory of the long 19th century, offering creative and innovative approaches to understanding these works critically and historically... |
Humanities | Music Research |
| Yolanda Andrade Yolanda Andrade Yolanda Andrade is a Mexican celebrity born in Culiacán, Sinaloa. Her career started at the telenovela Yo no creo en los hombres , along with Gabriela Roel and Alfredo Adame, which allowed her to work in bigger productions such as Las secretas intenciones with Cristian Castro.-Biography:After... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
| Joyce Appleby Joyce Appleby Joyce Oldham Appleby is an American historian. She is Professor Emerita of History at University of California, Los Angeles Joyce Oldham Appleby (born April 9, 1929) is an American historian. She is Professor Emerita of History at University of California, Los Angeles Joyce Oldham Appleby (born... |
Humanities | U.S. History |
| Carol Armstrong | Humanities | Photography Studies |
| Patricia Aufderheide | Humanities | Film, Video, & Radio Studies |
| Thomas Banks Thomas Banks Thomas Banks , English sculptor, son of a surveyor who was land steward to the Duke of Beaufort, was born in London. He was taught drawing by his father, and in 1750 was apprenticed to a woodcarver. In his spare time he worked at sculpture, spending his evenings in the studio of the Flemish émigré... |
Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Robert L. Belknap | Literary Criticism | |
| Sven Birkerts Sven Birkerts Sven Birkerts is an American essayist and literary critic of Latvian ancestry. He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies, which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture."Birkerts was born in Pontiac,... |
General Nonfiction | |
| Joan S. Birman | Mathematics | |
| David Blackbourn David Blackbourn David Gordon Blackbourn is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University and director of the university's Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies. Blackbourn teaches and researches primarily in the fields of German and modern European history... |
German & East European History | |
| Edward J. Blakely | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
| Richard K. Bloes | Video & Audio | |
| Michael Book | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Richard D. Bosman | Fine Arts | |
| Constance Brittain Bouchard | Medieval History | |
| Michael T. Bowers Michael T. Bowers Michael T. Bowers is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society .- Early life and education :* 1962 B.S. Gonzaga University* 1966 Ph.D. University of Illinois Michael T. Bowers is a professor in the Department of... |
Chemistry | |
| Simon Brailowsky | Neuroscience | |
| Emily Breer | Creative Arts | Film |
| Charles L. Briggs Charles L. Briggs Charles Leslie Briggs is an anthropologist who currently works at the University of California, Berkeley. Before working at Berkeley he held a position as Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at University of California, San Diego.... |
Folklore & Popular Culture | |
| Kevin Bubriski Kevin Bubriski -Life and career:Bubriski was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. He attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, graduating in 1975. He worked as a photographer for nine years in Nepal and has also photographed trips to India, Tibet, and Bangladesh.... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
| Giorgio Buccellati Giorgio Buccellati Giorgio Buccellati is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and the Department of History at UCLA. He was the founding director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. He founded IIMAS – The International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies, of which he... |
Near Eastern Studies | |
| Martín Caparrós Martín Caparrós Martín Caparrós is a writer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 29, 1957. His father was Antonio Caparrós, a renowned psychiatrist. Caparrós begun professional writing at age sixteen, shortly after graduating from High School at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. His first professional job in... |
Fiction | |
| Charles Capper Charles Capper Charles Capper is an American historian.-Life:He graduated from Johns Hopkins University, and from University of California, Berkeley with an M.A. and Ph.D. in history and taught fifteen years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has taught at Boston University since 2001... |
American Literature | |
| Peter Carafiol | American Literature | |
| Squeak Carnwath Squeak Carnwath Squeak Carnwath is a contemporary American painter. She received her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1977. She is a Professor of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught since 1982, having previously taught at California College of Arts and Crafts and... |
Fine Arts | |
| Joseph C. Carter | Classics | |
| Donald L. D. Caspar | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Moses V. Chao | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Bernard Chazelle Bernard Chazelle Bernard Chazelle is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Much of his work is in computational geometry, where he has found many of the best-known algorithms, such as linear-time triangulation of a simple polygon, as well as many useful complexity results, such... |
Computer Science | |
| Mark A. Cheetham | Fine Arts Research | |
| Carmen Clapp | Medicine & Health | |
| William A. V. Clark | Geography & Environmental Studies | |
| Lawrence M. Clopper | Medieval Literature | |
| Tony Cokes | Video & Audio | |
| Corrine Colarusso | Fine Arts | |
| Eleanor Cook | Literary Criticism | |
| Meg Cranston Meg Cranston Meg Cranston is an artist who works in sculpture and painting as well as a writer. She has exhibited internationally since 1988. She received and M.F.A in Studio from California Institute of the Arts in 1986 and a B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology in 1982. She also attended the Jan van Eyck Akademie... |
Fine Arts | |
| William Cronon William Cronon William 'Bill' Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison... |
U.S. History | |
| Pamela Kyle Crossley Pamela Kyle Crossley Pamela Kyle Crossley is an historian of modern China, northern Asia, and global history. She is author of The Wobbling Pivot: China since 1800: An Interpretive History , as well as influential studies of the Qing dynasty and leading textbooks in global history... |
East Asian Studies | |
| Paul D\'Amato | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Lorraine Daston Lorraine Daston Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science, presently the executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin... |
History of Science & Technology | |
| Margreta de Grazia | English Literature | |
| Guillermo de la Peña | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Diego de Mendoza | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Cesáreo A. Dominguez | Physics | |
| Mark Doty Mark Doty Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested... |
Poetry | |
| Ann duCille | American Literature | |
| Adam M. Dziewonski | Earth Science | |
| Antonia Eiriz Antonia Eiriz Antonia Eiriz Vázquez was a Cuban painter whose work was exhibited throughout Latin America during her life. She received a National Culture Award in 1981, and in 1983 received the Alejandro Carpenter Medal. In 1989 the Cuban government awarded her the Félix Varela Order; in 1994 she was the... |
Fine Arts | |
| Veit Elser | Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Geraldine Erman | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| William N. Eskridge | Social Sciences | Law |
| Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Eugenides is most known for his first two novels, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex . His novel The Marriage Plot was published in October, 2011.-Life and career:Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan,... |
Creative Arts | Fiction |
| Johanna Filp-Hanke | Social Sciences | Education |
| Michael H. Freedman | Natural Sciences | Mathematics |
| Paul H. Freedman | Humanities | Medieval History |
| Guido Garay | Astronomy--Astrophysics | |
| Cristina Garcia Cristina García Cristina García is a Cuban-born American journalist and novelist. After working for Time Magazine as a researcher, reporter, and Miami bureau chief, she turned to writing fiction. Her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban , received critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award... |
Fiction | |
| Leon Glass | Applied Mathematics | |
| Benny Golson Benny Golson Benny Golson is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger.-Biography:While in high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Golson played with several other promising young musicians, including John Coltrane, Red Garland, Jimmy Heath, Percy Heath, Philly Joe Jones, and... |
Music Composition | |
| Ron Gorchov Ron Gorchov Ron Gorchov is an American artist who has been working with curved surface paintings and shaped canvases since 1967. Gorchov's primary invention consists of finely fitted, curved wooden frames resembling shields or saddles, across which is stretched linen or canvas... |
Fine Arts | |
| Claudia Gordillo Castellon | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Eamon Grennan Eamon Grennan Eamon Grennan is an Irish poet born in Dublin. He has lived in the United States, except for brief periods, since 1964. He was the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College until his retirement in 2004.... |
Poetry | |
| Bruce G. Harmon | Drama & Performance Art | |
| John B. Haviland | Linguistics | |
| Daniel R. Headrick | Intellectual & Cultural History | |
| Brenda Hillman Brenda Hillman Brenda Hillman , is an American poet. She was educated at Pomona College, and received her M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California... |
Poetry | |
| Tony Hiss | General Nonfiction | |
| Irene Hultman | Creative Arts | Choreography |
| Michael Hurson | Fine Arts | |
| Javier Iguiñiz Echeverria | Social Sciences | Economics |
| David Isay | Creative Arts | Video & Audio |
| Laurence A. Jacobs | Medicine & Health | |
| Pierre Jalbert Pierre Jalbert Pierre Jalbert is a Canadian skier, actor, and motion picture film and sound editor.He was christened Joseph Jacques Pierre-Paul Jalbert in Quebec City, Canada, the son of a newspaperman... |
Music Composition | |
| Clive G. Jones | Plant Sciences | |
| Thom Jones Thom Jones Thom Jones is an American writer, primarily of short stories.-Biography:Jones was raised in Aurora, Illinois, and attended the University of Hawaii, where he played catcher on the baseball team... |
Fiction | |
| Alice Kaplan Alice Kaplan Alice Kaplan is the John M. Musser Professor of French at Yale University. Before her arrival at Yale, she was the Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature and History at Duke University and founding director of the Center for French and Francophone... |
French Literature | |
| Randall Kenan Randall Kenan Randall Kenan is an American author of fiction and nonfiction. Raised in a rural community in North Carolina, Kenan has focused his fiction on what it means to be black and gay in the southern United States. Among his books is the collection of short stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was... |
Fiction | |
| Alexander Keyssar Alexander Keyssar Alexander Keyssar is an American historian, and the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University.-Life:He graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in the History of American Civilization... |
U.S. History | |
| Gary King Gary King (political scientist) Gary King is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist. He is currently the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor and Director for the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.-Biography:... |
Political Science | |
| Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey is a prize–winning American poet who has lived in both Europe and the United States and whose work is strongly influenced by the Greek and Roman past. He often looks to the classical world for inspiration with themes which have included loss, loneliness, nostalgia and modern... |
Poetry | |
| Nancy S. Kollmann | Russian History | |
| David Konstan | Classics | |
| Beryl Korot Beryl Korot -Biography:Beryl Korot has pioneered the field of video art since the early 1970s. She was co-editor of Radical Software , the first publication to discuss the possibilities of the new video medium, and Video Art with Ira Schneider... |
Video & Audio | |
| Guto Lacaz | Fine Arts | |
| Cathy C. Laurie | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Lawrence W. Levine Lawrence W. Levine Lawrence William Levine was an American historian. He was born in Manhattan and died in Berkeley, California.-Life:... |
U.S. History | |
| Margrit Lewczuk | Fine Arts | |
| Elizabeth Macklin Elizabeth Macklin -Life:She read Spanish literature at SUNY Potsdam, and Complutense University of Madrid. In 1974 to 1999, worked at The New Yorker, living in New York City.She spent a year in Bilbao, Spain, until February 2000.... |
Poetry | |
| Nelson Manrique | Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Maria Luiza Marcílio | Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Robert D. Mare | Education | |
| Mary Ellen Mark Mary Ellen Mark Mary Ellen Mark is an American photographer known for her photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. She has had 16 collections of her work published and has been exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide. She has received numerous accolades, including three Robert F... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
| Sarah Maza | French History | |
| Christopher Münch Christopher Münch Christopher Münch is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.-Biography:Münch was born in 1962 in Pasadena, California and grew up with his mother in La Jolla, San Diego... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| James McManus James McManus James "Jim" McManus is an American poker player, teacher and writer living in Kenilworth, Illinois.-Poker and Positively Fifth Street:... |
Poetry | |
| Patrick McNaughton | African Studies | |
| Dante Medina | Fiction | |
| Bruce A. Menge Bruce A. Menge Bruce A. Menge is an ocean ecologist. He has spent over forty years studying the processes that drive the dynamics of natural communities. His fields of interest include: structure and dynamics of marine meta-ecosystems, responses of coastal ecosystems to climate change, linking benthic and inner... |
Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| David Lee Miller David Lee Miller David Lee Miller is a noted scholar of English Renaissance Literature, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina at Columbia... |
Literary Criticism | |
| Anthony Molho | Renaissance History | |
| Carlos Monge C. | Medicine & Health | |
| Sally Falk Moore Sally Falk Moore Sally Falk Moore is a legal anthropologist and Professor Emerita at Harvard University. She did her major fieldwork in Tanzania and has published extensively on cross-cultural, comparative legal theory.... |
Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Kathy Muehlemann | Fine Arts | |
| James Naremore James Naremore James Naremore, born James Otis Naremore, is a film and comparative literature scholar based at Indiana University. Now retired, he retains the titles of Chancellor's Professor of Speech Communication, Chancellor's Professor of Comparative Literature, Chancellor's Professor of English, and... |
Humanities | Film, Video, & Radio Studies |
| María Negroni María Negroni María Negroni is an Argentinian poet, essayist, novelist and translator.She graduated from Columbia University, with a PhD in Latin American Literature.She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College... |
Creative Arts | Poetry |
| Dona Nelson | Fine Arts | |
| Jon C. Nelson | Music Composition | |
| Jeff W. Nichols | Music Composition | |
| Robert E. Oswald | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
| Tina Packer | Drama & Performance Art | |
| Euzhan Palcy Euzhan Palcy Euzhan Palcy is a film director writer and producer from Martinique, French West Indies. She is notable for being the first black female director produced by a major Hollywood studio , for A Dry White Season; as well as being the only female filmmaker who directed Marlon Brando .- Early life and... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| Gustavo M. Pastor | Physics | |
| Douglas Lane Patey Douglas Lane Patey Douglas Lane Patey is Sophia Smith Professor of English at Smith College in Northampton, MA. He received M.A. degrees from the University of Virginia in 1977 and 1978 and his Ph.D from the same university in 1979, with a thesis on "Probability and Literary Form"... |
English Literature | |
| Jim Paul | Creative Arts | Biography |
| Dale Peck Dale Peck Dale Peck is an American novelist, critic, and columnist. His 2009 novel, Sprout, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature, and was a finalist for the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category.-Biography:Peck was raised in Kansas,... |
Fiction | |
| Linda Levy Peck | British History | |
| Cristina Peri Rossi Cristina Peri Rossi Cristina Peri Rossi is an Uruguayan novelist, poet, translator, and author of short stories.Considered a leading light of the post-1960s period of prominence of the Latin-American novel, she has written more than 37 works. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay but was exiled in 1972, and moved to... |
Fiction | |
| Elizabeth J. Perry Elizabeth J. Perry Elizabeth J. Perry is a prominent United States scholar of Chinese politics and history in the Department of Government, Harvard University where she is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute... |
Political Science | |
| Michael Pirrung | Chemistry | |
| Elena Poniatowska Elena Poniatowska Elena Poniatowska is a Mexican journalist and author. Her generation of writers include Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco and Carlos Monsiváis.-Life:Poniatowska was born in Paris to Prince Jean Joseph Evremont Sperry Poniatowski and Paula Amor Yturbe... |
Fiction | |
| Lourdes Portillo Lourdes Portillo Lourdes Portillo is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. While the majority of her work is in the documentary film genre, she has also created video installations and written for the stage... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| Jill Quadagno Jill Quadagno Dr. Jill B. Quadagno is Professor of Sociology at Florida State University where she holds the Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar Chair in Social Gerontology. Her books include One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance and the Color of Welfare: How Racism... |
Social Sciences | Sociology |
| Alan Rath | Fine Arts | |
| Abraham Ravett | Creative Arts | Film |
| Edward S. Reed Edward S. Reed Edward S. Reed was a philosopher of science and an ecological psychologist in the vein of James J. Gibson... |
Psychology | |
| Thomas Richards | English Literature | |
| Charles H. Robert | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| John W. Roberts John W. Roberts John Wendell Roberts was a United States Air Force General and commander of the Air Training Command with headquarters at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. He has a bachelor of science degree from Mankato State Teachers College and a master's degree from The George Washington University... |
Folklore & Popular Culture | |
| Henry L. Roediger | Psychology | |
| Nelbia Romero Cabrera | Fine Arts | |
| Michael Rose Michael Rose Michael Rose is a Grammy award winning reggae singer from Jamaica. Possessing a wide-ranged voice, Rose would regularly meet in Kingston with singers, musicians, writers, and producers such as Dennis Brown, Big Youth, The Wailers, Gregory Isaacs, Sly and Robbie, and others.-Career:Rose started his... |
Education | |
| Mary Ames Rouse | Bibliography | |
| Karl Rubin Karl Rubin Karl Rubin is an American mathematician at University of California, Irvine as Thorp Professor of Mathematics. His research interest is in elliptic curves. He was the first mathematician to show that some elliptic curves over the rationals have finite Tate-Shafarevich groups... |
Mathematics | |
| Daniel L. Rubinfeld | Economics | |
| Conrad Rudolph | Fine Arts Research | |
| Martin J. S. Rudwick Martin J. S. Rudwick Martin John Spencer Rudwick is an emeritus professor of History at the University of California, San Diego and an affiliated research scholar at Cambridge University's Department of History and Philosophy of Science. His principal field of study is the history of the earth sciences, for which he... |
Humanities | History of Science & Technology |
| Peter Sahlins Peter Sahlins Peter Sahlins is an American historian of France and Europe. He is Professor of History at the , where he specializes in early modern France... |
French History | |
| Beatriz Sarlo Beatriz Sarlo Beatriz Sarlo is an Argentine literary and cultural critic. She was also founding editor of the cultural journal Punto de Vista .... |
Latin American Literature | |
| Matilde Sánchez | Fiction | |
| Daniel Schavelzon | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
| Richard B. Sher | Bibliography | |
| Ed Smith | Fine Arts | |
| Doris Sommer | Latin American Literature | |
| Andrew Spence | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Willard Spiegelman | American Literature | |
| Leo Spitzer Leo Spitzer Leo Spitzer was an Austrian Romanist and Hispanist, and an influential and prolific literary critic. He was known for his emphasis on stylistics.... |
Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Lisa Stancati | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Christine Stansell | U.S. History | |
| Paul J. Steinhardt | Astronomy--Astrophysics | |
| Mark Steinmetz | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Andrew Stewart | Classics | |
| Paul A. Stoller | African Studies | |
| Nicholas J. Strausfeld | Neuroscience | |
| Paul Strohm | Medieval Literature | |
| Fernando Daniel Suárez | Mathematics | |
| Cyrus C. Taylor | Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Talbot J. Taylor | Humanities | Intellectual & Cultural History |
| Blake Temple | Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics |
| Robert Tibshirani Robert Tibshirani Robert Tibshirani is a Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Health Research and Policy at Stanford University. He was a Professor at the University of Toronto from 1985 to 1998. In his work, he develops statistical tools for the analysis of complex datasets, most recently in genomics and... |
Natural Sciences | Statistics |
| Sidney Tillim | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| George W. S. Trow George W. S. Trow George William Swift Trow Jr. was an American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic. He worked for The New Yorker for almost 30 years, and wrote numerous essays and several books... |
Creative Arts | General Nonfiction |
| Robert-Jan van Pelt | Humanities | German & East European History |
| Alejandro Viñao Alejandro Viñao Alejandro Viñao is an Argentinian composer currently living in the United Kingdom.Viñao studied musical composition in Buenos Aires with the composer Jacobo Fischer . In 1976 he was awarded a British Council scholarship to study in London at the Royal College of Music and later on at the City... |
Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Lawrence Weiner Lawrence Weiner Lawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :... |
Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Jessica Williams Jessica Williams Jessica Jennifer Williams is an American pianist and composer who has deep roots in jazz. She has been called "one of the top jazz pianists of today."-History:... |
Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Sue Williams Sue Williams Sue Williams was an American actress and Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for April 1965. Her centerfold was photographed by Ed DeLong and William V. Figge.-Early life and career:... |
Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Edwin N. Wilmsen | Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
| Jonathan Wilson | Creative Arts | Fiction |
| Thongchai Winichakul Thongchai Winichakul Thongchai Winichakul is a Professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is of Sino-Thai descent. Winichakul has had a major impact on the history of Thai nationalism. His best-known academic work is his book, Siam Mapped, which critiqued existing theories of Thai... |
Humanities | South Asian Studies |
| Jay Alan Yim Jay Alan Yim Jay Alan Yim is an American composer living in Chicago. During the 1995-96 concert season, he served as Composer/Fellow for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra... |
Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Peter Y. Yu | Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Jonathan Zeitlin | Humanities | Economic History |
| Barbie Zelizer | Humanities | Intellectual & Cultural History |
| Ziony Zevit | Humanities | Religion |
| Long Zhou | Creative Arts | Music Composition |