List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1995
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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1995
| Fellow | Category | Field of Study |
| Henry Abelove | Humanities | Philosophy |
| Jonathan J. G. Alexander | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
| Mark Antliff | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
| Skip Arnold | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Ruth Behar Ruth Behar Ruth Behar is a Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of Michigan.After receiving her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1977, she studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University... |
Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Jonathan Bennett | Humanities | Philosophy |
| Ravindra N. Bhatt | Physics | |
| Linda Bierds Linda Bierds Linda Louise Bierds is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, where she also received her B.A... |
Poetry | |
| Sandow Birk Sandow Birk Sandow Birk is an American artist from Southern California. He has an extensive history of exhibitions both national and international, and has received many prestigious grants and awards. Five books have been published on his works and he has made two films. The majority of his work has dealt with... |
Fine Arts | |
| Joseph A. Boone | Literary Criticism | |
| Alfonse Borysewicz | Fine Arts | |
| Barbara Bosworth | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Donald E. Camp | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Federico Campbell Federico Campbell Federico Campbell is a writer from northern Mexico. Campbell is known for the short story collection Tijuanenses . In 2000 he won the Colima Prize for Fiction with his novel Transpeninsular. In 1995 he was awarded the J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship... |
Fiction | |
| Carlos Capelán Carlos Capelán Carlos Capelán is a contemporary artist from Montevideo, Uruguay. Although his conceptual work includes drawings and paintings, his installations are more widely known for their atmospherical impact, constituting an environment in which the viewer is free to wander around and experience notions... |
Fine Arts | |
| Carole Caroompas Carole Caroompas Carole Caroompas is an artist who specializes in painting. She holds a B.A. from California State University, Fullerton and an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California... |
Fine Arts | |
| Arturo Carrera Arturo Carrera Arturo Carrera is an Argentine poet born on 27 March 1948 in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province.- Biography :In 1966, he moved to Buenos Aires where he worked on various literary projects with the writer César Aira, also from Coronel Pringles, with whom he founded the literary magazine El Cielo... |
Poetry | |
| Olivia Lucia Carrescia | Creative Arts | Film |
| James Casebere James Casebere James Casebere is an American contemporary artist and photographer living in New York.-Biography:James Casebere, born in Lansing, Michigan, grew up outside of Detroit. He attended Michigan State University and graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a BFA in 1976... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
| Sarah Charlesworth Sarah Charlesworth Sarah Charlesworth is a well-known American conceptual artist and photographer. She was born in East Orange, New Jersey. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1969 and now lives in New York City... |
Fine Arts | |
| James R. Chelikowsky | Engineering | |
| Dorothy L. Cheney | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Luis Maria Chiappe | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Abigail Child Abigail Child Abigail Child is a poet, director, producer, and writer of a number of films.Originally, Child worked in San Francisco but moved to New York later in her career.-Academics:... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| Nancy J. Chodorow | Sociology | |
| Osvaldo Civitarese | Physics | |
| Maxine Clair | Fiction | |
| Marcelo Cohen | Fiction | |
| Michael Collier Michael Collier (poet) Michael Robert Collier is an American poet, teacher, creative writing program administrator and editor. He has published five books of original poetry, a translation of Euripedes' Medea, a book of prose pieces about poetry, and has edited three anthologies of poetry. From 2001 to 2004 he was the... |
Creative Arts | Poetry |
| Maureen Connor | Fine Arts | |
| Todd J. Cooke | Plant Sciences | |
| Frank Costigliola | U.S. History | |
| Gary W. Cox | Social Sciences | Political Science |
| Catherine L. Craig | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti is a Cuban Film Director. He started his career as an author and actor for children’s TV shows, made for the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television from 1981 to 1987... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| Ann Hunt Currier | Creative Arts | Photography |
| George F. Custen | Humanities | Film, Video, & Radio Studies |
| Pellegrino A. D\'Acierno | Film, Video, & Radio Studies | |
| E. Valentine Daniel | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Paul McE. Davis | Earth Science | |
| Carlos I. Degregori | Political Science | |
| René Depestre René Depestre René Depestre is a Haitian poet and communist. He lived in Cuba as an exile from the Duvalier regime for many years and was a founder of the Casa de las Americas publishing house. He is best known for his poetry.-Life:... |
General Nonfiction | |
| Dean Drummond Dean Drummond Dean Drummond is an American composer, conductor and musician. His music utilises microtonality, electronics, and a huge variety of percussion... |
Music Composition | |
| Alberto Durant | Creative Arts | Film |
| R. David Edmunds | U.S. History | |
| Yakov Eliashberg Yakov Eliashberg Yakov Eliashberg is a Russian mathematician. He received his Ph.D. from Leningrad University in 1972 under the direction of Vladimir Rokhlin. From 1972 to 1979 he taught at the Syktyvkar State University of Komi Republic of Russia and from 1980 to 1987 worked in industry as the head of a computer... |
Natural Sciences | Mathematics |
| Susanna Elm | Humanities | Religion |
| James Emery James Emery James Emery may refer to:*James Emery *James Emery *James Frederick Emery, British Member of Parliament for Salford West, 1935–1945... |
Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Martha Julia Farah | Social Sciences | Psychology |
| Christopher A. Faraone | Humanities | Classics |
| Ariel Fernandez Ariel Fernandez Ariel Fernandez is an Argentinian-American physical chemist who held the Karl F. Hasselmann Professorship of Bioengineering at Rice University until 2011. He was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina in 1957 and is currently involved in technology development at the , where he has been named... |
Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Antonio Eligio Fernández Rodriguez | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| León Ferrari León Ferrari León Ferrari , is a contemporary conceptual artist.Born in Buenos Aires, Ferrari employs methods such as collage, photocopying and sculpture in wood, plaster or ceramics. He often uses text, particularly newspaper clippings or poetry, in his pieces... |
Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Richard A. Firtel | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
| Vernon Fisher | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Steven A. Frank | Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology |
| Felice Frankel Felice Frankel Felice Frankel is a photographer of scientific images renowned for the aesthetic quality of her science photographs.-Biography:Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, science photographer Felice Frankel's images have been published in over 300 journal articles and/or covers and... |
Natural Sciences | Science Writing |
| Alice T. Friedman | Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
| Gladys-Marie Fry | Humanities | Folklore & Popular Culture |
| Neal Gabler Neal Gabler Neal Gabler is a professor, journalist, author, film critic and political commentator.He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan and holds advanced degrees in film and American culture.-Journalist:... |
Creative Arts | Biography |
| Huajian Gao Huajian Gao Huajian Gao is an American materials scientist and engineer. He joined the Max Planck Society in 2001 and is currently Director of the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart.-Education and career:... |
Engineering | |
| Alicia E. Garcia Santana | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
| Boris Gasparov | Slavic Literature | |
| Gary Gerstle Gary Gerstle Gary Gerstle is the James G. Stahlman Professor of American History at Vanderbilt University and is the Director of the Vanderbilt History Seminar. Gerstle received his BA from Brown University in 1976 and his PhD from Harvard University in 1982... |
U.S. History | |
| Steve Gianakos | Fine Arts | |
| Dagoberto Gilb Dagoberto Gilb Dagoberto Gilb is an American writer born in Los Angeles, California, whose reputation, after years between L.A. and Texas, is as one of the leading voices from the American Southwest.... |
Fiction | |
| Wendy Z. Goldman | Russian History | |
| Osvaldo Noé Golijov | Music Composition | |
| James Gordley | Law | |
| Gennady Gorelik Gennady Gorelik Gennady Gorelik is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University. A physicist by education and historian by occupation, he published ten books and many articles on popular science and history of science, including in-depth biographies of 20th century... |
History of Science & Technology | |
| Patricia M. Graney | Creative Arts | Choreography |
| Yuri Gurevich Yuri Gurevich Yuri Gurevich is an American computer scientist and mathematician and the inventor of abstract state machines. He is currently Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he founded the Foundations of Software Engineering group,... |
Computer Science | |
| Peter Haidu | Humanities | Medieval Literature |
| Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Gwendolyn Midlo Hall is a prominent historian and public intellectual who focuses on the history of slavery in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Louisiana , and the African Diaspora in the Americas... |
U.S. History | |
| Timothy Hampton Timothy Hampton Timothy Hampton was a specialist in weapons of mass destruction and an employee of the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna, Austria since 1998.-Death:... |
French Literature | |
| Gail G. Hanson | Physics | |
| Saul Haymond | Fine Arts | |
| Douglas Hobbie | Fiction | |
| Carl A. Huffman | Classics | |
| Ann Hulbert | General Nonfiction | |
| David Ives David Ives David Ives is a contemporary American playwright. A native of South Chicago, Ives attended a minor Catholic seminary and Northwestern University and, after some years' interval, Yale School of Drama, where he received an MFA in playwriting... |
Creative Arts | Drama & Performance Art |
| Ken Jacobs Ken Jacobs Ken Jacobs is an American experimental filmmaker. He is the director of Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son , which was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007, and Star Spangled to Death , a nearly seven hour film consisting largely of found footage.He coined the term paracinema in the early 1970s,... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| Daniel Javitch | Italian Literature | |
| Tamara Jenkins Tamara Jenkins Tamara Jenkins is an American screenwriter, actress and director. She is best known for her two feature films, Slums of Beverly Hills and The Savages .-Early life:... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| Paul E. Johnson Paul E. Johnson Paul E. Johnson is an American historian, and professor emeritus at University of South Carolina.-Life:He graduated from University of California at Berkeley, and from University of California, Los Angeles, with a Ph.D... |
U.S. History | |
| Albert R. Jonsen Albert R. Jonsen Albert R. Jonsen Ph.D., is a biomedical ethicist and author. He is Emeritus Professor of Ethics in Medicine at the University of Washington, School of Medicine, where he was Chairman of the Department of Medical History and Ethics from 1987-1999, and currently is Co-Director of the Program in... |
Intellectual & Cultural History | |
| Ben Katchor Ben Katchor Ben Katchor is an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. He has contributed comics and drawings to The New Yorker and The New York Times... |
Fiction | |
| Lodge Kerrigan Lodge Kerrigan Lodge Kerrigan is an American motion picture screenwriter and director. His 2010 film Rebecca H. entered into the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Clean, Shaven... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| Peter Kilby | African Studies | |
| Steven A. Kivelson | Physics | |
| Raoul Kopelman | Chemistry | |
| Pedro Labarca | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| David D. Laitin | Political Science | |
| Donna Landry | English Literature | |
| Takie S. Lebra | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Patrick A. Lee Patrick A. Lee Patrick A. Lee is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .-Awards:*Dirac Medal, 2005 *Oliver Buckley Prize -Publications:... |
Physics | |
| Adriana Lestido | Creative Arts | Photography |
| David Lawrence Levinthal | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Ronald M. Levy | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Moshe Lewin Moshe Lewin Moshe Lewin was a scholar of Russian and Soviet history; he was a major figure in the revisionist school of Soviet studies which emerged in the 1960s. His surname is pronounced "Luh-VENE".-Early years:... |
Russian History | |
| Mary S. Lewis | Bibliography | |
| Tien-Yien Li Tien-Yien Li Tien-Yien Li is a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Michigan State University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Li and co-author James Yorke published a paper in 1975 entitled "Period Three Implies Chaos," in which the mathematical term chaos was coined.-References:* T.Y. Li, and J.A... |
Applied Mathematics | |
| Alan Liu | Literary Criticism | |
| David Loewenstein | English Literature | |
| James Longenbach James Longenbach James Longenbach is an American critic and poet. His early critical work focused on modernist poetry , but he writes extensively about contemporary poetry, too, and has authored four books of poems: Threshold, Fleet River, Draft of a Letter, and The Iron Key... |
American Literature | |
| Derek Mahon | Poetry | |
| Ursula Mamlok Ursula Mamlok Ursula Mamlok is a German-born, American composer and teacher.-Education and influences:Mamlok was born as Ursula Meyer in Berlin, Germany and studied piano and composition with Professor Gustav Ernest and Emily Weissgerber until her family fled Nazi Germany following the nationwide pogrom in 1938... |
Music Composition | |
| Bruce Mannheim | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| George M. Marsden | Creative Arts | Biography |
| John Martin John Martin -In the arts:*John H. Martin, American actor in TV soap operas One Life to Live and Sunset Beach*John Martin , English-born Canadian broadcaster*John Martin , dance critic at the New York Times... |
Renaissance History | |
| Frederick Marx Frederick Marx Frederick Marx is an Oscar and Emmy nominated producer/director. He was named a Chicago Tribune Artist of the Year for 1994, a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a Robert F. Kennedy Special Achievement Award. Frederick Marx achieved international notoriety for his Oscar nominated film Hoop... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| E. Ann Matter E. Ann Matter E. Ann Matter, Ph.D is Associate Dean for Arts & Letters and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in Medieval Christianity, including mysticism, women and religion, sexuality and religion, manuscript and textual studies and sacred music... |
Religion | |
| Enrique J. Mayer | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| John H. McDowell | Folklore & Popular Culture | |
| Marjorie K. McIntosh | Medieval History | |
| Lynne McMahon Lynne McMahon Lynne McMahon is an American poet.She graduated from University of Utah with a PhD in 1982. She teaches at University of Missouri,Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, New Virginia Review, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The... |
Poetry | |
| Cildo Meireles Cildo Meireles Cildo Meireles is a Brazilian conceptual artist, installation artist and sculptor. He is noted especially for his installations, many of which express resistance to political oppression in Brazil. These works, often large and dense, encourage the viewer's interaction.-Life:Cildo Meireles was born... |
Fine Arts | |
| María Rosa Menocal María Rosa Menocal María Rosa Menocal is a Cuban-born scholar of medieval culture and history. Menocal earned a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania... |
Medieval Literature | |
| Carolyn Merchant Carolyn Merchant Carolyn Merchant is an American ecofeminist philosopher and historian of science most famous for her theory on 'The Death of Nature', whereby she identifies the Enlightenment as the period when science began to atomize, objectify and dissect nature, foretelling its eventual conception as inert... |
Intellectual & Cultural History | |
| Brinkley Messick | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| James R. Millar | Economic History | |
| Mary Miller Mary Miller Mary Ellen Miller is an American art historian and Dean of Yale College. In 1998, she was appointed as the Vincent Scully, Jr. Professor of the History of Art. In 2008, she was appointed as Sterling Professor at Yale... |
Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Alejandra Moreno Toscano | Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Henri Moscovici | Mathematics | |
| Thylias Moss Thylias Moss Thylias Moss is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright, of African American, Indian, and European heritage, who has published a number of poetry collections, children’s books, essays, and multimedia work she calls poams, products of acts of making, related to... |
Poetry | |
| Jeffrey Mumford Jeffrey Mumford Jeffrey Mumford or is a U.S. composer who teaches music at Lorain County Community College. He holds degrees from the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, San Diego... |
Music Composition | |
| William Thomas Newsome | Neuroscience | |
| Karen Offen | Humanities | French History |
| Iwao Ojima | Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
| Ingram Olkin Ingram Olkin Ingram Olkin is a professor emeritus and chair of statistics and education at Stanford University and the Stanford University School of Education... |
Natural Sciences | Statistics |
| Harry V. Orlyk | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Darcy Marie Padilla | Creative Arts | Photography |
| D. Pardee | Near Eastern Studies | |
| Ann Patchett Ann Patchett Ann Patchett is an American author. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include Run, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, and The Magician's Assistant, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize... |
Fiction | |
| Steve Paxton Steve Paxton Steve Paxton is an experimental dancer and choreographer. His early background was in gymnastics while his later training included three years with Merce Cunningham and a year with José Limón. As a founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, he performed works by Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown... |
Creative Arts | Choreography |
| Gabriel Peluffo Linari | Fine Arts Research | |
| Marilene Phipps Marilene Phipps Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell is an American poet, painter, and short story writer.-Life:Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell was born in Haiti and raised in Haiti and France... |
Fine Arts | |
| Tristan Platt | Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Sorin Teodor Popa | Mathematics | |
| Helen Prejean Helen Prejean Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., is a Roman Catholic religious sister, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph, who has become a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.-Death row ministry:... |
General Nonfiction | |
| Andrew Rindfleisch | Music Composition | |
| Fernando Rodriguez Villegas | Mathematics | |
| Michael Rosenthal | Creative Arts | Biography |
| Doris Salcedo Doris Salcedo Doris Salcedo is a Colombian-born sculptor.Salcedo completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in 1980, before traveling to New York, where she completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at New York University. She then returned to Bogotá to teach at the Universidad... |
Fine Arts | |
| Laura Salmon | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Edward T. Samulski | Chemistry | |
| Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl, , is an American art critic, poet, and educator.Schjeldahl was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He grew up in small towns throughout Minnesota, and attended Carleton College and The New School... |
General Nonfiction | |
| Robert A. Schneider | French History | |
| R. Keith Schoppa | East Asian Studies | |
| Juliet B. Schor | Economics | |
| Anthony Seeger | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Robert M. Seyfarth | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Susan Slyomovics | Near Eastern Studies | |
| Neil Smith Neil Smith -Sports:* Neil Smith , former football player in the National Football League* Neil Smith , English cricketer... |
Geography & Environmental Studies | |
| Paul Smolensky Paul Smolensky Paul Smolensky is a professor of Cognitive Science at the Johns Hopkins University.Along with Alan Prince he developed Optimality Theory, a representational model of linguistics... |
Psychology | |
| Reba N. Soffer | British History | |
| Thomas Spear | African Studies | |
| Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary critic, theorist and a University Professor at Columbia University. She is best known for the essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?", considered a founding text of postcolonialism, and for her translation of Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology. She... |
Literary Criticism | |
| George Steinmetz | Sociology | |
| David B. Stern | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Eve Sussman Eve Sussman Eve Sussman is a British-born American artist. She was educated at Robert College of Istanbul, University of Canterbury and Bennington College. She resides in Brooklyn, New York, where her company, the Rufus Corporation is based; however, she continuously visits cultural centers around the world,... |
Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Bart M. Taub | Social Sciences | Economics |
| John Jay TePaske | Humanities | Iberian & Latin American History |
| Janis Tomlinson | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
| Susan Treggiari | Humanities | Classics |
| Osvaldo D. Uchitel | Natural Sciences | Neuroscience |
| Lawrence J. Vale | Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
| J. Samuel Valenzuela | Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
| Fernando Vidal | Humanities | Philosophy |
| Paula Vogel Paula Vogel Paula Vogel is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, How I Learned to Drive.-Early years:... |
Creative Arts | Drama & Performance Art |
| Peter Waite Peter Waite Peter Waite was a South Australian pastoralist, businessman, company director and public benefactor. Waite's philanthropic endeavors provided significant benefit to the University of Adelaide and to local public schools, and generations of students have benefited from his largesse.-Career:Waite... |
Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| John F. C. Wardle | Natural Sciences | Astronomy--Astrophysics |
| Michael S. Waterman | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
| Edith Wyschogrod Edith Wyschogrod Edith Wyschogrod was an American philosopher. She received her A.B. from Hunter College in 1957 and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970.Wyschogrod joined Rice's Religious Studies Department in 1992. She retired in 2003.... |
Humanities | Religion |
| Robert Rahway Zakanitch | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| A. B. Zamolodchikov | Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Catherine W. Zerner | Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
| Franklin E. Zimring | Social Sciences | Law |
| Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon | Creative Arts | Music Composition |