List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1996
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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1996
| Fellow | Category | Field of Study |
| Henry J. Aaron Henry J. Aaron Henry J. Aaron is an American economist and health care expert who works at the Brookings Institution. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.-References:... |
Social Sciences | Economics |
| Lila Abu-Lughod Lila Abu-Lughod Lila Abu-Lughod is a Palestinian-American professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Columbia University in New York City. A specialist on the Arab world, her seven books, most based on long term ethnographic research, cover topics from sentiment and poetry to nationalism and... |
Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
| Sadhan Kumar Adhikari | Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Agha Shahid Ali Agha Shahid Ali Agha Shahid Ali was a Kashmiri American poet... |
Creative Arts | Poetry |
| Carlos Aguirre | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Peggy Ahwesh Peggy Ahwesh Peggy Ahwesh is an American avant-garde filmmaker and experimental video artist. She received her B.F.A. from Antioch College. Ahwesh's work has been shown at the Solomon R... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| César Tomás Aira | Creative Arts | Fiction |
| Wye Jamison Allanbrook Wye Jamison Allanbrook Wye Jamison "Wendy" Allanbrook was an American musicologist whose writings demonstrated that much of the music of Mozart and his contemporaries was influenced by the social dances of the time.... |
Humanities | Music Research |
| George Reid Andrews | Humanities | Iberian & Latin American History |
| Nina M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
| Carmen Bambach | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
| Larry M. Bartels | Social Sciences | Political Science |
| John Beardsley John Beardsley John Beardsley was a Church of England clergyman from the United States.Beardsley arrived in Canada as a loyalist. He is remembered as a loyalist clergyman and father of freemasonry in New Brunswick.- External links :*... |
Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
| Etelvino J. H. Bechara | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Neal Bell | Drama & Performance Art | |
| Anna Maria Busse Berger Anna Maria Busse Berger Anna Maria Busse Berger is professor of music history at University of California, Davis. She is a scholar of Medieval and Renaissance History and Theory and is the former chair of the UC Davis music department.-Awards:... |
Music Research | |
| Paul F. Berliner | Folklore & Popular Culture | |
| Stephanie Black Stephanie Black Stephanie Black is a documentary film director and producer. Her 1990 film "H-2 Worker" won Best Documentary Award and Best Cinematography Awards at Sundance Film Festival. "H-2 Worker" was the US representative in the Semaine de la Critique at Cannes International Film Festival in 1990. Her 2001... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| Anthony M. Bloch | Applied Mathematics | |
| George Boolos George Boolos George Stephen Boolos was a philosopher and a mathematical logician who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.- Life :... |
Philosophy | |
| José Alberto Braunstein | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Lucie Brock-Broido Lucie Brock-Broido Lucie Brock-Broido is the author of three collections of poetry. She has received many honors, including the Witter-Bynner prize of Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Jerome J... |
Poetry | |
| Philip H. Bucksbaum | Physics | |
| Graham B. Campbell | Fine Arts | |
| Jane Caplan | Intellectual & Cultural History | |
| Néstor Carrillo | Plant Sciences | |
| George Chauncey George Chauncey George Chauncey is a professor of history at Yale University. He is best known as the author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 .-Life and works:... |
U.S. History | |
| Chen Yi Chen Yi Chen Yi may refer to:* Chen Yi , Chinese communist military commander* Chen Yi , Chief Executive of Taiwan Province* Chen Yi , Chinese composer* Chen Yi... |
Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Jamsheed K. Choksy | Near Eastern Studies | |
| Steven Chu Steven Chu Steven Chu is an American physicist and the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. Chu is known for his research at Bell Labs in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and... |
Physics | |
| Susanna Coffey Susanna Coffey Susanna J. Coffey is an American artist who was born in New London, Connecticut. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree Magna Cum Laude from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, Connecticut in 1977 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Art in 1982... |
Fine Arts | |
| Mark R. Cohen Mark R. Cohen Mark R. Cohen is a professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University specializing in Jews in the Muslim world. He is a leading scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam. His research relies greatly on documents from the Cairo Geniza... |
Near Eastern Studies | |
| Alan Colquhoun | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
| Valdir Cruz | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Michael Daugherty Michael Daugherty Michael Kevin Daugherty is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. Influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and Postmodernism, Daugherty is one of the most colorful and widely performed American concert music composers of his generation... |
Music Composition | |
| John A. Davis John A. Davis John A. Davis is an American film director, writer, animator, voice actor and composer known for his work both in stop-motion animation as well as computer animation... |
Italian History | |
| Philip J. DeVries | Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology |
| Andrés Di Tella | Creative Arts | Film |
| Ronald I. Dorn | Geography & Environmental Studies | |
| Prasenjit Duara Prasenjit Duara Prasenjit Duara , originally from Assam, India, an historian of China, is the Raffles Professor of Humanities at the National University of Singapore where he is also Director of Asian Research Institute and Research in Humanities and Social Sciences... |
East Asian Studies | |
| Carroll Dunham | Fine Arts | |
| Morris Eaves | Literary Criticism | |
| Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Egan's novel A Visit From the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.... |
Fiction | |
| Robin L. Einhorn | U.S. History | |
| Nicole S. Eisenman | Fine Arts | |
| Uri Eisenzweig | French Literature | |
| Terry Evans Terry Evans Michael Terry Evans is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball.Evans was traded from the St... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
| Kevin Jerome Everson | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Constantin Fasolt Constantin Fasolt He was born in Germany and attended the Beethoven-Gymnasium in Bonn from 1961 to 1969. After two years of military service and three years of university study at Bonn and Heidelberg, he moved to the United States in 1975 to enroll at Columbia University for graduate studies in medieval history... |
Humanities | German & East European History |
| Rochelle Feinstein | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| David Ferry David Ferry David Ferry may refer to:* David Ferry , Canadian-born actor* David Ferry , American poet and translatorSee also*David Ferrie, pilot... |
Creative Arts | Poetry |
| Philip Fisher Philip Fisher Philip Fisher may refer to:* Philip Fisher , a.k.a. Thomas Copley, English religious leader* Philip Arthur Fisher , entrepreneur & author* Philip "Fish" Fisher , American musician, member of band Fishbone... |
Humanities | Literary Criticism |
| Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His third novel, The Corrections , a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction... |
Creative Arts | Fiction |
| Rosana Patricia Fuertes | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Pablo E. Furman | Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Jorge Gamboa | Physics | |
| David Ganz | Medieval Literature | |
| Juan Gelman Juan Gelman Juan Gelman is an Argentine poet. He has published more than twenty books of poetry since 1956. He won the Cervantes Prize in 2007, the most important in Spanish literature... |
Poetry | |
| Susan A. Gelman | Psychology | |
| Chambliss Giobbi | Music Composition | |
| Mike Glier | Fine Arts | |
| David P. Goldenberg | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| David Guterson David Guterson David Guterson is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist.-Early life:David Guterson was born May 4, 1956, in Seattle, Washington. During his childhood, he attended Seattle public schools and later attended the University of Washington where he earned Bachelor of... |
Fiction | |
| Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is an American historian, and Julia Cherry Spruill Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.-Life:She graduated from Columbia University with an MA and Ph.D... |
U.S. History | |
| William F. Hanks | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Lars Peter Hansen Lars Peter Hansen Lars Peter Hansen is an economist at the University of Chicago.- Biography :After graduating from Utah State University and the University of Minnesota Lars Peter Hansen (b. October 26, 1952 in Champaign, Illinois) is an economist at the University of Chicago.- Biography :After graduating from... |
Economics | |
| Russell Hardin | Political Science | |
| Ruth Harris | French History | |
| Thomas Harris Thomas Harris Thomas Harris is an American author and screenwriter, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
| Tim Harris Tim Harris Tim Harris may refer to:* Tim Harris , British football manager* Tim Harris , South African Member of Parliament* Tim Harris , U.S... |
British History | |
| Dayton Haskin | English Literature | |
| Hayden Herrera | Creative Arts | Biography |
| Mack P. Holt | Renaissance History | |
| Jonathon Howard | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Susan Howe Susan Howe Susan Howe is a American poet, scholar, essayist and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre... |
Poetry | |
| Nora Jacobson | Creative Arts | Film |
| Jainendra K. Jain Jainendra K. Jain Jainendra K. Jain is an Indian American physicist, who is currently the Erwin W. Mueller Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University. Jain is known for his theoretical work on quantum many body systems, most notably for postulating Composite fermions.... |
Physics | |
| Roberta Johnson | Spanish & Portuguese Literature | |
| Mark D. Jordan | Humanities | Medieval Literature |
| Paul Kaiser | Video & Audio | |
| Catherine Kallin | Physics | |
| Richard B. Kaner | Chemistry | |
| Temma Kaplan | Intellectual & Cultural History | |
| P. Andrew Karplus | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Aviva Kempner Aviva Kempner Aviva Kempner is an American filmmaker. Her documentaries investigate non-stereotypical images of Jews in history and focus on the untold stories of Jewish heroes. She is most well known for The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg.... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| Jon Kessler Jon Kessler Jon Kessler is an American artist. He began college at SUNY Purchase from 1974—78 but left after two years to travel in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. He returned to Purchase in 1978 and graduated in 1980 with honors. Following graduation, Kessler took up a studio in Brooklyn, New York where... |
Fine Arts | |
| Kyung-Suk Kim | Engineering | |
| John T. Koch John T. Koch Professor John T. Koch is an American academic, historian and linguist who specializes in Celtic studies, especially prehistory and the early Middle Ages.... |
Medieval Literature | |
| Harold Hongju Koh Harold Hongju Koh Harold Hongju Koh is an Korean American lawyer and legal scholar. He currently serves as the Legal Adviser of the Department of State. He was nominated to his current position by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2009, and confirmed by the Senate on June 25, 2009.In public service, Koh... |
Law | |
| Howard Korder Howard Korder Howard Korder is an American screenwriter and playwright. He is the author of the 1988 coming-of-age play Boy's Life, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize for Drama nomination. His play Search and Destroy was adapted into a film in 1995. Among the screenplays he has written are The Passion of Ayn... |
Drama & Performance Art | |
| Kathryn Kramer | Fiction | |
| Corinne A. Kratz | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Allan Kulikoff | Humanities | U.S. History |
| Michèle Lamont Michèle Lamont Michèle Lamont is a sociologist and is currently the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and a Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Harvard University.-Career:... |
Sociology | |
| Russell Lande Russell Lande Russell Lande is an American evolutionary biologist and ecologist, and a Royal Society Research Professor at Imperial College London, in Silwood Park.-Education and career:... |
Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Ullrich Langer | Italian Literature | |
| Peter Lepage | Physics | |
| Suzanne Jill Levine | Latin American Literature | |
| Bruce G. Lindsay | Statistics | |
| Ralph Lombreglia Ralph Lombreglia Ralph Lombreglia is an American short story writer and multimedia producer and consultant. He wrote several short stories including two collections: Men Under Water, and Make Me Work. He teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.... |
Fiction | |
| Setha M. Low | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
| Cristina Magaldi | Music Research | |
| Sabina Magliocco Sabina Magliocco Sabina Magliocco , is a professor of Anthropology and Folklore at California State University, Northridge . She is an author of non-fiction books and journal articles about folklore, religion, religious festivals, foodways, witchcraft and Neo-Paganism in Europe and the United States.A recipient of... |
Folklore & Popular Culture | |
| Frank Majore | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Florencia E. Mallon | Humanities | Iberian & Latin American History |
| Carl Martin Carl Martin Carl Clarke Martin is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Crewe Alexandra.-Personal:Carl and twin brother Callum both had good career prospects in football having played since a young age and having football run in the family. Carl went to Hendon School, North London... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
| Jann Matlock | Fine Arts Research | |
| Jane Dammen McAuliffe | Religion | |
| Todd McGrain | Fine Arts | |
| J. R. McNeill J. R. McNeill John R. "J.R." McNeill is an environmental historian, author, and professor at Georgetown University... |
Science Writing | |
| Jorge H. Medina | Neuroscience | |
| H. Jay Melosh H. Jay Melosh Dr. H. Jay Melosh is an American geophysicist, renowned as an expert on impact cratering. He earned a degree in physics from Princeton University and a doctoral degree in physics and geology from Caltech in 1972. Dr. Melosh's research interests include impact craters, planetary tectonics, and the... |
Earth Science | |
| Kenneth M. Merz | Chemistry | |
| Sam Messer Sam Messer Sam Messer is a painter living in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, film writer and director Eleanor Gaver, and daughter. He is Associate Dean and professor at the Yale School of Art.... |
Fine Arts | |
| Ann Messner | Fine Arts | |
| Axel Meyer Axel Meyer Axel Meyer is an evolutionary biologist and a Professor of Zoology and Evolutionary Biology at the Universität Konstanz, Germany.... |
Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Eugenia Meyer | Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Paulo K. Monteiro | Economics | |
| Jennifer Montgomery | Creative Arts | Film |
| Rodrigo Montoya Rojas | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Louis A. Montrose | English Literature | |
| Shaul Mukamel | Chemistry | |
| Desiderio Navarro | Humanities | Latin American Literature |
| Larry Neal Larry Neal Larry Neal or Lawerence Neal was a scholar of African-American theatre. He is well known for his contributions to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:... |
Humanities | Economic History |
| Robert Nozick Robert Nozick Robert Nozick was an American political philosopher, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a professor at Harvard University. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia , a right-libertarian answer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice... |
Humanities | Philosophy |
| Josiah Ober Josiah Ober Josiah Ober is an American historian and classical political theorist. He is currently the Constantine Mitsotakis Chair of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University... |
Humanities | Classics |
| Chris Offutt Chris Offutt Christopher John "Chris" Offutt is an American writer.The son of author Andrew J. Offutt, Chris Offutt grew up in a small former mining community in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Kentucky. He quit high school to join the army, but failed the physical... |
Creative Arts | Fiction |
| Celeste Olalquiaga | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
| J. Patrick Olivelle | Humanities | Religion |
| Eduardo L. Ortiz | Humanities | History of Science & Technology |
| Karen Hunger Parshall | History of Science & Technology | |
| Joyce Pensato | Fine Arts | |
| Irene M. Pepperberg | Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology |
| Gregory A. Petsko | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Janet Pierrehumbert Janet Pierrehumbert Janet Pierrehumbert is a professor of linguistics at Northwestern University whose research uses experimental and computational methods to study the sound structure of language. She developed an intonational model which includes a grammar of intonation patterns and an explicit algorithm for... |
Linguistics | |
| Raymond T. Pierrehumbert | Applied Mathematics | |
| Kenneth Pomeranz Kenneth Pomeranz Kenneth Pomeranz is the of History at the University of California, Irvine in the US. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988, where he was a student of Jonathan Spence.-Research:... |
Economic History | |
| Gyan Prakash Gyan Prakash Gyan Prakash is a historian of modern India and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. Prakash is a member of the Subaltern Studies collective. Prakash received his BA in history from the University of Delhi in 1973, his MA in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University in... |
South Asian Studies | |
| Ed Radtke | Creative Arts | Film |
| Natasha V. Raikhel | Plant Sciences | |
| Lawrence S. Rainey | American Literature | |
| Gabriel Retes Balzaretti | Creative Arts | Film |
| Nelly Richard Nelly Richard Nelly Richard is a French-born cultural theorist now based in Chile and editor of the Revista de crítica cultural. Among her books are The Insubordination of Signs and Cultural Residues.... |
Latin American Literature | |
| Eduardo Luis Rodríguez | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
| Roque Roldán Ortega | General Nonfiction | |
| Marina Roseman | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Jonathan Rosenbaum Jonathan Rosenbaum Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American film critic. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008, when he retired at the age of 65... |
Film, Video, & Radio Studies | |
| Morris Rosenzweig | Music Composition | |
| Mark Rudman Mark Rudman Mark Rudman is an American poet.He was Professor at Columbia University and New York University.He graduated from The New School with a BA, and from Columbia University with an MFA.... |
Poetry | |
| C. Bryan Rulon | Music Composition | |
| Kathe Sandler | Creative Arts | Film |
| Eric L. Santner | Intellectual & Cultural History | |
| Stacy Schiff Stacy Schiff Stacy Madeleine Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American nonfiction author and guest columnist for The New York Times.-Biography:... |
Creative Arts | Biography |
| Richard M. Schoen | Mathematics | |
| Lynn Shapiro | Creative Arts | Choreography |
| Barbara Sicherman | U.S. History | |
| María Teresa Sirvent | Education | |
| Valeska Soares | Fine Arts | |
| Ignacio Solares Bernal | Fiction | |
| Theodore Steinberg | U.S. History | |
| Jessica Stockholder Jessica Stockholder Jessica Stockholder is a sculptor and installation artist who has had exhibitions in Europe and USA, her works, "challenge boundaries, blurring the distinction among painting, sculpture and environment, and even breaching gallery walls by extending beyond windows and doors".-Life and... |
Fine Arts | |
| Linda Stojak | Fine Arts | |
| Barbara G. Taylor | Humanities | British History |
| Chris Theofanidis Chris Theofanidis Christopher Theofanidis is an American composer who has had performances by many leading orchestras from around the world, including the London Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Moscow Soloists, the National, Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, and many others... |
Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| George Tsontakis George Tsontakis George Tsontakis is an American composer and conductor.Tsontakis studied composition with Hugo Weisgall and Roger Sessions at the Juilliard School from 1974 to 1978, and later with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome... |
Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Antonio Wallace Turok | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Mark Tushnet Mark Tushnet Mark Victor Tushnet is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A prominent scholar of constitutional law and legal history, he is the author of many books and articles.-Career:... |
Social Sciences | Law |
| Julio A. Urbina | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
| David L. Vander Meulen | Humanities | Bibliography |
| Doug Varone Doug Varone Choreographer and director Doug Varone works in dance, theater, opera, film, television and fashion. In 2007 he created three major pieces for his own Doug Varone and Dancers – the full-length multi-media Dense Terrain at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Victorious, commissioned by Bard’s SummerScape,... |
Creative Arts | Choreography |
| Stephen A. Vavasis | Natural Sciences | Computer Science |
| J. David Velleman J. David Velleman J. David Velleman is a Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He taught previously for more than twenty years at the University of Michigan. He primarily works in the areas of ethics, moral psychology, and related areas such as the philosophy of action and practical... |
Humanities | Philosophy |
| Dan Voiculescu Dan Voiculescu Dan Voiculescu is a Romanian politician and former business man. He is the Vicepresident of the Romanian Senate and founding president of the Conservative Party in Romania. .... |
Natural Sciences | Mathematics |
| Athena Vrettos | Humanities | English Literature |
| Kay B. Warren | Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
| Janis C. Weeks | Natural Sciences | Neuroscience |
| Stephen D. White | Humanities | Medieval History |
| Stanley Whitney | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| R. Mark Wightman | Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
| Clifford M. Will | Natural Sciences | Astronomy--Astrophysics |
| Fredric Woodbridge Wilson | Humanities | Theatre Arts |
| George R. Wodicka | Natural Sciences | Medicine & Health |
| Robert Wrigley Robert Wrigley Robert Wrigley is an American poet and educator.His most recent book is Beautiful Country'. Other collections include Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems Lives of the Animals ; Reign of Snakes ; In the Bank of Beautiful Sins ; What My Father Believed ; Moon in a... |
Creative Arts | Poetry |
| Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Bell Yung | Humanities | Folklore & Popular Culture |
| Viviana A. Zelizer | Social Sciences | Sociology |
| Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt | Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
| Barton Zwiebach Barton Zwiebach Barton Zwiebach is a string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, born in Lima, Perú. His undergraduate work was in Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Peru, from which he graduated in 1977.His graduate work was in physics at the... |
Natural Sciences | Physics |