1993

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1993 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

• Richard Abel, National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of English, Drake University: 1993: Early cinema as a site of French and American cross-cultural relations.
• Joan Acocella, Writer, New York City: 1993: The place of classical ballet in American culture.
• Polly E. Apfelbaum, Artist, New York City: 1993: Sculpture.
• Derek Attridge, Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University: 1993: Literary form and the question of ethics.
• Barbara A. Baird, Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University: 1993: The aggregation of immunological receptors on cell surfaces.
• Debbora Battaglia, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College: 1993: The irony and the romance of urban Trobriand identity.
• Virginia Beahan, Photographer, Lyme Center, New Hampshire: 1993: Photography (in collaboration with Laura McPhee).
• Frederick C. Beiser, Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University at Bloomington: 1993: The defense of rationality in the early English Enlightenment, 1594-1737.
• Alan Berliner, Film Maker, New York City; Adjunct Lecturer in Film, New School for Social Research: 1993: Film making.
• Michael A. Bernstein, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley: 1993: Temporality and the ethics of narrative.
• Willie Birch, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: 1993: Sculpture.
• Blanche McCrary Boyd, Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence, Connecticut College: 1993: Fiction.
• Phyllis Bramson, Artist, Chicago; Associate Professor of Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago: 1993: Painting.
• Ross Brann, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University: 1993: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Islamic Spain.
• Gordon Brotherston, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University at Bloomington: 1993: The significance of place signs in Mesoamerican texts.
• Marina S. Brownlee, Class of 1963 College of Women Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania: 1993: Medieval Spanish vernacular poetry.
• Susan Buck-Morss, Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory, Cornell University: 1993: Modern mass-cultural forms in the U.S. and U.S.S.R..
• Robert Olen Butler, Writer, Lake Charles, Louisiana; Professor of English, McNeese State University: 1993: Fiction.
• Terry P. Caesar, Professor of English, Clarion University: 1993: Essays on the politics of academic life.
• Annette Wheeler Cafarelli, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University: 1993: Women and the formation of Romanticism.
• Mary Carlson, Artist, New York City: 1993: Sculpture.
• Nicholas Christopher, Poet, New York City; Adjunct Professor of English, New York University; Lecturer in Writing, Columbia University: 1993: Poetry.
• Patricia E. Cladis, Physicist, Summit, New Jersey; Member of the Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey: 1993: Pattern formation in liquid crystals.
• David Cohen, Professor of Rhetoric and Classics, University of California, Berkeley: 1993: Crime, law, and social control in classical Athens.
• Lizabeth Cohen, Associate Professor of History, New York University: 1993: The politics of consumption in postwar America.
• Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., Professor of Medieval History, University of Glasgow: 1993: The Florentine Alps after the Black Death.
• Billy Collins, Poet, Somers, New York; Professor of English, Lehman College, City University of New York: 1993: Poetry.
• Frederick Cooper, Professor of African History, University of Michigan: 1993: Decolonization, social science, and the idea of development.
• Michael Cunningham, Writer, New York City: 1993: Fiction.
• Nathan Currier, Composer, New York City; Member of the Faculty, The Juilliard School: 1993: Music composition.
• James E. Cutting, Professor of Psychology, Cornell University: 1993: The perception of environmental layout.
• Francis A. Dahlen, Jr., Professor of Geophysics, Princeton University: 1993: The free oscillations of the earth.
• Francis Davis, Writer, Philadelphia; Contributing Editor, The Atlantic: 1993: A biography of John Coltrane.
• Gary S. De Krey, Professor of History, St. Olaf College: 1993: Conscience and conflict in London, 1645-1695.
• Regina DeLuise, Photographer, Dorset, Vermont: 1993: Photography.
• Robert Dick, Composer, Luzern, Switzerland: 1993: Music composition.
• Millicent Dillon, Writer, San Francisco: 1993: A biography of Paul Bowles.
• Ann Douglas, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University: 1993: American modernization and New York City between the world wars.
• Debórah Dwork, Associate Professor, Child Study Center, Yale University: 1993: A history of Jewish refugee children, 1933-1993.
• Cornelius Eady, Poet, New York City; Assistant Professor of English and Director, The Poetry Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook: 1993: Poetry.
• Louis Edwards, Writer, New Orleans, Louisiana; Information and Publications Coordinator, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and Festival: 1993: Fiction.
• David Felder, Composer-in-Residence, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; Associate Professor of Music and Birge-Cary Chair in Music, State University of New York at Buffalo: 1993: Music composition.
• Gloria Ferrari Pinney, Professor of Art, University of Chicago: 1993: The representation of the past in Greek vase-painting.
• Arthur Field, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University at Bloomington; Visiting Scholar, Villa I. Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy.: 1993: The first intellectuals of Medicean Florence.
• Jeanne C. Finley, Video Artist, San Francisco; California; Associate Dean of Fine Art, California College of Arts and Crafts: 1993: Video art.
• Karen Finley, Multi-media Artist, Nyack, New York: 1993: Multi-media art.
• Joel Fisher, Artist, North Troy, Vermont: 1993: Sculpture.
• Joseph S. Francisco, Professor of Chemistry and of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University: 1993.: The atmospheric impact of hydrochlorine oxides.
• Joe Frank, Radio Artist, Venice, California: 1993: Radio art.
• Harry G. Frankfurt, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University: 1993: Identification and the structure of the self.
• Allen J. Frantzen, Professor of English, Loyola University of Chicago: 1993: The Anglo-Saxon penitentials as a cultural database.
• Alexander Gelley, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine: 1993: Walter Benjamin's position as critic.
• Paula J. Giddings, Writer, New York City: 1993.: A biography of Ida B. Wells, founder of the anti-lynching movement.
• Paul Gootenberg, Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook: 1993: The origins and nature of free-trade regimes in post-independence Latin America.
• Mary Gordon, Writer, New York City; Millicent McIntosh Professor of English, Barnard College, Columbia University: 1993: Fiction.
• William L. Graf, Regents Professor of Geography, Arizona State University: 1993: The environmental and cultural history of American rivers.
• Elliott Green, Artist, New York City: 1993: Painting.
• Gene M. Grossman, Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics, Princeton University: 1993: The political economy of international trade relations.
• Lars Gustafsson, Poet, Austin, Texas; Adjunct Professor of Germanic Languages and Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin: 1993: Poetry.
• Sarah Hanley, Professor of History, University of Iowa: 1993: State building and family formation in early modern France.
• John Harte, Professor of Soil Science and Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley: 1993: The ecological effects of climate change.
• Christine L. Heyrman, Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware: 1993: Spiritual lives in the Southern backcountry, 1770-1820.
• Daniel Hillel, Professor of Plant, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: 1993: Water in the Middle East.
• Philip Holmes, Professor of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Princeton University: 1993: Low-dimensional models of turbulence.
• Ray Jackendoff, Professor of Linguistics and National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University: 1993: Issues in conceptual semantics.
• Fotis C. Kafatos, Director General, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany: 1993: Genetic analysis of regulatory genes.
• Wendy Kaminer, Public Policy Fellow, Radcliffe College: 1993: Capital punishment, politics, and culture.
• Marilyn A. Katz, Professor of Classics, Wesleyan University: 1993: Women and ideology in ancient Greece.
• Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University: 1993: The eighteenth-century German origins of art history and aesthetics.
• Anatoly M. Khazanov, Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison: 1993: The major world religions in the Eurasian steppes.
• Laura Kipnis, Video Artist, Chicago; Associate Professor of Radio, Television and Film, Northwestern University: 1993: Video art.
• Mary Kocol, Photographer, Somerville, Massachusetts: 1993: Photography.
• Clayton Koelb, Guy B. Johnson Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1993: The rhetoric of historical novels.
• Phokion G. Kolaitis, Associate Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz: 1993: Studies in finite model theory.
• Allen Kurzweil, Writer, Storrs, Connecticut: 1993: Fiction.
• Oliver Lake, Composer, Montclair, New Jersey: 1993: Music composition.
• John Lees, Artist, Leeds, New York; Instructor in Painting and Drawing, School of Visual Arts: 1993: Painting and drawing.
• Seth Lerer, Professor of English, Stanford University: 1993: The culture of spectatorship in late medieval England.
• Leonid A. Levin, Professor of Computer Science, Boston University: 1993: Randomness and non-determinism in computing.
• Ker-Chau Li, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles: 1993: Visualization and dimension reduction in data analysis.
• Zachary Lockman, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University: 1993: Popular culture and social change in Cairo, 1882-1919.
• Wyatt MacGaffey, John R. Coleman Professor of Social Sciences, Haverford College: 1993: Kongo conceptions of power.
• Jane Marcus, Distinguished Professor of English and Coordinator of Women's Studies, Graduate Center and City College, City University of New York: 1993: Books, bodies, and the culture of World War I.
• Michael Marcus, Professor of Mathematics, Graduate Center and City College, City University of New York: 1993: The relationship between Gaussian and Markov processes.
• Donald Margulies, Playwright, New Haven, Connecticut: 1993: Play writing.
• Lucy McDiarmid, Professor of English, Villanova University; Associate Director, Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, Ireland: 1993: The Irish art of controversy.
• Bill McKibben, Writer, Johnsburg, New York: 1993: The environmental problem of sustainable development.
• Laura McPhee, Photographer, Brookline, Massachusetts; Assistant Professor of Photography, Media, and Performing Arts, Massachusetts College of Art: 1993: Photography (in collaboration with Virginia Beahan).
• Margaret A. Mills, UPS Foundation Associate Professor of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania: 1993: The life of an Afghan woman verbal artist.
• Andrea Modica, Photographer, Oneonta, New York; Associate Professor of Art, State University of New York College at Oneonta: 1993: Photography.
• Abelardo Morell, Photographer, Brookline, Massachusetts; Associate Professor of Art, Massachusetts College of Art: 1993: Photography.
• Roger Morris, Writer, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico: 1993: The second volume of a biography of Richard Nixon.
• Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign: 1993: Theoretical studies of star formation.
• Kirin Narayan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison: 1993: Women's songs and cultural change in Kangra.
• Peter M. Narins, Professor of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles: 1993: Seismic signals and sensitivity in animals.
• David R. Nelson, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University: 1993: The physics of biological materials.
• Kathleen Norris, Writer, Lemmon, South Dakota: 1993: Essays on poets, farmers, and monks.
• Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, Cornell University: 1993: Gendered power and the forming of American society in the 17th century.
• Thomas Nozkowski, Artist, New York City: 1993: Painting.
• Tere O'Connor, Choreographer, New York City; Instructor in Dance, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University: 1993: Choreography.
• Larry E. Overman, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine: 1993: Studies in synthetic organic chemistry.
• Jeevak M. Parpia, Professor of Physics, Cornell University: 1993: Studies in experimental low-temperature physics.
• Carole Pateman, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles: 1993: Women and democratic citizenship.
• Richard H. Pells, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin: 1993: The cultural relations between the United States and Europe since World War II.
• Gayle Pemberton, Associate Director, Afro-American Studies, Princeton University: 1993: Black women in American cinema.
• Mimi Pickering, Film Maker and Video Artist, Whitesburg, Kentucky: 1993: Video art.
• A. Mitchell Polinsky, Josephine Scott Crocker Professor of Law and Economics and Director, Law and Economics Program, Stanford Law School: 1993: The economic theory of public enforcement of law.
• Robert E. Pollack, Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University; Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College: 1993: The biological causes and social consequences of disease.
• Carl R. Pope, Jr., Multi-media Installation Artist, Indianapolis: 1993: Multi-media installation art.
• Ross Posnock, Andrew Hilen Professor of American Literature, University of Washington: 1993: Black intellectuals and the politics of pragmatism.
• Armand Qualliotine, Composer, Somerville, Massachusetts; Instructor in Music, Boston University; Instructor in Music, Brandeis University: 1993: Music composition.
• L. Elizabeth Rasmussen, Associate Research Professor of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Oregon Graduate Institute: 1993: Chemosensory signaling and elephant reproduction.
• Bruce Redford, Professor of English, University of Chicago: 1993: Venice and the Grand Tour, 1670-1790.
• Fritz Ringer, Mellon Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh: 1993: Max Weber and the crisis of German academic culture.
• Francesca Rochberg, Professor of History, University of California, Riverside: 1993: An edition of the Babylonian horoscopes.
• Mary Jo Salter, Poet, South Hadley, Massachusetts; Poetry Editor, The New Republic; Lecturer in English, Mount Holyoke College: 1993: Poetry.
• Peter Saul, Artist, Austin, Texas; Professor of Art, University of Texas at Austin: 1993: Painting.
• Michael Scammell, Professor of Russian Literature, Cornell University: 1993: A biography of Arthur Koestler.
• Carolee Schneemann, Multi-media Installation Artist, New Paltz, New York; Visiting Artist, Humboldt State University: 1993: Multi-media installation art.
• Victor Schrager, Photographer, New York City; Instructor in Photography, School of Visual Arts: 1993: Photography.
• Frederick Seidel, Poet and Screenwriter, New York City: 1993: Poetry.
• William C. Sharpe, Associate Professor of English, Barnard College, Columbia University: 1993: Literary and visual images of New York at night.
• Linda M. Shires, Associate Professor of English, Syracuse University: 1993: Representative careers in the Victorian literary marketplace.
• Miriam Silverberg, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles: 1993: The Japanese culture of modernity.
• Samuel C. Silverstein, John C. Dalton Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, and Professor of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University: 1993: Molecular analysis of antibiotic metabolism in white blood cells.
• William H. Simon, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School: 1993: A theory of legal ethics.
• James L. Skinner, Joseph O. Hirschfelder Professor of Chemistry and Director, Theoretical Chemistry Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison: 1993: Spectroscopic studies of disordered crystals and amorphous solids.
• David Soley, Composer, Mountain View, California: 1993: Music composition.
• Philip Solomon, Film Maker, Broomfield, Colorado; Assistant Professor of Film Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder: 1993: Film making.
• Ann Laura Stoler, Professor of Anthropology, History, and Women's Studies, University of Michigan: 1993: The racial politics of bourgeois civility in colonial southeast Asia.
• Suresh Subramani, Professor of Biology, University of California, San Diego: 1993: Protein transport to peroxisomes.
• Donald K. Swearer, Charles and Harriet Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Swarthmore College; Adjunct Professor of Religion, University of Pennsylvania; Adjunct Professor of Religion, Temple University: 1993: The sacred mountains of Thailand, Laos, and Burma.
• Ritsuko Taho, Artist, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Assistant Professor of Visual Arts and Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1993: Sculpture.
• John H. Thomas, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences and of Astronomy, University of Rochester: 1993: Solar and stellar magnetic fields.
• Marta Tienda, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago: 1993: Color and social opportunity in Chicago's inner city.
• Daniel P. Todes, Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University: 1993: A biography of Ivan Pavlov.
• George Tsebelis, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles: 1993: The institutions of the European community.
• Olke C. Uhlenbeck, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder: 1993: Studies in RNA splicing.
• Greg Urban, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania: 1993: The discursive foundations of social life in an indigenous Brazilian society.
• Judith R. Walkowitz, Professor of History, The Johns Hopkins University: 1993: The cultural geography of London's West End, 1880-1940.
• Mary C. Waters, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University: 1993: The social and economic assimilation of West Indian immigrants in New York City.
• Mia Westerlund Roosen, Artist, New York City: 1993: Sculpture.
• John C. Wingfield, Professor of Zoology, University of Washington: 1993: The principles of environmental endocrinology.
• Susan Wolf, Professor of Philosophy, The Johns Hopkins University: 1993: Morality, happiness, and the meaning of life.
• Janet Wolff, Professor of Art History and of Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester: 1993: Modernism, modernity, and gender in the visual arts.

1993 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

• José Bedia Valdés, Installation Artist, Mexico City: 1993: Installation art.
• Diana Bellessi, Poet, Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1993: Poetry.
• Claudio Bertoni Lemus, Photographer, Santiago, Chile: 1993: Photography.
• Alberto Cordero, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Queens College, City University of New York: 1993: An objectivist theory of quantum transitions.
• Marcos Cueto, Researcher, Institute of Peruvian Studies, Lima, Peru: 1993: Epidemics, sanitary policy, and popular response in Peru, 1900-1991.
• Jesús Díaz, Writer and Film Maker, Madrid, Spain: 1993: Fiction.
• John Earls, Professor of Anthropology, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima: 1993: The cybernetics of Inca agricultural management and technology.
• José Antonio Évora, Theatre and Film Critic, Havana, Cuba; Editor, Cine Cubano, Havana: 1993: Cuban vernacular theater in exile.
• Roberto Fernández, Physicist, National University of Córdorba, Argentina: 1993.: A textbook on mathematical statistical mechanics.
• Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Deceased. Film: 1993: Film making.
• Patricio Guzmán Lozanes, Film Maker, Madrid, Spain: 1993: Film making.
• Néstor E. Katz, Professor of Physical Chemistry, National University of Tucumán, Argentina: 1993: Electron transfer studies on polynuclear ruthenium complexes and their connection to artificial photosynthesis.
• David Lamelas, Artist, Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1993: Sculpture and installation art.
• Mirko Lauer, Writer, Lima, Peru; Director, Mosca Azul Editores, Lima: 1993: Essays on daily life in Peru.
• Diego Luzuriaga, Composer, Brasilia, Brazil; Teaching Assistant and Faculty Fellow, Columbia University, New York City: 1993: Music composition.
• Carlos Marichal, Professor and Researcher, Center for Historical Studies, College of Mexico, Mexico City: 1993: The origins of banking in Latin America: 1850-1914.
• Gonzalo Martínez de la Escalera, Research Professor, Biomedical Research Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City: 1993: The development and function of gonadotropin-releasing hormone pulsatil neuronal networks.
• Pablo Ortiz, Composer, Davis, California: 1993: Music composition.
• Paulo S. Pinheiro, Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for the Study of Violence, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil: 1993: Democratic consolidation and the legacy of authoritarianism.
• Eustáquio J. Reis, Senior Economist, Institute of Applied Economic Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 1993: The economics of Amazon deforestation.
• Osvaldo E. Sala, Professor of Ecology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1993: The effects of global change on carbon and nitrogen budgets of terrestrial ecosystems.
• Rodolfo Santana Salas, Playwright, Caracas, Venezuela: 1993: Play writing.
• Moisés Selman-Lama, Head of Clinical Research, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico City: 1993: A book on interstitial lung diseases.
• Ana María Shua, Writer, Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1993: Fiction.
• Marilda A. de Oliveira Sotomayor, Professor of Mathematical Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 1993: Models for the unraveling phenomenon in matching markets.
• Denise Stoklos, Playwright and Performance Artist, Sao Paulo, Brazil: 1993: Play writing.
• Marcelo Viana, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 1993: The persistence of chaotic dynamical behavior.

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