1994

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1994 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

• Carolyn Abbate, Professor of Music, Princeton University: 1994: The uncanny voice in music.
• Joyce Appleby, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles: 1994: Careers, civil society, and concepts of the nation after the Constitution, 1789-1829.
• Carol Armstrong, Associate Professor of Art History, Graduate Center, City University of New York: 1994: Positivism and the photographically illustrated book in 19th-century Britain.
• Patricia Aufderheide, Associate Professor of Communication, American University; Senior Editor, In These Times, Chicago: 1994: The ritual of intimate revelation on television.
• Thomas Banks, Professor of Physics, Rutgers University: 1994: Studies in supersymmetry breaking, string theory, and cosmology.
• Robert L. Belknap, Professor of Russian, Columbia University: 1994: The literary practice and theory of plot.
• Sven Birkerts, Writer, Arlington, Massachusetts; Lecturer in English, Emerson College: 1994: The place of reading in an electronic culture.
• Joan S. Birman, Professor of Mathematics, Barnard College, Columbia University: 1994: An algorithmic solution to the knot problem.
• David Blackbourn, Professor of History and Senior Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University: 1994: Water in 19th-century German economy, society, and culture.
• Edward J. Blakely, Dean, School of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Southern California: 1994: The emergence of gated and walled communities in the United States.
• Richard K. Bloes, Video Installation Artist, Carmel, New York: 1994: Video installation art.
• Michael Book, Photographer, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Professor of Photography, Louisiana State University: 1994: Photography.
• Richard D. Bosman, Artist, New York City: 1994: Painting.
• Constance Brittain Bouchard, Professor of History, University of Akron: 1994: The construction of reality in the 12th century through the discourse of opposites.
• Michael T. Bowers, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1994: Structures of biological molecules in the gas phase.
• Emily Breer, Film Maker, New York City: 1994: Film making.
• Charles L. Briggs, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego: 1994: Poetics and power in the circulation of discourse in South America.
• Kevin Bubriski, Photographer, Shaftsbury, Vermont: 1994: Photography.
• Giorgio Buccellati, Professor of the Ancient Near East and of History, University of California, Los Angeles: 1994: Khana and the Amorites.
• Charles Capper, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1994: The public years of Margaret Fuller.
• Peter Carafiol, Professor of English, Portland State University: 1994: A pragmatist approach to American literary history.
• Squeak Carnwath, Artist, Oakland, California; Professor of Art, University of California, Davis; Visiting Professor and Associate Dean, California College of Arts and Crafts: 1994: Painting.
• Joseph C. Carter, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Director, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Texas at Austin: 1994: The archaeology of the Greek countryside.
• Donald L. D. Caspar, Professor of Biological Science, Florida State University: 1994: Virus assembly and protein adaptability.
• Moses V. Chao, Professor of Cell Biology in Medicine, Cornell University Medical College: 1994: The signal for myelination.
• Bernard Chazelle, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University: 1994: Sampling and randomness in computational geometry.
• Mark A. Cheetham, Professor of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario: 1994: Kant and the visual arts.
• William A. V. Clark, Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles: 1994: International migration and local outcomes.
• Lawrence M. Clopper, Professor of English and Director, Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana University at Bloomington: 1994: The ludic elements in medieval drama.
• Tony Cokes, Multi-media Installation Artist, Providence, Rhode Island; Visiting Lecturer in Media Production, Malcolm Forbes Center for Modern Culture and Media, Brown University: 1994: Multi-media installation art.
• Corrine Colarusso, Artist, Atlanta, Georgia; Associate Professor of Painting, Atlanta College of Art: 1994: Painting.
• Eleanor Cook, Professor of English, University of Toronto: 1994: The structure and function of the riddle.
• Meg Cranston, Artist, Venice, California; Member of the Faculty, Otis Art Institute; Lecturer in Art, University of California, Los Angeles: 1994: Sculpture and installations.
• William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison: 1994: A history of Portage, Wisconsin.
• Pamela Kyle Crossley, Professor of History, Dartmouth College: 1994: Ruling and collecting in early modern China.
• Paul D'Amato, Photographer, South Portland, Maine; Associate Professor of Photography, Maine College of Art: 1994: Photography.
• Lorraine Daston, Professor of History and History of Science, University of Chicago: 1994: A history of the ideals and practices of scientific objectivity.
• Margreta de Grazia, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania: 1994: Shakespeare's period and the English Renaissance.
• Mark Doty, Poet, Provincetown, Massachusetts: 1994: Poetry.
• Ann duCille, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego: 1994: Labor, leisure, and the production of African-American culture, 1850-1930.
• Adam M. Dziewonski, Professor of Geology, Harvard University: 1994: Three-dimensional seismic imaging of the earth's deep interior.
• Veit Elser, Associate Professor of Physics, Cornell University: 1994: Quasicrystalline minimal surfaces.
• Geraldine Erman, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1994: Sculpture.
• William N. Eskridge, Jr., Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center: 1994: Homosexuality and the law.
• Jeffrey Eugenides, Writer, Brooklyn, New York: 1994: Fiction.
• Michael H. Freedman, Charles Lee Powell Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego: 1994: The topology and geometry of three-dimensional manifolds.
• Paul H. Freedman, Professor of History and Director, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University: 1994: The social and moral image of the medieval peasant.
• Cristina Garcia, Writer; Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern California: 1994: Fiction.
• Leon Glass, Professor of Physiology, McGill University: 1994: Nonlinear dynamics and sudden cardiac death.
• Benny Golson, Composer and Performer, New York City and Los Angeles: 1994: Music composition.
• Ron Gorchov, Artist, New York City; Associate Professor of Art, Hunter College, City University of New York: 1994: Painting.
• Eamon Grennan, Poet; Dexter M. Ferry Professor of English, Vassar College: 1994: Poetry.
• Bruce G. Harmon, Screenwriter, Redding Ridge, Connecticut: 1994: Screen writing.
• John B. Haviland, Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Reed College: 1994: The social life of language.
• Daniel R. Headrick, Professor of Social Science and History, Roosevelt University: 1994: The revolution in information technology, 1750-1850.
• Brenda Hillman, Poet, Kensington, California; Poet-in-Residence and Associate Professor of English, Saint Mary's College of California: 1994: Poetry.
• Tony Hiss, Writer, New York City; Staff Writer, The New Yorker: 1994: The impact of Frederick Law Olmsted's parks.
• Irene Hultman, Choreographer, Brooklyn, New York; Artistic Director, Irene Hultman Dance: 1994: Choreography.
• Michael Hurson, Artist, New York City: 1994: Painting and drawing.
• David Isay, Independent Radio Producer, New York City: 1994: Radio art.
• Pierre Jalbert, Composer, Stafford, Texas: 1994: Music composition.
• Clive G. Jones, Scientist, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York: 1994: Global environmental change and food quality.
• Thom Jones, Writer, Iowa City, Iowa: 1994: Fiction.
• Alice Kaplan, Professor of Romance Studies and Literature and Director, Undergraduate Studies Program in Literature, Duke University: 1994: The Brasillach case and the post-war intellectual community in Paris.
• Randall Kenan, Writer, New York City; Lecturer in Writing, Columbia University; Lecturer in Writing, Sarah Lawrence College: 1994: Fiction.
• Alexander Keyssar, Professor of History, Duke University: 1994: A history of the right to vote in the United States.
• Gary King, Professor of Government, Harvard University: 1994: Representation in American electoral systems.
• Karl Kirchwey, Poet, New York City; Director, The Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street YM/YWHA, New York City: 1994: Poetry.
• Nancy S. Kollmann, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University: 1994: Honor, identity, and the social order in early modern Russia.
• David Konstan, John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University: 1994: Friendship in the classical world.
• Beryl Korot, Video Artist, New York City: 1994: Video art.
• Cathy C. Laurie, Professor of Zoology, Duke University: 1994: The evolution of morphological differences in Drosophila.
• Lawrence W. Levine, Margaret Byrne Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley: 1994: The American people and the Great Depression, 1929-1941.
• Margrit Lewczuk, Artist, New York City: 1994: Painting.
• Elizabeth Macklin, Poet and Writer, New York City: 1994: Poetry.
• Robert D. Mare, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison: 1994: The intergenerational transmission of inequality.
• Mary Ellen Mark, Photographer, New York City: 1994: Photography.
• Sarah Maza, Professor of History, Northwestern University: 1994: The cultural construction of the French bourgeoisie, 1750-1850.
• James McManus, Poet and Writer, Kenilworth, Illinois; Professor of Liberal Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 1994: Poetry.
• Patrick McNaughton, Associate Professor of Art History, Indiana University at Bloomington: 1994: The aesthetics of clarity and obscurity in West Africa.
• Bruce A. Menge, Professor of Zoology and Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology, Oregon State University: 1994: Ecological studies of rocky intertidal communities.
• David Lee Miller, Professor of English, University of Kentucky: 1994: The motif of the sacrificial son.
• Anthony Molho, Munroe Goodwin Wilkinson Professor of European History, Brown University: 1994: Public finance and the territorial state in late medieval and early modern Italy.
• Sally Falk Moore, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University: 1994: A critical history of legal anthropology.
• Kathy Muehlemann, Artist, Lynchburg, Virginia: 1994: Painting.
• Christopher Münch, Film Maker, Los Angeles: 1994: Film making.
• James Naremore, Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Indiana University at Bloomington: 1994: A critical study of film noir.
• Dona Nelson, Artist, Philadelphia: 1994: Painting.
• Jon C. Nelson, Composer, Denton, Texas: 1994: Music composition.
• Jeff W. Nichols, Composer; Assistant Professor of Music, Harvard University: 1994: Music composition.
• Robert E. Oswald, Professor of Pharmacology, Cornell University: 1994: Structure of glutamate receptors.
• Tina Packer, Artistic Director and President, Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, Massachusetts: 1994: A theater piece on women in Shakespeare.
• Douglas Lane Patey, Professor of English, Smith College: 1994: The emergence of the modern division of the arts and the sciences.
• Jim Paul, Writer, San Francisco: 1994: A life of Frank Oppenheimer.
• Dale Peck, Writer, New York City: 1994: Fiction.
• Linda Levy Peck, Professor of History, University of Rochester: 1994: Britain in the Age of the Baroque.
• Elizabeth J. Perry, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley: 1994: Chinese labor under Communism.
• Michael Pirrung, Professor of Chemistry, Duke University: 1994: New technologies for the Human Genome Project.
• Lourdes Portillo, Film Maker and Video Artist, San Francisco: 1994: Film making and video art.
• Jill Quadagno, Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar in Social Gerontology and Professor of Sociology, Florida State University: 1994: States, labor markets, and the transformation of the life course.
• Alan Rath, Artist, Oakland, California: 1994: Sculpture.
• Abraham Ravett, Film Maker, Florence, Massachusetts; Professor of Film and Photography, Hampshire College: 1994: Film making.
• Edward S. Reed, Associate Professor of Psychology, Franklin & Marshall College: 1994: The ecological approach to psychology.
• Thomas Richards, Scholar, Baltimore, Maryland: 1994: The culture of Victorian aestheticism.
• Charles H. Robert, Researcher, European Molecular Biology Organization: 1994: The thermodynamics of water/protein interactions.
• John W. Roberts, Associate Professor of Folklore and Folklife and Director, Afro-American Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania: 1994: A theory of African-American folklore.
• Henry L. Roediger, III, Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Psychology, Rice University: 1994: Implicit memory.
• Mike Rose, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles: 1994: The promise of public education in America.
• Mary A. Rouse, Managing Editor, Viator, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles: 1994: A biographical register of book producers in Paris, 1200-1500.
• Karl Rubin, Professor of Mathematics, The Ohio State University: 1994: Applications of Euler systems in number theory.
• Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley: 1994: New institutions for economic federalism.
• Conrad Rudolph, Associate Professor of Art History, University of California, Riverside: 1994: Hugh of St. Victor and the Early Gothic portal.
• Martin J. S. Rudwick, Professor of History and Director, Science Studies Program, University of California, San Diego: 1994: The construction of prehuman history, 1790-1840.
• Peter Sahlins, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: 1994: Foreigners and the making of royal citizenship in early modern France.
• Richard B. Sher, Professor of History, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Professor of History, Rutgers University-Newark: 1994: The role of Scottish booksellers and printers in the Enlightenment.
• Ed Smith, Artist, Old Chatham, New York; Visiting Artist, New York Studio School; Instructor in Sculpture, Chautauqua Institution School of Art: 1994: Sculpture and drawing.
• Doris Sommer, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University: 1994: Resistant texts and resisted readers.
• Andrew Spence, Artist, New York City: 1994: Painting.
• Willard Spiegelman, Hughes Professor of English, Southern Methodist University: 1994: Essays on contemporary American poetry.
• Leo Spitzer, Professor of History, Dartmouth College: 1994: Central European-Jewish refugee emigration to Bolivia during World War II.
• Lisa Stancati, Photographer, Great Neck, New York: 1994: Photography.
• Christine Stansell, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University: 1994: Sex, art, and radicalism in America, 1890-1919.
• Paul J. Steinhardt, Mary Amanda Wood Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania: 1994: The origin of large-scale structure in the universe.
• Mark Steinmetz, Photographer, Athens, Georgia: 1994: Photography.
• Andrew Stewart, Professor of Greek and Roman Art, University of California, Berkeley: 1994: The body and society in Greek and Roman art.
• Paul A. Stoller, Professor of Anthropology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania: 1994: Spirit possession, power, and the Hauka in West Africa.
• Nicholas J. Strausfeld, Professor of Neurobiology and of Entomology and Anatomy, University of Arizona: 1994: The evolution of the insect brain.
• Paul Strohm, Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington: 1994: The symbolic project of Lancastrian kingship.
• Cyrus C. Taylor, Warren E. Rupp Associate Professor of Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University: 1994: Experimental and theoretical development of full acceptance physics.
• Talbot J. Taylor, Louise G. T. Cooley Professor of English and Linguistics, College of William and Mary: 1994: Agency, authority, and conformity in the history of linguistic ideas.
• Blake Temple, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis: 1994: Multi-dimensional shock-waves and gravitational collapse in general relativity.
• Robert Tibshirani, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Toronto: 1994: Studies in computer-intensive statistical methods.
• Sidney Tillim, Artist, New York City; Professor Emeritus of Painting, Bennington College: 1994: Painting.
• George W. S. Trow, Writer, Germantown, New York: 1994: A cultural autobiography.
• Robert-Jan van Pelt, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Waterloo: 1994: An architectural approach to Auschwitz.
• Lawrence Weiner, Artist, New York City: 1994: Visual art.
• Jessica Williams, Composer and Musician, Capitola, California: 1994: Music composition.
• Sue Williams, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: 1994: Painting.
• Edwin N. Wilmsen, Independent Scholar, Malden, Massachusetts; Research Fellow in Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin: 1994: The textual reading of material objects in southern African history.
• Jonathan Wilson, Writer, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts; Associate Professor of English, Tufts University: 1994: Fiction.
• Thongchai Winichakul, Associate Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison: 1994: Travel, ethnography, exhibition, and museum in Siam, 1880-1927.
• Jay Alan Yim, Composer, Chicago; Assistant Professor of Music, Northwestern University: 1994: Music composition.
• Peter Y. Yu, Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley: 1994: The effect of high pressure on magnetism.
• Jonathan Zeitlin, Professor of History, Sociology, and Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin, Madison: 1994: Flexibility and mass production in British engineering.
• Barbie Zelizer, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication, Temple University: 1994: The image, the word, and the Holocaust.
• Ziony Zevit, Professor of Biblical Literature and Northwest Semitic Languages, University of Judaism, Los Angeles: 1994: The religions of ancient Israel.
• Long Zhou, Composer, Brooklyn, New York; Music Director, Music from China, New York City: 1994: Music composition.

1994 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

• Yolanda Andrade, Photographer, Mexico City: 1994: Photography.
• Simon Brailowsky, Research Professor, Institute of Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City: 1994: A study of the GABA withdrawal syndrome as a model of synaptic plasticity.
• Martín Caparrós, Writer, Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1994: Fiction.
• Carmen Clapp, Research Professor, Neurobiology Center, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City: 1994: A study of the endogenous nature of 16K prolactin as a potential inhibitor of angiogenesis and tumor growth.
• Guillermo de la Peña, Professor and Researcher, Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology, Guadalajara, Mexico: 1994: A study of rural resistence and adaptation to cultural, economic, and political change in Latin America.
• Diego de Mendoza, National Research Council Career Investigator and Professor of Microbiology, University of Rosario, Argentina: 1994: A study of the regulation of fatty acid synthesis in Bacillus subtilis.
• Cesáreo A. Dominguez, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Cape Town, South Africa: 1994: Nonperturbative effects in quantum chromodynamics.
• Antonia Eiriz, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1994: Painting.
• Johanna Filp Krieger, Associate Professor, School of Education, Sonoma State University: 1994: A study of the socialization of children from poor urban areas in Chile.
• Guido Garay, Professor of Astronomy, University of Chile, Santiago: 1994: A study of the early formation of massive stars.
• Claudia Gordillo, Photographer, Managua, Nicaragua: 1994: Photography.
• Javier Iguiñiz Echeverria, Professor of Economics and Department Chairman, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima: 1994: A study of competence and inequality as causes of poverty in Latin America.
• Laurence A. Jacobs, Research Affiliate, Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School: 1994: Characterization of cardiac arrhythmogenic states.
• Guto Lacaz, Performance Artist, Sao Paulo, Brazil: 1994: Performance art.
• Nelson Manrique, Chief of the Culture, Identity, and Mentalities Workshop, Center for the Study and Promotion of Development, Lima, Peru: 1994: Mercantile circles, violence, structures of power, and the gamonales of the Andes.
• Maria Luiza Marcílio, Professor of History and Director, Center for Studies of the Demographic History of Latin America, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil: 1994: The abandoned child in the history of Brazil to 1930.
• Dante Medina, Writer, Guadalajara, Mexico; Director General, Extension University, University of Guadalajara: 1994: Fiction.
• Carlos Monge C., Research Professor, University of Peru "Cayetano Heredia," Lima: 1994: High altitude adaptation in the Andes.
• María Negroni, Poet, Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1994: Poetry.
• Euzhan Palcy, Film Maker, Gros-Morne, Martinique: 1994: Film making.
• Gustavo M. Pastor, Researcher, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Toulouse, France: 1994: A study of electron correlations and magnetism in low-dimensional systems.
• Cristina Peri Rossi, Writer, Seville, Spain: 1994: Fiction.
• Elena Poniatowska, Free-lance Journalist, Mexico City: 1994: Fiction.
• Nelbia Romero Cabrera, Multi-media Installation Artist, Montevideo, Uruguay: 1994: Multi-media installation art.
• Matilde Sánchez, Writer, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Senior Journalist, Clarin, Buenos Aires: 1994: Fiction.
• Beatriz Sarlo, Professor of Literary Studies, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1994: Argentine intellectuals between modernity and the end of the century.
• Daniel Schavelzon, Director, Urban Archaeology Center, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Career Researcher, National Council of Science and Technological Research, Buenos Aires: 1994: The preservation of the cultural heritage of the Andean region.
• Fernando Daniel Suárez, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1994: Themes of functional analysis.
• Alejandro Viñao, Composer, London, England: 1994: Music composition.

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