1995

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1995 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

• Henry Abelove, Professor of English, Wesleyan University: George Berkeley and colonialism.
• Jonathan James Graham Alexander, Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University: Italian Renaissance book illumination.
• Mark Antliff, Assistant Professor of Art History, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario: Georges Sorel, fascism, and the European avant-garde.
• Skip Arnold, Performance Artist, Los Angeles: Performance art.
• Ruth Behar, Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Associate of Programs in Women's Studies and Latina/Latino Studies, University of Michigan: The sexual politics of the Cuban revolution.
• Jonathan Bennett, Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University: Common themes in the philosophies of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz.
• Ravindra N. Bhatt, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Member of the Associated Faculty in Physics, Princeton University: Quantum phases and transitions in condensed matter.
• Linda Bierds, Poet, Bainbridge Island, Washington; Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Washington: Poetry.
• Sandow Birk, Artist, Los Angeles: Painting.
• Joseph A. Boone, Associate Professor of English, University of Southern California: Orientalism, colonialism, and homosexuality.
• Alfonse Borysewicz, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Painting.
• Barbara Bosworth, Photographer, Carlisle, Massachusetts; Associate Professor of Photography, Massachusetts College of Art: Photography.
• Donald Eugene Camp, Photographer, Philadelphia: Photography.
• Carole Caroompas, Artist, Los Angeles; Member of the Faculty in Fine Arts, Otis College of Art and Design: Painting.
• Olivia Lucia Carrescia, Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
• James Casebere, Photographer, New York City; Member of the Faculty in Photography, School of Visual Arts; Member of the Faculty in Photography, Parsons School of Design: Photography.
• Sarah Charlesworth, Artist, New York City; Member of the Graduate Faculty in Photography and Related Media, School of Visual Arts: Visual art.
• James R. Chelikowsky, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota: Studies in computational materials science.
• Dorothy L. Cheney, Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania: Communication and the minds of monkeys (in collaboration with Robert M. Seyfarth).
• Abigail Child, Film Maker, New York City; Professor of Film and Video, Sarah Lawrence College: Film making.
• Nancy J. Chodorow, Psychoanalyst, Oakland, California; Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley: Personal meaning and the psychoanalytic encounter.
• Maxine Clair, Writer, Landover, Maryland; Assistant Professor of English, George Washington University: Fiction.
• Michael Collier, Poet and Writer, Catonsville, Maryland; Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland at College Park; Director, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College: Poetry.
• Maureen Connor, Installation Artist, New York City; Associate Professor of Art, Queens College, City University of New York: Installation art.
• Todd J. Cooke, Associate Professor of Botany, University of Maryland at College Park: The new organismal paradigm in plant morphogenesis.
• Frank Costigliola, Professor of History, University of Rhode Island: Language and power in the Western Alliance, 1947-1973.
• Gary W. Cox, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego: The politics of electoral coalition.
• Catherine L. Craig, Associate Professor of Biology, Yale University: Silk proteins and the evolution of web-spinning spiders.
• Ann Hunt Currier, Photographer, Brooklyn, New York; Fine Arts Teacher, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, New York City; Adjunct Lecturer in Photography, Brooklyn College, City University of New York: Photography.
• George Frederick Custen, Professor of Communications and Theatre, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York: Darryl F. Zanuck and the culture of Hollywood.
• Pellegrino A. D'Acierno, Professor of Comparative Literature, Hofstra University; Visiting Professor of Architecture, Columbia University: Architecture and cinema as spatial-temporal practices.
• E. Valentine Daniel, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan: The anthropology of Sri Lankan violence.
• Paul McE. Davis, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles: Earthquakes, mountain building, and continental rifting.
• Dean Drummond, Composer and Musician, Upper Nyack, New York: Music composition.
• R. David Edmunds, Professor of History, Indiana University Bloomington: Potawatomi métis on the trans-Mississippi frontier.
• Yakov Eliashberg, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University: Studies in symplectic and contact topology.
• Susanna Elm, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: Fourth-century images of Christ's imperial body.
• James Emery, Composer and Performer, Warwick, New York: Music composition.
• Martha J. Farah, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania: The neural bases of human vision.
• Christopher A. Faraone, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Chicago: Ancient Greek erotic magic.
• Richard A. Firtel, Professor of Biology, University of California, San Diego: Regulatory pathways controlling cell-type differentiation in eukaryotes.
• Vernon Fisher, Artist, Fort Worth, Texas; Regents Professor of Art, University of North Texas: Visual art.
• Steven A. Frank, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine: Parasitism, mutualism, and the evolution of adaptive systems.
• Felice Frankel, Science Photographer, Boston; Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: A photographic exploration of the science of surfaces.
• Alice T. Friedman, Professor of Art and Co-Director, Architecture Program, Wellesley College: The patronage, program, and design of Le Corbusier's Villa Stein-de Monzie.
• Gladys-Marie Fry, Professor of English and Folklore, University of Maryland at College Park: A study of slave dress and bodily adornment.
• Neal Gabler, Writer, Amagansett, New York: A critical biography of Walt Disney.
• Huajian Gao, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University: Crack dynamics and its analogy in modern physics.
• Boris Gasparov, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University: Pushkin's place in the culture of Romanticism.
• Gary Gerstle, Associate Professor of History, Catholic University of America: Nationalism and multiculturalism in the 20th-century United States.
• Steve Gianakos, Artist, New York City: Painting and drawing.
• Dagoberto Gilb, Writer, El Paso, Texas: Fiction.
• Wendy Z. Goldman, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University: Gender and politics in Soviet industrialization, 1928-1937.
• Osvaldo Noé Golijov, Composer, Newton, Massachusetts; Assistant Professor of Music, College of the Holy Cross: Music composition.
• James Gordley, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law: Unity in Western private law.
• Gennady Gorelik, Scholar, Brookline, Massachusetts; Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University: A biography of Andrei Sakharov.
• Patricia Marie Graney, Choreographer, Seattle; Artistic Director, Pat Graney Company; Lecturer in Dance, Cornish College of the Arts: Choreography.
• Yuri Gurevich, Professor of Computer Science, University of Michigan: Foundational issues in computer science.
• Peter Haidu, Professor of French, University of California, Los Angeles: Textuality, culture, and history in the Middle Ages.
• Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Professor of History, Rutgers University: Slavery and race relations in early Louisiana.
• Timothy Hampton, Associate Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley: Literature and nationalism in Renaissance France.
• Gail G. Hanson, Professor of Physics, Indiana University Bloomington: Experimental studies in elementary particle physics.
• Saul Haymond, Sr., Artist, Tchula, Mississippi: Painting.
• Douglas Hobbie, Writer, Conway, Massachusetts: Fiction.
• Carl A. Huffman, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, DePauw University: A study of Archytas of Tarentum.
• Ann Hulbert, Senior Editor, The New Republic: The rise and fall of child-rearing experts in 20th-century America.
• David Ives, Playwright, New York City; Adjunct Professor of Theatre Arts, Columbia University: Play writing.
• Ken Jacobs, Film Maker and Performance Artist, New York City; Professor of Cinema, State University of New York at Binghamton: Film making and performance art.
• Daniel Javitch, Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University: A history of poetic genre theory in the 16th century.
• Tamara Jenkins, Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
• Paul E. Johnson, Associate Professor of History, University of Utah: A life of Sam Patch.
• Albert R. Jonsen, Professor of Ethics in Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine: The intellectual and cultural origins of bioethics in the United States.
• Ben Katchor, Writer and Artist, Tivoli, New York: Picture stories.
• Lodge Kerrigan, Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
• Peter Kilby, Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University: Entrepreneurial dynamics in West Africa.
• Steven A. Kivelson, Professor of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles: Collective properties of highly correlated electronic systems.
• Raoul Kopelman, Kasimir Fajans Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Applied Physics, University of Michigan: The molecular lens.
• David D. Laitin, William R. Kenan Professor of Political Science and the College and Director, Center for the Study of Politics, History, and Culture, University of Chicago: The Russian-speaking nationality in the near-abroad.
• Donna Landry, Professor of English, Wayne State University: Landscape, gender, and field sports in the 18th-century British countryside.
• Takie Sugiyama Lebra, Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii: Japanese selfhood in comparative perspective.
• Patrick A. Lee, William and Emma Rogers Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: A theory of high-temperature superconductors.
• David Lawrence Levinthal, Photographer, New York City: Photography.
• Ronald M. Levy, Professor of Chemistry, Rutgers University: Computer simulations of solvated proteins.
• Moshe Lewin, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania: The Soviet bureaucratic phenomenon, 1928-1960.
• Mary S. Lewis, Associate Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh: A study of Antonio Gardano, Venetian music printer.
• Tien-Yien Li, Professor of Mathematics, Michigan State University: Studies in polynomial systems.
• Alan Liu, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara: Literary history and postmodern culture.
• David Loewenstein, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Representations of revolution in 17th-century England.
• James Longenbach, Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English, University of Rochester: Modern poetry after modernism.
• Derek Mahon, Poet, New York City; Distinguished Visiting Professor, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Poetry.
• Ursula Mamlok, Composer, New York City; Member of the Faculty in Composition, Manhattan School of Music: Music composition.
• Bruce Mannheim, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan: Language, nationality, and rebellion in southern Peru.
• George M. Marsden, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame: A biography of Jonathan Edwards.
• John Martin, Professor of History, Trinity University: Heresy, identity, and individualism in the Italian Reformation.
• Frederick Marx, Film Maker, Chicago: Film making.
• E. Ann Matter, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania: Strategies of reading in the Glossa ordinaria.
• John H. McDowell, Professor of Folklore, Indiana University Bloomington: Poetry and violence on the Costa Chica of Mexico.
• Marjorie K. McIntosh, Professor of History, University of Colorado at Boulder: Regulation of behavior in English communities, 1350-1600.
• Lynne McMahon, Poet, Columbia, Missouri; Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri, Columbia: Poetry.
• María Rosa Menocal, R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University: The national, chronological, and single-language paradigms in literary historiography.
• Carolyn Merchant, Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics, University of California, Berkeley: Women, nature, and narrative.
• Brinkley Messick, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan: Shari'a law in an Islamic state.
• James R. Millar, Professor of Economics and International Affairs and Director, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University: An economic history of the USSR.
• Mary E. Miller, Professor of the History of Art, Yale University: Art and architecture of the western Maya realm.
• Henri Moscovici, Professor of Mathematics, The Ohio State University: Chern-Weil theory for pseudomanifolds.
• Thylias Moss, Poet, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan: Poetry.
• Jeffrey Mumford, Composer, Washington, D.C.; Seminar Coordinator and Production Supervisor, Concert Society at Maryland; Instructor in Theory and Composition, Washington Conservatory of Music: Music composition.
• William T. Newsome, Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine: Perceptual ambiguity and its links to neuronal firing.
• Karen Offen, Scholar and Historian, Woodside, California; Affiliated Scholar, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University: The woman question in modern France.
• Iwao Ojima, Leading Professor of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Studies in synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry.
• Ingram Olkin, Professor of Statistics and Education, Stanford University: Studies of multivariate distributions.
• Harry V. Orlyk, Artist, Salem, New York: Painting.
• Darcy Marie Padilla, Photographer, San Francisco: Photography.
• D. Pardee, Professor of Northwest Semitic Philology, University of Chicago: The Ugaritic epistolary documents.
• Ann Patchett, Writer, Nashville, Tennessee: Fiction.
• Steve Paxton, Choreographer, Teacher, and Performer, East Charleston, Vermont: Choreography.
• Marilene Phipps, Artist, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Painting.
• Sorin Teodor Popa, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles: The classification of subfactors.
• Helen Prejean, C.S.J., Writer, Lecturer, and Community Activist, Metairie, Louisiana: Women's struggles for equality in the Roman Catholic Church.
• Andrew Rindfleisch, Composer, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Music composition.
• Michael Rosenthal, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University: A biography of Nicholas Murray Butler.
• Laura Salmon, Photographer, New York City; Member of the Adjunct Faculty in Photography, Parsons School of Design: Photography.
• Edward T. Samulski, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The visualization of polymers with magnetic resonance imaging.
• Peter Schjeldahl, Poet and Writer, New York City; Freelance Art Critic, The Village Voice: A memoir of three decades in the New York art world.
• Robert A. Schneider, Associate Professor of History, Catholic University of America: The political culture of early French absolutism.
• R. Keith Schoppa, Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Valparaiso University: Dynamics of war and resistance in China, 1937-1945.
• Juliet B. Schor, Senior Lecturer on Economics and Director of Studies, Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies, Harvard University: New analyses of consumer society.
• Anthony Seeger, Curator, The Folkways Collection and Director, Smithsonian/Folkways Records, Smithsonian Institution: Music in the lives of Brazilian Indians.
• Robert M. Seyfarth, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania: Communication and the minds of monkeys (in collaboration with Dorothy L. Cheney).
• Susan Slyomovics, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Theatre Arts, Brown University: Memory and architecture in the pre-1948 Palestinian village.
• Neil Smith, Professor of Geography, Rutgers University: Isaiah Bowman and the geographical pivot of history.
• Paul Smolensky, Professor of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University: Optimality theory and cognitive science.
• Reba N. Soffer, Professor of History, California State University, Northridge: The historical imagination.
• Thomas Spear, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Village and region in northern Tanzania.
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University: Antiquity and cultural studies.
• George Steinmetz, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago: State formation in the German colonies before the first World War.
• David B. Stern, Associate Scientist, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Plant Biology, Cornell University: Translational arrest in chloroplasts.
• Eve Sussman, Installation Artist, New York City; Director, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York: Multi-media installation and book art.
• Bart M. Taub, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Contracts as a means of producing information in society.
• John Jay TePaske, Professor of History, Duke University: New World bullion production, 1492-1825.
• Janis Tomlinson, Associate Professor of Art History, Columbia University: National identity, canon formation, and the practice of painting in Europe, 1780-1880.
• Susan Treggiari, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University: Attitudes, morality, and behavior in the time of Cicero.
• Lawrence J. Vale, Mitsui Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The death and life of American public housing.
• Paula Vogel, Playwright, Providence, Rhode Island; Professor of English, Brown University: Play writing.
• Peter Waite, Artist, Hartford, Connecticut: Painting.
• John F. C. Wardle, Professor of Astrophysics, Brandeis University: Studies of quasars and active galactic nuclei.
• Michael S. Waterman, Professor of Mathematics and of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California: Computational methods for DNA and protein sequences.
• Edith Wyschogrod, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University: History, memory, and community after Auschwitz.
• Robert Rahway Zakanitch, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Painting.
• A. B. Zamolodchikov, Professor II of Physics, Rutgers University: Studies in integrable quantum field theory.
• Catherine Wilkinson Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University: Architecture and landscape in western Europe, 1350-1650.
• Franklin E. Zimring, William Simon Professor of Law and Director, Earl Warren Legal Institute, University of California, Berkeley School of Law: Lethal violence and its control in America.

1995 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

• Federico Campbell, Writer, Mexico City, Mexico: Fiction.
• Carlos Capelán, Artist, Lund, Sweden: Painting and installation art.
• Arturo Carrera, Poet, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Poetry.
• Luis Maria Chiappe, Research Associate, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History: Avian diversity and genealogy during the age of dinosaurs.
• Osvaldo Civitarese, Professor of Physics, University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Theoretical study of nuclear double beta-decay processes.
• Marcelo Cohen, Writer, Barcelona, Spain: Fiction.
• Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, Film Maker, Havana, Cuba: Film making.
• Carlos Iván Degregori, Senior Researcher, Institute of Peruvian Studies, Lima: The ethnic and cultural dimensions of political violence in Peru.
• René Depestre, Writer, Lézignan-Corbières, France: An autobiography.
• Alberto Durant, Film Maker, Lima, Peru: Film making.
• Ariel Fernández, Professor of Mathematics, National University of the South, Bahía Blanca, Argentina; Principal Investigator, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET): Statistical mechanics of kinetically controlled folding pathways in biopolymers.
• Antonio Eligio Fernández Rodriguez, Artist, Havana, Cuba: Painting and installation art.
• León Ferrari, Artist, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Multimedia installation art.
• Alicia Elena Garcia Santana, Research Professor, Ministry of the Sciences, Technology, and the Environment, Milanzas, Cuba: Hispanic urban vernacular houses in the Caribbean region.
• Pedro Labarca, Professor of Biophysics, Center for Scientific Studies of Santiago, Chile; Associate Professor, Faculty of Sciences, University of Chile: Studies of C-type inactivation in Shaker potassium channels.
• Adriana Lestido, Staff Photographer, Página 30, Buenos Aires: Photography.
• Enrique Mayer, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: The Peruvian agrarian reform 25 years later.
• Cildo Meireles, Artist, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Multi-media installation art.
• Alejandra Moreno Toscano, Historian, Mexico City: The first peace negotiations in Chiapas in 1994.
• Gabriel Peluffo Linari, Director and Curator, Museo Juan Manuel Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay: Past and future of Rio Platense culture.
• Tristan Platt, Researcher, National Archive of Bolivia, Sucre: Mining, protectionism, and modernity in 19th-century Bolivia.
• Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University: Research on L-series and modular forms.
• Doris Salcedo, Artist, Bogotá, Colombia: Sculpture.
• Osvaldo D. Uchitel, Professor of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires; Career Investigator, National Research Council, Argentina: Recruitment of calcium channels into neuronal plasma membranes.
• J. Samuel Valenzuela, Professor of Sociology, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame: A comparison of labor-movement formation and politics in Chile and France.
• Fernando Vidal, Master of Teaching and Research, University of Geneva, Switzerland: Personal identity and the resurrection of the body in the Christian tradition.
• Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Professor of Composition and Music Theory, University of Guanajuato School of Music, Guanajuato, Mexico: Music composition.

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