1996

Foundation Program Areas

1996 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

• Henry J. Aaron, Director of Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution: The interaction among norms, values, and public policies.
• Lila Abu-Lughod, Associate Professor of Anthropology, New York University: The cultural politics of Egyptian television drama.
• Peggy Ahwesh, Film Maker, New York City; Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Media Program, Bard College: Film making.
• Agha Shahid Ali, Poet, Northampton, Massachusetts; Associate Professor and Director, M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Poetry.
• Wye Jamison Allanbrook, Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley: Comic mimesis in late 18th-century instrumental music.
• George Reid Andrews, Professor of History and UCIS Research Professor, University of Pittsburgh: A comparative history of Afro-Latin America since 1800.
• Nina M. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Professor of Art History, University of Delaware: Cézanne and the land.
• Carmen Bambach Cappel, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Leonardo and the language of drawing in the Renaissance.
• Larry M. Bartels, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs and Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs, Princeton University: The production and impact of economic news.
• John Beardsley, Writer and Curator, Bethesda, Maryland: The replacement of nature in commercial space.
• Neal Bell, Playwright, Darien, Connecticut; Instructor and Head of Playwriting Program, 42nd Street Collective Theatre School: Play writing.
• Anna Maria Busse Berger, Associate Professor of Music, University of California, Davis: The role of memory in Notre Dame polyphony.
• Paul F. Berliner, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Northwestern University: Zimbabwe's Mbira music community, 1971-1996.
• Stephanie Black, Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
• Anthony Michael Bloch, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan: The mathematics and dynamics of mechanical systems.
• George Boolos, Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Frege's attempt to reduce arithmetic to logic.
• Lucie Brock-Broido, Poet, New York City; Associate Professor and Director of Poetry, Columbia University: Poetry.
• Philip H. Bucksbaum, Professor of Physics, University of Michigan: Ultrafast coherent sources for quantum control.
• Graham B. Campbell, Artist, New York City; Associate Professor of Fine Art, Brandeis University: Painting.
• Jane Caplan, Marjorie Walter Goodhart Professor of European History, Bryn Mawr College: The documentation of identity in the European state, ca. 1800-1914.
• George Chauncey, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago: American culture and the making of the gay world, 1935-1975.
• Chen Yi, Composer, Brooklyn, New York; Composer-in-Residence, The Women's Philharmonic and Chanticleer, San Francisco: Music composition.
• Jamsheed K. Choksy, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Director, Department Undergraduate Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington: The lives and training of present-day magi.
• Steven Chu, Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University: Atomic-force microscopy of enzyme motion.
• Susanna Coffey, Artist, New York City; Professor of Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Painting.
• Mark R. Cohen, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University: Poverty and charity in the Jewish community of medieval Egypt.
• Alan Colquhoun, Professor Emeritus and Class of 1913 Lecturer in Architecture, Princeton University: Modern architecture, 1890-1965.
• Michael Daugherty, Composer, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Associate Professor of Composition, University of Michigan: Music composition.
• John A. Davis, Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History and Professor of Modern History, University of Connecticut: The Napoleonic origins of Italy's southern problem.
• Philip J. DeVries, Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Oregon: Acoustical signals of caterpillars and ants.
• Ronald I. Dorn, Associate Professor of Geography, Arizona State University: A general theory of rock-coating development.
• Prasenjit Duara, Professor of History, University of Chicago: The culture of Japanese colonialism in Manchukuo, 1932-1945.
• Carroll Dunham, Artist, New York City; Instructor in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts; Professor of Painting and Drawing, Harvard University: Painting.
• Morris Eaves, Professor of English, University of Rochester: The authority of the audience.
• Jennifer Egan, Writer, New York City: Fiction.
• Robin L. Einhorn, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: Taxation and politics in United States history.
• Nicole Sara Eisenman, Artist, New York City: Painting and installation art.
• Uri Eisenzweig, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University: Anarchism and literature in fin-de-siècle France.
• Terry Evans, Photographer, Chicago, Illinois: Photography.
• Kevin Jerome Everson, Photographer, Cleveland, Ohio: Photography.
• Constantin Fasolt, Associate Professor of Late Medieval and Early Modern European History, University of Chicago: A study of Hermann Conring.
• Rochelle Feinstein, Artist, New York City; Associate Professor of Painting and Printmaking, Yale University: Painting.
• David Ferry, Poet, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Sophie Chantal Hart Professor Emeritus of English, Wellesley College; Visiting Professor of English, Boston University: Poetry and translations.
• Philip Fisher, Reid Professor of English Literature, Harvard University: The passions in the history of culture.
• Jonathan Franzen, Writer, New York City: Fiction.
• David Ganz, Associate Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Einhard's life of Charlemagne and the renewal of empire.
• Susan A. Gelman, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan: The role of concepts and theories in human development.
• Chambliss Giobbi, Composer, New York City: Music composition.
• Mike Glier, Artist, Hoosick Falls, New York; Lecturer in Art, Williams College: Painting.
• David P. Goldenberg, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Utah: Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of a neurotoxin.
• David Guterson, Writer, Bainbridge Island, Washington: Fiction.
• Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and the refashioning of Southern identity.
• William F. Hanks, Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Sciences, University of Chicago: The spiritual conquest of Maya language.
• Lars Peter Hansen, Homer J. Livingston Professor of Economics, University of Chicago: Models of dynamic economies.
• Russell Hardin, Professor of Politics, New York University: The rationality of ordinary mortals.
• Ruth Harris, Fellow and Tutor, New College, Oxford: A history of Lourdes.
• Thomas Harris, Photographer, Seattle, Washington; Instructor in Photography, Art Institute of Seattle: Photography.
• Tim Harris, Professor of History and Director, Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Brown University: Politics, power, and public opinion in Britain, 1660-1707.
• Dayton Haskin, Professor of English, Boston College: The transformation of John Donne in the 19th century.
• Hayden Herrera, Writer, New York City: A critical biography of Arshile Gorky.
• Mack P. Holt, Associate Professor of History, George Mason University: Reformation and culture in early modern Burgundy.
• Jonathon Howard, Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington: Mechanical processes underlying cell division.
• Susan Howe, Poet, Guilford, Connecticut; Professor of English, State University of New York at Buffalo: Poetry.
• Nora Jacobson, Film Maker, Norwich, Vermont; Instructor in Film, Purchase College, State University of New York: Film making.
• Jainendra K. Jain, Associate Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Studies in condensed matter theory.
• Roberta Johnson, Professor of Spanish, University of Kansas: Women and the Spanish novel in the modernist era.
• Mark D. Jordan, Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Notre Dame: The rhetorical forms of scholastic theology.
• Paul Kaiser, Interactive Artist, New York City; President, Riverbed Media: Interactive art.
• Catherine Kallin, Associate Professor of Physics, McMaster University: Vortices in unconventional superconductors.
• Richard B. Kaner, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles: Synthesis and characterization of metallofullerenes.
• Temma Kaplan, Professor of Women's Studies and History, State University of New York at Stony Brook: The international development of women's grassroots leadership.
• P. Andrew Karplus, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University; Visiting Professor of Biochemistry, Oregon State University: The relations of protein structure and function.
• Aviva Kempner, Film Maker, Washington, D. C.: Film making.
• Jon Kessler, Artist, New York City; Assistant Professor of Art, Columbia University: Sculpture.
• Kyung-Suk Kim, Professor of Engineering, Brown University: The mechanical behavior of solid nanostructures.
• John T. Koch, Adjunct Associate Professor of Irish Studies, Boston College; Faculty Associate in Celtic Studies, Harvard University: The earliest Welsh poetry.
• Harold Hongju Koh, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and Director, Orville Schell Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School: A theory of why nations obey international law.
• Howard Korder, Playwright, Sante Fe, New Mexico: Play writing.
• Kathryn Kramer, Writer, West Corinth, Vermont: Fiction.
• Corinne A. Kratz, Assistant Professor of African Studies and Anthropology, Emory University: A study of Okiek marriage arrangement in Kenya.
• Allan Kulikoff, Professor of History, Northern Illinois University: The American yeoman classes from the Revolution to the Civil War.
• Michèle Lamont, Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton University: Racial and class communities in France and the United States.
• Russell Lande, Professor of Biology, University of Oregon: Theoretical and applied population biology.
• Ullrich Langer, Professor of French, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Moral philosophy and literature in the French and Italian Renaissance.
• Peter Lepage, Professor of Physics, Cornell University: Numerical methods in low-energy strong interaction physics.
• Suzanne Jill Levine, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara: A biography of Manuel Puig.
• Bruce G. Lindsay, Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University: A nonparametric approach to parametric statistics.
• Ralph Lombreglia, Writer, Arlington, Massachusetts; Instructor in Creative Writing, Boston University: Fiction.
• Setha M. Low, Professor of Psychology and Anthropology and Director, Public Space Research Group, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York: Culture, power, and history in the Spanish American plaza.
• Sabina Magliocco, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley: Ritual among American Neo-Pagans.
• Frank Majore, Photographer, New York City: Photography.
• Florencia Elizabeth Mallon, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison: The Mapuche and the making of modern Chile.
• Carl Martin, Photographer, Athens, Georgia: Photography.
• Jann Matlock, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University: Vision, aesthetics, and censorship in 19th-century France.
• Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto: The creation of Qur'anic authority.
• Todd McGrain, Artist, Appleton, Wisconsin; Assistant Professor of Art, Lawrence University: Sculpture.
• J. R. McNeill, Professor of History, Georgetown University: An environmental history of the world in the 20th century.
• H. Jay Melosh, Professor of Planetary Science, University of Arizona: Planetary tectonics and impact cratering.
• Kenneth M. Merz, Jr., Associate Professor of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University: Computer simulation of ion recognition by proteins.
• Sam Messer, Artist, Venice, California; Senior Critic in Art, Yale University: Painting.
• Ann Messner, Artist, New York City: Sculpture.
• Axel Meyer, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Developmental origins of biodiversity.
• Jennifer Montgomery, Film Maker, Brooklyn, New York; Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies, Barnard College: Film making.
• Louis A. Montrose, Professor of English Literature, University of California, San Diego: Elizabethan representations of the relationship between subjects and the state.
• Shaul Mukamel, Professor of Chemistry, University of Rochester: Ultrafast optical spectroscopy of biological complexes.
• Larry Neal, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Editor, Explorations in Economic History: Capital movements in the first emerging markets.
• Robert Nozick, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University: Invariance and objectivity.
• Josiah Ober, David Magie Professor of Ancient History, Princeton University: Athenian critics of popular rule.
• Chris Offutt, Writer, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Fiction.
• Patrick Olivelle, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin: Body and society in ancient India.
• Karen Hunger Parshall, Associate Professor of History and Mathematics, University of Virginia: Mathematical culture in the time of J. J. Sylvester.
• Joyce Pensato, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Painting.
• Irene Maxine Pepperberg, Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Psychology, University of Arizona: Communicative and cognitive capacities of African Grey parrots.
• Gregory A. Petsko, Lucille P. Markey Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry and Director, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University: Yeast as a model system for human genetic disease.
• Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Professor of Linguistics, Northwestern University: Phonetic foundations of scansion.
• Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Professor of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago: The general circulation of the atmospheres of Earth and Mars.
• Kenneth Pomeranz, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine: The formation of a world economy, 1450-1914.
• Gyan Prakash, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University: The authority of science and the imagination in modern India.
• Ed Radtke, Film Maker, Cincinnati, Ohio: Film making.
• Natasha V. Raikhel, Professor of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University: Studies of plant nuclear pore complex proteins.
• Lawrence S. Rainey, Associate Professor of English, Yale University: Automatic writing and the crisis of modernity.
• Marina Roseman, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania: Dream-songs and ceremonies of a Southeast Asian rainforest people in changing times.
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film Critic, Chicago Reader: Placing movies politically.
• Morris Rosenzweig, Composer, Salt Lake City; Associate Professor of Music, University of Utah: Music composition.
• Mark Rudman, Poet, New York City; Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing, New York University: Poetry.
• C. Bryan Rulon, Composer, New York City: Music composition.
• Kathe Sandler, Film Maker, New York City; President, Film Two Productions: Film making.
• Eric L. Santner, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University: The problem of psychoanalytic authority.
• Stacy Schiff, Writer, New York City: A biography of Véra Nabokov.
• Richard M. Schoen, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University: Studies in geometric analysis.
• Lynn Shapiro, Choreographer, New York City; Artistic Director, Lynn Shapiro Dance Company: Choreography.
• Barbara Sicherman, Kenan Professor of American Institutions and Values, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut: Reading, gender, and identity in American culture, 1860-1917.
• Theodore Steinberg, Associate Professor of History, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark: The response to natural disasters in American history.
• Jessica Stockholder, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Sculpture, painting, and installation art.
• Linda Stojak, Artist, Philadelphia: Painting.
• Barbara G. Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of East London, England: Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination.
• Chris Theofanidis, Composer, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Visiting Professor of Music Composition, University of Houston: Music composition.
• George Tsontakis, Composer, Shokan, New York; Member of the Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College; Member of the Artist Faculty, Aspen Music Festival and School: Music composition.
• Mark Tushnet, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center: The Constitution outside the courts.
• David L. Vander Meulen, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia: A publishing history and descriptive bibliography of Alexander Pope's Dunciad.
• Doug Varone, Choreographer, New York City; Artistic Director, Doug Varone and Dancers: Choreography.
• Stephen A. Vavasis, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University: Geometry in scientific computing.
• J. David Velleman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan: The nature and value of a person's life.
• Dan Voiculescu, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley: Studies in noncommutative probability theory.
• Athena Vrettos, NEH Scholar, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Economic models of mind in Victorian fiction and psychology.
• Kay B. Warren, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University: Public intellectuals and Mayan cultural resurgence.
• Janis C. Weeks, Professor of Biology, University of Oregon: Neurons, genes, and neoplasia.
• Stephen D. White, Asa G. Candler Professor of Medieval History, Emory University: Legal culture and politics in Old French trial scenes.
• Stanley Whitney, Artist, New York City; Professor of Painting and Drawing, Tyler School of Art, Temple University: Painting.
• R. Mark Wightman, W. R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The transport mechanisms of neurotransmitters.
• Clifford M. Will, Professor of Physics, Washington University: Gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binaries.
• Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, Curator of Gilbert and Sullivan Collection, The Pierpont Morgan Library: Victorian theatrical publishing.
• George R. Wodicka, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University: Acoustic monitoring of breathing-tube placement.
• Robert Wrigley, Poet, Lenore, Idaho; Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho: Poetry.
• Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship, Artist, Waban, Massachusetts: Painting.
• Bell Yung, Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh: Cantonese narrative songs.
• Viviana A. Zelizer, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University: Payments and social ties.
• Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, Professor of Anthropology, Davidson College: Franz Boas and the formation of American anthropology.

1996 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

• Sadhan Kumar Adhikari, Professor of Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil: The quantum mechanical few-particle problem.
• Carlos Aguirre, Installation Artist, Mexico City; Professor of Fine Arts, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Xochimilco, Mexico: Installation art.
• César Tomás Aira, Writer, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Fiction.
• Etelvino J. H. Bechara, Professor of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil: The generation and role of free radicals and excited states in biological systems.
• José Alberto Braunstein, Independent Researcher, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET): Ethnic boundaries in Gran Chaco.
• Néstor Carrillo, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Rosario; Staff Researcher, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET): Evaluation of the antioxidant potential of a new oxygen radical scavenger in transgenic plants.
• Valdir Cruz, Photographer, New York City: Photography.
• Andrés Di Tella, Film Maker and Producer, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Film making.
• Rosana Patricia Fuertes, Artist, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Art Teacher, Immaculate Conception Institute, Buenos Aires: Painting and installation art.
• Pablo E. Furman, Composer, San Ramon, California; Assistant Professor of Music, San José State University: Music composition.
• Jorge Gamboa, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Santiago, Chile: Topology and quantum field theories in lower dimensions.
• Juan Gelman, Poet, Mexico City: Poetry.
• Cristina Magaldi, Associate Professor of Music, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil: A study of comic theatrical music genres in Rio de Janeiro, 1870-1900.
• Jorge H. Medina, Professor of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires; Career Investigator, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET): Neural substrates of memory processing.
• Eugenia Meyer, Professor of History, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM): A social history of childhood during the Mexican Revolution.
• Paulo K. Monteiro, Associate Researcher, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Incomplete markets and nonlinear pricing from the general equilibrium viewpoint.
• Rodrigo Montoya Rojas, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru: An attempt to explain how culture changes by going beyond the metaphor of cultural mestizaje.
• Desiderio Navarro, Editor, Criterios, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba: The Cuban artistic culture, 1968-1983.
• Celeste Olalquiaga, Independent Scholar, New York City: The ruins of 1940s and 1950s architecture in Caracas.
• Eduardo L. Ortiz, Professor of Mathematics and the History of Mathematics, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of London: U.S.-Argentine exchanges in the exact sciences, 1850-1950.
• Gabriel Retes Balzaretti, Film Maker, Mexico City; President, Administrative Council, Río Mixcoac Film Cooperative, Mexico City: Film making.
• Nelly Richard, Editor, Revista de Critica Cultural, Santiago, Chile: Memory, identity, and meaning in the Chilean transition to democracy.
• Eduardo Luis Rodríguez, Specialist in Architecture and Urban Planning, Dirección Provincial de Planificación Física y Arquitectura, Havana, Cuba: The heritage, context, and vanguard of Cuban architecture in exile.
• Roque Roldán Ortega, Executive Director, Centro de Cooperación al Indígena (CECOIN), Bogotá, Colombia: A memoir of work with the indigenous communities of Colombia.
• María Teresa Sirvent, Professor of Science of Education, University of Buenos Aires; Independent Researcher, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET): A study of youth and adult education in Argentina under neoliberal economic policies.
• Valeska Soares, Installation Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Installation art.
• Ignacio Solares Bernal, Writer, Mexico City; Director of Theatre and Dance, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM): Fiction.
• Antonio Wallace Turok, Photographer, Mexico City: Photography.
• Julio A. Urbina, Professor, Researcher, and Head, Biological Chemistry Laboratory, Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Investigations (IVIC): Solid state studies on the structural role of sterols in plasma membranes.
• Barton Zwiebach, Associate Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Formulation of superstring theory.

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