2010 Fellows - United States and Canada

Ms. Kimberlee Acquaro, Filmmaker, Santa Monica, California: Film.
Ms. Lorraine Adams, Writer, New York City: Fiction.
Mr. Shelby Lee Adams, Photographer, Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Photography.
Mr. Ricardo Ainslie, Professor and Fellow in the Charles H. Spence Centennial Professorship in Education,  University of Texas at Austin: A study of Ciudad Juarez as the epicenter of the Mexican drug war.
Ms. Christy Anderson, Associate Professor, Department of Art, University of Toronto: Architectural materials in the Renaissance.
Mr. Andrew Apter, Professor of History and Anthropology, and Director, James S. Coleman African Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles: A study of slave coasts and hinterlands in Afro-American perspective.

Mr. Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Professor of Renaissance Art and Baroque Art, King’s College, University of Aberdeen: Rococo art and spirituality in South America.
Mr. Adam Begley, Writer, Peterborough, United Kingdom: A biography of John Updike.
Mr. Tom Bissell, Writer, Portland, Oregon; Assistant Professor of English, Portland State University: The evolution of the common perception of the Twelve Apostles.
Mr. Ed Bowes, Video artist, New York City; Instructor and Director, Video Program, School of Visual Arts: Video and Audio.
Mr. Troy Brauntuch, Artist, Austin, Texas; Associate Professor of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin: Fine Arts.
Mr. Joel Brouwer, Poet, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Alabama: Poetry.
Mr. Joshua Brown, Executive Director, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, The Graduate Center, CUNY: The visual culture of the American Civil War.
Mr. Markus K. Brunnermeier, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics, Princeton University: Financial frictions and the macroeconomy.
Ms. Antoinette Burton, Professor of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Resistance in the British Empire from the Opium Wars to Mau Mau.
Mr. Harmen J. Bussemaker, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University: Deciphering the language of gene expression regulation.
Mr. Luca Buvoli, Artist, New York City; Adjunct Professor, School of Visual Arts: Fine Arts.

Mr. William Caferro, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University: War, economy, and culture in Italy, 1330-1450.
Ms. Rebecca Cammisa, Filmmaker, Tarrytown, New York: A documentary film.
Dr. Ethan Canin, Writer, Iowa City, Iowa; F. Wendell Miller Professor of English, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop: Fiction.
Mr. David Caron, Professor of French and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan: Tact and HIV disclosure.
Ms. Arachu Castro, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Women and AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Ms. Catherine Chalmers, Video artist, New York City: Video and Audio.
Ms. Anne Chu, Artist, Jackson Heights, New York: Fine Arts.
Mr. Leon O. Chua, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley: Brainlike memristor circuits.
Mr. John Collins, Drama, New York City; Artistic Director, Elevator Repair Service Theater, Inc.: Drama and performance art.
Ms. Jane Comfort, Choreographer, New York City; Artistic Director, Jane Comfort and Company: Choreography.
Mr. Peter Constantine, Translator, New York City: A translation of Pope Joan and other writings by Emmanuel Roidis.

Ms. Ingrid Daubechies, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University: Mathematical modeling for the Madagascar rain forest.
Mr. Blane De St. Croix, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Associate Professor of Sculpture, Florida Atlantic University: Fine Arts.
Mr. Lav Diaz, Filmmaker, East Elmhurst, New York: Film.
Ms. Hasia R. Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, New York University: Peddlers: A New World Jewish history.
Mr. Anthony Doerr, Writer, Boise, Idaho; Faculty Member, Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers: Fiction.
Mr. C. Josh Donlan, Executive Director, Advanced Conservation Strategies; Research Fellow, Cornell University: Building an environmental social network.
Ms. Jill Downen, Artist, St. Louis, Missouri: Fine Arts.
Ms. Carolyn Drake, Photographer, Greenbelt, Maryland: Photography.

Ms. Judith S. Eisen, Professor of Biology, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon: Learning the role of resident microbes in nervous system development and function.
Ms. Caroline Elkins, Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University: The end of the British Empire after the Second World War.
Mr. Norman C. Ellstrand, Professor of Genetics, University of California, Riverside: Genetics, genomics, and the many faces of hybridization.
Ms. Betsy Erkkila, Henry Sanborn Noyes Professor of English, Northwestern University: Literature and politics in insurrectionary America.
Ms. Angie Estes, Poet, Worthington, Ohio; Auxiliary Professor, Ohio State University: Poetry.

Ms. Rita Felski, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, University of Virginia: Suspicious interpretation of texts as critical methodology.
Mr. Gary Alan Fine, John Evans Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University: Group dynamics, microcultures, and the establishment of social order.
Mr. James H. Fowler, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego: Pay-it-forward dynamics in social networks.
Mr. Dale A. Frail, Astronomer, National Radio Astronomy Observatory: Pulsars, baryons and the first generation of stars in the universe.
Ms. Amy Franceschini, Artist, San Francisco, California: Fine Arts.
Ms. Katherine H. Freeman, Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University: Plants, water, and carbon during extreme greenhouse climates.
Ms. Nell Freudenberger, Writer, New York City: Fiction.

Mr. Matthew Gabel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis: The politics of supranational legal integration in the European Union.
Mr. Ted Genoways, Writer, Charlottesville, Virginia; Editor, Virginia Quarterly Review: Walt Whitman and the Civil War.
Ms. Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles: The devotional life and setting of the late Byzantine peasant.
Mr. Peter Godwin, Writer, New York City: The last days of Robert Mugabe.
Ms. Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Professor of Economics, Princeton University; Coeditor, American Economic Review: Estimating the impact of trade on productivity and growth using firm-level data and trade-reform episodes.
Mr. Sander M. Goldberg, Professor of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles: Realities of Roman stage performance.
Mr. Gastón R. Gordillo, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of British Columbia: Ruins of conquest in savage geographies.
Mr. Philip Gourevitch, Writer, Brooklyn, New York: Survival, coexistence, memory, history, and politics in post-genocide Rwanda.
Mr. Alan Govenar, President, Documentary Arts, Inc.: The folk art of community photography.
Mr. Terence Gower, Artist, New York City: Fine Arts.
Mr. Paul Graham, Photographer, New York City: Photography.
Mr. Vincent Grenier, Video artist, Ithaca, New York; Professor of Cinema, Binghamton University: Video and Audio.
Mr. Miguel Gutierrez, Choreographer, Brooklyn, New York; Artistic Director, Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People: Choreography.

Ms. Kimiko Hahn, Poet, Mattituck, New York; Distinguished Professor of English, Queens College, CUNY: Poetry.
Ms. Monica Haller, Photographer, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Photography.
Ms. Barbara Hamby, Poet, Tallahassee, Florida, Assistant in English and Writer-in-residence, Florida State University: Poetry.
Mr. Paul Harding, Writer, Georgetown, Massachusetts; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa: Fiction.
Mr. Jonathan Harr, Writer, Northampton, Massachusetts: Humanitarian workers in conflict situations.
Mr. Lorenzo Harris, Choreographer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Founder and Artistic Director, Rennie Harris Puremovement: Choreography.
Mr. Joel Harrison, Composer, Brooklyn, New York: Music composition.
Ms. Molly Haskell, Writer, New York City: A memoir on gender dysphoria.
Mr. Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University: A modern political history of Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Bernard L. Herman, George B. Tindall Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Folklore, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Troublesome things in the borderlands of contemporary art.
Mr. Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet, Redlands, California; Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair in Poetry, University of California, Riverside: Poetry.
Ms. Linda Hess, Senior Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University: Kabir oral traditions and performative works in North India.
Mr. Daniel A. Heyman, Artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lecturer in Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University: Fine Arts.
Ms. Kathryn High, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Associate Professor of Video and New Media, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Fine Arts.
Ms. Cynthia Hopkins, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Artistic Director: Accinosco, Inc.: Drama and performance art.
Ms. Holly Hughes, Performance artist, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Associate Professor, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan: Drama and performance art.

Mr. Petr Janata, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California, Davis: An interactive guide to the brain mechanisms underlying musical experiences.
Ms. Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard University: A comparative study of nature-culture relations.
Mr. Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University: Slavery, capitalism, and imperialism in the Mississippi Valley’s Cotton Kingdom.
Ms. Rosemary A. Joyce, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley: History and materiality from an archaeological perspective.
Mr. Pieter M. Judson, Professor of History, Swarthmore College: A non-nation-based history of Habsburg Central Europe, 1780-1948.

Mr. Joshua T. Katz, Professor of Classics, Princeton University: Wordplay: a chapter in the history of ideas.
Mr. Mark Kilstofte, Composer, Greenville, South Carolina; Professor of Composition and Music Theory, Furman University: Music composition.
Ms. Jin Hi Kim, Composer, Bridgeport, Connecticut; Composer-in-residence, New Haven Symphony: Music composition.
Mr. Junhyong Kim, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term-Endowed Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania: Genome-scale higher order evolution.
Ms. Mari Kimura, Composer, New York City; Adjunct Professor of Graduate Studies in Music Technology, The Juilliard School: Music composition.
Mr. Jeffrey C. Kinkley, Professor of History, St. John’s University: The dystopian imagination of China’s avant-garde.
Mr. Shinobu Kitayama, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan: Cultural neuroscience.
Mr. Igor R. Klebanov, Professor of Physics and Associate Director, Center for Theoretical Physics, Princeton University: Quantum field theories as curved spacetimes.
Mr. Herbert Kohl, Writer, Point Arena, California: Continuity and change in moral development.
Ms. Elizabeth Kolbert, Writer, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Extinction and the history of life.
Mr. Ladislav Kubik, Composer, Tallahassee, Florida; Professor of Music, Florida State University: Music composition.
Mr. Thomas Kühne, Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History and Professor of History, Clark University: Body aesthetics and social conflict in modern history.
Mr. Gerald Kutcher, Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University: A history of cancer therapies.

Ms. Franziska Lamprecht (jointly with Mr. Hajoe Moderegger), Artist, Sunnyside, New York: Fine Arts.
Mr. Victor LaValle, Writer, New York City; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University: Fiction.
Mr. Gregory P. A. Levine, Associate Professor of the Art and Architecture of Japan and Buddhist Visual Cultures, University of California, Berkeley: Buddha heads as sculptural fragments in devotional and modern-contemporary imaginations.
Mr. Charles Lindsay, Artist and Photographer, New York City: Photography.
Ms. Mary Lum, Artist, Bennington, Vermont; Faculty Member in Drawing, Bennington College: Fine Arts.
Mr. Jim Lutes, Artist, Riverside, Illinois; Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Fine Arts.
Mr. Patrick J. Lynett, Associate Professor and Associate Director, Haynes Coastal Engineering Laboratory, Texas A&M University: Wind, wave, and sea during extreme coastal events.

Mr. Nathaniel Mackey, Poet, Santa Cruz, California; Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz: Poetry.
Ms. Silvia Malagrino, Filmmaker, Chicago, Illinois; Professor of Photography, University of Illinois, Chicago: Film.
Mr. Cameron Martin, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Fine Arts.
Ms. Adeline Masquelier, Professor of Anthropology, Tulane University: Youth, Islam, and globalization in Niger.
Ms. Tomoko Masuzawa, Professor of History and Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Michigan: A history of biblical studies and the 19th-century academy.
Mr. Richard Maxwell, Playwright, New York City; Artistic Director, New York City Players, Inc.: Drama and performance art.
Mr. Colum McCann, Writer, New York City; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Hunter College, CUNY: Fiction.
Mr. Van McElwee, Video artist, St. Louis, Missouri; Professor of Electronic and Photographic Media, Webster University: Video and Audio.
Mr. Lawrence McFarland, Photographer, Austin, Texas; William and Bettye Nowlin Endowed Professorship in Photography, University of Texas at Austin: Photography.
Mr. Michael Jones McKean, Artist, Richmond, Virginia; Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Extended Media, Virginia Commonwealth University: Fine Arts.
Ms. Louise McReynolds, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: True crime and punishment in late Imperial Russia.
Ms. Anne Mendelson, Writer, North Bergen, New Jersey: The Chinese diaspora and American culinary history.
Mr. Michael Meyer, Writer, Golden Valley, Minnesota: Contemporary Manchuria and the Han Chinese farmers.
Mr. Philipp Meyer, Writer, Newfield, New York: Fiction.
Ms. Paula A. Michaels, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa: An international history of the Lamaze method of childbirth.
Ms. Margaret M. Mitchell, Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago Divinity School: A translation of the late antique homilies of John Chrysostom.
Mr. Hajoe Moderegger (jointly with Ms. Franziska Lamprecht), Associate Professor of time-based media, Art Department, The City College of New York: Fine Arts.
Mr. Tomasz S. Mrowka, Simons Professor of Mathematics, MIT: Applications of gauge theory and low dimensional topology.

Ms. Maggie Nelson, Faculty Member, School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts: Contemporary uses and abuses of cruelty in art, literature, and media.
Mr. Nic Nicosia, Photographer, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Photography.
Mr. Mark Nowak, Poet, Queenstown, Maryland; Director, Rose O’Neill Literary House, Washington College: Poetry.

Ms. Helen O'Leary, Artist, State College, Pennsylvania; Professor of Art, Pennsylvania State University: Fine Arts.
Mr. Joseph O'Neill, Writer, New York City; Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library: Fiction.
Ms. Seung-Ah Oh, Composer, Oberlin, Ohio: Music composition.
Mr. Lothar Osterburg, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Visiting Associate Professor, Bard College: Fine Arts.

Mr. Jed Perl, Writer, New York City; Art Critic, The New Republic: A biography of Alexander Calder.
Mr. Philip Pettit, L. S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University: A civic republican theory of democracy.
Mr. Patrick Phillips, Poet, Brooklyn, New York; Assistant Professor of English, Drew University: Poetry.
Ms. Marta Ptaszynska, Composer, Chicago, Illinois; Helen B. & Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Composition and Professor of Music and in the Humanities, University of Chicago: Music composition.

Mr. David Rhodes, Writer, Wonewoc, Wisconsin: Fiction.
Ms. Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Damon Wells Professor of International Politics, Yale University: Evaluating policies and practices to improve the prospects of gender equality.
Ms. J. Allyn Rosser, Poet, Athens, Ohio; Associate Professor of English, Ohio University: Poetry.
Ms. Sarah Ruden, Translator, New Haven, Connecticut; Visiting Library Fellow, Yale Divinity School: A new translation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia.

Mr. Carl Safina, Writer, Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Nature, environment, and conservation as moral dilemmas..
Ms. Susan Schulten, Associate Professor of History, University of Denver: The rise of thematic cartography in United States history.
Dr. Michael Schultz, Photographer, West Fork, Arkansas: Photography.
Ms. Charlotte Schulz, Artist, Beacon, New York; Faculty Member, Parsons The New School for Design: Fine Arts.
Ms. Christine Schutt, Writer, New York City: Fiction.
Mr. Salvatore Scibona, Writer, Provincetown, Massachusetts; Writing Coordinator, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown: Fiction.
Ms. Elizabeth Sears, George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate Professor of History of Art, University of Michigan: Warburg Circles: towards a cultural-historical history of art, 1929-64.
Mr. Nadrian C. Seeman, Margaret & Herman Sokol Professor of Chemistry, New York University: Structural DNA nanotechnology.
Mr. Richard Serrano, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University: The Qur'an and Arabic poetry.
Ms. Nancy Shaver, Artist, Jefferson, New York; Affiliate Faculty Member, Bard College: Fine Arts.
Ms. Kerry L. Shaw, Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University: Species and speciation theory and data.
Ms. Mary D. Sheriff, W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Picturing the allure of conquest in 18th-century France.
Ms. Carol Silverman, Professor of Anthropology and Folklore, University of Oregon: Representation, appropriation, and Roma in world music.
Mr. Edward Simon, Composer, Orange City, Florida: Music composition.
Mr. Adam T. Smith, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago: Affects, objects, and publics from the ancient to the modern.
Mr. Hyongsok (Tom) Soh, Associate Professor of Materials and Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara: Rapid in vitro generation of affinity reagents for point-of-care diagnostics.
Ms. Dawn Song, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley: Safe patches and applications to secure networked medical devices.
Ms. Sarah Stanbury, Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross: Creole things in Chaucer's world.
Mr. David Storey, Artist, New York City; Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Visual Art, Fordham University: Painting.
Ms. Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Associate Professor of Law, University at Buffalo Law School: The new religious establishment.

Ms. Maryam Tabrizian, Associated Professor and Director of the Centre for Biorecognition and Biosensors, McGill University: Cell-cell and cell-biomaterial interactions.
Mr. Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Composer, Waban, Massachusetts; Associate of the Music Department, Harvard University: Music composition.
Mr. Gordon Teskey, Professor of English, Harvard University: Myth and metaphysics in early modern poetry, 1590-1674.
Ms. Morgan Thorson, Choreographer, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Affiliate Faculty, Department of Dance, University of Minnesota: Choreography.
Mr. Richard Tillinghast, Poet, Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland: Poetry.
Mr. Alexander Todorov, Associate Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University: The influence of first impressions on decisions.
Ms. Camilla Townsend, Professor of History, Rutgers University: The evolving Nahua tradition as seen in the Nahuatl annals.
Mr. Peter Trachtenberg, Writer, Tivoli, New York: Going broke in America.
Ms. Monique Truong, Writer, Brooklyn, New York: Fiction.
Ms. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz: The commodity chain and global ecology of the matsutake mushrooms.
Mr. David Van Taylor, Filmmaker, Brooklyn, New York; Vice President, Lumiere Productions, Inc.: Film.

Ms. Lea VanderVelde, Josephine Witte Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law: Slavery and freedom in the law of the American frontier: 1818-57.
Ms. Irene Vilar, Writer, Denver, Colorado: A memoir.

Mr. R. Jay Wallace, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley: The moral nexus.
Ms. Laura Dassow Walls, John H. Bennett Jr. Chair of Southern Letters, University of South Carolina: A biography of Henry David Thoreau.
Ms. Tandy Warnow, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin: New problems in evolutionary estimation.
Mr. Kenny Werner, Composer, South Fallsburg, New York: Music composition.
Mr. John S. Wettlaufer, A. M. Bateman Professor of Geophysics, Physics, and Applied Mathematics, Yale University: Stochastic dynamics and abrupt changes in Arctic climate.
Mr. James Q. Whitman, Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, Yale University: The verdict of battle.
Mr. John Fabian Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law and Professor of History, Yale Law School: The laws of war in American history.
Mr. Matt Wolf, Filmmaker, Brooklyn, New York: Film.

Mr. Shuhai Xiao, Professor of Geobiology, Virginia Tech: Ediacaran geology and paleontology in Arctic Siberia and South China as a means to understand early animal evolution before the Cambrian explosion.

Mr. Yunxiang Yan, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles: The individual and moral changes in China, 1978-2008.

Mr. David Zeiger, Filmmaker, Los Angeles, California: Film.
Mr. John Zurier, Artist, Berkeley, California; Eminent Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts: Painting.
Mr. Pavel Zuštiak, Choreographer, New York City: Choreography.