Field-Of-Study: General Nonfiction

Bruce Barcott is an independent environmental journalist and writer. While working as a writer and editor for the alternative newspaper Seattle Weekly (1989-97), Mr. Barcott, long fascinated by his home territory of the Pacific Northwest, compiled Northwest Passages: A Literary Anthology of The Pacific Northwest from Coyote Tales to Roadside Attractions (Sasquatch Books, 1994). Not

A nationally known cultural critic, Jabari Asim is a scholar-in-residence at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Editor-in-chief of the NAACP’s Crisis magazine. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, he is a lifelong Cardinals fan who hails from the city’s North Side. He is a frequent commentator who has appeared on The Colbert Report,

Irene Vilar was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Her memoir The Ladies’ Gallery (Other Press, 2009, originally published in 1996) was a Philadelphia Inquirer and Detroit Free Press notable book of the year and was short-listed for the 1999 Mind Book of the Year Award. The memoir was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, CBS, PBS,

Peter Trachtenberg is an American writer whose work crosses the genres of fiction and nonfiction, journalism, memoir, and moral philosophy. He is the author of 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh and The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning, a recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maggie Nelson is most recently the author of four books of nonfiction: a meditation on the color blue titled Bluets (Wave Books, 2009); a critical study of poetry and painting titled Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007; winner of the Susanne M. Glasscock Award for Interdisciplinary Scholarship,

I will use my term as a Guggenheim Fellow to write a cookbook examining some changes that have taken place in what is loosely called “Chinese-American cooking” over the last forty-odd years. Since the abolition of former immigration quotas, U.S. and Canadian Chinese-descended populations have been transformed from a few small, half-fossilized, ethnically narrow enclaves

Molly Haskell is a film critic and author who has written and lectured widely on film and the roles of women. Her books include From Reverence to Rape: the Treatment of Women in the Movies; Love and Other Infectious Diseases: a Memoir; and, most recently, Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited. She has

Known for his exhaustive research and remarkable narrative skills, Jonathan Harr is a nonfiction writer whose first book, A Civil Action (Random House, 1995), earned him a National Book Critics Award, the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Award, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and the Scribes Award, among many other honors. It took Mr. Harr

Educated at Cornell University (B.A., 1986) and Columbia University (M.F.A., 1992), Philip Gourevitch is the author of A Cold Case (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001) and The Ballad of Abu Ghraib (Penguin, 2008), as well as We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Farrar, Straus,

I was born and raised in Africa, studied law at Cambridge University, and international relations at Oxford. I am an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, documentary-maker, and screenwriter. After practicing human-rights law in Zimbabwe, I became a foreign and war correspondent, and have reported from more than sixty countries, including wars in Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Uganda,

Tom Bissell was born in Escanaba, Michigan, in 1974. After graduating from Michigan State University, he worked briefly as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan and then as a book editor in New York City. His first book, Chasing the Sea, a travel narrative, was published in 2003. God Lives in St. Petersburg, a story

Ricardo Ainslie’s work involves a hybrid methodology that draws from psychoanalysis, ethnography, and documentary forms of inquiry to explore a variety of social and cultural topics, such as immigration, communities affected by social change, ethnic conflict, and hate crimes. He uses books, documentary films, and photographic exhibits to capture and depict his subjects. In 2002

Michele Wucker is executive director of the World Policy Institute, a progressive think tank based in New York City. The author of Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right (Public Affairs Press, 2—6-07) and of Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispanola (FSG/Hill