List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1977
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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1977
Fellow | Category | Field of Study |
Ruben Adler | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
Michael J. B. Allen | Humanities | Italian Literature |
Robert L. Allen Robert L. Allen Robert Lee Allen is an activist, writer, and Adjunct Professor of African-American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Allen received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco, and previously taught at San José State University and... |
Creative Arts | General Nonfiction |
Aracy A. Amaral | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
Dane Archer | Social Sciences | Sociology |
Walter W. Arndt Walter W. Arndt Walter Arndt born 1916 of German parents in Istanbul, Turkey , he is the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, of Russian Language and Literature at Dartmouth College... |
Humanities | German & Scandinavian Literature |
Charles Arthur Arnoldi | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
Francisco J. Ayala Francisco J. Ayala Francisco José Ayala Pereda is a Spanish-American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine. He is a former Dominican priest, ordained in 1960, but left the priesthood that same year. After graduating from the University of Salamanca, he moved to the US in 1961 to study for... |
Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology |
Thomas J. Babe | Creative Arts | Drama & Performance Art |
F. G. Bailey F. G. Bailey Frederick George Bailey is a British social anthropologist. He received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Manchester University, working under Max Gluckman, and is closely associated with the Manchester School of social anthropology. A prolific writer, he is probably best known for his studies... |
Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
Michael G. Barbour | Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences |
Hazel E. Barnes | Humanities | French Literature |
Alan H. Barrett | Natural Sciences | Astronomy--Astrophysics |
Frances Barth | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
Roland S. Barth | Social Sciences | Education |
Ann Beattie Ann Beattie Ann Beattie is an American short story writer and novelist. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a PEN/Bernard Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form. Her work has been compared to that of Alice Adams, J.D. Salinger,... |
Fiction | |
Michael Les Benedict Michael Les Benedict Michael Les Benedict is a prominent American historian, who taught at Ohio State University from 1970 until his retirement in 2005. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Illinois and his PhD from Rice University. His expertise is principally in constitutional and legal... |
Political Science | |
James O. Berger | Statistics | |
Lillian D. Bloom | English Literature | |
Lesser Blum | Physics | |
Sheila E. Blumstein | Linguistics | |
Alberto Boveris | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Stan Brakhage Stan Brakhage James Stanley Brakhage , better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker who is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th century experimental film.... |
Creative Arts | Film |
Robert Brenner Robert Brenner Robert P. Brenner is a professor of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA, editor of the socialist journal Against the Current, and editorial committee member of New Left Review... |
Economic History | |
Lee Breuer Lee Breuer Lee Breuer is an American academic, educator, film maker, poet, lyricist, writer and stage director.-Work with Mabou Mines:Lee Breuer is a founding artistic director of Mabou Mines Theater Company in New York City, which he began in 1970 with colleagues Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne... |
Theatre Arts | |
Joseph Brodsky Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters... |
Poetry | |
D. Allan Bromley D. Allan Bromley David Allan Bromley was a Canadian–American physicist, academic administrator and Science Advisor to American president George H. W. Bush. At the time of his death, he had over 500 publications.-Life:... |
Physics | |
Benjamin F. Brown | Italian Literature | |
Blanche R. Brown | Fine Arts Research | |
Joan Brown Joan Brown Joan Brown was an American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California. She was a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.... |
Fine Arts | |
James W. Buchman | Fine Arts | |
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He earned his BA degree from Queens College, New York in 1967 and then his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He specializes in... |
Political Science | |
C. Tyler Burge | Philosophy | |
Guy L. Bush | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
Warren L. Butler | Plant Sciences | |
Jack G. Calvert | Chemistry | |
David Caplovitz | Sociology | |
George G. Carey | Folklore & Popular Culture | |
María Soledad Carrasco | Spanish & Portuguese Literature | |
Francisco Cervantes | Poetry | |
Gerald Wester Chapman | English Literature | |
Giuseppe Cilento Giuseppe Cilento Giuseppe Cilento was a Brazilian chemist who was born in Italy. He held a professorship at the University of São Paulo and was Professor Emeritus at the State University of Campinas.... |
Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
John Clarke John Clarke (physicist) John Clarke is an English physicist and a Professor of Experimental Physics at University of California at Berkeley.Clarke received BA, MA, and Ph.D. in Physics from Cambridge University in 1964, 1968, and 1968, respectively.... |
Physics | |
James P. Collman James P. Collman James P. Collman is an American Professor of Chemistry. He is currently serving at Stanford University in California.Collman is considered a pioneer in bioinorganic and biomimetic chemistry... |
Chemistry | |
Fernando Raúl Colomb | Astronomy--Astrophysics | |
Joel Conarroe | American Literature | |
John Cooper John Cooper John Cooper may refer to:* John A. D. Cooper , American physician & educator* John B.R. Cooper , California pioneer* John Cooper, current director of the Sundance Film Festival... |
Astronomy--Astrophysics | |
Ann Cornelisen | General Nonfiction | |
Stanley Corngold | German & Scandinavian Literature | |
Richard Crawford Richard Crawford Richard Crawford is an American music historian, currently a professor of music at the University of Michigan. His American Musical Landscape is one of the seminal works of American music history, published in 2001. He has published a number of other books, and edited a series of books on American... |
Music Research | |
David Cressy | U.S. History | |
Peter Dallos | Neuroscience | |
Jerry Dantzic | Creative Arts | Photography |
Nassos Daphnis Nassos Daphnis Nassos Daphnis was a Greek born American abstract painter and tree peony breeder... |
Fine Arts | |
John Putnam Demos John Putnam Demos John Putnam Demos is an American author and historian. He has written two books which discuss witch-hunts and has discovered that one of his own ancestors was John Putnam Senior, ancestor of the Putnam family which was prominent in the Salem witch trials.... |
U.S. History | |
William M. Denevan | Geography & Environmental Studies | |
Charles H. DePuy | Chemistry | |
Edwin B. DeWindt | Medieval History | |
Manuel O. Diaz Rivara | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Lucia Dlugoszewski Lucia Dlugoszewski Lucia Dlugoszewski was a Polish-American composer, performer and inventor. She created over a hundred musical instruments, including the timbre piano, a sort of prepared piano in which hammers and keys were replaced with bows and plectra.-Background and early years:The daughter of Polish... |
Music Composition | |
Michael Dorris Michael Dorris Michael Anthony Dorris was a prominent American novelist and scholar. During his career he presented himself as Native American and this identity was a key part of his professional activities and his public reputation; but its factuality is in doubt... |
Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
Seymour Drescher Seymour Drescher Seymour Drescher is an American historian and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and Slavery.... |
British History | |
Norman E. Dubie | Poetry | |
Alistair M. Duckworth | Humanities | English Literature |
Daniel Edge | Fine Arts | |
Samuel Y. Edgerton | Fine Arts Research | |
Gerald E. Edwards | Plant Sciences | |
Richard Eisenberg | Chemistry | |
Joseph E. Emonds | Humanities | Linguistics |
Leslie D. Epstein | Creative Arts | Fiction |
Linda Feferman | Creative Arts | Film |
Michael E. Feingold | Humanities | Theatre Arts |
Rafael Ferrer Rafael Ferrer Rafael Ferrer is an American actor.Ferrer is the son of José Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney, and the brother of Miguel and Gabriel. He is a cousin of George Clooney. Ferrer is best known for his voiceover work in commercials, trailers and on-air promotions... |
Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
Jorge A. Flores Ochoa | Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
Richard Ford Richard Ford Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories.-Early... |
Creative Arts | Fiction |
Enrique Forero | Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences |
Llyn Foulkes Llyn Foulkes Llyn Foulkes is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles.As a student at Chouinard Art Institute , Foulkes began exhibiting with the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in 1959. He held his first one-man exhibition at Ferus in 1961. Other early solo exhibitions included the Pasadena Art Museum ... |
Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
J. B. French | Natural Sciences | Physics |
Charles Fuller Charles Fuller Charles H. Fuller, Jr. is an American playwright, best known for his play, A Soldier's Play, for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.-Early years:... |
Creative Arts | Drama & Performance Art |
Paul Fussell Paul Fussell Paul Fussell is an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor. His writings cover a variety of genres, from scholarly works on eighteenth-century English literature to commentary on America’s class system... |
Humanities | English Literature |
Henry Gabay | Creative Arts | Film |
Robert G. Gallager Robert G. Gallager Robert Gray Gallager is an American electrical engineer known for his work on information theory and communications networks. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1968 and a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1979. He received the Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory... |
Natural Sciences | Computer Science |
Herbert J. Gans Herbert J. Gans Herbert J. Gans is an American sociologist who has taught at Columbia University since 1971, retiring in 2007.One of the most prolific and influential sociologists of his generation, Gans came to America in 1940 as a refugee from Nazism and has sometimes described his scholarly work as an... |
Sociology | |
Jacques Garelli | French Literature | |
Guillermo Geisse Grove | Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
Albert J. Gelpi | American Literature | |
John C. Gerhart | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
William H. Goetzmann William H. Goetzmann William H. Goetzmann was an award-winning historian and emeritus professor in the American Studies and American Civilization Programs at the University of Texas at Austin. He attended Yale University as a graduate student and was friends with Tom Wolfe while there... |
U.S. History | |
Erving Goffman Erving Goffman Erving Goffman was a Canadian-born sociologist and writer.The 73rd president of American Sociological Association, Goffman's greatest contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction in the form of dramaturgical perspective that began with his 1959 book The Presentation of Self... |
Sociology | |
Martin V. Goldman | Astronomy--Astrophysics | |
Michael P. Goldman | English Literature | |
Robert Philip Goldman | East Asian Studies | |
Cylon E. Gonçalves da Silva | Physics | |
Mark Goodman Mark Goodman Mark Goodman is a radio DJ, TV personality, and actor. He is best known as one of the original five VJs on MTV, from 1981-1987. He was supposed to be the first of the five to be broadcast at MTV's premier on August 1, 1981... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
Gary Hamilton Gossen | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
William B. Gould | Law | |
George Griffin | Creative Arts | Film |
O. Hayes Griffith | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Phyllis M. Grosskurth | English Literature | |
Giles B. Gunn | American Literature | |
John Gutmann John Gutmann John Gutmann was a German-born American photographer and painter.After fleeing Nazi Germany for being a Jew, Gutmann acquired a job in the United States as a photographer for various German magazines. Gutmann quickly took an interest in the American way of life and sought to capture it through the... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
Shelby J. Haberman | Natural Sciences | Statistics |
Patrick D. Hanan | East Asian Studies | |
Carolyn M. Hansson | Applied Mathematics | |
John Harbison John Harbison John Harris Harbison is an American composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.-Life:... |
Music Composition | |
Robert D. Harbison | Fine Arts Research | |
Richard Harris Richard Harris Richard St John Harris was an Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer.... |
Law | |
Gordon Hart | Fine Arts | |
Sven R. Hartmann | Physics | |
Erick Hawkins Erick Hawkins Frederick Hawkins known as Erick Hawkins was a leading American modern-dance choreographer and dancer... |
Creative Arts | Choreography |
Sidney M. Hecht | Chemistry | |
Mary Heilmann | Fine Arts | |
Harold C. Helgeson Harold C. Helgeson Harold C. Helgeson was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was widely regarded as the preeiminent practitioner of theoretical geochemistry for more than 40 years, a career he embraced after a colorful set of experiences in the military and the mining industry... |
Earth Science | |
Richard J. Herrnstein | Psychology | |
William Heyen William Heyen William Helmuth Heyen is an American poet, editor, and literary critic. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Suffolk County... |
Poetry | |
Peter W. Hochachka | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
Sydney P. Hodkinson | Music Composition | |
Israel Horovitz Israel Horovitz Israel Horovitz is an American playwright and screenwriter.-Theatre career:An American dramatist, Horovitz has written more than 70 produced plays, many of which have been translated and performed in more than 30 languages worldwide . The 70/70 Horovitz Project was created by NYC Barefoot Theatre... |
Drama & Performance Art | |
Henry Horwitz | British History | |
Richard A. Howard Richard A. Howard Richard Alden Howard was an American botanist and plant taxonomist. Howard, who served as director of Arnold Arboretum between 1954 and 1977, was known for his work in tropical biology and as author the Flora of the Lesser Antilles.... |
Plant Sciences | |
Robert Hudson Robert H. Hudson Robert Hudson is an American artist who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and grew up in Richland, Washington. He received a B.F.A in 1961 and an M.F.A. in 1963, both from the San Francisco Art Institute.... |
Fine Arts | |
Richard Hugo Richard Hugo Richard Hugo , born Richard Hogan, was an American poet. Primarily a regionalist, Hugo's work reflects the economic depression of the Northwest, particularly Montana. Born in White Center, Washington, he was raised by his mother's parents after his father left the family... |
Poetry | |
Sandy Hume Sandy Hume Sandy Hume, born Alexander Britton Hume Jr., , was an American journalist. A journalist for The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., Hume was the son of Brit Hume, then Fox News Channel's managing editor, and Clare Jacobs Stoner.- Career :Hume broke the story of the aborted 1997 coup by Rep... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
Alex Inkeles | Social Sciences | Sociology |
Miyoko Ito | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
Roman Jackiw Roman Jackiw Roman W. Jackiw is a theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist. Born in Poland, Jackiw received his PhD from Cornell University in 1966 under Hans Bethe and Kenneth Wilson... |
Physics | |
Arthur M. Jaffe | Applied Mathematics | |
Guillermo Jaim-Etcheverry | Medicine & Health | |
Rex L. Jamison | Medicine & Health | |
Farish A. Jenkins | Earth Science | |
M. Kent Jennings | Political Science | |
Bruce M. Johnson | American Literature | |
Diane Lain Johnson | English Literature | |
Edward Dudley Hume Johnson | English Literature | |
Robert K. Josephson | Neuroscience | |
Carl F. Kaestle | Education | |
Inga Karetnikova | Fine Arts Research | |
Friedrich Katz Friedrich Katz C. Friedrich Katz was an Austrian-born anthropologist and historian specialized in 19th and 20th century history of Latin America; particularly, in the Mexican Revolution... |
Iberian & Latin American History | |
J. Lawrence Katz | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Michael B. Katz | U.S. History | |
John A. Katzenellenbogen | Chemistry | |
Nicholas A. Kefalides | Medicine & Health | |
Cornelis Klein | Earth Science | |
Shoshichi Kobayashi Shoshichi Kobayashi is a famous Japanese mathematician. His research areas are Riemannian and complex manifolds, and infinite Lie groups.He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1953. In 1956, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Washington... |
Mathematics | |
Edward M. Kosower | Chemistry | |
Francisco Kröpfl | Creative Arts | Music Composition |
Susumu Kuno Susumu Kuno is a Japanese linguist and author. He is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1964 and spent his entire career. He received his A.B. and A.M. from Tokyo University where he received a thorough grounding in linguistics under the guidance of... |
Humanities | Linguistics |
Mordecai Kurz | Social Sciences | Economics |
Donald B. Kuspit | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
Alvin L. Kwiram | Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
Wayne R. LaFave | Law | |
Barbara Miller Lane | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
Crispin Larangeira | Drama & Performance Art | |
Beatriz Rosario Lavandera | Linguistics | |
Norman R. Lebovitz | Astronomy--Astrophysics | |
Isaías Lerner | Spanish & Portuguese Literature | |
Bella Lewitzky-Reynolds | Creative Arts | Choreography |
Enrique Andrés Lihn | General Nonfiction | |
David C. Lindberg David C. Lindberg David C. Lindberg is an American historian of science. His main focus is in the history of medieval and early modern science, especially physical science and the relationship between religion and science. Lindberg is the author or editor of many books and received numerous grants and awards... |
History of Science & Technology | |
Jerzy Linderski Jerzy Linderski Jerzy Linderski is a Polish contemporary scholar of ancient history and Roman religion and law.Currently George L. Paddison Professor of Latin Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jerzy Linderski is one of the foremost classical philologists and Roman historians of the... |
Classics | |
James Lockhart James Lockhart James Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath, Count Lockhart-Wischeart of the Holy Roman Empire, , was a Scottish aristocrat with a successful military career.-Early years:... |
Iberian & Latin American History | |
Lewis H. Lockwood | Music Research | |
Harvey F. Lodish | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Leopoldo M. Maler | Fine Arts | |
Joseph D. Masheck | Fine Arts Research | |
Vojtech Mastny Vojtech Mastny Vojtech Mastny is an American historian of Czech descent, professor of political science and international relations, specializing in the history of the Cold War. He has been considered one of the leading American authorities on Soviet affairs. Mastny received his Ph.D... |
German & East European History | |
Benson Mates Benson Mates Benson Mates was an American philosopher, noted for his work in logic, the history of philosophy, and skepticism. Mates studied philosophy and mathematics at the University of Oregon, Cornell University, and the University of California at Berkeley. Some of his teachers included J... |
Philosophy | |
Thomas F. Mathews | Fine Arts Research | |
Gordon Matta-Clark Gordon Matta-Clark Gordon Matta-Clark was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his "building cuts," a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls.-Life and work:Both of Gordon Matta-Clark's... |
Fine Arts | |
Brian W. Matthews | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Carlos Alfredo Mautalen | Medicine & Health | |
James McMichael James McMichael -Life:The Pasadena, California native received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. In 1970 he married his second wife, Phylinda Wallace, a translator, and has three children, Robert, Geoffrey and Owen.... |
Poetry | |
William L. McMillan | Physics | |
David Mechanic | Sociology | |
Jonas Mekas Jonas Mekas Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America.-Biography:... |
Creative Arts | Film |
Michael Meltsner | Law | |
Robert Mezey Robert Mezey Robert Mezey is an American poet, critic and academic. He is also a noted translator, in particular from Spanish, having translated with Richard Barnes the collected poems of Borges.... |
Poetry | |
Nancy Milford Nancy Milford Nancy Milford is an American biographer.Milford is best known for her book Zelda about F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Fitzgerald. The book started out as her master's thesis and was published to broad acclaim in 1970... |
Creative Arts | Biography |
Jacob Milgrom Jacob Milgrom Jacob Milgrom was a prominent American Jewish Bible scholar and Conservative rabbi, best known for his comprehensive Torah commentaries and work on the Dead Sea Scrolls.-Biography:... |
Near Eastern Studies | |
Michael Millgate | English Literature | |
Earl Miner Earl Miner Earl Roy Miner was a professor at Princeton University, and a noted scholar of Japanese literature and especially Japanese poetry; he was also active in early English literature... |
East Asian Studies | |
Charles W. Moore | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
Herbert Morris Herbert Morris Herbert Roger Morris was an American rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he won the gold medal as member of the American boat in the eights competition.-External links:*... |
Philosophy | |
William W. Murdoch William W. Murdoch Recipient of the 1990 Robert H. MacArthur Award granted by the Ecological Society of America, William W. Murdoch is a Charles A. Storke II professor of population ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Over the years, his research has focused primarily on the subjects of... |
Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
Gregory Nagy Gregory Nagy Gregory Nagy , born in Budapest Hungary in 1942, is an American professor of Classics at Harvard University, specializing in Homer and archaic Greek poetry. Nagy is known for extending Milman Parry and Albert Lord's theories about the oral composition-in-performance of the Iliad and Odyssey... |
Humanities | Classics |
Víctor Elías Nahmod | Natural Sciences | Medicine & Health |
Alan Needleman Alan Needleman Alan Needleman was born in 1944 in Philadelphia, PA and is currently the Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at Brown University in Providence, RI. Professor Needleman received his B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, a M.S. and Ph.D. from... |
Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics |
Charles Neider | General Nonfiction | |
Jay Neugeboren | Creative Arts | Fiction |
Phill Niblock Phill Niblock Phill Niblock is a composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a parallel branch in Ghent, Belgium.-Biography:... |
Creative Arts | Film |
George W. Nickelsburg | Religion | |
Craig Nova Craig Nova Craig Nova is an American novelist and author of twelve novels.His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and Men's Journal, among others. His short story, "The Prince," won an O.Henry Award. His first novel, "Turkey Hash", won the prestigious Harper-Saxton... |
Creative Arts | Fiction |
Julius Novick | Humanities | Theatre Arts |
Juan Antonio Oddone | Humanities | Iberian & Latin American History |
Gregory Orr Gregory Orr Gregory Orr is an American writer and director of documentary and fiction films. He is the son of the late actress Joy Page and the late TV producer William T. Orr.-Career:... |
Creative Arts | Poetry |
Linda Orr | Humanities | French Literature |
Martin Ostwald Martin Ostwald Martin Ostwald was a German-American classical scholar, who taught until 1992 at Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania... |
Humanities | Classics |
Steven Ozment Steven Ozment Steven E. Ozment is an American historian of early modern and modern Germany, the European family, and the Protestant Reformation.... |
Humanities | Renaissance History |
Nam June Paik Nam June Paik Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist.... |
Video & Audio | |
Joseph Pedlosky Joseph Pedlosky Joseph Pedlosky is an American physical oceanographer. He is currently a scientist emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanography Institute.Pedlosky was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1985... |
Earth Science | |
Jonathan Penner Jonathan Penner Jonathan Lindsay Penner is an American actor, writer and film producer known for starring in The Last Supper and the television series Rude Awakening and The Naked Truth, as well as for appearing on the television show Survivor.-Life and career:Penner was born in New York City... |
Fiction | |
Constance Perin | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
David M. Perlmutter | Linguistics | |
Edward Pessen | U.S. History | |
Paul E. Peterson Paul E. Peterson Paul E. Peterson is a leading scholar on education reform. His work has largely focused on the importance of parental choice for improving school outcomes. He is Editor-In-Chief of Education Next, an educational policy journal designed to bring a balanced perspective on research and policy... |
Political Science | |
Sylvia Plachy Sylvia Plachy Sylvia Plachy is a Hungarian/American photographer.Plachy was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her Czech Jewish mother was in hiding in fear of Nazi persecution during World War II. Her father was a Hungarian Roman Catholic aristocrat and she was raised in his faith.Plachy's family moved to New York... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
Raoul Pleskow Raoul Pleskow Raoul Pleskow is an Austrian-born American composer.Pleskow moved to the United States in 1939 and became an American citizen in 1945. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York City , and at Queens College , where he studied composition with Karol Rathaus... |
Music Composition | |
Nelson W. Polsby Nelson W. Polsby Nelson Woolf Polsby was an American political scientist. He specialized in the study of the United States presidency and United States Congress. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and former editor of the American Political Science Review from 1971-77.Polsby was born... |
Political Science | |
Richard D. Portes | Economics | |
Kathryn O. Posin | Creative Arts | Choreography |
William K. Pratt | Computer Science | |
Mark Prent Mark Prent Mark Prent is a native Canadian sculptor and performance artist currently living in the US best known for the graphic realism of his figurative sculpture. Prent's sculptures have been described as disturbing and even brutal... |
Fine Arts | |
Peter S. Prescott Peter S. Prescott Peter S. Prescott was an American author and book critic. He was the senior book reviewer at Newsweek for more than two decades.In January, 1970, Prescott published A World of Our Own: Notes on Life and Learning in a Boys' Preparatory School, which described his alma mater, The Choate School, .In... |
General Nonfiction | |
Peter W. Price | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
Jesse C. Rabinowitz | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
José Agustín Ramírez Gómez | Fiction | |
Paul Ramsey | Religion | |
Shulamit Ran Shulamit Ran Shulamit Ran is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony won her the Pulitzer Prize... |
Music Composition | |
Edward Ranney | Creative Arts | Photography |
Diane Ravitch Diane Ravitch Diane Silvers Ravitch is an historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously, she was a U.S... |
Education | |
Omar Rayo Omar Rayo Omar Rayo was a Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. He won the 1970 Salón de Artistas Colombianos. Rayo worked with abstract geometry primarily employing black, white and red. He was part of the Op Art movement. Rayo's work shows that geometric art is as much a part of... |
Fine Arts | |
John Shelton Reed John Shelton Reed John Shelton Reed is a sociologist and essayist, author or editor of eighteen books, most of them dealing with the contemporary American South. Reed regularly contributes articles to non-academic publications such as The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and the Oxford American... |
Sociology | |
William P. Reinhardt | Chemistry | |
Frank Restle | Psychology | |
Jacqueline A. Reynolds | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
Paul G. Richards Paul G. Richards Paul G. Richards is an English-born, American seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to the theory of seismic wave link propagation and in methods to understand how the recorded shapes of seismic waves are affected by processes of diffraction, attenuation and scattering... |
Earth Science | |
Daniel Robbins Daniel Robbins Daniel Robbins is a computer programmer and consultant best known as the founder and former chief architect of the Gentoo Linux project. In 2008, he launched the Funtoo project, a free GNU/Linux distribution based on Gentoo, and is the project's lead hacker and organizer... |
Fine Arts Research | |
Richard P. Rogers | Creative Arts | Film |
Jason P. Rosenblatt | English Literature | |
John Robert Ross | Linguistics | |
Paul Rozin Paul Rozin Paul Rozin is a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His current work focuses on the psychological, cultural, and biological determinants of human food choice.... |
Psychology | |
Donald B. Rubin | Statistics | |
Jeffrey Z. Rubin | Psychology | |
M. Jonathan Rubin | Creative Arts | Film |
Sol I. Rubinow | Applied Mathematics | |
Philippe C. Schmitter Philippe C. Schmitter Philippe C. Schmitter is an Emeritus Professor of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute.... |
Political Science | |
Ira Schneider Ira Schneider Ira Schneider is a video artist. He was born in New York, NY in 1939, graduated from Brown University as Bachelor of Arts in 1960 and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Psychology as Magister of Arts in 1964. He has been living and working in Berlin since 1993.-Career:He started shooting... |
Video & Audio | |
Robert Scholes Robert Scholes Robert E. Scholes is an American literary critic and theorist. He is known for his ideas on fabulation and metafiction.He graduated from Yale University. Since 1970 he has been a Professor at Brown University.... |
Literary Criticism | |
Paul E. Schupp | Mathematics | |
Robert Schwarz | Literary Criticism | |
Marlene Elizabeth Scott | Fine Arts | |
Donald D. Searing | Political Science | |
Alan Franklin Segal | Religion | |
Joseph S. Semancik | Plant Sciences | |
Martin M. Shapiro | Political Science | |
Karl Shell Karl Shell Karl Shell is an American theoretical economist, specializing in macroeconomics and monetary economics.Shell received an A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1960. He earned his Ph.D... |
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Elaine C. Showalter | English Literature | |
Joseph H. Silverman Joseph H. Silverman Joseph Hillel Silverman is currently a professor of mathematics at Brown University. Joseph Silverman received an Sc.B. from Brown University in 1977 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982 under the direction of John Tate. He taught at M.I.T... |
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Barbara Herrnstein Smith Barbara Herrnstein Smith Barbara Herrnstein Smith is an American literary critic and theorist, best known for her work Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory... |
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Mary Elizabeth Smith | Iberian & Latin American History | |
Allan W. Snyder | Neuroscience | |
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David St. John David St. John -Biography:Born in Fresno, California, he was educated at California State University, Fresno, where he studied with poet Philip Levine, and at the University of Iowa, receiving an M.F.A. in 1974... |
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David A. Starrett | Economics | |
Francis Steegmuller | French Literature | |
David C. Steinmetz | Renaissance History | |
Gabriel Stolzenberg | Mathematics | |
Donald D. Stone | English Literature | |
William Stott William Stott William Stott may refer to:*William Henry Stott , British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Birkenhead West 1924–1929, and Birkenhead East 1924–1929*William Stott , British painter... |
U.S. History | |
Ronald S. Stroud | Classics | |
Jean Strouse Jean Strouse Jean Strouse is an American biographer, editor and critic. She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan.... |
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Rose R. Subotnik | Music Research | |
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Megan Terry Megan Terry Megan Terry is an internationally known playwright and prolific writer. Terry, born in Seattle, Washington, United States in 1932, had a love for the theatre since the age of seven and became involved with the theatre at an early age... |
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Jerry L. Thompson | Creative Arts | Photography |
Joan Tower Joan Tower Joan Tower is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world... |
Creative Arts | Music Composition |
Hans L. Trefousse Hans L. Trefousse Hans L. Trefousse was an American author, historian, and professor emeritus at Brooklyn College from 1950 to 1998. He also taught as a distinguished professor of history at City University of New York.-Early life:... |
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Jean François Treves | Natural Sciences | Mathematics |
Chinary Ung Chinary Ung Chinary Ung is a composer now living in the United States. After arriving in the United States in 1964 to study the clarinet, Ung studied composition with Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky. Ung is noted for combining traditional Cambodian musical elements with western instrumentation... |
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Martin Wachs | Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
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Alice Walker Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender... |
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Donald G. Walker | Natural Sciences | Medicine & Health |
Geoffrey King Walters | Natural Sciences | Physics |
Piotr S. Wandycz Piotr S. Wandycz Piotr Stefan Wandycz is a Polish-American historian, President of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, and professor emeritus at Yale University, specializing in Eastern and Central European history.-Life:... |
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Susan Weil Susan Weil Susan Weil is an American artist best known for her experimental three-dimensional paintings, which combine figurative illustration with explorations of movement and space. In the late 1940s Weil was involved in a relationship with Robert Rauschenberg... |
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Félix Weinberg Felix Weinberg Felix J. Weinberg is a British physicist.Felix J. Weinberg, Ph.D., D.Sc., Hon.D.Sc., F.Inst.P, F.C.G.I., F.R.S.,Emeritus Professor of Combustion Physics in the University of London,Distinguished Research Fellow, Imperial College London.... |
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Robert V. Wells | Humanities | U.S. History |
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Nicholas P. White | Humanities | Philosophy |
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Paul H. Williams | Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences |
Oliver E. Williamson Oliver E. Williamson Oliver Eaton Williamson is an American economist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.... |
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Christopher J. Wills | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
Margaret Dauler Wilson Margaret Dauler Wilson Margaret Dauler Wilson was an American philosopher and a professor of philosophy at Princeton University between 1970 and 1998. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wilson earned an A.B. from Vassar College in 1960 and received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University five years later. While... |
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Nicholas Winograd | Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
Roland Winston | Natural Sciences | Physics |
Ronald G. Witt | Humanities | Medieval History |
David Woodward David Woodward David Woodward was an English-born American historian of cartography and cartographer.- Biography :Woodward was born in Royal Leamington Spa, England. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Manchester, England, he came to the United States to study cartography under Arthur H.... |
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Maurice Wright | Creative Arts | Music Composition |
Merwin Crawford Young | Social Sciences | Political Science |
Larzer Ziff | Humanities | American Literature |
Alex Zwerdling | Humanities | English Literature |
- William W. MurdochWilliam W. MurdochRecipient of the 1990 Robert H. MacArthur Award granted by the Ecological Society of America, William W. Murdoch is a Charles A. Storke II professor of population ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Over the years, his research has focused primarily on the subjects of...
, population ecologist - Michel Riffaterre, French-born literary scholar (also awarded a Fellowship in 1961)