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...

Economics
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...

Spanish & Portuguese Literature
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...

Literary Criticism
Mary Elizabeth Smith Iberian & Latin American History
Allan W. Snyder Neuroscience
James A. Spudich Molecular & Cellular Biology
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...

Poetry
David A. Starrett Economics
Francis Steegmuller French Literature
David C. Steinmetz Renaissance History
Gabriel Stolzenberg Mathematics
Donald D. Stone English Literature
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William Stott
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Jean Strouse
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