1979 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

• Irving Martin Abella, Professor of History, York University: 1979.
• Vito Acconci
  Vito Acconci
  Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...
  
  , Artist, Brooklyn, New York: 1979.
• Nina Agabian, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, University of Washington: 1979.
• Jeffrey C. Alexander
  Jeffrey C. Alexander
  Jeffrey Charles Alexander is an American sociologist, and one of the main proponents of Neofunctionalism.-Career:Alexander gained his BA from Harvard in 1969 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978...
  
  , Chair, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles: 1979.
• Thom Andersen
  Thom Andersen
  Thom Andersen is a filmmaker, film critic, and teacher. He attended Berkeley in the early 1960s and then returned to his hometown of Los Angeles to attend USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he studied with Arthur Knight and eventually assisted on Knight's project THE HISTORY OF SEX IN CINEMA...
  
  , Film Maker; Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts: 1979.
• Jonathan Arons
  Jonathan Arons
  Jonathan Arons is a New York City based freelance trombonist, actor, singer, and dancer who has made a number of appearances on television, most notably for his "trombone dance" in which he plays his trombone and then dances energetically .He had graduated from Oberlin Conservatory with a BM in...
  
  , Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley: 1979.
• Nina Auerbach
  Nina Auerbach
  Nina Auerbach is the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Her special area of concentration is nineteenth-century England...
  
  , John Welsh Centennial Professor of History and Literature, University of Pennsylvania: 1979.
• Richard Frederick William Bader, Professor of Chemistry, McMaster University: 1979.
• Jean-Loup Baer, Boeing Pennell Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington: 1979.
• Robert Ely Bagg, Poet and Translator; Emeritus Professor of English, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: 1979.
• Marshall Baker, Professor of Physics, University of Washington: 1979.
• Paul N. Banks
  Paul N. Banks
  Paul Banks was Conservator and Head of the Conservation Department and Laboratory at the Newberry Library from 1964 to 1981. He left the Newberry Library in 1981 to establish the first United States degree granting program in library preservation at the Columbia University School of Library Science...
  
  , Deceased. Bibliography: 1979.
• Philip C. Bankwitz, Professor Emeritus of History, Trinity College, Hartford: 1979.
• Lance Banning
  Lance Banning
  Lance Banning was an American historian who specialized in studying the politics of the United States' founding fathers. He taught mostly at the University of Kentucky.-Life:...
  
  , Professor of History, University of Kentucky: 1979.
• Bernard Barber, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Barnard College and Graduate Faculties, Columbia University: 1979.
• Elizabeth J. Barber, Professor of Linguistics and Archaeology, Occidental College: 1979.
• Michael A. Becker, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago: 1979.
• Jere R. Behrman, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania: 1979.
• Benjamin Bennett
  Benjamin Bennett
  Benjamin Holland Bennett was an Australian politician. Born in Young, New South Wales, he was educated at public schools before becoming the manager and editor of the family-run newspaper in Young...
  
  , Professor of German, University of Virginia: 1979.
• Suzanne Berger
  Suzanne Berger
  Suzanne Berger is an American political scientist. She is the Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative...
  
  , Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1979.
• Frank Bidart
  Frank Bidart
  Frank Bidart is an American academic and poet.-Biography:In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside and went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop...
  
  , Poet; Professor of English, Wellesley College: 1979.
• Chester Biscardi
  Chester Biscardi
  Chester Biscardi is an Italian American composer and educator.He received a B.A. degree in English literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison ; he studied during 1969-1970 at the University of Bologna and the Conservatorio di Musica "G. B. Martini"; he received an M.A...
  
  , Composer; Chairman, Music Department, Sarah Lawrence College: 1979.
• Phyllis Pray Bober, Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities, Bryn Mawr College: 1979.
• Felicia Bonaparte, Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York: 1979.
• Charles Clyde Bowden, Writer, Tucson, Arizona: 1979.
• Raymond Bowers, Deceased. Science: 1979.
• Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, Scholar, Toronto: 1979.
• Kenneth S. Brecher, Director, The William Penn Foundation: 1979.
• James O. Breeden, Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University: 1979.
• Eugene Brodsky, Artist, New York City: 1979, 1987.
• Lowell S. Brown, Professor of Physics, University of Washington: 1979.
• Theodore L. Brown, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1979.
• Thomas C. Bruice, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1979.
• Peter C. Bunnell, David Hunter McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art, Princeton University: 1979.
• Stanley P. Burg, Plant Physiologist, Miami: 1979.
• John G. Burke, Deceased. History of Science: 1979.
• David E. Bynum, Professor of Religious Studies, Cleveland State University: 1979.
• Thomas Byrom, Deceased. 19th Century English Literature: 1979.
• Richard Calendar, Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley: 1979.
• John Carisi
  John Carisi
  John E. Carisi was an American trumpeter and composer.Carisi was member of Herbie Fields's Orchestra and Glenn Miller's Airforce Band. After the war he worked with Ray McKinley, Claude Thornhill, Charlie Barnet, Urbie Green, and Benny Goodman.He was trained by acclaimed composer Stefan Wolpe...
  
  , Deceased. Music Composition: 1979.
• John Casey, Writer, Charlottesville, Virginia: 1979.
• F. Stuart Chapin III
  F. Stuart Chapin III
  F. Stuart Chapin III is a professor of Ecology at the Department of Biology and Wildlife of the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska...
  
  , Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley: 1979.
• Eric L. Charnov, Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of New Mexico: 1979.
• Anwar G. Chejne, Deceased. Near Eastern Studies: 1979.
• Lucinda Childs
  Lucinda Childs
  Lucinda Childs is an American postmodern dancer/choreographer. Her compositions are known for their minimalistic movements yet complex transitions. Childs is most famous for being able to turn the slightest movements into an intricate choreographic masterpiece...
  
  , Choreographer; Artistic Director, Lucinda Childs Dance Company, New York City: 1979.
• Bruno Civitico, Artist, Charleston, South Carolina: 1979.
• Robert M. Coates, Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1979.
• James S. Cockburn, Professor of History, University of Maryland at College Park: 1979.
• Robert S. Coe, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz: 1979.
• Linda Connor
  Linda Connor
  Linda Connor is an American photographer who photographs spiritual and exotic locations including India, Mexico, Thailand, Ireland, Peru, Nepal, Egypt, Hawaii and the American Southwest....
  
  , Photographer; Professor of Photography, San Francisco Art Institute: 1979.
• Frederick A. Cooper, Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota: 1979.
• John M. Cooper, Jr., E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1979.
• Rose Laub Coser, deceased.Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine and of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook: 1979.
• William J. Courtenay, C. H. Haskins Professor and Hilldale Professor of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1979.
• Barbara Crane, Photographer; Emeritus Professor of Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; 1979.
• Robert I. Cukier, Professor of Chemistry, Michigan State University: 1979.
• Jonathan Culler
  Jonathan Culler
  Jonathan Culler is a class of 1966 Harvard graduate and Professor of English at Cornell University. He is an important figure of the structuralism movement of literary theory and criticism.- Background and career:...
  
  , Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University: 1979.
• Robert D. Cumming, Frederick J. E. Woodbridge Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University: 1979.
• Allan Cunningham, Deceased. British History: 1979.
• Robert Daly, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, State University of New York at Buffalo: 1979.
• Glyn Dawson, Professor of Pediatrics and Biochemistry, University of Chicago: 1979.
• Don DeLillo
  Don DeLillo
  Don DeLillo is an American author, playwright, and occasional essayist whose work paints a detailed portrait of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries...
  
  , Writer, Bronxville, New York: 1979.
• Lloyd Demetrius
  Lloyd Demetrius
  Lloyd A. Demetrius is a mathematician and theoretical biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics at Berlin, Germany, and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary biology, Harvard University...
  
  , Professor of Biology,Harvard University: 1979.
• Donna Dennis, Artist; Professor, SUNY Purchase, NY: 1979.
• Pierre Deslongchamps, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Sherbrooke: 1979.
• Laddie John Dill, Artist, Venice, California: 1979.
• Rudiger Dornbusch, Ford International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1979.
• Robert C. S. Downs, Writer; Emeritus Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University: 1979.
• John Duff, Artist, New York City: 1979.
• Joseph J. Duggan, Associate Dean of the Graduate Division and Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley: 1979.
• Christopher Durang
  Christopher Durang
  Christopher Ferdinand Durang is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s.- Life :...
  
  , Playwright, Pipersville, Pennsylvania: 1979.
• B. Curtis Eaves, Professor of Operations Research, Stanford University: 1979.
• Craig Jon Eckhardt, Professor of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1979.
• P. D. Elliott, Professor of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder: 1979.
• John Engels
  John Engels
  John Engels was an American poet.-Life:He graduated from University of Notre Dame in 1952. After Navy service, he studied at the University College, Dublin, then graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with an M.F.A. in 1957. He taught at St...
  
  , Poet; Professor of English, St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vermont: 1979.
• Leon D. Epstein, Hilldae Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1979.
• Robert N. Essick, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside: 1979.
• Heinz Eulau, William Bennet Munro Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stanford University: 1979.
• Irene R. Fairley, Professor of English, Northeastern University: 1979.
• Louis Faurer
  Louis Faurer
  Louis Faurer was an American fashion photographer and a master of candid or street photography. A quiet artist who never achieved the broad public recognition of his best-known contemporaries, the significance and caliber of his work were lauded by insiders, among them Robert Frank, William...
  
  , Artist, New York City: 1979.
• Frederick Feirstein
  Frederick Feirstein
  Frederick Feirstein is an poet, and playwright.He has published eight books of poetry and has had twelve plays produced.His eighth book of poems, Fallout, was published by Word Tech Communications, in May 2008....
  
  , Psychoanalyst, Poet, New York City: 1979.
• Charles A. Ferguson
  Charles A. Ferguson
  Charles Albert Ferguson was a U.S. linguist who taught at Stanford University. He was one the founders of sociolinguistics and is best known for his work on diglossia. The TOEFL test was created under his leadership at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC...
  
  , deceased.Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Stanford University: 1979.
• Hartry H. Field, Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California: 1979.
• Louise Fishman
  Louise Fishman
  -Biography:Louise Fishman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 14, 1939. She is recognized as one of the best known American abstract painters of her generation. Her painting style at first gave her some trouble in being recognized. She exhibited only occasionally in the 1960s, a...
  
  , Artist, New York City: 1979.
• Jack D. Flam, Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History, Brooklyn College, City University of New York: 1979.
• Robert Folkenflik, Professor of English, University of California, Irvine: 1979.
• Robert C. Fried, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles: 1979.
• John B. Friedman, Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1979.
• Charles Garabedian
  Charles Garabedian
  Charles Garabedian is an American artist known for his imaginative paintings and drawings rich in references to Greek and Chinese symbolism. His detailed artwork reveals a deeply personal world that explores the relationship between painting and sculpture.Garabedian was born in Detroit, Michigan...
  
  , Artist; Lecturer in Art, College of Creative Studies, University California, Santa Barbara: 1979.
• Serge Gavronsky
  Serge Gavronsky
  -Life:He fled Hitler in 1941. He graduated from Columbia University, and is now professor and chair of the French department at Barnard College. He lives in New York City.-Poetry:* Lectures et compte-rendu, poèmes. Coll...
  
  , Chair, Professor of French, Barnard College, Columbia University: 1979.
• Haile Gerima
  Haile Gerima
  Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian filmmaker, who resides in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. His films have received wide international acclaim. Gerima has also been an influential film professor at...
  
  , Film Maker; Professor of Film, School of Communications, Howard University: 1979.
• Walter Goffart
  Walter Goffart
  Walter Andre Goffart is a historian of the later Roman Empire and the early Middle Ages who specializes in research on the barbarian kingdoms of those periods. He is a senior research scholar and lecturer at Yale University....
  
  , Lecturer in History and Senior Research Scientist, Yale University: 1979.
• Dick Goldberg, Playwright, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1979.
• Ward H. Goodenough, University Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania: 1979.
• Douglas Greenberg
  Douglas Greenberg
  Douglas Greenberg is Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the New Brunswick Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey...
  
  , President and Director, Chicago Historical Society: 1979.
• Ulf Grenander
  Ulf Grenander
  Ulf Grenander is a statistician and a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University.His early research was in probability theory, stochastic processes, time series analysis, and statistical theory...
  
  , Professor of Probability and Statistics and L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University: 1979.
• Michael Groden
  Michael Groden
  Michael Groden is Professor of English at The University of Western Ontario.Groden received a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1969 and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1975. He is known for his involvement in the envisioning and development of James Joyce's Ulysses as hypertext and...
  
  , Professor of English, University of Western Ontario: 1979.
• Arthur B. Groos, Professor of German Literature, Medieval Studies, and History of Science, Cornell University: 1979.
• Robert Alan Gross, Forrest D. Murden, Jr. Professor of American Studies and History, College of William and Mary: 1979.
• Herschel I. Grossman, Merton P. Stoltz Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics, Brown University: 1979.
• Richard I. Gumport, Professor of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1979.
• Mel Gussow
  Mel Gussow
  Melvyn H. Gussow was an American theater critic, movie critic, and author who wrote for The New York Times for 35 years.-Biography:...
  
  , Arts Critic, The New York Times: 1979.
• Jack K. Hale, Regents Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology: 1979.
• Stuart Handwerger, Robert and Mary Shoemaker Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Anatomy, Neurobiology and Cell Biology, University of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center: 1979.
• Alexander E. Harris, Photographer; Professor of the Practice of Documentary Studies, Duke University: 1979.
• Hilary T. Harris, Deceased. Film making: 1979.
• Paul Harris, Artist; Professor of Sculpture, California College of Arts and Crafts: 1979.
• Robert Hass
  Robert Hass
  Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:...
  
  , Poet Laureate, United States of America; Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley: 1979.
• Phoebe Helman, Deceased. Fine Arts-Sculpture: 1979.
• Louis Henkin
  Louis Henkin
  Louis Henkin , widely considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States, was a former president of the American Society of International Law and of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and University...
  
  , Emeritus Professor of Law, Columbia University: 1979.
• James Hepburn, Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of English, Bates College: 1979.
• Jaakko Hintikka
  Jaakko Hintikka
  Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka is a Finnish philosopher and logician.Hintikka was born in Vantaa. After teaching for a number of years at Florida State University, Stanford, University of Helsinki, and the Academy of Finland, he is currently Professor of Philosophy at Boston University...
  
  , Professor of Philosophy, Boston University: 1979.
• David I. Hirsh, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University: 1979.
• Michael P. Hlastala, Professor of Medicine and of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington: 1979.
• Norman N. Holland, Marston-Milbauer Professor of English, University of Florida: 1979.
• John Hollander
  John Hollander
  John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...
  
  , Sterling Professor of English, Yale University: 1979.
• Berthold K. Hölldobler, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University: 1979.
• Elizabeth Gilmore Holt, Deceased. Fine Arts Research: 1979.
• David Horowitz
  David Horowitz
  David Joel Horowitz is an American conservative writer and policy advocate. Horowitz was raised by parents who were both members of the American Communist Party. Between 1956 and 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left before rejecting Marxism completely...
  
  , Writer, Marina Del Rey, California: 1979.
• Jere Trent Hutcheson, Composer; Professor of Composition, Michigan State University: 1979.
• Larry M. Hyman, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley: 1979.
• John E. Jackson, Professor of Political Science and of Business Administration, and Research Scientist, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan: 1979.
• Marius B. Jansen
  Marius Jansen
  Marius Berthus Jansen was an American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University....
  
  , Professor of Japanese History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University: 1979.
• De Lamar Jensen
  De Lamar Jensen
  De Lamar Jensen was a historian of early modern Europe and a faculty member of the history department at Brigham Young University . He wrote several books on Europe during the renaissance and reformation.-Biography:...
  
  , Professor Emeritus of History, Brigham Young University: 1979.
• José Olivio Jiménez, Distinguished Professor of Romance Languages, Hunter College, City University of New York: 1979.
• Harold G. Jones, Professor of Spanish, Syracuse University: 1979.
• Horace Freeland Judson
  Horace Freeland Judson
  Horace Freeland Judson was a historian of molecular biology and the author of several books, including The Eighth Day of Creation, a history of molecular biology, and The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science, an examination of the deliberate manipulation of scientific data.-Life and career:The Eighth...
  
  , Writer: 1979.
• Charles H. Kahn, Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania: 1979.
• Steven J. Kaltenbach, Artist; Associate Professor of Art, California State University, Sacramento: 1979.
• John H. Kareken, Chair, Minnesota Professor of Banking and Finance, University of Minnesota: 1979.
• David M. Katzman, Professor of History, University of Kansas: 1979.
• Stanley Kauffmann
  Stanley Kauffmann
  Stanley Kauffmann is an American author, editor, and critic of film and theatre. He has written for The New Republic since 1958 and currently contributes film criticism to that magazine....
  
  , Film and Theatre Critic; Visiting Distinguished Professor of Theater, Hunter College: 1979.
• Herbert B. Keller, Professor of Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology: 1979.
• Bryce Kendrick
  Bryce Kendrick
  Bryce Kendrick B.Sc. University of Liverpool 1955, Ph.D. University of Liverpool 1958, D.Sc. University of Liverpool 1980, F.R.S.C. Bryce Kendrick was born in Liverpool England. After completing his Ph.D. he took an assignment as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the National Research Council in Ottawa...
  
  , Emeritus Professor of Biology, University of Waterloo: 1979.
• Kenneth Keniston, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Human Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1979.
• Kenneth King
  Kenneth King (dancer)
  Kenneth King is an American post-modern dancer and choreographer who is best known for his experimentations with dance and multimedia...
  
  , Choreographer, New York City: 1979.
• John W. Kingdon
  John W. Kingdon
  John Wells Kingdon is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison....
  
  , Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Michigan: 1979.
• Steven L. Kleiman, Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1979.
• Stuart D. Klipper, Photographer, Minneapolis: 1979, 1989.
• Georg Nicolaus Knauer, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania: 1979.
• David Koblitz, Composer; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Humanities, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York: 1979.
• Thomas Koenig, Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon. 1979.
• Peter Kolchin
  Peter Kolchin
  -Life:He graduated from Columbia University, and from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D. in 1970.He teaches at the University of Delaware.-Awards:* 1988 Bancroft Prize in American History...
  
  , Professor of History, University of Delaware: 1979.
• Vladimir J. Konecni, Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Diego: 1979.
• Sam Koperwas, Writer, Ventnor, New Jersey: 1979.
• David Kopf
  David Kopf
  David Kopf is professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. A well-known research scholar on South Asian history, he has produced several books on the region. He has won the Guggenheim Fellowship at the University. A Ph.D...
  
  , Professor of History, University of Minnesota: 1979.
• Barbara Kopple
  Barbara Kopple
  Barbara Kopple is an American film director, primarily known for her work in documentary film.-Biography:She grew up in Scarsdale, New York, the daughter of a textile executive and studied psychology at Northeastern University, after which she worked with the Maysles Brothers.Kopple has won two...
  
  , Film Maker, New York City: 1979.
• Spiro Kostof
  Spiro Kostof
  Dr. Spiro Konstantine Kostof was a leading architectural historian and inspirational teacher at the University of California, Berkeley. His books continue to be widely read and some are routinely used in collegiate courses on architectural history.A Bulgarian born in Turkey, Kostof was educated...
  
  , Deceased. Architecture: 1979.
• Abraham D. Kriegel, Professor of History, Memphis State University: 1979.
• Samuel Krislov
  Samuel Krislov
  Samuel Krislov is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Minnesota.He received his B.A. and M.A. from New York University and his Ph.D...
  
  , Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Minnesota: 1979.
• William Kruskal
  William Kruskal
  William Henry Kruskal was an American mathematician and statistician. He is best known for having formulated the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance , a widely-used nonparametric statistical method.Kruskal was born in New York City to a successful fur wholesaler...
  
  , Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Statistics, University of Chicago: 1979.
• Jeffrey G. Kurtzman, Associate Professor of Music, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University: 1979.
• Bentley Layton
  Bentley Layton
  Bentley Layton , is Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University...
  
  , Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University: 1979.
• Richard D. Leppert, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Humanities, University of Minnesota: 1979.
• Robert J. Le Roy, Professor of Chemistry; Associate Dean of Science for Computing, University of Waterloo: 1979.
• Simon A. Levin
  Simon A. Levin
  Simon Asher Levin is an American ecologist. He is a Moffett Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Princeton University. He specializes in using mathematical modeling and empirical studies in the understanding of macroscopic patterns of ecosystems and biological...
  
  , George M. Moffett Professor of Biology, Princeton University: 1979.
• Donald N. Levine, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago: 1979.
• Fred J. Levy, Professor of History, University of Washington: 1979.
• Aaron Lewis
  Aaron Lewis
  Aaron Lewis, , is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and founding member of the rock group Staind, with whom he has released seven studio albums. He has since ventured into country music with his debut solo album, Town Line...
  
  , Professor of Applied Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem: 1979.
• Richard C. Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Professor of Biology, Harvard University: 1979.
• Stephen J. Lieberman, Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania Museum: 1979.
• Michael Loew
  Michael Loew
  Michael Loew was an American Abstract Expressionist artist who was born in New York City.In the late 1920s, Loew studied at the Art Students League with the Ashcan School and was a recipient of a Sadie A. May Fellowship which allowed Loew to continue his studies in France...
  
  , Deceased. Fine Arts: 1979.
• John B. Logan
  John Logan (poet)
  John B. Logan was an American poet and teacher.Logan was born in Red Oak, Iowa...
  
  , Deceased. Poetry: 1979.
• William Roger Louis
  William Roger Louis
  William Roger Louis, CBE FBA , also known as Wm. Roger Louis, or Roger Louis, informally, is a distinguished historian at the University of Texas at Austin...
  
  , Kerr Professor of English History and Culture, University of Texas at Austin: 1979.
• Tom Lowenstein, Writer, Pittsburgh: 1979.
• Elisabeth B. MacDougall, Professor Emeritus of the History of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks: 1979.
• Edward P. Mahoney, Professor of Philosophy, Duke University: 1979.
• Kazumi Maki, Professor of Physics, University of Southern California: 1979.
• Ladislav Matejka
  Ladislav Matejka
  Ladislav Matejka, born May 30, 1919 in the city of České Budějovice, is an important scholar of semiotics and linguistic theory, who translated and published many contributions to Prague linguistic circle theory. He received his doctorate in Charles University in Prague in 1948 and then emigrated...
  
  , Retired Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan: 1979.
• David M. Maurice, Professor of Opthlmology, Columbia University: 1979.
• Esther McCoy
  Esther McCoy
  Esther McCoy was an author and architectural historian who was instrumental in bringing to the attention of the world the modern architecture of California.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Deceased. Architecture: 1979.
• Elizabeth N. McCutcheon, Professor of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa: 1979.
• Larry E. McPherson, Photographer; Associate Professor of Art, University of Memphis: 1979.
• Wayne A. Meeks, Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University: 1979.
• John M. Merriman
  John M. Merriman
  John M. Merriman is a Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of many books including his most well known A History of Modern Europe since the Renaissance , a popular survey text for undergraduate history classes at many American universities and colleges...
  
  , Charles Seymour Professor of History, Yale University: 1979.
• F. Curtis Michel, Andrew Hays Buchanan Professor of Astrophysics, Rice University: 1979.
• Arthur I. Miller, University Professor, University of Lowell; Associate in Physics, Harvard University: 1979.
• Peter Molnar
  Péter Molnár
  Péter Molnár is a Hungarian academic and intellectual, working on questions related to communication law and freedom of speech.Molnár graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest in 1987....
  
  , Senior Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1979.
• John Montague
  John Montague (poet)
  John Montague is an Irish poet. He was born in New York and brought up in Tyrone. He has published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and two volumes of memoir. He is one of the best known Irish contemporary poets...
  
  , Poet; Director of Anglo-Irish and American Studies, University College Cork: 1979.
• Peter B. Moore, Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University: 1979.
• Stefan R. Moore, Video Artist, New York City: 1979.
• Thomas C. Moser, Professor of English, Stanford University: 1979.
• Howard Frank Mosher
  Howard Frank Mosher
  Howard Frank Mosher is a contemporary author of eleven books: ten fiction and one non-fiction. Much of his fiction takes place in the mid-20th century and all of it is set in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, a region loosely defined by the three counties in the northeastern corner of the state...
  
  , Writer, Irasburg, Vermont: 1979.
• Michael C. A. Mott, Writer; Professor Emeritus of English, Bowling Green State University; Adjunct Professor of English, College of William & Mary: 1979.
• John F. Nagle, Professor of Physics and Biological Sciences, Carnegie-Mellon University: 1979.
• Manuel Neri
  Manuel Neri
  Manuel Neri is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker and a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.- Biography :...
  
  , Artist, Benica, California; Professor Emeritus of Art, University of California, Davis: 1979.
• Rosalind Newman
  Rosalind Newman
  Rosalind Newman is an internationally acclaimed choreographer who has created a body of over 70 works. Her original New York company, Rosalind Newman and Dancers, had major seasons in New York at the Joyce Theater and Dance Theater Workshop...
  
  , Choreographer, New York City: 1979.
• Maria Nordman, Artist, Santa Monica, California: 1979.
• Robert Offergeld, Deceased. Music Research: 1979.
• Thomas A. O'Halloran, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1979.
• Norman Page
  Norman Page
  Norman Page was a British actor. He is best known for his portrayal of David Lloyd George, Prime Minister during the First World War, in the 1918 film The Life Story of David Lloyd George which is believed to be the first ever feature length political biopic.-Selected filmography:* The Life Story...
  
  , Head, Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Nottingham: 1979.
• Phillip Shaw Paludan, Professor of History, University of Kansas: 1979.
• Jogesh C. Pati, Professor of Physics, University of Maryland at College Park: 1979.
• Richard Pearson
  Richard J. Pearson
  Richard Joseph Pearson is a Canadian archaeologist.He grew up in Toronto and Oakville, Ontario and graduated with a Bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto in 1960. Richard Pearson studied at the University of Hawaii, and Yale University under K.C. Chang and received his doctorate in...
  
  , Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology, University of British Columbia: 1979.
• Michael Perman, Professor of History and Research Professor in the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle: 1979.
• Hart Perry, Film Maker; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film, School of the Arts, Columbia University: 1979.
• Warren Porter, Professor of Zoology, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1979.
• Michael I. Posner, Sackler Institute Professor, Sackler Institute, New York City: 1979.
• Robert T. Powers, Professor of Mathematics and of Physics, University of Pennsylvania: 1979.
• Pietro Pucci, Professor of Classics, Cornell University: 1979.
• Harvey Quaytman, Artist, New York City: 1979, 1985.
• John Phillip Reid, Professor of Law, New York University: 1979.
• Jay Reise
  Jay Reise
  -Biography:Reise spent his childhood surrounded by classical music and jazz, but began his composition studies with Jimmy Giuffre and Hugh Hartwell in 1970...
  
  , Composer; Robert Weiss Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania: 1979.
• Peter B. Rhines, Professor of Oceanograph and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington: 1979.
• Phillip C. Rhodes, Composer; Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence, Carleton College: 1979.
• Leland Rice, Photographer, Los Angeles, California: 1979.
• Lynn M. Riddiford, Professor of Zoology, University of Washington: 1979.
• Terry Riley
  Terry Riley
  Terrence Mitchell Riley, is an American composer intrinsically associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music and was a pioneer of the movement...
  
  , Composer; Assistant Professor of Music, Mills College: 1979.
• John E. Roemer, Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis: 1979.
• Jack Roth
  Jack Roth
  Jack Roth was a 20th century American painter who developed a style as an Abstract Expressionist, and as a Color Field painter...
  
  , Artist, Montclair, New Jersey; Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Ramapo College of New Jersey: 1979.
• Gilbert F. Rozman, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University: 1979.
• Thomas Savage
  Thomas Savage (novelist)
  Thomas Savage was an American author of 13 novels published between 1944 and 1988. He is best known for his Western novels, which drew on early experiences in the American West.-Background:...
  
  , Writer: 1979.
• Angelo Savelli, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1979.
• David Schickele, Film Maker, San Francisco: 1979.
• Stuart B. Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University: 1979.
• Kathleen L. Scott, Research Medievalist, Amherst, Massachusetts: 1979.
• Laurence Philip Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory, Tufts University: 1979, 1987.
• Steven Shapin
  Steven Shapin
  Steven Shapin is a historian and sociologist of science. He is currently the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University...
  
  , Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego: 1979.
• James R. Shortridge, Professor of Geography, University of Kansas: 1979.
• Susan Shreve
  Susan Shreve
  Susan Richards Shreve is an American professor, author, and novelist, as well as author of over a dozen children's books. She currently teaches at George Mason University....
  
  , Writer; Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program, George Mason University: 1979.
• Roberta Silman, Writer, Ardsley, New York: 1979.
• Roberta G. Simmons, Deceased. Sociology: 1979.
• John Peter Simons, Henry Eyring Professor of Chemistry, University of Utah: 1979.
• Jerome Herbert Skolnick, Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley: 1979.
• Joel A. Smoller, Lamberto Cesari Chair, Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan: 1979.
• Rosalind Solomon
  Rosalind Solomon
  Rosalind Solomon is an American artist and photographer, born April 2, 1930 in Highland Park, Illinois. Solomon's work has been shown in various solo and group exhibitions...
  
  , Photographer, New York City: 1979.
• Gary Soto
  Gary Soto
  Gary Soto is a Mexican-American author and poet.Mexican-American parents Manuel and Angie Soto . In his youth, he worked in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley and in factories in Fresno. Gary's father died in 1957, when he was just five years old...
  
  , Poet; Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, University of California, Berkeley: 1979.
• Jonathan D. Spence, George B. Adams Professor of History, Yale University: 1979.
• H. Eugene Stanley
  H. Eugene Stanley
  Harry Eugene Stanley is an American physicist and University Professor at Boston University. He has made seminal contributions to statistical physics and is one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary science...
  
  , Professor of Physiology, Boston University School of Medicine, and Professor of Physics, Boston University: 1979.
• David Sudnow, Writer, Scholar, and Musician, New York City: 1979.
• Frederick S. Szalay, Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York: 1979.
• Edward C. Taylor
  Edward C. Taylor
  Edward C. Taylor is an American chemist who developed the chemotherapy drug pemetrexed . As of 2009, royalties for this drug paid to Princeton University were sufficient to completely finance a state-of-the-art chemistry laboratory building.In 2006 Taylor was named a Hero of Chemistry by the...
  
  , A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Organic Chemistry, Princeton University: 1979.
• William B. Taylor, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: 1979.
• Laurence C. Thompson, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Hawaii at Manoa: 1979.
• Donald W. Tinkle
  Donald W. Tinkle
  Donald Ward Tinkle was a prominent herpetologist, ecologist, and evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan until his illness and death at age 50...
  
  , Deceased. Biology: 1979.
• William Mills Todd, III, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University: 1979.
• Franklin Toker
  Franklin Toker
  Franklin Toker is a professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of eight books on the history of art and architecture, ranging from the excavations he conducted under Santa Reparata, Florence to 21st century American Urbanism. He is a President...
  
  , Professor of Architecture, University of Pittsburgh: 1979.
• Harold Troper
  Harold Troper
  Harold Troper is a Canadian writer, historian and academic. He specializes in Jewish Canadian history. Together with Irving Abella he authored None is Too Many, the story of the Canadian government's refusal to allow Jewish immigration from Europe during the Holocaust...
  
  , Professor of History, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto: 1979.
• James W. Truran, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1979.
• Stan VanDerBeek
  Stan Vanderbeek
  Stan Vanderbeek was an American experimental filmmaker.- Life :VanDerBeek studied art and architecture first at Cooper Union College in New York and then at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he met architect Buckminster Fuller, composer John Cage, and choreographer Merce Cunningham...
  
  , Deceased. Video: 1979.
• Tyll van Geel, Taylor Professor of Education, University of Rochester: 1979.
• John Van Seters
  John Van Seters
  John Van Seters is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. Currently University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, he was formerly James A. Gray Professor of Biblical Literature at UNC. He took his PhD at Yale University in Near Eastern Studies...
  
  , James A. Gray Professor of Biblical Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1979.
• Hal R. Varian, Class of 1944 Chaired Professor and Dean, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley: 1979.
• B. Woody Vasulka, Video Artist, Santa Fe, New Mexico: 1979.
• Laurence Veysey, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Santa Cruz: 1979.
• William Weaver
  William Weaver
  William Fense Weaver is an English language translator of modern Italian literature.-Biography:William Weaver is perhaps best known for his translations of the work of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino, and has translated many other Italian authors over the course of a career spanning more than fifty...
  
  , Professor of Literature and Fellow, Bard Center, Bard College: 1979.
• Annette B. Weiner, Deceased. Anthropology & Cultural Studies: 1979.
• Naomi Weisstein
  Naomi Weisstein
  Naomi Weisstein is the daughter of Mary Wenk and Samuel Weisstein. She is a Professor of Psychology, neuroscientist, and author. She graduated from Wellesley College, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1961 and received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1964. In 1964 she took a post-doctoral fellowship at the...
  
  , Professor of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo: 1979.
• Allen Wier
  Allen Wier
  Allen Wier , is an American writer and a professor at the University of Tennessee.Wier was born in 1946 in San Antonio, Texas and spent parts of his childhood in Louisiana and Mexico...
  
  , Writer; Professor of English, University of Tennessee: 1979.
• Kenneth G. Wilson
  Kenneth G. Wilson
  Kenneth Geddes Wilson is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner.As an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow. He earned his PhD from Caltech in 1961, studying under Murray Gell-Mann....
  
  , Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus: 1979.
• Roy H. Winnick, Writer, Princeton, New Jersey: 1979.
• Gary Witherspoon
  Gary Witherspoon
  Gary J. Witherspoon is Professor of American Indian studies at the University of Washington. His area of expertise is the Navajo language and Navajo culture....
  
  , Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan: 1979.
• Irving N. Wohlfarth, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oregon: 1979.
• Jack Keil Wolf
  Jack Keil Wolf
  Jack Keil Wolf was an American researcher in information theory and coding theory.-Biography:Wolf was born in 1935 in Newark, New Jersey, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956 and his Ph.D...
  
  , Stephen O. Rice Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: 1979.
• Ruth B. Yeazell, Chace Family Professor of English, Yale University: 1979.
• William M. Yen, Graham Perdue Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Georgia: 1979.
• Steven R. Yussen, Dean, College of Education, University of Iowa: 1979.

1979 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

• Luis Aguirre, Professor of Petrology, University of Aix-Marseille III: 1979.
• José Pedro Barrán, Historian, Montevideo: 1979.
• Héctor Bianciotti
  Hector Bianciotti
  Hector Bianciotti is an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie française.-Biography:Born Héctor Bianciotti in Calchin Oeste in Córdoba Province , Bianciotti's parents were immigrants from Piedmont, who communicated among themselves in the dialect of that region but who forbade...
  
  , Writer, Paris, France: 1979.
• Natalio Rafael Botana, Director, Center for Social Research, Torcuato Di Tella Institute, Buenos Aires: 1979.
• César L. Camacho Manco, Professor of Mathematics, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 1979.
• Horacio E. Cingolani, Career Investigator, National University of La Plata School of Medicine: 1979.
• Alejandro Federico De Nicola, Career Scientist, National Research Council of Argentina; Research Scientist, Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine, Buenos Aires; Adjunct Professor of Biological Chemistry, University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine: 1979.
• Jorge Edwards
  Jorge Edwards
  Jorge Edwards Valdés is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He is currently the Chilean ambassador to France.-Life and career:...
  
  , Writer, Santiago: 1979.
• Gilberto Carlos Gallopín, Director, Ecological Systems Analysis Group, Bariloche Foundation, San Carlos de Bariloche: 1979.
• Leandro Katz, Artist, Professor, Brown University, William Paterson University (retired), lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1979.
• Maria Léa Salgado Labouriau, Professor, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Brazil: 1979.
• Donald Cuthbert Locke, Artist, Atlanta, Georgia: 1979.
• Rolf Ricardo Mantel, Deceased. Economics: 1979.
• Adolfo Martínez-Palomo, Director General, Center for Research and Advanced Studies, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City: 1979.
• Luis Millones, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, National University of San Marcos, Peru: 1979.
• Benjamín Nahum, Historian; Professor of Economic History, University of the Republic, Montevideo: 1979.
• Raúl Navarrete, Deceased. Fiction: 1979.
• Guillermo Alberto O'Donnell, Helen Kellogg Professor of International Studies and Academic Director, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame; Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of State and Society, Buenos Aires: 1979.
• Gonzalo Rojas
  Gonzalo Rojas
  Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro was a Chilean poet. His work is part of the continuing Latin American avant-garde literary tradition of the twentieth century.- Biography :...
  
  , Poet, Chillán, Chile: 1979.
• Luis Rafael Sánchez
  Luis Rafael Sanchez
  Dr. Luis Rafael Sánchez a.k.a. "Wico" is a Puerto Rican playwright. Possibly his best known play is La Pasión según Antigona Pérez , a tragedy based on the life of Olga Viscal Garriga-Early years:...
  
  , Writer; Professor of Literature, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras: 1979.
• Alberto Juan Solari, Professor of Histology and Cell Biology, University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine: 1979.

See also

• Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...