List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1987
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Guggenheim Fellowships 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." The following is a list of the fellowships that were awarded in 1987:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922...
to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." The following is a list of the fellowships that were awarded in 1987:
| Fellow | Category | Field of Study |
| Elsa Beatriz Abuin | Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
| Dennis Adrian | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
| Yuz Aleshkovsky Yuz Aleshkovsky Iosif Efimovich Aleshkovsky , known as Yuz Aleshkovsky , is a modern Russian writer, poet, playwright and performer of his own songs.-Biography:... |
Creative Arts | Fiction |
| Dudley Andrew Dudley Andrew Dudley Andrew is an American film theorist. He is R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he has taught since the year 2000. Andrew is "one of the most influential scholars in the areas of theory, history and criticism," particularly specializing in... |
Humanities | Film, Video, & Radio Studies |
| Jean-Marie Apostolidès Jean-Marie Apostolidès Jean-Marie Apostolidès is a French novelist, essayist, playwright, theater director, and university professor. He was born in Saint-Bonnet-Tronçais, France, on November 27, 1943.- Biography:... |
Humanities | French Literature |
| Arakawa Shusaku Arakawa was a Japanese artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with writer and artist Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades.-Life:... |
Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| R. Douglas Arnold | Social Sciences | Political Science |
| W. Brian Arthur W. Brian Arthur William Brian Arthur is an economist credited with influencing and describing the modern theory of increasing returns. He has lived and worked in Northern California for many years. He is an authority on economics in relation to complexity theory, technology and financial markets... |
Social Sciences | Economics |
| Jelle Atema | Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology |
| Apostolos N. Athanassakis Apostolos Athanassakis Apostolos N. Athanassakis is a classical scholar and Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara . Professor Athanassakis, or "Professor A" as he is often referred to by students, currently serves as the faculty in residence in Manzanita Village.... |
Humanities | Classics |
| Charles Atlas Charles Atlas Charles Atlas, born Angelo Siciliano , was the developer of a bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program that was best known for a landmark advertising campaign featuring Atlas's name and likeness; it has been described as one of the longest-lasting and most memorable ad campaigns of all... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| Bernard Avishai Bernard Avishai Bernard Avishai, Contributing Editor of Harvard Business Review, splits his time between Jerusalem and Wilmot, New Hampshire. He has taught at Duke, MIT, and was director of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel. From 1998 to 2001 he was International... |
Creative Arts | Biography |
| Reinaldo Ayerbe-Chaux | Humanities | Spanish & Portuguese Literature |
| Mardges Bacon | Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
| Arnold J. Band | Humanities | Near Eastern Studies |
| Joseph Bartscherer | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Mary Catherine Bateson Mary Catherine Bateson Mary Catherine Bateson is an American writer and cultural anthropologist.A graduate of the Brearley School, Bateson is the daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Since 1960, she has been married to Barkev Kassarjian, a professor of business management at Babson College... |
General Nonfiction | |
| Kamaljit S. Bawa | Plant Sciences | |
| John Maurice Beattie | Humanities | British History |
| Vereen M. Bell | English Literature | |
| May R. Berenbaum | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Alan E. Bernstein | Medieval History | |
| Lawrence F. Bernstein | Music Research | |
| Robert C. Berwick | Computer Science | |
| Robert J. Bezucha | Intellectual & Cultural History | |
| Susan Morton Blaustein Susan Morton Blaustein Susan Morton Blaustein is an American pianist and composer. She was born in Palo Alto, California, and studied piano and composition at Pomona College with Karl Kohn, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1975. She continued her studies in composition at the Liege Conservatory in Belgium... |
Music Composition | |
| Lisa Block de Behar | Latin American Literature | |
| Leon H. Borensztein | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Robert Bringhurst Robert Bringhurst Robert Bringhurst is a Canadian poet, typographer and author. He is the author of The Elements of Typographic Style – a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric arrangement of type... |
Poetry | |
| William A. Brock | Economics | |
| Harold Brodkey Harold Brodkey Harold Brodkey, born Aaron Roy Weintraub was an American writer, and novelist.-Life:Brodkey was raised in University City, Missouri outside St. Louis... |
Fiction | |
| Jeffrey Peter Brooks | Russian History | |
| Lawrence Ingalls Buell | American Literature | |
| Melissa Meriam Bullard | Renaissance History | |
| Jon Butler Jon Butler Jon Butler is a historian and Howard R. Lamar Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University. He earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota, and is known for his research on the role of religion in early American history... |
U.S. History | |
| Joan L. Bybee | Linguistics | |
| Robert S. Cantwell | Folklore & Popular Culture | |
| T. Carmi T. Carmi -Biography:He was born Carmi Charny in New York City. Hebrew was his mother tongue and his family used it as the spoken language of their home. He moved to Israel just before the outbreak of the Israeli War of Independence... |
Poetry | |
| John Miller Chernoff | Folklore & Popular Culture | |
| Alexandre Joel Chorin | Applied Mathematics | |
| Robert Christgau Robert Christgau Robert Christgau is an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics".One of the earliest professional rock critics, Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, published since 1969 in his Consumer Guide columns... |
Folklore & Popular Culture | |
| Shih-I Chu | Chemistry | |
| Yoshiko Chuma Yoshiko Chuma is a dancer, a choreographer and the director of the Bessie Award winning performance art group The School of Hard Knocks. Described in 2007 by Bloomberg as "a fixture on New York's downtown scene for over a quarter- century", her work spans from early "absurdist gaiety" to more recent serious... |
Creative Arts | Choreography |
| Vèvè A. Clark | Dance Studies | |
| Kevin Clinton Kevin Clinton Kevin Clinton is a retired American soccer goalkeeper who played professionally in the North American Soccer League and third American Soccer League.... |
Classics | |
| Laurie Colwin Laurie Colwin Laurie Colwin was an American author. Her published works include Passion and Affect , Shine on, Bright and Dangerous Object , Happy All the Time , The Lone Pilgrim , Family Happiness , Another Marvelous Thing , Home Cooking , Goodbye without Leaving , More Home Cooking... |
Fiction | |
| Maryse Condé Maryse Condé Maryse Condé is a Guadeloupean, French language author of historical fiction, best known for her novel Segu . Maryse Condé was born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, the youngest of eight children. In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon and Sorbonne in Paris,... |
Fiction | |
| Frank Conroy Frank Conroy Frank Conroy was an American author, born in New York, New York to an American father and a Danish mother. He published five books, including the highly acclaimed memoir Stop-Time, published in 1967, which ultimately made Conroy a noted figure in the literary world... |
Fiction | |
| John M. Cooper John M. Cooper John M. Cooper is an American historian, author, and educator. His specialization is late 19th and early 20th century American Diplomatic History. Cooper is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.... |
Philosophy | |
| Roger C. Cramton | Law | |
| Alfred W. Crosby | Intellectual & Cultural History | |
| Ellen Currie | Fiction | |
| Allan Matthew D\'Arcangelo | Fine Arts | |
| Gonzalo Díaz Cuevas | Fine Arts | |
| Luciano Debeljuk | Neuroscience | |
| Andrew E. DePristo | Chemistry | |
| David J. DeRosier | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Stuart Diamond | Fine Arts | |
| Philip-Lorca diCorcia Philip-Lorca diCorcia Philip-Lorca diCorcia is an American photographer. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Afterwards diCorcia attended Yale University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1979. He now lives and works in New York, and teaches at Yale University in New... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
| William Doppmann | Music Composition | |
| Ellen Driscoll | Fine Arts | |
| John S. Earman | Philosophy | |
| Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich -Early life:Ehrenreich was born Barbara Alexander to Isabelle Oxley and Ben Howes Alexander in Butte, Montana, which she describes as then being "a bustling, brawling, blue collar mining town."... |
General Nonfiction | |
| Deborah Eisenberg | Fiction | |
| Roberto Horacio Elía | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Richard Hall Elphick | Humanities | African Studies |
| James L. Enyeart James L. Enyeart James L. Enyeart is an American photographer, scholar and museum director.-Career:Enyeart was Director of George Eastman House from 1989 to 1995. Before that he served as Director of the Center for creative Photography at the University of Arizona from 1977 to 1989... |
Humanities | Photography Studies |
| Irving Robert Epstein | Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
| Robert A. Ferguson | Social Sciences | Law |
| Albert Feuerwerker | Humanities | East Asian Studies |
| Morgan Hall Fisher | Creative Arts | Film |
| Sheila Fitzpatrick Sheila Fitzpatrick Sheila Fitzpatrick is an Australian-American historian. She teaches Soviet History at the University of Chicago.-Biography:Sheila Fitzpatrick attended the University of Melbourne and received her DPhil from St... |
Humanities | Russian History |
| Lazar Fleishman | Humanities | Slavic Literature |
| Aaron Moses Fogel | Humanities | Literary Criticism |
| Hugh Douglas Ford | Creative Arts | Biography |
| Carol Ann Fowler | Social Sciences | Psychology |
| Richard G. Fox | Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
| Richard Wightman Fox | Humanities | U.S. History |
| Steven D. Fraade | Humanities | Religion |
| Andrew D. Frank | Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Michael Friedman Michael Friedman (philosopher) Michael Friedman is a philosopher of science interested in Immanuel Kant and the post-analytic movement in philosophy. Friedman earned his A.B from Queen's College in New York and his PhD from Princeton University. He is Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities at Stanford University... |
Humanities | Philosophy |
| Annabelle Gamson Annabelle Gamson Annabelle Gamson is a renowned American dancer and choreographer. Although she has had a number of successes within the field of ballet, Gamson is particularly known for her work within the area of modern dance. As a dancer she drew particular acclaim for her interpretations of the works of... |
Creative Arts | Choreography |
| Graziano Gasparini | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
| Raif Salim Geha | Medicine & Health | |
| Irving Geis Irving Geis Irving Geis was an American artist who worked closely with biologists. Geis's hand-drawn work depicts many structures of biological macromolecules, such as DNA and proteins, including the first crystal structure of sperm whale myoglobin.-Early life and education:Geis was born in New York City,... |
Fine Arts | |
| Eugene D. Genovese Eugene D. Genovese Eugene Dominic Genovese is an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He has been noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and slaves in the South. His work Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the... |
U.S. History | |
| Adolfo Gilly Adolfo Gilly Adolfo Atilio Gilly Malvagni , is an author of various books on the history of and politics of Mexico and Latin America and professor of History and Political Science at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City where he has been... |
Political Science | |
| Michael Gitlin Michael Gitlin Michael Gitlin is a contemporary sculptor.-Life and work:Michael Gitlin's family emigrated from South Africa to Israel in 1948. Gitlin received his BA in English Literature and Art History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He simultaneously studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design... |
Fine Arts | |
| Thomas F. Glick Thomas F. Glick Thomas F. Glick Ph.D. has been a professor at Boston University since 1972. He teaches in the departments of history and gastronomy. He served as the history department's chairperson from 1984 to 1989, and again from 1994 to 1995. He has also been the director of the Institute for Medieval... |
Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Claudia Goldin Claudia Goldin Claudia Goldin is an American economist and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University.Goldin is a director of the Development of the American Economy Program, and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research , located in Cambridge, Massachusetts... |
Economic History | |
| Merle Goldman | East Asian Studies | |
| Samuel Goldstein | Medicine & Health | |
| Roberta M. Golinkoff | Social Sciences | Psychology |
| Reginald George Golledge | Geography & Environmental Studies | |
| Gene Howard Golub | Applied Mathematics | |
| James Gould | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Jeffrey Brent Graham | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Clive W. J. Granger | Economics | |
| Jerry Richard Green | Economics | |
| Debora Greger Debora Greger Debora Greger is an award-winning American poet as well as a visual artist.She was raised in Richland, Washington.... |
Poetry | |
| Nigel D.F. Grindley | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Patricio Gross | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
| Julie M. Gustafson | Video & Audio | |
| Ralph Hanna | Medieval Literature | |
| Michael T. Hannan | Sociology | |
| Joe Harris (mathematician) | Mathematics | |
| Oliver D\'Arcy Hart | Economics | |
| Allan Havis Allan Havis Allan Havis is a playwright with pronounced political themes and probes on colliding cultures. His works range from minimal language texts to ambiguous, ironic narratives that delineate the genesis, paradoxes, and seduction of evil. Several of his dramas involve Jewish identity, cultural... |
Drama & Performance Art | |
| John M. Hayes | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Barry William Caldwell Higman | Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Robert Hillmann | Creative Arts | Film |
| Thomas Spight Hines | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
| Stephen Holmes | Political Science | |
| Thomas C. Holt Thomas C. Holt Thomas Cleveland Holt is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago; he has produced a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora.... |
U.S. History | |
| Sarah B. Hrdy | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Marie Hélène Huet | French Literature | |
| Clark Hulse | English Literature | |
| Jeffrey M. Hurwit | Fine Arts Research | |
| Mahir Saleh Hussein | Physics | |
| Richard W. Hyman | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Kamran Ince Kamran Ince Kamran N. İnce is a Turkish-American composer.- Life :Ince was born in Glendive, Montana, and at the age of six moved with his family to Turkey. He entered the Ankara State Conservatory at the age of ten, in 1971, where he began studying cello and piano, and took composition lessons with İlhan Baran... |
Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Stephen C. Innes | Humanities | U.S. History |
| Arthur J. Jelinek | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Len Jenkin | Drama & Performance Art | |
| Klavs Flemming Jensen | Engineering | |
| Charles R. Johnson Charles R. Johnson Charles R. Johnson is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. Johnson, an African-American, has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Middle Passage and Dreamer.... |
Fiction | |
| Richard A. Joseph | African Studies | |
| Donald R. Kaplan | Plant Sciences | |
| Martin Karplus Martin Karplus Martin Karplus is an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist. He has been Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University since 1979... |
Chemistry | |
| Michael T. Kaufman Michael T. Kaufman Michael T. Kaufman was a writer for the New York Times. He won the 1978 George Polk Award for foreign reporting for coverage of Africa. He died at St... |
General Nonfiction | |
| Alice A. Kelikian | Italian Literature | |
| William J. Kennedy | Italian Literature | |
| Charles F. Kennel | Natural Sciences | Astronomy--Astrophysics |
| J. Jorge Klor de Alva | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| John Koethe John Koethe John Koethe is an American poet and essayist. Originally from San Diego, California, he was educated at Princeton University and Harvard University, and is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.... |
Poetry | |
| John B. Kogut | Physics | |
| Melvin L. Kohn Melvin L. Kohn Melvin L. Kohn is an American sociologist and past president of the American Sociological Association. He is currently a professor at Johns Hopkins University and conducts research on social structure and personality.... |
Sociology | |
| Paul J. Korshin | English Literature | |
| Edward J. Kramer | Engineering | |
| Shigeko Kubota Shigeko Kubota is a visual and performance artist born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, in 1937. She studied sculpture at the Tokyo University of Education, and completed her studies at New York University and at the New School for Social Research in the early 1960s. She became vice chairman of the Fluxus... |
Creative Arts | Video & Audio |
| John Kucich | Humanities | English Literature |
| Carol Laderman Carol Laderman Carol Laderman , was a groundbreaking medical anthropologist, specializing in the study of pregnancy and childbirth practices, shamanism, and Southeast Asian cultures, particularly Malays in rural Terengganu, Malaysia... |
Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| David Lang David Lang (composer) David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:... |
Music Composition | |
| Richard A. Lanham Richard A. Lanham Richard A. Lanham is probably most widely known for his textbooks on revising prose to improve style and clarify thought. He is also a notable scholar of the history of rhetoric who has published notable books on the subject.... |
Literary Criticism | |
| Antonio C. Lasaga | Earth Science | |
| Mario Lavista Mario Lavista Mario Lavista is a Mexican composer and writer. He has had numerous pieces published, especially chamber music, but also incidental music for plays, film scores, orchestral pieces, and vocal music.... |
Music Composition | |
| Sydney W. Lea Sydney Lea Sydney Lea is an American poet, novelist, essayist, editor, and professor. His most recent book is A Little Wildness: Some Notes on Rambling , and he has a ninth collection of poetry, Young of the Year, forthcoming from Four Way Books... |
Poetry | |
| Jonathan D. Lear | Philosophy | |
| Pedro E. León Azofeifa | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Ming Cho Lee Ming Cho Lee Ming Cho Lee is a Chinese-born American theatrical set designer and a longtime professor at the Yale School of Drama.... |
Theatre Arts | |
| Hyam Lerner Leffert | Medicine & Health | |
| Stephen R. Leone | Chemistry | |
| James Lepowsky James Lepowsky James Lepowsky is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Previously he taught at Yale University. He received his Ph.D from M.I.T. in 1970 where his advisor was Bertram Kostant. Lepowsky graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1961, 16 years after Kostant... |
Mathematics | |
| Richard M. Lerman | Video & Audio | |
| Shirley Robin Letwin | Law | |
| Michael Lieb | English Literature | |
| Philip Lieberman Philip Lieberman Philip Lieberman is a linguist at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Originally trained in phonetics, he wrote a dissertation on intonation. The remainder of his career has focused on topics in the evolution of language, and particularly the relationship between the... |
Psychology | |
| Chung Laung Liu Chung Laung Liu Professor Chung Laung Liu , or C. L. Liu is an ethnic Chinese computer scientist. Born in Guangzhou, he spent his childhood in Macau. He received his B.Sc. degree in Taiwan, Master Degree and PHD in United States.-Biography:... |
Computer Science | |
| Barry Lopez Barry Lopez Barry Holstun Lopez is an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its environmental and social concerns.-Biography:... |
General Nonfiction | |
| Edward A. Love | Fine Arts | |
| Margot Lovejoy Margot Lovejoy Margot Lovejoy is a digital artist and historian of art and technology. She is Professor Emerita of Visual Arts at the State University of New York at Purchase and author of the books "Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age" and "Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic... |
Fine Arts | |
| Robin Warren Lovin | Religion | |
| Craig Lucas Craig Lucas Craig Lucas is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director.-Biography:... |
Drama & Performance Art | |
| Marc Mangel | Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics |
| Sally Mann Sally Mann Sally Mann is an American photographer, best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.-Early life and education:... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
| Patrick Manning Patrick Manning Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning was the fourth and sixth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the former Political Leader of the People's National Movement . He served as Prime Minister from 17 December 1991 to 9 November 1995 and held that office again from 24 December 2001 until 26... |
African Studies | |
| J. Patrice Marandel | Fine Arts Research | |
| Tomás Eloy Martínez Tomás Eloy Martínez Tomás Eloy Martínez was an Argentine journalist and writer.-Life and work:Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an MA at the University of Paris... |
Fiction | |
| Lorna Martens | German & Scandinavian Literature | |
| Jane Roland Martin Jane Roland Martin Jane Roland Martin is an emerita professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has published a number of works relating to issues of gender in education.-Bibliography:Jane Roland Martin's books include:... |
Education | |
| Jaime Mas-Oliva | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Gary G. Matthews | Neuroscience | |
| J. D. McClatchy | Poetry | |
| Terrence J. McDonald | U.S. History | |
| Paul Mendes-Flohr | Religion | |
| Pedro Meyer Pedro Meyer Pedro Meyer is a well-known photographer based in Mexico. He is one of the pioneers of the digital revolution in contemporary photography... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
| Dennis Martin Mills | Applied Mathematics | |
| Igor Félix Mirabel | Astronomy--Astrophysics | |
| Antonio F. Mitre Canahuati | Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Ewa Morawska | Sociology | |
| Segundo E. Moreno Yánez | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Ira J. Mowitz | Music Composition | |
| Alfred H. Mueller | Physics | |
| John E. Mueller | Political Science | |
| Basim Fuad Musallam | History of Science & Technology | |
| Alexander Nagel | Natural Sciences | Mathematics |
| Rainer Nägele | Humanities | German & Scandinavian Literature |
| Ulric Neisser Ulric Neisser Ulric Neisser is an American psychologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a faculty member at Cornell University. In 1995, he headed an American Psychological Association task force that reviewed The Bell Curve and related controversies in the study of intelligence. The task... |
Psychology | |
| Joshua Neustein Joshua Neustein Joshua Neustein is a contemporary visual artist living and working in New York and Tel Aviv. He is known primarily for his environmental installations and Post Minimalist torn paper works, as well as his series of large-scale map paintings. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of... |
Fine Arts | |
| William I. Newman | Astronomy--Astrophysics | |
| Stephen G. Nichols | Medieval Literature | |
| Margot Norris | English Literature | |
| Denis L. Norton | Natural Sciences | Earth Science |
| Joseph O'Rourke Joseph O'Rourke (professor) Joseph O'Rourke is the Olin Professor of Computer Science at Smith College and the chair of the Smith computer science department. His main research interest is computational geometry.... |
Natural Sciences | Computer Science |
| Richard A. Olshen | Natural Sciences | Statistics |
| Maria Esther Orozco O. | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
| Diane Orr | Creative Arts | Film |
| David W. Oxtoby David W. Oxtoby David William Oxtoby is the ninth and current president of Pomona College. He has held this position since July 1, 2003. A theoretical chemist, he received his undergraduate education at Harvard University and his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley... |
Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
| Stevenson J. Palfi | Video & Audio | |
| Alberto Palloni | Sociology | |
| Richard Pare Richard Pare Richard Pare is an English photographer known for his work documenting Soviet modernist architecture. He was born in Portsmouth, England, on 20 January 1948. He studied graphic design and photography at Winchester and Ravensbourne College of Art before attending the Art Institute of Chicago... |
Creative Arts | Photography |
| Kathlyn A. Parker | Chemistry | |
| David Parry David Parry David Parry was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Cheshire... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| Esther Pasztory Esther Pasztory Esther Pasztory is a professor of Pre-Columbian art history at Columbia University. Since 1997 she has held the Lisa and Bernard Selz Chair in Art History and Archaeology. Among her many publications are the first art historical manuscripts on Teotihuacan and the Aztecs... |
Fine Arts Research | |
| Lee Patterson Lee Patterson Lee Patterson was a Canadian film and television actor.After attending Ontario College of Art, Patterson moved to England, where he specialized in playing virile American types in British films... |
Medieval Literature | |
| John Pencavel | Economics | |
| Vivian Perlis | Music Research | |
| Ruth Perry Ruth Perry Ruth Sando Fahnbulleh Perry was Chairwoman of the Council of State of Liberia from 3 September 1996 until 2 August 1997, following the First Liberian Civil War... |
English Literature | |
| Carl Forbes Petry | Near Eastern Studies | |
| Carla Rahn Phillips | Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Liz Phillips Liz Phillips Liz Phillips is an American artist specializing in sound art and interactive art. She was one of the first artists to make interactive sound sculpture. Her installations create sounds in relation to live forms. Phillips has exhibited her work at numerous art museums, alternative spaces, festivals,... |
Fine Arts | |
| Howardena D. Pindell | Fine Arts | |
| Alejandro Enrique Planchart | Music Research | |
| Katha Pollitt Katha Pollitt Katha Pollitt is an American feminist poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry... |
Poetry | |
| Mary Louise Pratt Mary Louise Pratt Mary Louise Pratt is a Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University.Her first book, Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse, made an important contribution to critical theory by demonstrating that the foundation of written... |
Literary Criticism | |
| Rodolfo Oscar Rabanal | Fiction | |
| Rudolf A. Raff | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Terrence Rafferty Terrence Rafferty Terrence Rafferty is a film critic, notably serving a regular post at The New Yorker during the 1990s. His writing has also appeared in Slate, The Atlantic Monthly, The Village Voice, The Nation, and The New York Times... |
Film, Video, & Radio Studies | |
| Lee Rainwater | Sociology | |
| Tilottama Rajan | English Literature | |
| Victor Alberto Ramos | Earth Science | |
| Arnold Rampersad Arnold Rampersad Arnold Rampersad is a biographer and literary critic. The first volume of his Life Of Langston Hughes was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He was born in Trinidad and Tobago.... |
American Literature | |
| Roger L. Ransom | Economic History | |
| Mark Rappaport Mark Rappaport Mark Rappaport is an American independent/underground film director who has been working sporadically since the early 1970s. A lifelong New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated from Brooklyn College in 1964... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| Marina Ratner Marina Ratner Marina Ratner is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who works in ergodic theory. Around 1990 she proved a group of major theorems concerning unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces, known as Ratner's theorems. Ratner was awarded the Ostrowski Prize in 1993 and... |
Mathematics | |
| William Reddy | French History | |
| Michele H. Richman | French Literature | |
| Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold is an African American artist, best known for her painted story quilts. She is professor emeritus in the University of California, San Diego visual art department.-Life and artwork:... |
Fine Arts | |
| C Larry Roberts | Creative Arts | Film |
| James N. Rosenau James N. Rosenau James N. Rosenau was an American political scientist and international affairs scholar. He served as President of the International Studies Association from 1984 to 1985.-Life:... |
Political Science | |
| David Rosner David Rosner David Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Professor of History in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University... |
History of Science & Technology | |
| Norman Rush Norman Rush Norman Rush is an American novelist whose introspective novels and short stories are set in Botswana in the 1980s. He is the son of Roger and Leslie Rush... |
Fiction | |
| Daniel Russell | French Literature | |
| Evelyn Satinoff | Neuroscience | |
| Elaine Scarry Elaine Scarry Elaine Scarry , a professor of English and American Literature and Language, is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University... |
Philosophy | |
| Miriam Schapiro Miriam Schapiro Miriam Schapiro is a Canadian-born artist based in America. She is a pioneer of feminist art. She is also considered part of the Pattern and Decoration art movement.... |
Fine Arts | |
| William R. Schowalter | Engineering | |
| Buky Schwartz Buky Schwartz -Biography:Schwartz was born in Jerusalem in 1932. From 1956 to 1958, he studied sculpture with Yitzhak Danziger at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. In 1959, he moved to London, where he studied at the St. Martin's School of Art from 1959 to 1962. After returning to Israel in... |
Video & Audio | |
| Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was an American academic scholar in the fields of gender studies, queer theory , and critical theory. Her critical writings helped create the field of queer studies... |
Literary Criticism | |
| Enrique Semo | Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Barbara J. Shapiro | British History | |
| Douglas Y. Shapiro | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
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Chemistry | |
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Philosophy | |
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Fine Arts Research | |
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Medieval History | |
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Poetry | |
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Creative Arts | Music Composition |
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Natural Sciences | Physics |
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Creative Arts | Photography |
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Humanities | History of Science & Technology |
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Creative Arts | General Nonfiction |
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Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
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Creative Arts | Poetry |
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