List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2005
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  • Mark Abley
    Mark Abley
    Mark Abley is a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and non-fiction writer.Born in Warwickshire, England, he moved to Canada as a small boy and grew up in Lethbridge, Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Saskatchewan from which he won a Rhodes Scholarship in 1975. He...

    , Writer, Pointe Claire, Québec, Canada: A book about language change.
  • Kim Addonizio
    Kim Addonizio
    Kim Addonizio is an award-winning American poet and novelist.-Life:Addonizio is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie....

    , Poet, Oakland, California: Poetry.
  • Anne Aghion
    Anne Aghion
    Anne Aghion is a French-American documentary filmmaker and Guggenheim fellow.In 2005, she won an Emmy Award for her documentary In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies.-Filmmaking career:...

    , Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
  • Ian Agol
    Ian Agol
    Ian Agol is an American mathematician who deals primarily with the topology of three-dimensional manifolds....

    , Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago
    University of Illinois at Chicago
    The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...

    : Studies in 3-manifold geometry and topology.
  • Alito Alessi, Choreographer, Eugene, Oregon; Artistic Director, Joint Forces Dance Company/Dance Ability: Choreography.
  • Michael Almereyda
    Michael Almereyda
    Michael Almereyda is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His most well known work is Hamlet , starring Ethan Hawke.-Early life:...

    , Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
  • Fernando Arenas, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota
    University of Minnesota
    The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

    : The contemporary cultural production of Portuguese-speaking Africa.
  • Sarah Arvio, Poet, New york City; Free-lance Translator, United Nations
    United Nations
    The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

    , New York City and Geneva, Switzerland: Poetry.

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  • Blake Bailey
    Blake Bailey
    Blake Bailey is an American writer. He has written biographies of Richard Yates and John Cheever, and is the editor of the Library of America omnibus editions of Cheever's stories and novels.-Personal:...

    , Writer, Waldo, Florida: A biography of John Cheever.
  • Michael J. Balick, Philecology Curator and Director, Institute of Economic Botany and Vice President for Research and Training, New York Botanical Garden
    New York Botanical Garden
    - See also :* Education in New York City* List of botanical gardens in the United States* List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City- External links :* official website** blog*...

    : The ethnobotany of Pohnpei, Micronesia.
  • Leonard Barkan
    Leonard Barkan
    Leonard Barkan is Class of 1943 University Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, at Princeton University. He was Berlin Prize, Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow in Fall 2009.He won the 2011 Harry Levin Prize.-Life:...

    , Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature and Director, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

    : The analogy of poetry and painting.
  • Jo Ann Beard
    Jo Ann Beard
    -Life:Beard graduated from the University of Iowa with a BFA and MA.She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.She worked as an editor for a physics journal at the University of Iowa and was a colleague of the victims of the University of Iowa shooting, which became a subject for her work.Her writing...

    , Writer, Rhinebeck, New York: A memoir.
  • John Belton
    John Belton
    John Belton is currently a Professor of English at Rutgers University. He earned his PhD from Harvard University and specializes in film history and cultural studies. Belton has served on the National Film Preservation Board, as Chair for the Archival Papers and Historical Committee of the Society...

    , Professor of English and Film, Rutgers University
    Rutgers University
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

    : Digital cinema.
  • Sadie T. Benning, Video Artist, Chicago: Video.
  • Kent C. Berridge
    Kent C. Berridge
    Dr. Kent C. Berridge is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan in the United States.-Research overview:...

    , Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
    University of Michigan
    The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

    : The psychology and neurobiology of reward.
  • David Bezmozgis
    David Bezmozgis
    David Bezmozgis is a Canadian writer and filmmaker.Born in Riga, Latvia, he came to Canada with his family when he was six. He graduated with a B.A. in English literature from McGill University. Bezmozgis received an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television....

    , Writer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Fiction.
  • M. Gregg Bloche, Professor of Law, Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

    ; Adjunct Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University: Medicine in the public sphere.
  • Iain A. Boal, Independent Scholar, Berkeley, California: The bicycle in world culture.
  • Chakaia Booker
    Chakaia Booker
    Chakaia Booker is an African American artist who was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1953.-Background:Booker received a Bachelor of Art in Sociology from Rutgers University in 1976. She then received her Master of Fine Arts from the City College of New York in 1993...

    , Artist, New York City: Sculpture.
  • Marianne Boruch
    Marianne Boruch
    Marianne Boruch is an American poet. She graduated from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1979, and after teaching at Tunghai University in Taiwan, and at the University of Maine at Farmington, went on to develop the MFA program in creative writing at...

    , Poet, Lafayette, Indiana; Professor of English, Purdue University
    Purdue University
    Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

    : Poetry.
  • Susan Botti, Composer, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Assistant Professor of Music Composition, University of Michigan
    University of Michigan
    The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

    : Music composition.
  • Gerhard Böwering, Professor of Islamic Studies, Yale University
    Yale University
    Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

    : The formative influence of al-Sulami's commentary on the Qur'an.
  • Julie Bozzi, Artist, Fort Worth, Texas: Painting.
  • Geoffrey Brock
    Geoffrey Brock
    Geoffrey Brock is an American poet and translator.-Education:He received a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Florida in 1998...

    , Independent Scholar, Writer, and Translator, Tucson, Arizona: A bilingual anthology of 20th-century Italian poetry.
  • Patricia R. Burchat, Professor of Physics, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

    : Dark matter in the universe.
  • David A. Burney, Director of Conservation, National Tropical Botanical Garden
    National Tropical Botanical Garden
    The National Tropical Botanical Garden is a group that sponors preservation of plants native to the tropics in a network of botanical gardens and preserves.-History:...

    , Kalaheo, Hawaii; Professor of Biological Sciences, Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

    : An ecological history of prehistoric Kaua'i.
  • Paul Spencer Byard, Director, Historic Preservation Program, Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

     Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation; Partner, Platt Byard Dovell White Architects, New York City: The public interest in old architecture.

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  • Debbie Fleming Caffery, Photographer, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Photography.
  • Bruce Chao, Artist, Rehoboth, Massachusetts; Professor of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
    Rhode Island School of Design
    Rhode Island School of Design is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877. Located at the base of College Hill, the RISD campus is contiguous with the Brown University campus. The two institutions share social, academic, and community resources and...

    : Sculpture.
  • Remy Charlip
    Remy Charlip
    Abraham Remy' Charlip is an American artist, writer, choreographer, theatre director, designer and teacher.-Career:He studied art at Straubenmuller Textile High School in Manhattan and fine arts at Cooper Union in New York, graduating in 1949.In the 1960s Charlip created a unique form of...

    , Writer, Illustrator and Choreographer, San Francisco; Director, Remy Charlip Dance Company: An autobiographical study of the art of being an artist.
  • Long-Qing Chen, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
    Pennsylvania State University
    The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...

    : Phase transitions and domain structures of ferroelectric thin films.
  • Andrew J. Cherlin, Griswold Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University: Marriage and family in early 21st-century America.
  • Henri Cole
    Henri Cole
    Henri Cole is an award-winning American poet.-Biography:Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French mother, and raised in Virginia, United States. His father, a North Carolinian, enlisted in the service after graduating from high school and, while stationed in...

    , Poet, Boston; Member of the Core Faculty, Graduate Writing Seminars, Bennington College
    Bennington College
    Bennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont, USA. The college was founded in 1932 as a women's college and became co-educational in 1969.-History:-Early years:...

    ; Writer-in-Residence, College of William and Mary
    College of William and Mary
    The College of William & Mary in Virginia is a public research university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States...

    : Poetry.
  • Bonnie Collura, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Adjunct Professor of Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design
    Rhode Island School of Design
    Rhode Island School of Design is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877. Located at the base of College Hill, the RISD campus is contiguous with the Brown University campus. The two institutions share social, academic, and community resources and...

     and University of the Arts
    University of the Arts (Philadelphia)
    The University of the Arts is one of the United States' oldest universities dedicated to the arts. Its campus makes up part of the Avenue of the Arts in Center City, Philadelphia...

    : Sculpture.
  • Donald J. Cosentino, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
    University of California, Los Angeles
    The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

    : A study of a Los Angeles priestshaman and his Congo spirit.
  • Vincent Crapanzano, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York
    CUNY Graduate Center
    The Graduate Center of the City University of New York brings together graduate education, advanced research, and public programming to midtown Manhattan hosting 4,600 students, 33 doctoral programs, 7 master's programs, and 30 research centers and institutes...

    : A study of the Harkis of Algeria.
  • Martha Crenshaw, Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought and Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
    Wesleyan University
    Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

    : The United States as a target of terrorism.
  • Marilyn Crispell
    Marilyn Crispell
    Marilyn Crispell is an American jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:Crispell studied classical piano and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has been a resident of Woodstock, NY since 1977 when she came to study and teach at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio...

    , Composer and Musician, Woodstock, New York: Music composition.
  • Brian Current, Composer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Music composition.
  • William A. Curtin, Jr., Professor of Engineering, Brown University
    Brown University
    Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

    : Multiscale modeling
    Multiscale modeling
    In engineering, mathematics, physics, meteorology and computer science, multiscale modeling is the field of solving physical problems which have important features at multiple scales, particularly multiple spatial and temporal scales. Important problems include scale linking...

     of materials.

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  • Jenny Davidson
    Jenny Davidson
    Jenny Davidson is an American historian and writer who writes about 18th-century literature, etiquette and culture. She is currently an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She was a Guggenheim Fellow during 2005-2006 and was named a visiting scholar to...

    , Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
    Comparative literature
    Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...

    , Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

    : Nature and nurture in 18th-century Britain.
  • Lynda F. Delph, Professor of Biology, Indiana University
    Indiana University Bloomington
    Indiana University Bloomington is a public research university located in Bloomington, Indiana, in the United States. IU Bloomington is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. Being the flagship campus, IU Bloomington is often referred to simply as IU or Indiana...

    : Studies in the merging of evolutionary ecology and molecular genetics
    Genetics
    Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....

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  • Tory Dent
    Tory Dent
    Tory Dent was an eminent American poet, art critic, and commentator on the AIDS crisis.-Life:Dent was born in 1958 in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated from Barnard College in 1981. She was diagnosed with HIV when she was 30 years old. Dent spent most of her adult life in New York City and...

    , Poet, New York City: Poetry.
  • David Dorfman
    David Dorfman (choreographer)
    David Dorfman is a dancer, choreographer, musician, activist and teacher. A native of Chicago, IL, he received his bachelor of science in business administration degree in 1977 from Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis...

    , Choreographer, New London, Connecticut; Artistic Director, David Dorfman Dance; Associate Professor of Dance, Connecticut College
    Connecticut College
    Connecticut College is a private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut.The college was founded in 1911, as Connecticut College for Women, in response to Wesleyan University closing its doors to women...

    : Choreography.
  • Dave Douglas
    Dave Douglas (trumpeter)
    Dave Douglas is an American jazz trumpeter and composer whose music derives from many non-jazz musical styles, including classical music, folk music from European countries and Klezmer. He has been a member of the experimental big band Orange Then Blue...

    , Composer and Musician, Croton-on-Hudson, New York: Music composition.
  • James R. Dow
    James R. Dow
    James R. Dow is a Professor Emeritus of German at Iowa State University with research interests in German Volkskunde , Old Order Amish of Kalona and Amana Colonists of Amana. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 for A study and grammar of the Cymbrian language...

    , Professor Emeritus of German, Iowa State University
    Iowa State University
    Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of...

    : A study and grammar of the Cymbrian language.

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  • Mark Edmundson, NEH/Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Virginia
    University of Virginia
    The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

    : The death of Sigmund Freud.
  • John Elder, Stewart Professor of English and Environmental Studies, Middlebury College
    Middlebury College
    Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...

    : Forestry, sugarmaking, and the destiny of Vermont.
  • Mark Ellis
    Mark Ellis
    Mark Ellis is the name of:* Mark Ellis , Canadian actor* Mark Ellis , Major League Baseball player* Mark Ellis , English footballer who played for Bradford City...

    , Professor of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle: Daily geographics of the color line in American cities.
  • Steven Englund, Writer, Paris, France: A biography of Charles de Gaulle
    Charles de Gaulle
    Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....

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  • Sharon Ann Farmer, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
    University of California, Santa Barbara
    The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...

    : Oriental luxuries, Parisian crafts, and the making of Europe's fashion capital.
  • Vincent Fecteau
    Vincent Fecteau
    Vincent Fecteau is a sculptor based in San Francisco. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1992.He is known for working with ordinary materials such as foamcore, seashells, string, rubber bands, paper clips, walnut shells, and popsicle sticks, and transforming them into beautifully precise...

    , Artist, San Francisco: Sculpture.
  • Elizabeth A. Fenn, Assistant Professor of History, Duke University
    Duke University
    Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

    : The rise and fall of the Mandan Indians, 1738-1838.
  • Beverly Fishman, Artist, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Artist-in-Residence and Head of Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art: Painting.
  • John Fleischman, Free-lance Journalist, Cincinnati, Ohio; Science Writer, American Society for Cell Biology: A children's book about genomes.
  • Eckart Förster, Professor of Philosophy, The Johns Hopkins University: The transition from Kant to Hegel.
  • Simone Forti
    Simone Forti
    Simone Forti , a postmodern American choreographer and musician, was born in Italy but moved to the United States at a young age. Throughout her career she became known for a style of dancing and choreography that was largely based on basic everyday movements, such as games and children's...

    , Choreographer, Los Angeles; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance, University of California, Los Angeles
    University of California, Los Angeles
    The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

    : Choreography.
  • Linda L. Fowler, Professor of Government and Frank J. Reagan Chair in Policy Studies, Dartmouth College
    Dartmouth College
    Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

    : The decline of institutional competence in U.S. foreign affairs.
  • Alison Frazier, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
    University of Texas at Austin
    The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

    : The creation and reception of Bonino Mombrizio
    Bonino Mombrizio
    Bonino Mombrizio was an Italian philologist, humanist, and editor of ancient writings.-Biography:...

    's Sanctuarium.
  • Don Freund
    Don Freund
    Don Freund is an American composer and Professor of Composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music...

    , Composer, Bloomington, Indiana; Professor of Music Composition, Indiana University
    Indiana University Bloomington
    Indiana University Bloomington is a public research university located in Bloomington, Indiana, in the United States. IU Bloomington is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. Being the flagship campus, IU Bloomington is often referred to simply as IU or Indiana...

    : Music composition.

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  • Rhonda K. Garelick, Associate Professor of French, Connecticut College
    Connecticut College
    Connecticut College is a private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut.The college was founded in 1911, as Connecticut College for Women, in response to Wesleyan University closing its doors to women...

    : The theatrical work of Coco Chanel
    Coco Chanel
    Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist thought, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. She was the founder of one of the most famous fashion brands, Chanel...

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  • David Gatten
    David Gatten
    David Edward Gatten is an American experimental filmmaker and moving image artist. Since 1996 Gatten's films have explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image, cataloging the variety of ways in which texts functions in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often...

    , Film Maker, Ithaca, New York: Associate Professor of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College
    Ithaca College
    Ithaca College is a private college located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York. The school was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music. The college has a strong liberal arts core, but also offers several pre-professional programs and some graduate programs. The college is...

    : Film making.
  • Gina Gionfriddo
    Gina Gionfriddo
    Gina Gionfriddo is an American playwright and television writer.For her writing she has received an Obie Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has written for both the stage and for television...

    , Playwright, New York City: Play writing.
  • Peter Gizzi
    Peter Gizzi
    Peter Gizzi is an award-winning American poet and renowned editor of the American poet Jack Spicer. He attended Brown University, New York University and the State University of New York at Buffalo.-Life and career:...

    , Poet, Holyoke, Massachusetts; Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Poetry.
  • Piero Gleijeses
    Piero Gleijeses
    Piero Gleijeses is a professor of United States foreign policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University...

    , Professor of American Foreign Policy, The Johns Hopkins University: Cuban and U.S. policy toward Southern Africa in the Carter and Reagan years.
  • David Gloman, Artist, Northampton, Massachusetts; Visiting Lecturer in Art, Amherst College
    Amherst College
    Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

    : Painting.
  • Richard E. Goodkin, Professor of French, University of Wisconsin–Madison
    University of Wisconsin–Madison
    The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

    : Personality in early modern French comedy and fiction.
  • Steven M. Gorelick, Professor of Geological and Environmental Science
    Environmental science
    Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems...

    s, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

    : The global depletion of nonrenewable energy resources.
  • Peter Gourevitch
    Peter Gourevitch
    Peter Gourevitch is a Harvard University trained political scientist with expertise in international relations and comparative politics. In 2005-06, he was a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation where he worked on a book comparing managerial oversight with institutional investors from...

    , Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
    Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
    The Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies , at the University of California, San Diego, is devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, and policy education. Its research and education focus is the Pacific Region...

    , and Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
    University of California, San Diego
    The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

    : Financial institutions and corporate governance.
  • Ronald M. Green, Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values and Director, Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College
    Dartmouth College
    Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

    : Ethical, religious, and literary perspectives on genetic enhancement.
  • Sam Green
    Sam Green
    Sam Green is a San Francisco-based documentary filmmaker. His film, The Weather Underground, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2004, broadcast nationally on PBS, and included in the Whitney Biennial.- Life :...

    , Film Maker, San Francisco; Adjunct Lecturer in Media Studies, University of San Francisco
    University of San Francisco
    The University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of...

    : Film making.
  • Stanley Greenberg, Photographer, Brooklyn, New York: Photography.
  • Joseph Grigely, Artist, Chicago; Professor of Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Installation art.
  • Michael Grossberg, Professor of History and Law, Indiana University
    Indiana University Bloomington
    Indiana University Bloomington is a public research university located in Bloomington, Indiana, in the United States. IU Bloomington is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. Being the flagship campus, IU Bloomington is often referred to simply as IU or Indiana...

    ; Editor, American Historical Review
    American Historical Review
    The American Historical Review is the official publication of the American Historical Association, established in 1895 "for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research." It targets readers...

    : Child protection in America.

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  • Yotam Haber, Composer, New York City: Music composition.
  • Brooks Hansen
    Brooks Hansen
    Brooks Hansen is an American novelist, screenwriter, and illustrator best known for his 1995 book The Chess Garden. He has also written one young adult's novel. He lives with his family in Carpinteria, California. He was the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005.-Works:* Boone ...

    , Writer, New York City: Fiction.
  • Paul L. Harris, Professor of Education, Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

    : The development of trust and doubt.
  • Richard Harris
    Richard Harris
    Richard St John Harris was an Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer....

    , Professor of Urban Historical Geography and Urban History, McMaster University
    McMaster University
    McMaster University is a public research university whose main campus is located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land in the residential neighbourhood of Westdale, adjacent to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens...

    : The commercialization of owner-building in North America and Australia, 1945-1960.
  • Adam Haslett
    Adam Haslett
    Adam Haslett is an American fiction writer. He was born in Kingston, Massachusetts and grew up in Oxfordshire, England, and Wellesley, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College , the University of Iowa , and Yale Law School . He has been a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers'...

    , Writer, New York City: Fiction.
  • Marc D. Hauser, Professor of Psychology
    Psychology
    Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

    , Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Biological Anthropology
    Biological anthropology
    Biological anthropology is that branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the human species. It plays an important part in paleoanthropology and in forensic anthropology...

    , Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

    : Evolution of a moral instinct.
  • Jake Heggie
    Jake Heggie
    Jake Heggie is an American composer and pianist.Jake Heggie is the composer of the operas Dead Man Walking , The End of the Affair , At The Statue of Venus , To Hell and Back , and Moby-Dick , as well as the stage work For a Look or a Touch...

    , Composer, San Francisco; President, Bent Pen Music, San Francisco: Music composition.
  • Maria Heim, Assistant Professor of Religion, Amherst College
    Amherst College
    Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

    : Buddhist theories of intention.
  • Ian Hodder
    Ian Hodder
    Ian Hodder FBA is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology that first took root among his students and in his own work between 1980-1990...

    , Dunlevie Family Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

    : The emergence of settled villages in Anatolia and the Middle East.
  • Dorothy L. Hodgson, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director, Anthropology Graduate Program, Rutgers University
    Rutgers University
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

    : Transnational advocacy and the concept of "indigenous" among Maasai in Tanzania.
  • Mamie Holst, Artist, Fort Myers, Florida: Painting.
  • Eric Hongisto, Artist, Bozeman, Montana; Assistant Professor of Art, Montana State University
    Montana State University - Bozeman
    Montana State University – Bozeman is a public university located in Bozeman, Montana. It is the state's land-grant university and primary campus in the Montana State University System, which is part of the Montana University System...

    : Installation art.
  • Fanny Howe
    Fanny Howe
    Fanny Howe is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She has written many novels in prose collection. Howe was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S...

    , Poet and Writer, West Tisbury, Massachusetts; Richard L. Thomas Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College
    Kenyon College
    Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio...

    ; Professor Emerita of English, University of California, San Diego
    University of California, San Diego
    The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

    : Essays on the relationship between conversion and rhetoric.
  • John Huehnergard, Professor of Semitic Philology, Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

    : A historical grammar of biblical Hebrew.

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  • Judith T. Irvine, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
    University of Michigan
    The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

    : Ideologies of language in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Pico Iyer, Writer, Santa Barbara, California: Reflections on the fourteenth Dalai Lama.

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  • Matthew O. Jackson, Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Economics, California Institute of Technology
    California Institute of Technology
    The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...

    : Studies in social and economic networks.
  • Alexander Jones, Professor of Classics and History, and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto
    University of Toronto
    The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

    : Ptolemy's sciences.

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  • Sabre Kais, Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University
    Purdue University
    Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

    : Studies in finite-size scaling theory.
  • Woowon Kang, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Chicago
    University of Chicago
    The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

    : Studies in the physics of correlated electrons.
  • Theresa M. Kelley, Marjorie and Lorin Tiefenthaler Professor of English, University of Wisconsin–Madison
    University of Wisconsin–Madison
    The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

    : Botany and Romantic culture.
  • Yannis G. Kevrekidis, Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

    : Equation-free studies of complex systems.
  • Adeeb Khalid, Associate Professor of History, Carleton College
    Carleton College
    Carleton College is an independent non-sectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. The college enrolls 1,958 undergraduate students, and employs 198 full-time faculty members. In 2012 U.S...

    : The making of Soviet central Asia, 1917-1929.
  • Victoria Kirkham, Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania
    University of Pennsylvania
    The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

    : The marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati.
  • Claudia Koonz
    Claudia Koonz
    Claudia Ann Koonz is an American feminist historian of Nazi Germany. Her principal area of interest is the experience of women during the Nazi era.-Career overview:...

    , Professor of History, Duke University
    Duke University
    Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

    : Ethnic panic and the headscarf controversies in Europe, 1945-2004.
  • Lisa Kron
    Lisa Kron
    Elizabeth S. "Lisa" Kron is an American actress and playwright.-Biography:Kron was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She jokes in one of her plays that her life began on her parents’ trip to Europe: “I was conceived in Venice, you know...

    , Playwright and Actor, New York City: Play writing.
  • Arnold Krupat
    Arnold Krupat
    Arnold Krupat, Ph.D. is an American author and Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. His work has been published in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, The Quest, and Sarah Lawrence Journal...

    , Professor of Literature and Global Studies, Sarah Lawrence College
    Sarah Lawrence College
    Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States, and a leader in progressive education since its founding in 1926. Located just 30 minutes north of Midtown Manhattan in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers, this coeducational college offers...

    : Studies in Native American literatures.

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  • Christopher Lane
    Christopher Lane
    Christopher Lane is an author whose books include the Inupiat Eskimo Mystery series.-Inupiat Eskimo Mystery series:* Elements Of A Kill * Season Of Death * A Shroud Of Midnight Sun * Silent As A Hunter...

    , Professor of English, Northwestern University
    Northwestern University
    Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

    : The ethics of psychopharmacology.
  • Maud K. Lavin, Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies and Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Representations of women's lust and aggression in contemporary American visual culture.
  • Jin Lee, Photographer, Chicago; Associate Professor of Art, Illinois State University
    Illinois State University
    Illinois State University , founded in 1857, is the oldest public university in Illinois; it is located in the town of Normal. ISU is considered a "national university" that grants a variety of doctoral degrees and strongly emphasizes research; it is also recognized as one of the top ten largest...

    : Photography.
  • Sze Tsung Leong
    Sze Tsung Leong
    Sze Tsung Leong is an American and British photographer and artist interested in urban studies. Born in Mexico City, he grew up there and in Los Angeles. He then studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and earned architecture degrees from the University of California,...

    , Photographer, New York City: Photography.
  • C. Stanley Lewis
    C. Stanley Lewis
    C. Stanley Lewis, or Stanley Lewis is an artist and art teacher. He was a member of the Bowery Gallery in New York City from 1986 to 2008 and is still a member of Oxbow Gallery in Northampton, Massachusetts. He is represented by Lohin Geduld Gallery in New York, NY...

    , Artist, Leeds, Massachusetts; Instructor in Painting, New York Studio School and Chautauqua School of Painting, New York: Painting.
  • Guohua Li, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University: Aging and injury.
  • Bill Lichtenstein
    Bill Lichtenstein
    Bill Lichtenstein is a print and broadcast journalist and documentary producer. Lichtenstein is president of the independent media production company, Lichtenstein Creative Media....

    , Film Maker, Lexington, Massachusetts; President, Lichtenstein Creative Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Film making.
  • Jonathan B. Losos, Professor of Biology and Director, Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis
    Washington University in St. Louis
    Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...

    : Adaptive radiation in anolis lizards.
  • John A. Lucy, William Benton Professor in Comparative Human Development, Psychology, and the College, University of Chicago
    University of Chicago
    The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

    : The impact of language differences on intellectual development.
  • Tryna Lyons, Assistant Professor of Art and Design, Zayed University
    Zayed University
    Zayed University , established in 1998, is the newest of the three government sponsored higher educational institutions in the United Arab Emirates. The other two institutions are the Higher Colleges of Technology established in 1988 and the United Arab Emirates University established in 1976...

    , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle: The clay festival-image tradition in eastern India.

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  • Victoria E. Marks, Choreographer, Los Angeles; Professor of Choreography and Performance, University of California, Los Angeles
    University of California, Los Angeles
    The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

    : Choreography.
  • Tricia McLaughlin, Video Artist, New York City; Assistant Professor of Electronic Media, State University of New York College at Old Westbury; Adjunct Professor of Computer Graphics, Hunter College
    Hunter College
    Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...

    , City University of New York
    City University of New York
    The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...

    : Video.
  • Daniel Mendelsohn
    Daniel Mendelsohn
    -Life and career:Mendelsohn was born on Long Island. He graduated with a B. A. in Classics from the University of Virginia, which he attended from 1978 to 1982 as an Echols Scholar, and received his M. A. and Ph. D. in Classics from Princeton University, where he was a Mellon Fellow in the...

    , Writer and Critic, New York City: A translation of Cavafy's "unfinished" poems, with commentary.
  • Nicholas Micros, Artist, New York City and Ottenbach, Switzerland: Sculpture.
  • Rohinton Mistry
    Rohinton Mistry
    Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer in English. Residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Mistry is of Indian origin, originally from Mumbai, Zoroastrian and belongs to the Parsi community. Mistry is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature laureate .-Biography:Rohinton Mistry was...

    , Writer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Fiction.
  • Stephen Morris
    Stephen Morris
    Stephen Paul David Morris is a musician best known for his work in the Salford-based rock band New Order and, previously, Joy Division. He also drummed in The Other Two, a band made up of Morris and his wife, Gillian Gilbert. Currently, Morris performs live with the post-New Order band, Bad...

    , Ford Foundation
    Ford Foundation
    The Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford....

     Professor of Economics, Yale University
    Yale University
    Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

    : Global games.
  • David R. Morrison
    David R. Morrison
    .David Morrison is a Scottish author, editor and painter.- Education and career :David Ralston Morrison was born at Glasgow on 4 August 1941, and educated at the Glasgow High School and the Hamilton Academy before attending Glasgow College of Commerce and the University of Strathclyde, qualifying...

    , James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Duke University
    Duke University
    Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

    : Mirror symmetry in mathematics and physics.
  • Harryette Mullen
    Harryette Mullen
    Harryette Mullen is an American poet, short story writer, and literary scholar. She was born in Florence, Alabama, grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and attended graduate school at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As of 2008, she lives in Los...

    , Poet, Los Angeles; Professor of English and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
    University of California, Los Angeles
    The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

    : Poetry.

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  • Anne Nelson, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

    : German resistance activity in Berlin, 1933-1942.
  • Philip Nord, Professor of History, Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

    : Institutional and cultural reform in the modern French state, 1930-1950.
  • Lynn Nottage
    Lynn Nottage
    Lynn Nottage is an American playwright whose work often deals with the lives of women of African descent, African Americans and women. She was born in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and a MacArthur Genius...

    , Playwright, Brooklyn, New York; Visiting Lecturer in Play Writing, Yale University
    Yale University
    Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

    : Play writing.

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  • Dale A. Olsen, Distinguished Research Professor of Ethnomusicology, Florida State University
    Florida State University
    The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...

    : Popular music, memory politics, and willed amnesia in Vietnam.
  • William Olsen
    William Olsen
    William Olsen is an American poet.Italic text-Life:He was raised in Park Forest, Illinois.His poems and essays have appeared in "Chicago Review, "Crazyhorse", "Gettysburg Review", "The Kenyon Review", "The Nation", The New Republic, Paris Review, "Poetry", "Poetry Northwest", Southern Review, ...

    , Poet, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Professor of Creative Writing, Western Michigan University
    Western Michigan University
    Western Michigan University is a public university located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. The university was established in 1903 by Dwight B. Waldo, and as of the Fall 2010 semester, its enrollment is 25,045....

    : Poetry.
  • Han Ong
    Han Ong
    Playwright and novelist Han Ong is both a high-school dropout and one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Born in the Philippines, he moved to the United States at 16...

    , Writer, New York City: Fiction.
  • Christine Osinski, Photographer, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Professor of Art, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Photography.
  • Susan Ossman, Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
    Rice University
    William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

    : Arab serial migrants in a global world.
  • Jonathan T. Overpeck, Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth and Professor of Geosciences, University of Arizona
    University of Arizona
    The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...

    : Paleoclimatic perspectives for society and the future.

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  • Carl O. Pabo, Visiting Professor of Structural Biology and Psychology, Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

    : Theories of thought.
  • ZZ Packer
    ZZ Packer
    ZZ Packer is an African-American author, notable for her works of short fiction.-Life:She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and Louisville, Kentucky. "ZZ" was a childhood nickname; her given name is Zuwena...

    , Writer, Pacifica, California; Senior Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, California College of the Arts
    California College of the Arts
    California College of the Arts , founded in 1907, is known for its broad, interdisciplinary programs in art, design, architecture, and writing. It has two campuses, one in Oakland and one in San Francisco, California, USA...

    : Fiction.
  • Jeffrey D. Palmer, Distinguished Professor of Biology, Indiana University
    Indiana University Bloomington
    Indiana University Bloomington is a public research university located in Bloomington, Indiana, in the United States. IU Bloomington is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. Being the flagship campus, IU Bloomington is often referred to simply as IU or Indiana...

    : Studies in horizontal and intracellular gene transfer.
  • Susan Pedersen
    Susan Pedersen (historian)
    Susan Pedersen is a historian, and James P. Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum at Columbia University. Pedersen focuses on 19th and 20th century British history, women's history, settler colonialism, and the history of international institutions.-Life:...

    , Professor of History, Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

    : The impact of the League of Nations on colonial governance.
  • Janice E. Perlman, Visiting Fellow in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University; Visiting Scholar, World Bank
    World Bank
    The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...

    , Washington, DC: The urban poor and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1968-2004.
  • John Abel Pinto, Howard Crosby Butler Memorial Professor of the History of Architecture, Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

    : Architecture and urbanism in Rome, 1680-1780.
  • Gerald J. Postema, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...

    : The discipline of public reason.
  • Drazen Prelec
    Drazen Prelec
    Drazen Prelec is a professor of management science and economics in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a pioneer in the field of neuroeconomics....

    , Digital Equipment Corporation LFM Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
    MIT Sloan School of Management
    The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....

    : Truthfulness and truth in subjective data.
  • Jennifer Price, Writer, Venice, California: A field guide to Los Angeles.
  • Trevor Price, Professor of Biology, University of Chicago
    University of Chicago
    The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

    : Speciation in birds.
  • Sally M. Promey, Professor of Art History, University of Maryland, College Park
    University of Maryland, College Park
    The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...

    : The public display of religion in the United States.

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  • Donald J. Raleigh, Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...

    : Soviet baby boomers.
  • Spencer Reece
    Spencer Reece
    Spencer Reece is a poet who lives not in Juno Beach, Florida. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University, he received a M.A. from the University of York , and a M.T.S. from the Harvard Divinity School...

    , Poet, Juno Beach, Florida: Poetry.
  • Lynne Regan, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry, Yale University
    Yale University
    Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

    : Studies of novel anti-cancer reagents.
  • Elaine Reichek, Artist, New York City: Conceptual art.
  • Bruce L. Rhoads, Professor of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

    : Fluvial dynamics of river confluences.
  • Ruth Rogaski, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
    Vanderbilt University
    Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...

    : Nature, science, and empire in Manchuria, 1700-2000.
  • Louis Rosen, Composer, Brooklyn, New York; Distinguished Lecturer in Music Theory, History, and Appreciation Studies, 92nd Street YM-YWHA School of Music, New York City: Music composition.

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  • Gary R. Saxonhouse, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
    University of Michigan
    The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

    : The evolution of labor standards in Japan.
  • Judith Schaechter
    Judith Schaechter
    Judith Schaechter is a Philadelphia-based artist known for her work in the medium of stained glass. Her pieces often exhibit elements of parable, and her distorted faces and figures, along with her own self-professed atheism ironically clash with her medium's religious tradition.-Life:Schaechter...

    , Artist, Philadelphia; Adjunct Professor of Art, University of the Arts
    University of the Arts (Philadelphia)
    The University of the Arts is one of the United States' oldest universities dedicated to the arts. Its campus makes up part of the Avenue of the Arts in Center City, Philadelphia...

    : Stained-glass art.
  • Julia Scher
    Julia Scher
    Julia Scher is an American artist who works primarily with themes of surveillance. She uses a variety of mediums and is most known for her installation art and performance art works. Her work addresses issues of control and seduction....

    , Video Artist, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Visiting Artist, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Video installation art.
  • Philip Schultz
    Philip Schultz
    Philip Schultz is an American poet, and the founder/director of The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City...

    , Poet, East Hampton, New York; Founding Director, The Writers Studio, New York City: Poetry.
  • Jim Shepard
    Jim Shepard
    Jim Shepard is an American author and professor of creative writing and film at Williams College.-Biography:Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He received a B.A. at Trinity College in 1978, his MFA from Brown University in 1980. He currently teaches creative writing and film at Williams...

    , Writer, Williamstown, Massachusetts; J. Leland Miller Professor of English, Williams College
    Williams College
    Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this...

    : Fiction.
  • Katherine Sherwood, Artist, Rodeo, California; Professor of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley
    University of California, Berkeley
    The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

    : Painting.
  • David Shields
    David Shields
    David Shields is an American author of non-fiction, fiction, and works that resist generic classification. His latest book is Reality Hunger: A Manifesto...

    , Professor of English, University of Washington, Seattle: A meditation on the brute fact of human mortality.
  • Christopher Shinn
    Christopher Shinn
    Christopher Shinn is an American playwright. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1975 and currently lives in New York. His plays have been produced around the world.-Life:...

    , Playwright, New York City; Instructor in Play Writing, Actors Studio, New School University: Play writing.
  • Paul Sietsema
    Paul Sietsema
    Paul Sietsema is an artist based in Los Angeles and Berlin. He completed his undergraduate studies at University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and received an MFA from UCLA in 1999...

    , Artist, Los Angeles: Sculpture.
  • Shelly Silver
    Shelly Silver
    Shelly Silver is a New York based artist utilizing video, film and photography.-Life:Silver attended Cornell University, graduating in 1980 with a B.A. in Intellectual History, and a B.F.A...

    , Video Artist, New York City; Member of the Adjunct Faculty, School of Visual Arts
    School of Visual Arts
    The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...

     and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Video.
  • Mark Slouka
    Mark Slouka
    Mark Slouka is an American liberal humanist author and academic. The son of Czech immigrants, he is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowships in 2005....

    , Writer, New York City; Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

    : Fiction.
  • D. Vance Smith, Associate Professor of English and Director, Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

    : The relation between language and death in Middle English literature.
  • Valerie Smith, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and Director, Program in African American Studies, Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

    : The civil-rights movement in cultural memory.
  • Christopher D. Sogge, Professor of Mathematics, The Johns Hopkins University: Solutions of wave equations on Riemannian manifolds.
  • David Sorkin, Frances and Laurence Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies and Director, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin–Madison
    University of Wisconsin–Madison
    The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

    : Six faces of the religious Enlightenment, 1689-1789.
  • Natasha Staller, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Amherst College
    Amherst College
    Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...

    : Goya's Black Paintings and the culture of the monstrous in Spain.
  • Glenn D. Starkman, Armington Professor, Professor of Physics, and Professor of Astronomy, Case Western Reserve University
    Case Western Reserve University
    Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...

    : The universe on the largest scales.
  • Ned Sublette
    Ned Sublette
    Ned Sublette is an American composer, musician, record producer and musicologist. Sublette studied Spanish Classical Guitar with Hector Garcia at the University of New Mexico and with Emilio Pujol in Spain. He studied composition with Kenneth Gaburo at the University of California, San Diego...

    , Musicologist, New Orleans; Tulane Rockefeller Humanities Fellow, Tulane University
    Tulane University
    Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...

    : Cuba and its music, 1952-2002.
  • Madhu Sudan, Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

    : Algebraic methods in error-correction.
  • Thomas J. Sugrue, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
    University of Pennsylvania
    The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

    : The unfinished struggle for racial equality in the North.

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  • Kimi Takesue, Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
  • Diana Taylor
    Diana Taylor (professor)
    Diana Taylor is a University Professor and professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University as well as the founding director of . As a major contributor to the area of Performance Studies in the Americas, her work focuses on Latin American and U.S...

    , Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish, New York University
    New York University
    New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

    : Political spectatorship in the Americas.
  • Diana Thater
    Diana Thater
    Diana Thater is an American artist, curator, writer, and educator. She has been a pioneering creator of film, video, and installation art since the early 1990s...

    , Artist, Los Angeles; Professor, Graduate Studies in Fine Art, Art Center College of Design
    Art Center College of Design
    Art Center College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California, and was cited by BusinessWeek as one of the 60 best design schools in the world. The college’s industrial design program is consistently ranked number one by both DesignIntelligence and U.S...

    : Installation art.
  • Margaret A. Tolbert, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder: Studies of clouds on early Earth.
  • John C. Tully, Arthur T. Kemp Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University
    Yale University
    Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

    : Chemical dynamics at metal surfaces.
  • Peter Turchi, Writer, Asheville, North Carolina; Director, Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers
    Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers
    The Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers is the oldest low-residency creative writing Master of Fine Arts program in the United States. Prior to the founding of this program, an MFA in creative writing was earned via standard residential graduate programs that required students to be in residence...

    : Writing as a way of seeing.

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  • Moshe Y. Vardi
    Moshe Y. Vardi
    Moshe Ya'akov Vardi is a Professor of Computer Science at Rice University, USA. He is the Karen Ostrum George Professor in Computational Engineering, Distinguished Service Professor, and Director of the Computer and Information Technology Institute...

    , Karen Ostrum George Professor of Computational Engineering, Rice University
    Rice University
    William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

    : Studies in logic and algorithms.
  • Niek Veldhuis, Assistant Professor of Assyriology, University of California, Berkeley
    University of California, Berkeley
    The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

    : The intellectual history of ancient Mesopotamia.
  • Santosh Srinivas Vempala, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

    : Algorithmic convex geometry.

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  • Meenakshi Wadhwa, Curator of Meteoritics, Field Museum, Chicago: Analysis of solar wind returned by the Genesis spacecraft.
  • Andrew Waggoner, Composer and Musician, New York City; Composer-in-Residence and Associate Professor, Setnor School of Music, Syracuse University
    Syracuse University
    Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...

    : Music composition.
  • Eugene Y. Wang, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

    : Ninth-century Chinese mandalas and reliquaries from the underground.
  • Lai-Sheng Wang, Professor of Physics, Washington State University
    Washington State University
    Washington State University is a public research university based in Pullman, Washington, in the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1890, WSU is the state's original and largest land-grant university...

    : Studies in atomic clusters and multiply charged anions.
  • Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
    Princeton University
    Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

    : The growth and consequences of American inequality.
  • Martin J. Wiener, Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of History, Rice University
    Rice University
    William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

    : Violence, race, and authority in the British Empire.
  • Christopher Williams
    Christopher Williams (artist)
    Christopher Williams is an American conceptual artist and fine art photographer. He is represented by David Zwirner, New York.-Academic career:Williams graduated from Grinnell College...

    , Artist, Los Angeles; Adjunct Professor, Graduate Studies in Fine Art, Art Center College of Design
    Art Center College of Design
    Art Center College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California, and was cited by BusinessWeek as one of the 60 best design schools in the world. The college’s industrial design program is consistently ranked number one by both DesignIntelligence and U.S...

    : Installation art.
  • Deborah Willis, Professor of Photography and Imaging and of Africana Studies, New York University
    New York University
    New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

    : A cultural history of photographs of African-American women, 1900-1930.
  • Mark Wingate, Composer, Tallahassee, Florida; Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of Electroacoustic Music, Florida State University
    Florida State University
    The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...

    : Music composition.
  • William Wylie, Photographer, Charlottesville. Virginia; Assistant Professor of Art, University of Virginia
    University of Virginia
    The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

    : Photography.

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  • J. M. (Jimmy) Xu, Kravis University Professor of Engineering and Physics, Brown University
    Brown University
    Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

    : The feasibility and mechanisms of all-silicon lasers.

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