2007 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

• Daniel Alarcón
  Daniel Alarcón
  Daniel Alarcón is an author who lives in Oakland, California; he has been a the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College and a Visiting Writer at California College of the Arts...
  
  , Writer, Oakland, Califorcnia; Distinguished Visiting Writer, Mills College: Fiction.
• Rick Altman
  Rick Altman
  Rick Altman is a professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States. He has also published under the name Charles F. Altman.-References:...
  
  , Professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa: Classical Hollywood sound.
• Warwick Anderson, Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison: The science of race mixing in the twentieth century.
• Shawn Atkins, Animation Filmmaker, House of Frame by Frame Fierce, Inc: Film animation.
• SoHyun Bae, Artist, New York City and Bologna, Italy: Visual arts.
• William Baer
  William Baer
  William Baer is an award-winning American writer, editor, translator, and educator.The author of sixteen books, he's a former Fulbright and a Guggenheim fellow, as well as the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing grant....
  
  , Professor of English, University of Evansville: The sonnets of Bocage.
• Rennan Barkana, Senior Lecturer, School of Astronomy and Physics, Tel Aviv University: Gas and stars in the early universe.
• Shadi Bartsch
  Shadi Bartsch
  Shadi Bartsch is the Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. She has previously held professorships at the University of California Berkeley and Brown University where she was the W...
  
  , Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics, University of Chicago: Philosophy and the figural in antiquity.
• David A. Baum, Professor of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Applying phylogenetics to problems in evolution and evolutionary education.
• Timothy Beach, Associate Professor of Geography, School of Foreign Service Program in Science, Technology, and International Affairs, Georgetown University: Environmental history of the Maya lowlands.
• Daphne Berdahl
  Daphne Berdahl
  Daphne Berdahl was an anthropologist known for her work on Eastern Germany and Post-socialist Europe...
  
  , Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies, University of Minnesota: Citizenship and mass consumption in post-wall Germany.
• Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University: Marcello Malpighi and mechanistic medicine.
• Edmund Bertschinger, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Physics of the cosmic microwave background.
• Eric R. Bittner
  Eric R. Bittner
  Eric R. Bittner is a theoretical chemist, physicist, and distinguished professor of chemical physics at the University of Houston.- Biography :...
  
  , Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Houston: Quantum dynamics in molecular electronic devices.
• Hisham M. Bizri
  Hisham Bizri
  Hisham Bizri is a Lebanese-American filmmaker. He has worked in the US and Hungary with filmmakers Raoul Ruiz and Miklós Jancsó and has made short films in the US, Lebanon, Ireland, Korea, Italy, and France. As of 2004, Bizri was an Associate Professor of Film at the University of Minnesota,...
  
  , Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota: Filmmaking.
• Jane Ira Bloom
  Jane Ira Bloom
  Jane Ira Bloom is an American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer.-Biography:Bloom was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She began as a pianist and drummer, later switching to the alto saxophone, and eventually settling on the soprano saxophone as her primary instrument...
  
  , Composer, New York City; Associate Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Music, New School University: Music composition.
• Lawrence D. Bobo
  Lawrence D. Bobo
  Lawrence D. Bobo is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and African American Studies...
  
  , Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor, and Director, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University: Black and white Americans' views of the new law and order regime.
• Rosalyn Bodycomb, Artist, Long Island City, New York: Painting.
• Jennifer Bolande, Artist, Joshua Tree, California; Professor of New Genres, Department of Art, University of California, Los Angeles: Fine arts.
• Robert Bordo, Artist, Valatie, New York; Associate Professor of Art, Cooper Union School of Art: Painting.
• Catherine Anne Brekus, Associate Professor, University of Chicago Divinity School: Evangelicalism and the Enlightenment in 18th-century America.
• Jeffrey F. Brock, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Brown University: Models, bounds, and effective rigidity in hyperbolic geometry.
• Kevin Brockmeier
  Kevin Brockmeier
  Kevin John Brockmeier is an American writer of fantasy and literary fiction. His short stories have been printed in numerous publications and he has published two collections of stories, two children's novels, and two fantasy novels...
  
  , Writer, Little Rock, Arkansas: Fiction.
• Elizabeth Brown, Composer and Performer, Brooklyn, New York: Music composition.
• Jane Brox
  Jane Brox
  Jane Brox is an American female author, who specializes in non-fiction works. Her father was John Brox . She currently lives in Maine.-Books:*Clearing Land, Legacies of the American Farm...
  
  , Writer, Brunswick, Maine; Nonfiction Writing Faculty Member, Low Residency MFA Program, Lesley University: A history of controlled light.
• Christopher Buckley
  Christopher Buckley (poet)
  Christopher Buckley is an American poet.Buckley was born in Arcata, California. He graduated from St. Mary's College with a BA, San Diego State University with a MA, and University of California, Irvine with an MFA....
  
  , Poet, Lompoc, California; Professor, Department of Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside: Poetry.
• Alan Burdick, Writer, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York: About the biology of time.
• Don Byron
  Don Byron
  Don Byron is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet, but has also used bass clarinet and saxophones....
  
  , Composer, Boiceville, New York; Visiting Associate Professor, The University at Albany: Music composition.
• Daniel Carpenter, Professor of Government, and Director, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University: The American antislavery petition in context.
• Cynthia Carr
  Cynthia Carr
  Cynthia Carr is a writer and cultural critic who worked in New York in the 1980s and 1990s. She had various roles including staff writer for The Village Voice. She also wrote about performance art and culture for ArtForum, LA Weekly, Interview and Mirabella...
  
  , Writer, New York City: The life of David Wojnarowicz.
• Natalie Charkow Hollander, Sculptor, Woodbridge, Connecticut: Sculpture.
• Bruce Charlesworth
  Bruce Charlesworth
  Bruce Charlesworth is a visual artist known primarily for his photographic, video and multimedia works. He is considered one of the pioneers of post-modern staged photography and an innovator in video installation and interactivity. He received his BA in Art from the University of Northern Iowa ...
  
  , Video Artist, Murpysboro, Illinois; Adjunct Professor of Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University: Video-based installation.
• Chris Lan Hui Chou, Artist, Allston, Massachusetts: Painting.
• Nikos Chrisochoides, Alumni Memorial Distinguished Associate Professor, College of William and Mary: Medical image analysis.
• James Clifford
  James Clifford
  James Clifford is an historian and Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Clifford and Hayden White were among the first faculty directly appointed to the History of Consciousness Ph.D. program in 1978, which was originally the only...
  
  , Professor, History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz: Indigenous cultural politics today.
• Richard Conniff
  Richard Conniff
  Richard Conniff is an American non-fiction writer, specializing in behavior on two, four, six, and eight legs. He has collected tarantulas in the Peruvian Amazon, tracked leopards with Kung San hunters in the Namibian desert, climbed the Mountains of the Moon in western Uganda, and trekked through...
  
  , Writer, Old Lyme, Connecticut: Discovering life on a little-known planet.
• Margaret Crawford, Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University: Rethinking urban space.
• Thomas James Dandelet, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: The Colonna of Rome, 1500-1700.
• Diana K. Davis, Assistant Professor of Geography and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, Austin: Imperialism and environmental history in the Middle East.
• Greg Delanty
  Greg Delanty
  Greg Delanty is an Irish poet. He is artist-in-residence at St. Michael's College, and current President of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers....
  
  , Poet, Burlington, Vermont; Assistant Professor of English and Artist-in-residence, St. Michael's College: Poetry.
• Fred M. Donner, Professor of Near Eastern History, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago: Early Islamic political vocabulary.
• Paquito D'Rivera
  Paquito D'Rivera
  Paquito D'Rivera is a Cuban alto saxophonist, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist. The winner of multiple Grammys and other awards, D'Rivera has lived in the United States since the early 1980s. He has worked in a variety of contexts, but is perhaps best known for playing Latin...
  
  , Composer, North Bergen, New Jersey: Music composition.
• Mary L. Dudziak, Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History, and Political Science, University of Southern California: How war made America in the 20th century.
• David Dzubay, Composer, Bloomington, Indiana; Professor of Music, and Director, New Music Ensemble, Indiana University: Music composition.
• Debra Magpie Earling
  Debra Magpie Earling
  Debra Cecille Magpie Earling is an Native American novelist, and short story writer.-Life:She is of the Bitterroot Salish ....
  
  , Writer, Missoula, Montana; Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Montana: Fiction.
• Rinde Eckert, Composer, Nyack, New York: Music composition.
• Kenneth Eng, Filmmaker, Brooklyn, New York; Film Director and Editor, Projectile Arts, Inc: Film.
• Steve Erickson
  Steve Erickson
  Stephen Michael Erickson is an American novelist, essayist and film critic. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters's Award in Literature and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation., and is considered an important representative of the Avantpop...
  
  , Writer, Topanga Canyon, California; Instructor, California Institute of the Arts: Fiction.
• W. Ralph Eubanks, Director of Publishing, Library of Congress: A story of race, reconciliation, and identity.
• Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Professor of Comparative Jewish Literature, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem and the poetics of return.
• Heide Fehrenbach, Professor of History, Northern Illinois University: How World War II remade the family.
• William Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Voices and roots: Mississippi blues.
• Maria Flook
  Maria Flook
  Maria Flook, a 2007 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award recipient, is the author of the nonfiction books, My Sister Life: The Story of My Sister's Disappearance, and New York Times Best Seller Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod...
  
  , Writer, Truro, Massachusetts; Distinguished Writer-in-residence, Emerson College; Fiction Faculty Member, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts: Fiction.
• Michael P. Flynn, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan: The fundamental limits of analog-to-digital conversion.
• Neil Foley
  Neil Foley
  -Life:He graduated from the University of Virginia, from Georgetown University with an M.A., and from the University of Michigan, with an M.A. and Ph.D...
  
  , Associate Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin: Civil rights in Texas and the Southwest, 1940-1965.
• Ed Folsom, Roy J. Carver Professor of English, University of Iowa: A biography of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
• David Frankfurter
  David Frankfurter
  David Frankfurter was a Croatian Jew known for assassinating Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland.-Background, family and education:...
  
  , Professor of Religious Studies and History, University of New Hampshire: Christianization in late antique Egypt.
• Erica Funkhouser
  Erica Funkhouser
  Erica Funkhouser is an American poet.She graduated from Vassar College with a BA and from Stanford University with a MA. She teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
  
  , Poet, Essex, Massachusetts; Lecturer, Department of Writing and Humanistic Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Poetry.
• Ann Gale
  Ann Gale
  Ann Gale is an American figurative painter based in Seattle, Washington. She is known for her portrait paintings, which consist of an accumulation of small color patches expressing the changing light and the shifting position of her models over time...
  
  , Artist, Seattle, Washington; Associate Professor, School of Art, University of Washington: Painting.
• Enrique García Santo-Tomás, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan: Fictions by war veterans in early modern Spanish literature, 1550-1680.
• Mark Gertler
  Mark Gertler (economist)
  Mark Lionel Gertler is an American economist and Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics at New York University. A specialist in business cycles and monetary policy, he has been an associate and collaborator of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for more than 30 years. He is among the 20...
  
  , Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics, New York University: The international dimensions of monetary policy.
• J. Arch Getty
  J. Arch Getty
  John Archibald Getty, III is an American historian and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is noted for his research on Russian and Soviet history, especially the period under Joseph Stalin and the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.-Life and career:Getty was...
  
  , Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles: Folkways, political practices, and the Soviet state.
• Melissa James Gibson
  Melissa James Gibson
  -Life:The child of former BC Liberal MLA Gordon Gibson and his journalist wife Valerie, Gibson grew up in North Vancouver. She graduated from Columbia University and from the Yale School of Drama with an M.F.A. in Playwriting. She is working on commissions for the La Jolla Playhouse and The...
  
  , Playwright, Brooklyn, New York; College Counselor, Saint Ann's School: The architecture of memory.
• Michel X. Goemans, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The traveling salesman problem.
• Bob Goldstein, Associate Professor of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Cell interactions in the asymmetric division of stem cells.
• Michael Goldstein, Professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto: Anderson localization of Eigen functions.
• Joe Goode, Choreographer, Berkeley, California; Artistic Director, Joe Goode Performance Group; Professor, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley: Choreography.
• Michael Gorra
  Michael Gorra
  Michael Gorra is an American professor of English and literature, currently serving as the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English Language & Literature at Smith College.- Background :...
  
  , Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English, Smith College: A study of Henry James.
• Robert J. Griffin, Associate Professor of English, Texas A & M University: Anonymity and authorship.
• Mary Hambleton, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Parsons The New School for Design, New School University: Painting.
• Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University: Biblical women and women's choirs in Syriac tradition.
• Arjun M. Heimsath, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College: Soil erosion and sustainability.
• Carola Hein, Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Growth and Structure of Cities Program: The global architecture of oil.
• Gail Hershatter
  Gail Hershatter
  Gail Hershatter is an American historian, and professor at University of California, Santa Cruz.She graduated from Hampshire College with a B.A., from Stanford University with a M.A., and from Stanford University with a Ph.D....
  
  , Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz: Rural women and China's collective past.
• John Hollenbeck, Composer, New York City: Music composition.
• Paul Horwich
  Paul Horwich
  Paul Horwich is a British analytic philosopher at New York University, whose work includes writings on causality, the philosophy of language and Wittgenstein's later philosophy. Horwich earned his PhD from Cornell University; his thesis advisor was Richard Boyd...
  
  , Professor of Philosophy, New York University: Wittgenstein's metaphilosophy.
• Brett R. Ingram, Filmmaker, Greensboro, North Carolina; Assistant Professor of Broadcasting and Cinema, University of North Carolina, Greensboro: Film.
• Jim Jennings
  Jim Jennings
  -Biography:Jennings was born James Benton Jennings on November 14, 1933 in Crystal City, Missouri.-Career:Jennings was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the twenty-sixth round of the 1955 NFL Draft and played that season with the team. He played at the collegiate level at the University of...
  
  , Filmmaker, Long Island City, New York: Film.
• Fenton Johnson
  Fenton Johnson
  John Fenton Johnson was born ninth of nine children into a Kentucky whiskey-making family with a strong storytelling tradition.-Life:His most recent book Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey draws on time spent living as a member of the monastic communities of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in...
  
  , Writer, Tucson, Arizona; Associate Professor, Creative Writing Program, University of Arizona: Desire in Solitude (nonfiction).
• A. Van Jordan
  A. Van Jordan
  -Life:He graduated from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, 1987, with a BA. He graduated from Howard University, 1990, with an MA. He graduated from Warren Wilson College, 1998, with an MFA. He lived in Washington, D.C....
  
  , Poet, Austin, Texas; Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas, Austin: Poetry.
• Heidi Julavits
  Heidi Julavits
  Heidi Suzanne Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer magazine. She has been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2, Esquire, Story, Zoetrope All-Story, and McSweeney’s Quarterly...
  
  , Writer, New York City: Fiction.
• Stathis N. Kalyvas, Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, and Director, Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence, Yale University: Varieties of political violence.
• Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, The Notre Dame Professor of English, Notre Dame University: Professional reading circles and the rise of English literature.
• Sanjeev Khanna, Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania: Cuts, flows, and network routing.
• Dina Rizk Khoury
  Dina Rizk Khoury
  Dina Rizk Khoury is an American historian, and Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, at George Washington University.She graduated from the American University of Beirut with a B.A., from Georgetown University with a Ph.D....
  
  , Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, and Director, Graduate Studies, George Washington University: War and remembrance in Iraq.
• Verlyn Klinkenborg
  Verlyn Klinkenborg
  Verlyn Klinkenborg is an American non-fiction author. Since 1997, he has been a member of the editorial board of The New York Times. His books include The Rural Life, Making Hay, The Last Fine Time, and Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile...
  
  , Writer, The New York Times: The radical essence of William Cobbett.
• Koosil-ja, Artistic Director and Choreographer, Dansology, Inc. koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO, New York City: Choreography.
• Paul W. Kroll, Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado: A study of High Tang verse.
• Tania León
  Tania Leon
  Tania León is a Cuban composer and conductor who has been recognized as an educator and advisor to arts organizations.-León's Music:...
  
  , Composer, Nyack, New York; Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York: Music composition.
• Dana Levin, Poet, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, College of Santa Fe: Poetry.
• Philippa Levine, Professor of History, University of Southern California: The evolution debates.
• Michael Light, Artist, San Francisco, California: Photography.
• Meredith Parsons Lillich, Professor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University: The Gothic stained glass of Reims Cathedral.
• Kalup Linzy
  Kalup Linzy
  Kalup Linzy is an American video and performance artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.-Early Life and Work:Linzy grew up in a small rural community in Florida called Stuckey. He had a large, close-knit extended family, and was raised by his Aunt and Grandmother...
  
  , Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Video.
• Peter D. Little, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky: The anthropology of neoliberalism in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Alan Loehle, Artist, Decatur, Georgia; Associate Professor of Studio Art, Oglethorpe University: Painting.
• Pamela O. Long, Independent Historian; Visiting Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York City: Engineering, power, and knowledge in Rome, 1560-1590.
• Margaretta M. Lovell
  Margaretta M. Lovell
  Margaretta M. Lovell is Jay D. McEvoy, Jr. Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research and teaching focuses on the history of America and its art, including landscape painting, portraiture, furniture, architecture, and forests. She received a B.A. in...
  
  , Professor of Art History, University of California, Berkeley: Fitz H. Lane and Winslow Homer.
• Tanya Luhrmann
  Tanya Luhrmann
  Tanya Marie Luhrmann is an American psychological anthropologist best known for her studies of modern-day witches, charismatic Christians, and psychiatrists. She received her AB summa cum laude in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard-Radcliffe in 1981, working with Stanley Tambiah...
  
  , Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University: Making God real in evangelical Christianity.
• Arthur Lupia
  Arthur Lupia
  Arthur Lupia is an American political scientist. He is the Hal R. Varian Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.Lupia received a B.A. degree in economics from the University of Rochester and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in social science from the California Institute of...
  
  , Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan: Political knowledge and the practice of civic education.
• Rudresh K. Mahanthappa
  Rudresh Mahanthappa
  Rudresh Mahanthappa is a New York-based jazz alto saxophonist and composer.Mahanthappa was born in Trieste, Italy, and grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1992 and received his Master of Fine Arts degree in jazz composition from Chicago's DePaul University...
  
  , Composer, Brooklyn, New York; Adjunct Private Lesson Instructor, Rye Country Day School: Music composition.
• Gary J. Marker, Professor of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook: The idea of "Russia" in clerical discourse.
• Michael McCann, Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship, University of Washington: Public interest litigation and the politics of responsibility.
• Dianne McIntyre, Choreographer, Cleveland: Choreography.
• Peter H. McMurry, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota: New particle formation and growth rates in the atmosphere.
• Suketu Mehta
  Suketu Mehta
  Suketu Mehta is a writer based in New York City. He was born in Kolkata, India, and raised in Bombay where he lived until his family moved to the New York area in 1977. He has attended New York University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.His autobiographical account of his experiences...
  
  , Writer, Cliffside Park, New Jersey: A nonfiction book on New York.
• Roberto Merlin
  Roberto Merlin
  Roberto D. Merlin is an Argentine physicist and Peter A. Franken Collegiate Professor of Physics and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan...
  
  , Professor of Physics and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan: Sub-nanometer imaging with sub-picosecond resolution.
• Piotr Michałowski, George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, University of Michigan: The cyclical birth and rebirth of early Mesopotamian literature.
• Jerry Xhelal Mitrovica, Professor of Physics, University of Toronto: Polar wander and the long-term evolution of Earth.
• Paul G. Molyneaux, Journalist and Writer, Whiting, Maine: Charting the course to sustainable seafood.
• Malena Mörling
  Malena Mörling
  Malena Mörling, born 1965, is a Swedish poet and Assistant Professor. She is the author of two books of poetry, Ocean Avenue, which won the New Issues Press Poetry Prize in 1998 and Astoria, published by Pittsburgh Press in 2006...
  
  , Poet, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina; Assistant Professor of Poetry, University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Poetry.
• Bradford Morrow
  Bradford Morrow
  Bradford Morrow is an American novelist, editor, essayist, poet, and children's book writer. Professor of literature and Bard Center Fellow at Bard College, he is the founding editor of Conjunctions literary magazine.-Life:...
  
  , Writer, New York City; Professor of Literature and Bard Center Fellow, Bard College: Fiction.
• Naeem Murr
  Naeem Murr
  Naeem Murr is a British-born novelist and short story writer of Lebanese descent. He is the author of three novels acclaimed for their dark portraiture and stark, original prose...
  
  , Writer, Chicago: Fiction.
• Sabina Murray
  Sabina Murray
  Sabina Murray is an award-winning Filipina American screenwriter, and a novelist currently a Professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.-Background and career:...
  
  , Writer, Amherst, Massachusetts; Associate Professor of English, MFA Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Fiction.
• Peter Nabokov, Professor, Department of American Indian Studies and World Arts and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles: The passages of Edward Proctor Hunt.
• Erika Naginski, Associate Professor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Architecture, the graphic arts, and the philosophy of history in the 18th century.
• Sara Tilghman Nalle, Professor of History, William Paterson University: A new history of the Spanish family, 1520-1720.
• Victor Nee
  Victor Nee
  Victor Nee is the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology at Harvard University in 1977...
  
  , Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology, Cornell University: Market transition and politicized capitalism.
• J. David Neelin, Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles: Rethinking rain in climate models.
• Samuel Nigro, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Sculpture.
• D. Nurkse, Poet, Brooklyn, New York; Professor, Graduate Writing Program, Sarah Lawrence College: Poetry.
• Karyn Andrea Olivier, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Assistant Professor, Tyler School of Art, Temple University: Installation art.
• Sarah Oppenheimer, Artist, New York City; Assistant Professor, Yale University School of Art: Installation art.
• Annie-B Parson, Choreographer, Brooklyn, New York; Artistic Director, Big Dance Theater; Instructor in Choreography, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University: Choreography.
• Andrew H. Paterson, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia: Unraveling structural and functional divergence of cereal genomes.
• Doug Peacock
  Doug Peacock
  Doug Peacock is an American naturalist, outdoorsman, and author. He is best known for his book Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, a memoir of his experiences in the 1970s and 1980s, much of which was spent alone in the wilderness of the western United States observing grizzly...
  
  , Writer, Green Valley, Arizona, and Livingston, Montana: Repatriation.
• Kathleen Peirce
  Kathleen Peirce
  Kathleen Peirce is an American poet. -Life:She graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1988. She currently teaches at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, for the Texas State University MFA...
  
  , Poet, Wimberley, Texas; Professor of English, Texas State University: Poetry.
• Michael Philip Penn, Assistant Professor of Religion and of Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College: Syriac Christian reactions to the Islamic conquests.
• Peter Pesic, Tutor and Musician-in-residence, St. John's College, Santa Fe: Connections between music and natural philosophy.
• Julie Stone Peters, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University: Theatrical censorship, obscenity, and the making of modern drama.
• Leila Stott Philip, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, College of the Holy Cross: A portrait of Toshiko Takaezu.
• Laura Poitras
  Laura Poitras
  Laura Poitras is a documentary film director and producer.Her 2006 film My Country, My Country was nominated for an Oscar.Her 2010 film The Oath won the "Excellence in Cinematography Award for U.S...
  
  , Documentary Filmmaker, New York City: Film.
• Richard Owen Prum, William Robertson Coe Professor and Curator of Ornithology, Yale University: The biology of feathers.
• Lawrence Raab
  Lawrence Raab
  -Life:He graduated from Middlebury College, in 1968 and from Syracuse University with an MA, in 1972.He taught at American University 1970-71, University of Michigan, and Williams College 1976 to present...
  
  , Poet, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Morris Professor of Rhetoric, Williams College: Poetry.
• Geraldine Richmond, Richard M. and Patricia H. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon: Environmental sustainability.
• Mary Louise Roberts, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison: The American military presence in France, 1944-1945.
• Daniel T. Rodgers
  Daniel T. Rodgers
  -Life:He graduated from Brown University in Engineering, and from Yale University with a Ph.D.He is Henry Charles Lea Professor at Princeton University.His work appeared in Harper's....
  
  , Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton University: Transformation in social thought in 1980s America.
• Pej Rohani, Associate Professor, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia: The ecology and evolution of dengue.
• Richard Ross
  Richard Ross (photographer)
  Richard Rossis an American photographer.He is best known for his body of work Architecture of Authority, which was published as a monograph by Aperture Foundation in 2007. In 2007 Ross was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship to finish Architecture of Authority.His latest project,...
  
  , Photographer, Santa Barbara, California; Professor of Art, University of California, Santa Barbara: Photography.
• Teofilo F. Ruiz, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles: Festivals, rituals, and power in late medieval and early modern Spain.
• Michael L. Satlow, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies, Brown University: Jewish piety in late antiquity.
• José Alexandre Scheinkman
  José Scheinkman
  José Alexandre Scheinkman is a Brazilian-American mathematical economist, currently the Theodore A Wells '29 Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He spent the bulk of his career at the University of Chicago, where he served as department chair immediately prior to his departure for...
  
  , Theodore Wells '29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University: The economics of the informal sector.
• Michael Scrivener, Professor of English, Wayne State University: Jewish representations in Romantic-era British literature.
• Robert Self, Associate Professor of History, Brown University: Gender and sexuality in America from Watts to Reagan.
• Laurie Shannon, E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of English, Duke University: Zoographies of knowledge in early modernity.
• Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music, and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University: Ethiopian music and musicians in the United States.
• Anne C. Shreffler, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, Harvard University: New music, avant-garde, and politics in the early Cold War.
• Amie Siegel, Filmmaker, New York City: Film.
• A. Mark Smith, Curators' Professor of History, University of Missouri, Columbia: Alhacen on refraction.
• Nigel Smith, Professor of English, Princeton University: Literary production in early modern Europe, 1500-1700.
• Dava Sobel
  Dava Sobel
  Dava Sobel is a writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University...
  
  , Science Writer, East Hampton, New York: Copernicus.
• Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz, Artist, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Professor of Art, Wellesley College: Painting.
• Dana Spiotta, Writer, Cherry Valley, New York: Fiction.
• Anne Whiston Spirn, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Rebuilding the landscape of community.
• Nick Spitzer, Professor of Folklore and Cultural Conservation, University of New Orleans; Producer, American Routes, Public Radio International: Tradition and creativity in Louisiana Creole communities.
• RoseAnne Spradlin, Choreographer, New York City: Choreography.
• Scott Stark, Filmmaker, Austin, Texas; Associate Information Developer, IBM: Film.
• Mark D. Steinberg
  Mark D. Steinberg
  Mark D. Steinberg is a Professor of History, and Editor of Slavic Review at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.He was born in San Francisco, California, on June 8, 1953. He received a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, followed by M.A and Ph.D. degrees in history from...
  
  , Professor of History, and Editor, Slavic Review, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Landscapes of the modern in fin de siècle St. Petersburg.
• James Robert Stewart, Artist, Fredonia, Pennsylvania: Painting.
• Raymond Stock
  Raymond Stock
  Raymond Stock is an American academic, writer and translator. He has a BA in Mass Media/Foreign Affairs from Grand Valley State University , and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor...
  
  , Writer and Arabic-English Translator, Beulah, Michigan: A biography of Naguib Mahfouz.
• Nancy Lynn Sullivan, Independent Researcher, Papua New Guinea; Director and Principal Investigator, Nancy Sullivan & Associates: The cave arts of the upper Karawari in Papua New Guinea.
• Cynthia Talbot, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin: Recasting the medieval Indian past.
• Michael J. Tarr, Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, and Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Brown University: Statistical models of structural visual object recognition in humans.
• R. Larry Todd, Arts and Sciences Professor of Music, Duke University: The life and music of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel.
• David Treuer
  David Treuer
  David Treuer is a writer of Ojibwe and Jewish descent. He was born in Washington, D.C. and raised on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. He attended Princeton University and was graduated in 1992 after writing two senior theses, one in the anthropology department and one in...
  
  , Associate Professor of English, University of Minnesota: Contemporary reservation life.
• Dmitri Tymoczko
  Dmitri Tymoczko
  Dmitri Tymoczko is a composer and music theorist. His music, which draws on rock, jazz, and romanticism, has been performed by ensembles such as the Ansermet Quartet, the Brentano Quartet, Janus, Newspeak, the San Francisco Contemporary Players, the Pacifica Quartet, and Ursula Opens...
  
  , Composer, Princeton, New Jersey; Assistant Professor of Music, Princeton University: Music composition.
• Eric Urban, Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University: P-adic automorphic forms and p-adic L-functions.
• Salil Vadhan
  Salil Vadhan
  Salil Vadhan is Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. He obtained his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, where his advisor was Shafi Goldwasser. His research centers around the interface between...
  
  , Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard University: The complexity of zero-knowledge proofs.
• David Van Tieghem, Composer, West Hurley, New York: Music composition.
• Lawrence Venuti
  Lawrence Venuti
  Lawrence Venuti , American translation theorist, translation historian and translator from Italian, French, and Catalan.-Career:...
  
  , Professor of English, Temple University: A translation of Giovanni Pascoli's poetry and prose.
• Jorge M. Vivanco, Director and Associate Professor, Center for Rhizosphere Biology, Colorado State University: Investigations in tropical chemical ecology.
• Michael Wachtel, Professor of Russian Literature, Princeton University: Pushkin's lyric poetry.
• John Walbridge, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University: Shirazi's synthesis of the philosophical foundations of Galenic medicine.
• Pamela Barnhouse Walters, James H. Rudy Professor of Sociology, Indiana University: Apartheid schooling in America.
• Bernard Wasserstein
  Bernard Wasserstein
  Bernard Wasserstein is a professor of history. Wasserstein was born in London, and educated at the High School of Glasgow and at Wyggeston Boys' Grammar School, Leicester. He gained a BA in Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford University in 1969.Wasserstein's main area of interest is Jewish...
  
  , Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History, University of Chicago: Jewish intellectuals in postwar Europe.
• Andrew Watsky
  Andrew Watsky
  Andrew Mark Watsky is an American academic, art historian, author and university professor.-Early life:Watsky was awarded his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and his master's degree and doctorate from Princeton University....
  
  , Associate Professor of Art, Vassar College: Named objects in Momoyama Japan.
• Sandra R. Waxman, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University: Notions of the natural world.
• Alex Webb
  Alex Webb (photographer)
  Alex Webb is a photojournalist associated with Magnum Photos. He has primarily worked in color, has published several books, and has contributed to such magazines as GEO, Time, and the New York Times Magazine.-Career:Born in San Francisco, Webb was raised in New England...
  
  , Photographer, Brooklyn, New York: Photography.
• Donald Weber
  Donald Weber
  Donald Weber is a literary critic and a specialist in Jewish American literature and film studies. He is the Lucia, Ruth, and Elizabeth Professor of English and Chair of the English department at Mount Holyoke College.-Background:...
  
  , Photographer, Toronto, Canada: Photography.
• Barbara Weissberger, Artist, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Visiting Lecturer, Studio Arts Department, University of Pittsburgh: Drawing.
• Stephen Westfall
  Stephen Westfall
  Stephen Westfall is an American painter, critic, and professor at Bard College.He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.A. and M.F.A...
  
  , Artist, New York City; Assistant Professor, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University; Cochair, Department of Painting, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College: Painting.
• Jeff Whetstone, Photographer, Durham, North Carolina; Assistant Professor of Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Photography.
• David Gordon White, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara: The Indian yogi, 200 BC - 2000 CE.
• Tommy White
  Tommy White
  Thomas Henry "Tommy" White is a former football player who played as an outside right for Stockport County in the Football League. He also played for Chesham Generals, Grays United, Brighton & Hove Albion, Carlisle United, Exeter City and Watford. At Watford and Chesham, White played alongside his...
  
  , Artist, New York City; Lecturer, Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, Princeton University: Painting.
• Mark Winey, Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder: Gene discovery in human ciliary diseases.
• Michele Wucker, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute, New York City: Evolving views of citizenship, belonging, and exclusion.
• Peter Zandstra
  Peter Zandstra
  Peter Zandstra, Ph. D., is I’Anson Professor of Tissue Engineering, and a Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell Bioengineering at the University of Toronto Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. He is cross-appointed to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at...
  
  , Associate Professor, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto: Engineering stem cell fate.
• Shoucheng Zhang, Professor of Physics, Stanford University: Quantum spin Hall effect.
• Lisa Zunshine
  Lisa Zunshine
  ]Lisa Zunshine is a scholar of 18th-century British literature, whose interests include cultural historicism, narrative theory, and cognitive approaches to literary and cultural studies . She is a Bush-Holbrook professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Lexington...
  
  , Associate Professor of English, University of Kentucky: Cognitive science and literary interpretations.

Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

• Leonor Arfuch, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, and Professor of Design and City Planning, City University Pabellón III: Identity, subjectivity, memory: narratives of the recent past.
• Cesar Alfredo Barbero, Associate Professor, National University of Rio Cuarto, and Principal Researcher, CONICET: Development of novel nanomaterials.
• Daniela Broitman, Director and Producer, VideoForum Filmes: Film.
• Marcelo Coglitore, Photographer, Buenos Aires: Photography.
• N. Rubén Cuneo, Independent Researcher, CONICET, and Director, Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (MEF): The K-T floral transition in the southern hemisphere.
• Saurabh Dube
  Saurabh Dube
  Saurabh Dube is an Indian scholar whose work combines history and anthropology, archival and field research, and subaltern studies and postcolonial perspectives. After teaching at the University of Delhi, since 1995 he is Professor of History at the Center of Asian and African Studies at El Colegio...
  
  , Professor of History, Center for Asian and African Studies, College of Mexico: Christianity, colonialism, and conversion, 1860-2005.
• Jorge Durand, Professor, University of Guadalajara: Latin American migration and the creation of new identity in the United States.
• Carmen Escalante Gutierrez, Researcher, Centro Bartolomé de Las Casas: Huancauelican oral accounts of violence and authoritarianism in Peru, 1980-2000.
• Darío A. Estrin, Associate Professor, University of Buenos Aires, and Principal Researcher, CONICET: Computer simulation of heme proteins of physiopathological relevance.
• Gustavo Henrique Goldman, Professor of Molecular Biology, FCFRP, University of São Paulo: The filamentous fungus Aspergilius nidulans.
• Patrick Hamilton, Artist, Santiago, Chile, and Professor of Painting, University Diego Portales: Fine arts.
• Anwar Hasmy, Guest Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Associate Researcher, Venezuelan Center for Computer Calculations (Cecalcula): Hardness and reactivity of noble metal nanoparticles.
• Antonio López-Ortega, Writer, Caracas, Venezuela, and General Manager, Bigott Foundation: Fiction.
• Patricia Majluf, Director, Center for Environmental Sustainability: Sustainable alternatives to restore marine ecosystems.
• Osvaldo Morrone, Independent Researcher, CONICET, and Subdirector, Instituto de Botánica Darwinion (IBODA): Systematic studies in the genus Paspalum (Poaceae).
• Ramón Elias Mujica Pinilla, President, Sociedad Peruana de Estudios Clásicos: Fine arts research.
• Marcos Novaro, Adjunct Researcher, CONICET, and Adjunct Professor, University of Buenos Aires: Human rights and democratization in Argentina, 1979-2007.
• Ana María Ochoa-Gautier, Associate Professor of Music, New York University: Music, sound, and modernity in Colombia.
• Daniel Ontiveros, Artist, Buenos Aires: Fine arts.
• Ernesto Oroza
  Ernesto Oroza
  ]Ernesto Oroza is a Cuban contemporary artist and designer.- Biography :He earned a degree at the Havana Superior Institute of Design. He was visiting professor in Les Ateliers, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Creation Industrielle in Paris , and professor of the Polytechnic Institute of Design of...
  
  , Artist, Researcher, and Designer, Aventura, Florida: The architecture of necessity.
• Sergio Raimondi
  Sergio Raimondi
  Sergio Raimondi is an Argentine poet.He is, too, a professor at Universidad Nacional del Sur, where he is in charge of the subject Contemporary Literature . Until june, 2011, he was the director of the Museo del Puerto de Ingeniero White...
  
  , Poet, Buenos Aires, Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Literature, National University del Sur, Argentina, and Director, Museo del Puerto Ingeniero White: Poetry.
• Gregorio Carlos Rocha, Filmmaker, Morelos, Mexico: Film.
• Marco A. Romano-Silva, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Federal University of Minas Gerais: Clinical and molecular aspects of bipolar disorder.
• Ruth Rosenstein, Professor of Human Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, and Principal Researcher, CONICET: Research on a cure for glaucoma.
• Analia Segal, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Fine arts.
• Pedro Serrano, Poet, Mexico City, and Lecturer, Faculty of the Humanities, Autonomous University of Mexico: Poetry.
• Sergio Serulnikov, Adjunct Researcher, CONICET: Patricians and plebians in late colonial Charcas.
• Daniela Spenser, Research Professor, Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico City: The life and times of Vicente Lombardo Toledano.
• Laura Beatriz Steren, Independent Researcher, CONICET, and Adjunct Professor, Instituto Balseiro: Spin-polarized transport phenomena in artificial magnetic nanostructures.
• Oscar Strasnoy
  Oscar Strasnoy
  Oscar Strasnoy is a French-Argentine composer, conductor and pianist. Although primarily known for his nine stage works, the first of which Midea premiered in Spoleto in 2000, his principal compositions also include a secular cantata and several song cycles.-Career:Oscar Strasnoy was born in...
  
  , Composer, Paris, France: Music composition.
• Perla Suez, Writer, Córdoba, Argentina: Fiction.
• John Joseph Sullivan Hendricks, Research Professor, Autonomous University of Zacatecas: A monolingual Huastecan Nahuatl dictionary.
• Alexey Puig Taran, Choreographer, Caracas, Venezuela: Choreography.
• Aparecida Vilaça, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro: Conversion and Christianity in native lowland South America.
• Lila Zemborain, Poet, New York City, and Clinical Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University: Poetry.

External links

• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation home page