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• Len Ackland
  Len Ackland
  Len Ackland is a professor at the University of Colorado and co-director of the Center for Environmental Journalism.He graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a bachelor's degree in history, and from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.He was a...
  
  , Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder: Nuclear power at a crossroads.
• Martha Ackmann, Writer, Leverett, Massachusetts; Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College: Toni Stone's challenge to baseball and America.
• Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Otto Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics, Princeton University: The econometrics of jumps and volatility.
• Ken Alder, Professor of History and Milton H. Wilson Professor of the Humanities, Northwestern University: Personal identification from the Renaissance to the genome.
• Meena Alexander
  Meena Alexander
  Meena Alexander is an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander lives and works in New York City, where she is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College in the and at the CUNY Graduate Center in the...
  
  , Poet, New York City; Distinguished Professor of English, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center: Poetry.
• Geri A. Allen
  Geri Allen
  Geri Allen is an American composer/pianist educator jazz pianist, raised in Detroit, Michigan, and educated in the Detroit Public Schools. Allen has worked with many of the greats of modern music, including Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette,...
  
  , Composer, Upper Montclair, New Jersey; Associate Professor of Jazz Piano and Improvisation, University of Michigan: Music composition.
• Natalia Almada, Filmmaker, Mexico City and Brooklyn, New York: Filmmaking.
• Margaret Lavinia Anderson, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: The Armenian Genocide: A German story.
• Nancy Evelyn Andrews, Professor of Art and Design, College of the Atlantic: Filmmaking.
• Rae Armantrout
  Rae Armantrout
  Rae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with the Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies...
  
  , Poet, San Diego, California; Professor of Poetry and Poetics, University of California, San Diego: Poetry.
• Douglas N. Arnold
  Douglas N. Arnold
  Douglas Norman Arnold is a mathematician whose research focuses on the numerical analysis of partial differential equations with applications in mechanics and other fields in physics. , he is McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota.Arnold studied mathematics as...
  
  , Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: Finite element exterior calculus.
• Shimon Attie, Visual Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Video installation.

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• Dean Bakopoulos, Writer, Mineral Point, Wisconsin; Executive Director and Lillian Greenwood Artist-in-residence, Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts, Mineral Point: Fiction.
• Randy E. Barnett
  Randy Barnett
  Randy E. Barnett is a lawyer, a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts, and a legal theorist in the United States...
  
  , Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center: The reconstructed constitution.
• Mason Bates
  Mason Bates
  Mason Bates is an American composer of symphonic music. Distinguished by his innovations in orchestration and large-scale form, Bates is best known for his expansion of the orchestra to include electronics...
  
  , Composer, Oakland, California: Music Composition.
• Keith Bearden, Filmmaker, Long Island City, New York: Filmmaking.
• Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, Professor of History, New York University: The imprint and a logic of signs in medieval Europe (1150-1350).
• Jeffrey L. Bennetzen
  Jeffrey Bennetzen
  Jeffrey Lynn Bennetzen is an American geneticist on the faculty of the University of Georgia .He received his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of California, San Diego in 1974 and his doctoral degree in biochemistry from the University of Washington in 1980...
  
  , Norman and Doris Giles Professor of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, University of Georgia: Genetic diversity and population structure in the parasitic weed Striga and its crop hosts in Mali.
• Toni Bentley, Writer, Los Angeles, California: General Nonfiction.
• Michael P. Berman, Artist and Photographer, San Lorenzo, New Mexico: Photography.
• Harry Bernstein
  Harry Bernstein
  Harry Louis Bernstein was a British-born American writer whose first published book, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, dealt with his long suffering mother Ada's struggles to feed her six children; an abusive, alcoholic father, Yankel; the anti-Semitism Bernstein and his Jewish...
  
  , Writer, Brick, New Jersey: Now in my nineties.
• Michael D. Bess, Chancellor's Professor of History, Vanderbilt University: A historian's perspective on human biological enhancement.
• João Biehl
  João Biehl
  João Guilherme Biehl is a Brazilian anthropologist and theologian currently based at Princeton University. He specializes in medical anthropology and is the winner of the Rudolph Virchow Award given by the Society for Medical Anthropology. He was also awarded the Margaret Mead Award in 2007...
  
  , Associate Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University: Transcendental values and political life in postcolonial Brazil: The Mucker War.
• Erika Blumenfeld, Artist, Marfa, Texas: Environment-based installation.
• Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics, Clemson University; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The political economy of Jacksonian New York.
• Tim Bowling
  Tim Bowling
  Tim Bowling is a Canadian poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta...
  
  , Poet, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Poetry.
• Stanley Brandes, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley: Pets and their people.
• Michael F. Brenson, Independent Scholar, Accord, New York: A biography of David Smith.
• Art Bridgman/Myrna Packer, Choreographers, Valley Cottage, New York; Codirectors, Bridgman/Packer Dance: Choreography.
• Carlyle Brown, Playwright, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Drama.
• Michael Paul Burkard
  Michael Burkard
  -Life:He graduated from Hobart College and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA in 1973. He taught at Kirkland College and Sarah Lawrence College , and has taught in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University since 1997...
  
  , Poet, Syracuse, New York; Associate Professor of English, MFA Program in Creative Writing, Syracuse University; Instructor, Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College: Poetry.

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• Christopher S. Celenza, Professor, Department of German and Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University: Humanism and language from Petrarch to Poliziano.
• Lan Samantha Chang
  Lan Samantha Chang
  Lan Samantha Chang , born 1965, is an American writer of novels and short stories. She is Professor of English at the University of Iowa and Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop- Life and career :...
  
  , Professor of Creative Writing, and Director, The Program in Creative Writing, University of Iowa Writers' Workshop: Fiction.
• Meiling Cheng, Associate Professor of Critical Studies and English, and Director of Critical Studies, School of Theatre, University of Southern California: Contemporary time-based art in China.
• Dan Chiasson
  Dan Chiasson
  -Life:He graduated from Amherst College and Harvard University, with a Ph.D in English.He is currently an associate professor at Wellesley College. He lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts....
  
  , Poet, Sudbury, Massachusetts; Assistant Professor of English, Wellesley College: Poetry.
• Kyong Mee Choi, Composer, Chicago, Illinois; Assistant Professor of Music Composition, Roosevelt University: Music composition.
• Paul Clemens
  Paul Clemens
  Paul Clemens was a general officer in the United States Army. During World War I he served as Chief of Staff of the 32nd Infantry Division. Later he was given command of the 64th Infantry Brigade of the 32nd Infantry Division...
  
  , Assistant to the Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University: Dismantling a Detroit auto plant.
• Deborah Cohen, Associate Professor of History, Brown University: Family secrets in Britain, 1840-1990.
• Lewis Mitchell Cohen, Director of Renal Palative Care Initiative, Baystate Medical Center, and Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine: Allegations of murder in the medical community.
• Ovidiu Costin, Professor of Mathematics, Ohio State University: Study of singular differential systems using generalized summability techniques.

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• Bill Daniel
  Bill Daniel
  William Partlow Daniel , was a Governor of Guam and Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives...
  
  , Filmmaker, Braddock, Pennsylvania: Filmmaking.
• Sheldon Danziger, H. J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan: Four decades of antipoverty policies.
• William deBuys, Professor of Documentary Studies, College of Santa Fe: An environmental history of the North American Southwest.
• Alice Domurat Dreger, Associate Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University: Science and identity politics in the Internet age.
• Tony D'Souza
  Tony D'Souza
  Tony D'Souza is an American novelist, journalist, essayist, reviewer, travel and short story writer. He has published three novels with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and in foreign translations: Whiteman , The Konkans , and Mule...
  
  , Writer, Sarasota, Florida: Fiction.
• Laurent Dubois, Professor of History and Romance Studies, Duke University: A cultural history of the banjo.

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• Nancy Easterlin, Professor of English, University of New Orleans: What is literature for?.
• Alexei A. Efros, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University: Inferring geometric, photometric, and semantic scene properties from an image.
• Rodney Evans, Filmmaker, Brooklyn, New York: Filmmaking.

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• Xiaohui Fan
  Xiaohui Fan
  Xiaohui Fan is an American astronomer, and professor at University of Arizona.He graduated from Nanjing University with a BS, 1992, from Chinese Academy of Sciences with a MS in 1995, and from Princeton University with a Ph...
  
  , Associate Professor of Astronomy, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona: The end of cosmic dark ages: beyond the redshift seven barrier.
• James Farquhar (academic), Associate Professor, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and Department of Geology, University of Maryland: Isotopic investigations of microbial sulfur metabolisms.
• Robert Feintuch, Artist, New York City; Senior Lecturer in Art, Bates College: Painting.
• Molissa Fenley
  Molissa Fenley
  Molissa Fenley is a choreographer, modern dancer, and part-time associate professor of dance at Mills College. She has accepted commissions from Deutsche Oper Ballet of Berlin, Australian Dance Theatre, The Ohio Ballet, and The Pacific Northwest Ballet, and has won two New York Dance and...
  
  , Choreographer, New York City; Artistic Director, Molissa Fenley and Dancers; Associate Professor of Dance, Mills College: Choreography.
• G. R. F. Ferrari, Professor of Classics, University of California, Berkeley: Fiction and the limits of social meaning.
• Leon Fink, UIC Distinguished Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Chicago: Regulating labor in the Atlantic world, 1800-2000.
• Edward Fowler
  Edward Fowler
  Edward Fower was an English churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1691 until his death.- Early life and education :He was born at Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, later moving to Trinity College, Cambridge.- Writings :Fower was suspected of Pelagian...
  
  , Writer, Irvine, California; Professor, School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine: A family memoir.
• Mark I. Friedman
  Mark Friedman
  Dr. Mark I. Friedman is a physiologist and a psychologist. He is most notable for a paper regarding human metabolism and food intake.He is currently Associate Director at Monell Chemical Senses Center...
  
  , Member and Associate Director, Monell Center, Philadelphia: Diet and obesity.
• Victor A. Friedman, Andrew Mellon Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago: Multilingualism, identities, and the sociolinguistics of the Balkan Linguistic League.
• Rachel Fulton, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago: The Virgin Mary and the art of prayer, 1000-1500.
• Joe Fyfe, Painter, Brooklyn, New York; Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn: Painting.

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• David Galenson
  David Galenson
  David W. Galenson is a professor in the Department of Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research...
  
  , Professor in Economics and the College, University of Chicago: Conceptual revolutions in twentieth-century art.
• Forrest Gander
  Forrest Gander
  Forrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.Born in the Mojave Desert, he was raised in Virginia where he attended The College of William and Mary, majoring in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays. He received an M.A...
  
  , Poet, Barrington, Rhode Island; Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Brown University: Poetry.
• Sergey Gavrilets, Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee: The social brain hypothesis: coevolution of genes, memes, and social networks.
• Phoebe Gloeckner
  Phoebe Gloeckner
  Phoebe Louise Adams Gloeckner is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist.-Background:Gloeckner was born in 1960 in Philadelphia, and spent most of her later childhood and young adult life in San Francisco, where her family moved in the early 1970s...
  
  , Artist, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Art and Design: A graphic narrative.
• Laurie R. Godfrey, Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Reconstructing Madagascar's vanished ecosystems.
• Ann Goldstein, Editor and Translator, New York City; Editor, The New Yorker: The complete works of Primo Levi.
• Elijah Gowin, Photographer, Kansas City, Missouri; Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, University of Missouri, Kansas City: Photography.
• Allan Greer, Professor of History, University of Toronto: The practices of property in colonial North America.
• Wendy Griswold, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University: The Federal Writers' Project and American regionalism.
• Edith Grossman
  Edith Grossman
  Edith Grossman is an award-winning American translator specializing in English versions of Spanish language books. She is one of the most important translators of Latin American fiction in the past century, translating the works of Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel laureate Gabriel García...
  
  , Translator, New York City: The "Soledades" of Luis de Góngora.
• Sumit Guha, Professor of History, Rutgers University: Governing Caste: Identity and power in South Asia, 1600-1900.
• Achsah Guibbory, Professor of English, and Chair, Department of English, Barnard College: The uses of Judaism in seventeenth-century England.

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• Barbara Hahn, Distinguished Professor of German, Vanderbilt University: Hannah Arendt's literature.
• Roya Hakakian
  Roya Hakakian
  Roya Hakakian is an Iranian-American poet, journalist and writer living in the United States. A lauded Persian poet turned television producer with programs like 60 Minutes, Roya became well known for her memoir, Journey from the Land of No in 2004. Her essays on Iranian issues appear in the New...
  
  , Writer, Woodbridge, Connecticut: The Assassins of the Turquoise Palace.
• David M. Halperin, W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: How to be gay.
• William M. Hamlin, Professor of English, Washington State University: A history of John Florio's Montaigne.
• Saar Harari, Choreographer, New York City; Artistic Director, LeeSaar The Company: Choreography.
• Donald Harper, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago: China in the age of manuscripts, fourth century B.C. to tenth century A.D.
• Susanna B. Hecht, Professor of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles: Deforestation in the rubber boom of the upper Amazon.
• Robin Hemley
  Robin Hemley
  Robin Hemley, born May 28, 1958 in New York City, is a Jewish American nonfiction and fiction writer, author of eight books, most recently, DO-OVER! In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments...
  
  , Professor of English and Director, Nonfiction Writing Program, University of Iowa: Revisiting one's own youth.
• Denise L. Herzing, Research Director, Wild Dolphin Project, Jupiter, Florida; Research Faculty Member, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University: Underwater observations of wild dolphins.
• Sue Hettmansperger, Artist, Iowa City, Iowa; Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of Iowa, Iowa City: Painting.
• Bob Hicok
  Bob Hicok
  -Life:Hicok is an associate professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech. He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business...
  
  , Poet, Blacksburg, Virginia; Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Poetry.
• Martha Himmelfarb, William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, Princeton University: Jewish eschatology and Christian empire.
• Danny Hoch
  Danny Hoch
  Danny Hoch is an American writer, director and performance artist. He has acted in larger roles in independent and art house movies and had a few small roles in mainstream Hollywood films, with increasing exposure as in 2007's We Own the Night...
  
  , Playwright, Brooklyn, New York: Drama.
• Woody Holton
  Woody Holton
  Abner Linwood "Woody" Holton, III is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Richmond in Virginia and is a member of the Richmond Research Institute.-Life:He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and received his PhD from Duke University....
  
  , Associate Professor of History, University of Richmond: Abigail Adams, entrepreneur.
• Michael E. Hood, Assistant Professor of Biology, Amherst College: Evolutionary ecology of a global disease distribution.
• Daniel Horowitz
  Daniel Horowitz
  Daniel Horowitz is an American defense attorney who has represented several high-profile clients including talk show host Michael Savage and is a frequent commentator in the media on criminal cases in the news.-Background:...
  
  , Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies, Smith College: Understanding consumer culture, 1951-2001.
• Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor, R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University: Atomistic-based continuum theory for nano-structured materials.
• Sedrick Ervin Huckaby, Artist, Fort Worth, Texas; Adjunct Professor, University of Texas, Arlington: Painting.
• James Hyde
  James Hyde
  James Hyde is an American actor, dancer, and former male fashion model who played the role of Sam Bennett on the television soap opera Passions. Full name is James Robert Hyde. He was born and raised in Lancaster, Ohio.-Biography:...
  
  , Painter, Brooklyn, New York: Painting.

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• Torben Iversen, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Department of Government, Harvard University: Democracy, distribution, and the representation of economic interests.

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• Bahram Javidi, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut: Real-time automated detection and identification of biological microorganisms.
• Margo Jefferson
  Margo Jefferson
  Margo Lillian Jefferson is a former theatre critic at The New York Times and a notable, full-time professor at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts....
  
  , Associate Professor, Eugene Lang College, The New School University; Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University: Race: composition and improvisation.
• Paul Christopher Johnson, Associate Professor, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, and Department of History, and Director, Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: "Religion" and the purification of spirits.

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• Robert Kanigel, Professor of Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: On an Irish island.
• Sean Keilen, Lecturer in English, Princeton University: Imitation and tradition in Renaissance poetry.
• Martin Kersels
  Martin Kersels
  Martin Kersels is an American contemporary artist born in 1960 in Los Angeles. Who focuses his shows on sculpture, while also incorporating photography and video. He now lives and works in Sierra Madre, CA...
  
  , Artist, Sierra Madre, California; Codirector and Faculty Member, Program in Art, California Institute of the Arts: Installation art.
• Chandrashekhar B. Khare, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles: Motives, Galois representations, and automorphic forms.
• Laura L. Kiessling
  Laura L. Kiessling
  Laura L. Kiessling is an American biochemist, and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the director of the Keck Center for Chemical Genomics, and the NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program....
  
  , Hilldale Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Laurens Anderson Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin: Chemoselective reactions for biology.
• Matthew Klam
  Matthew Klam
  Matthew Klam is an American short-story writer and essayist. The New Yorker named him one of the 25 best fiction writers under 40, and he has won a Guggenheim fellowship, a Robert Bingham/PEN Award, a National Endowment of the Arts, a Whiting Writer's Award and an O. Henry Award...
  
  , Writer, Washington, DC; Visiting Associate Professor, Stony Brook University: Fiction.
• Anthony Korf, Composer, New York City; Artistic Director, Riverside Symphony, New York City: Music composition.

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• Elizabeth LeCompte
  Elizabeth LeCompte
  Elizabeth LeCompte is a founding member and the theater director of experimental theater collective The Wooster Group .-Biography:...
  
  , Theater Artist, New York City; Founding Member and Artistic Director, The Wooster Group: Drama.
• Michael Leja, Professor, History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania: The flood of pictures in the mid-nineteenth century.
• Simon Leung, Artist, Los Angeles, California; Associate Professor of Studio Art, University of California, Irvine: Post-studio art.
• Beth Levin
  Beth Levin
  Beth Levin is an American classical pianist in the Romantic tradition of her teachers Marian Filar, Rudolf Serkin, Leonard Shure, and Dorothy Taubman at the...
  
  , William H. Bonsall Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University: Crosslinguistic variation in event encoding.
• Builder Levy, Photographer, New York City: Photography.
• Michael J. Lewis, Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art, Williams College: The pietist tradition in town planning.
• Pam Lins, Sculptor, Brooklyn, New York; Adjunct Professor, Cooper Union School of Art: Sculpture.
• Sam Lipsyte
  Sam Lipsyte
  Sam Lipsyte is an American novelist and short story writer.The son of the sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, Sam Lipsyte was born in New York City and raised in Closter, New Jersey...
  
  , Writer, New York City; Assistant Professor, School of the Arts, Columbia University: Fiction.
• Shawn R. Lockery, Professor and Associate Director, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon: Recordings of neuronal activity and behavior in freely moving animals.
• Vyvyane Loh
  Vyvyane Loh
  Vyvyane Loh is a Malaysian-American novelist, choreographer, and physician.-Biography:Loh was born in Ipoh, Malaysia of an ethnic Chinese family. She grew up in Singapore and completed a degree in Biology and Classics at Boston University in the United States...
  
  , Writer, Watertown, Massachusetts: Fiction.

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• Glen M. MacDonald, Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles: Climate warming, epic drought, and society.
• Janet Maguire
  Janet Maguire
  Janet Maguire is an American composer residing in Venice, Italy. She is known particularly for her arrangement of the finale of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot in which she used exclusively the sketches Puccini left for it at his death...
  
  , Composer, Venice, Italy: Music composition.
• Anne Makepeace, Filmmaker, Lakeville, Connecticut; Director, Writer, and Producer, Anne Makepeace Productions, Inc: Filmmaking.
• Paolo Mancosu, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley: The interplay between philosophy of mathematics and mathematical logic.
• Fredrik Marsh, Photographer, Columbus, Ohio; Senior Lecturer in Art, Otterbein College: Photography.
• Jack Marshall
  Jack Marshall
  Sir John Ross Marshall, GBE, CH, , generally known as Jack Marshall, was a New Zealand politician. After spending twelve years as Deputy Prime Minister, he served as the 28th Prime Minister for most of 1972....
  
  , Writer, El Cerrito, California: Poetry.
• Tim Maudlin, Professor II of Philosophy, Rutgers University: New foundations for physical geometry.
• Jane Mayer
  Jane Mayer
  Jane Mayer is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1995...
  
  , Writer, Chevy Chase, Maryland; Staff Writer, The New Yorker Magazine: How America lost its way in fighting terrorism.
• Judith Mayne, Distinguished Humanities Professor of French, Ohio State University: Continental films and French Occupation cinema.
• Anthony McCall
  Anthony McCall
  Anthony McCall is a British-born American Avant-Garde artist, specializing in cinema/projected film.thumb|Anthony McCall at Gallery Zander , Cologne...
  
  , Artist, New York City: Installation art.
• Joanne Meyerowitz, Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University: Explaining human difference.
• Greg Miller, Photographer, Brooklyn, New York: Photography.
• Don Mitchell
  Don Mitchell (geographer)
  Don Mitchell is Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. From an academic household in California, he is a graduate of San Diego State University , Pennsylvania State University and received his Ph.D...
  
  , Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography, Maxwell School, Syracuse University; Visiting Scholar, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania: Bracero: remaking the California landscape, 1942-1964.
• Rebecca Morris, Artist, Los Angeles, California; Associate Professor of Painting, Pasadena City College: Painting.
• Samuel Moyn
  Samuel Moyn
  Samuel Moyn is a professor of history at Columbia University. His research interests are in modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, mathematical and critical theory, and sometimes Jewish studies.He is the co director of the...
  
  , Professor of History, Columbia University: Human rights between morality and politics.

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• Ardine Nelson, Photographer, Columbus, Ohio; Associate Professor, Department of Art, Ohio State University: Photography.
• John Wallace Nunley, Independent scholar, St. Louis, Missouri: African art and the experience of slavery.

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• Ruben Ochoa
  Ruben Ochoa
  Ruben Ochoa is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.-Life and work:Ochoa studied at the University of California, Irvine , Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles , and the Parsons School of Art and Design, New York.He was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of...
  
  , Artist, Los Angeles, California; Adjunct Professor in Sculpture, University of California, Irvine: Installation art.
• Peter Ozsváth
  Peter Ozsváth
  Peter Steven Ozsváth is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He created, along with Zoltán Szabó, Heegaard Floer homology, a homology theory for 3-manifolds....
  
  , Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University: Heegaard diagrams and holomorphic disks.

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• Myrna Packer/Art Bridgman, Choreographers, Valley Cottage, New York; Codirectors, Bridgman/Packer Dance: Choreography.
• Richard Panek, Writer, New York City: At the dawn of the next universe.
• Richard H. Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law: Political power, democratic politics, and constitutional theory.
• Claire Preston, Fellow and Lecturer in English, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge: English literature and scientific investigation in the seventeenth century.
• Richard Primus
  Richard Primus
  Richard Abraham Primus is an American legal scholar. He currently teaches United States constitutional law at Michigan Law School. In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on the relationship between history and constitutional interpretation...
  
  , Professor of Law, University of Michigan: Constitutional authority in the wake of civil war.

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• Andrew Stein Raftery, Artist, Providence, Rhode Island; Associate Professor of Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design: Engraving.
• Rufus Reid
  Rufus Reid
  Rufus Reid is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.-Personal history:...
  
  , Composer, Bassist, and Clinician, Teaneck, New Jersey: Music composition.
• Enrico Riley, Artist, Norwich, Vermont; Senior Lecturer and Area Head of Painting and Drawing, Dartmouth College: Painting.
• Lance Rips, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University: Concepts of individuals and their persistence.
• Oren D. Rudavsky, Filmmaker, New York City: Filmmaking.
• Paul Rudy, Composer, Kansas City, Missouri; Associate Professor and Coordinator of Composition, Conservatory of Music and Dance, University of Missouri, Kansas City: Music composition.
• John Gerard Ruggie, Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University: Governing multinationals: the case of human rights.
• Ben Russell
  Ben Russell (filmmaker)
  Ben Russell is an American experimental filmmaker. Russell developed his reputation over the numerous shorts he made throughout the 2000s, many as part of his "Trypps" series, and as the curator of the Magic Lantern Cinema in Providence, Rhode Island...
  
  , Filmmaker, Chicago, Illinois; Visiting Assistant Professor in Moving Image, University of Illinois: Filmmaking.
• Nancy Ruttenburg, Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Slavic Literatures, and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University: Dostoevsky and the culture of American democracy.

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• Lisa Sanditz, Artist, Tivoli, New York: Painting.
• Sigrid Sandström, Artist, Tivoli, New York; Assistant Professor of Studio Arts, Bard College: Painting.
• Philip W. Scher, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon: Tourism, the state, and the performance of identity in the neoliberal Caribbean.
• Jeffrey Schiff
  Jeffrey Schiff
  Jeffrey Schiff is an artist working in Brooklyn, New York. He currently teaches at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He has been making art for over 30 years.- Education :*M.F.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts...
  
  , Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Professor of Art, Wesleyan University: Sculpture.
• Laura Elise Schwendinger, Composer, Madison, Wisconsin; Associate Professor of Composition, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Music composition.
• Reginald Shepherd
  Reginald Shepherd
  Reginald Shepherd was an American poet, born in New York City and raised in the Bronx. He died of cancer in Penascola, Florida, in 2008.-Biography:...
  
  , Poet, Pensacola, Florida; Associate Poetry Faculty, Low-Residency MFA Program, Antioch University: Poetry.
• Vicky Shick, Choreographer, New York City: Choreography.
• Arthur P. Shimamura
  Arthur P. Shimamura
  Arthur P. Shimamura is Professor of Psychology and faculty member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the neural basis of human memory and cognition. He received his B.A. in Experimental Psychology from the University of...
  
  , Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley: A neurocognitive approach to the psychology of art and aesthetics.
• Gary Shiu, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Connecting string theory to experiment.
• Kathryn Sikkink, Regents Professor and McKnight Distinguished University Professor, University of Minnesota: The origins and effects of human rights trials in the world.
• Susan S. Silbey, Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities and Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Trust and surveillance in the cultures of science.
• Kaja Silverman
  Kaja Silverman
  Kaja Silverman is an American film theorist and art historian. She received her Ph.D. in English from Brown University. She taught at Yale University, Trinity College, Simon Fraser University, Brown University, the University of Rochester and the University of California, Berkeley, before joining...
  
  , Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Art History, University of California, Berkeley: The miracle of analogy.
• Ruth Lewin Sime, Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, Sacramento City College: A biographical study of Otto Hahn.
• Paul Sorrentino, Professor of English, Virginia Tech: The life of Stephen Crane.
• Alan M. Stahl, Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University: The nexus of wealth and power in medieval Venice.
• Kurt Stallmann
  Kurt Stallmann
  Stallmann Kurt is an American composer who lives and works in Houston, Texas.-Education:Kurt Stallmann was born in Rockford, Illinois. In 1987, he received a bachelor's degree in music from Northern Illinois University. That same year, he reolocated to Boston, Massachusetts where he composed,...
  
  , Composer, Houston, Texas; Assistant Professor and Lynette S. Autrey Chair, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University: Music composition.
• Alexander Stille
  Alexander Stille
  Alexander Stille is an American author and journalist. He is the son of Ugo Stille, a well-known Italian journalist and a former editor of Italy's Milan-based Corriere della Sera newspaper. Alexander Stille graduated from Yale and later the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism...
  
  , San Paolo Professor of International Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University: Family matters: a memoir.
• Katherine V. W. Stone, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles: The remaking of labor relations in the twenty-first century.
• Peter Stone
  Peter Stone
  Peter Hess Stone was an American writer for theater, television and movies.-Life and career:Stone was born in Los Angeles. His mother, Hilda , was a film writer, and his father, John Stone was the writer and producer of many silent films, including Shirley Temple and Charlie Chan movies...
  
  , Associate Professor of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, Austin: Ad hoc teams of mobile robots.
• Robin Stryker, Professor of Sociology and Affiliated Professor of Law, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: Social science in government regulation of equal employment opportunity.
• Marc A. Suchard, Assistant Professor of Biomathematics, Biostatistics, and Human Genetics: Towards solutions to the fundamental problems in statistical phylogenetics.

T

• David J. Taylor, Photographer, Las Cruces, New Mexico; Associate Professor of Photography, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces: Photography.
• Keith Terry, Choreographer, Musician, and Dancer, Oakland, California; Artistic Director, Crosspulse: Choreography.
• Christian Tomaszewski, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Lecturer in the Program in the Visual Arts, Princeton University: Fine arts.
• Anton Treuer, Associate Professor of Ojibwe, Bemidji State University: Ojibwe grammar project.
• Marc Trujillo
  Marc Trujillo
  Marc Trujillo is an American painter. His paintings depict places common to North American urban and suburban landscapes such as big chain and warehouse stores, gas stations, shopping malls, and chain restaurants...
  
  , Artist, Sherman Oaks, California; Professor of Drawing and Painting, Santa Monica College: Painting.

V

• Alexander van Oudenaarden, Associate Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Stochastic gene expression in development.
• Ashutosh Varshney, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan: Cities and ethnic conflict: a multi-country study.
• Mary Kay Vaughan, Professor of History, University of Maryland: Intimate paths to Mexico 1968.
• Val Vinokur, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Eugene Lang College, The New School: A translation of Marie Vieux Chauvet's Amour, colère, et folie.

W

• Roger D. Waldinger, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles: America's new immigrants and their homeland connection.
• Nicholas Watson
  Nicholas Watson
  Nicholas Watson is a writer and filmmaker. He co-founded the New Haven Stuckist art group.- Life and Art :Nicholas Watson has worked on films with Jesse Richards since 1997. In 2001, Watson co-founded the New Haven, Connecticut chapter of the Stuckism art movement with Richards. Stuckism was...
  
  , Professor of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University: Vernacular theology and the secularization of England, 1050-1550.
• Sarah Watts
  Sarah Watts
  Sarah Lyons Watts is a history professor at Wake Forest University and author of Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire, University of Chicago Press, 2003, and other publications....
  
  , Professor of History, Wake Forest University: The political satires of Lyonel Feininger.
• Andrew Weaver
  Andrew J. Weaver
  Andrew J. Weaver is a climate modeller in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and a lead author of a chapter on Global Climate Projections in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. ....
  
  , Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Biogeochemical feedbacks on polar climate stability.
• Jonathan Weiner
  Jonathan Weiner
  Jonathan Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment....
  
  , Professor, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University: A book about science and art.
• Barbara (Bobbi) Wolfe, Professor of Economics, Population Health Sciences, and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Understanding the tie between income and health disparities.
• Linda Woodbridge, Josephine Berry Weiss Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University: English revenge drama.

Y

• Donald A. Yates, Writer and Translator, St. Helena, California; Professor Emeritus of Latin American Literature, Michigan State University: Jorge Luis Borges: A life in letters.
• Pamela Yates
  Pamela Yates
  Pamela Yates is an American documentary filmmaker and human rights activist. She has directed films about war crimes, racism, and genocide in the United States and Latin America, often with emphasis on the legal responses.-Biography:...
  
  , Filmmaker, New York City; President and Cofounder, Skylight Pictures, Inc: Filmmaking.
• Kevin A. Yelvington, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida: Melville J. Herskovits and the making of Afro-American anthropology.
• Rachel P. Youens, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Adjunct Lecturer, Parsons School of Design; Adjunct Assistant Professor, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York: Painting and sculpture.
• Jason X.-J. Yuan, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego: Role of ion channels in stem cell proliferation and differentiation.

Z

• Bill Zavatsky
  Bill Zavatsky
  Bill Zavatsky is an American poet, journalist, jazz pianist, and translator.Zavatsky has worked as a journalist; his articles have appeared in The New York Times Book Review and Rolling Stone....
  
  , Poet, New York City; Teacher of English, Trinity School, New York City: Poetry.
• Miguel Zenón
  Miguel Zenon
  Miguel Zenón is an alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader.-Biography:Miguel Zenón was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. While studying at the Escuela Libre de Musica in San Juan, he won a scholarship to the “Berklee in Puerto Rico” program of the Berklee College of Music and a scholarship to...
  
  , Composer, New York City: Music composition.
• Li Zhang, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis: The rise of psychotherapy in post-reform China.
• Thad Ziolkowski, Writer, Brooklyn, New York; Associate Professor of English and Humanities, and Director, Writing Program, Pratt Institute: Fiction.
• 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...
  
  , Professor of English, University of Kentucky.

External links

• 2008 Guggenheim Foundation Fellows
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