John Simon Guggenheim Memorial foundation
2000 United States and Canadian fellows
  • Robert H. Abzug, Professor of History and American Studies, University of Texas at Austin: Rollo May and the transformation of American culture.
  • Richard D. Alba, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, State University of New York at Albany: Second generations in immigrant societies.
  • April Alliston, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University: Character, plausibility, and gender in French and English historical
  • narratives, 1650-1850.
  • Hilton Als, Writer, New York City; Staff Writer, The New Yorker: Creative writing.
  • Douglas Anderson, Professor of English, University of Georgia: William Bradford and the Anglo-European republic of letters.
  • James Arthur, University Professor, University of Toronto: Representations of classical groups.
  • David Auburn, Playwright, Brooklyn, New York: Play writing.
  • David Baker, Poet, Granville, Ohio; Professor of English and Thomas B. Fordham Professor of Creative Writing, Denison University; Poetry Editor, The
  • Kenyon Review: Poetry.
  • Joan Banach, Artist, New York City: Painting.
  • Abhijit V. Banerjee, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The new economics of poverty.
  • Jill Banfield, Professor of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Microbe-mineral interactions of environmental importance.
  • Ernesto Bazan, Photographer, Brooklyn, New York: Photography.
  • Howard C. Berg, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Physics, Harvard University: The motile behavior of bacteria.
  • Jane A. Bernstein, Austin Fletcher Professor of Music, Tufts University: Music and print culture in Renaissance Rome.
  • William Betz, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver: The optical detection of synaptic function.
  • Rabi Bhattacharya, Professor of Mathematics, Indiana University: Studies in Markov processes.
  • Tom Bills, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Associate Professor of Art, Brandeis University: Sculpture.
  • Lisa M. Bitel, Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies and Director of Women's Studies, University of Kansas: Landscape, gender, and
  • Christianization in Gaul and Ireland.
  • Stuart Blackburn, Senior Lecturer in Tamil and South Indian Studies and Chairman, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of London: The role of
  • folklore in colonial south India.
  • Isidro Blasco, Artist, New York City: Sculpture and installation art.
  • Anne Bogart, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Columbia University; Artistic Director, The Saratoga International Theatre Institute (SITI), New York
  • City: Essays on the theatre.
  • Lloyd Bonfield, Professor of Law, Tulane University: Litigants, lawyers, and the law in English probate courts, 1660-1700.
  • Nina Bovasso, Artist, New York City: Painting and drawing.
  • John M. Bowers, Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: The antagonistic tradition of Chaucer and Langland.
  • Michael E. Bratman, Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins University Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University: Self-determination and planning agency.
  • Martin Brody, Composer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Catherine Mills Davis Professor of Music, Wellesley College: Music composition.
  • Ronald K. Brown, Choreographer, Brooklyn, New York; Artistic Director, Evidence, New York City: Choreography.
  • William Craft Brumfield, Professor of Slavic Studies, Tulane University: The architecture of the Russian North.
  • Michael Camille, Mary J. Block Professor of Art History, University of Chicago: Sculpture, signs, and street life in medieval France.
  • Vicki Caron, Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Cornell University: Catholic-Jewish relations in France since 1871.
  • Shih-Hui Chen, Composer, Malden, Massachusetts: Music composition.
  • Patricia Wenjie Cheng, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles: A psychological theory of causal discovery.
  • Alice L. Conklin, Associate Professor of History, University of Rochester: Ethnographic liberalism in France, 1920-1945.
  • Diana Cooper, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Adjunct Professor of Art, New York University: Painting and installation art.
  • Kevin R. Cox, Professor of Geography, The Ohio State University: The Americal politics of local economic development.
  • Christopher J. Cramer, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Physics, and Scientific Computation, University of Minnesota: The structure and
  • reactivity of chemical and biological systems.
  • Hai-Lung Dai, Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania: Chemical-reaction control.
  • Kathryn Davis, Writer, East Calais, Vermont; Professor of English, Skidmore College: Fiction.
  • Veronica Day, Photographer, Brooklyn, New York: Photography.
  • Peter Dear, Professsor of History and of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University: Making sense in science.
  • Donald J. DePaolo, Class of 1951 Professor of Geochemistry, University of California, Berkeley: The geochemical effects of magma generation and
  • transport.
  • Robert Desjarlais, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College: Sensory biographies among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists.
  • Jessica Diamond, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Painting.
  • Arthur Dong, Film Maker, Los Angeles; Producer and Director, DeepFocus Productions: Film making.
  • Tom Drury, Writer, Litchfield, Connecticut: Fiction.
  • Thomas Dublin, Professor of History, State University of New York at Binghamton: Economic decline in the Pennsylvania anthracite region, 1920-1990.
  • Robert S. DuPlessis, Isaac H. Clothier Professor of History and International Relations, Swarthmore College: A history of consumption in the early modern
  • Atlantic world.
  • Lauren B. Edelman, Professor of Law and Sociology, University of California, Berkeley: The formation of civil-rights law in the workplace.
  • Anthony Feinstein, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto: Trauma-related mental health issues in post-apartheid Namibia.
  • Alexei V. Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley: The expansion of the universe.
  • Marc R. Forster, Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College: The emergence of German Catholic identity.
  • Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard University: The origins and development of good work.
  • Jonathon Glassman, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University: Racial thought in colonial Zanzibar.
  • Jill Godmilow, Video Artist, South Bend, Indiana; Professor of Film, Television and Theatre, University of Notre Dame: Video.
  • Susan Goldin-Meadow, Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago: Gesture and the mind.
  • Rigoberto González, Poet, New York City; Literacy Teacher, Coalition for Hispanic Family Services, Brooklyn: Poetry.
  • Francisco Gonzalez-Crussi, Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School; Head of Laboratories, Children's Memorial Hospital,
  • Chicago: Essays on human generation.
  • Paul D. Grannis, Distinguished Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Studies of broken symmetry in nature.
  • Milford Graves, Composer, Jamaica, New York; Member of the Core Faculty in Music, Bennington College: Music composition.
  • Richard L. Greaves, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of History, Florida State University: John Bunyan in historical perspective.
  • Vanalyne Green, Video Artist, Chicago; Associate Professor of Video Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Video.
  • Linda Gregerson, Poet, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan: Poetry.
  • Craig R. Groves, Director, Conservation Planning, The Nature Conservancy, Boise, Idaho: The conservation of biological diversity.
  • Robert J. Hamers, Evan P. Helfaer Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Studies in molecular electronics.
  • Brooks Haxton, Poet, Syracuse, New York; Director of Creative Writing, Syracuse University: Poetry.
  • Wick Haxton, Professor of Physics and Director, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle: Studies in neutrino-induced
  • nucleosynthesis.
  • Thomas Head, Professor of History, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York: Saints, relics, and patronage in Western
  • Christendom, 200-1215.
  • Gerry Hemingway, Composer and Percussionist, Plainsboro, New Jersey: Music composition.
  • Amy Hempel, Writer, Bridgehampton, New York; Member of the Core Faculty in Writing, Bennington College: Fiction.
  • Alicia Henry, Artist, Nashville, Tennessee; Assistant Professor of Art, Fisk University: Painting and drawing.
  • Nancy A. Hewitt, Professor of History, Rutgers University: American women's activism, 1840-1965.
  • Tony Hoagland, Poet, Las Cruces, New Mexico; Assistant Professor of English, New Mexico State University: Poetry.
  • Jennifer L. Hochschild, William Stewart Tod Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University: The prospects for democratic pluralism in
  • the United States.
  • Lillian Hoddeson, Associate Professor of History and Senior Research Physicist, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Historian, Fermi National
  • Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois: The life and science of John Bardeen.
  • Manuela Hoelterhoff, Writer, New York City: Germaine Lubin and Bayreuth in 1939.
  • Michael B. Holden, Artist, Santa Rosa, California: Painting.
  • Peter Jeffery, Professor of Music, Princeton University: The earliest manuscript of the Roman chant tradition.
  • Sajeev John, Professor of Physics, University of Toronto: Photonic-band gap materials.
  • Claudia L. Johnson, Professor of English, Princeton University: Jane Austen's status as a legend.
  • Amelia Jones, Professor of Art History, University of California, Riverside: New York Dada, 1915-1922.
  • Lawrence Joseph, Professor of Law, St. John's University: Essays on Catholicism.
  • Deborah Anne Kapchan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director, Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, University
  • of Texas at Austin: Self and nation in Moroccan oral poetry.
  • Larry Karush, Composer, Los Angeles: Music composition.
  • Dovid Katz, Writer, County Conway, Wales; Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, and Director, Center for Stateless Cultures, Vilnius
  • University, Lithuania: Fiction in Yiddish.
  • Steve Keister, Artist, New York City; Instructor in Art, School of Visual Arts; Instructor in Art, Maryland Institute College of Art; Instructor in Art, Hofstra
  • University: Sculpture.
  • Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Explanation in developmental biology.
  • Joel Kingsolver, Professor of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle: The topography of adaptive landscapes.
  • George Knox, Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of British Columbia: Tiepolo's New Testament drawings.
  • Dorothy Ko, Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies, Rutgers University: The history and culture of footbinding.
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University: The idea of the self in 18th-century art.
  • Chang-rae Lee, Writer, Ridgewood, New Jersey; Professor of English, Hunter College, City University of New York: Fiction.
  • Laura L. Letinsky, Photographer, Chicago; Assistant Professor of Photography, University of Chicago: Photography.
  • Jill Levine, Artist, New York City; Instructor in Studio Art, Sarah J. Hale High School, Brooklyn: Painting and sculpture.
  • Bernth Lindfors, Professor of English and African Literatures, University of Texas at Austin: Ira Aldridge's theatrical career in Europe.
  • John T. Lis, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University: Protein templating in the propagation of gene activity.
  • Jennie Livingston, Film Maker, Brooklyn, New York; Writer, Director, and Producer, Off White (OW!) Productions, Brooklyn: Film making.
  • Susanne Lohmann, Professor of Political Science and of Policy Studies and Director, Center for Comparative Political Economy, University of California,
  • Los Angeles: Administrative rationality in the research university.
  • Lev Loseff, Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College: An annotated bilingual edition of Joseph Brodsky's poetry.
  • Scott P. Mainwaring, Eugene Conley Professor of Government and Director, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame: The
  • durability of Latin America's post-1978 elected governments.
  • Thomas Mallon, Writer, Westport, Connecticut: Fiction.
  • Sara Shelton Mann, Choreographer, San Francisco: Choreography.
  • Jaime Manrique, Writer, New York City; Member of the Part-time Faculty, Eugene Lang College, New School University: A memoir.
  • Emer Martin, Writer, Kilcloone, County Meath, Ireland; Contributing Editor, Black Book Magazine, New York City: Fiction.
  • James Matheson, Composer, Tampa, Florida; Lecturer in Music, Ithaca College, New York: Music composition.
  • Katharine Eisaman Maus, Professor of English, University of Virginia: A history of English literature, 1603-1660.
  • Colleen McDannell, Professor of History and Sterling M. McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies, University of Utah: Religious America in government
  • photography, 1935-1943.
  • Andrew Rimvydas Miksys, Photographer, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Seattle, Washington; Instructor in Photography, Louisiana State University:
  • Photography.
  • Donka Minkova, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles: Verse form and linguistic reconstruction in English.
  • Rick Moody, Writer, Fishers Island, New York; Member of the Core Faculty in Writing, Bennington College: A family memoir.
  • Philip D. Morgan, Professor of History and Editor, William & Mary Quarterly, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, College of
  • William & Mary: White and black in 18th-century Jamaica.
  • Bill Morrison, Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
  • Stephen Mueller, Artist, New York City: Painting.
  • Madhusree Mukerjee, Writer, Jackson Heights, New York; Editor, Scientific American, New York City: The Andaman Islanders.
  • Lawrence Nees, Professor of Art History, University of Delaware: Frankish illuminated manuscripts.
  • Antonya Nelson, Writer, Las Cruces, New Mexico; Associate Professor of English, New Mexico State University: Fiction.
  • Barbara Newman, Professor of English and Religion, Northwestern University: Vision, poetry, and belief in the Middle Ages.
  • Andrea Wilson Nightingale, Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Stanford University: The conception of wisdom in 4th-century
  • Athens.
  • Stephen Orgel, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University: The history of the relation between Shakespearean texts and
  • productions.
  • H. Allen Orr, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Rochester: The genetic origin of species.
  • Robert A. Orsi, Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington: American Catholics' recollections of their childhoods in the Church.
  • Ed Osborn, Artist, Oakland, California: Sound installation.
  • Eric Pankey, Poet, Fairfax, Virginia; Professor of English, George Mason University: Poetry.
  • Joseph Parisi, Editor, Poetry, Chicago; Executive Director, Modern Poetry Association: A documentary history of Poetry magazine.
  • Suzan-Lori Parks, Playwright, Brooklyn, New York: Play writing.
  • Ed Paschke, Artist, Chicago; Professor of Art, Northwestern University: Painting.
  • Mary Sponberg Pedley, Teacher, Ann Arbor Public Schools; Adjunct Assistant Curator of Maps, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan:
  • Printed maps and popular taste in 18th-century France and England.
  • Louis A. Pérez, Jr., J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Suicide and exemplary death in Cuba.
  • Donna J. Peuquet, Professor of Geography, Pennsylvania State University: A cognitive approach to representing geographic knowledge.
  • Mark Phillips, Professor of History, University of British Columbia: A short history of distance.
  • Suzan Pitt, Film Animator, Los Angeles; Member of the Faculty in Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts: Film animation.
  • Vicente L. Rafael, Associate Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego: Language and the origins of nationalism in the Philippines.
  • Jahan Ramazani, Professor of English, University of Virginia: Postcolonial poetry in English.
  • Thomas W. Reps, Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison: A new compressed representation of Boolean functions.
  • David Riker, Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
  • John Storm Roberts, Independent Scholar, Tivoli, New York: Latin dance in the United States.
  • Roxana Robinson, Writer, New York City: Fiction.
  • Larry Rohrschneider, Member, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Affiliate Professor of Pathology, University of
  • Washington, Seattle: Molecular mechanisms for regulating the growth of blood cells.
  • Daniel S. Rokhsar, Professor of Physics and Head, Computational and Theoretical Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of
  • California, Berkeley: Studies in computational and theoretical biology.
  • James Rolfe, Composer, Toronto: Music composition.
  • Dennis Romano, Professor of History, Syracuse University: Doge Francesco Foscari and the crisis of Venetian republicanism.
  • Marian Roth, Photographer, Provincetown, Massachusetts: Photography.
  • Ingrid D. Rowland, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Chicago: A life of Giordano Bruno.
  • Roswell Rudd, Composer and Jazz Trombonist, Kerhonkson, New York: Music composition.
  • John Russell, Writer, New York City; Art Critic, The New York Times: A memoir.
  • Richard Ryan, Artist, Millers Falls, Massachusetts; Adjunct Senior Critic in Art, Brandeis University: Painting.
  • Jacqueline Saccoccio, Artist, New York City: Painting.
  • Mark Salzman, Writer, Glendale, California: Nonfiction.
  • Tamar Schlick, Professor of Mathematics, Chemistry, and Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Associate Investigator,
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York University: Modeling studies of protein-DNA complexes.
  • Glen Seator, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Sculpture and installation art.
  • James J. Sheehan, Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History, Stanford University: A history of sovereignty in 20th-century Europe.
  • S. Murray Sherman, Leading Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, State University of New York at Stony Brook: The thalamic relay of visual signals
  • to the cortex.
  • Jocelyn Penny Small, Professor of Art History and the Library, Rutgers University: Narrative in classical art.
  • Bruce Smith, Poet, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Associate Professor of English, University of Alabama: Poetry.
  • Rebecca Solnit, Writer, San Francisco: Photography and the invention of the present.
  • John Stembridge, Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan: Combinatorial aspects of root systems and Weyl characters.
  • Judy Stevens, Artist, New York City: Sculpture.
  • Frank H. Stewart, Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The customary law of the Sinai Bedouin.
  • Robert Blair St. George, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania: Spoken language and oral poetics in early New England.
  • Kristine Stiles, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University: Documentary photography of the nuclear age.
  • Gwen Strahle, Artist, Dayville, Connecticut; Member of the Adjunct Faculty in Art, Rhode Island School of Design: Painting.
  • Z. S. Strother, Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University: The relationship of art to power in central Africa.
  • Richard J. A. Talbert, William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
  • Cartography and world-view in ancient Rome.
  • Julie Taylor, Professor of Anthropology, Rice University: Argentine tango and the aesthetic of violence.
  • Maria Todorova, Professor of History, University of Florida: Nationalism and hero worship in the Balkans.
  • Stephen Tourlentes, Photographer, Somerville, Massachusetts; Visiting Associate Professor of Photography, Massachusetts College of Art: Photography.
  • Robert Trivers, Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University: Genetic conflict within the individual.
  • Amanda Vaill, Writer, New York City: A biography of Jerome Robbins.
  • David J. Vayo, Composer, Bloomington, Illinois; Associate Professor of Composition and Theory and Coordinator, New Music Activities, Illinois Wesleyan
  • University: Music composition.
  • Elizabeth Vierling, Professor of Biochemistry and of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona: Gene-mapping for
  • agricultural productivity at high temperatures.
  • Darla Villani, Choreographer, Brooklyn, New York: Choreography.
  • Mike Wallace, Professor of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York: A history of New York City since 1898.
  • Wen I. Wang, Thayer Lindsley Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University: Semiconductor heterostructures for information technologies.
  • Brenda Way, Choreographer, Oakland, California; Artistic Director, ODC/San Francisco: Choreography.
  • Joan Weiner, Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: Frege's lessons for our understanding of language.
  • Rainer Weiss, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Gravitational waves of astrophysical origin.
  • Jennifer Widom, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University: New query and search techniques for the
  • Internet.
  • Jennette Williams, Photographer, New York City; Instructor in Photography, School of Visual Arts: Photography.
  • Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe, Professor of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia: Modernist architectural theory and practice in the British Empire and
  • Commonwealth.
  • Shira Wolosky, Professor of English and American Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Meaning without metaphysics in Hebraic tradition.
  • Stephen S.-T. Yau, Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science and Director, Control and Information Laboratory, University of Illinois at
  • Chicago: Studies in complex and combinatorial geometry.
  • Marilyn B. Young, Professor of History, New York University: The postwar war in Korea.
  • Xumu Zhang, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University: Man-made catalysts for manufacturing.