List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2007.
2007 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Daniel Alarcón, Writer, Oakland, California; Distinguished Visiting Writer, Mills College: Fiction. Rick Altman, 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, 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, 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, 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, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Houston: Quantum dynamics in molecular electronic devices. Hisham M. Bizri, Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota: Filmmaking. Jane Ira Bloom, Composer, New York City; Associate Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Music, New School University: Music composition. Lawrence D. Bobo, 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, Writer, Little Rock, Arkansas: Fiction. Elizabeth Brown, Composer and Performer, Brooklyn, New York: Music composition. Jane Brox, Writer, Brunswick, Maine; Nonfiction Writing Faculty Member, Low Residency MFA Program, Lesley University: A history of controlled light. Christopher Buckley, 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, 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, Writer, New York City: The life of David Wojnarowicz. Natalie Charkow Hollander, Sculptor, Woodbridge, Connecticut: Sculpture. Bruce Charlesworth, 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, Professor, History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz: Indigenous cultural politics today. Richard Conniff, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Professor of Religious Studies and History, University of New Hampshire: Christianization in late antique Egypt. Erica Funkhouser, Poet, Essex, Massachusetts; Lecturer, Department of Writing and Humanistic Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Poetry. Ann Gale, 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, Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics, New York University: The international dimensions of monetary policy. J. Arch Getty, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles: Folkways, political practices, and the Soviet state. Melissa James Gibson, 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, 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, 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, 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, Filmmaker, Long Island City, New York: Film. Fenton Johnson, Writer, Tucson, Arizona; Associate Professor, Creative Writing Program, University of Arizona: Desire in Solitude (nonfiction). A. Van Jordan, Poet, Austin, Texas; Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas, Austin: Poetry. Heidi Julavits, 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, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, and Director, Graduate Studies, George Washington University: War and remembrance in Iraq. Verlyn Klinkenborg, 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, 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 (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design): Poetry. Philippa Levine, Professor of History, University of Southern California: The evolution debates. Michael Light, Artist, San Francisco, California: Photography. Meredith Lillich, Professor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University: The Gothic stained glass of Reims Cathedral. Kalup Linzy, 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.