List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2008

List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2008. from Wayback Machine

U.S. and Canadian Fellows

A Len Ackland, 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, Poet, New York City; Distinguished Professor of English, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center: Poetry. Geri A. Allen, 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, Poet, San Diego, California; Professor of Poetry and Poetics, University of California, San Diego: Poetry. Douglas N. Arnold, Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: Finite element exterior calculus. Shimon Attie, Visual Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Video installation.

B 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, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center: The reconstructed constitution. Mason Bates, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Poet, Syracuse, New York; Associate Professor of English, MFA Program in Creative Writing, Syracuse University; Instructor, Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College: Poetry.

C chameckilerner, Artist Collective, New York City, New York: Choreography and Video Christopher Celenza, Professor, Department of German and Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University: Humanism and language from Petrarch to Poliziano. Lan Samantha Chang, 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, 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, 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.

D Bill Daniel, 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, Writer, Sarasota, Florida: Fiction. Laurent Dubois, Professor of History and Romance Studies, Duke University: A cultural history of the banjo.

E 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.

F Xiaohui Fan, 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, Choreographer, New York City; Artistic Director, Molissa Fenley and Dancers; Associate Professor of Dance, Mills College: Choreography. Giovanni R. F. ("John") 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, Writer, Irvine, California; Professor, School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine: A family memoir. Mark I. Friedman, 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.

G David Galenson, Professor in Economics and the College, University of Chicago: Conceptual revolutions in twentieth-century art. Forrest Gander, 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, 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, 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.

H Barbara Hahn, Distinguished Professor of German, Vanderbilt University: Hannah Arendt's literature. Roya Hakakian, 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, 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, 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, Playwright, Brooklyn, New York: Drama. Woody Holton, 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, 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, Painter, Brooklyn, New York: Painting.

I 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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