List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2003

List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2003.

U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Gerard Aching, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of Graduate Studies, New York University: Black socialist thought and literature in the Caribbean, 1925–1945. Diane Ackerman, writer, Ithaca, New York: A poetics of the brain. John A. Agnew, Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles: Europe's margins, national territories, and modern statehood. Catherine L. Albanese, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara: A cultural history of American metaphysical religion. Emily Apter, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, New York University: The political and cultural significance of translation. Judith F. Baca, artist, Venice, California; Professor of World Arts and Culture, Cesar Chavez Center, University of California, Los Angeles; Founding Artistic Director, Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), Venice: Visual art. Zainab Bahrani, Edith Porada Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University: The body and violence in Assyrian art. John Balaban, Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence, North Carolina State University: A translation of Nguyen Du's The Tale of Kieu. Patricia Barber, Composer and musician, Chicago: Music composition. Eric Montague Beekman, Professor of Germanic Languages, University of Massachusetts Amherst: An edition of the Ambonese Herbal of Rumphius. Charles Beitz, Professor of Politics, Princeton University: A political theory of human rights. Zoe Beloff, Video Artist, New York City; Adjunct Professor of Media and Communication Arts, City College and Adjunct Professor of Media Culture, College of Staten Island, City University of New York: Video. Roland Benabou, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University: Behavioral political economy. Carl M. Bender, Professor of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis: A new approach to quantum field theory. Maxine Berg, Professor of History, University of Warwick, England: Global origins of British consumer goods in the 18th century. Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park: Movement and place in African-American life, 1650–2000. April Bernard, poet, New Haven, Connecticut; Professor of Literature and Member of the MFA Core Faculty, Bennington College: Poetry. David A. Bradt, Member of the Faculty, Center for International Emergency, Disaster & Refugee Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Member of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia: The ethnographic study of the Badui tribe of Java. Joann Brennan, photographer, Centennial, Colorado; Assistant Professor of Photography, University of Colorado at Denver: Photography. Martin Bresnick, composer, New Haven, Connecticut; Adjunct Professor of Composition, Yale University: Music composition. Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., Professor of English, University of Arkansas: European totalitarianism and the white Southern imagination, 1930–1950. Anthony Brown, composer, Berkeley, California: Music composition. Peter Cameron, writer, New York City; Member of the Guest Faculty, Graduate Writing Program, Sarah Lawrence College: Fiction. Jim Campbell, artist, San Francisco; Research and Development Engineer, Genesis Microchip, Alviso, California: Visual art. Ann Carlson, Choreographer, New York City: Choreography. Mary Ellen Carroll, artist, New York City: Visual art. Laura L. Carstensen, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University: Extended life expectancy in the 21st century. Nicole Cattell, Film Maker, New York City; Director and producer, Swim Pictures and El Sueño Productions, New York City: Film making. Siu-Wai Chan, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Columbia University: New methods of preparing grain-boundary junctions of high temperature superconductors. Jeffrey A. Cina, Professor of Chemistry and Member, Oregon Center for Optics, University of Oregon: Studies in ultrafast electronic energy transfer. Robert Cohen, writer, Middlebury, Vermont; Associate Professor of English, Middlebury College: Fiction. Tom Conley, Professor of Romance Languages, Harvard University: Topography and literature in Renaissance France. Matthew Connelly, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University: A global history of population control. Ted Conover, writer, Bronx, New York: A book about roads. Perry R. Cook, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Music, Princeton University: Technology and vocal expression. Fred Cray, photographer, Brooklyn, New York: Photography. Eve D'Ambra, Associate Professor of Art, Vassar College: Beauty and the Roman imperial portrait. Arnold I. Davidson, Professor of Philosophy, Divinity and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago: Spiritual exercises in philosophy. Michel C. Delfour, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Center of Mathematics Research, University of Montreal: Intrinsic theory of thin and asymptotic shells. Devin DeWeese, Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and director, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University Bloomington: A history of the Yasavi Sufi tradition of Central Asia. Steve DiBenedetto, artist, New York City; Visiting Artist and lecturer, Rutgers University and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Painting. Francis X. Diebold, William Polk Carey Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania: Financial asset returns and underlying economic fundamentals. Heather Dubrow, Tighe-Evans Professor and John Bascom Professor of English, University of Wisconsin–Madison: The lyric in early modern England. Paul N. Edwards, Associate Professor of History and Politics of Technology and director, Science, Technology & Society Program, University of Michigan: The technopolitics of information infrastructure in South Africa. Martin B. Einhorn, Professor of Physics, University of Michigan: Quantum field theory in curved spacetime. Barbara Alpern Engel, Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder: Marriage and the state in late imperial Russia. Nathan Englander, writer, New York City: Fiction. Helen Epstein, writer, Brooklyn, New York: The AIDS epidemic in Africa. Daniel R. Ernst, Professor of Law, Georgetown University: The legal profession and the administrative state in 20th-century America. Margaret J. M. Ezell, John Paul Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University: Authors, readers, and literary life in Britain, 1645–1714. Steven Feld, Professor of Music and Anthropology, Columbia University: The anthropology of global music industrialization. James W. Fernandez, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Chicago: An ethnography of the social imagination in Spain. Teresita Fernández, artist, Brooklyn, New York: Sculpture. Carter Vaughn Findley, Professor of History, Ohio State University: D'Ohsson and his Tableau général de l'empire othoman. Kathleen Finneran, writer, St. Louis, Missouri: Essays about aunts. David Froom, composer, California, Maryland; Professor of Music, St. Mary's College of Maryland: Music composition. Kenneth M. George, Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison: Art and post-authoritarian disquiet in Indonesia. György Gergely, Professor and Department Head of Developmental Research, Institute for Psychological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest: The development of understanding other minds and intentionality in infancy. Michael Geyer, Professor of History, University of Chicago: The culture of defeat in modern German history. Samantha Gillison, writer, Brooklyn, New York: Fiction. Neil Goldberg, Video Artist, New York City: Video. Irene Good, Research and Curatorial Associate, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University: A social archaeology of textiles. Monica H. Green, Professor of History, Arizona State University: Medicine and culture in 12th-century Salerno. Ariela Gross, Professor of Law and History, University of Southern California Law School: A history of racial identity on trial in America. Ted Gup, Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism, Case Western Reserve University: America's culture of secrecy. Susan Hahn, poet, Winnetka, Illinois; Editor, TriQuarterly Literary Magazine, Northwestern University: Poetry. Langdon Hammer, Professor of English, Yale University: A biography of James Merrill. Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University: The Japanese organization Science of Happiness. Thomas Allen Harris, Film Maker, Brooklyn, New York: Film making. John Haugeland, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago: An interpretation of Heidegger. Aleksandar Hemon, writer, Chicago: Fiction. Fred S. Hersch, Composer and Pianist, New York City: Music composition. David Hinton, Writer and translator, East Calais, Vermont: A translation of The Book of Songs and of The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan. Gitta Honegger, Professor of Theatre and English, Arizona State University: A biography of Helene Weigel. C. J. Hribal, writer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Professor of English, Marquette University: Fiction. Cannon Hudson, artist, New York City: Painting. Joseph Michael Hunt, Bank Advisor on Health, Nutrition, and Early Childhood Development, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines: Nutrition security of poor women and children in Asia. Neil Immerman, Professor of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Applications of descriptive and dynamic complexity. Sheldon H. Jacobson, Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Willett Faculty Scholar, and director, Simulation Optimization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Aviation security problems and solutions. Thomas Joiner, Bright-Burton Professor of Psychology, Florida State University: A theory of completed suicide. Catherine Julien, Associate Professor of History, Western Michigan University: The Spanish conquest from the perspective of the Inca Titu Cusi. John Justeson, Professor of Anthropology, University at Albany, State University of New York: The decipherment of epi-Olmec hieroglyphic writing. Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Professor of History and director, Division of Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, University of Arizona: The molding of religious fervor in the German reformations. David Scott Kastan, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University: Interactions between authors and publishers in early modern England. Michael Kazin, Professor of History, Georgetown University: William Jennings Bryan and the rise of celebrity politics in America. Timothy A. Keiderling, Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago: Beta-sheet formation in peptides and proteins. Mike Kelley, artist, Los Angeles; Member of the Graduate Faculty, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena: Sculpture. Sean Dorrance Kelly, assistant professor of philosophy, assistant professor in Neuroscience Program, and Jonathan Edwards Bicentennial Preceptor, Princeton University: Phenomenology, consciousness, and embodiment. Dane Kennedy, Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University: Richard Burton and the Victorian world of difference. Justin Kimball, photographer, Florence, Massachusetts; Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Photography, Amherst College: Photography. David Kirby, poet, Tallahassee, Florida; W. Guy McKenzie Professor of English, Florida State University: Poetry. Stuart Klawans, Film Critic, The Nation; Vice President and Senior Writer, Kreisberg Group, New York City: The films of Preston Sturges. Douglas M. Knight, Jr., Independent Scholar and musician, Portland, Maine: A biography of the Indian dancer Balasaraswati.