List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2000

List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2000.

U.S. 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 Curtis 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 Bloomington: 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, Saratoga International Theater 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 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, 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, Professor 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, Binghamton University: 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 at 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.