List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1987
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Two hundred and seventy-three scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1987.[1][2][3] $6,336,000 was disbursed between the recipients, who were chosen from an applicant pool of 3,421[4][5][6] Princeton University and Yale tied for most fellowship recipients on their faculty (9 each), followed by Harvard University in second (8), and Columbia University, Cornell University, and Stanford University tied for third (7 each).[6]
1987 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
1987 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Drama & Performance Art | José Triana | Playwriting | [167] | ||
| Fiction | Maryse Condé | Writing | [168] | |||
| Tomás Eloy Martínez | University of Maryland | [167] | ||||
| Rodolfo Rabanal | [167] | |||||
| Fine Arts | Gonzalo Díaz Cuevas | Universidad de Chile | Visual art: Marcación del territorio o introducción al paisaje chileno | [169] | ||
| Roberto Elía | Visual art: Hopscotch | [52][170] | ||||
| Music Composition | Mario Lavista | Pauta | Composed an opera, Aura (premiered 1988) | [171] | ||
| Photography | Pedro Meyer | Photographic essay of the United States | [172] | |||
| Poetry | Carlos Germán Belli | Writing | Also won in 1969 | [173][174] | ||
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design | Graziano Gasparini | Indigenous architecture of Venezuela | [52] | ||
| Patricio Gross | Urban ideology and plans for urbanization in Santiago, Chile, 1875-1985 | [52] | ||||
| Iberian & Latin American History | Barry Higman | University of the West Indies | [175] | |||
| Antonio F. Mitre Canahuati | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | Mining industry in Bolivia | [52][176] | |||
| Enrique Semo | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Social roots of authoritarianism and democracy in Mexico, 1810-1928 | [52][177] | |||
| Latin American Literature | Lisa Block de Behar | Instituto de Profesores Artigas and Universidad de la República Uruguay | Literary criticism and the media of mass communication | [52][167][178] | ||
| Saúl Yurkievich | Paris VIII | Edition of the lost manuscripts of Julio Cortázar | [167] | |||
| Music Research | Jorge Velazco | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | [52][179] | |||
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy & Astrophysics | Igor Félix Mirabel | CONICET | Research at California Institute of Technology | [52][180] | |
| Chemistry | Elsa Beatriz Abuin | Universidad de Santiago de Chile | Research at the University of Ottawa and the University of Rochester | [181] | ||
| Earth Science | Víctor Alberto Ramos | Universidad de Buenos Aires | [182][183] | |||
| Molecular & Cellular Biology | Pedro E. León Azofeifa | Universidad de Costa Rica | Molecular studies with DNA from patients with Monge's deafness | [52][184] | ||
| Jaime Mas-Oliva | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Regulatory role of cholesterol on membrane function | [52][185] | |||
| Esther Orozco | CINVESTAV | [186] | ||||
| Neuroscience | Luciano Debeljuk | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Role of brain peptides on the control of prolactin and gonadotropin secretion | [52][187] | ||
| Organismic Biology & Ecology | Douglas Y. Shapiro | Universidad de Puerto Rico | [52][188] | |||
| Physics | Mahir Saleh Hussein | Universidade de São Paulo | Nuclear physics | [52][189] | ||
| Miguel A. Virasoro | Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" | [190][191] | ||||
| Plant Science | Renata Wulff | Universidad Central de Venezuela | Maternal effects in plants | [52][192] | ||
| Social Studies | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | Segundo E. Moreno Yánez | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador | Indigenous religion and colonial Christianity in the Andes of Ecuador | [52][193] | |
| Political Science | Adolfo Gilly | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | [194] |