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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1991

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One hundred and forty-three scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1991.[1][2][3] $3,790,000 was disbursed between the recipients, who were chosen from an applicant pool of 3,092.[2] Of the 70 institutions represented,[3] University of California, Los Angeles had the most recipients on its faculty.[4]

1991 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

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CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsChoreographyPeter G. AnastosGarden State BalletAlso won in 1981[5]
Steve Krieckhaus[6]
Drama & Performance ArtConstance CongdonPlaywriting[7]
Fred CurchackUniversity of Texas-Dallas[8]
Paul Finley ZaloomPostmodern puppetry[9]
FictionMadison Smartt BellJohns Hopkins University (visiting) and Goucher College (in residence)Historical novel about Haiti[10][11]
Carolyn A. ChuteWriting[10][12]
Linda K. HoganUniversity of Colorado[10][13]
Lorrie MooreUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison[10][14]
Francine Prose[10]
FilmRobert P. EpsteinFilmmaking[15]
Anne Flournoy[15]
Philip Haas[15]
Fine ArtsDavid BrodyPainting[16][17]
Papo Colo[18]
Harmony HammondUniversity of ArizonaVisual art[19]
Eric HolzmanPainting[18]
Brandt JunceauSculpture[20]
Win Knowlton[21][22]
Charles LuceVisual art[18]
Matt Mullican[23]
Robert Alan PentelovitchPainting[18]
Betye SaarNeon and video[24]
Jana Sterbak[25]
John F. TorreanoPainting[26]
Yoshimasa Wada[27]
Music CompositionAllen L. AndersonBrandeis UniversityContrasting magnitude and instrumentation, including a series of solo guitar pieces (Villa) and orchestral pieces (Palmetto)[28]
Ann CallawayChamber music composition[29][18]
Craig S. Harris"Elec-acou" music[30]
Anne LeBaronComposing[31]
Wendell LoganOberlin College[32]
David William SanfordPrinceton University[33][34]
PhotographyTina Barney[15]
Elaine MayesNew York UniversityHawaii[15][35]
Philip PerkisPratt InstituteMexico[15][36]
Thomas RomaSchool of Visual ArtsAlso won in 1982[19][15][37]
Jeffrey A. WolinIndiana University-BloomingtonPortraits of Holocaust survivors[38][15][39]
PoetryDara WierUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstNew book of poetry[40]
Mark F. JarmanVanderbilt UniversityWriting[41][42]
Laurie SheckRutgers University[43]
Jane ShoreGeorge Washington University[44]
Alan B. WilliamsonUC DavisThird book of poems[45]
Video & AudioDouglas E. Hall[15]
David M. Moss[46]
HumanitiesAmerican LiteratureJohn T. IrwinJohns Hopkins University[10]
Alan TrachtenbergYale UniversityPhotography and cultural authority[47]
BibliographyKatharine F. PantzerHarvard University[48]
BiographyFrancine du Plessix GrayLouise Colet[49]
Herbert LeibowitzCollege of Staten Island and Graduate Center CUNYWilliam Carlos Williams[50]
Neil Asher SilbermanYigael Yadin and the political ideology of Israeli archaeology[51]
Brenda WineappleUnion CollegeGertrude and Leo Stein[52]
British HistoryJohn BrewerUCLAKitsch, politics, and high culture of 18th-century England[4]
David E. UnderdownYale UniversityAlso won in 1964[53][54]
ClassicsHelene P. FoleyBarnard CollegeRepresentations of women in Athenian drama[49]
Robert A. KasterUniversity of ChicagoAncient education[55]
East Asian StudiesSusan NaquinUniversity of Pennsylvania[56][57]
English LiteratureVincent J. ChengUniversity of Southern California[58]
Regenia A. GagnierStanford University[59]
Kenneth GrossUniversity of RochesterRenaissance writings concerned with slander, defamation, and libel; how the texts describe the subjects; and what they say about censorship[60]
Cheryl HerrUniversity of IowaMethodology of cultural studies and Irish literature[61]
Felicity A. NussbaumSyracuse UniversityTorrid Zones: Maternity Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Narratives (published 1995)[62][63]
Mary L. PooveyJohns Hopkins UniversityCharles Dickens and the problem of public health[10]
Claude RawsonYale University[64]
Debora K. ShugerUCLA"Bible of the 15th- to late 17th-century, discovering the document's male writers portrayed females not to 'demonize' them as originally thought, but express their own religious desires"[65]
Joseph S. ViscomiUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillVolume II of Blake and the Idea of the Book[66]
Fine Arts ResearchJanet AbramowiczHarvard UniversityMorandi's still-life paintings[19]
Jonathan K. CraryBarnard CollegeCrisis in perception, 1880-1900[19][49]
Michael Ann HollyUniversity of RochesterHistoriography of Renaissance art (Past Looking, published 1996)[19][60]
Molly NesbitBarnard CollegeAbstraction in 20th-century visual culture[19][49]
Folklore & Popular CultureSusan G. DavisUC San DiegoPopular environmentalism and the mass media[67]
French HistoryJeremy D. PopkinUniversity of KentuckyRole of the press and mass media during French Revolutionary crises, 1789-1968[68][15]
French LiteratureDavid CarrollUC IrvineFrench literary tradition and why so many intellectuals and writers were tempted by fascism from the late 1920s through the early 1940s[69]
General NonfictionThomas BoyleBrooklyn CollegeBook about growing up in Brooklyn[70][71]
Thomas M. EngelhardtChildren's culture[72]
Dan Hofstadter [es][73]
Lucy KomisarUS foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s as it relates to the balance between national security and human rights[74]
Diana TrillingThe Beginning of the Journey (published 1993)Also won in 1950[75]
German & Scandinavian LiteratureLiliane WeissbergUniversity of Pennsylvania[76]
History of Science & TechnologyMatthew RamseyVanderbilt UniversityDevelopment of professional monopoly in French medicine, 1770-1830[77]
Londa L. SchiebingerPennsylvania State UniversityPolitics of 18th-century natural history[78][77]
Iberian & Latin American HistoryJoseph D. CollinsUC Santa Cruz[79]
Noble David CookUniversity of BridgeportEpidemic disease and the conquest of the New World[80]
Intellectual & Cultural HistoryJames T. KloppenbergBrandeis UniversityDemocracy in America and Europe since the 17th century[81][28]
LinguisticsCalvert W. WatkinsHarvard University[82]
Literary CriticismN. Katherine HaylesUniversity of IowaCybernetics, "virtual reality," and contemporary literature[61][77][15]
Samuel WeberUCLAExperiences of Jacques Derrida returning to his hometown in Algeria[65][15]
Medieval HistoryBarbara H. RosenweinUniversity of Chicago[83]
Medieval LiteratureRachel JacoffWellesley CollegeDiscourse of the body in Dante[84][18]
Jeffrey T. SchnappStanford UniversityBoccaccio and the institution of authorship[18][85]
Music ResearchAnne W. RobertsonUniversity of Chicago[86]
Edward B. RothsteinThe New Republic[87]
Near Eastern StudiesDale F. EickelmanDartmouth CollegeReimagination of tradition and society in Morocco[51]
PhilosophyAllan F. GibbardUniversity of MichiganNormative judgment[18][88]
Ian MuellerUniversity of ChicagoPhilosophy and mathematics of later classical antiquity[89][77]
Eduardo A. RabossiResearch at Oxford UniversityAlso won in 1968[90][91]
ReligionEdward L. GreensteinJewish Theological Seminary of AmericaArt of pre-Biblical storytelling[92][18]
Richard KieckheferNorthwestern University[93]
Vasudha NarayananUniversity of Florida[94][95]
Russian HistoryPeter H. Solomon Jr.University of Toronto[25]
Science WriterEdward H. TennerPrinceton University PressWhy Things Bite Back (published 1997)[96][77]
Slavic LiteratureOlga MatichUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLove as a cultural concept in Russian utopianism, 1860-1940[18][97]
South Asian StudiesVelcheru Narayana RaoUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison[98]
United States HistoryJoan Jacobs BrumbergCornell UniversityFemale adolescence in historical perspective, 1790-1990[99][77]
James H. MerrellVassar CollegeCultural brokers of the colonial Pennsylvania frontier[18][100]
Thomas G. PatersonUniversity of ConnecticutThe US' response to modern revolutions[101]
Laurel Thatcher UlrichUniversity of New HampshireSocial history of New England textiles[102][103]
Natural SciencesApplied MathematicsBjorn Erik EngquistUCLANumerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations[2][4]
Arthur M. JaffeHarvard UniversityQuantum fields and geometry in infinite dimensionsAlso won in 1977[2][104]
David Da-Wei YaoColumbia UniversityAlgebraic structure of discrete event systems[2]
Astronomy & AstrophysicsJonathan E. GrindlayHarvard UniversityMillisecond pulsars and X-ray binaries[105][18]
Douglas N. C. LinUC Santa CruzGenesis of the solar system[79][18]
ChemistryThomas B. Rauchfuss [de]University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignNew methods in organic synthesis[106][18]
Computer ScienceDexter C. KozenCornell UniversityCompleteness of the propositional Mu calculus[2][99]
Andrew Chi-Chih YaoPrinceton UniversityBoolean circuits and communication complexity[2]
Earth ScienceEdward A. BoyleMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyVariability of the ocean carbon cycle during the ice ages[107][18][108]
Michael GhilUCLANonlinear dynamics and global change[4]
EngineeringPablo G. DebenedettiPrinceton UniversityRapid phase transitions in the expansion of supercritical solutions[109][18]
Alice P. GastStanford UniversityBehavior of complex fluids through a combination of colloid science, polymer physics, and statistical mechanics[110]
MathematicsHaruzo HidaUCLANumber theory[2][65]
Medicine & HealthMark Irwin GreeneUniversity of PennsylvaniaX-ray crystallography[76][111]
Molecular & Cellular BiologyNancy Harrison KolodnyWellesley College[112]
G. Steven MartinUC BerkeleyCell-cycle control in fission yeast[18][113]
Gail R. MartinUC San FranciscoCell lineage and movement in the vertebrate embryo[114][18][115]
Venkatraman RamakrishnanBrookhaven National LaboratoryResearch at University of Cambridge[116][117]
Joseph J. VillafrancaPennsylvania State UniversityProtein crystal structure of the enzyme glutamine synthetase[78]
NeuroscienceBruce K. KruegerUniversity of Maryland School of MedicineGlial cell development in the mammalian brain[10]
Fred W. TurekNorthwestern University[118][119]
Organismic Biology & EcologyJames H. BrownUniversity of New MexicoInterface of ecology, biogeography, and evolution[18][120]
Richard E. LenskiUC IrvineModels of evolving host-parasite interactions[69][18]
PhysicsThomas J. DevlinRutgers UniversityTop quark[121][18]
Martin RočekSUNY Stony BrookMathematical physics[18][122]
Plant SciencesJanis AntonovicsDuke University[18][123]
Christopher UhlPennsylvania State UniversityRational land use in the Amazon region[78]
StatisticsRichard M. DudleyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyEmpirical processes and nonlinear functionals[2]
Social SciencesAnthropology & Cultural StudiesFaye D. GinsburgNew York UniversityHow cultures that have been disrupted by settler societies use film, video, and television to reclaim and redefine their identity[49][15]
EconomicsAvinash K. DixitPrinceton UniversityInvestment under uncertainty[124][18]
LawSusan Rose-AckermanYale UniversityComparative studies of US and German approaches to environmental policymaking in the executive branch[125]
Political ScienceJean Bethke ElshtainVanderbilt UniversityJane Addams[126]
Stanley Kelley Jr.Princeton University[127][128]
PsychologyRenee BaillargeonUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign[129]
Keith J. HolyoakUCLAAnalogical thinking in reasoning[65]
David E. IrwinMichigan State UniversityIntegration of information across eye and head movements[130][18]
SociologyDaniel ChirotUniversity of WashingtonTyranny[131]
Arthur L. StinchcombeNorthwestern UniversityHistorical development of the major social boundaries in Caribbean Island societies during the late 18th and 19th centuries[132]
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1991 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

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CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsChoreographyCélia R. Gouvêa Vaneau[133]
FictionLuisa FutoranskyWriting[134]
Alberto LaisecaEl jardín de las máquinas parlantes (published 1993)[135][136]
Fine ArtsJosé Miguel Franco CodinachInstituto Superior de ArtePainting[137][138]
Norberto Gómez [es]Sculpture[139]
Music CompositionGustavo Moretto [es]Washington Square Contemporary Music SocietyComposing[140]
PhotographyCecilia PortalDreams and Myths[141]
HumanitiesGeneral NonfictionVictor Hernández Cruz[142]
History of Science & TechnologyAlberto Guillermo RaneaCONICET and Universidad Nacional de La Plata[143]
Iberian & Latin American HistoryManuel R. Moreno Fraginals [es; ru]Instituto Superior de ArteSugar-related problems in the Caribbean[144][145]
Natural SciencesMathematicsCarlos Augusto Di PriscoInstituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Central de Venezuela[146]
Molecular & Cellular BiologyAlberto R. KornblihttUniversidad de Buenos Aires[147][148]
Jerson L. SilvaUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroResearch at the University of Illinois[149][150]
NeuroscienceRanulfo Romo [es]National Autonomous University of MexicoTactile signals in somatic and motor cortices of monkeys[18][151]
PhysicsJosé M. AguileraPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile[152][153]
Alejandro Frank [es; arz]Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México[154]
Claudio TeitelboimCentro de Estudios CientíficosAlso won in 1982[155][156]
Plant SciencesJorge E. IlluecaUnited Nations Environment ProgrammeAfrican pasture grasses and deforestation in Chiriquí Province, 1850-1940[157][158]
Social SciencesEconomicsEfraín Gonzales de OlartePontificia Universidad Católica del Perú[159]
EducationAdriana PuiggrósUniversidad de Buenos AiresEducation and political culture in Argentine populism[18][160]
Political ScienceJorge HeineUniversidad de Puerto Rico[161][162]
José Nun [es; fr]CONICET and Fundación Banco Patricios[163]
SociologyCarlos Martínez Assad [es]Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México[164][165]
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