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
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Peter G. Anastos | Garden State Ballet | Also won in 1981 | [5] | |
| Steve Krieckhaus | [6] | |||||
| Drama & Performance Art | Constance Congdon | Playwriting | [7] | |||
| Fred Curchack | University of Texas-Dallas | [8] | ||||
| Paul Finley Zaloom | Postmodern puppetry | [9] | ||||
| Fiction | Madison Smartt Bell | Johns Hopkins University (visiting) and Goucher College (in residence) | Historical novel about Haiti | [10][11] | ||
| Carolyn A. Chute | Writing | [10][12] | ||||
| Linda K. Hogan | University of Colorado | [10][13] | ||||
| Lorrie Moore | University of Wisconsin-Madison | [10][14] | ||||
| Francine Prose | [10] | |||||
| Film | Robert P. Epstein | Filmmaking | [15] | |||
| Anne Flournoy | [15] | |||||
| Philip Haas | [15] | |||||
| Fine Arts | David Brody | Painting | [16][17] | |||
| Papo Colo | [18] | |||||
| Harmony Hammond | University of Arizona | Visual art | [19] | |||
| Eric Holzman | Painting | [18] | ||||
| Brandt Junceau | Sculpture | [20] | ||||
| Win Knowlton | [21][22] | |||||
| Charles Luce | Visual art | [18] | ||||
| Matt Mullican | [23] | |||||
| Robert Alan Pentelovitch | Painting | [18] | ||||
| Betye Saar | Neon and video | [24] | ||||
| Jana Sterbak | [25] | |||||
| John F. Torreano | Painting | [26] | ||||
| Yoshimasa Wada | [27] | |||||
| Music Composition | Allen L. Anderson | Brandeis University | Contrasting magnitude and instrumentation, including a series of solo guitar pieces (Villa) and orchestral pieces (Palmetto) | [28] | ||
| Ann Callaway | Chamber music composition | [29][18] | ||||
| Craig S. Harris | "Elec-acou" music | [30] | ||||
| Anne LeBaron | Composing | [31] | ||||
| Wendell Logan | Oberlin College | [32] | ||||
| David William Sanford | Princeton University | [33][34] | ||||
| Photography | Tina Barney | [15] | ||||
| Elaine Mayes | New York University | Hawaii | [15][35] | |||
| Philip Perkis | Pratt Institute | Mexico | [15][36] | |||
| Thomas Roma | School of Visual Arts | Also won in 1982 | [19][15][37] | |||
| Jeffrey A. Wolin | Indiana University-Bloomington | Portraits of Holocaust survivors | [38][15][39] | |||
| Poetry | Dara Wier | University of Massachusetts Amherst | New book of poetry | [40] | ||
| Mark F. Jarman | Vanderbilt University | Writing | [41][42] | |||
| Laurie Sheck | Rutgers University | [43] | ||||
| Jane Shore | George Washington University | [44] | ||||
| Alan B. Williamson | UC Davis | Third book of poems | [45] | |||
| Video & Audio | Douglas E. Hall | [15] | ||||
| David M. Moss | [46] | |||||
| Humanities | American Literature | John T. Irwin | Johns Hopkins University | [10] | ||
| Alan Trachtenberg | Yale University | Photography and cultural authority | [47] | |||
| Bibliography | Katharine F. Pantzer | Harvard University | [48] | |||
| Biography | Francine du Plessix Gray | Louise Colet | [49] | |||
| Herbert Leibowitz | College of Staten Island and Graduate Center CUNY | William Carlos Williams | [50] | |||
| Neil Asher Silberman | Yigael Yadin and the political ideology of Israeli archaeology | [51] | ||||
| Brenda Wineapple | Union College | Gertrude and Leo Stein | [52] | |||
| British History | John Brewer | UCLA | Kitsch, politics, and high culture of 18th-century England | [4] | ||
| David E. Underdown | Yale University | Also won in 1964 | [53][54] | |||
| Classics | Helene P. Foley | Barnard College | Representations of women in Athenian drama | [49] | ||
| Robert A. Kaster | University of Chicago | Ancient education | [55] | |||
| East Asian Studies | Susan Naquin | University of Pennsylvania | [56][57] | |||
| English Literature | Vincent J. Cheng | University of Southern California | [58] | |||
| Regenia A. Gagnier | Stanford University | [59] | ||||
| Kenneth Gross | University of Rochester | Renaissance writings concerned with slander, defamation, and libel; how the texts describe the subjects; and what they say about censorship | [60] | |||
| Cheryl Herr | University of Iowa | Methodology of cultural studies and Irish literature | [61] | |||
| Felicity A. Nussbaum | Syracuse University | Torrid Zones: Maternity Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Narratives (published 1995) | [62][63] | |||
| Mary L. Poovey | Johns Hopkins University | Charles Dickens and the problem of public health | [10] | |||
| Claude Rawson | Yale University | [64] | ||||
| Debora K. Shuger | UCLA | "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. Viscomi | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Volume II of Blake and the Idea of the Book | [66] | |||
| Fine Arts Research | Janet Abramowicz | Harvard University | Morandi's still-life paintings | [19] | ||
| Jonathan K. Crary | Barnard College | Crisis in perception, 1880-1900 | [19][49] | |||
| Michael Ann Holly | University of Rochester | Historiography of Renaissance art (Past Looking, published 1996) | [19][60] | |||
| Molly Nesbit | Barnard College | Abstraction in 20th-century visual culture | [19][49] | |||
| Folklore & Popular Culture | Susan G. Davis | UC San Diego | Popular environmentalism and the mass media | [67] | ||
| French History | Jeremy D. Popkin | University of Kentucky | Role of the press and mass media during French Revolutionary crises, 1789-1968 | [68][15] | ||
| French Literature | David Carroll | UC Irvine | French literary tradition and why so many intellectuals and writers were tempted by fascism from the late 1920s through the early 1940s | [69] | ||
| General Nonfiction | Thomas Boyle | Brooklyn College | Book about growing up in Brooklyn | [70][71] | ||
| Thomas M. Engelhardt | Children's culture | [72] | ||||
| Dan Hofstadter | [73] | |||||
| Lucy Komisar | US foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s as it relates to the balance between national security and human rights | [74] | ||||
| Diana Trilling | The Beginning of the Journey (published 1993) | Also won in 1950 | [75] | |||
| German & Scandinavian Literature | Liliane Weissberg | University of Pennsylvania | [76] | |||
| History of Science & Technology | Matthew Ramsey | Vanderbilt University | Development of professional monopoly in French medicine, 1770-1830 | [77] | ||
| Londa L. Schiebinger | Pennsylvania State University | Politics of 18th-century natural history | [78][77] | |||
| Iberian & Latin American History | Joseph D. Collins | UC Santa Cruz | [79] | |||
| Noble David Cook | University of Bridgeport | Epidemic disease and the conquest of the New World | [80] | |||
| Intellectual & Cultural History | James T. Kloppenberg | Brandeis University | Democracy in America and Europe since the 17th century | [81][28] | ||
| Linguistics | Calvert W. Watkins | Harvard University | [82] | |||
| Literary Criticism | N. Katherine Hayles | University of Iowa | Cybernetics, "virtual reality," and contemporary literature | [61][77][15] | ||
| Samuel Weber | UCLA | Experiences of Jacques Derrida returning to his hometown in Algeria | [65][15] | |||
| Medieval History | Barbara H. Rosenwein | University of Chicago | [83] | |||
| Medieval Literature | Rachel Jacoff | Wellesley College | Discourse of the body in Dante | [84][18] | ||
| Jeffrey T. Schnapp | Stanford University | Boccaccio and the institution of authorship | [18][85] | |||
| Music Research | Anne W. Robertson | University of Chicago | [86] | |||
| Edward B. Rothstein | The New Republic | [87] | ||||
| Near Eastern Studies | Dale F. Eickelman | Dartmouth College | Reimagination of tradition and society in Morocco | [51] | ||
| Philosophy | Allan F. Gibbard | University of Michigan | Normative judgment | [18][88] | ||
| Ian Mueller | University of Chicago | Philosophy and mathematics of later classical antiquity | [89][77] | |||
| Eduardo A. Rabossi | Research at Oxford University | Also won in 1968 | [90][91] | |||
| Religion | Edward L. Greenstein | Jewish Theological Seminary of America | Art of pre-Biblical storytelling | [92][18] | ||
| Richard Kieckhefer | Northwestern University | [93] | ||||
| Vasudha Narayanan | University of Florida | [94][95] | ||||
| Russian History | Peter H. Solomon Jr. | University of Toronto | [25] | |||
| Science Writer | Edward H. Tenner | Princeton University Press | Why Things Bite Back (published 1997) | [96][77] | ||
| Slavic Literature | Olga Matich | University of Southern California | Love as a cultural concept in Russian utopianism, 1860-1940 | [18][97] | ||
| South Asian Studies | Velcheru Narayana Rao | University of Wisconsin–Madison | [98] | |||
| United States History | Joan Jacobs Brumberg | Cornell University | Female adolescence in historical perspective, 1790-1990 | [99][77] | ||
| James H. Merrell | Vassar College | Cultural brokers of the colonial Pennsylvania frontier | [18][100] | |||
| Thomas G. Paterson | University of Connecticut | The US' response to modern revolutions | [101] | |||
| Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | University of New Hampshire | Social history of New England textiles | [102][103] | |||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Bjorn Erik Engquist | UCLA | Numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations | [2][4] | |
| Arthur M. Jaffe | Harvard University | Quantum fields and geometry in infinite dimensions | Also won in 1977 | [2][104] | ||
| David Da-Wei Yao | Columbia University | Algebraic structure of discrete event systems | [2] | |||
| Astronomy & Astrophysics | Jonathan E. Grindlay | Harvard University | Millisecond pulsars and X-ray binaries | [105][18] | ||
| Douglas N. C. Lin | UC Santa Cruz | Genesis of the solar system | [79][18] | |||
| Chemistry | Thomas B. Rauchfuss | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | New methods in organic synthesis | [106][18] | ||
| Computer Science | Dexter C. Kozen | Cornell University | Completeness of the propositional Mu calculus | [2][99] | ||
| Andrew Chi-Chih Yao | Princeton University | Boolean circuits and communication complexity | [2] | |||
| Earth Science | Edward A. Boyle | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Variability of the ocean carbon cycle during the ice ages | [107][18][108] | ||
| Michael Ghil | UCLA | Nonlinear dynamics and global change | [4] | |||
| Engineering | Pablo G. Debenedetti | Princeton University | Rapid phase transitions in the expansion of supercritical solutions | [109][18] | ||
| Alice P. Gast | Stanford University | Behavior of complex fluids through a combination of colloid science, polymer physics, and statistical mechanics | [110] | |||
| Mathematics | Haruzo Hida | UCLA | Number theory | [2][65] | ||
| Medicine & Health | Mark Irwin Greene | University of Pennsylvania | X-ray crystallography | [76][111] | ||
| Molecular & Cellular Biology | Nancy Harrison Kolodny | Wellesley College | [112] | |||
| G. Steven Martin | UC Berkeley | Cell-cycle control in fission yeast | [18][113] | |||
| Gail R. Martin | UC San Francisco | Cell lineage and movement in the vertebrate embryo | [114][18][115] | |||
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Research at University of Cambridge | [116][117] | |||
| Joseph J. Villafranca | Pennsylvania State University | Protein crystal structure of the enzyme glutamine synthetase | [78] | |||
| Neuroscience | Bruce K. Krueger | University of Maryland School of Medicine | Glial cell development in the mammalian brain | [10] | ||
| Fred W. Turek | Northwestern University | [118][119] | ||||
| Organismic Biology & Ecology | James H. Brown | University of New Mexico | Interface of ecology, biogeography, and evolution | [18][120] | ||
| Richard E. Lenski | UC Irvine | Models of evolving host-parasite interactions | [69][18] | |||
| Physics | Thomas J. Devlin | Rutgers University | Top quark | [121][18] | ||
| Martin Roček | SUNY Stony Brook | Mathematical physics | [18][122] | |||
| Plant Sciences | Janis Antonovics | Duke University | [18][123] | |||
| Christopher Uhl | Pennsylvania State University | Rational land use in the Amazon region | [78] | |||
| Statistics | Richard M. Dudley | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Empirical processes and nonlinear functionals | [2] | ||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | Faye D. Ginsburg | New York University | How cultures that have been disrupted by settler societies use film, video, and television to reclaim and redefine their identity | [49][15] | |
| Economics | Avinash K. Dixit | Princeton University | Investment under uncertainty | [124][18] | ||
| Law | Susan Rose-Ackerman | Yale University | Comparative studies of US and German approaches to environmental policymaking in the executive branch | [125] | ||
| Political Science | Jean Bethke Elshtain | Vanderbilt University | Jane Addams | [126] | ||
| Stanley Kelley Jr. | Princeton University | [127][128] | ||||
| Psychology | Renee Baillargeon | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | [129] | |||
| Keith J. Holyoak | UCLA | Analogical thinking in reasoning | [65] | |||
| David E. Irwin | Michigan State University | Integration of information across eye and head movements | [130][18] | |||
| Sociology | Daniel Chirot | University of Washington | Tyranny | [131] | ||
| Arthur L. Stinchcombe | Northwestern University | Historical development of the major social boundaries in Caribbean Island societies during the late 18th and 19th centuries | [132] |
1991 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Célia R. Gouvêa Vaneau | [133] | |||
| Fiction | Luisa Futoransky | Writing | [134] | |||
| Alberto Laiseca | El jardín de las máquinas parlantes (published 1993) | [135][136] | ||||
| Fine Arts | José Miguel Franco Codinach | Instituto Superior de Arte | Painting | [137][138] | ||
| Norberto Gómez | Sculpture | [139] | ||||
| Music Composition | Gustavo Moretto | Washington Square Contemporary Music Society | Composing | [140] | ||
| Photography | Cecilia Portal | Dreams and Myths | [141] | |||
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Victor Hernández Cruz | [142] | |||
| History of Science & Technology | Alberto Guillermo Ranea | CONICET and Universidad Nacional de La Plata | [143] | |||
| Iberian & Latin American History | Manuel R. Moreno Fraginals | Instituto Superior de Arte | Sugar-related problems in the Caribbean | [144][145] | ||
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Carlos Augusto Di Prisco | Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Central de Venezuela | [146] | ||
| Molecular & Cellular Biology | Alberto R. Kornblihtt | Universidad de Buenos Aires | [147][148] | |||
| Jerson L. Silva | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | Research at the University of Illinois | [149][150] | |||
| Neuroscience | Ranulfo Romo | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Tactile signals in somatic and motor cortices of monkeys | [18][151] | ||
| Physics | José M. Aguilera | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | [152][153] | |||
| Alejandro Frank | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | [154] | ||||
| Claudio Teitelboim | Centro de Estudios Científicos | Also won in 1982 | [155][156] | |||
| Plant Sciences | Jorge E. Illueca | United Nations Environment Programme | African pasture grasses and deforestation in Chiriquí Province, 1850-1940 | [157][158] | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Efraín Gonzales de Olarte | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú | [159] | ||
| Education | Adriana Puiggrós | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Education and political culture in Argentine populism | [18][160] | ||
| Political Science | Jorge Heine | Universidad de Puerto Rico | [161][162] | |||
| José Nun | CONICET and Fundación Banco Patricios | [163] | ||||
| Sociology | Carlos Martínez Assad | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | [164][165] |