One hundred and forty-nine scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1992. $3,925,000 was disbursed between the recipients, who were chosen from an applicant pool of 3,162.
1992 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Choreography Neil Greenberg SUNY Purchase Drama & Performance Art Anthony Clarvoe Playwriting Janie Geiser Janie Geiser & Co. Puppetry Fiction Gish Jen Writing Brian Kiteley Norman Manea Bard College Annie Proulx Matthew Stadler Christopher Tilghman Emerson College Film Flip Johnson Boston Museum School Animated short film: Water/Shed Lewis Klahr Filmmaking Nina Menkes California Institute of the Arts Pat O'Neill Jan Oxenberg Maureen Selwood California Institute of the Arts Fine Arts Walton Ford Painting Jill Giegerich UC Riverside Artwork; also, shadow plays and other religious rituals in Bali Guy Goodwin Cooper Union Painting Sharon Horvath Suzanne Lacy California College of the Arts Performance art Barry Ledoux Sculpture Erik Levine John Newman Yale University Rona Pondick Parsons School of Design Mira Schor Painting Drew E. Shiflett Sculpture Romey Stuckart Montana State University (visiting) Painting Mary Ann Unger Sculpture: Dark Icons Music Composition Richard Argosh Composing Ronald Caltabiano Sebastian Currier Juilliard School John Gibson Princeton University James Mobberley University of Missouri-Kansas City and Kansas City Symphony (in residence) James Newton California Institute of the Arts Jazz compositions Richard Wilson Vassar College Comedic opera about Æthelred the Unready Photography Jerald Frampton Western culture as depicted in American movies Jacqueline Hayden Hampshire College (visiting) Photographing "elderly people who model nude in classical poses for classes at art schools" to examine the intersection of beauty adnd aging Gilles Peress Curt Richter David M. Spear Ryan Weideman Portraits of taxi drivers Poetry T. R. Hummer Middlebury College and New England Review Writing Jane Kenyon Susan Mitchell Florida Atlantic University Donald Revell University of Denver Elizabeth Spires Johns Hopkins University and Goucher College Adam Zagajewski University of Houston Video & Audio Irit Batsry Humanities American Literature Charles Berger University of Utah Wallace Stevens' poetry Jay Parini Middlebury College Biography of John Steinbeck Architecture, Planning, & Design Jean Paul Bourdier UC Berkeley Rural dwellings in Senegal Marc Treib Modern landscape architecture in Europe, 1930-1955 Bibliography Menahem Schmelzer Jewish Theological Seminary of America The Hebrew book and the Jewish mind Biography James Atlas Saul Bellow Gale E. Christianson Indiana State University Edwin Hubble Rosemary Sullivan University of Toronto Gwendolyn McEwen British History David Harris Sacks Reed College Monopoly and liberty in early modern England, 1558-1649 Robert C. Stacey University of Washington English Jews in the Middle Ages Classics H. Alan Shapiro Stevens Institute of Technology Athenian hero cults Economic History Thomas G. Rawski University of Pittsburgh Reform and innovation in Chinese industry English Literature Paul Alpers UC Berkeley Definition and literary history of pastoral Robert DeMaria Jr. Vassar College Samuel Johnson's life of reading Vicki Mahaffey University of Pennsylvania Politics of representation Richard C. McCoy Queens College and Graduate Center CUNY Succession crisis of 1603 Michael North UCLA Race, dialect, and the emergence of modernism Wayne A. Rebhorn University of Texas-Austin Renaissance discourse of rhetoric Jeffrey C. Robinson University of Chicago Sexuality and the poetry of Keats Marlon B. Ross University of Michigan Cultural history of romance in Britain, 1760-1900 Film, Video, & Radio Studies Rey Chow University of Minnesota Contemporary Chinese cinema Fine Arts Research James S. Ackerman Origins of classicism Whitney Davis Northwestern University Classicism Debora L. Silverman UCLA Art, craft, and religion in the life and work of Vincent van Gogh Folklore & Popular Culture Regina Bendix Concept of authenticity in folklore studies French History Jan Goldstein University of Chicago Psychology and selfhood in 19th-century France Northwestern University Persecution in Renaissance France French Literature Elaine Marks University of Wisconsin-Madison Jewish presence in French writing General Nonfiction Robert Grudin University of Oregon Nature of free thought Eva Hoffman "A journey through eastern Europe" Scott R. Sanders Indiana University Sense of place Lucy Sante Idea of nationality German & East European History Isabel V. Hull Cornell University Sexuality and the state in Germany, 1700-1815 German & Scandinavian Literature Valerie D. Greenberg Tulane University Freud's readings on language History of Science & Technology Richard W. Burkhardt Jr. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Emergency of ethology as a scientific discipline, 1945-1965 Iberian & Latin American History Mario T. García Yale University Chicanos in Los Angeles, 1965-1975 Irene Silverblatt University of Connecticut Social history of indigenous Andean ideologies Intellectual & Cultural History Bonnie G. Smith Rutgers University Gender and the practice of scientific history, 1800-1940 Linguistics Janet Dean Fodor Graduate Center CUNY Phrase structure grammar John J. McCarthy University of Massachusetts-Amherst Relationship between word formation and syllable structure in language Literary Criticism Linda Hutcheon University of Toronto Theory of irony Teresa de Lauretis UC Santa Cruz Fantasy and Female Subjectivity: a Feminist Reevaluation of Freud's Theory of Sexuality Mark Turner University of Maryland Research in Del Mar, California Medieval Literature Yale University Allegorical text of desire in medieval French literature Nancy Freeman Regalado New York University Paris Pentecost feast of 1313 Music Research Jeffrey Kallberg University of Pennsylvania Historical discourses of gender in instrumental music, 1800-1848 James Webster Cornell University Analysis of Mozart's operas Near Eastern Studies Gregory Jusdanis Ohio State University Construction of a modern Greek national culture Philosophy David Gauthier University of Pittsburgh Rational commitment Photography Studies Shelley Rice New York University Photography in France and Haussmann's renovation of Paris Religion Daniel Boyarin UC Berkeley Rabbinic representations of the female body Howard Eilberg-Schwartz Stanford University Moses, masculinity, and monotheism Renaissance History James Hankins Harvard University Biography of Leonardo Bruni Science Writing Israel Rosenfield John Jay College of Criminal Justice Explanation and prediction in the neurosciences Slavic Literature Irina Paperno UC Berkeley Suicide as a cultural institution in Russia South Asian Studies Phillip B. Zarrilli University of Wisconsin-Madison Emotional expression in India's kathakali theater United States History Thomas A. Green University of Michigan American criminal trial jury and concepts of freedom since 1800 Thomas P. Slaughter Rutgers University The Bartrams, nature, and the American Enlightenment Susan Strasser George Washington University Social history of household trash in the US Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics Bruce Hajek University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Stochastic algorithms Astronomy—Astrophysics Stuart Bowyer UC Berkeley Extreme ultraviolet astronomy Robert D. Mathieu University of Wisconsin-Madison Evolution of accretion disks in the young binary environment Chemistry Héctor D. Abruña Cornell University Structural studies of electrochemical interfaces James B. Callis University of Washington Non-invasive spectroscopic monitoring of a bioprocess R. J. Dwayne Miller University of Rochester Basic chemical reaction that allows organisms to detect light Earth Science Ian Carmichael UC Berkeley Geological connection of the Jalisco Block to the rest of Mexico Ronald L. Shreve UCLA Physics of sand and gravel transport by rivers Engineering Arto V. Nurmikko Brown University Optical investigations of semiconductor materials Mathematics Philip J. Hanlon University of Michigan Algebraic combinatorics Richard B. Melrose Massachusetts Institute of Technology Analysis and geometry of manifolds with corners Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro Yale University and Tel-Aviv University Automorphic forms Medicine & Health Arthur Kleinman Harvard University Social experiences of suffering Molecular & Cellular Biology Mina J. Bissell UC Berkeley Research in Paris William A. Cramer Purdue University Crystallization of proteins from biological membranes Michael B. Mathews Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Control of transcription by the AIDS virus Douglas H. Turner University of Rochester Ways to predict the 3D structure of RNA Neuroscience Edward A. Kravitz Harvard University Analysis of differences in messenger RNA between identified single neurons Organismic Biology & Ecology Douglas J. Futuyma SUNY Stony Brook Model systems for the study of evolution Thomas W. Schoener UC Davis Ecology of subtropical islands Thomas D. Seeley Cornell University Collective intelligence of honey bees Physics Sudip Chakravarty UCLA Superconductivity of fullerenes Robert B. Hallock University of Massachusetts-Amherst Low-temperature investigation of quantum fluids Eric J. Heller University of Washington Semiclassical methods applied to atomic and molecular processes Paul F. Slattery University of Rochester Research at Fermilab John P. Wikswo Vanderbilt University Magnetic imaging of biological, superconducting, and structural systems Plant Sciences Paul G. Falkowski Brookhaven National Laboratory Satellite oceanography Statistics Simeon M. Berman New York University Stochastic models of immunological variables in HIV infection Luke Tierney University of Minnesota Methods of extracting statistical data from problems with many unknowns Social Sciences Anthropology & Cultural Studies Nancy D. Munn University of Chicago The ‘Becoming-Past’ of Places: Spacetime and Memory in Nineteenth-Century, Pre-Civil War New York Richard Price Princeton University Comparative study of anthropological museum displays With Sally Price Sally Price With Richard Price Renato Rosaldo Stanford University Cultural citizenship and educational democracy Education Carol A. Padden UC San Diego Early lives of Deaf children Law James B. White University of Michigan Rhetorical constitution of authority Political Science Robert O. Keohane Harvard University U.S. compliance with international commitments, 1783-1990 John Zaller UCLA The role of information in electoral choice Psychology Judith F. Dunn Pennsylvania State University Longitudinal study on childhood Edward E. Smith University of Michigan The cognitive neuroscience of categorization and reasoning Sociology Jane Menken University of Pennsylvania Fertility and family structure in Bangladesh Charles Moskos Northwestern University Race relations in the Army and what lessons can be drawn for civilian society
1992 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows