One hundred and forty-three scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1990. $3,783,000 was disbursed between the recipients, who were chosen from an applicant pool of 3,218. Sixty-seven institutions were represented.
1990 United States and Canada Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Choreography Susan Marshall Susan Marshall Company Choreography Drama & Performance Art Philip Kan Gotanda Playwriting Tina Howe Hunter College (visiting) John Jesurun Stuart Sherman Daniel Stein Mac Wellman Fiction Joan L. Chase Writing Elaine Ford University of Maine Lynn Freed Ron Hansen UC Santa Cruz Oscar J. Hijuelos Hofstra University Richard Russo Southern Illinois University Work on his third novel Film Minh-ha Trinh San Francisco State University Filmmaking Fine Arts Ida Applebroog Painting Connie Beckley Visual and performance art Eva Buchmuller Visuals in theater design William Crozier Sculpture Heide Fasnacht Roni Horn Michiko Itatani School of the Art Institute of Chicago Painting Nancy Mitchnick California Institute of the Arts Richard T. Notkin Sculpture Pat Oleszko Visual art Art Spiegelman Maus II Patrick Strzelec Sculpture Trevor Winkfield Visual art Music Composition Opera about the Fall of the Berlin Wall; later became Suite from Pyramus and Thisbe (2002) Donald Grantham University of Texas-Austin Composing Paul Lansky Princeton University Shulamit Ran University of Chicago Chicago Symphony Orchestra (in residence) Also won in 1977 Christopher Rouse University of Rochester Composing, including a piece of the New York Philharmonic and a chorus and orchestral work for the Baltimore Symphony Bright Sheng Composing Dianaruthe Wharton Photography Rob Amberg Rural mountain communities in western North Carolina Jeffrey M. Blake St. Joseph's University Robert Kozma Pratt Institute Sheron A. Rupp Springfield College Children at play and families going about their daily routines in Appalachia Frank Sellitto Marc F. Wise Truck drivers, trucks, and truck stops Poetry John Ash Archaeological sites in Turkey Garrett Hongo University of Oregon Volcano: A Memoir of Hawaiʻi (published 1995) A. F. Moritz University of Toronto Writing Paul B. Muldoon University of Massachusetts (visiting) New poems, a collection of essays, and an opera Leonard Roberts Northampton Community College Writing Chase Twichell Princeton University Video & Audio Norman Cohn Inuit storytelling in Igloolik Gary Hill Cornish College of the Arts Also won in 1986 Paul Kos San Francisco Art Institute Humanities American Literature Michael D. Bell Williams College The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea (published 1993) Evan Bruce Carton University of Texas-Austin Literary and social practice in modern America Bonnie Costello Boston University 20th-century American poetry Andrew H. Delbanco Columbia University Representations of evil in American culture Louis Menand Queens College and Graduate Center CUNY William L. Vance Boston University American literature and art, 1800-1920 Architecture, Planning, & Design Narciso G. Menocal University of Wisconsin-Madison How Frank Lloyd Wright used his buildings to convey ideas about the universe Dell Upton UC Berkeley Biography Jack J. Beatty Atlantic Monthly James Michael Curley Susan Taft Quinn Marie Curie British History Thomas W. Laqueur UC Berkeley University of Maryland Classics Albert J. Ammerman University of Parma (visiting) Environmental studies of ancient Rome Dance Studies Mindy Aloff English Literature University of Rochester Origins of "our present literary milieu", starting with the Restoration Kenneth Richard Johnston Indiana University Critical biography of young William Wordsworth Mitzi Myers UCLA Gail Kern Paster George Washington University Treatment of bodily shame in English Renaissance drama Susan J. Wolfson Rutgers University Film, Video, & Radio Studies David Jay Bordwell University of Wisconsin-Madison Stylistics of cinema Mary Ann Doane Brown University Relations between the body and photography, film, and television Fine Arts Research Vivian E. Barnett Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Kandinsky's watercolors and gouaches University of Virginia Vasari as a writer Joan Ungersma Halperin Saint Mary's College of California Biography of Louise Hervieu Walter M. Spink University of Michigan Ajanta caves Folklore & Popular Culture V. Kofi Agawu Cornell University Rhythmic structure of music from northern Africa French History Louise A. Tilly New School for Social Research French Literature Timothy J. Reiss New York University Naomi Schor Duke University Idealism in the novel, as exemplified by George Sand General Nonfiction Vivian Gornick Memoir of the university experience Darryl Pinckney Afro-American literature and culture Wolfgang Schivelbusch Cultural encounters in Berlin 1945-1948 German & Scandinavian Literature Eric Rentschler UC Irvine Nazi films History of Science & Technology Henry Petroski Duke University Engineering of artifacts Iberian & Latin American History Alan Sydney Knight University of Texas-Austin Cardenista movement and regime in Mexico, 1934-1940 Steve J. Stern University of Wisconsin-Madison Intellectual & Cultural History Andrzej S. Walicki University of Notre Dame Marxism and the idea of freedom Literary Criticism Christine Froula Northwestern University Women and the Western literary tradition Dianne F. Sadoff Colby College Emergence of psychoanalysis from 19th-century cultural and scientific discourse (Sciences of the Flesh, published 1998) Medieval History Patrick Joseph Geary University of Florida Memory and oblivion in the Middle Ages Medieval Literature Glending Olson Cleveland State University Issues of art and morality in Chaucer's tales Music Research Thomas J. Mathiesen Indiana University History of ancient Greek music and music theory Ellen Rosand Rutgers University Philosophy Ian Hacking University of Toronto Amélie Oksenberg Rorty Radcliffe College (visiting) Philosophical conceptions of the passions and emotions in the 17th and 18th centuries Religion Jack Miles Los Angeles Times How religious imagery has been used both to incite and to inhibit violence Albert J. Raboteau Princeton University Renaissance History Guido Ruggiero University of Connecticut Power and sexuality in the late Italian Renaissance Russian History Michael F. Stanislawski Columbia University Intellectual biography of the young Vladimir Jabotinsky Slavic Literature UCLA Apocalypse in medieval Russian culture South Asian Studies Vidya Dehejia Columbia University Discourse in early Buddhist art Gauri Viswanathan Conversion and cultural change in British colonialism Spanish & Portuguese Literature Peter N. Dunn Wesleyan University Theatre Arts Lyn Austin Kazimierz P. Braun University of Buffalo All aspects of theater life in Poland, 1944 to present United States History Linda K. Kerber University of Iowa Historical account of the changing relationships between women, men, and the state in America Mary P. Ryan UC Berkeley Carroll Smith-Rosenberg University of Pennsylvania Bodies Politic Sean Wilentz Princeton University Natural Sciences Applied Science John David Buckmaster University of Illinois Astronomy & Astrophysics Jean P. Brodie UC Santa Cruz Chemistry Jeremy Burdett University of Chicago Michigan State University Research at Cornell University and Corning Glass Works Also won in 1975 Computer Science Robert L. Constable Cornell University Next steps in the implementation of mathematics Earth Science Roger G. Burns Massachusetts Institute of Technology Oxidation products of iron sulfide and silicate minerals to elucidate poorly crystalline materials formed by chemical weathering on terrestrial planets such as Mars and Venus University of British Columbia Engineering Robert H. Davis University of Colorado Mathematics Igor B. Frenkel Yale University Representations of geometric categories Wolfgang M. Schmidt University of Colorado Diophantine equations Medicine & Health Daniel F. Bogenhagen SUNY Stony Brook Binding interactions of transcription factors Molecular & Cellular Biology Victoria Elizabeth Foe Cell division Arnold Jay Levine Princeton University Role of the p53 gene in human cancers J. Richard McIntosh University of Colorado Research at Institute for Advanced Study David Marshall Prescott Reordering of gene segments Neuroscience Nicholas C. Spitzer UC San Diego Neurological development of small marine animals Organismic Biology & Ecology Craig Packer University of Minnesota Behavioral ecology of lions With Anne E. Pusey Anne Elizabeth Pusey With Craig Packer Physics Marvin L. Cohen UC Berkeley Also won in 1978 John T. Ho University of Buffalo Liquid crystal films Carl Edwin Wieman University of Colorado Statistics George E. P. Box University of Wisconsin-Madison Quality improvement techniques using statistical methods Social Sciences Economics Drew Fudenberg Massachusetts Institute of Technology Learning and experimentation in games Zvi Griliches Harvard University Economics of research and development Robert James Shiller Yale University Geography & Environmental Studies David James Robinson Syracuse University The hunger year of 1785-1786 in colonial Mexico Law Robert Charles Post UC Berkeley History of the United States Supreme Court, 1921-1930 Political Science Donald R. Kinder University of Michigan Racial politics and American democracy Glenn H. Snyder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alliances in a multipolar international system Psychology John McConnon Darley Princeton University Analysis of criterion-setting processes in institutions Frank C. Keil Cornell University Sociology Douglas S. Massey University of Chicago American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (published 1993) Michael S. Schudson UC San Diego How America and the world remembers Watergate William H. Sewell Jr. University of Michigan
1990 Latin American & Caribbean Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Drama & Performance Art Ana Istarú Jesusa Rodríguez Ramírez Improvisational theatre Fiction Juan Antonio Ramos Universidad de Puerto Rico Writing Fine Arts Helen Escobedo Sculpture Regina Silveira Universidade de São Paulo Installation pieces and graphics Music Composition Livio R. Tragtenberg Universidade Estadual de Campinas Composing Photography Javier Silva Meinel Andean ritual practices Poetry Marlene Nourbese Philip University of Toronto Poems exploring the themes of place and displacement as they affect people of African descent in the New World Video & Audio Centro de Trabalho Indigenista Humanities Fine Arts Research Gerardo Mosquera Centro de Wifredo Lam Iberian & Latin American History National Council for Culture and the Arts Michel-Rolph Trouillot Johns Hopkins University Western press and the slave revolution of Santo Domingo and Haiti Natural Sciences Mathematics Xavier Gomez-Mont Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico Molecular & Cellular Biology Georges Dreyfus Ramón R. Latorre Universidad de Chile Neuroscience Francisco José Barrantes Universidad Nacional del Sur Organismic Biology & Ecology Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Physics Miguel Octavio Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas Social Sciences Anthropology & Cultural Studies Juan Ossio Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Locality, kinship, and ceremonial kinship in a community of the Andes Political Science Luis J. Garrido Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México Sociology Rodolfo Stavenhagen El Colegio de México Torcuato di Tella Institute Transition to democracy in the Alfonsín years
See also Guggenheim Fellowship List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1989 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1991
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