This is the list of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2004.

U.S. and Canadian Fellows Thomas A. Abercrombie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, New York University: Social-climbing, self-narrative, and modernity in the Spanish transatlantic world, 1550–1808. Amir D. Aczel, Science Writer, Brookline, Massachusetts: Descartes' missing notebook and the beginnings of modern mathematics. Qianshen Bai, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art, Boston University: Wu Dacheng and the modern fate of Chinese literati art. Mary Jo Bang, Poet, St. Louis, Missouri: Associate Professor of English, Washington University in St. Louis: Poetry. Stuart Banner, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles: Law, power, and American Indian land loss. Uta Barth, Photographer, Los Angeles; Professor of Studio Art, University of California, Riverside: Photography. Howell S. Baum, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Maryland, College Park: Racial beliefs, liberalism, and school civil-rights policy. Thomas W. Baumgarte, Professor of Physics, Bowdoin College; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Computer simulations of gravitational waves. Lucian A. Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, Harvard University Law School: The allocation of power between management and shareholders. Christopher I. Beckwith, Professor of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University: A history of central Eurasia. Jason David BeDuhn, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Northern Arizona University: Augustine's Manichaeism and the making of Western Christianity. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Associate Professor of Italian Studies and History, New York University: Italian prisoners of war and the transition from dictatorship. Neil Berger, Artist, Alpine, New York: Painting. Bill Berkeley, Writer, New York City; Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, Columbia University: The Iran hostage crisis. Constance Hoffman Berman, Professor of History, University of Iowa: Women's work and European economic expansion, 1050–1250. Kenneth M. Bilby, Independent Scholar, Rhinebeck, New York; Rockefeller Resident Fellow, Columbia College Chicago: Jamaican musical ethnography. Eric Bogosian, Playwright, New York City: Play writing. Carles Boix, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago: The emergence of party democracy in advanced countries, 1880–1930. Gideon Bok, Artist, Northampton, Massachusetts; Assistant Professor of Art, Hampshire College: Painting. Michael P. Brenner, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics, Harvard University: Mathematical models in developmental biology. Margaret Brouwer, Composer, Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Vincent K. and Edith H. Smith Chair in Composition and Department Head, Cleveland Institute of Music: Music composition. Mary Ellen Brown, Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University: The making of Francis James Child's Ballads. Stephen B. Brush, Professor of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis: The cultural contours of maize in contemporary Mexico. Linda Goode Bryant, Film Maker, New York City: Film making. Felipe C. Cabello, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College: Public-health implications of antibiotic use in aquaculture. Cameron D. Campbell, Associate Professor of Sociology and vice-chairman and Director of Graduate Studies, University of California, Los Angeles: Social and family change in Liaoning, 1850-2000 (in collaboration with James Lee). Huai-Dong Cao, A. Everett Pitcher Professor of Mathematics, Lehigh University: The Ricci flow on Kaehler manifolds. Judith A. Carney, Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles: Africa's botanical heritage in the Atlantic world. Mary Carruthers, Dean for Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Science, and Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature, New York University: Aesthetic theory, medicine, and persuasion in the later Middle Ages. Zeynep Çelik-Butler, Professor of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology: Architecture and the city in the Middle East and North Africa, 1830–1914. H. Perry Chapman, Professor of Art History, University of Delaware; Editor-in-Chief, The Art Bulletin: The painter's place in the Dutch Republic, 1604–1718. Susan Choi, Writer, Brooklyn, New York; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Creative Writing, Princeton University: Fiction. Robert Clark, Writer, Seattle, Washington: Essays on art, belief, and Italy. Matthew Coolidge, Artist, Culver City, California; Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Culver City: New media art. Erin Cosgrove, Artist, Los Angeles; Adjunct Professor of Art History, West Los Angeles Community College: Installation art. Edwin A. Cowen, Associate Professor and Director, DeFrees Hydraulics Laboratory, Cornell University: Swash-zone turbulence and sediment transport. Daniel Cox, Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis: Studies in theoretical biological physics. Alvin Curran, Composer, Rome, Italy; Milhaud Professor of Music Composition, Mills College: Music composition. Jane Dailey, Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University: Sex and civil rights in America. Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University: Studies in nonlinear diffusion equations. Peter Ho Davies, Writer, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Associate Professor of English and Director, MFA Program, University of Michigan: Fiction. Olena Kalytiak Davis, Poet, Anchorage, Alaska: Poetry. Joan Dayan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania: Slavery, incarceration, and the law of persons. Toi Derricotte, Poet, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh: Poetry. Stuart Dischell, Poet, Greensboro, North Carolina; Associate Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Greensboro: Poetry. Eugene Walter Domack, Professor of Geology, Hamilton College: A study of the snowball-earth hypothesis. Henry John Drewal, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Art History and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison: The senses in understandings of African art. Jenny Dubnau, Artist, Jackson Heights, New York: Painting. Jason Eckardt, Composer, New York City; Lecturer in Music Composition, Northwestern University: Music composition. Marty Ehrlich, Composer and Performer, New York City: Music composition. Susan L. Einbinder, Professor of Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati: Poetry and history in medieval Jewish literature from Provence. Kenneth Feingold, Artist, New York: Sculpture. Robert Fenz, Film Maker, Allston, Massachusetts; Personal Assistant to Robert Gardner, Film Studies Center, Harvard University: Film making. Paola Ferrario, Photographer, Warwick, Rhode Island; Associate Professor of Art, Rhode Island College: Photography. Nicholas Fisher, Professor, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Metal biomagnification in contrasting marine food-chains. Talya Fishman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania: The inscription of Oral Torah and the formation of Jewish culture in the Middle Ages. Daniel E. Fleming, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University: Israel's inland heritage. Angus J. S. Fletcher, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, The Graduate School, City University of New York: Temporal representations in poems of the environment. Neil Fligstein, Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley: The process of Europeanization. Wayne Franklin, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature, Northeastern University: A biography of James Fenimore Cooper. Ann Eden Gibson, Professor of Art History, University of Delaware: Hale Woodruff's diasporic images. John G. Gibson, Independent Researcher and Writer, Judique, Nova Scotia; Research Associate in Celtic Studies, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia: The history and significance of Cape Breton Gaelic step-dancing. Roger Gilbert, Professor of English, Cornell University: The life and art of A. R. Ammons. Brad Gooch, Writer, New York City; Professor of English, William Paterson University: A biography of Flannery O'Connor. Fritz Graf, Professor of Greek and Latin, Ohio State University: Festivals in cities of the Greek East during the Roman imperial epoch. Greg Grandin, Assistant Professor of History, New York University: The United States in Latin America during the Cold War. Mac Keith Griswold, Director of Archival Research, The Sylvester Manor Project, Shelter Island, New York: The history of Sylvester Manor, a Long Island plantation. Alexandra Halkin, Video Maker, Chicago; International Coordinator, Chiapas Media Project, Promedios de Comunicación Comunitaria, Chicago: Video. Deborah E. Harkness, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Davis: Science, medicine, and technology in Elizabethan London. Jeffrey Herbst, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University: Geography and the development of states. David W. Hertzog, Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Precision measurements of the Fermi constant and the muon anomaly. Bruce W. Holsinger, Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado, Boulder: Liturgical culture and vernacular writing in England, 1000–1550. Andrew Hudgins, Poet, Columbus, Ohio; Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, Ohio State University: Poetry. Lorna Hutson, Professor of English Literature, University of California, Berkeley: Forensic realism in English Renaissance drama. Russell Impagliazzo, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego: Heuristics, proof complexity, and algorithmic techniques. Lawson Fusao Inada, Poet, Medford, Oregon; Professor Emeritus of English, Southern Oregon University: Poetry. Alexandra Jaffe, Associate Professor of Linguistics, California State University, Long Beach: Language, citizenship, and identity in a bilingual Corsican school. Leroy Jenkins, Composer and Performer, Brooklyn, New York: Music composition. Steven Johnstone, Associate Professor of History, University of Arizona: A history of trust in classical Greece. Deborah Kahn, Artist, Silver Spring, Maryland; Associate Professor of Fine Arts, American University: Painting. Mary Karr, Poet, Syracuse, New York; Jess Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature, Syracuse University: Poetry. Elizabeth A. Kellogg, E. Desmond Lee and Family Professor of Botanical Studies, University of Missouri–St. Louis: Development of grass flowers and inflorescences. Ellen D. Ketterson, Professor of Biology and Professor of Gender Studies, Indiana University: Sex and gender in animals. Ann Marie Kimball, Professor of Epidemiology and Health Sciences and adjunct professor of Biomedical Health Informatics and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle: Emerging infections in an era of global trade. Peter Kivy, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University: The performance of reading. Mark Klett, Photographer, Tempe, Arizona; Regent's Professor of Art, Arizona State University: Photography. Stephen M. Kosslyn, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Harvard University: Mental imagery and the brain. Stephen Kotkin, Professor of History, Princeton University: A historical study of the Ob River basin. Joey Kötting, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Painting. Joyce Kozloff, Artist, New York City: Painting and installation art. Kannan M. Krishnan, Campbell Professor of Materials Science, University of Washington, Seattle: Magnetic nanoparticles for cancer therapeutics.