One hundred and forty-three scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1991. $3,790,000 was disbursed between the recipients, who were chosen from an applicant pool of 3,092. Of the 70 institutions represented, University of California, Los Angeles had the most recipients on its faculty.
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 Steve Krieckhaus Drama & Performance Art Constance Congdon Playwriting Fred Curchack University of Texas-Dallas Paul Finley Zaloom Postmodern puppetry Fiction Madison Smartt Bell Johns Hopkins University (visiting) and Goucher College (in residence) Historical novel about Haiti Carolyn A. Chute Writing Linda K. Hogan University of Colorado Lorrie Moore University of Wisconsin-Madison Francine Prose Film Robert P. Epstein Filmmaking Anne Flournoy Philip Haas Fine Arts David Brody Painting Papo Colo Harmony Hammond University of Arizona Visual art Eric Holzman Painting Brandt Junceau Sculpture Win Knowlton Charles Luce Visual art Matt Mullican Robert Alan Pentelovitch Painting Betye Saar Neon and video Jana Sterbak John F. Torreano Painting Yoshimasa Wada Music Composition Allen L. Anderson Brandeis University Contrasting magnitude and instrumentation, including a series of solo guitar pieces (Villa) and orchestral pieces (Palmetto) Ann Callaway Chamber music composition Craig S. Harris "Elec-acou" music Anne LeBaron Composing Wendell Logan Oberlin College David William Sanford Princeton University Photography Tina Barney Elaine Mayes New York University Hawaii Philip Perkis Pratt Institute Mexico Thomas Roma School of Visual Arts Also won in 1982 Jeffrey A. Wolin Indiana University-Bloomington Portraits of Holocaust survivors Poetry Dara Wier University of Massachusetts Amherst New book of poetry Mark F. Jarman Vanderbilt University Writing Laurie Sheck Rutgers University Jane Shore George Washington University Alan B. Williamson UC Davis Third book of poems Video & Audio Douglas E. Hall David M. Moss Humanities American Literature John T. Irwin Johns Hopkins University Alan Trachtenberg Yale University Photography and cultural authority Bibliography Katharine F. Pantzer Harvard University Biography Francine du Plessix Gray Louise Colet Herbert Leibowitz College of Staten Island and Graduate Center CUNY William Carlos Williams Neil Asher Silberman Yigael Yadin and the political ideology of Israeli archaeology Brenda Wineapple Union College Gertrude and Leo Stein British History John Brewer UCLA Kitsch, politics, and high culture of 18th-century England David E. Underdown Yale University Also won in 1964 Classics Helene P. Foley Barnard College Representations of women in Athenian drama Robert A. Kaster University of Chicago Ancient education East Asian Studies Susan Naquin University of Pennsylvania English Literature Vincent J. Cheng University of Southern California Regenia A. Gagnier Stanford University 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 Cheryl Herr University of Iowa Methodology of cultural studies and Irish literature Felicity A. Nussbaum Syracuse University Torrid Zones: Maternity Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Narratives (published 1995) Mary L. Poovey Johns Hopkins University Charles Dickens and the problem of public health Claude Rawson Yale University 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" Joseph S. Viscomi University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Volume II of Blake and the Idea of the Book Fine Arts Research Janet Abramowicz Harvard University Morandi's still-life paintings Jonathan K. Crary Barnard College Crisis in perception, 1880-1900 Michael Ann Holly University of Rochester Historiography of Renaissance art (Past Looking, published 1996) Molly Nesbit Barnard College Abstraction in 20th-century visual culture Folklore & Popular Culture Susan G. Davis UC San Diego Popular environmentalism and the mass media French History Jeremy D. Popkin University of Kentucky Role of the press and mass media during French Revolutionary crises, 1789-1968 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 General Nonfiction Thomas Boyle Brooklyn College Book about growing up in Brooklyn Thomas M. Engelhardt Children's culture Lucy Komisar US foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s as it relates to the balance between national security and human rights Diana Trilling The Beginning of the Journey (published 1993) Also won in 1950 German & Scandinavian Literature Liliane Weissberg University of Pennsylvania History of Science & Technology Matthew Ramsey Vanderbilt University Development of professional monopoly in French medicine, 1770-1830 Londa L. Schiebinger Pennsylvania State University Politics of 18th-century natural history Iberian & Latin American History Joseph D. Collins UC Santa Cruz Noble David Cook University of Bridgeport Epidemic disease and the conquest of the New World Intellectual & Cultural History James T. Kloppenberg Brandeis University Democracy in America and Europe since the 17th century Linguistics Calvert W. Watkins Harvard University Literary Criticism N. Katherine Hayles University of Iowa Cybernetics, "virtual reality," and contemporary literature Samuel Weber UCLA Experiences of Jacques Derrida returning to his hometown in Algeria Medieval History Barbara H. Rosenwein University of Chicago Medieval Literature Rachel Jacoff Wellesley College Discourse of the body in Dante Jeffrey T. Schnapp Stanford University Boccaccio and the institution of authorship Music Research Anne W. Robertson University of Chicago Edward B. Rothstein The New Republic Near Eastern Studies Dale F. Eickelman Dartmouth College Reimagination of tradition and society in Morocco Philosophy Allan F. Gibbard University of Michigan Normative judgment Ian Mueller University of Chicago Philosophy and mathematics of later classical antiquity Eduardo A. Rabossi Research at Oxford University Also won in 1968 Religion Edward L. Greenstein Jewish Theological Seminary of America Art of pre-Biblical storytelling Richard Kieckhefer Northwestern University Vasudha Narayanan University of Florida Russian History Peter H. Solomon Jr. University of Toronto Science Writer Edward H. Tenner Princeton University Press Why Things Bite Back (published 1997) Slavic Literature Olga Matich University of Southern California Love as a cultural concept in Russian utopianism, 1860-1940 South Asian Studies Velcheru Narayana Rao University of Wisconsin–Madison United States History Joan Jacobs Brumberg Cornell University Female adolescence in historical perspective, 1790-1990 James H. Merrell Vassar College Cultural brokers of the colonial Pennsylvania frontier Thomas G. Paterson University of Connecticut The US' response to modern revolutions Laurel Thatcher Ulrich University of New Hampshire Social history of New England textiles Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics Bjorn Erik Engquist UCLA Numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations Arthur M. Jaffe Harvard University Quantum fields and geometry in infinite dimensions Also won in 1977 David Da-Wei Yao Columbia University Algebraic structure of discrete event systems Astronomy & Astrophysics Jonathan E. Grindlay Harvard University Millisecond pulsars and X-ray binaries Douglas N. C. Lin UC Santa Cruz Genesis of the solar system Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign New methods in organic synthesis Computer Science Dexter C. Kozen Cornell University Completeness of the propositional Mu calculus Andrew Chi-Chih Yao Princeton University Boolean circuits and communication complexity Earth Science Edward A. Boyle Massachusetts Institute of Technology Variability of the ocean carbon cycle during the ice ages Michael Ghil UCLA Nonlinear dynamics and global change Engineering Pablo G. Debenedetti Princeton University Rapid phase transitions in the expansion of supercritical solutions Alice P. Gast Stanford University Behavior of complex fluids through a combination of colloid science, polymer physics, and statistical mechanics Mathematics Haruzo Hida UCLA Number theory Medicine & Health Mark Irwin Greene University of Pennsylvania X-ray crystallography Molecular & Cellular Biology Nancy Harrison Kolodny Wellesley College G. Steven Martin UC Berkeley Cell-cycle control in fission yeast Gail R. Martin UC San Francisco Cell lineage and movement in the vertebrate embryo Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Brookhaven National Laboratory Research at University of Cambridge Joseph J. Villafranca Pennsylvania State University Protein crystal structure of the enzyme glutamine synthetase Neuroscience Bruce K. Krueger University of Maryland School of Medicine Glial cell development in the mammalian brain Fred W. Turek Northwestern University Organismic Biology & Ecology James H. Brown University of New Mexico Interface of ecology, biogeography, and evolution Richard E. Lenski UC Irvine Models of evolving host-parasite interactions Physics Thomas J. Devlin Rutgers University Top quark Martin Roček SUNY Stony Brook Mathematical physics Plant Sciences Janis Antonovics Duke University Christopher Uhl Pennsylvania State University Rational land use in the Amazon region Statistics Richard M. Dudley Massachusetts Institute of Technology Empirical processes and nonlinear functionals 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 Economics Avinash K. Dixit Princeton University Investment under uncertainty Law Susan Rose-Ackerman Yale University Comparative studies of US and German approaches to environmental policymaking in the executive branch Political Science Jean Bethke Elshtain Vanderbilt University Jane Addams Stanley Kelley Jr. Princeton University Psychology Renee Baillargeon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Keith J. Holyoak UCLA Analogical thinking in reasoning David E. Irwin Michigan State University Integration of information across eye and head movements Sociology Daniel Chirot University of Washington Tyranny Arthur L. Stinchcombe Northwestern University Historical development of the major social boundaries in Caribbean Island societies during the late 18th and 19th centuries
1991 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows