List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2005

List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2005.

U.S. and Canadian Fellows[]

A[]

• Mark Abley, Writer, Pointe Claire, Québec, Canada: A book about language change.
• Kim Addonizio, Poet, Oakland, California: Poetry.
• Anne Aghion, Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
• Ian Agol, associate professor of mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago: Studies in 3-manifold geometry and topology.
• Alito Alessi, Choreographer, Eugene, Oregon; artistic director, Joint Forces Dance Company/Dance Ability: Choreography.
• Michael Almereyda, Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
• , Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota: The contemporary cultural production of Portuguese-speaking Africa.
• Sarah Arvio, Poet, New York City; Free-lance Translator, United Nations, New York City and Geneva, Switzerland: Poetry.

B[]

• Blake Bailey, Writer, Waldo, Florida: A biography of John Cheever.
• Michael J. Balick, Philecology Curator and Director, Institute of Economic Botany and Vice President for Research and Training, New York Botanical Garden: The ethnobotany of Pohnpei, Micronesia.
• Leonard Barkan, Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature and Director, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University: The analogy of poetry and painting.
• Jo Ann Beard, Writer, Rhinebeck, New York: A memoir.
• John Belton, Professor of English and Film, Rutgers University: Digital cinema.
• Sadie T. Benning, Video Artist, Chicago: Video.
• Kent C. Berridge, professor of psychology, University of Michigan: The psychology and neurobiology of reward.
• David Bezmozgis, Writer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Fiction.
• , professor of law, Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University: Medicine in the public sphere.
• Iain A. Boal, Independent Scholar, Berkeley, California: The bicycle in world culture.
• Chakaia Booker, Artist, New York City: Sculpture.
• Marianne Boruch, Poet, Lafayette, Indiana; Professor of English, Purdue University: Poetry.
• , Composer, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Assistant Professor of Music Composition, University of Michigan: Music composition.
• Gerhard Böwering, Professor of Islamic Studies, Yale University: The formative influence of al-Sulami's commentary on the Qur'an.
• Julie Bozzi, Artist, Fort Worth, Texas: Painting.
• Geoffrey Brock, Independent Scholar, Writer, and Translator, Tucson, Arizona: A bilingual anthology of 20th-century Italian poetry.
• Patricia R. Burchat, professor of physics, Stanford University: Dark matter in the universe.
• , Director of Conservation, National Tropical Botanical Garden, Kalaheo, Hawaii; Professor of Biological Sciences, Fordham University: An ecological history of prehistoric Kaua'i.
• Paul Spencer Byard, Director, Historic Preservation Program, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation; Partner, Platt Byard Dovell White Architects, New York City: The public interest in old architecture.

C[]

• Debbie Fleming Caffery, Photographer, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Photography.
• , Artist, Rehoboth, Massachusetts; professor of art, Rhode Island School of Design: Sculpture.
• Remy Charlip, Writer, Illustrator and Choreographer, San Francisco; Director, Remy Charlip Dance Company: An autobiographical study of the art of being an artist.
• , Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University: Phase transitions and domain structures of ferroelectric thin films.
• Andrew J. Cherlin, Griswold Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University: Marriage and family in early 21st-century America.
• Henri Cole, Poet, Boston; Member of the Core Faculty, Graduate Writing Seminars, Bennington College; Writer-in-Residence, College of William & Mary: Poetry.
• Bonnie Collura, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Adjunct Professor of Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design and University of the Arts: Sculpture.
• , Professor of Cultural Studies, University of California, Los Angeles: A study of a Los Angeles priestshaman and his Congo spirit.
• Vincent Crapanzano, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York: A study of the Harkis of Algeria.
• Martha Crenshaw, Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought and Professor of Government, Wesleyan University: The United States as a target of terrorism.
• Marilyn Crispell, Composer and Musician, Woodstock, New York: Music composition.
• Brian Current, Composer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Music composition.
• , Professor of Engineering, Brown University: Multiscale modeling of materials.

D[]

• Jenny Davidson, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University: Nature and nurture in 18th-century Britain.
• Lynda F. Delph, professor of biology, Indiana University: Studies in the merging of evolutionary ecology and molecular genetics.
• Tory Dent, Poet, New York City: Poetry.
• David Dorfman, Choreographer, New London, Connecticut; artistic director, David Dorfman Dance; Associate Professor of Dance, Connecticut College: Choreography.
• Dave Douglas, Composer and Musician, Croton-on-Hudson, New York: Music composition.
• James R. Dow, Professor Emeritus of German, Iowa State University: A study and grammar of the Cymbrian language.

E[]

• , NEH/Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Virginia: The death of Sigmund Freud.
• , Stewart Professor of English and Environmental Studies, Middlebury College: Forestry, sugarmaking, and the destiny of Vermont.
• , professor of geography, University of Washington, Seattle: Daily geographics of the color line in American cities.
• , Writer, Paris, France: A biography of Charles de Gaulle.

F[]

• , professor of history, University of California, Santa Barbara: Oriental luxuries, Parisian crafts, and the making of Europe's fashion capital.
• Vincent Fecteau, Artist, San Francisco: Sculpture.
• Elizabeth A. Fenn, assistant professor of history, Duke University: The rise and fall of the Mandan Indians, 1738–1838.
• Beverly Fishman, Artist, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Artist-in-Residence and Head of Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art: Painting.
• , Free-lance Journalist, Cincinnati, Ohio; Science Writer, American Society for Cell Biology: A children's book about genomes.
• , professor of philosophy, Johns Hopkins University: The transition from Kant to Hegel.
• Simone Forti, Choreographer, Los Angeles; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance, University of California, Los Angeles: Choreography.
• , Professor of Government and Frank J. Reagan Chair in Policy Studies, Dartmouth College: The decline of institutional competence in U.S. foreign affairs.
• , associate professor of history, University of Texas at Austin: The creation and reception of Bonino Mombrizio's Sanctuarium.
• Don Freund, Composer, Bloomington, Indiana; Professor of Music Composition, Indiana University: Music composition.

G[]

• Rhonda K. Garelick, Associate Professor of French, Connecticut College: The theatrical work of Coco Chanel.
• David Gatten, Film Maker, Ithaca, New York: Associate Professor of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College: Film making.
• Gina Gionfriddo, Playwright, New York City: Play writing.
• Peter Gizzi, Poet, Holyoke, Massachusetts; Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Poetry.
• Piero Gleijeses, Professor of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins University: Cuban and U.S. policy toward Southern Africa in the Carter and Reagan years.
• , Artist, Northampton, Massachusetts; Visiting Lecturer in Art, Amherst College: Painting.
• , Professor of French, University of Wisconsin–Madison: Personality in early modern French comedy and fiction.
• , Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University: The global depletion of nonrenewable energy resources.
• Peter Gourevitch, professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, and professor of political science, University of California, San Diego: Financial institutions and corporate governance.
• , Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values and Director, Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College: Ethical, religious, and literary perspectives on genetic enhancement.
• Sam Green, Film Maker, San Francisco; Adjunct Lecturer in Media Studies, University of San Francisco: Film making.
• , Photographer, Brooklyn, New York: Photography.
• Joseph Grigely, Artist, Chicago; Professor of Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Installation art.
• , Professor of History and Law, Indiana University; Editor, The American Historical Review: Child protection in America.

H[]

• Yotam Haber, Composer, New York City: Music composition.
• Brooks Hansen, Writer, New York City: Fiction.
• Paul L. Harris, professor of education, Harvard University: The development of trust and doubt.
• , Professor of Urban Historical Geography and Urban History, McMaster University: The commercialization of owner-building in North America and Australia, 1945–1960.
• Adam Haslett, Writer, New York City: Fiction.
• Marc D. Hauser, Professor of Psychology, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Biological Anthropology, Harvard University: Evolution of a moral instinct.
• Jake Heggie, Composer, San Francisco; President, Bent Pen Music, San Francisco: Music composition.
• , assistant professor of religion, Amherst College: Buddhist theories of intention.
• Ian Hodder, Dunlevie Family Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University: The emergence of settled villages in Anatolia and the Middle East.
• , Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director, Anthropology Graduate Program, Rutgers University: Transnational advocacy and the concept of "indigenous" among Maasai in Tanzania.
• , Artist, Fort Myers, Florida: Painting.
• , Artist, Bozeman, Montana; assistant professor of art, Montana State University: Installation art.
• Fanny Howe, Poet and Writer, West Tisbury, Massachusetts; Richard L. Thomas Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College; Professor Emerita of English, University of California, San Diego: Essays on the relationship between conversion and rhetoric.
• John Huehnergard, Professor of Semitic Philology, Harvard University: A historical grammar of biblical Hebrew.

I[]

• Judith T. Irvine, professor of anthropology, University of Michigan: Ideologies of language in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Pico Iyer, Writer, Santa Barbara, California: Reflections on the fourteenth Dalai Lama.

J[]

• Matthew O. Jackson, Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Economics, California Institute of Technology: Studies in social and economic networks.
• , Professor of Classics and History, and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto: Ptolemy's sciences.

K[]

• , professor of chemistry, Purdue University: Studies in finite-size scaling theory.
• , associate professor of physics, University of Chicago: Studies in the physics of correlated electrons.
• , Marjorie and Lorin Tiefenthaler Professor of English, University of Wisconsin–Madison: Botany and Romantic culture.
• Yannis G. Kevrekidis, Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University: Equation-free studies of complex systems.
• Adeeb Khalid, associate professor of history, Carleton College: The making of Soviet central Asia, 1917–1929.
• , Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania: The marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati.
• Claudia Koonz, professor of history, Duke University: Ethnic panic and the headscarf controversies in Europe, 1945–2004.
• Lisa Kron, Playwright and Actor, New York City: Play writing.
• Arnold Krupat, Professor of Literature and Global Studies, Sarah Lawrence College: Studies in Native American literatures.

L[]

• Christopher Lane, Professor of English, Northwestern University: The ethics of psychopharmacology.
• Maud K. Lavin, Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies and Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Representations of women's lust and aggression in contemporary American visual culture.
• Jin Lee, Photographer, Chicago; associate professor of art, Illinois State University: Photography.
• Sze Tsung Leong, Photographer, New York City: Photography.
• C. Stanley Lewis, Artist, Leeds, Massachusetts; Instructor in Painting, New York Studio School and Chautauqua School of Painting, New York: Painting.
• , Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University: Aging and injury.
• Bill Lichtenstein, Film Maker, Lexington, Massachusetts; President, Lichtenstein Creative Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Film making.
• Jonathan B. Losos, Professor of Biology and Director, Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis: Adaptive radiation in anolis lizards.
• John A. Lucy, William Benton Professor in Comparative Human Development, Psychology, and the College, University of Chicago: The impact of language differences on intellectual development.
• , assistant professor of art and design, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle: The clay festival-image tradition in eastern India.

M[]

• Victoria E. Marks, Choreographer, Los Angeles; Professor of Choreography and Performance, University of California, Los Angeles: Choreography.
• Tricia McLaughlin, Video Artist, New York City; assistant professor of electronic media, State University of New York College at Old Westbury; Adjunct Professor of Computer Graphics, Hunter College, City University of New York: Video.
• Daniel Mendelsohn, Writer and Critic, New York City: A translation of Cavafy's "unfinished" poems, with commentary.
• , Artist, New York City and Ottenbach, Switzerland: Sculpture.
• Rohinton Mistry, Writer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Fiction.
• Stephen Morris, Ford Foundation Professor of Economics, Yale University: Global games.
• David R. Morrison, James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Duke University: Mirror symmetry in mathematics and physics.
• Harryette Mullen, Poet, Los Angeles; Professor of English and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles: Poetry.

N[]

• Anne Nelson, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University: German resistance activity in Berlin, 1933–1942.
• Philip Nord, professor of history, Princeton University: Institutional and cultural reform in the modern French state, 1930–1950.
• Lynn Nottage, Playwright, Brooklyn, New York; Visiting Lecturer in Play Writing, Yale University: Play writing.

O[]

• , Distinguished Research Professor of Ethnomusicology, Florida State University: Popular music, memory politics, and willed amnesia in Vietnam.
• William Olsen, Poet, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Professor of Creative Writing, Western Michigan University: Poetry.
• Han Ong, Writer, New York City: Fiction.
• Christine Osinski, Photographer, Ridgefield, Connecticut; professor of art, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Photography.
• , Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University: Arab serial migrants in a global world.
• , Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth and Professor of Geosciences, University of Arizona: Paleoclimatic perspectives for society and the future.

P[]

• Carl O. Pabo, Visiting Professor of Structural Biology and Psychology, Stanford University: Theories of thought.
• ZZ Packer, Writer, Pacifica, California; Senior Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, California College of the Arts: Fiction.
• Jeffrey D. Palmer, Distinguished Professor of Biology, Indiana University: Studies in horizontal and intracellular gene transfer.
• Susan Pedersen, professor of history, Columbia University: The impact of the League of Nations on colonial governance.
• , Visiting Fellow in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University; Visiting Scholar, World Bank, Washington, DC: The urban poor and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1968–2004.
• John Abel Pinto, Howard Crosby Butler Memorial Professor of the History of Architecture, Princeton University: Architecture and urbanism in Rome, 1680–1780.
• , Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Philosophy and professor of law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The discipline of public reason.
• Drazen Prelec, Digital Equipment Corporation LFM Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management: Truthfulness and truth in subjective data.
• , Writer, Venice, California: A field guide to Los Angeles.
• , professor of biology, University of Chicago: Speciation in birds.
• , professor of art history, University of Maryland, College Park: The public display of religion in the United States.

R[]

• Donald J. Raleigh, Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Soviet baby boomers.
• Spencer Reece, Poet, Juno Beach, Florida: Poetry.
• Lynne Regan, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and professor of chemistry, Yale University: Studies of novel anti-cancer reagents.
• Elaine Reichek, Artist, New York City: Conceptual art.
• , professor of geography, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign: Fluvial dynamics of river confluences.
• , associate professor of history, Vanderbilt University: Nature, science, and empire in Manchuria, 1700–2000.
• , Composer, Brooklyn, New York; Distinguished Lecturer in Music Theory, History, and Appreciation Studies, 92nd Street YM-YWHA School of Music, New York City: Music composition.

S[]

• , professor of economics, University of Michigan: The evolution of labor standards in Japan.
• Judith Schaechter, Artist, Philadelphia; adjunct professor of art, University of the Arts: Stained-glass art.
• Julia Scher, Video Artist, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Visiting Artist, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Video installation art.
• Philip Schultz, Poet, East Hampton, New York; Founding Director, The Writers Studio, New York City: Poetry.
• Jim Shepard, Writer, Williamstown, Massachusetts; J. Leland Miller Professor of English, Williams College: Fiction.
• , Artist, Rodeo, California; Professor of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley: Painting.
• David Shields, Professor of English, University of Washington, Seattle: A meditation on the brute fact of human mortality.
• Christopher Shinn, Playwright, New York City; Instructor in Play Writing, Actors Studio, New School University: Play writing.
• Paul Sietsema, Artist, Los Angeles: Sculpture.
• Shelly Silver, Video Artist, New York City; Member of the Adjunct Faculty, School of Visual Arts and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Video.
• Mark Slouka, Writer, New York City; Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Columbia University: Fiction.
• , Associate Professor of English and Director, Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton University: The relation between language and death in Middle English literature.
• Valerie Smith, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and Director, Program in African American Studies, Princeton University: The civil-rights movement in cultural memory.
• Christopher D. Sogge, professor of mathematics, Johns Hopkins University: Solutions of wave equations on Riemannian manifolds.
• David Sorkin, Frances and Laurence Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies and Director, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin–Madison: Six faces of the religious Enlightenment, 1689–1789.
• Natasha Staller, associate professor of fine arts, Amherst College: Goya's Black Paintings and the culture of the monstrous in Spain.
• Glenn D. Starkman, Armington Professor, professor of physics, and professor of astronomy, Case Western Reserve University: The universe on the largest scales.
• Ned Sublette, Musicologist, New Orleans; Tulane Rockefeller Humanities Fellow, Tulane University: Cuba and its music, 1952–2002.
• Madhu Sudan, Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Algebraic methods in error-correction.
• Thomas J. Sugrue, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania: The unfinished struggle for racial equality in the North.

T[]

• Kimi Takesue, Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
• Diana Taylor, Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish, New York University: Political spectatorship in the Americas.
• Diana Thater, Artist, Los Angeles; professor, Graduate Studies in Fine Art, Art Center College of Design: Installation art.
• , Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder: Studies of clouds on early Earth.
• John C. Tully, Arthur T. Kemp Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University: Chemical dynamics at metal surfaces.
• , Writer, Asheville, North Carolina; Director, Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers: Writing as a way of seeing.

V[]

• Moshe Y. Vardi, Karen Ostrum George Professor of Computational Engineering, Rice University: Studies in logic and algorithms.
• , assistant professor of Assyriology, University of California, Berkeley: The intellectual history of ancient Mesopotamia.
• Santosh Srinivas Vempala, associate professor of mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Algorithmic convex geometry.

W[]

• Meenakshi Wadhwa, Curator of Meteoritics, Field Museum, Chicago: Analysis of solar wind returned by the Genesis spacecraft.
• Andrew Waggoner, Composer and Musician, New York City; Composer-in-Residence and associate professor, Setnor School of Music, Syracuse University: Music composition.
• , Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University: Ninth-century Chinese mandalas and reliquaries from the underground.
• Lai-Sheng Wang, professor of physics, Washington State University: Studies in atomic clusters and multiply charged anions.
• Bruce Western, professor of sociology, Princeton University: The growth and consequences of American inequality.
• Martin J. Wiener, Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of History, Rice University: Violence, race, and authority in the British Empire.
• Christopher Williams, Artist, Los Angeles; adjunct professor, Graduate Studies in Fine Art, Art Center College of Design: Installation art.^[1]
• Deborah Willis, Professor of Photography and Imaging and of Africana Studies, New York University: A cultural history of photographs of African-American women, 1900–1930.
• , Composer, Tallahassee, Florida; Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of Electroacoustic Music, Florida State University: Music composition.
• , Photographer, Charlottesville. Virginia; assistant professor of art, University of Virginia: Photography.

X[]

• , Kravis University Professor of Engineering and Physics, Brown University: The feasibility and mechanisms of all-silicon lasers.

Latin American and Caribbean Fellows[]

• Gonzalo Moisés Aguilar, Assistant Researcher, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET): The guerrillero and intellectual culture in Argentina and Brazil, 1967–1976.
• Manlio Argueta, Writer, San Salvador; Director, National Library of El Salvador: Fiction.
• Josep M. Barnadas, Senior Researcher, Center for Advanced Bolivian Studies, Cochabamba, Bolivia: The printed culture of Charcas, Bolivia, 1535–1825.
• Cecilia Bouzat, Independent Researcher, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET); Professor of Pharmacology, National University of the South, Bahia Blanca: Studies in molecular pharmacology.
• Andrés E. Carrasco, professor, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires; Independent Researcher, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET): Specification of the embryonic dorsal midline fates in Xenopus.
• Gino Casassa, Senior Researcher, Center for Scientific Studies, Valdivia, Chile: Climate variability along a transect from West to East Antarctica.
• Gerardo Ceballos, Professor and Head of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM): Global patterns of mammalian extinction and endangerment.
• Brian Connaughton, Research Professor, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Iztapalapa, Mexico City: Civil society, religiosity, and identity in 19th-century Mexico.
• Jocy de Oliveira, Composer, Director, and Multi-Media Artist, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Music composition.
• Lucía A. Golluscio, Associate Professor of Ethnolinguistics, University of Buenos Aires; Senior Researcher, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET): The grammar and texts of the endangered Argentine indigenous language Vilela.
• Todd Gulick, managing director and Executive Producer, The Callaloo Company, Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago and Miami, Florida: Peter Minshall and the Carnival of Trinidad, 1974–2003.
• Karen Hallberg, Independent Researcher, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), Centro Atomico Bariloche (CNEA); Assistant Professor of physics, Balseiro Institute, Bariloche, Argentina: Real-time simulations of nanoscopic systems.
• Arturo Herrera, Installation Artist, Berlin, Germany: Installation art.
• Jaime Luis Huenún, Editor, Mapuche Kimun de Temuco, Sociedad Periodistica Mapuche, Temuco, Chile: The cultural narratives of fifteen Mapuche elders.
• Andrea Juan, Visual Artist, Buenos Aires; professor of art, National University of "Tres de Febrero," Buenos Aires: Visual art.
• Lorenzo Lamattina, Principal Investigator, National Research Counncil of Argentina (CONICET); Professor of Plant Biology, National University of Mar del Plata: Studies of nitric oxide-mediated processes in plants.
• Cristóbal Lehyt, Installation Artist, New York City: Installation art.
• Florian Luca, associate professor of mathematics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM): Diophantine equations and analytic number theory.
• Marisa Malvestitti, Associate Professor of Grammar and Sociolinguistics and Professor of Language and Literature, National University of La Pampa: The Mapuche texts in the Lehmann-Nitsche bequest.
• Luisa Margolies, Medical Anthropologist, Caracas, Venezuela; Director, Ediciones Venezolanas de Antropología, Caracas: Missionaries, evangelism, and indigenous cultural change in Venezuela.
• Martín Matalon, Composer, Paris, France: Music composition.
• Daniel Mato, professor, Program on Communication, Culture, and Social Transformation, Central University of Venezuela: The role of "think tanks" in the transnational production and dissemination of liberal ideas in Latin America, 1980–2005.
• René Antonio Mayorga, Senior Researcher, Bolivian Center for Multi-Disciplinary Studies (CEBEM), La Paz; Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor, Brown University: Weak states and institutional reforms in the Andes region.
• Carlos Frederico Martins Menck, professor of microbiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo: Studies of cell responses to DNA damage.
• Dante Minniti, associate professor of astronomy, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile: Stellar populations of nearby galaxies.
• Pablo Andrés Neumeyer, professor of economics, Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires: Sovereign risk and business cycles.
• Hugo Padeletti, Poet, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Poetry.
• Wilfredo Prieto, Installation Artist, Valencia, Spain: Installation art.
• Roberto Raschella, Writer and Translator, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Fiction.
• Luis Alberto Romero, professor of history, University of Buenos Aires; Principal Investigator, National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET): The Catholic Church and political culture in Buenos Aires, 1900–1955.
• Raul R. Romero, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Andean Ethnomusicology, Greater National University of San Marcos: Nationalism in 20th-century Peruvian music.
• Jorge Schvarzer, Research Director, Faculty of Economics, University of Buenos Aires: Entrepreneurial groups and political power in Argentina, 1955–2000.
• Eliseo Subiela, Film Maker, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Film making.
• Mauro M. Teixeira, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Immunology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais: The role of the intestinal microbiota in controlling inflammatory responses.
• José Manuel Valenzuela Arce, Research Professor of Cultural Studies, College of the North Frontier, Chula Vista, California: Art, culture, and representations of the Mexican-U.S. frontier.
• Rodolfo Darío Vázquez Cardozo, professor of law, Autonomous Technical Institute of Mexico, Mexico City: Theories, principles and judicial regulation in bioethics.

References[]

External links[]

• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation home page