U.S. and Canadian Fellows
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Kathryn Alexander, Composer, New Haven, Connecticut; Associate Professor of Music Composition, Yale University: Music composition. •
Cristian Amigo, Composer, Astoria, New York; Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University; Adjunct Professor, College of Staten Island, City University of New York: Music composition. •
Olive Ayhens, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Painting.
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Markus Baenziger, Artist, New York City; Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Brandeis University: Sculpture. •
Ulrich Baer, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Chair, Department of German, New York University: The representation of clouds and the art of sublimation, 1800–1970. •
Dare Baldwin, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon: Understanding others' actions. •
Thomas J. Barfield, Professor of Anthropology and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Boston University: Political legitimacy in Afghanistan. •
Catherine Barnett, Poet, New York City; Adjunct Faculty, Creative Writing Program, and Liberal Arts Program, Paul McGhee Division, New York University: Poetry. •
Emily Barton, Writer, Brooklyn, New York; Writer-in-Residence, Eugene Lang College, New School University: Fiction.a •
Todd Bertolaet, Professor of Photography, Florida A & M University: Photography. •
Douglas Biow, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, University of Texas, Austin: Anticonformist authors in 16th-century Italy. •
Michael R. Blatt, Regius Professor of Botany and Head of Plant Sciences, University of Glasgow: Membrane protein mobility and dynamics. •
Judy Blunt, Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Nonfiction, University of Montana: Essays on the legend of the strong Western woman. •
Hilary Brace, Artist, Santa Barbara, California: Drawing. •
Marco Breuer, Photographer, Hudson, New York; Adjunct Faculty Member in Photography, M.F.A. Program, Bard College: Photography. •
Ellen Bromberg, Choreographer, Salt Lake City, Utah; Associate Professor of Modern Dance, University of Utah: Choreography. •
Timothy Brook, Professor of Chinese History and Principal, St. John's College, University of British Columbia: Social suffering and social policy in the Chinese tradition. •
Roxane Butterfly, Choreographer, New York City; Artistic Director, Worldbeats: Choreography.
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Christopher Caines, Choreographer, Brooklyn, New York; Artistic Director, Christopher Caines Dance Company: Choreography. •
Scott Cairns, Poet, Columbia, Missouri; Professor of English, University of Missouri: Poetry. •
Wally Cardona, Choreographer, Brooklyn, New York; Artistic Director, WCV, Inc: Choreography. •
Bruce G. Carruthers, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University: The evolution of economic trust. •
Alessandra Casella, Professor of Economics, Columbia University: Storable votes. •
David W. Christianson, Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of Pennsylvania: Complexes between biological macromolecules and nonbiological nanomolecules. •
Jill Ciment, Writer, Gainesville, Florida; Professor of English, University of Florida: Fiction. •
Paul M. Cobb, Associate Professor of Islamic History, and Fellow of the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame: Usama ibn Munqidh's memoirs and the Muslims in the age of the Crusades. •
Patricia Cline Cohen, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara: Thomas and Mary Gove Nichols and marriage reform in antebellum America. •
Donald Crockett, Composer, La Cañada, California; Professor of Composition and Chair, Composition Department, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California: Music composition.
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Tracy Daugherty, Professor of English, Oregon State University: A biography of Donald Barthelme. •
Anthony Davis, Composer, San Diego, California; Professor of Music, University of California, San Diego: Music composition. •
Sally Denton, Writer, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Jessie and John Frémont and the shaping of America. •
Dennis Des Chene, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University: Wisdom and the new science in the 17th century. •
Nathaniel Deutsch, Associate Professor of Religion, Swarthmore College: Ansky and the invention of Jewish ethnography. •
Helen DeWitt, Writer, Berlin, Germany: Fiction. •
Michael Dine, Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz: Preparation for the large hadron collider. •
Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University: Equal opportunity in practice. •
Julia V. Douthwaite, Professor of French and Assistant Provost for International Studies, University of Notre Dame: A literary history of the French Revolution. •
Michael W. Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Political Science, Columbia University: The ethics, politics, and law of preventative self-defense. •
Paul Dresher, Composer, Berkeley, California: Music composition. •
Jean-Marie Dufour, Professor of Economics and Canada Research Chair in Econometrics, University of Montréal: Econometric problems in macroeconomics and finance.
E • , Professor of History, University of California, San Diego: Moscow soccer audiences and popular attitudes toward communism. •
Michael S. Engel, Professor and Senior Curator, Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas: Evolution of the termites and global changes in carbon recycling. •
Martín Espada, Poet, Amherst, Massachusetts; Professor of English, University of Massachusetts: Poetry.
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Hany Farid, Associate Professor of Computer Science,
Dartmouth College: Digital forensics. •
Paula S. Fass, Margaret Byrne Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: Parents and children in American history, 1800-2000. •
Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Kathleen Gough Collegiate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan: Kinship and ecology in 19th-century Great Britain and America. •
Steven Feierman, Professor of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania: Social medicine in Africa. •
Martha Feldman, Professor of Music and the Humanities, University of Chicago: The castrato as myth. •
Peter Fend, Artist, Berlin, Germany: Visual art. •
Judy Fox, Artist, New York City: Sculpture. •
Dana Frankfort, Artist, Long Island City, New York: Painting. •
Daisy Fried, Poet, Northampton, Massachusetts;
Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence, Smith College: Poetry. •
Barbara Fuchs, Associate Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania: "Moorish" culture and the conflictive construction of Spain. •
Diana Fuss, Professor of English, Princeton University: Poetry and the art of resuscitation.
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Louis Galambos, Professor of History, The Johns Hopkins University; Editor, The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower; Maguire Chair, Kluge Center, Library of Congress: The Creative Society, and the price Americans paid for being creative. •
Alison P. Galvani, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University: Game-theoretic insights into population adherence of influenza vaccination policies. •
David Garland, Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, New York University: Capital punishment and American society. •
Nina Rattner Gelbart, Professor of History and Anita Johnson Wand Professor of Women's Studies, Occidental College: Frenchwomen of science in the 18th century. •
Michael Gitlin, Film Maker, Brooklyn, New York; Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York: Film making. •
Jane M. Gitschier, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco: The genetic basis of absolute-pitch perception. •
Arthur Goldhammer, Translator, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Senior Affiliate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University: Democracy in America since Tocqueville. •
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Writer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College: Fiction. •
Maria Elena González, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Sculpture and installation art. •
Dena Goodman, Professor of History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan: Women's letter-writing in the 18th century. •
Katie Grinnan, Artist, Los Angeles; Lecturer, University of California, Irvine: Sculpture. •
Rinne Groff, Playwright, New York City; Instructor in Dramatic Writing, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University: Play writing. •
Ruth Ellen Gruber, Writer and Independent Scholar, Morre, Italy: Imaginary Wild Wests in contemporary Europe. •
Allan Gurganus, Writer, Hillsborough, North Carolina: Fiction.
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Carl Haber, Senior Scientist, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Optical methods to recover sound from mechanical recordings. •
Judith Hall, Poet, Malibu, California; Core Faculty Member, M.F.A. in Poetry Program, New England College; Poetry Editor, The Antioch Review: Poetry. •
Mark Halliday, Poet, Athens, Ohio; Professor of English, Ohio University: Poetry. •
Karen V. Hansen, Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, Brandeis University: The Dakota Sioux and Scandinavian homesteaders, 1900-1930. •
Dayna Hanson, Choreographer, Seattle, Washington: Choreography. •
Mike Heffley, Writer, Portland, Oregon;Adjunct Professor, Axia College of Western International University, Phoenix, Arizona: The folkloric and the radical in new and improvised music. •
Michael Henry Heim, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles: The theory and practice of advanced language acquisition. • Frank Herrmann, Artist, Cincinnati, Ohio; Professor of Fine Arts, University of Cincinnati: Painting. •
Constance Valis Hill, Five College Associate Professor of Dance, Hampshire College: A cultural history of tap dancing in America since 1900. •
Kay E. Holekamp, Professor of Zoology, Michigan State University: Development of role-reversed sex differences in behavior and morphology. •
Thomas Hurka, Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman Distinguished Chair in Philosophical Studies, University of Toronto: British moral philosophy from Sidgwick to Ross. •
Lewis Hyde, Writer, Gambier, Ohio; Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College: Our cultural commons.
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Yoko Inoue, Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Visiting Faculty, Bennington College: Installation art.
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Daniel James, Bernardo Mendel Chair of Latin American History, Indiana University: Class, ethnicity, and identity formation in an Argentine meatpacking community. •
Scott Johnson, Composer, New York City: Music composition.
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Zsolt Kadar, Photographer, Los Angeles: Photography. •
Douglas Kahn, Director of Technocultural Studies, University of California, Davis: History of the recognition of natural radio phenomena. •
Carla Kaplan, Professor of English and Gender Studies, University of Southern California: The white women of the Harlem Renaissance. •
Patrick Radden Keefe, Writer, Brooklyn; Program Officer and Fellow, The Century Foundation, New York City: Networks of cross-border criminal and terrorist organizations. •
Garret Keizer, Writer, Sutton, Vermont: A humanistic consideration of noise. •
Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Poet, Arcata, California; Professor of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Poetry. •
Suki Kim, Writer, New York City: Fiction. •
Diane P. Koenker, Professor of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Proletarian tourism and vacations in the USSR. •
Joseph Leo Koerner, Professor in the History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art: Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, and the painting of everyday life. •
Schuyler S. Korban, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Studies of plant-based vaccines. •
Frank J. Korom, Associate Professor of Religion and Anthropology, Boston University: The impact of modernity on traditional Bengali scroll painters and singers.
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John A. Lane, Independent Scholar, Leiden, The Netherlands: The life and work of the 17th-century typefounder and punchcutter
Christoffel van Dijck. •
Brooke Larson, Professor of History, Stony Brook University: Aymara Indians and struggles over power, knowledge, and identity in the Bolivian Andes. •
Anthony J. La Vopa, Professor of History, North Carolina State University: The labor of the mind and the specter of effeminacy in Enlightenment cultures. •
Carol Lawton, Professor of Art History, and Chair, Department of Art and Art History, Lawrence University: Popular Greek religion and the votive reliefs from the Athenian Agora. •
John L'Heureux, Writer, Stanford, California; Professor of English Emeritus, Stanford University: Fiction. •
Cynthia Lin, Artist, New York City; Guest Faculty in Visual Arts, Sarah Lawrence College: Drawing and painting. •
John M. Lipski, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University: Afro-Hispanic speech today. •
Jia-Ming Liu, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles: Three-dimensional intracellular laser nanoscopy. •
Jianguo (Jack) Liu, Rachel Carson Chair in Ecological Sustainability and Director of Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University: Pandas, people, and policies. •
Yu Liu, Professor of English, Niagara County Community College: Chinese gardening ideas in the English landscaping revolution. •
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, University of Michigan: A short history of the Buddha. •
Deidre Shauna Lynch, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University, Bloomington: A cultural history of the love of literature.
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L. Mahadevan, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Professor of Systems Biology, and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University: Integrative pathophysiology of sickle-cell disease. •
Jake Mahaffy, Film Maker, Roanoke, Virginia; Assistant Professor of Film, Hollins University: Film making. •
Janis Mattox, Composer, Woodside, California: Music composition. •
Joseph Mazur, Writer, Marlboro, Vermont; Professor of Mathematics, Marlboro College: A memoir. •
Richard McCann, Writer, Washington, D.C.; Professor of Literature, M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, American University: A memoir. •
Neil McWilliam, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University: Tradition, identity, and the visual arts in France, 1900-1914. •
William Hamilton Meeks, III, George David Birkhoff Professor of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: The global structure of complete embedded minimal surfaces in three-manifolds. •
Jonathan M. Metzl, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Psychiatry, and Director, Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine, University of Michigan: Race, stigma, and the diagnosis of schizophrenia. •
Patricia Cox Miller, W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion, Syracuse University: The corporeal imagination in late antiquity. •
Mark Mitchell, Writer, Gainesville, Florida; Managing Editor, Subtropics Magazine, University of Florida: A biography of Frederic Prokosch. •
Fen Montaigne, Free-lance Writer, Pelham, New York: The Antarctic Peninsula, penguins, and a warming world. •
Susan Brind Morrow, Writer, Chatham, New York: The Pyramid Texts and the development of religious imagery. •
Harriet Murav, Professor and Department Head of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Professor of World and Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaignn: Soviet Yiddish and Russian-Jewish literature of the 20th century. •
Megan Mylan, Documentary Film Maker, New York City: Film making.
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Sally Ann Ness, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside: An ethnographic study of Yosemite tourism. •
Wilbur Niewald, Artist, Mission, Kansas; Professor of Painting Emeritus,
Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri: Painting. •
Ashley Null, Visiting Research Fellow, Faculties of Divinity, Cambridge University; Visiting Research Fellow in Theology, Humboldt University, Berlin: A critical edition of Thomas Cranmer's Great Commonplaces.
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Gina Ochsner, Writer, Keizer, Oregon; Adjunct Instructor, George Fox University: Fiction. •
Peter Orner, Writer, San Francisco; Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, San Francisco State University: Fiction. •
Anthony Pagden, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles: A history of European cosmopolitanism.
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Roxy Paine, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Sculpture. •
Nina C. Paley, Animator and Film Maker, New York City; Adjunct Faculty Member, Parsons School of Design: Film making. •
Eric Patrick, Film Maker, Greensboro, North Carolina; Assistant Professor of Broadcasting and Cinema, University of North Carolina, Greensboro: Film making. •
Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography and Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison: A critical study of neoliberalism. •
Nancy Lee Peluso, Professor of Society and Environment, and Program Director, Berkeley Workshop in Environmental Politics, University of California, Berkeley: Territoriality, violence, and the production of landscape history in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. •
Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: American Indians in the segregated South, 1870-1970. •
Patrick Phillips, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Oregon: Evolution of genetic architecture. •
John Pollini, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Southern California: Christian destruction and desecration of images of classical antiquity. •
Richard B. Primack, Professor of Biology, Boston University: Climate change in Thoreau's Concord. •
Laurence Pringle, Free-lance Writer, West Nyack, New York: Children's books about evolution. •
Michael D. Purugganan, Professor of Biology, New York University: The ecological transcriptome.
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George Quasha, Video Artist, Barrytown, New York: Video.
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Arden Reed, Arthur M. and Fanny M. Dole Professor of English, Pomona College: Slow art, from tableaux vivants to James Turrell. •
Andrew C. Revkin, Reporter, The New York Times: The pursuit of progress on a planet in flux. •
John V. Robinson, Writer, Crockett, California; Adjunct English Instructor, Las Positas College and Diablo Valley College: The folklore of the high-steel ironworkers. •
Philippe Rochat, Professor of Psychology, Emory University: Origins of possession and sharing. •
Carlo Rotella, Professor of English and Director of American Studies, Boston College: The signifying place of music in human lives.
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Laurent Saloff-Coste, Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University: Diffusions and random walks on groups. •
James Sanders, Principal, James Sanders & Associates; Director, Center for Urban Experience, New York City: The experience of cities. •
Richard Sandler, Film Maker, New York City: Film making. •
Paul Sattler, Artist, Greenfield Center, New York; Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Skidmore College: Painting. •
George Saunders, Writer, Syracuse, New York; Associate Professor of English, Syracuse University: Fiction. •
Norbert F. Scherer, Professor of Chemistry, James Franck Institute and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago: Long-range electron transfer processes in single proteins. •
Ronald Schuchard, Goodrich C. White Professor of English, Emory University: A complete edition of T. S. Eliot's prose. •
James Shapiro, Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University: The Shakespeare authorship controversy. •
Stephen J. Shoemaker, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Oregon: The end of Muhammad's life in Christian and early Islamic sources. •
Andrew Shryock, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan: The politics of hospitality in Jordan. •
Britta Sjogren, Film Maker, San Francisco; Associate Professor of Cinema, San Francisco State University: Film making. •
John D. Skrentny, Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego: The new racial division of labor in America. •
Daniel Lord Smail, Professor of History, Harvard University: Fama and the culture of publicity in medieval Mediterranean Europe. •
Laurence C. Smith, Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles: The significance of Arctic warming for the planet and society. •
Joel Sobel, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego: Information aggregation and group decisions. •
Carl Sander Socolow, Photographer, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania: Photography. •
Steve Stern, Writer, Ballston Spa, New York; Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Skidmore College: Fiction. •
James A. Stimson, Raymond Dawson Bicentennial Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: The liberalism of professed conservatives in America. •
Darin Strauss, Writer, Brooklyn, New York; Adjunct Professor in Creative Writing, New York University: Fiction. •
Linda Svendsen, Screenwriter, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Professor of Theatre, Film, and Creative Writing, University of British Columbia: Screenwriting. •
Cole Swensen, Poet, Washington, D.C.; Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa: Poetry.
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Jeff Talman, Sound Artist, Brooklyn, New York; Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College: Sound Art. •
John A. Tarduno, Professor of Geophysics and Chair, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester: The geomagnetic field and magnetic shielding of the early Earth. •
Tony Tasset, Artist, Oak Park, Illinois; Professor, School of Art and Design, College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois, Chicago: Sculpture. •
William Taubman, Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science, Amherst College: A biography of Mikhail Gorbachev. •
Jackie Tileston, Artist, Philadelphia; Associate Professor of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania: Painting. •
Lynne Tillman, Writer, New York City; Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence, The University at Albany: Fiction. •
Daniel Trueman, Composer, Princeton, New Jersey; Assistant Professor of Music, Princeton University: Music composition. •
Basil Twist, Theatre Artist, New York City; Artistic Director, Tandem Otter Productions: A theatre piece.
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Peter Uvin, Professor of International Humanitarian Studies, Fletcher School, Tufts University: Post-conflict agenda in Burundi from the local perspective.
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Noël Valis, Professor of Spanish, Yale University: Catholicism in modern Spanish narrative. •
Jennifer Vanderbes, Writer, New York City: Fiction.
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Stewart Wallace, Composer, New York City: Music composition. •
Shui-Bo Wang, Film Maker, Montreal, Canada; Director, Experimental Film Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; Film Director, National Film Board, Saint-Laurent, Canada: Film making. •
Allen Wells, Roger Howell, Jr., Professor of History, Bowdoin College: General Trujillo, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Jews of Sosua (Dominican Republic). •
Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor, The New Republic: Translation of unpublished writings by Yehuda Amichai. •
Hilary Wilder, Artist, Houston; Instructor, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Painting and installation art. •
Anne Winters, Poet, Evanston, Illinois; Professor of English, University of Illinois, Chicago: Poetry.
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John Yau, Poet, New York City; Assistant Professor of Critical Studies, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University: Poetry. •
Robert A. Yelle, Postdoctoral Fellow, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; Visiting Assistant Professor, Program for the Study of Religion, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: The influence of Protestant literalism on modern law and religion. •
Bin Yu, Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley: Interpretable models for high-dimensional data.
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Dennis Zaritsky, Professor of Astronomy, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona: Studies in astronomical image analysis. •
Julian Zelizer, Professor of History, Boston University: National security politics from the Cold War to the war on terrorism. •
Shuguang Zhang, Associate Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: A biosolar nanodevice for direct harvest of solar energy. ==Latin American and Caribbean Fellows==