List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2008.
U.S. and Canadian Fellows
A
Len Ackland, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder: Nuclear power at a crossroads. Martha Ackmann, Writer, Leverett, Massachusetts; Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College: Toni Stone's challenge to baseball and America. Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Otto Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics, Princeton University: The econometrics of jumps and volatility. Ken Alder, Professor of History and Milton H. Wilson Professor of the Humanities, Northwestern University: Personal identification from the Renaissance to the genome. Meena Alexander, Poet, New York City; Distinguished Professor of English, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center: Poetry. Geri A. Allen, Composer, Upper Montclair, New Jersey; Associate Professor of Jazz Piano and Improvisation, University of Michigan: Music composition. Natalia Almada, Filmmaker, Mexico City and Brooklyn, New York: Filmmaking. Margaret Lavinia Anderson, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: The Armenian Genocide: A German story. Nancy Evelyn Andrews, Professor of Art and Design, College of the Atlantic: Filmmaking. Rae Armantrout, Poet, San Diego, California; Professor of Poetry and Poetics, University of California, San Diego: Poetry. Douglas N. Arnold, Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: Finite element exterior calculus. Shimon Attie, Visual Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Video installation.
B
Dean Bakopoulos, Writer, Mineral Point, Wisconsin; Executive Director and Lillian Greenwood Artist-in-residence, Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts, Mineral Point: Fiction. Randy E. Barnett, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center: The reconstructed constitution. Mason Bates, Composer, Oakland, California: Music Composition. Keith Bearden, Filmmaker, Long Island City, New York: Filmmaking. Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, Professor of History, New York University: The imprint and a logic of signs in medieval Europe (1150-1350). Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Norman and Doris Giles Professor of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, University of Georgia: Genetic diversity and population structure in the parasitic weed Striga and its crop hosts in Mali. Toni Bentley, Writer, Los Angeles, California: General Nonfiction. Michael P. Berman, Artist and Photographer, San Lorenzo, New Mexico: Photography. Harry Bernstein, Writer, Brick, New Jersey: Now in my nineties. Michael D. Bess, Chancellor's Professor of History, Vanderbilt University: A historian's perspective on human biological enhancement. João Biehl, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University: Transcendental values and political life in postcolonial Brazil: The Mucker War. Erika Blumenfeld, Artist, Marfa, Texas: Environment-based installation. Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics, Clemson University; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The political economy of Jacksonian New York. Tim Bowling, Poet, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Poetry. Stanley Brandes, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley: Pets and their people. Michael F. Brenson, Independent Scholar, Accord, New York: A biography of David Smith. Art Bridgman/Myrna Packer, Choreographers, Valley Cottage, New York; Codirectors, Bridgman/Packer Dance: Choreography. Carlyle Brown, Playwright, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Drama. Michael Paul Burkard, Poet, Syracuse, New York; Associate Professor of English, MFA Program in Creative Writing, Syracuse University; Instructor, Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College: Poetry.