The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded $8.2 million in fellowships this year to 190 artists, scholars and scientists from more than 2,600 applicants in the United States and Canada.
The New York-based foundation announced the awards last week. Guggenheim fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment, according to the foundation. Since 1925, the foundation has granted more than $265 million in fellowships to almost 16,500 individuals. Fellowships are grants made for a minimum of six months and maximum of 12 months. The average grant this year is about $43,000.
This year's Guggenheim fellows from the University of California are:
UC Berkeley
Margaret Lavinia Anderson, professor of history (Armenian genocide)
Stanley Brandes, professor of anthropology (pets and their people)
G. R. F. Ferrari, professor of classics (fiction and the limits of social meaning)
Paolo Mancosu, professor of philosophy (interplay between philosophy of mathematics and mathematical logic)
Arthur P. Shimamura, professor of psychology (a neurocognitive approach to the psychology of art and aesthetics)
Kaja Silverman, professor of rhetoric and film (the miracle of analogy)
UC Davis
Li Zhang, associate professor of anthropology (the rise of psychotherapy in post-reform China)
UC Irvine
Edward Fowler, professor of East Asian languages and literature (a family memoir)
Simon Leung, associate professor of studio art (post-studio art)
Ruben Ochoa, adjunct professor in sculpture (installation art)
UCLA
Susanna B. Hecht, professor of urban planning (deforestation in the rubber boom of the upper Amazon)
Chandrashekhar B. Khare, professor of mathematics (motives, Galois representation and automorphic forms)
Glen M. MacDonald, professor of geography (climate warming, epic drought and society)
Katherine V. W. Stone, professor of law (the remaking of labor relations in the 21st century)
Marc A. Suchard, assistant professor of biomathematics, biostatistics and human genetics (toward solutions to the fundamental problems in statistical phylogenetics)
Roger D. Waldinger, distinguished professor of sociology (America's new immigrants and their homeland connection)
UC San Diego
Rae Armantrout, professor of poetry and poetics (poetry)
Jason X.-J. Yuan, professor of medicine (role of ion channels in stem cell proliferation and differentiation)
To view the Guggenheim Fellowship Awards release: www.gf.org/April022008.html
For more information about the University of California: www.universityofcalifornia.edu