Sixteen faculty members from throughout the University of California system have been named 2010 fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. They are among 180 recipients of the annual fellowships, awarded on the basis of achievement and exceptional promise.
They include (by campus):
Berkeley
- Leon O. Chua, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences: brainlike memristor circuits
- Rosemary A. Joyce, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Social Sciences and professor of anthropology: history and meteriality from an archaeological perspective
- Gregory P.A. Levine, associate professor of the art and architecture of Japan and Buddhist visual cultures: Buddha heads as sculptural fragments in devotional and modern-contemporary imaginations
- Dawn Song, associate professor of computer science: safe patches and applications to secure networked medical devices
- R. Jay Wallace, professor of philosophy: the moral nexus
UCLA
- Andrew Apter, professor of history and anthropology/director, James S. Coleman African Studies Center: a study of slave coasts and hinterlands in Afro-American perspective
- Sharon E.J. Gerstel, professor of Bysantine art and archaeology: the devotional life and setting of the late Byzantine peasant
- Sander M. Goldberg, professor of classics: realities of Roman stage performance
- Yunxiang Yan, professor of anthropology: the individual and moral changes in China, 1978-2008
Riverside
- Norman C. Ellstrand, professor of genetics: genetics, genomics and the many faces of hybridization
- Juan Felipe Herrera, Tómas Rivera Endowed Chair in Poetry: poetry
Santa Cruz
- Nathaniel Mackey, professor of literature: poetry
- Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, professor of anthropology: the commodity chain and global ecology of the matsutake mushrooms
Davis
- Petr Janata, associate professor of psychology: an interactive guide to the brain mechanisms underlying musical experiences
San Diego
- James H. Fowler, professor of political science: pay-it-forward dynamics in social networks
Santa Barbara
- Hyongsok (Tom) Soh, associate professor of materials and mechanical engineering: rapid in vitro generation of affinity reagents for point-of-care diagnostics