Twelve professors from throughout the University of California system are among the 2011 fellows of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. They are part of a group of 180 fellows in the United States and Canada working on projects that span the sciences and the humanities. (View complete list here.)
UC's fellows include:
- Brian P. Copenhaver, distinguished professor of philosophy and history, UCLA: Explaining by picturing in Early Modern Europe.
- Caroline Cole Ford, professor of history, UCLA: Culture, conservation, and the environment in metropolitan and colonial France.
- Stephen Anthony Gardbaum, MacArthur Foundation Professor of international justice and human rights, UCLA: The new commonwealth model of constitutionalism.
- Mónica Medina, associate professor, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced: Biological robustness in a dynamic partnership: scleractinian corals and their algal symbionts.
- Isabel Montañez, professor of geology, UC Davis: Evaluating past carbon dioxide climate-forcing and the impact on regional climates and paleotropical rainforests.
- Dimitris Politis, professor of mathematics and economics, UC San Diego: Model-free prediction and regression.
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam, professor and Doshi Chair of Indian history, UCLA: Between ethnography and realpolitik: from Europe to South Asia in the 17th century.
- Renee Elizabeth Tajima-Peña, filmmaker, Los Angeles, and professor and graduate director, social documentation and community studies programs, UC Santa Cruz: Film-video.
- Eric J. Van Young, distinguished professor of history, UC San Diego: Lucas Alaman and Mexico: a life together, 1792-1853.
- Louis Warren, W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of western U.S. history, UC Davis: A hole in the dream: the ghost dance and the making of modern America.
- Martin White, professor of physics and astronomy, UC Berkeley: Mining the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS).
- Matthew J. Zapruder, poet, San Francisco, and assistant visiting professor, MFA in creative writing and writing for the performing arts, UC Riverside: Poetry.