PAST RECIPIENTS

	Professor Jennifer Beer, Psychology University of California, Davis Fellowship awarded 2006 Professor Beer examines the neural systems supporting the regulation of social behavior by combining approaches from social psychology, economics, and cognitive neuroscience. She conducts complementary studies of patients with specific brain damage and fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) studies in healthy populations to understand the role of the human frontal lobes in emotion, self-consciousness, and decision-making.
	Professor Angela Belcher, Chemistry and Biochemistry The University of Texas at Austin Fellowship awarded 2001 Professor Belcher's research involves combining organic and inorganic substances to generate new materials that can be used to produce transistors, wires, connectors, sensors and computer chips far smaller than anything manufactured so far.
	Professor Jeffrey Brock, Mathematics University of Chicago Fellowship awarded 2003   Professor Brock's work focuses on the geometry of "hyperbolic 3-manifolds." His work overlaps with the classical mathematical fields of analysis and differential geometry.
	Professor Xavier Cabré, Mathematics Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Fellowship awarded 2001 Professor Cabré's research focuses on mathematical analysis of problems arising in combustion phenomena in combustion engines. He also is interested in the propagation of signals along nerve fibers and in option pricing in markets, with emphasis on their financial risk.
	Professor Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, History State University of New York - Buffalo Fellowship awarded 2004 Professor Cañizares-Esguerra explores the relationship of landscape narratives with nation building in nineteenth century Latin America, drawing on resources in natural history, demonology, and epics.
	Professor Elizabeth Catlos, Geological Sciences Oklahoma State University Fellowship Awarded 2007 Professor Catlos applies and develops geochemical techniques to understand the geologic history and influences of mountain ranges. She conducts field research in western Turkey, the Himalayas (Nepal and India), South India, and the U.S. Catlos is interested in models for heat, mass, and fluid flow along large faults and new methods to study the dynamics of the Earth’s crust.
	Professor Henrietta N. Edmonds, Marine Science The University of Texas at Austin Fellowship awarded 2005 Professor Edmonds' research involves the use of chemical measurements to understand the oceans as part of the Earth system. Her specific interests encompass seafloor hydrothermal vents, ocean circulation, and groundwater-coastal water interactions. She is preparing for a 2007 expedition to the Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean.
	Professor Oliver Freiberger, Asian Studies University of Bayreuth Fellowship awarded 2002 Professor Freiberger's research is concerned with early Christianity and early Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Long interested in Theravada Buddhism, he has shifted his focus to the comparative study of asceticism, the practice of torturing the body for various religious purposes.
	Professor Frank Gavin, LBJ School of Public Affairs The University of Texas at Austin Fellowship awarded 2003 Professor Gavin is analyzing newly-declassified historical materials to reassess nuclear strategy and arms control during the Cold War. A historian by training, his teaching and research interests focus on U.S. foreign policy, national security, presidential policymaking, and the history of international monetary relations.
	Professor Andrea Giunta, Art and Art History Universidad de Buenos Aires Fellowship awarded 2006 Professor Giunta's work focuses on the power of art images, fundamentally from the Second World War to the present. Previously she analyzed the Argentine avant-garde during the 1960s in the context of the Cold War and the policies of the Alliance for Progress. Her current research is centred on the analysis of the mechanisms through which Picasso Guernica's particular power was constructed.
	Professor Mark Greenberg, Law and Philosophy University of California - Los Angeles Fellowship Awarded 2006 Professor Greenberg's research explores a range of problems in philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of law, and criminal and constitutional law.  His current projects include work on the nature of law and its relation to morality, the content of thought, and the doctrine of stare decisis.
	Professor William Benjamin Henry, Classics Oxford University Fellowship Awarded 2006 Professor Henry works on the Greek manuscripts from Herculaneum . Carbonized in the eruption of 79 CE, and discovered 250 years ago, these scrolls can only now be reliably deciphered through the aid of multi-spectral imaging technology. The texts of Epicurean philosophy that are emerging shed a new light on the Graeco-Roman culture of the first century BCE.
	Professor Ronald R. Krebs, Government University of Minnesota Fellowship Awarded 2006 Professor Krebs research currently focuses on the effects of war on democratic institutions and processes; the power of rhetoric in shaping foreign policy, especially in the area of national security and especially in the United States; and the relationship between counterterrorist discourse and policy in different national contexts. He is the author of Fighting for Rights: Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship.
	Professor Ivan Kreilkamp, English Indiana University Fellowship awarded 2005 Professor Kreilkamp is a scholar of British Victorian literature and culture. His work addresses Victorian attitudes towards, and fictional representations of, domestic animals. He is investigating the history of ideas about cruelty and kindness to animals, animal protagonists in novels, practices of pet-keeping and animal companionship, and the emergence of anti-cruelty and anti-vivisection popular reform movements.
	Professor Andrew Light, Environmental Philosophy New York University Fellowship awarded 2002 Professor Light's primary interests are environmental ethics and policy and philosophy of technology. Most of his work is in environmental ethics, the subfield of philosophy devoted to questions about moral obligations to protect nature.
	Professor Niko B. G. Matouschek, Law and Economics Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Fellowship Awarded 2007 Professor Niko Matouschek works on organizational and contract economics. The aim of his research is to provide theoretical explanations for common organizational patterns and contractual arrangements. Recent projects include work on the organizational design of multi-divisional firms, the optimal design of regulatory regimes and the economics of the marriage contract.
	Professor Jocelyn Olcott, History California State University Fellowship awarded 2001 Professor Olcott's research explores the history of women's activism and political change in post-revolutionary Mexico.
	Professor Beatrix Paal, Economics Stanford University Fellowship awarded 2001 Professor Paal's research involves studying the interaction between episodes of high inflation and economic stabilization. Her projects have focused on understanding how the differences across financial systems affect the way monetary policy operates.
	Professor Ami Pedahzur, Government University of Haifa, Israel Fellowship awarded 2004   Professor Pedahzur's main fields of interest are terrorism, the democratic response to extremism and violence, and political extremism in Israel.
	Professor Carlo Piermarocchi, Physics Michigan State University Fellowship awarded 2005   Professor Piermarocchi continues his investigations on the theory of optical control in semiconductor-based nanosystems, especially from the perspective of applications to quantum and classical information technology. This optical control suggests an active approach to materials science: the goal is beyond the investigation of the general properties of materials, and directly focuses on their possible functional role as memories, information processors, or network components.
	Professor Fumitoshi Shibahara, Chemistry and Biochemistry Gifu University, Japan Fellowship Awarded 2007 Professor Shibahara is investigating transformations of molecules using a transition-metal catalysis. His research particularly focuses on achieving sustainable production of useful intermediates for functional materials and pharmaceuticals by environmentally benign “green” conditions.
	Professor Joshua Sosin, Classics Duke University Fellowship awarded 2005   Professor Sosin is a Greek historian who specializes in the social, economic, and religious life of the Hellenistic world. He is working on a book-length epigraphical study of what we would call charitable foundations. The project is part of a broader research interest in the strategies that ancient Greek persons and polities formulated in raising and investing money, especially for the purpose of conducting religion.
	Professor Rebecca Torres, Geography East Carolina University Fellowship Awarded 2007 Professor Torres’ research explores a range of interests in rural development and poverty reduction in Latin America and the U.S. South. Specifically, she has examined issues of migration, agricultural development and tourism in developing country economies in the context of globalization. Torres is engaged in a five-year project of research, education, and outreach concentrating on rural transformation and Latino transnational migration to the U.S. South.
	Professor James Westphal, Management The University of Texas at Austin Fellowship awarded 2004 Professor Westphal's research on corporate governance includes an investigation of how "pluralistic ignorance" may occur on corporate boards and examines the consequences of this "ignorance" for strategic decision making.
	Professor John Witt, Law Columbia University Law School Fellowship awarded 2004 Professor Witt's research and teaching interests focus on the history of American law and on the law of torts.