PAST RECIPIENTS

	Professor Bethany L. Albertson Political Psychology University of Washington, Seattle Fellowship awarded 2008 UT Austin Host: Department of Government Professor Albertson’s work explores political attitudes and persuasion. Her current research relies on surveys and experiments to examine the effect of religious appeals in American politics and the relationship between emotion and cognition, with a recent focus on the role of anxiety on attitudes towards immigration.
	Professor Eiichiro Azuma History University of Pennsylvania Fellowship awarded 2008 UT Austin Host: Department of History Professor Azuma specializes in Asian American history with an emphasis on Japanese American experience, as well as migration, race and ethnicity, modern Japanese history, and U. S.-Japan relations. His current research attempts to question a nation-based analysis of history and a spatially compartmentalized way of learning by examining transpacific activities of Japanese migrants.
	Professor Jennifer Beer Psychology University of California, Davis Fellowship awarded 2006 UT Austin Host: Department of Psychology 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 UT Austin Host: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 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 Robin Bernstein Performance Studies and U.S. Culture Harvard University Fellowship awarded 2010 UT Austin Host: Department of Theatre and Dance Professor Bernstein studies the relationship between performance and U.S. cultural history, with a focus on formations of race, gender, sexuality, and age. She is particularly interested in the ways in which material culture, in its historical context, shapes or "scripts" everyday behaviors while allowing for social improvisation and resistance.
	Professor Ra'anan Boustan Early Judaism, Jewish-Christian Relations University of California - Los Angeles Fellowship awarded 2011 UT Austin Host: Department of Religious Studies Professor Boustan is a historian of early Judaism trained in the study of ancient Mediterranean religions. His research focuses on Jewish literary and material culture in late antiquity (c. 200–800 CE), with special emphasis on how these sources shed light on the dynamic intersections between Judaism and other Mediterranean religious traditions—Greek, Roman, and Christian.
	Professor Jeffrey Brock Mathematics University of Chicago Fellowship awarded 2003 UT Austin Host: Department of Mathematics 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 Mark J. Butler Music Theory Northwestern University Fellowship Awarded: 2009 UT Austin Host: Butler School of Music Professor Butler is a music theorist who studies popular music. His current research, which is based on extensive fieldwork with internationally active DJs and laptop musicians based in Berlin, focuses on technologically mediated performance. By examining relationships between technology and improvisation, he reveals how electronic musicians create dynamic, novel performances through the transformation of seemingly “fixed” prerecorded objects.
	Professor Xavier Cabré Mathematics Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Fellowship awarded 2001 UT Austin Host: Department of Mathematics 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 Lorne Campbell Psychology University of Western Ontario, Canada Fellowship awarded 2008 UT Austin Host: Department of Human Development and Family Sciences Professor Lorne Campbell is a recognized expert in the fields of interpersonal relationships, research design, and data analysis. His research focuses on the psychological processes responsible for relationship initiation, maintenance, and dissolution.
	Professor Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra History State University of New York - Buffalo Fellowship awarded 2004 UT Austin Host: Department of History 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 Carlos M. Carvalho Statistics University of Chicago Booth School of Business Fellowship Awarded: 2009 UT Austin Host: Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management Professor Carvalho studies Bayesian statistical methodology in complex, high-dimensional problems with applications ranging from finance to genetics. His current projects include research on large-scale factor models for high-throughput biological data, dynamic risk modeling for stock selection, Bayesian model selection and sequential Monte Carlo algorithms.
	Professor Elizabeth Catlos Geological Sciences Oklahoma State University Fellowship Awarded 2007 UT Austin Host: Department of Geological Sciences 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 Matt D. Childs History University of South Carolina Fellowship awarded 2008 UT Austin Host: Department of History Professor Childs’ primary research and teaching interests include Latin American, Caribbean, and Atlantic history, with a special focus on the importance of understanding the historical legacies of slavery and racism in shaping the modern world. In particular, his published work and research has focused on Cuban slavery through a study of slave rebellions, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the growth of Havana as a city populated by enslaved African exiles.
	Professor Matt Cohen English Duke University Fellowship awarded 2008 UT Austin Host: Department of English The relationship between media and meaning is the focus of Professor Cohen’s work. Examining communication technologies from the Internet back to hand-printed books and contact-era American Indian communicative forms, he studies the complex ways in which material texts and the networks in which they travel have shaped American literature and culture.
	Professor Katherine Dunlop Early Modern and Analytic Philosophy Brown University Fellowship awarded 2010 UT Austin Host: Department of Philosophy Professor Dunlop’s published work concerns early modern views of mathematical knowledge, including those of Kant, Newton, and Berkeley. She has given particular consideration to the understanding of mathematics as a practice or activity, and to the philosophical significance of alternatives to Euclidean geometry. Her current research focuses on Kant’s theory of knowledge and its reception in twentieth-century analytic philosophy.
	Professor Henrietta N. Edmonds Marine Science The University of Texas at Austin Fellowship awarded 2005 UT Austin Host: Department of Marine Science 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 David Enoch Law and Philosophy Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Fellowship Awarded: 2009 UT Austin Host: School of Law Professor Enoch works primarily in moral, political, and legal philosophy. In moral philosophy, he defends a strongly realist view of morality, according to which there are perfectly objective, irreducibly normative moral truths. David is also very interested in pursuing the implications of such a metaethical view to political and legal theory, for instance in the context of democratic theory.
	Professor Alessio Figalli Mathematics University of Nice, France Fellowship Awarded: 2009 UT Austin Host: Department of Mathematics Professor Figalli's research is focused on different areas, both in pure and applied mathematics: optimal transport, calculus of variations, partial differential equations (in particular of Monge-Ampère type), etc. These problems have many applications in economics, physics and biology.
	Professor Oliver Freiberger Asian Studies University of Bayreuth Fellowship awarded 2002 UT Austin Host: Department of Asian Studies 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 UT Austin Host: LBJ School of Public Affairs 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 UT Austin Host: Department of Art and Art History 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 UT Austin Host: School of Law 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 UT Austin Host: Department of Classics 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 Ali Khademhosseini Microfabricated Materials for Tissue Regeneration Harvard-MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School Fellowship awarded 2011 UT Austin Host: Department of Biomedical Engineering Professor Khademhosseini uses a multi-disciplinary approach to develop microscale and nanoscale technologies with the ultimate goal of generating tissue engineered organs and controlling cell behavior.
	Professor Derek Kreager Adolescent Social Development Pennsylvania State University Fellowship awarded 2010 UT Austin Host: Population Research Center in conjunction with the Department of Sociology Professor Kreager researches adolescent social contexts and the intersection of peer networks with health-risk behaviors. His current research focuses on adolescent romantic relationships and their associations with peer friendships, sexual behaviors, and drug use. Dynamic network analysis informs his work and allows him to explore the emergence of mixed-gender relationships during the teenage years.
	Professor Ronald R. Krebs Government University of Minnesota Fellowship Awarded 2006 UT Austin Host: Department of Government 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 UT Austin Host: Department of English 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 UT Austin Host: School of Architecture 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 UT Austin Host: School of Law 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 Lauren Ancel Meyers Infectious Disease Dynamics The University of Texas at Austin Fellowship awarded 2010 Faculty member in the Section of Integrative Biology Professor Meyers is a mathematical biologist who develops new computational methods for studying the spread and control of infectious diseases in humans and wildlife. She is now working with public health agencies throughout the world, including the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop effective surveillance and intervention strategies for influenza.
	Professor Su Fang Ng English Literature University of Oklahoma – Norman Fellowship Awarded: 2009 UT Austin Host: Department of English Professor Ng primarily studies the political, religious, and cultural contexts of early modern literature, with published work ranging from the late medieval to the postcolonial. She has worked on the ideological conflicts of the English civil wars, and now focuses on empire, the classical tradition, and Anglo-Islamic relations in a comparative study of early modern Britain and Southeast Asia.
	Professor Jocelyn Olcott History California State University Fellowship awarded 2001 UT Austin Host: Department of History 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 UT Austin Host: Department of Economics 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 UT Austin Host: Department of Government   Professor Pedahzur's main fields of interest are terrorism, the democratic response to extremism and violence, and political extremism in Israel.
	Professor Marcin K. Peski Economics University of Chicago Fellowship awarded 2008 UT Austin Host: Department of Economics Professor Peski's primary interests are games with incomplete information and statistical decision theory. The aim of his research is to provide foundations for the analysis of rational behavior in one or multi-person situations. His current work focuses on generalizations of de Finett's exchangeability and robustness of solution concepts to higher order beliefs.
	Professor Lamar Pierce Organizational Strategy and Ethics Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis Fellowship awarded 2011 UT Austin Host: Department of Business, Government, and Society Professor Pierce’s research focuses on the psychological and economic motivation for behavior that destroys economic value. He studies why we, as employees and citizens, act in ways we know to be destructive to the organizations and individuals around us, and what environmental, social, and financial factors bring us back into the fold of productive behavior.
	Professor Carlo Piermarocchi Physics Michigan State University Fellowship awarded 2005 UT Austin Host: Department of Physics   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 Jason E. Powell English Literature St. Joseph’s University Fellowship Awarded: 2009 UT Austin Host: Department of English Professor Powell’s research examines the relationship between literature, the court, and the government of Tudor England, with particular focus on poetry and letters in the reign of Henry VIII. He argues that the rhetorical conventions of official discourse—including diplomatic correspondence—influenced the generic conventions associated with emerging literary forms in the period.
	Professor Allan W. Shearer Landscape Architecture Rutgers University Fellowship awarded 2008 UT Austin Host: School of Architecture Professor Shearer’s scholarly interests center on how individuals, communities, and societies create scenarios of the future, and how these narratives and images of tomorrow are used to inform present day decisions about the environment. Much of his work has been focused through the examination of relationships between landscape and different dimensions of security.
	Professor Fumitoshi Shibahara Chemistry and Biochemistry Gifu University, Japan Fellowship Awarded 2007 UT Austin Host: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 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 UT Austin Host: Department of Classics   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 UT Austin Host: Department of Geography and the Environment 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 Monica Vişan Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations UCLA Fellowship awarded 2010 UT Austin Host: Department of Mathematics Professor Vişan applies methods of modern Harmonic Analysis in the context of Partial Differential Equations, specifically to nonlinear equations of wave motion such as arise in nonlinear optics, on the surface of fluids, in the evolution of Bose-Einstein condensates, and in weakly interacting many-particle quantum systems.
	Professor Rachel Ward Mathematical Signal Processing Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University Fellowship awarded 2011 UT Austin Host: Department of Mathematics Professor Ward applies theoretical tools from probability, harmonic analysis, and optimization to problems arising in signal processing. In particular, modern signal acquisition techniques achieve higher rates of compression than traditionally thought possible by allowing for a small probability of reconstruction error.  She is interested in the algorithmic and information-theoretic limits of these techniques.
	Professor Holly Watkins Contemporary Musical Aesthetics Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester Fellowship awarded 2010 UT Austin Host: Butler School of Music Professor Watkins’s research focuses on musical aesthetics of the past two hundred years. She is currently completing a study of the central role of metaphor in music criticism and analysis. Her more recent work turns to the theme of aesthetic transport and music’s ability to convey a sense of space.
	Professor James Westphal Management The University of Texas at Austin Fellowship awarded 2004 UT Austin Host: Department of Management 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 UT Austin Host: School of Law Professor Witt's research and teaching interests focus on the history of American law and on the law of torts.