PAST RECIPIENTS

	Dr. Jennifer Beer, Psychology University of California, Davis Fellowship awarded 2006 Dr. 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.
	Dr. Angela Belcher, Chemistry and Biochemistry From The University of Texas at Austin Fellowship awarded 2001 Dr. 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.
	Dr. Jeffrey Brock, Mathematics From University of Chicago Fellowship awarded 2003   Dr. Brock's work focuses on the geometry of "hyperbolic 3-manifolds." His work overlaps with the classical mathematical fields of analysis and differential geometry.
	Dr. Xavier Cabré, Mathematics From Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Fellowship awarded 2001 Dr. 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.
	Dr. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, History From State University of New York - Buffalo Fellowship awarded 2004 Dr. 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.
	Dr. Henrietta N. Edmonds, Marine Science From The University of Texas at Austin Fellowship awarded 2005 Dr. 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.
	Dr. Oliver Freiberger, Asian Studies From University of Bayreuth Fellowship awarded 2002 Dr. 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.
	Dr. Frank Gavin, LBJ School of Public Affairs From The University of Texas at Austin Fellowship awarded 2003 Dr. 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.
	Dr. Andrea Giunta, Art and Art History Universidad de Buenos Aires Fellowship awarded 2006 Dr. 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.
	Dr. William Benjamin Henry, Classics Oxford University Fellowship Awarded 2006 Dr. 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.
	Dr. Ronald R. Krebs, Government University of Minnesota Fellowship Awarded 2006 Dr. 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.
	Dr. Ivan Kreilkamp, English From Indiana University Fellowship awarded 2005 Dr. 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.
	Dr. Andrew Light, Environmental Philosophy From New York University Fellowship awarded 2002 Dr. 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.
	Dr. Jocelyn Olcott, History From California State University Fellowship awarded 2001 Dr. Olcott's research explores the history of women's activism and political change in post-revolutionary Mexico.
	Dr. Beatrix Paal, Economics From Stanford University Fellowship awarded 2001 Dr. 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.
	Dr. Ami Pedahzur, Government From University of Haifa, Israel Fellowship awarded 2004   Dr. Pedahzur's main fields of interest are terrorism, the democratic response to extremism and violence, and political extremism in Israel.
	Dr. Carlo Piermarocchi, Physics From Michigan State University Fellowship awarded 2005   Dr. 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.
	Dr. Joshua Sosin, Classics From Duke University Fellowship awarded 2005   Dr. 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.
	Dr. James Westphal, Management From The University of Texas at Austin Fellowship awarded 2004 Dr. 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.
	Dr. John Witt, Law From Columbia University Law School Fellowship awarded 2004 Dr. Witt's research and teaching interests focus on the history of American law and on the law of torts.