List of

Guggenheim Fellowships Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

awarded in 1980.

1980 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

# John N. Abelson, Chairman, Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology: 1980. #

Charles Altieri Charles Altieri is the Rachel Stageberg Anderson Professor and Chair in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Background Altieri specializes in 20th century American and British Literature and teaches graduate courses ...

, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley: 1980. # William P. Arend, Head, Division of Rheumatology, Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Denver: 1980. # Donald R. Arnold, Alexander McLeod Professor of Chemistry, Dalhousie University: 1980. # Donald E. Aylor, Head, Department of Plant Pathology & Ecology, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven: 1980. # Yee Jan Bao, Artist; Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design: 1980. #

Benjamin Barber Benjamin R. Barber (August 2, 1939 – April 24, 2017) was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, ''Jihad vs. McWorld'', and for 2013's ''If Mayors Ruled the World''. His 1984 book of political t ...

, Walt Whitman Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University: 1980. #

Marc Bekoff Marc Bekoff (born September 6, 1945 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American biologist, ethologist, behavioural ecologist and writer. He was a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder for 32 years. He cofounded ...

, Professor of Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder: 1980. # Herman Belz, Professor of History, University of Maryland at College Park: 1980. # Thomas Bender, University Professor of the Humanities, New York University: 1980. # Jerome A. Berson, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Yale University: 1980. # Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics, Columbia University: 1980. # Daniel P. Biebuyck, H. Rodney Sharp Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Humanities, University of Delaware: 1980. # Joseph L. Birman, Distinguished Professor of Physics, City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York: 1980. # Patricia Blake, Writer, New York City: 1980. # R. Howard Bloch, Augustus R. Street Professor of French, Yale University: 1980. # Thomas Blumenthal, Chair, Professor of Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver: 1980. #

Paul J. Bohannan Paul James Bohannan (March 5, 1920 – July 13, 2007) was an American anthropologist known for his research on the Tiv people of Nigeria, spheres of exchange and divorce in the United States. Early life and education Bohannan was born in Linco ...

, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Dean of Social Sciences and Communications, University of Southern California: 1980. # Frederick G. Bordwell, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Northwestern University: 1980. # Samuel Bowles, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst: 1980. # Paul D. Brekke, Film Maker, Ventura, California: 1980. #

Olga Broumas Olga Broumas (born 6 May 1949, Hermoupolis) is a Greek poet, resident in the United States. She has been Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University since 1995. Biography Born and raised on the island of Syros, Brouma ...

, Poet, Provincetown, Massachusetts: 1980. # Jonathan Brown, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University: 1980. #

Beverly Buchanan Beverly Buchanan (October 8, 1940 – July 4, 2015) was an African-American artist whose works include painting, sculpture, video, and land art. Buchanan is noted for her exploration of Southern vernacular architecture through her art. Earl ...

, Artist, Athens, Georgia: 1980. # Charles Burnett, Film Maker, Los Angeles: 1980. #

Elias Burstein Elias Burstein (September 30, 1917 – June 17, 2017) was an American experimental condensed matter physicist whose active career in science spanned seven decades. He is known for his pioneering fundamental research in the optical physics of ...

, Mary Amanda Wood Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Pennsylvania: 1980. #

Deborah Butterfield Deborah Kay Butterfield (born May 7, 1949) is an American sculptor. Along with her artist-husband John Buck, she divides her time between a farm in Bozeman, Montana, and studio space in Hawaii. She is known for her sculptures of horses made fr ...

, Artist; Assistant Professor of Art, Montana State University: 1980. #

Guillermo A. Calvo Guillermo Antonio Calvo (born 1941) is an Argentine-American economist who is director of Columbia University's mid-career Program in Economic Policy Management in their School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He published significant ...

, Senior Advisor, The International Monetary Fund, Washington DC: 1980. # Vincent P. Carosso, Deceased.U.S. History: 1980. # Marvin H. Caruthers, Professor of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder: 1980. # Robbie Case, Deceased. Education: 1980. #

Vija Celmins Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns;Hilarie M. Sheets and Randy Kennedy (September 24, 2015)''New York Times''. lv, Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and dr ...

, Artist, New York City: 1980. # James J. Champoux, Professor of Microbiology, University of Washington: 1980. #

Jane Chance Jane Chance (born 1945), also known as Jane Chance Nitzsche, is an American scholar specializing in medieval English literature, gender studies, and J. R. R. Tolkien. She spent most of her career at Rice University, where since her retirement she ha ...

, Professor of English, Rice University: 1980. Appointed as Jane Chance Nitzsche. # Alison Becker Chase, Choreographer, Stony Creek, Connecticut: 1980. #

Roger Chickering Roger Chickering is an American historian of the German Empire and World War I. He was a professor at Georgetown University, retiring in 2010. Education Chickering received his doctorate in 1968 at Stanford University, where he studied with Go ...

, Professor of History, University of Oregon: 1980. # Phyllis Chinlund, Film Maker, New York City: 1980. # John S. Chipman, Regent's Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota: 1980. # David V. Chudnovsky, Research Associate in Mathematics, Columbia University: 1980. # Gregory V. Chudnovsky, Research Associate in Mathematics, Columbia University: 1980. #

Selma Jeanne Cohen Selma Jeanne Cohen (September 18, 1920December 23, 2005) was a historian, teacher, author, and editor who devoted her career to advocating dance as an art worthy of the same scholarly respect traditionally awarded to painting, music, and literatur ...

, Writer, New York City: 1980. # Dimitri Conomos, Professor of Music, University of British Columbia: 1980. # William James Cooper Jr., Boyd Professor of History, Louisiana State University: 1980. # Robert Cumming, Photographer, Whately, Massachusetts: 1980. # Frank A. D'Accone, Professor Emeritus of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles: 1980. # Robert V. Daniels, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Vermont: 1980. #

Joseph W. Dauben Joseph Warren Dauben (born 29 December 1944, Santa Monica) is a Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University. His fields of expertis ...

, Professor of History and History of Science, Herbert H Lehman College and Graduate Center, City University of New York: 1980. #

Warren Dean Warren Dean (born 9 March 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the late 1980s. A forward from Subiaco, Dean played 19 games with Melbourne in 1987. He featured ...

, Deceased. Spanish and Latin American History: 1980. #

Nicholas Delbanco Nicholas Delbanco (born 1942) is an American writer. Life and career Delbanco was born in London, England, the son of German Jewish parents Barbara (née Bernstein) and Kurt Delbanco, a businessman, art dealer, and sculptor. He was educated at H ...

, Robert Frost Collegiate Professor of English Language & Literature and Director, Program in Creative Writing, University of Michigan: 1980. #

David Dolphin David H. Dolphin, (born January 15, 1940) is a Canadian biochemist. He is an internationally recognized expert in porphyrin chemistry and biochemistry. He was the lead creator of Visudyne, a medication used in conjunction with laser treatment t ...

, Professor of Chemistry, University of British Columbia: 1980. # Michael W. Dols, Deceased. Near Eastern Studies: 1980. #

Wendy Doniger Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty (born November 20, 1940) is an American Indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades. A scholar of Sanskrit and Indian textual traditions, her major works include, 'The Hindus: an alternative history'; ' ...

, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Professor of the History of Religion, University of Chicago: 1980. Married name: O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. #

James S. Donnelly, Jr. James S. Donnelly Jr. (born 1943) is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he specialised in nineteenth-century Irish history. He is a leading figure in the field of Irish studies in North America. Donnelly is ...

, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1980. #

James Doolin James Doolin (June 28, 1932 – July 22, 2002) was an American painter and muralist best known for his saturated natural and urban southern California landscapes. Los Angeles artist and writer Doug Harvey notes that his paintings allow us "to see ...

, Artist, Los Angeles, California: 1980. #

Ronald G. Douglas Ronald George Douglas (December 10, 1938 – February 27, 2018) was an American mathematician, best known for his work on operator theory and operator algebras. Education and career Douglas was born in Osgood, Indiana. He was an undergraduate a ...

, Executive Vice President and Provost, Texas A&M University: 1980. #

Robert Drews Robert Drews (born March 26, 1936) is an American historian who is Professor of Classical Studies Emeritus at Vanderbilt University. He received his B. A. from Northwestern College, his M. A. from University of Missouri and his Ph.D. from Johns Ho ...

, Professor of Classics & History, Vanderbilt University: 1980. #

Douglas Dunn Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, OBE (born 23 October 1942) is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic. He is Professor of English and Director of St Andrew's Scottish Studies Institute at St Andrew's University. Background Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Re ...

, Choreographer, New York City: 1980. # George Edwards, Composer; MacDowell Professor of Music, Columbia University: 1980, 1985. #

Stanley L. Engerman Stanley Lewis Engerman (born March 14, 1936) is an economist and economic historian at the University of Rochester. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 1962 from Johns Hopkins University. Engerman is known for his quantitative historical work ...

, John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History, University of Rochester: 1980. # Susan June Felter, Photographer, Emeryville, California: 1980. # Brian Fennelly, Composer; Emeritus Professor of Music, New York University: 1980. # Diana Festa-McCormick, Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Brooklyn College, City University of New York: 1980. # John Francis Fetzer, Emeritus Professor of German, University of California, Davis: 1980. #

Vivian Fine Vivian Fine (28 September 1913 – 20 March 2000) was an American composer. Life Vivian Fine was born in Chicago to David and Rose Fine. A piano prodigy, she became at age five the youngest student ever to be awarded a scholarship at the Chic ...

, Deceased. Music Composition: 1980. #

John Miles Foley John Miles Foley (January 22, 1947 – May 3, 2012) was a scholar of comparative oral tradition, particularly medieval and Old English literature, Homer and Serbian epic. He was the founder of the academic journal ''Oral Tradition'' and the Cen ...

, William H. Byler Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English, University of Missouri-Columbia: 1980. #

Andrew Forge Andrew Murray Forge (10 November 1923, Hastingleigh, Kent – 4 September 2002, New Milford, Connecticut, United States) was an English painter, academic, and art critic. After Leighton Park School, Forge studied art at the Camberwell School of ...

, Professor Emeritus of Art, Yale University: 1980. #

Allen Forte Allen, Allen's or Allens may refer to: Buildings * Allen Arena, an indoor arena at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee * Allen Center, a skyscraper complex in downtown Houston, Texas * Allen Fieldhouse, an indoor sports arena on the Univer ...

, Battell Professor of the Theory of Music, Yale University: 1980. # Edward Norval Fortson, Professor of Physics, University of Washington: 1980. # Ralph W. Franklin, Director, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University: 1980. # Kathleen Fraser, Poet; Professor of Creative Writing, San Francisco State University: 1980. #

Ralph Freedman Ralph (pronounced ; or ,) is a male given name of English, Scottish and Irish origin, derived from the Old English ''Rædwulf'' and Radulf, cognate with the Old Norse ''Raðulfr'' (''rað'' "counsel" and ''ulfr'' "wolf"). The most common forms ...

, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Princeton University; Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory University: 1980. # Michael Freeling, Professor of Genetics, University of California, Berkeley: 1980. # Gregory L. Freeze, Professor of History, Brandeis University: 1980. #

Hans Wilhelm Frei Hans Wilhelm Frei (April 29, 1922–September 12, 1988) was an American biblical scholar and theologian who is best known for work on biblical hermeneutics. Frei's work played a major role in the development of postliberal theology (also called ...

, Deceased. Religion: 1980. # Mordechai A. Friedman, The Joseph and Ceil Mazer Chair in Jewish Culture in Muslim Lands and Cairo Geniza Studies, Tel-Aviv University: 1980. # David C. Frost, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of British Columbia: 1980. # William Fulton, Professor of Mathematics, Brown University: 1980. #

David Gebhard David S. Gebhard (1927 – 1 March 1996) was a leading architectural historian, particularly known for his books on the architecture and architects of California. He was a long-time faculty member at the University of California, Santa Barbara ...

, Deceased. Architecture & Design: 1980. #

William H. Gerdts William Henry Gerdts Jr. (January 18, 1929 – April 14, 2020) was an American art historian and professor of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Gerdts was the author of over twenty-five books on American art. An expert in American Impressio ...

, Professor of Art, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, City University of New York: 1980. # James Gindin, Deceased. 20th Century English Literature: 1980. # Richard A. Goldthwaite, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University: 1980. #

Robert J. Gordon Robert James Gordon is an American economist. He is the Stanley G. Harris Professor of the Social Sciences at Northwestern University. Gordon is one of the world’s leading experts on inflation, unemployment, and long-term economic growth. His ...

, Stanley G. Harris Professor of Social Sciences, Northwestern University: 1980. #

Robert Griffith Robert Otis "Griff" Griffith (born November 30, 1970) is a former American football strong safety in the National Football League. He played 13 seasons in the league, mostly for the Minnesota Vikings from 1994 to 2001. He also played three sea ...

, Professor of History, American University, Washington, DC: 1980. #

Phillip A. Griffiths Phillip Augustus Griffiths IV (born October 18, 1938) is an American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry Geometry (; ) is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. It is concerned with properti ...

, Director, Institute For Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey: 1980. # Gerald N. Grob, Henry E. Sigerist Professor of History, Rutgers University: 1980. # Bill Gunn, Deceased. Film: 1980. #

Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker (born November 27, 1942) is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York. Her books of poetry include ''Presentation Piece'' (1974), which won the National Book Award, ...

, Poet, New York City: 1980. # Louis N. Hand, Professor of Physics, Cornell University: 1980. #

Jon Hassler Jon Hassler (March 30, 1933 – March 20, 2008) was an American writer and teacher known for his novels about small-town life in Minnesota. He held the positions of Regents professor emeritus and writer-in-residence at St. John's University in C ...

, Writer; Writer-in-Residence, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota: 1980. # Dennis E. Hayes, Chair, Professor of Geological Sciences and Deputy Director for Education, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University: 1980. # C. Vance Haynes, Professor of Anthropology and Geosciences, University of Arizona: 1980. # Jene Highstein, Artist, New York City: 1980. #

Daryl Hine William Daryl Hine (February 24, 1936 – August 20, 2012) was a Canadian poet and translator. A MacArthur Fellow for the class of 1986, Hine was the editor of ''Poetry'' from 1968 to 1978. He graduated from McGill University in 1958 and then st ...

, Poet and Translator, Evanston, Illinois: 1980. #

Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, an ...

, College Professor of Cognitive Science, Indiana University: 1980. # Tom Holland, Artist, Berkeley, California; Instructor in Painting, College of the San Francisco Art Institute: 1980. #

Gerald Holton Gerald James Holton (born May 23, 1922) is an American physicist, historian of science, and educator, whose professional interests also include philosophy of science and the fostering of careers of young men and women. He is Mallinckrodt Profes ...

, Mallinckrodt Professor Emeritus of Physics and Emeritus Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University: 1980. # Jasper Hopkins, Jr., Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota: 1980. #

Donald L. Horowitz Donald L. Horowitz (born 1939) is James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke Law School and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. He earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1968 and also holds degrees from ...

, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University: 1980. # Morton J. Horwitz, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Law, Harvard Law School: 1980. # Karl Y. Hostetler, Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego: 1980. # David L. Hull, Dressler Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University: 1980. # Joseph D. Jachna, Photographer; Professor of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago: 1980. # Robert W. Jackman, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Davis, CA: 1980. #

Russell Jacoby Russell Jacoby (born April 23, 1945) is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an author and a critic of academic culture. His fields of interest are twentieth-century European and American intellectual and cul ...

, Historian, Venice, California: 1980. #

Margaret Jenkins Margaret Jenkins (born 1942) is a postmodern choreographer based in San Francisco, California. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1980 and in 2003, San Francisco mayor, Willie Brown, declared April 24 to be Margaret Jenkins Day. Biography Jenkins ...

, Choreographer; Artistic Director, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, San Francisco: 1980. #

Len Jenshel Len or LEN may refer to: People and fictional characters * Len (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Lén, a character from Irish mythology * Alex Len (born 1993), Ukrainian basketball player * Mr. Len, American hip hop DJ * L ...

, Photographer, New York City: 1980. #

Michael Kammen Michael Gedaliah Kammen (October 25, 1936 – November 29, 2013) was an American professor of American cultural history in the Department of History at Cornell University. At the time of his death, he held the title "Newton C. Farr professor emeri ...

, Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture, Cornell University: 1980. #

Jay Katz Jacob "Jay" Katz (October 20, 1922 – November 17, 2008) was an American physician and Yale Law School professor whose career was devoted to addressing complex issues of medical ethics and other ethical problems involving the overlaps of eth ...

, Harvey L. Karp Professorial Lecturer in Law and Psychoanalysis, Yale Law School: 1980. # Martin T. Katzman, Deceased. Planning: 1980. #

Herbert C. Kelman Herbert Chanoch Kelman (March 18, 1927 – March 1, 2022) was an Austrian-born American psychologist who was the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University. He is known for his work on conflict resolution in the Middle E ...

Richard Clarke Cabot Richard Clarke Cabot (May 21, 1868 – May 7, 1939) was an American physician who advanced clinical hematology, was an innovator in teaching methods, and was a pioneer in social work. Early life and education Richard Clarke Cabot was born May 21 ...

Research Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University: 1980. # John L. Kessell, Historian; Professor Emeritus of History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque: 1980. # James King, Distinguished University Professor, McMaster University: 1980. # Gordon L. Kipling, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles: 1980. #

Yoshito Kishi is a Japanese chemist who is the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. He is known for his contributions to the sciences of organic synthesis and total synthesis. Kishi was born in Nagoya, Japan and attended Nagoya Universi ...

, Morris Loeb Research Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University: 1980. #

Victor Klee Victor LaRue Klee, Jr. (September 18, 1925 – August 17, 2007) was a mathematician specialising in convex sets, functional analysis, analysis of algorithms, optimization, and combinatorics. He spent almost his entire career at the University of ...

Jr., Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington: 1980. #

Herbert S. Klein Herbert S. Klein (born January 6, 1936) is an American historian. He is the Gouveneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. In February 2020 the El Colegio de México awarded the Alfonso Reyes International Prize to Herber ...

, Professor of History, Columbia University: 1980. # Walter G. Klemperer, Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois: 1980. # Arthur V. Kreiger, Composer; Adjunct Associate Professor of Music, Baruch College, New York City: 1980. #

Ravi S. Kulkarni Ravindra Shripad Kulkarni (born 1942) is an Indian mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. He is known for the Kulkarni–Nomizu product. Education and career Ravi S. Kulkarni received in 1968 his Ph.D. from Harvard University under ...

, Professor of Mathematics, Graduate Center, City University of New York: 1980. #

Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. Henry E. Kyburg Jr. (1928–2007) was Gideon Burbank Professor of Moral Philosophy and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, New York, and Pace Eminent Scholar at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, Fl ...

, Burbank Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Computer Science, University of Rochester: 1980. #

David L. Lambert David L. Lambert is a British-American astronomer, who does research on stellar atmospheres, the chemical composition of stars, and the chemical evolution of the universe. Born in Ashford, Kent, England, Lambert received his PhD in 1965 from the U ...

, Isabel McCutcheon Harte Centennial Chair of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin: 1980. #

Ellen Langer Ellen Jane Langer (; born March 25, 1947) is an American professor of psychology at Harvard University; in 1981, she became the first woman ever to be tenured in psychology at Harvard. Langer studies the illusion of control, decision-making, agi ...

, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University: 1980. #

Gerda Lerner Gerda Hedwig Lerner (née Kronstein; April 30, 1920 – January 2, 2013) was an Austrian-born American historian and woman's history author. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theatre pieces, screenpl ...

, Robinson-Edwards Professor Emeritus of History and WARF Senior Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1980. # Pamela Levy, Artist, Jerusalem: 1980. # William M. Lewis, Jr., Director, Center for Limnology and Chair, Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder: 1980. #

Anatoly Liberman Anatoly Liberman (russian: Анато́лий Си́монович Либерма́н; born 10 March 1937) is a linguist, medievalist, etymologist, poet, translator of poetry (mainly from and into Russian), and literary critic. Liberman is a pro ...

, Professor of German and Scandinavian, University of Minnesota: 1980. #

Kristin Linklater Kristin Linklater (22 April 1936 – 5 June 2020) was a Scottish vocal coach, acting teacher, actor, theatre director, and author. She retired from the Theatre Arts Division of Columbia University where she was professor emerita. She taught resid ...

, Director of Training, Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, Massachusetts: 1980. # Romulus Linney, Writer, New York City: 1980. # Lawrence Lipking, Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, Northwestern University: 1980. # Philip Li-Fan Liu, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University: 1980. # R. Duncan Luce, Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California-Irvine: 1980. # Ross J. MacIntyre, Professor of Genetics, Cornell University: 1980. # John E. Malmstad, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University: 1980. #

Peter Marin Peter Stuart Robert Marin (born 1978, Perth) is an Australian drummer and percussionist. Marin joined Dan Sultan's backing band in 2006 and is recorded on Sultan's albums, '' Get Out While You Can'' (November 2009), '' Blackbird'' (April 2014) ...

, Writer, Santa Barbara California: 1980. # Peter T. Marsh, Honorary Professor of History, Syracuse University: 1980. # Peter K. Marshall, Moore Professor of Latin, Amherst College: 1980. #

Odaline de la Martinez Odaline de la Martinez (born 31 October 1949) is a Cuban-American composer and conductor, currently residing in the UK. She is the artistic director of Lontano, a London-based contemporary music ensemble which she co-founded in 1976 with New Zeala ...

, Composer; Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, London: 1980. # Michael Marton, Filmmaker, Burtonsvillle, Maryland: 1980. #

Eric Maskin Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist and mathematician. He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism d ...

, Professor of Economics, Harvard University: 1980. #

Herbert Matter Herbert Matter (April 25, 1907 – May 8, 1984) was a Swiss-born American photographer and graphic designer known for his pioneering use of photomontage in commercial art. Matter's innovative and experimental work helped shape the vocabulary of 20 ...

, Deceased. Photography: 1980. # Donald R. Matthews, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Washington: 1980. # William Matthews, Poet; Professor of English, City College, New York City: 1980. # John R. Maynard, Professor of English, New York University: 1980. #

Marian McPartland Margaret Marian McPartland OBE ( Turner;Hasson, Claire"Marian McPartland: Jazz Pianist: An Overview of a Career" PhD Thesis. Retrieved 12 August 2008. 20 March 1918 – 20 August 2013), was an English–American jazz pianist, composer, and wri ...

, Writer, Composer, and Musician, Port Washington, New York: 1980. #

Ana Mendieta Ana Mendieta (November 18, 1948 – September 8, 1985) was a Cuban-American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is best known for her "earth-body" artwork. Born in Havana, Mendieta left for the United States in 1961. Earl ...

, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1980. # Paul Meyvaert, Former Executive Director, Mediaeval Academy of America, Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1980. # Murray A. Milne, Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles: 1980. # Robert Mitsuru Miura, Professor of Mathematics, University of British Columbia: 1980. # Ann Grace Mojtabai, Writer, Silver Spring, Maryland: 1980. #

Joel Mokyr Joel Mokyr (born 26 July 1946) is a Netherlands-born American-Israeli economic historian. He is a professor of economics and history at Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1974; in 1994 he was named the Robert H. Strotz Professor o ...

, Chair, Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics & History, Northwestern University: 1980. # John Monfasani, Professor of History, State University of New York at Albany: 1980. # Harold J. Morowitz, Director, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, and Clarence Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA: 1980. #

Mary Morris Mary Lilian Agnes Morris (13 December 1915 – 14 October 1988) was a Fijian born British actress. Life and career Morris was the daughter of Herbert Stanley Morris, a botanist, and his wife, Sylvia Ena de Creft-Harford. She trained at the Roy ...

, Writer, New York City; Fellow in Creative Writing, American Academy in Rome: 1980. # Edward C. Moses, Artist, Venice, California: 1980. # James T. Muckerman, Chemist, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Adjunct Associate Professor, Research Institute for Engineering Sciences, Wayne State University: 1980. # Royce W. Murray, Kenan Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1980. # Sydney Nathans, Associate Professor of History, Duke University: 1980. # Homer Neal, Professor of Physics and Chairman, Physics Department, University of Michigan: 1980. # Douglas Francis Nemanic, Film Maker, Gunnison, Colorado: 1980. # John Neubauer, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Amsterdam: 1980. # Howard Allan Norman, Writer and Translator; Professor of English, University of Maryland: 1980. # Jerry Norman, Emeritus Professor of Chinese Languages and Linguistics, University of Washington: 1980. # Martha Craven Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago: 1980. #

Mary Oliver Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitary ...

, Poet, Provincetown, Massachusetts; Katherine Osgood Chair for Distinguished Teaching, Bennington College: 1980. # James Olney, Editor, The Southern Review; Voorhies Professor of English, French and Italian, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge: 1980. # Stanley Olson, Deceased. Biography: 1980. #

Ian Ousby Ian Vaughan Kenneth Ousby (26 June 1947 – 6 August 2001) was a British historian, author and editor. Biography Ian Ousby was born in Marlborough, Wiltshire to an army officer and his wife. Ousby's father was stabbed to death in India in 1947 ...

, Writer, Cambridge, England: 1980. # Warwick J. B. Owen, Professor Emeritus of English, McMaster University: 1980. # Stephen Pace, Artist, Professor Emeritus of Art, American University: 1980. #

Seymour A. Papert Seymour Aubrey Papert (; 29 February 1928 – 31 July 2016) was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and education, educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at Massachusetts Institute of Technol ...

, Professor of Media Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1980. # Robert L. Patten, Lynette S. Autrey Professor in Humanities, Rice University: 1980. # James L. Peacock III, Chair, Kenan Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1980. # Russell A. Peck Jr., John Hall Deane Professor of English, University of Rochester: 1980. # Donn Alan Pennebaker, Film Maker; Artist-in-Residence, Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts, City College, City University of New York; Professor of Film Studies, Yale University: 1980. # Gordon H. Pettengill, Professor Emeritus of Planetary Physics and Director for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1980. #

Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of ...

, Professor of Creative Writing and English, Boston University; Poet Laureate, United States of America: 1980. # Robert M. Polhemus, Professor of English, Stanford University: 1980. # Florante A. Quiocho, Charles C. Bell Professor of Structural Biology, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rice University: 1980. #

Paul Rabinow Paul M. Rabinow (June 21, 1944 – April 6, 2021) was professor of anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC), and former director of human practices f ...

, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley: 1980. # Kenneth N. Raymond, Vice Chairman, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley: 1980. #

Eugene Richards Eugene Richards (born 1944) is an American documentary photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. He has published many books of photography and has been a member of Magnum Photos and of VII Photo Agency. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. ...

, Photographer, Brooklyn, New York: 1980. #

Mary Robison Mary Cennamo Robison (born January 14, 1949 in Washington, D.C., United States) is an American short story writer and novelist. She has published four collections of stories, and four novels, including her 2001 novel ''Why Did I Ever'', winn ...

, Writer; Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Languages, Harvard University: 1980. #

Susan Rothenberg Susan Charna Rothenberg (January 20, 1945 – May 18, 2020) was an American Contemporary art, contemporary painter, printmaker, sculptor, and draughtswoman. She became known as an artist through her iconic images of the horse, which synthesized t ...

, Artist, Santa Fe, New Mexico: 1980. # Anya Peterson Royce, Professor of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, and Music, Indiana University at Bloomington: 1980. # David Lee Rubin, Professor of French, University of Virginia: 1980. # Kenneth Ruddle, Research Scholar, Hyogo-Ken, Japan: 1980. #

Thomas Sanchez Tomás Sánchez (1550 – 19 May 1610) was a 16th-century Spanish Jesuit and famous casuist. Life In 1567 he entered the Society of Jesus. He was at first refused admittance on account of an impediment in his speech; however, after imploring ...

, Writer, San Francisco, California: 1980. # Antonio Sánchez-Romeralo, Professor of Spanish, University of California, Davis: 1980. # T. Michael Sanders, Jr., Professor of Physics, University of Michigan: 1980. # Harold Scheub, Evjue-Bascom Professor of African Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1980. # Gary Schmidgall, Scholar, New York City: 1980. #

Howard Schuman Howard Schuman (1928 - 2021) was an American sociologist and professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. He is known for his work on survey research, such as the design of polling questions. Education and career Schuman received his A.B. ...

, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Research Scientist, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan: 1980. # Michael H. Schwartz, Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook: 1980. # Marilyn Shatz, Professor of Psychology and Director, Program in Linguistics, University of Michigan: 1980. # Sara J. Shettleworth, Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto: 1980. # Donald Shields, Artist, Royal Oak, Michigan: 1980. # Henry L. Shipman, Annie J. Cannon Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware: 1980. # James T. Siegel, Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies, Cornell University: 1980. # Marc Simmons, Historian, Cerrillos, New Mexico: 1980. #

Josef Skvorecky Josef may refer to *Josef (given name) *Josef (surname) * ''Josef'' (film), a 2011 Croatian war film *Musik Josef Musik Josef is a Japanese manufacturer of musical instruments. It was founded by Yukio Nakamura, and is the only company in Japan spe ...

, Writer; Professor Emeritus of English, University of Toronto: 1980. # Susan Snyder, Gil and Frank Multin Professor Emeritus of English, Swarthmore College: 1980. # Elliott R. Sober, Hans Reichenbach Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1980. #

Werner Sollors Werner Max Sollors (born June 6, 1943) is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and of African American Studies at Harvard University. He is also Global Professor of Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi. Background Sollors rece ...

, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature, Harvard University: 1980. # Zoltán G. Soos, Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University: 1980. #

Lewis Spratlan M. Lewis Spratlan Jr. (born September 5, 1940) is an American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Lewis Spratlan, recipient of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in music and the Charles Ives Opera Award (2016) from the Ame ...

, Composer; Professor of Music, Amherst College: 1980. #

Jon Stallworthy Jon Howie Stallworthy, (18 January 1935 – 19 November 2014) was a British literary critic and poet. He was Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2000, and Professor Emeritus in retirement. He was also a Fellow of Wolfs ...

, Reader in English Literature, University of Oxford: 1980. #

Steven M. Stanley Steven M. Stanley (born November 2, 1941) is an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is best known for his empirical research documenting the evolutionary process of punctuated equilibrium in t ...

, Chairman, Professor of Geological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University: 1980. # Susan Staves, Paul Proswimmer Professor of the Humanities, Brandeis University: 1980. # Michael L. Steer, Professor of Surgery, Harvard University Medical School: 1980. # Stuart Page Stegner, Professor Emeritus of American Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz: 1980. #

Gerald Stern Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, Indi ...

, Poet; Professor Emeritus of English, University of Iowa: 1980. # Charles J. Stone, Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley: 1980. # Robert Franklin Storey, Professor of English, Temple University: 1980. # Richard R. Strathmann, Professor of Zoology and Resident Associate Director, Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington: 1980. #

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect. He leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory. Early life and education Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He reportedly took his earliest photographs ...

, Photographer, New York City: 1980. # Moss E. Sweedler, Cryptologic Mathematician, National Security Agency and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Cornell University: 1980. # Dickran L. Tashjian, Professor of Comparative Culture and Social Science, University of California, Irvine: 1980. # Gordon O. Taylor, Professor of English, University of Tulsa: 1980. #

Michael J. Todd Michael James Todd QPM (10 August 1957 – 11 March 2008Michael ...

, Leon C. Welch Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University: 1980. # C. Richard Tracy, Professor of Zoology, Colorado State University: 1980. #

William G. Tucker William G. Tucker (born 28 February 1935) is a modernist British sculptor and modern art scholar. Biography Tucker was born to English parents on 28 February 1935 in Cairo, Egypt. In 1937, his family returned to England, where Tucker was rais ...

, Artist; Willow, New York: 1980. #

Sherry Turkle Sherry Turkle (born June 18, 1948) is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She obtained an BA in social studies and later a PhD in sociology and person ...

, Professor of Sociology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1980. # James G. Turner, Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley: 1980. # Emil R. Unanue, Chair, Mallinckrodt Professor of Pathology, Washington University of Medicine, St. Louis, MO: 1980. # DeWain Valentine, Artist, Gardena, California: 1980. # Jan M. Vansina, John D. MacArthur and Vilas Professor Emeritus of History and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1980. #

Sidney Verba Sidney Verba (May 26, 1932 – March 4, 2019) was an American political scientist, librarian and library administrator. His academic interests were mainly American and comparative politics. He was the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at H ...

, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library, Harvard University: 1980. # Martha J. Vicinus, Professor of English, Women's Studies & History, University of Michigan: 1980. # Maris A. Vinovskis, A.M. and H.P. Bentley Professor of History and Research Scientist, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan: 1980. # Victor E. Viola, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Indiana University: 1980. # Jack L. Walker, Deceased. Political Science: 1980. # Daniel J. Watermeier, Professor of Theatre and Drama, University of Toledo: 1980. # Robert S. Weiss, Senior Fellow, Institute of Gerontology and Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston: 1980. #

Peter Westen Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School: 1980. #

Hayden White Hayden V. White (July 12, 1928 – March 5, 2018) was an American historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work '' Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe'' (1973/2014). Career W ...

, Presidential Professor of Historical Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz: 1980. #

Alec Wilder Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980) was an American composer. Biography Wilder was born in Rochester, New York, United States, to a prominent family; the Wilder Building downtown (at the "Four Corners") ...

, Deceased. Music Composition: 1980. #

Barbara Wilk Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska (4 February 1935 – 2 February 2023) was a Polish gymnast. She competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the G ...

, Artist and Film Maker, Westport, Connecticut: 1980. # William H. Willis, Professor of Greek in Classical Studies, Duke University: 1980. # John F. Wilson, Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion, Princeton University: 1980. # William H. Wing, Professor of Physics and Optical Sciences, University of Arizona: 1980. #

Frederick Wiseman Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theater director. His work is "devoted primarily to exploring American institutions". He has been called "one of the most important and original filmmakers worki ...

, Film Maker, Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1980. #

Ira Wohl Ira Wohl is an American documentary filmmaker. He is most noted for his 1979 film '' Best Boy'', which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 52nd Academy Awards.Isser Woloch, Moore Collegiate Professor of History, Columbia University: 1980. #

Gordon S. Wood Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is an American historian and professor at Brown University. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for ''The Radicalism of the American Revolution'' (1992). His book ''The Creation o ...

, Alva O. Way University Professor of History, Brown University: 1980. # Gordon Wright, William H. Bonsall Professor Emeritus of History, Stanford University: 1980. #

Shing-Tung Yau Shing-Tung Yau (; ; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese-American mathematician and the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. In April 2022, Yau announced retirement from Harvard to become Chair Professor of mathem ...

, Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University: 1980. #

James A. Yorke James A. Yorke (born August 3, 1941) is a Distinguished University Research Professor of Mathematics and Physics and former chair of the Mathematics Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, United ...

, Distinguished University Professor; Director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland at College Park: 1980. #

Wilbur Zelinsky Wilbur Zelinsky (21 December 1921 – 4 May 2013) was an American cultural geographer. He was most recently a professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University. He also created the Zelinsky Model of Demographic Transition. Background and educa ...

, Professor Emeritus of Geography, Pennsylvania State University: 1980. #

Harriet Zuckerman Harriet Anne Zuckerman (born July 19, 1937) is an American sociologist and professor emerita of Columbia University. Zuckerman specializes in the sociology of science. She is known for her work on the social organization of science, scienti ...

, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Columbia University; Vice President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: 1980. #

R. Tom Zuidema Reiner Tom Zuidema (May 24, 1927 – March 2, 2016) was professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is well known for his seminal contributions on Inca social and political or ...

, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1980. #

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Ellen Taaffe Zwilich ( ; born April 30, 1939) is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, ne ...

, Composer, Riverdale, New York: 1980.

1980 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

# Jorge Alberto Tadeo Blaquier, Associate Director, Fertilab, Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1980. # Jorge E. Dandler, Senior Specialist, Organización Internacional del Trabajo, Costa Rica: 1980. # René Drucker-Colín, Head, Department of Neuroscience, Center for Research in Cellular Physiology, and Professor of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City: 1980. # Waldemar Espinoza Soriano, Professor of Andean History, National University of San Marcos, Lima: 1980. # Juan José Gagliardino, Career Scientist, National Research Council of Argentina; Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, and Director, Center for Experimental and Applied Endocrinology, National University of La Plata School of Medicine: 1980. # Néstor Fadrique González-Cadavid. Professor of Biochemistry, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas: 1980. #

Francisco Hervé Francisco Hervé Allamand (born 1942) is a Chilean geologist known for his contributions to the paleogeography and tectonics of Chile and Antarctica. Together with I. Fuenzalida, E. Araya and A. Solano he named the Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault in 1979.Ha ...

, Professor of Geology, University of Chile, Santiago: 1980. # Denzil H. Hurley, Artist; Professor of Art, University of Washington, Seattle: 1980. # Carlos Alberto Lersundy, Film Maker, Bogotá: 1980. # Earl Wilbert Lovelace, Writer, Matura, Trinidad: 1980. # Isaura Meza, Head, Professor of Cell Biology, Center for Research and Advanced Studies, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City: 1980. #

Brian Nissen Brian Nissen (20 October 1927 in London – 8 February 2001 in Salisbury, Wiltshire) was a British actor and television continuity announcer. Biography Nissen made an early appearance in Laurence Olivier's film of Shakespeare's ''Henry V'', and ...

, Artist, New York City: 1980. # Alejandro Oliveros, Writer, Valencia, Venezuela: 1980. # Catalina Parra (Troncoso), Artist, New York City: 1980. # Liliana Porter, Artist; Professor of Art, Queens College, CUNY: 1980. # Abelardo Sánchez-León, Poet; Vice President, DESCO, Lima, Peru: 1980. # Feliciano Sánchez Sinencio, Professor of Physics, School of Physics and Mathematics, and Associate Professor of Physics, Center for Research and Advanced Studies, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City: 1980. # José M. B. Santilli, Photographer, São Paulo: 1980. # Augusto Tamayo Vargas, Professor Emeritus of Literature, National University of San Marcos, Lima; Director, National Museum of History, Lima: 1980. # Regina Vater, Artist, Austin, Texas: 1980.

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External links

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