This page is a list of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1991.
United States and Canada Fellows
- Janet Abramowicz, Artist, New York City; Senior Lecturer on Fine Arts, Harvard University
- Allen L. Anderson, Composer; Assistant Professor of Music, Brandeis University
- Janis Antonovics, James J. Wolfe Professor of Botany and Director, University Program in Genetics, Duke University
- Renee Baillargeon, Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Tina Barney, Photographer, Watch Hill, Rhode Island
- Madison Smartt Bell, Writer; Writer in Residence, Director of Creative Writing, Goucher College
- Edward Allen Boyle, Professor of Chemical Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1991
- Thomas Boyle, Writer; Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
- John Brewer, John and Marion Sullivan University Professor, University of Chicago
- David Brody, Artist and Musician; Professor of Art, University of Washington, Seattle
- James H. Brown, Regents' Professor of Biology, University of New Mexico
- Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor of Human Development and Women's Studies, Cornell University
- Ann Marie Callaway, Composer, Rodeo, California
- David Carroll, Professor of French, University of California, Irvine
- Vincent J. Cheng, Associate Professor of English, University of Southern California
- Daniel Chirot, Professor of International Studies and of Sociology, University of Washington
- Carolyn A. Chute, Writer, Parsonsfield, Maine
- Joseph D. Collins, Development Policy Analyst; Lecturer in Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Papo Colo, Artist, New York City
- Constance S. Congdon, Playwright; Playwright-in-Residence, Amherst College
- Noble David Cook, Professor of History, Florida International University
- Jonathan K. Crary, Associate Professor of Art History, Barnard College, Columbia University
- Fred Curchack, Theatre Artist; Professor of Art and Performance, University of Texas at Dallas
- Susan G. Davis, Associate Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego
- Pablo G. Debenedetti, Chair, Class of 1950 Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University
- Thomas J. Devlin, Professor of Physics, Rutgers University
- Avinash Kamalakar Dixit, John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics, Princeton University
- Richard Mansfield Dudley, Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Dale F. Eickelman, Ralph and Richard Kleeman Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations, Dartmouth College
- Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics
- Thomas M. Engelhardt, Writer, New York City
- Bjorn Erik Engquist, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
- Robert P. Epstein, Film Maker, San Francisco, California
- Anne Flournoy, Film Maker, New York City
- Helene P. Foley, Olin Professor of Classics, Barnard College, Columbia University
- Regenia A. Gagnier, Associate Professor of English, Stanford University
- Alice P. Gast, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
- Michael Ghil, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysics & Director, Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics (IGPP), University of California, Los Angeles
- Allan F. Gibbard, Richard B. Brandt Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan
- Faye D. Ginsburg, Professor of Anthropology and Director, Certificate Program in Culture and Media, New York University
- Francine du Plessix Gray, Writer, Warren, Connecticut
- Mark Irwin Greene, John Eckman Professor of Medical Sciences and Head, Immunology and Center for Receptor Biology and Cell Growth, University of Pennsylvania
- Edward L. Greenstein, Professor of Biblical Studies, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Jonathan E. Grindlay, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
- Kenneth Gross, Professor of English, University of Rochester
- Philip Haas, Film Maker, New York City
- Harmony Hammond, Artist, Galisteo, New Mexico; Professor of Art, University of Arizona
- Craig S. Harris, Composer and Musician, New York City
- N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
- Cheryl Temple Herr, Associate Professor of English, University of Iowa
- Haruzo Hida, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
- Dan Hofstadter, Writer, Philadelphia; Staff Writer, The New Yorker
- Linda K. Hogan, Writer; Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Michael A. Holly, Head of Research, Clark Institute of Art, Williamstown, MA
- Keith J. Holyoak, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
- Eric Holzman, Artist, New York City
- David E. Irwin, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- John T. Irwin, The Decker Professor in the Humanities; Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University
- Rachel Jacoff, Marion Butler MacLean Professor of the History of Ideas and Professor of Italian, Wellesley College
- Mark F. Jarman, Poet; Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
- Brandt Junceau, Artist, Brooklyn, New York
- Robert A. Kaster, Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature and Professor of Classics, Princeton University
- Stanley Kelley, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Politics, Princeton University
- Richard Kieckhefer, Professor of the History and Literature of Religions, Northwestern University
- James T. Kloppenberg, Professor of History, Harvard University
- Win Knowlton, Artist, New York City
- Nancy Harrison Kolodny, Nellie Z. Cohen and Anne Cohen Heller Professor of Chemistry, Wellesley College
- Lucy Komisar, Journalist and Author, New York City
- Dexter C. Kozen, Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. Professor in Engineering, Cornell University
- Steve Krieckhaus, Choreographer, Glenmoore, Pennsylvania
- Bruce K. Krueger, Professor of Physiology, University of Maryland at Baltimore
- Anne LeBaron, Composer; Assistant Professor of Music, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Herbert Leibowitz, Editor and Publisher, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, New York City; Professor Emeritus of English, Graduate Center and College of Staten Island, City University of New York
- Richard E. Lenski, Professor of Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University
- Douglas N. C. Lin, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Wendell M. Logan, Composer; Professor of African-American Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
- Charles Beardsley Luce, Artist, Brooklyn, New York
- Gail R. Martin, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
- G. Steven Martin, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, and Head, Division of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Berkeley
- Olga Matich, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley
- Elaine Mayes, Photographer; Professor of Photography, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
- James H. Merrell, Professor of History on the Lucy Maynard Salmon Chair, Vassar College
- Lorrie Moore, Writer; Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- David M. Moss, Composer, Performer, and Radio Artist, Marlboro, Vermont
- Ian Mueller, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
- Matt Mullican, Artist, New York City
- Susan Naquin, Professor of History, Princeton University
- Vasudha Narayanan, Professor of Religion, University of Florida
- Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art, Vassar College
- Felicity A. Nussbaum, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
- Katharine F. Pantzer, Retired Research Bibliographer in the Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Thomas G. Paterson, Retired Professor of History, University of Connecticut
- Robert A. Pentelovitch, Artist, New York City
- Philip Perkis, Photographer; Professor of Photography, Pratt Institute
- Mary L. Poovey, Professor of English, New York University
- Jeremy D. Popkin, Professor of History, University of Kentucky
- Francine Prose, Writer, New York City
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
- Matthew Ramsey, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
- Velcheru Narayana Rao, Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Thomas B. Rauchfuss, Director, School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Claude Rawson, Maynard Mack Professor of English, Yale University
- Anne W. Robertson, Claire Dux Swift Professor of Music, University of Chicago
- Martin Rocek, Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Member, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
- Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale University
- Barbara H. Rosenwein, Professor of History, Loyola University of Chicago
- Edward Benjamin Rothstein, Music Critic, The New York Times; Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities, New York University
- Betye Irene Saar, Artist, Los Angeles
- David William Sanford, Composer, Princeton, New Jersey
- Londa L. Schiebinger, Professor of History and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University
- Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Pierotti Chair in Italian Literature, Stanford University
- Laurie Sheck, Poet, Princeton, New Jersey; Lecturer in English, Rutgers University
- Jane Shore (poet), East Calais, Vermont; Associate Professor of English, George Washington University
- Debora Shuger, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
- Neil Asher Silberman, Writer, Ohain, Belgium
- Peter H. Solomon, Jr., Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
- Jana Sterbak, Artist, Montreal
- Arthur L. Stinchcombe, Johns Evans Professor of Sociology and Professor of Political Science and Organization Behavior, Northwestern University
- Edward H. Tenner, Writer, Plainsboro, New Jersey
- John F. Torreano, Artist, New York City
- Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Gray, Jr., Professor of English and American Studies, Yale University
- Fred W. Turek, Professor of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University
- Christopher Uhl, Associate Professor of Biology, Pennsylvania State University
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History and Professor of Women's Studies, Harvard University
- Joseph J. Villafranca, Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University: 1991
- Joseph S. Viscomi, Lawrence Myer Slifkin Professor of Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Yoshimasa Wada, Artist, San Francisco
- Calvert W. Watkins, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Harvard University
- Samuel Weber, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
- Liliane Weissberg, Joseph B. Glossberg Term Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania
- Dara Wier, Poet; Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Alan B. Williamson, Writer; Professor of English, University of California, Davis
- Brenda Wineapple, Writer; Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, Union College, Schenectady
- Jeffrey A. Wolin, Photographer; Ruth N. Halls Professor of Photography, Indiana University Bloomington
- Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University
- David Da-Wei Yao, Thomas Alva Edison Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University
- Paul Zaloom, Theatre Artist, West Hollywood, California
Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
- José M. Aguilera, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Dean for Development, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Victor Hernández Cruz, Writer, Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico
- Carlos Augusto Di Prisco, Senior Researcher, Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research, Caracas; Professor of Mathematics, Central University of Venezuela
- José Miguel Franco Codinach, Professor of Fine Arts, Higher Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba
- Alejandro Frank, Professor of Physics, Institute of Nuclear Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City
- Luisa Futoransky, Writer, Paris, France
- Norberto Gómez, Sculptor, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Efraín Gonzales de Olarte, Senior Economist, Institute of Peruvian Studies, Lima, Peru
- Célia R. Gouvêa Vaneau, Choreographer, São Paulo, Brazil
- Jorge Heine, Senior Fellow, Latin American Center for Economy and International Politics (CLEPI), Santiago, Chile
- Jorge Illueca, Coordinator of Environmental Management and Chief, Terrestrial Ecosystems Branch of the United Nations Environment Program, Nairobi, Kenya
- Alberto Kornblihtt, Career Scientist, Institute for Research in Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology, National Research Council of Argentina; Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Buenos Aires
- Alberto J. Laiseca, Writer, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Carlos Martínez Assad, Senior Researcher, Institute of Social Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City
- Manuel R. Moreno Fraginals, Professor of the History of Culture, Higher Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba
- Gustavo Moretto, Composer, New York City and Cliffside Park, New Jersey
- José Nun, Senior Researcher, National Research Council of Argentina; Director, Latin American Center for the Analysis of Democracy (CLADE), Buenos Aires
- Cecilia Portal, Photographer, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Adriana Puiggrós, Career Scientist, National Research Council of Argentina; Professor of the History of Argentine and Latin American Education, University of Buenos Aires
- Alberto Guillermo Ranea, Career Scientist, National Research Council of Argentina; Professor of Philosophical Problems, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires
- Ranulfo Romo, Professor of Neuroscience, Institute of Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City
- Jerson L. Silva, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil