"We have, again, an extraordinary group of talented women arriving this fall," said Brock. "This year, we will be blessed with a greater number of writers of exceptional caliber. But our researchers, scholars, artists, and activists are also remarkable in the high quality of their work, their vision, and their commitment to excellence. We can't wait for them to arrive."

The new fellows with expertise in diverse subject areas, ranging from art history to astronomy will begin their yearlong appointments at the Bunting Institute in September 1999. During their fellowship year, fellows will work on independent projects and present their works-in-progress at the Bunting's colloquia series and in gallery exhibits.

The Bunting Institute is the world's first and only international and multidisciplinary think tank designed for women. By offering the opportunity to pursue independent projects for a year, the Bunting Institute fosters interdisciplinary discourse and creative and intellectual leadership.

ELIZABETH ARNOLD

Bunting Fellow (Poetry)

Independent Poet

As if They Didn't Know They Stood Inside a Cell

NANCY BARNES

Bunting Fellow (Peace)

Independent Consultant

Peace Consolidation in Pre- and Post-Conflict Societies

SUZY BECKER

Bunting Fellow (Nonfiction)

Independent Writer

Fertile Mind

MARINA BELOZERSKAYA

Frieda L. Miller Fellow (Art History)

Independent Scholar

European Exchanges: Reassessing the Early Renaissance

PATRICIA BERMAN

Bunting Fellow (Art History)

Wellesley College

Edvard Munch and the National Politics of Public Art

CAROL BESSEL

Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow (Chemistry)

Villanova University

Synthesis and Characterization of New Carbon Anode Materials for Implantable Medical Batteries

BARBARA BROWN

Bunting Fellow (Primary Education)

Boston University

Moving Beyond "Us versus Them" in Global Studies: Families Respond to Economic Insecurity

GILLIAN BROWN

Bunting Fellow (Visual Arts)

Independent Artist

Sight Unseen

JANNA COLLINS

Bunting Fellow (Health Sciences)

Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center

Human Bodies and Human Beings

LENORE COWEN

Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow

(Computational Biology)

Johns Hopkins University

Approximating High-Dimensional Datasets

with Applications in Computational Biology

CHARLOTTE DANIELS

Bunting Fellow (Literature)

Connecticut College

Race, the Slave Trade, and the Modern Invention

of the Self

INGA FRICK

Bunting Fellow (Visual Arts)

Phoenix Art Institute

Sight Unseen

Liette Gidlow

Berkshire Summer Fellow (History)

Bowling Green State University

To Push the Pendulum: The Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns, Critical Studies, and the Future of Political History

JOANNA GILBERT

Biomedical Research Fellow (Molecular Virology)

Harvard Medical School

Entry of Polyoma Virus into Host Cells

HIROMI GUNSHIN

Biomedical Research Fellow (Molecular Genetics)

The Children's Hospital, Boston

Regulation and Pathophysiology of Metal-Ion Transport

NILOOFAR HAERI

Bunting Fellow (Anthropology)

Johns Hopkins University

Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Religion, State,

and Modernity in Egypt

CHRISTINE HOLMLUND

Bunting Fellow (Film Criticism)

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Impossible Bodies, Compromised Positions

ALICE JARRARD

Radcliffe Junior Faculty Fellow (Art History)

Harvard University

The Baroque Theater: Architecture and Image

MIRANDA JOSEPH

Bunting Fellow (Cultural Studies)

University of Arizona

Community and the Performativity of Capitalism

IKUMI KAMINISHI

Bunting Fellow (Art History)

Tufts University

ETOKI: Rendering Buddhist Canons in Colors of Gender

NATALIE KUSZ

Bunting Fellow (Nonfiction)

Independent Writer

Dodek: A Biographical Memoir

MARGARET LEE

Bunting Fellow (Nonfiction)

The Nation magazine

Starry Fields: A Memoir of Lost History

JILL LEPORE

Bunting Fellow (American History)

Boston University

Native Tongues: Webster, Sequoyah, Gallaudet,

and the Language of Nations

PATRICIA MCANANY

Bunting Fellow (Anthropology)

Boston University

Before There Were Kings: Life in a Formative Maya Village

SABINA MURRAY

Bunting Fellow (Fiction)

University of Texas, Austin

The Caprices

KENDA MUTONGI

Bunting Fellow (History)

Williams College

Generations of Grief and Grievances:

A History of Widows and Widowhood in Maragoli, Western Kenya, 1895Present

YVONNE PARSONS

Helen Putnam Fellow (Genetics)

Harvard University

Genetic Analysis of Ion-Channel Genes as Candidates for Effecting Courtship Song Variation in the

Hawaiian Cricket, Laupala

FRANCESCA POLLETTA

Evelyn Green Davis Fellow (Sociology)

Columbia University

Sustaining Democracy in Social Change Organizations

IRENE PORRO

Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow (Astronomy)

Independent Science Scholar

Accurate Phase-Closure Measurements with the Infrared-Optical Telescope Array (IOTA)

AUGUSTA ROHRBACH

Bunting Fellow (Literature)

Oberlin College

Keeping it Real: Material Contexts of Literary Realism from Abolition to the Harlem Renaissance

HAZEL ROWLEY

Bunting Fellow (Nonfiction)

Independent Scholar

Biography of Richard Wright

VICTORIA SANFORD

Peace Fellow (Peace)

Stanford University

Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala

GRETCHEN SCHULTZ

Bunting Fellow (French Literature)

Brown University

Lesbian Literature in France, 18002000

SILVIA SPITTA

Bunting Fellow (Literature)

Dartmouth College

Immense Abjection: The Mestizo in Latin American and United States Latino Narratives

ROSEMARY TAYLOR

Bunting Fellow (Sociology)

Tufts University

Constructing Policy: Responding to the AIDS Epidemic in Britain, France, and the United States

SHELLBURNE THURBER

Bunting Fellow (Visual Arts)

Independent Artist

Work Untitled

MAKO YOSHIKAWA

Vera M. Schuyler Fellow (Fiction)

Independent Writer

The Light Well

EVE ZIMMERMAN

Bunting Fellow (Japanese Literature)

Boston University

Nakagami Kenji and the Forms of the Modern