University fellowships are awarded to 21 junior
faculty members

Twenty-one junior faculty members have been selected to receive University fellowships in 1999-2000, according to an announcement by Yale College Dean Richard H. Brodhead.

The fellowships are awarded annually to outstanding junior faculty members to help advance their research at a critical period in their careers. The recipients are freed from classroom teaching responsibilities and are given leave with salary to allow them to concentrate on their research.

Twelve of the fellowships are in the humanities, three are in the natural sciences and six are in the social sciences. The humanities fellowships are funded by an endowment established through the bequest of the late Susan A. Ensign Morse of Cambridge, Mass., and by the Sid R. Bass Fellowship Fund. The natural and social science fellowships are funded by support from the Sid R. Bass Fellowship Fund and by the Wendell W. Anderson Fellowship Fund, the Chauncey Keep Hubbard Fellowship Fund, the Allan Shelden Fellowship Fund, the Weyerhaeuser Family Teaching Fellowship and the Woods Fellowship Fund.

This year's fellowship recipients and their projects are:

Fellowships in the natural sciences

David Austin, assistant professor of chemistry -- an exploration of the process of molecular recognition between small organic molecules and biological macromolecules.

Craig Crews, assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology -- a study of the mechanism of action of anti-angiogenic agents, inhibitors of the blood vessel growth that plays an important role in tumor formation.

Michael Loewenberg, assistant professor of chemical engineering -- an exploration of the interactions between microphysical processes and macroscopic properties in complex fluids.

Fellowships in the humanities

Kathryn Alexander, assistant professor of music -- completion of several musical compositions, including solo, technological and orchestral works.

Joseph Bizup, assistant professor of English -- an examination of the literary and cultural manifestations of the "efficiency movement" in early 20th-century England.

Tad Brennan, assistant professor of philosophy -- a study of the ethical thinking of ancient Stoic philosophers.

Mary Floyd-Wilson, assistant professor of English -- a study of the representation of male jealousy in 17th-century English writing, considered in terms of the cultural history of emotions.

Andrew Gregory, assistant professor of classics -- a translation and commentary on Plutarch's Praecepta gerendae reipublicae ("Precepts of Statecraft").

Beatrice Gruendler, assistant professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations -- a study of the social and ideological context of poetry in the early Abbasid period (the years 750-900).

Olivia Holmes, assistant professor of Italian -- an examination of the multiple sources of the figures of the beloved in the poetry of Dante.

Matthias Konzett, assistant professor of German -- a study of the changed relation between literature and the public sphere in contemporary German culture.

Charles Laughlin, assistant professor of East Asian languages and literatures -- an exploration of overlooked continuities between Chinese literary modernity and late imperial writing through a study of the literature of leisure.

Lidia Santos, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese -- an exploration of the interactions of sophisticated literature and popular soap operas in Latin American writing.

Steven Stoll, assistant professor of history -- a study of agricultural development and the environment in the United States from 1800 to 1850.

David Waldstreicher, assistant professor of American studies -- an exploration of developments in capitalism, slavery, race and nation in the culture of Ben Franklin's America.

Fellowships in the social sciences

Steven Andrews, assistant professor of sociology -- a study of local political decision-making in localities with different sizes and political structures.

Kira Hall, assistant professor of anthropology -- an exploration of language, culture and community within the widow ashrams in Banaras.

Dianne Jonas, assistant professor of linguistics -- a study of the historical emergence of dialect variation in the Shetland and Faroe islands and of the impact of dialect variation on language acquisition by children.

Jeansok J. Kim, assistant professor of psychology -- a study of the effects of stress on memory and synaptic plasticity.

Giuseppe Moscarini, assistant professor of economics -- creation of a model of dynamic demand in situations involving demand for information.

Eric Patashnik, assistant professor of political science -- a study of the dynamics of policy transformation, especially the durability of reform, the possibilities for programmatic evolution and the role of information flow in policy change.