The following is a list of the applicants who were appointed as a result of
the 2000 Smithsonian Institution Fellowship competition. This list includes
the names of the institutions from which they received their doctoral degrees
(note: current institutional affiliation is listed for senior awards) or
in which they are currently enrolled, the title of the proposed research
undertaken at the Smithsonian, the name of their host/advisor, the
Smithsonian
unit at which the research was conducted, and the dates of their tenure.
This list is intended to demonstrate the kinds and variety of topics that receive support through the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program.
Amirbekyan, Raisa I., SI Senior Fellow, Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies, Armenia. The Theory and Practice of Sufism as Reflected in the Art of Safavid Iran during the 16th-17th Centuries: Themes, Subjects, and Motifs, at the Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Massumeh Farhad from July 1, 2000 through December 31, 2000.
Hanihara, Tsunehiko, SI Senior Fellow, Saga Medical School, Japan. Craniofacial and Dental Features of the New World Peoples and Eastern Asians, at the National Museum of Natural History with David Hunt from April 1, 2001 through March 31, 2002.
Holmes, Walter C., SI Senior Fellow, Baylor University. Classification of Mikania (Compositae-tribe: Eupatorieae), at the National Museum of Natural History with Harold Robinson and Vicki Funk from June 1, 2000 through August 31, 2000.
Kilkelly, Ann M., SI Senior Fellow, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Tapping the Margins, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel and Dwight Blocker Bowers from July 1, 2000 through September 30, 2000.
Neth, Mary C., SI Senior Fellow, University of Missouri. Tapping the Margins, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel and Dwight Blocker Bowers from July 1, 2000 through September 30, 2000.
Pitulko, Vladimir V., SI Senior Fellow, Russian Academy of Sciences. Pro-Holocene and Early Holocene Cultural Evolution in Beringia: Diversity or Variability, at the National Museum of Natural History with Dennis Stanford from October 15, 2001 through April 30, 2003.
Porter, Marianetta, SI Senior Fellow, University of Michigan. Memory and Obuvion Project, at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with Diana Baird N'Diaye from September 1, 2001 through November 30, 2001.
Samarkin, Vladimir A., SI Senior Fellow, Russian Academy of Sciences. Biogeochemical Processes Controlling Methane Emission From Wetlands, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Thomas Jordan from July 1, 2000 through May 10, 2002.
Apple, Jennifer L., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Utah. Interaction Between Biotic and Abiotic Stresses: Fitness Consequences for a Wetland Perennial, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Ilka Feller from August 15, 2000 through August 14, 2001.
Capaldi, Elizabeth A., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan State University. Brains and Behavior: A Comparative Survey of Neuroanatomical Patterns in Solitary and Social Bees (Hymenoptera) and Their Ecological Correlates, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Wcislo from June 1, 2001 through May 31, 2002.
Davis, Jana L. D., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego. Importance of Shallow-Water Nursery Habitat Type to Juvenile Chesapeake Bay Fishes, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Anson Hines from January 1, 2001 through December 31, 2001.
Deocampo, Daniel M., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University. Experimental and Environmental Perspectives on Mineral Indicators of Paleochemistry in the Olorgesailie Basin, Kenya, at the National Museum of Natural History with Jeffrey Post and Anna Behrensmeyer from March 1, 2001 through February 28, 2002.
Etterson, Matthew A., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota. A Hierarchical Model of Avian Response to Forest Fragmentation, at the National Zoological Park with Lisa Petit from October 1, 2000 through September 30, 2001.
Goodyear, Frank H., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas. View/Finding America: Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography and the Birth of American Tourism, at the National Museum of American Art with William H. Truettner from September 1, 2000 through February 28, 2001.
Gullason, Lynda, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University, Canada. Thule Epimetallurgy and the Implications for Inuit-European Encounters, at the National Museum of Natural History with William W. Fitzhugh from December 1, 2000 through February 28, 2001.
Hoshino, Koichi, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Hokkaido University. Phylogenetic Relationships of the Pleuronectiformes, at the National Museum of Natural History with Lynne Parenti and Thomas Munroe from October 1, 2000 through September 30, 2001.
Lewis, Owen T., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Leeds University, England. Spatial Population Structure of Tropical Insects: Does Resource Fragmentation Lead to Metapopulation Structure?, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Donald Windsor and Allen Herre from September 15, 2000 through December 14, 2000.
MacCormack, Jennifer A., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University. Monitoring Foddering Practices from the 7th to 2nd Millennia B.C. in the Western Jazira, Syria, at the National Museum of Natural History with Melinda Zeder and Bruce Smith from September 15, 2000 through September 14, 2001.
Matocq, Marjorie Denise, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley. MHC Diversity in Dusky-Footed Woodrats (Neotoma fuscipes): A Comparison of MHC and Microsatellite Diversity Within and Among Populations, at the National Zoological Park with Robert Fleischer and Jonathan Ballou from February 1, 2001 through January 31, 2002.
Mawdsley, Jonathan R., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University. Phylogenetic Study of Major Lineages in Cleridae and Cleroidea (Insecta: Coleoptera), at the National Museum of Natural History with Terry Erwin from September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2001.
McCormick, Melissa K., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan State University. Orchid Fungi in the Forest Community: Interactions with Other Plants, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Dennis Whigham and John O'Neill from August 1, 2000 through July 31, 2001.
Odegaard, Frode, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Species Richness and Host Specificity of Phytophagous Beetles in Two Different Types of Tropical Forests in Panama, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with S. Joseph Wright from March 1, 2001 through June 15, 2002.
Ritchie, Kimberly B., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Phylogenetic Analysis and Host Range Studies of a Sea Urchin Pathogen, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Harilaos Lessios and Penelope Barnes from June 1, 2000 through August 31, 2000.
Rowan, Yorke M., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas. Comparative Typological and Geological Analyses of a Ground Stone Assemblage from Tell Jemmeh, Israel, at the National Museum of Natural History with Gus Van Beek and William Melson from September 1, 2000 through February 28, 2001.
Schulze, Anja, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria, Canada. Phylogeography of Palola (Eunicida, Polychaeta), at the National Museum of Natural History with Kristian Fauchald and Jon Norenburg from January 15, 2001 through March 31, 2002.
Sidor, Christian A., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago. The Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction in the Terrestrial Realm: Beaufort Group Geochronology and Synapsid Diversity, at the National Museum of Natural History with Douglas Erwin and Anna K. Behrensmeyer from January 15, 2001 through May 31, 2002.
Sutter, Paul S., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kansas. Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Environment, Disease, Race, and US Sanitary Engineering in Panama, at the National Museum of American History with Jeffrey Stine and Pamela Henson from June 15, 2001 through April 14, 2002.
Trueman, Clive N., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bristol. Time Resolution in Vertebrate Assemblages, at the National Museum of Natural History with Anna K. Behrensmeyer and Noreen Tuross from October 1, 2000 through June 30, 2002.
Warkentin, Karen M., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas. Adaptive Timing of Hatching in Red-Eyed Treefrogs: How Do Embryos Assess Risk?, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with A. Stanley Rand and Mary Jane West-Eberhard from June 1, 2000 through August 31, 2001.
Wray, Matt T., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley. Poor Whites of the South, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel and Charles McGovern from October 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001.
Baxter, Adrienne M., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Columbia University. The Metaphysical Paintings of George Inness, at the National Museum of American Art with Elisabeth Broun and Virginia Mecklenberg from July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001.
Bechter, Frank D., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago. Making Deaf Political Identity: The "Addressivity" of Sign Language Storytelling Genres, at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with Peter Seitel and Diana Baird N'Diaye from November 1, 2000 through October 31, 2001.
Blaustein, Jessica B., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Duke University. Loose Threads: Rudolph Schindler, Art Noveau, and The Unravelling of Modern Architecture, at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum with Gail Davidson and Lindsay Shapiro from April 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002.
Bourg, Norman A., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland. Disturbance by Fire in Appalachian Forests and Its Role in Metapopulation Structuring of an Understory Plant, at the National Zoological Park with John Rappole and William McShea from June 15, 2000 through June 14, 2001.
Burba, Juliet M., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota. Intersecting Disciplines and the Study of the Peopling of the Americas, 1895-1935, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela M. Henson from July 15, 2000 through December 15, 2001.
Burke, Flannery G., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Finding What They Came For: The Mabel Dodge Luhan Circle in New York and Taos, 1912-1929, at the Archives of American Art with Paul Karlstrom and Virginia Mecklenberg from February 1, 2001 through April 30, 2001.
Carpenter, Jane Hattie, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan. Conjure Woman: Identity, Politics, and Spirituality in the Art of Betye Saar, 1950-1990, at the National Museum of American Art with Lynda R. Hartigan from July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001.
Cohen, Harvey G., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland. Improvising Across the Lines: Duke Ellington in American History, 1926-1974, at the National Museum of American History with John Hasse from February 15, 2001 through August 14, 2001.
Cosarinsky, Mariana, SI Predoctoral Fellow, Arizona State University. Fine-grained Rims in the Reduced CV Chondrite Vigarano: Nebular or Parent Body Processing?, at the National Museum of Natural History with Glenn MacPherson from June 1, 2000 through August 31, 2000.
Davis, Meredith P., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Columbia University. Fool's Gold: Trompe L'Oeil's Nineteenth Century Incarnations, at the National Museum of American Art with William H. Truettner and Richard Murray from September 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001.
Gruen, Jason P., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley. Tourist Attractions in Urban America, 1870-1893, at the National Museum of American History with Charles McGovern and Cynthia Field from September 15, 2000 through June 14, 2001.
Haring, Kristen A., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University. Calling CQ: Identity and Community in the Technical Hobby of Amateur Radio, at the National Museum of American History with Charles McGovern and Steven Lubar from October 1, 2000 through January 31, 2001.
Harper, Jennifer J., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Yale University. In All Good Conscience: Abolitionist Imagery in American Art, 1830-1865, at the National Museum of American Art with William H. Truettner from September 15, 2000 through December 14, 2000.
Jackson, Mark A., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Louisiana State University. The Writings & Recordings of Woody Guthrie, at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with Jeffrey Place and Charles McGovern from September 1, 2000 through May 31, 2002.
Jerolimov, Douglas, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware. From Traveling to Cruising: Ocean Liner Architecture and Technology, 1870-1935, at the National Museum of American History with Paula Johnson from February 1, 2001 through May 31, 2001.
King, Valerie C., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of New Mexico. Specialization in Ceramic Production in Prehistoric New Mexico, at the National Museum of Natural History with J. Daniel Rogers from February 15, 2001 through May 14, 2001.
Lai, Guolong, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles. Books in Burials: Texts, Ritual Art, and the Religious Transition in Early China, at the Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Thomas Lawton from March 15, 2001 through March 14, 2002.
Levin Caro, Julie A., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Texas. Building a Context for Allan Rohan Crite's Neighborhood Paintings and Religious Works, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Lynda R. Hartigan and Virginia Mecklenberg from December 15, 2000 through March 14, 2001.
Meringolo, Denise D., SI Predoctoral Fellow, George Washington University. Crisis and Interpretation, at the National Museum of American History with Charles McGovern from June 1, 2000 through February 28, 2001.
Milbourne, Karen E., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Iowa. Diplomacy in Motion: Predoctoral Research of Lozi Arts at the Smithsonian Institution, at the National Museum of African Art with David Binkley and Mary Jo Arnoldi from July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001.
Miller, Harlan L., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Texas. The UV Biological Weighting Function for the Scandinavian Kelp Laminaria hyperborea, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Patrick Neale from August 15, 2000 through November 14, 2000.
Ott, Cynthia, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania. Cultural History of Pumpkins, at the National Museum of American History with Rayna Green from August 1, 2000 through April 30, 2001.
Pierre, Jemima, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Texas. Ghanian Immigrants in the United States and the Dynamics of Racialization, at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with Diana Baird N'Diaye and Peter Pipim from February 1, 2001 through January 31, 2002.
Rangel, Jeffrey J., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan. Chicano Art in Los Angeles, 1965-1981, at the Archives of American Art with Paul Karlstrom and Liza Kirwin from October 15, 2000 through September 14, 2001.
Sachant, Pamela J., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware. Eddie Arning: "Artis Work" and the American Dream, at the National Museum of American Art with Lynda R. Hartigan and Liza Kirwin from September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2001.
Scott, Michelle R., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Cornell University. The Early Years of an Empress: Bessie Smith and Her Musical Influences, 1900-1923, at the National Museum of American History with John Hasse and Charles McGovern from July 1, 2000 through September 30, 2000.
Shannon, Joshua A., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley. Art, Commodities, and the City: New York, 1958-1962, at the National Museum of American Art with Virginia M. Mecklenburg from September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2001.
Shapiro, Emily D., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Stanford University. Completion of Primary Research and Completion of Chapters on Village Craftsmen and Native American Artisans, at the National Museum of American Art with William H. Truettner from August 1, 2000 through July 31, 2001.
Shimamura, Ryoji, SI Predoctoral Fellow, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Male and Female Reproductive Success of Natural Hibiscus moscheutos Populations, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Dennis Whigham from July 1, 2000 through September 30, 2000.
Sklaroff Lamey, Lauren R., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia. Ambivalent Inclusion: The Politics of Racial Representation in America, 1920-1950, at the National Museum of American History with Charles McGovern from September 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001.
Slogar, Christopher L., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland. The Decoration of Ancient Ceramics Recovered at Calabar, Southeastern Nigeria: A Case for Early Nsibidi?, at the National Museum of African Art with Andrea Nicolls from December 1, 2000 through November 30, 2001.
Stai, Sarah M., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Miami. Sperm Competition in Muscovy Ducks (Cairina moschata): A Test of the Passive Sperm Loss Model, at the National Zoological Park with Scott Derrickson from June 1, 2000 through July 31, 2001.
Troutman, John W., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Texas. American Indians and the Politics of Music, at the National Museum of American History with Rayna Green from July 15, 2000 through January 14, 2001.
Uhlman, James Todd, SI Predoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University. Peddlers of Exoticism, at the National Museum of American History with Charles McGovern and Pamela Henson from June 1, 2000 through November 30, 2000.
Van Bael, Sunshine A., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Trophic Interactions in Wet and Dry Neotropical Forests, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with S. Joseph Wright from October 1, 2000 through September 30, 2001.
Versari, Maria-Elena, SI Predoctoral Fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Futurism in the USA, at the National Museum of American Art with Joann Moser and Judith Zilczer from July 15, 2000 through October 14, 2000.
Warren, Ben H., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of East Anglia. Historical Biogeography & Evolution of Birds of The Indian Ocean Islands, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Eldredge Bermingham from September 15, 2000 through December 31, 2002.
Weems, Jason D., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Stanford University. Barnstorming the Prairies: Flight, Aerial Views and the Idea of the Midwest, 1920 - 1940, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William H. Truettner and Virginia Mecklenberg from April 1, 2001 through September 30, 2001.
Winkler, Jonathan R., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Yale University. "Wiring the World": US Corporate Efforts to Create an Independent Global Communicataions System in the Interwar Period, at the National Museum of American History with Bernard Finn and Elliot Sivowitch from August 15, 2000 through February 14, 2001.
Aplin, Thomas C., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Oklahoma. The Fire Dance of the Folk Sill Apache, at the National Museum of Natural History with Joallyn Archambault from May 29, 2000 through August 4, 2000.
Bell, Joshua A., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, Oxford University, England. Collecting the "Sweet" and the "Stone-Age": An Analysis of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's New Guinea Expedition (1928) Papauan Gulf Collection, at the National Museum of Natural History with Adrianne Kaeppler from November 13, 2000 through January 19, 2001.
Bergamo, Stephanie, SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Georgia. What is Callisia Loefl. (Commelinaceae)?, at the National Museum of Natural History with Robert Faden and Vicki Funk from May 29, 2000 through August 4, 2000.
Buckley, Eve E., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Pennsylvania. Smithsonian Botanical Expeditions to Latin America, 1900-1960, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives with Pamela M. Henson from March 1, 2001 through May 10, 2001.
Bybee-Rashidi, Jennifer, SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles. Paleopathological Study of Human Remains from the Ancient Middle East, at the National Museum of Natural History with Bruno Frohlich and Donald Ortner from July 10, 2000 through September 15, 2000.
Chatzimanolis, Stylianos, SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Kansas. Behavioral Ecology of Nordus fungicola, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Wcislo and Donald Windsor from June 5, 2000 through August 11, 2000.
Cozzo, David N., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Georgia. Ethnobotanical Research of James Mooney Among the Cherokee Indians, at the National Museum of Natural History with William Sturtevant from June 5, 2000 through August 11, 2000.
Gray, David A., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Minnesota. The Poster Representation of the Production Worker, 1930-1950, at the National Museum of American History with Harry Rubenstein and Peter Liebhold from May 29, 2000 through August 4, 2000.
Henderson, Wayne G., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of California, Riverside. Saukiid Trilobites and Their Implications for Late Cambrian Paleogeographic and Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions, at the National Museum of Natural History with Conrad Labandeira and Douglas Erwin from June 19, 2000 through September 8, 2000.
Huot, Yannick, SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, Dalhousie University, Canada. DNA Damage and Photoreactivation in Bacterioplankton, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Patrick Neale from June 19, 2000 through August 25, 2000.
Hurwitz, Erica R., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara. Bluegrass and Southern Protestant Christianity, at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with Stephanie Smith and Jeffrey Place from April 2, 2001 through June 8, 2001.
Kopp, Joel A., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Washington. Analysis of Domestic Ballast Water Transport Patterns in Selected US Seaports, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Anson Hines and Gregory Ruiz from June 26, 2000 through September 15, 2000.
Larison, Brenda J., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of California, Davis. Environmental and Maternal Effects on the Wing-Polymorphism in the Seed Bug Jadera aeola, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Annette Aiello from February 5, 2001 through April 13, 2001.
Motz, Adina M., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, North Carolina State University. Sperm Limitation in the Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Anson Hines from July 1, 2000 through December 31, 2000.
Valdez, Dominic G., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, California State University. Genetic Sequence Divergence and Morphological Differentiation of the Cypridinid Ostracode Crustacean, Skogsbergia lerneri, from the Isthmus of Panama, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Harilaos Lessios and Eldredge Bermingham from July 17, 2000 through September 22, 2000.
Zygmont, Bryan J., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Arizona. An Inquiry into the American Patronage of Gilbert Stuart, 1793-1803, at the National Portrait Gallery with Ellen Miles from June 5, 2000 through August 11, 2000.