The following is a list of the applicants who were appointed as a result of
the 2001 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.
Ayres, William S., SI Senior Fellow, University of Oregon. Material Culture and Archaeology, Nan Madol, Pohnpei, Micronesia, at the National Museum of Natural History with Adrianne Kaeppler from April 1, 2002 through June 30, 2002.
Flood, Finbar B., SI Senior Fellow, National Gallery of Art, CASVA. Translated Stones: Rewriting Indo-Muslim Monuments, at the Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Milo Beach and Massumeh Farhad from September 1, 2001 through August 31, 2002.
Franklin, Linda A., SI Senior Fellow, Duke University. UV Sensitivity of Carbon Partitioning in Marine Phytoplankton, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Patrick Neale from September 1, 2001 through August 31, 2002.
Messerli, Jakob, SI Senior Fellow, Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Germany. American and Black Forest Clockmaking 1780 - 1914: Similarities, Differences and Dependences, at the National Museum of American History with Carlene Stephens from October 15, 2001 through March 14, 2002.
Srygley, Robert B., SI Senior Fellow, University of Oxford. Behavioral Convergence in Mullerian and Batesian Mimetic Butterflies, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Egbert Leigh from July 15, 2001 through July 14, 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, 2001 through March 15, 2002.
Brodie, Renae J., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington. Settlement and Post-Settlement Processes Mediating the Distribution of Four Sympatric Fiddler Crab Species Along an Intertidal Gradient, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with John Christy from August 1, 2001 through December 31, 2001.
Brouwer, Fraukje M., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. The Role of Deformation in Fluid-Mediated Mass Transfer During Subduction, at the National Museum of Natural History with Sorena S. Sorensen from October 1, 2001 through December 31, 2001.
Cuddy, Thomas W., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University. Lost Research from a Forgotten Place, at the National Museum of Natural History with J. Daniel Rogers from June 1, 2001 through December 31, 2001.
Davis, Jana L. D., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego. Habitat Formation in the Chesapeake Bay, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Anson Hines from January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002.
deRivera, Catherine E., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego. Does Callinectes Sapidus Limit the Range of the Invasive Crab Carcinus maenas?, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Gregory Ruiz and Anson Hines from June 1, 2001 through November 30, 2003.
Doris, David T., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University. Vigilant Things: The Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Southwestern Nigeria, at the National Museum of African Art with Christine M. Kreamer from January 15, 2002 through January 14, 2003.
Hall, Jason Piers Wilton, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Florida. Neotropical Biogeography: New Evidence from Riodinid Butterflies (Lepidoptern), at the National Museum of Natural History with Robert Robbins and Donald Harvey from June 1, 2001 through May 31, 2002.
Hammond, Anne O.K., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University. Ansel Adams and the Photomechanical Print, at the National Museum of American History with Helena Wright from April 1, 2002 through June 30, 2002.
Handler, Monica R., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University. Investigation of Low-temperature Alteration of Feldspars from the Comstock Lode, Nevada, by ToF-SIMS and Cathodoluminescence, at the National Museum of Natural History with Edward Vicenzi and Sorena Sorensen from August 1, 2001 through October 31, 2002.
Hernandez-Reguant, Ariana, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago. The Political Economy of "Feeling": Cuban Music and Community in Pre- and Post- Revolutionary Times (1952-1968), at the National Museum of American History with Marvette Perez from March 1, 2002 through August 31, 2002.
La Chapelle, Peter J., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California. Hillbilly Los Angeles: Country Music, Dust Bowl Migrants, and the Urban Frontier, 1936-1969, at the National Museum of American History with Charles McGovern from January 15, 2002 through December 15, 2003.
Lachniet, Matthew S., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Syracuse University. Speleothem Paleoclimate Records from Central America, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Dolores Piperno from November 1, 2001 through October 31, 2002.
Marshall, Christopher J., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University. Phylogeny of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga), at the National Museum of Natural History with Ted Schultz from February 15, 2002 through February 14, 2004.
McCann, Anthony T., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Limerick, Ireland. Towards an Understanding of Relational Registers, the Irish Musical Commons, and the Copyright Debate, at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with Daniel Sheehy and Peter Seitel from February 15, 2002 through February 14, 2003.
Mendelsohn, Betsy J., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago. Water Current Meters and Data as Evidence in Court of Law, at the National Museum of American History with Jeffrey Stine from June 1, 2001 through August 31, 2001.
Moskowitz, Marina, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University. Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America, at the National Museum of American History with Steven Lubar from May 15, 2002 through September 14, 2002.
Munro, Natalie D., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona. Small Game Use and Human Demographics at the Transition to Agriculture in the Zagros Region, at the National Museum of Natural History with Melinda Zeder from November 1, 2001 through August 31, 2002.
Rotily, Jocelyne M., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Paris VII. The American Artistic and Cultural Presence in the South of France (1900-1945), at the Archives of American Art with Richard Wattenmaker and Virginia Mecklenberg from July 1, 2001 through September 30, 2001.
Shellman-Reeve, Janet S., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University. Exploring Mate Choosiness and Variation in the Mating System of a Neotropical Termite, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with William Eberhard and Mary Jane West-Eberhard from February 15, 2002 through February 14, 2003.
Sims, Hallie J., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago. Macroevolutionary Trends in Plant Reproductive Strategy across the Permian/Triassic Boundary, at the National Museum of Natural History with Scott Wing and William DiMichele from October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2002.
Strong, Ellen E., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, George Washington University. Phylogeny of the Heteropoda: Patterns and Processes of Morphological and Molecular Evolution, at the National Museum of Natural History with M.G. Harasewych from January 15, 2002 through August 15, 2002.
Suisman, David, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University. The Sound of Money: Music, Machines, and Markets, at the National Museum of American History with Charles McGovern and Pete Daniel from January 15, 2002 through October 15, 2002.
Szykman, Micaela, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan State University. Effects of Early Development on Subordinate Reproduction in a Cooperatively Breeding Mongoose, at the National Zoological Park with Steven Monfort and David Wildt from January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2004.
Trafton, Scott D., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University. Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William H. Truettner from September 1, 2001 through December 31, 2001.
Wisely, Samantha M., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wyoming. Phylogeography of Historical Populations of the Black-Footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes): Implications for Conservation Biology, at the National Zoological Park with Robert Fleischer and Jonathan Ballou from October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2002.
Wright, Timothy, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego. Sex-biased Dispersal in the Yellow-naped Amazon and the Spatial Structure of Learned Vocalizations, at the National Zoological Park with Robert Fleischer and Eugune Morton from January 1, 2002 through February 11, 2003.
Wurdack, Kenneth J., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Mitochondrial Genome Evolution of Euphorbiaceae, at the National Museum of Natural History with Laurence Dorr and Elizabeth Zimmer from March 1, 2002 through September 30, 2003.
Zanata, Angela M., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Phylogenetic Investigations on African Characins, at the National Museum of Natural History with Richard Vari and Stanley Weitzman from August 1, 2001 through December 15, 2002.
Allan, Kenneth D., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago. Making the Scene: Artistic Practice, Popular Culture, and Urban Space in 1960s Los Angeles, at the Archives of American Art with Paul Karlstrom from October 1, 2001 through March 31, 2002.
Bourg, Norman A., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland, College Park. Landscape Ecology and Distribution of Turkeybeard (Xerophyllum asphodeloides), a Disturbance-dependent Temperate Forest Herb, at the National Zoological Park with William McShea from June 15, 2001 through May 31, 2003.
Cattelino, Jessica R., SI Predoctoral Fellow, New York University. Twentieth-Century Seminole Sovereignty and Self-Reliance: An Historical Analysis, at the National Museum of Natural History with William C. Sturtevant from August 1, 2001 through November 30, 2001.
Engelman, Elysa Ream, SI Predoctoral Fellow, Boston University. The Face That Haunts Me Ever": Consumers and the Branding of Lydia E. Pinkham, at the National Museum of American History with Charles McGovern and Katherine Ott from January 1, 2002 through June 30, 2002.
Garabedian, Steven P., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota. Reds, Whites, and the Blues: Lawrence Gellert and a Cultural History of Blues Music Scholarship from the Great Depression to the Cold War, at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with Jeffrey Place and Charles McGovern from September 1, 2001 through August 31, 2002.
Higginbotham, Carmenita D., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan. Saturday Night at the Savoy: Blackness and the Urban Spectacle in the Art of Reginald Marsh, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Virginia M. Mecklenburg and Lynda Hartigan from July 1, 2001 through August 31, 2002.
Hunt, Eugene G., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago. Morphological Covariance through Geological Time: Micro- and Macroevolution in the Ostracode Genus Poseidonamicus, at the National Museum of Natural History with Richard Benson from September 1, 2001 through November 30, 2001.
Imada, Adria L., SI Predoctoral Fellow, New York University. "Across the Sea": The Export of Hula to World's Fairs, 1884-1940, at the National Museum of Natural History with Adrianne Kaeppler and Rayna Green from July 1, 2001 through September 30, 2001.
Ingeman, Lara I., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Indiana University. Chan Paintings within the Freer Gallery of Art Collection and their Relationship to Chan Discourse Records (yulu), at the Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery with Jan Stuart and Joseph Chang from April 1, 2002 through March 31, 2003.
Isaza, Ilean I., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Boston University. The Ancestors of Parita Pre-Columbian Settlement Patterns in the Lower La Villa Valley, Azuero Peninsula, Panama, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Richard Cooke from December 1, 2001 through May 31, 2002.
Jewett, Elizabeth B., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland. Periodic Hypoxia and the Chesapeake Bay, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Anson Hines and Gregory Ruiz from June 1, 2001 through May 31, 2002.
Johnson, Colin R., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan. Columbia's Orient: Intimacy, Geography, and the Invention of Heterosexuality in Rural America, 1890-1930, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel from March 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003.
Julia, Adeline Alexandra-Brigitte, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of La Sorbonne, Paris. The Pursuit of National Identity: Bluemmer, a Transatlantic Painter, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with Judith Zilczer from June 15, 2001 through September 14, 2001.
Keller, Gwen, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Georgia. The Effects of Wolbachia on Mate Choice and Sperm Competition in the Neotropical Leaf Beetle Chelymorpha alternans, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Donald Windsor from August 1, 2001 through September 30, 2002.
Kline, David I., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego. The Role of Environmental and Anthropogenic Stresses in Emerging Coral Diseases, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Nancy Knowlton and Hector Guzman from September 15, 2001 through June 30, 2003.
Lidgard, Damian C., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Universite de La Rochelle, France. Alternative Male Mating Tactics in the Grey Seal: Relating Phenotypic and Environmental Constraints with Behavior and Reproductive Success, at the National Zoological Park with Daryl Boness and Robert Fleischer from October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2003.
McCarthy, Robert C., SI Predoctoral Fellow, George Washington University. Constraints on Primate Craniofacial Growth and Form, at the National Museum of Natural History with Bruno Frohlich from June 1, 2001 through January 31, 2002.
Milligan, Marianne I., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison. An Examination of Leonard Bloomfield's Menominee Manuscripts, at the National Museum of Natural History with Ives Goddard from September 1, 2001 through May 31, 2002.
Pearson, Georges Andre, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Kansas. Late Pleistocene Paleoamerican Migrations and Human-Megafaunal Interactions on the Isthmus of Panama, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Richard Cooke and Dolores Piperno from June 1, 2001 through May 31, 2002.
Rafiq, Theresa L., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania. Testing the Seasonal Interaction Hypothesis in a Resident Passerine, the Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Peter Marra from September 1, 2001 through August 31, 2002.
Reason, Akela M., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland, College Park. Beyond Realism: Thomas Eakins, the Imagination, and Cosmopolitan Art, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Richard Murray and Phyllis Rosenzweig from September 1, 2001 through August 31, 2002.
Russo, Alexander T., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Brown University. Programming Forms, Economic Structures, and Technologies of Postwar Radio and Television, at the National Museum of American History with Steven Lubar and Bernard Finn from January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002.
Schmitz, Dawn M., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh. Commercial Art and the Development of Consumer Culture: 1870's-1900, at the National Museum of American History with Charles McGovern from June 1, 2001 through August 31, 2001.
Sherry, Karen A., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Delaware. Exposing the "Natural" Woman: Female Bodies in American Visual Culture, 1785 to 1830, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William H. Truettner from August 1, 2001 through August 31, 2002.
Smalley, Gabriela W., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland. How Do Photophysiology and Endogenous Rhythms Influence Feeding Behavior of the Mixotrophic Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca, and What Benefits Are Derived from this Nutritional Strategy?, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with D. Wayne Coats from June 1, 2001 through May 31, 2002.
Smith, Katherine A., SI Predoctoral Fellow, New York University. Between Myth and Material: Constructing Suburbia in Postwar America, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel and Charles McGovern from September 1, 2001 through May 31, 2002.
Torres-Rouff, Christina, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara. Cranial Vault Modification in the Pre-Columbian Andes,” at the National Museum of Natural History with Douglas Ubelaker from January 1, 2002 through April 30, 2002.
Tzortziou, Maria Athanasia, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland, College Park. Comparison of Water Optical Properties Obtained from In-Site Measurements in the Chesapeake Bay with Those Deduced from Satellite Data, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Patrick Neale and Charles Gallegos from June 1, 2001 through May 31, 2003.
Watkins, Rachel J., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A Comparative Analysis of Activity Stress and Cause of Death in the W. Montague Cobb and Terry Skeletal Collections, at the National Museum of Natural History with Donald Ortner from June 1, 2001 through February 28, 2002.
Dominy, Nathaniel J., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Hong Kong. Seed Size, Leaf Toughness, and Plant Demography: Does the Scatter-Clump Hypothesis Explain Tropical Species Diversity?, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with S. Joseph Wright and Richard Condit from August 6, 2001 through October 12, 2001.
Gray, David A., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Minnesota. An Analysis of Labor Imagery in Industrial Photography, World War II Defense Posters and Advertising, 1935-1960, at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel and Larry Larry Bird from June 4, 2001 through August 10, 2001.
Guthrie, Thomas H., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Chicago. The Smithsonian Folklife Festival and the Concept of Cultural Heritage, at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage with Richard Kurin from June 18, 2001 through August 24, 2001.
Hosaka, Naomi, SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Physiological Integration and Reproductive Size of Ramets in a Clonal Tree, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Ilka Feller and Dennis Whigham from June 11, 2001 through August 17, 2001.
Iwaniuk, Andrew N., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, Monash University, Australia. A Comparative Analysis of the Internal Frontal Crest in Psittaciformes (Aves), at the National Museum of Natural History with Storrs Olson from January 14, 2002 through March 22, 2002.
Langridge, Suzanne M., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz. Foraging Ecology and Diet of Migrant and Resident Insectivorous Birds in Mexico, at the National Zoological Park with Russell Greenberg from June 4, 2001 through February 10, 2002.
Ribblett, Suzanna G., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Maryland. Investigating the Role of Protists Associated with Leaves and Their Impact on the Rate of Leaf Decomposition, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with D. Wayne Coats from September 4, 2001 through November 10, 2001.
Vettel, Eric J., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Virginia. Power and Persuasion: The Historical Origins of the Biotechnology Industry, at the National Museum of American History with Patricia Gossel and Terry Sharrer from October 8, 2001 through December 14, 2001.
Walker, LaNitra M., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, Duke University. When Diasporas Meet: An Examination of Irma Stern's Painting in Europe and South Africa, at the National Museum of African Art with Elisabeth Harney from June 4, 2001 through August 10, 2001.
Westgate, Andrew J., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, Duke University. Examining the Stock Structure of North-West Atlantic Common Dolphins (Delphinus delphis) Using Cranial Morphometrics, at the National Museum of Natural History with James Mead from November 5, 2001 through January 11, 2002.
Witte, Kerstin M., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, Colorado School of Mines. The Influence of Metal Cations on the Mineral Structure and d18O Values of Biotic and Abiotic Mn (IV) Oxides, at the National Museum of Natural History with Jeffrey Post from October 15, 2001 through December 21, 2001.