The following is a list of the applicants who were appointed as a result of
the 2002 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.
Abbate, Janet E., SI Senior Fellow, University of Maryland. "American Women in Computing: Opportunities and Contributions," at the National Museum of American History with Peggy Kidwell and David Allison from September 15, 2002 through June 15, 2003.
Adepegba, Cornelius O., SI Senior Fellow, University of Idaban. "Yoruba Sacred Textiles in 20th Century Nigeria," at the National Museum of African Art/National Museum of Natural History with Christraud Geary and Mary Jo Arnoldi from September 1, 2002 through April 30, 2003.
Bonnefille, Raymonde, SI Senior Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France. "Cyclicity of Changes in Climate and Environment at Hadar and Olduvai," at the National Museum of Natural History with Anna K. Behrensmeyer and Richard Potts from March 1, 2003 through August 31, 2003.
Davidar, Priya, SI Senior Fellow, Pondicherry University. "Beta Diversity in the Rain Forests of the Western Ghats, India," at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Egbert Leigh and Joseph Wright from July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003.
Fillin-Yeh, Susan, SI Senior Fellow, City University of New York. "A Book on the American Painter John Sloan: Realism and Modernity: John Sloan's Streets and Rooftops," at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/Hirshhorn Museum and Scultpture Garden with Virginia Mecklenburg and Judith Zilczer from April 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003.
Franklin, Linda A., SI Senior Fellow, Duke University. "Effect of Nitrogen Availability on Carbon Partitioning in Natural Phytoplankton Under UV Stress," at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Patrick Neale from February 1, 2003 through January 31, 2004.
Headley, Janet A., SI Senior Fellow, Loyola University. "Structuring Urban Space: Public Monuments in Boston, 1825-1897," at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with George Gurney and William Truettner from January 15, 2003 through May 15, 2003.
Todd, Ellen Wiley, SI Senior Fellow, George Mason University. "The Infamous Blaze: Visual Imagery, Cultural Memory, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire," at the National Museum of American History with Peter Liebhold and Harry Rubenstein from July 15, 2003 through January 15, 2004.
Berger, Martin, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, State University of New York, Buffalo. "Painting Whiteness: Race in American Visual Culture," at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with William Truettner and Kenneth Myers from September 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003.
Cavender-Bares, Jeannine M., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University. "Plasticity in Plant Function and Mechanisms of Habitat Differentiation Among Eastern North American Oak Species," at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Catherine Lovelock and Geoffrey Parker from September 1, 2002 through August 31, 2003.
de Rivera, Catherine E., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego. "Limits to Geographic Distribution: Lessons from Populations at the Center Versus the Periphery of the Range of an Invasive Marine Species," at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Gregory Ruiz and Anson Hines from December 15, 2002 through December 14, 2003.
Dietsch, Thomas V., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan. "Evaluating the Potential Conservation Benefits of Integrating Small Farmers into Shade Grown Coffee Certification in Chiapas, Mexico," at the National Zoological Park with Russell Greenberg and Robert Rice from October 1, 2002 through September 30, 2003.
Ecker, Heather L., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University. "Between Mahfuz abd Maqru'; Decoding the Production of Early 'Abbasid Qur' Ans," at the Freer Gallery of Art/AMSG with Massumeh Farhad and Debra Diamond from August 1, 2002 through April 30, 2003.
Ewe, Sharon Mei Ling, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Miami. "Nitrogen Stable Isotope Patterns in Fertilized Dwarf Florida Mangroves," at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Catherine Lovelock from November 4, 2002 through September 15, 2003.
Hoke, Kim L., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University. "Functional Neural Circuits of Auditory Communication in Tungara Frog Mating," at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with A. Stanley Rand from June 1, 2002 through January 31, 2003.
Howard, Vicki J., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas, Austin. "Business of Brides: The American Wedding Industry and the Invention of Tradition," at the National Museum of American History with Barbara Clark Smith and Shelley Foote from June 1, 2002 through August 31, 2002.
Kramer, Shawn R. Noren, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz. "The Duration of the Postweaning Fast in Gray Seal Pups (Halichoerus grypus): Should They Stay or Should They Go?," at the National Zoological Park with Daryl Boness and Olav Oftedal from October 1, 2002 through September 30, 2003.
Losey, Robert J., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oregon. "3000 Years of Architecture and Artifacts on the Southern Northwest Coast: Investigation of the Smithsonian Institution's Palmrose and Par-Tee Collections," at the National Museum of Natural History with Dennis Stanford from January 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003.
Maria, Anton H., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rhode Island. "Quaternary Lamprophyres from the Western End of the Mexican Volcanic Belt: Glass Inclusions and Melt Volatile Contents," at the National Museum of Natural History with James Luhr and Edward Vicenzi from July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003.
Maté, Juan L., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Miami. "Corals in the Eastern Tropical Pacific: Is There a Genetic Connectivity?," at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Harilaos Lessios from July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003.
O'Dea, Aaron, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. "The Neogene Record of Seasonality in Central American Cupuladriid Bryozoans," at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Jeremy Jackson and A. Herrera-Cubilla from September 15, 2002 through September 14, 2003.
Price, Jonathan P., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis. "Evolutionary Species-Area Relationships of Pacific Island Groups," at the National Museum of Natural History with Warren Wagner from September 1, 2002 through August 31, 2003.
Sanchez, Juan A., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, State University of New York, Buffalo. "Phylogeny and Diversity of Octocorals from Caribbean Reefs," at the National Museum of Natural History with Steven Cairns and Elizabeth Zimmer from October 1, 2002 through September 30, 2003.
Sharma, Charu, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University. "The Holocence Coral Reef, Papua New Guinea: An Open or Closed Ecosystem?," at the National Museum of Natural History with John Pandofi and Martin Buzas from August 1, 2002 through July 31, 2003.
Staples, Amy J., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz. "Expeditionary Film and Scientific Practices of Museum Collection, Exhibition, and Research," at the National Museum of Natural History with John Homiak and Mary Jo Arnoldi from January 15, 2003 through November 15, 2003.
Torchin, Mark E., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara. "Impact and Infection Dynamics of an Introduced Parasite on a Native Host," at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Gregory Ruiz and Anson Hines from July 1, 2002 through September 15, 2003.
West, Kristi L., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hawaii. "Reproductive Strategies in Dolphins: Lactation Energetics," at the National Zoological Park with Olav Oftedal from January 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003.
Winterton, Shaun L., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Queensland, Australia. "Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Window Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Scenopinidae)," at the National Museum of Natural History with Wayne Mathis and Norman Woodley from January 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003.
Zhang, Xingliang, SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwest University, China. "Naraoiids and Leanchoiliids: Anatomical Comparison Between the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Fossils," at the National Museum of Natural History with Douglas Erwin from October 15, 2002 through April 15, 2003.
Zigler, Kirk S., SI Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University. "The Transition Between Indirect and Direct Development: Early Development of Clypeaster Rosaceus," at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Harilaos Lessios and R. Collin from September 1, 2002 through August 31, 2003.
Bryan-Wilson, Julia, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley. "Art/Work: Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Artistic Labor in the Age of Vietnam, 1966-1975," at the Archives of American Art/ Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpter Garden with Liza Kirwin and Phyllis Rosenzweig from December 1, 2002 through December 31, 2003.
Dickau, Ruth E., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Temple University. "Crop Dispersals, Subsistence Patterns, and Resource Use in Prehistoric Panama: Evidence from Starch Grains and Macroremains," at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Dolores Piperno from August 1, 2002 through July 31, 2003.
Didario, Fabio, SI Predoctoral Fellow, Museum of Zoology, University of Sao Paolo. "Phylogeny of Otecephala (Teleostei), and the Monophyly of Ostiariophysi and Clupeomorpha," at the National Museum of Natural History with Richard Vari and David Johnson from August 1, 2002 through April 30, 2003.
Evans, Sarah P., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley. "Studying the Photographic Figure in the Art of the Last Avant-Garde," at the Smithsonian American Art Museum with Lynda Hartigan and Virginia Mecklenburg from August 1, 2002 through November 30, 2002.
Fallon, Sylvia M., SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Missouri, St. Louis. "Community Ecology and Biogeography of Avian Malarial Parasites," at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Eldredge Bermingham and Robert Ricklefs from August 1, 2002 through March 31, 2003.
Gardullo, Paul R., SI Predoctoral Fellow, George Washington University. "Slavery in American Memory and History: 1915-1940," at the National Museum of American History with Charles McGovern from September 15, 2002 through September 14, 2003.
Gregg, Sara M., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Columbia University. "From Farms to Forest: Federal Conservation and Resettlement Programs in the Blue Ridge and Green Mountains, 1924-1976," at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel and Jeffrey Stine from August 1, 2002 through July 31, 2003.
Hosaka, Naomi, SI Predoctoral Fellow, Tokyo Metropolitan University. "Recovery of Damaged Ramets Through Physiological Integration in a Woody Clonal Plant, "Asimina triloba"," at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Dennis Whigham from June 1, 2002 through October 31, 2003.
Lawrence, Sarah R., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Pennsylvania State University. "On Their Own Terms: Birth Control Among African Americans in Rural Virginia: 1890-1945," at the National Museum of American History with Patricia Gossel and Alonzo Smith from September 1, 2002 through August 31, 2003.
Lee, Susanna Michelle, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia. "Stories of Loyalty and Identity in the Postwar South," at the National Museum of American History with Pete Daniel from September 1, 2002 through April 30, 2003.
Mangan, Scott A., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Indiana University. "Do Neotropical Rodents Influence Forest Regeneration by Dispersing Spores of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi?," at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Edward A. Herre from June 1, 2002 through May 31, 2003.
Roberts, Claire Margaret, SI Predoctoral Fellow, Australian National University. "Huang Binhong (1865-1955), Modernity and Twentieth Century Chinese Painting," at the Freer Gallery of Art with Joseph Chang from February 1, 2003 through April 30, 2003.
Sperlich, Tobias, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford. "A Biography of the Samoan Objects in the Cooper Collection at the National Museum of Natural History," at the National Museum of Natural History with Adrienne Kaeppler from October 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002.
Tzortziou, Maria Athanasia, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland. "Comparison of Water Optical Properties Obtained from In-situ Measurements In the Chesapeake Bay Area, With those Deduced from Satellite Data and Radiative Transfer Model Calculations," at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Patrick Neale and Charles Gallegos from June 1, 2002 through May 31, 2003.
Velasquez Runk, Julie L., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Yale University. "Historical Ecology of Wounaan Forest Use in Eastern Panama," at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Stanley Heckadon-Moreno and Olga Linares from June 1, 2002 through May 31, 2003.
Wagner, Ann Prentice, SI Predoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland. "Living on Paper: The Culture of Drawing in the Stielgitz Circle, 1903-1925," at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with Joann Moser and Judith Zilczer from August 1, 2002 through August 30, 2003.
Wax, Dustin M., SI Predoctoral Fellow, New School for Social Research. "The Fox Project and Applied Anthropology," at the National Museum of Natural History with Ives Goddard and JoAllyn Archambault from June 15, 2002 through October 1, 2002.
Whalen, Catherine L., SI Predoctoral Fellow, Yale University. "Collecting/Creating Anglo-America," at the Archives of American Art/Smithsonian American Art Museum with Liza Kirwin and William Truettner from September 1, 2002 through January 31, 2003.
Yen, Shen-Horn, SI Predoctoral Fellow, Imperial College, UK. "Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Chaliosiinae (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae)," at the National Museum of Natural History with Scott Miller and Marc Epstein from September 1, 2002 through December 1, 2002.
Zartman, Charles, SI Predoctoral Fellow, Duke University. "Taxonomy and Fragmentation Biology of Epiphyllous Bryophyte Communities," at the National Museum of Natural History with John Kress and Harold Robinson from June 1, 2002 through August 31, 2003.
Chamorro, Maria L., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Minnesota. "A Revision of Neotropical Polyplectropus and Nyctiophylax and Phylogenetic Analysis of Polycentropodidae (Insecta: Trichoptera)," at the National Museum of Natural History with Wayne Mathis and Oliver Flint from November 4, 2002 through January 10, 2003.
Fan, Julia W., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "Brucellosis in the Old World: An Analysis of Possible Cases of Osteoarticular Brucellosis," at the National Museum of Natural History with Donald Ortner from June 10, 2002 through August 16, 2002.
Gagliardi, Susan Elizabeth, SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of East Anglia. "Shrine Arts and Performances in West Africa: A Comparative Approach with a Focus on the "Lobi" of Ghana, Cote D'Ivoire and Burkina Faso," at the National Museum of African Art with Christine M. Kreamer from June 10, 2002 through August 16, 2002.
Glass, Aaron J., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, New York University. "Conspicuous Consumption: A Cultural History of the Kwakwaka'wakw Hamat'sa Dance," at the National Museum of Natural History with William Sturtevant from September 2, 2002 through November 8, 2002.
Godsey, Sarah E., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Cincinnati. "Runoff Generation on Barro Colorado Island," at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with Egbert Leigh and Robert Stallard from August 5, 2002 through October 11, 2002.
Innis, Anne F., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Maryland. "Comparative Ecology of a Non-Native, Invasive Perennial, Rubus phoenicolasisus, and a Weedy Native Congener, Rubus idaeus," at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center with Dennis Whigham from September 2, 2002 through November 8, 2002.
Jo, Michael Y., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, Yale University. "Philadelphia Workers, Corporate America, and the Emergence of Modern Conservatism, 1919-1950," at the National Museum of American History with William Bird and Charles McGovern from October 14, 2002 through December 20, 2002.
Kirchman, Jeremy J., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Florida. "Recovery and Analysis of Ancient DNA from Galapagos Island Birds: A Record of Genetic Evolution in the Holocene," at the National Museum of Natural History with Robert Fleischer and Helen James from June 3, 2002 through August 9, 2002.
Matysiak, Angela, SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, George Washington University. "Albert Bruce Sabin: The Development of an Oral Vaccine Against Poliomyelitis," at the National Museum of American History with Ramunas Kondratus and Patricia Gossel from June 3, 2002 through August 9, 2002.
O'Donnell, Anne S., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, Parsons School. "U.S. Greeting Card Companies, 1906-1930," at the National Museum of American History with Helena Wright from November 4, 2002 through January 10, 2003.
Pauli, Elizheva, SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, George Washington University. "The Effects of Concentration of Dopants on Structural Strain in Zircon," at the National Museum of Natural History with Edward Vicenzi from July 1, 2002 through September 6, 2002.
Robinson, Edward L., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Oxford. "Collecting A History of Photography at the U.S. National Museum: The Contributions of Photographer Francis Benjamin Johnston," at the National Museum of American History with Michelle Delaney from July 8, 2002 through September 13, 2002.
Schweitzer, Marlis E., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, University of Toronto. "Pleasure Palaces: Convergence of Theater and Fashion in New York City, 1900-1918," at the National Museum of American History with Charles McGovern from July 29, 2002 through October 11, 2002.
Simon, Sara K., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, California State University, Los Angeles. "Health and the Rise of Chiefdoms in the Chesapeake Bay Area," at the National Museum of Natural History with Douglas Ubelaker and Donald Ortner from June 24, 2002 through August 30, 2002.
Waddell, Mark A., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, Johns Hopkins University. "Athanasius Kircher and the Magnetic Cure of Wounds," at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries/National Museum of American History with Ronald Brashear and Ray Kondratus from June 17, 2002 through August 23, 2002.
Yavornitsky, Valerie N., SI Ten-week Graduate Student Fellow, Michigan State University. "Examining Non-Metric Analyses for Ancestry Determination: A Test of Rhine's (1990) Southwestern Mongoloid Ancestry Category," at the National Museum of Natural History with Douglas Ubelaker from June 3, 2002 through August 9, 2002.