2007–2008

Elizabeth Alexander
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Yale University
African American Studies
A New Genealogy of African American Experimental Poetry

Mulatu Astatke
Independent Composer
Music Composition
Ethiopian Christian Creativity in Transnational Perspective

Rebecca Baron
David and Roberta Logie Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
California Institute of the Arts
Film/Video Making
What Nature Tells Us

Lisa Bielawa
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Music Composition
Double Violin Concerto and Smaller Works

Chris Csikszentmihályi
David and Roberta Logie Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New Media
Familiars

Christine Dakin
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Independent Artist
Dance Performance
The Body Speaks—Capturing Martha Graham’s Dance Art

Vivian Gornick
Vera M. Schuyler Institute Fellow
Independent Writer
Nonfiction
Emma Goldman

Frances Kissling
Catholics for a Free Choice
Nonfiction
How to Think about Abortion: Pro-choice Reflections on Rights and Responsibility

Sharon Lockhart
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
University of Southern California
Film/Video Making
Lunchbreak

Jacqui Malone
Queens College, City University of New York
Nonfiction
Jazz Music in Motion: African American Chorus Line Dancers in Harlem, 1925–1955

Elena Ruehr
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Music Composition
Cantata Averno

Kate Wheeler
Frieda L. Miller Fellowship
Tufts University
Fiction
The Guru’s Wife