Batavia, Illinois: The life and science of John Bardeen. Manuela Hoelterhoff, Writer, New York City: Germaine Lubin and Bayreuth in 1939. Michael B. Holden, Artist, Santa Rosa, California: Painting. Peter Jeffery, Professor of Music, Princeton University: The earliest manuscript of the Roman chant tradition. Sajeev John, Professor of Physics, University of Toronto: Photonic-band gap materials. Claudia L. Johnson, Professor of English, Princeton University: Jane Austen's status as a legend. Amelia Jones, Professor of Art History, University of California, Riverside: New York Dada, 1915-1922. Lawrence Joseph, Professor of Law, St. John's University: Essays on Catholicism. Deborah Anne Kapchan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director, Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, University of Texas at Austin: Self and nation in Moroccan oral poetry. Larry Karush, Composer, Los Angeles: Music composition. Dovid Katz, Writer, County Conway, Wales; Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, and Director, Center for Stateless Cultures, Vilnius University, Lithuania: Fiction in Yiddish. Steve Keister, Artist, New York City; Instructor in Art, School of Visual Arts; Instructor in Art, Maryland Institute College of Art; Instructor in Art, Hofstra University: Sculpture. Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Explanation in developmental biology. Joel Kingsolver, Professor of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle: The topography of adaptive landscapes. George Knox, Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of British Columbia: Tiepolo's New Testament drawings. Dorothy Ko, Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies, Rutgers University: The history and culture of footbinding. Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University: The idea of the self in 18th-century art. Chang-rae Lee, Writer, Ridgewood, New Jersey; Professor of English, Hunter College, City University of New York: Fiction. Laura L. Letinsky, Photographer, Chicago; Assistant Professor of Photography, University of Chicago: Photography. Jill Levine, Artist, New York City; Instructor in Studio Art, Sarah J. Hale High School, Brooklyn: Painting and sculpture. Bernth Lindfors, Professor of English and African Literatures, University of Texas at Austin: Ira Aldridge's theatrical career in Europe. John T. Lis, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University: Protein templating in the propagation of gene activity. Jennie Livingston, Film Maker, Brooklyn, New York; Writer, Director, and Producer, Off White (OW!) Productions, Brooklyn: Film making. Susanne Lohmann, Professor of Political Science and of Policy Studies and Director, Center for Comparative Political Economy, University of California, Los Angeles: Administrative rationality in the research university. Lev