Modern Poetry Association: A documentary history of Poetry magazine. Suzan-Lori Parks, Playwright, Brooklyn, New York: Play writing. Ed Paschke, Artist, Chicago; Professor of Art, Northwestern University: Painting. Mary Sponberg Pedley, Teacher, Ann Arbor Public Schools; Adjunct Assistant Curator of Maps, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan: Printed maps and popular taste in 18th-century France and England. Louis A. Pérez, Jr., J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Suicide and exemplary death in Cuba. Donna J. Peuquet, Professor of Geography, Pennsylvania State University: A cognitive approach to representing geographic knowledge. Mark Phillips, Professor of History, University of British Columbia: A short history of distance. Suzan Pitt, Film Animator, Los Angeles; Member of the Faculty in Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts: Film animation. Vicente L. Rafael, Associate Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego: Language and the origins of nationalism in the Philippines. Jahan Ramazani, Professor of English, University of Virginia: Postcolonial poetry in English. Thomas W. Reps, Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison: A new compressed representation of Boolean functions. David Riker, Film Maker, New York City: Film making. John Storm Roberts, Independent Scholar, Tivoli, New York: Latin dance in the United States. Roxana Robinson, Writer, New York City: Fiction. Larry Rohrschneider, Member, Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Affiliate Professor of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle: Molecular mechanisms for regulating the growth of blood cells. Daniel S. Rokhsar, Professor of Physics and Head, Computational and Theoretical Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley: Studies in computational and theoretical biology. James Rolfe, Composer, Toronto: Music composition. Dennis Romano, Professor of History, Syracuse University: Doge Francesco Foscari and the crisis of Venetian republicanism. Marian Roth, Photographer, Provincetown, Massachusetts: Photography. Ingrid D. Rowland, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Chicago: A life of Giordano Bruno. Roswell Rudd, Composer and Jazz Trombonist, Kerhonkson, New York: Music composition. John Russell, Writer, New York City; Art Critic, The New York Times: A memoir. Richard Ryan, Artist, Millers Falls, Massachusetts; Adjunct Senior Critic in Art, Brandeis University: Painting. Jackie Saccoccio, Artist, New York City: Painting. Mark Salzman, Writer, Glendale, California: Nonfiction. Tamar Schlick, Professor of Mathematics, Chemistry, and Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Associate Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York University: Modeling studies of protein-DNA complexes. Glen Seator, Artist, Brooklyn, New York: Sculpture and installation