List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2003. U.S. and Canadian Fellows Gerard Aching, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of Graduate Studies, New York University: Black socialist thought and literature in the Caribbean, 1925–1945. Diane Ackerman, writer, Ithaca, New York: A poetics of the brain. John A. Agnew, Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles: Europe's margins, national territories, and modern statehood. Catherine L. Albanese, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara: A cultural history of American metaphysical religion. Emily Apter, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, New York University: The political and cultural significance of translation. Judith F. Baca, artist, Venice, California; Professor of World Arts and Culture, Cesar Chavez Center, University of California, Los Angeles; Founding Artistic Director, Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), Venice: Visual art. Zainab Bahrani, Edith Porada Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University: The body and violence in Assyrian art. John Balaban, Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence, North Carolina State University: A translation of Nguyen Du's The Tale of Kieu. Patricia Barber, Composer and musician, Chicago: Music composition. Eric Montague Beekman, Professor of Germanic Languages, University of Massachusetts Amherst: An edition of the Ambonese Herbal of Rumphius. Charles Beitz, Professor of Politics, Princeton University: A political theory of human rights. Zoe Beloff, Video Artist, New York City; Adjunct Professor of Media and Communication Arts, City College and Adjunct Professor of Media Culture, College of Staten Island, City University of New York: Video. Roland Benabou, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University: Behavioral political economy. Carl M. Bender, Professor of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis: A new approach to quantum field theory. Maxine Berg, Professor of History, University of Warwick, England: Global origins of British consumer goods in the 18th century. Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park: Movement and place in African-American life, 1650–2000. April Bernard, poet, New Haven, Connecticut; Professor of Literature and Member of the MFA Core Faculty, Bennington College: Poetry. David A. Bradt, Member of the Faculty, Center for International Emergency, Disaster & Refugee Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Member of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia: The ethnographic study of the Badui tribe of Java. Joann Brennan, photographer, Centennial, Colorado; Assistant Professor of Photography, University of Colorado at Denver: Photography. Martin Bresnick, composer, New Haven, Connecticut; Adjunct Professor of Composition, Yale