Madison University: Narratives of history, race, and place in the making of black Mexico. Xinsheng Sean Ling, Professor of Physics, Brown University: Studies in nanopore DNA sequencing. Kefeng Liu, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles: Mathematical and physical aspects of the mirror principle. Rosemary Helen Lloyd, Rudy Professor of French, Indiana University Bloomington: The still life in art and letters. Andrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor and Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: A cognitive map of financial risk perception and preferences. Victor Lodato, playwright, Tucson, Arizona: Play writing. Abraham Loeb, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University: Studies of the earliest stars and black holes. Jerome Loving, Professor of English, Texas A&M University: A biography of Theodore Dreiser. Michael Lucey, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, University of California, Berkeley: Same-sex sexualities in 20th-century French literature. David Ludden, Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania: A history of knowledge about South Asian economies, 1770-1930. Philip Lutgendorf, Associate Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies, University of Iowa: The meanings of the divine monkey in India. John D. Lyons, Commonwealth Professor of French, University of Virginia: The practice of imagination in early modern France. Mikhail Lyubich, Professor of Mathematics and Deputy Director, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Geometric structures in holomorphic dynamics. Kristin Mann, Associate Professor of History, Emory University: Trade, state, and emancipation in 19th-century Lagos. Lev Manovich, Associate Professor of New Media Art, University of California, San Diego: The avant-garde art of the early 20th century and new media culture. Tanya Marcuse, photographer, Barrytown, New York; Adjunct Professor of Photography, Simon's Rock College of Bard and Bard College: Photography. Robert L. Martensen, Professor of History of Medicine and Director, Clendending Library of History of Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine: The origins and cultural politics of the cerebral body. Chris Martin, artist, Brooklyn, New York; Art Therapist, Rivington House Health Care Facility, New York: Painting. Rita McBride, artist, New York City: Sculpture. Marlene McCarty, installation artist, New York City: Installation art. Jim McKay, film maker, New York City: Film making. Jane Mead, poet, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Poet-in-Residence, Wake Forest University: Poetry. Ian A. Meinertzhagen, Killam Professor in Neuroscience, Dalhousie University: Post-genomic approaches to simple nervous systems. Claire Messud, Writer, Northampton, Massachusetts; Visiting Writer, Amherst