# 1980 - 1989 Junior Fellows are grouped by the year they started the Fellowship. *\* indicates deceased* [ Go Back to All Decades/Terms arrow\_circle\_right ](/past-junior-fellows) Open all sections Close all sections ### 1989 expand\_more ### Omer Bartov **History, Cultural Studies** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1989-92 [Brown Faculty Website](https://vivo.brown.edu/display/obartov) ### Neil Gershenfeld **Physics, AI & Computer Science** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1989-92 [MIT Faculty Website](https://ng.cba.mit.edu/) ### Tom Imbo **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1989-92 [UIC Faculty Website](https://phys.uic.edu/profiles/imbo-tom/) ### Jun Ma **Biological Sciences** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1989-92 [Zhejiang U. Website](https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/jun_ma_lab_en) ### Nancy Makri **Chemistry** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1989-92 [UIUC Lab Website](https://makrigroup.web.illinois.edu/) [UIUC Faculty Website](https://chemistry.illinois.edu/nmakri) ### Maren Niehoff **Languages & Civilizations, Near Eastern** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1989-92 [Hebrew U. Faculty Website](https://marenniehoff.huji.ac.il/) ### Nelly Oliensis **Classics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1989-92 [UC-Berkeley Faculty Website](https://dagrs.berkeley.edu/people/ellen-oliensis) ### Chris Wood **Languages & Civilizations, Near Eastern** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 2000-02, 2003-04 [UPenn Faculty Website](https://melc.sas.upenn.edu/people/christopher-woods) ### 1988 expand\_more ### W. Rogers Brubaker **Sociology** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1988-91 [UCLA Faculty Website](https://brubaker.scholar.ss.ucla.edu/) ### Jamsheed K. Choksy **Languages & Civilizations, Near Eastern** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1988-91 [Indiana Faculty Website](https://religiousstudies.indiana.edu/about/affiliate-faculty/choksy-jamsheed.html) ### Juliet Fleming **Literature, English** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1988-91 [NYU Faculty Website](https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/juliet-fleming.html) ### Marijn Franx **Astronomy/Astrophysics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1988-91 [Universiteit Leiden Faculty Website](https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/marijn-franx#tab-1) ### Steven Giddings **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1988-91 [UCSB Faculty Website](https://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~giddings/index.html) ### Moshe Halbertal **Philosophy, Mathematical Logic** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1988-91 [NYU Faculty Website](https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=20653) ### Eric Sawyer **Music Composition, Musicology, Music Theory** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1988-91 [Amherst Faculty Website](https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/ewsawyer) ### 1987 expand\_more ### Charles Bailyn **Astronomy/Astrophysics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1987-90 [Yale Faculty Website](http://www.astro.yale.edu/bailyn/) ### Andrew Cohen **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1987-90 [BU Faculty Website](https://www.bu.edu/physics/profile/andrew-cohen/) ### Noam Elkies **Mathematics/Mathematical Biology/Mathematical Physics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1987-90 [Harvard Faculty Website](https://people.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/) ### Melissa Franklin **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1987-90 [Harvard Faculty Website](https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/franklin) ### Leslie Kurke **Classics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1987-90 [UC-Berkeley Faculty Website](https://dagrs.berkeley.edu/people/leslie-kurke) ### Seth Schwartz **History, Cultural Studies** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1987-90 [Columbia Faculty Website](https://classics.columbia.edu/seth-schwartz) ### Joshua Socolar **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1987-90 [Duke Faculty Website](https://scholars.duke.edu/person/socolar) ### Kristin Zapalac \* **History, Cultural Studies** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1987-90 [Obituary](https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/stltoday/name/kristin-zapalac-obituary?id=31760114) ### 1986 expand\_more ### Colleen Cavanaugh **Biological Sciences** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1986-89 [Harvard Lab Website](https://cavanaughlab.oeb.harvard.edu/) ### Robin Fleming **History, Cultural Studies** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1986-89 [BC Faculty Website](https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/morrissey/departments/history/people/faculty-directory/robin-fleming.html) ### Ezra Getzler **Mathematics/Mathematical Biology/Mathematical Physics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1986-89 [Northwestern Faculty Website](https://sites.northwestern.edu/getzler/) ### Ann Hochschild **Biological Sciences** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1986-89 [Harvard Lab Website](https://hochschildlab.med.harvard.edu/) ### Joseph Koerner **Art History/Architecture** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1986-89 [Harvard Faculty Website](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/joseph-koerner) ### Laura Quinney **Literature, English** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1986-89 [Brandeis Faculty Website](https://www.brandeis.edu/english/faculty/quinney.html) ### Dwight Reynolds **Languages & Civilizations, Near Eastern** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1986-89 [UCSB Faculty Website](https://www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/dwight-reynolds-0) ### Mark Spivakovsky **Mathematics/Mathematical Biology/Mathematical Physics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1986-89 [U. Toulouse Faculty Website](https://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~spivakovsky/) ### Cumrun Vafa **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1986-89 [Harvard Faculty Website](https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/vafa) ### 1985 expand\_more ### S. George Djorgovski **Astronomy/Astrophysics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1985-88 [Caltech Faculty Website](https://www.pma.caltech.edu/people/george-djorgovski) ### James Huettner **Biological Sciences** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1985-88 [WashU Faculty Website](https://cellbiology.wustl.edu/people/huettner/) ### Daniel Jay **Biological Sciences** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1985-88 [Tufts Faculty Website](https://smfa.tufts.edu/directory/dan-jay) [Personal Website](http://www.danjayart.com/) ### David Kaplan **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1985-88 [U. Washington Faculty Website](https://phys.washington.edu/people/david-kaplan) ### Mark Lewis **History, Cultural Studies** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1985-86 [Stanford Faculty Website](https://history.stanford.edu/people/mark-lewis) ### Gregory Moore **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1985-88 [Rutgers Faculty Website](https://physics.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-list/faculty-profile/moore-greg) ### Andrew Wachtel **Languages & Literatures, Slavic** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1985-88 [Northwestern People Website](https://rprt.northwestern.edu/people/advisory-board/andrew-wachtel.html) ### 1984 expand\_more ### Richard Ebright **Biological Sciences** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1984-87 [Rutgers Lab Website](https://waksman.rutgers.edu/ebright) ### Deborah Gordon **Biological Sciences** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1984-87 [Stanford Lab Website](https://web.stanford.edu/~dmgordon/) ### János Kollár **Mathematics/Mathematical Biology/Mathematical Physics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1984-87 [Princeton Faculty Website](https://web.math.princeton.edu/~kollar/) ### Mark Micale **History, Cultural Studies** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1984-87 [UIUC Faculty Website](https://history.illinois.edu/directory/profile/msmicale) ### Ann Nelson \* **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1984-87 [Obituary](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/science/ann-nelson-dies.html) ### Philip Nelson **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1984-87 [UPenn Faculty Website](https://www.physics.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/philip-nelson) ### Ewine van Dishoeck **Astronomy/Astrophysics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1984-87 [Universiteit Leiden Faculty Website](https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/ewine-van-dishoeck#tab-2) ### Steve Van Zoeren **History, Cultural Studies** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1984-87 ### 1983 expand\_more ### Lucian Bebchuk **Law** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1983-86 [Harvard Faculty Website](https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/lucian-a-bebchuk/) ### Matthew Brown **Music Composition, Musicology, Music Theory** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1983-86 [U. Rochester Faculty Website](https://www.esm.rochester.edu/directory/brown-matthew/) ### Whitney Davis **Art History/Architecture** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1983-86 [UC-Berkeley Faculty Website](https://arthistory.berkeley.edu/people/whitney-davis/) ### Mehran Kardar **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1983-86 [MIT Faculty Website](https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/mehran-kardar/) ### Frances Kirwan **Mathematics/Mathematical Biology/Mathematical Physics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1983-85 [Oxford Faculty Website](https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/frances.kirwan) ### Kevin Lehmann **Chemistry** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1983-86 [UVA Faculty Website](https://chemistry.as.virginia.edu/people/kevin-k-lehmann) ### Aneesh Manohar **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1983-86 [UCSD Faculty Website](https://profiles.ucsd.edu/aneesh.manohar) ### Stephen Sharpe **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1983-86 [U. Washington Faculty Website](https://faculty.washington.edu/srsharpe/) ### 1982 expand\_more ### Susan Blaustein **Music Composition, Musicology, Music Theory** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1982-85 [Columbia Faculty Website](https://sps.columbia.edu/person/susan-blaustein) ### Denis Feeney **Classics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1982-84 [Princeton Faculty Website](https://dof.princeton.edu/people/denis-feeney-0) ### Lawrence Krauss **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1982-85 [Personal Website](https://lawrencemkrauss.com/) ### Barry Nalebuff **Economics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1982-85 [Yale Faculty Website](https://faculty.som.yale.edu/barrynalebuff/) ### Drazen Prelec **Psychology** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1982-85 [MIT Faculty Website](https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/drazen-prelec) ### Gary Ruvkun **Biological Sciences** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1982-85 [Harvard Lab Website](https://www.ruvkun.hms.harvard.edu/) [Nobel Prize Biographical](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2024/ruvkun/facts/) ### Gary Struhl **Biological Sciences** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1982-85 [Columbia Faculty Website](https://zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/gary-struhl-phd) ### Albert Zisook \* **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1982-85 [Obituary](https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/chicagotribune/name/albert-zisook-obituary?id=52511916) ### 1981 expand\_more ### Luis Alvarez-Gaumé **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1981-83 [Stony Brook Faculty Website](https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/physics/people/_profiles/alvarez-gaumel) ### Arthur Demarest **Anthropology** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1981-84 [Vanderbilt Faculty Website](https://as.vanderbilt.edu/anthropology/bio/arthur-demarest/) ### Mordechai Feingold **History of Science** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1981-84 [Caltech Faculty Website](https://www.hss.caltech.edu/people/mordechai-feingold) ### Paul Ginsparg **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1981-84 [Cornell Faculty Website](https://physics.cornell.edu/paul-ginsparg) ### Douglas Hanahan **Biological Sciences** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1981-84 [EPFL Lab Website](https://www.epfl.ch/labs/hanahan-lab/) ### John Imbrie **Mathematics/Mathematical Biology/Mathematical Physics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1981-84 [UVA Faculty Website](https://uva.theopenscholar.com/john-imbrie) ### Nita Krevans **Literature, Comparative** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1981-84 [UMN Faculty Website](https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/nkrevans#courses) ### Alec Marantz **Linguistics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1981-84 [NYU Faculty Website](https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/alec-marantz.html) ### 1980 expand\_more ### Steven Benner **Biological Sciences** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1980-82 [FfAME Website](https://www.ffame.org/) ### Terry Castle **Literature, English** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1980-83 [Stanford Faculty Website](https://english.stanford.edu/people/terry-castle) ### Allison Doupe \* **Biological Sciences** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1980-83 [In Memoriam](https://psychiatry.ucsf.edu/doupe) ### Peter Galison **History of Science** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1980-83 [Harvard Faculty Website](https://galison.scholars.harvard.edu/) ### Richard Garner **Classics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1980-83 [Adelphi U. Website](https://www.adelphi.edu/news/in-honor-of-richard-garner-ph-d-founding-dean-of-the-honors-college/) ### Clifford Taubes **Mathematics/Mathematical Biology/Mathematical Physics** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1980-83 [Harvard Faculty Website](https://www.math.harvard.edu/people/taubes-cliff/) [Shaw Prize Biography](https://www.shawprize.org/autobiography/clifford-h-taubes/) ### John Preskill **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1980-81 [Wikipedia Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Preskill) ### Mark Wise **Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering** Years Served as a Junior Fellow: 1980-83 [Caltech Faculty Website](https://www.pma.caltech.edu/people/mark-b-wise)