Six professors at Johns Hopkins are among the 186
artists, scholars and scientists who have been named 2005
Guggenheim Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation. Chosen from more than 3,000 applicants from the
United States and Canada, they were appointed on the basis
of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional
promise for future accomplishment.
M. Gregg Bloche, an adjunct professor in the
Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg
School of Public Health, will pursue research for his
book-length project, "Hippocrates' Myth: Medicine in the
Public Sphere." Bloche, who is also a professor at the
Georgetown University Law Center, will address the tension
between medicine's caring and therapeutic role and its
increasingly prominent public functions. These include
health care resource allocation, assessment of personal
responsibility in criminal justice and other contexts, and
protection of public health and national security.
Andrew J. Cherlin is the Griswold Professor of
Public Policy and Sociology in the Krieger School. He
studies the sociology of families and public policy and is
lead investigator of Welfare, Children and Families: A
Three-City Study. Cherlin's Guggenheim fellowship project
is titled "Marriage and Family in Early 21st-Century
America." He'll be writing a book about how and why
American families are different from those in other
developed countries.
Eckart Forster is a professor of philosophy in
the Krieger School with joint appointments in the school's
German Department and Humanities Center. He also holds an
honorary professorship in philosophy at the Humboldt
University in Berlin. A member of the Kant Kommission of
the Berlin-Brandenburgian Academy of Science and the
Schelling and Jacobi Kommissionen of the Bavarian Academy
of Science, Forster has published widely on Kant and German
idealism. He will use his fellowship to complete a book on
the transition from Kant to Hegel.
Piero Gleijeses, a professor of American
foreign policy at SAIS, will use his fellowship to focus on
Cuban and U.S. policy toward Southern Africa in the Carter
and Reagan years. His most recent book, Conflicting
Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-76, published
in 2002, won the 2003 Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society
for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Guohua Li is a professor of emergency medicine
at the School of Medicine and a professor of health policy
and management at the School of Public Health. The focus of
his research is on injury epidemiology. He is the principal
investigator for two NIH-funded epidemiological studies of
alcohol, trauma, aging and safety. Li will use his
fellowship to cultivate a paradigm of safe aging by
furthering the scientific understanding of injury risk
facing the elderly population.
Christopher Sogge is chairman of the Department
of Mathematics in the Krieger School. He was awarded the
Guggenheim Fellowship for his research into wave equations
on Riemannian manifolds. Sogge is interested in how waves
form and develop in a bounded or curved region. He
investigates how the geometry of various shapes and forms
allows or does not allow waves to focus and become very
large.
The Guggenheim Fellowship stands out because it
recognizes scholars of various ages and interests. The
foundation considers applications in 79 different fields
from the natural sciences to the creative arts, including
physical and biological scientists, social scientists,
scholars in the humanities, writers, painters, sculptors,
photographers, filmmakers and choreographers. A total of
$7.112 million was awarded this year, with the average
award being $38,236.