Nicola K. Beisel (Research Triangle Foundation Benjamin N. Duke Fellow*) worked on her project, entitled "Race and the Politics of Abortion in America." Beisel is Professor of Sociology and American Studies, Northwestern University.

Janet Beizer (Gould Foundation Fellow) wrote three essays, "Unwrapping the Mummy: Searching for Kuchuk Hanem," "Cat’s Cradle," and "Sand’s Parrot," which will become chapters for her forthcoming book, Vicarious Lives. "Sand’s Parrot" will also be included in the volume, Women Seeking Expression, France, 1789–1914, edited by Rosemary Lloyd. She also wrote an essay entitled "The Mother, the Bird, and the Letter: Notes on Histoire de ma vie and the Origins of Writing," forthcoming in George Sand Studies. Beizer is Professor of French, University of Virginia.

Theodore A. Bergren (Jessie Ball duPont Fellow) prepared an index for Biblical Figures outside the Bible, published by Trinity Press International (1998). He edited the 1997 issue of the Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, published in 1998. He also wrote an article, "Prophetic Rhetoric in 6 Ezra," to be published by Trinity Press International, in a Festschrift for G. W. E. Nickelsburg. Bergren is Associate Professor of Religion, University of Richmond.

Robert Bireley (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow), completed the first draft of a book provisionally titled The Jesuits, the Courts, and the Thirty Years War. He read proofs and prepared an index for The Reshaping of Catholicism, 1450 to 1700: A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation, published by Macmillan in London and also by the Catholic University of America Press (1999). Bireley is Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago.

Melissa Meriam Bullard (Delta Delta Delta Fellow*) spent the year working on the Lettere di Lorenzo de’ Medici, volume XI, a critical edition with comprehensive historical commentary, to be published by the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Sul Rinascimento, the Italian national Renaissance institute in Florence. She also wrote an article, "Living in the World, but Not of It: Spirituality and Ethical Life in the Renaissance," for a forthcoming volume entitled The World of Savonarola: Italian Elites in Crisis, 1494–1519, edited by Christine Shaw et al. Bullard is Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Scott Burnham (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow) wrote a chapter entitled "Form and Genre," for the volume The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, edited by Thomas Christensen, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press (2000). He wrote an article, "The ‘Heavenly Length’ of Schubert’s Music," that appeared in the Center’s journal, Ideas (vol. 6, no. 1), and will be expanded into a chapter for a new work on Mozart and Schubert. He wrote a chapter entitled "The Second Nature of Sonata Form," which will appear in Music Theory’s Nature, edited by Suzannah Clark and Alexander Rehding, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press (2000). He updated the entry on Beethoven for the New Grove Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (forthcoming new edition, 2001), and contributed a new section on "Posthumous Reception and Influence." Burnham is Associate Professor of Music, Princeton University.

Jonathan A. Bush (Frank H. Kenan Fellow*) worked on his project, entitled "The American Nuremberg Trials, 1946–1949." Bush is Professor of Law, Santa Clara University.

Annemarie Weyl Carr (Lilly Endowment Fellow in Religion and the Humanities) completed four chapters of her book, Pursuing the Life of an Icon: The Virgin of Kykkos; an article entitled "Correlative Spaces: Art, Identity and Appropriation in Lusignan Cyprus," forthcoming in Modern Greek Studies; and a chapter, "Threads of Authority: The Virgin Mary’s Veil in the Middle Ages," to be included in Robes of Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture, edited by Stewart Gordon, in the New Middle Ages Series of St. Martin’s Press (forthcoming, 2000). Carr is Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University.

Denis Donoghue (Andrew W. Mellon Fellow) completed his book My T.S. Eliot (forthcoming from Yale University Press), and wrote the Alexander Lectures, entitled "The Question of Reading," given at University College, University of Toronto. Donoghue is Henry James Professor of English and American Letters, New York University.