143 Guggenheim Fellows Named

Times Book Editor Jack Miles is one of 16 Californians and a total of 143 artists, scholars and scientists chosen to receive Guggenheim Fellowship Awards for 1990. The new fellows will share more than $3.7 million awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, which has held the annual competition for 66 years.

Miles’ award is for the writing of a book on how religious imagery has been used both to incite and to inhibit violence. Its working title is “The Blood of the Lamb.”

Other California fellows: Marvin L. Cohen, professor of physics, UC Berkeley; Michael S. Flier, professor of Slavic languages, literatures, UCLA; Philip Kan Gotanda, playwright, San Francisco; Joan Ungersma Halperin, professor of French, Saint Mary’s College of California; Ron Hansen, assistant professor of creative writing and literature, UC Santa Cruz; Paul Kos, professor of performance video, San Francisco Art Institute.

Others are Thomas W. Laqueur, professor of history, UC Berkeley; Nancy Mitchnick, artist and faculty member, California Institute of the Arts; Mitzi Myers, lecturer in writing programs and in English, UCLA; Robert Charles Post, professor of law, UC Berkeley; Eric Rentschler, professor of German and director of film studies, UC Irvine; Mary P. Ryan, professor of history and women’s studies, UC Berkeley; Nicholas C. Spitzer, professor of biology, UC San Diego; Trinh T. Minh, associate professor of cinema, San Francisco State University, and Dell Upton, associate professor of architectural history, UC Berkeley.