The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the

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. According to the foundation's website, "the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishment, but rather an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential," but it also says such potential is "based on a track record of significant accomplishments." The current prize is $800,000 paid over five years in quarterly installments. Previously it was $625,000. This figure was increased from $500,000 in 2013 with the release of a review of the MacArthur Fellows Program. Since 1981, 1,111 people have been named MacArthur Fellows,https://www.macfound.org/fellows/search#searchresults ranging in age from 18 to 82. The award has been called "one of the most significant awards that is truly 'no strings attached'". The program does not accept applications. Anonymous and confidential nominations are invited by the foundation and reviewed by an anonymous and confidential selection committee of about a dozen people. The committee reviews all nominees and recommends recipients to the president and

board of directors A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit organiz ...

. Most new fellows first learn of their nomination and award upon receiving a congratulatory phone call. MacArthur Fellow Jim Collins described this experience in an editorial column of ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

''.

Cecilia Conrad Cecilia Ann Conrad (born 4 January 1955) is the CEO of Lever for Change, emeritus professor of economics at Pomona College, and managing director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She formerly served as the Associate Dean of Aca ...

is the managing director leading the MacArthur Fellows Program.

Recipients

Since the inaugural class of 1981, the program has awarded 1,111 fellowships. Alumni of

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

account for 175 fellowships, followed by the alumni of

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

(93),

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

(75),

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

(68), and

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

(54). The following ten universities have the most alumni fellows.

1981

A. R. Ammons Archibald Randolph Ammons (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993. Poetic themes Ammons wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comi ...

, poet *

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...

, poet * John Cairns, molecular biologist * Gregory V. Chudnovsky, mathematician * Joel E. Cohen, population biologist * Robert Coles, child psychiatrist *

Richard Critchfield Richard Patrick Critchfield (March 23, 1931 – December 10, 1994) was an American journalist and essayist who wrote principally about agricultural village life in developing countries. Career Richard Critchfield was born in Minneapolis and grew up ...

, essayist *

Shelly Errington Shelly E. Errington is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the studies of plastic art and narrative arts, focusing on documentary film, photography, arts, and multi-media. She is a Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Cal ...

, cultural anthropologist *

Howard Gardner Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He is cur ...

, psychologist *

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker, who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African A ...

, literary critic *

John Gaventa John Gaventa (born 1949) is currently the director of research at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, where he has been a Fellow since 1996. From 2011 to 2014, he served as the director of the Coady International Institute ...

, sociologist *

Michael Ghiselin Michael T. Ghiselin (born May 13, 1939) is an American biologist and philosopher as well as historian of biology, formerly at the California Academy of Sciences. He is known for his work on sea slugs, and for his criticism of the falsification of ...

, evolutionary biologist *

Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould (; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. Gould sp ...

, paleontologist *

Ian Graham Ian James Alastair Graham OBE (12 November 1923 – 1 August 2017) was a British Mayanist whose explorations of Maya ruins in the jungles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize helped establish the ''Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions'' publi ...

, archaeologist * David Hawkins, philosopher *

John P. Holdren John Paul Holdren (born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1944) is an American scientist who served as the senior advisor to President Barack Obama on science and technology issues through his roles as Assistant to the President for Science and ...

, arms control and energy analyst *

Ada Louise Huxtable Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was an architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public's awareness of the ...

, architectural critic and historian *

John Imbrie John Imbrie (July 4, 1925 – May 13, 2016) was an American paleoceanographer best known for his work on the theory of ice ages. He was the grandson of William Imbrie, an American missionary to Japan. After serving with the 10th Mountain ...

, climatologist *

Robert Kates Robert W. Kates (January 31, 1929 – April 21, 2018) was an American geographer and independent scholar in Trenton, Maine, and University Professor (Emeritus) at Brown University. Background Kates was born in Brooklyn, New York. Unusually for an ...

, geographer * Raphael Carl Lee, surgeon *

Elma Lewis Elma Ina Lewis (September 15, 1921 – January 1, 2004) was an American arts educator and the founder of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and The Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts. She was one of the first recipients of a MacArth ...

, arts educator *

Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr., July 20, 1933) is an American writer who has written twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays and three short stories, spanning the Western and post-apocalyptic genres. He is known for his gr ...

, writer *

Barbara McClintock Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927. There s ...

, geneticist *

James Alan McPherson James Alan McPherson (September 16, 1943 – July 27, 2016) was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who re ...

, short story writer and essayist * Roy P. Mottahedeh, historian *

Richard C. Mulligan Richard C. Mulligan, Ph.D., (born 1954) is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Harvard Gene Therapy Initiative. He is a Director of Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Biogen Idec, Inc. Awards * 198 ...

, molecular biologist *

Douglas D. Osheroff Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Pr ...

, physicist *

Elaine H. Pagels Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey (born February 13, 1943), is an American history of religion, historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Ch ...

, historian of religion *

David Pingree David Edwin Pingree (January 2, 1933, New Haven, Connecticut – November 11, 2005, Providence, Rhode Island) was an American historian of mathematics in the ancient world. He was a University Professor and Professor of History of Mathematics ...

, historian of science *

Paul G. Richards Paul G. Richards (born March 1943) is an English-born, American seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to the theory of seismic wave propagation and in methods to understand how the recorded shapes of seismic waves are affected by pro ...

, seismologist *

Robert Root-Bernstein Robert Root-Bernstein (born August 7, 1953) ( PhD, Princeton University) is a professor of physiology at Michigan State University. In 1981, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as a "genius grant." He has also researched and cons ...

, biologist and historian of science *

Richard Rorty Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and in contemporary analytic phi ...

, philosopher * Lawrence Rosen, attorney and anthropologist *

Carl Emil Schorske Carl Emil Schorske (March 15, 1915 – September 13, 2015), known professionally as Carl E. Schorske, was an American cultural historian and professor emeritus at Princeton University. In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for ...

, intellectual historian *

Leslie Marmon Silko Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, 1948) is an American writer. A Laguna Pueblo Indian woman, she is one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance ...

, writer *

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study ...

, astrophysicist *

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem ''Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...

, poet and playwright *

Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the liter ...

, poet, novelist, and literary critic *

Stephen Wolfram Stephen Wolfram (; born 29 August 1959) is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer science, mathematics, and theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Ma ...

, computer scientist and physicist * Michael Woodford, economist *

George Zweig George Zweig (; born May 30, 1937) is a Russian-American physicist. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman. He introduced, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, the quark model (although he named it "aces"). He later turned his ...

, physicist and neurobiologist

1982

Fouad Ajami Fouad A. Ajami ( ar, فؤاد عجمي; September 18, 1945 – June 22, 2014) was a MacArthur Fellowship winning, Lebanese-born American university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He was a senior fellow at Stanford University's Ho ...

, political scientist * Charles A. Bigelow, type designer * Peter Robert Lamont Brown, historian *

Robert Darnton Robert Choate Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France. He was director of the Harvard University Library from 2007 to 2016. Life Darnton was born in New York ...

, European historian *

Persi Diaconis Persi Warren Diaconis (; born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly known f ...

, statistician *

William Gaddis William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, ''The Recognitions'', was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two othe ...

, novelist *

Ved Mehta Ved Parkash Mehta (21 March 19349 January 2021) was an Indian-born writer who lived and worked mainly in the United States. Blind from an early age, Mehta is best known for an autobiography published in instalments from 1972 to 2004. He wrote fo ...

, writer *

Bob Moses Robert Moses (1888–1981) was an American city planner. Robert Moses may also refer to: * Bob Moses (activist) (1935–2021), American educator and civil rights activist * Bob Moses, American football player in the 1962 Cotton Bowl Classic * Bob M ...

, educator and philosopher * Richard A. Muller, geologist and astrophysicist *

Conlon Nancarrow Samuel Conlon Nancarrow (; October 27, 1912 – August 10, 1997) was an American- Mexican composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life. Nancarrow is best remembered for his ''Studies for Player Piano'', being one of the first ...

, composer *

Alfonso Ortiz Alfonso Alex Ortiz (April 30, 1939 Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, New Mexico – January 26, 1997) was a Native American cultural anthropologist. Life Ortiz graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1961, and from the University of Chicago with a ma ...

, cultural anthropologist *

Francesca Rochberg Francesca Rochberg (Halton) (born May 8, 1952 in Philadelphia) is an American Assyriologist, historian of science, and Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She ...

, Assyriologist and historian of science *

Charles Sabel Charles Fredrick Sabel (born December 1, 1947) is an American academic and professor of Law and Social Science at the Columbia Law School. His research centers on public innovations, European Union governance, labor standards, economic develop ...

, political scientist and legal scholar *

Ralph Shapey Ralph Shapey (12 March 1921 – 13 June 2002) was an American composer and conductor. Biography Shapey was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for his work as a composition professor at the University of Chicago, where he taught ...

, composer and conductor *

Michael Silverstein Michael Silverstein (12 September 1945 – 17 July 2020) was an American linguist. He was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology at the University of Chicago. He was a theoretician of se ...

, linguist *

Randolph Whitfield Jr. Randolph Whitfield Jr. is an American ophthalmologist. During his career, he conducted pioneering surveys that traced the spread of blindness in deprived areas in Sub-Saharan Africa. Life He received his medical and graduate degrees from Universi ...

, ophthalmologist *

Frank Wilczek Frank Anthony Wilczek (; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Direct ...

, physicist *

Frederick Wiseman Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theater director. His work is "devoted primarily to exploring American institutions". He has been called "one of the most important and original filmmakers wor ...

, documentary filmmaker *

Edward Witten Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical and theoretical physicist. He is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Witten is a researcher in string theory, q ...

, physicist, creator of the M-Theory

1983

* R. Stephen Berry, physical chemist *

Seweryn Bialer Seweryn Bialer (November 3, 1926 in Berlin – February 8, 2019 in New York City) was a German-born American academic. He was emeritus professor of political science at Columbia University and an expert on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, C ...

, political scientist *

William C. Clark William Cummin Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. William Clark known for his long-term efforts to promote sustainabi ...

, ecologist and environmental policy analyst * Philip D. Curtin, historian of Africa *

William H. Durham William H. Durham, a biological anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, is the Bing Professor Emeritus in Human Biology at Stanford University. Education William Durham earned a B.S. at Stanford University in 1971, and graduated from the ...

, biological anthropologist *

Bradley Efron Bradley Efron (; born May 24, 1938) is an American statistician. Efron has been president of the American Statistical Association (2004) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1987–1988).Cochran, J. (1 September 2015), "ASA Lead ...

, statistician * David L. Felten, neuroscientist * Randall W. Forsberg, political scientist and arms control strategist * Alexander L. George, political scientist *

Shelomo Dov Goitein Shelomo Dov Goitein (April 3, 1900 – February 6, 1985) was a German-Jewish ethnographer, historian and Arabist known for his research on Jewish life in the Islamic Middle Ages, and particularly on the Cairo Geniza. Biography Shelomo Dov (Fri ...

, medieval historian * Mott T. Greene, historian of science *

James E. Gunn James Edwin Gunn (July 12, 1923 – December 23, 2020) was an American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work as an editor of anthologies includes the six-volume ''The Road to Science Fiction, Road to Science Ficti ...

, astronomer * Ramón A. Gutiérrez, historian * John J. Hopfield, physicist and biologist * Béla Julesz, psychologist * William Kennedy, novelist *

Leszek Kołakowski Leszek Kołakowski (; ; 23 October 1927 – 17 July 2009) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analyses of Marxist thought, especially his three-volume history, '' Main Currents of Marxism'' (1976). ...

, historian of philosophy and religion * Sylvia A. Law, human rights lawyer *

Brad Leithauser Brad E. Leithauser (born February 27, 1953) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher. After serving as the Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College and visiting professor at the MFA Program for Poets & Writ ...

, poet and writer *

Lawrence W. Levine Lawrence William Levine (February 27, 1933 – October 23, 2006) was an American historian. He was born in Manhattan and died in Berkeley, California. He was noted for promoting multiculturalism and the perspectives of ordinary people in the ...

, historian *

Ralph Manheim Ralph Frederick Manheim (April 4, 1907 – September 26, 1992) was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian. He was one of the most acclaimed translators of the 20th cent ...

, translator *

Robert K. Merton Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 23, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology. He served as th ...

, historian and sociologist of science * Walter F. Morris Jr., cultural preservationist * Charles S. Peskin, mathematician and physiologist *

A.K. Ramanujan Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) was an Indian poet and scholar of Indian literature and Linguistics. Ramanujan was also a professor of Linguistics at University of Chicago. Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, Lingui ...

, poet, translator, and literary scholar *

Alice M. Rivlin Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born Georgianna Alice Mitchell; March 4, 1931 – May 14, 2019) was an American economist and budget official. She served as the 16th Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1996 to 1999. Before her appointment at the F ...

, economist and policy analyst *

Julia Robinson Julia Hall Bowman Robinson (December 8, 1919July 30, 1985) was an American mathematician noted for her contributions to the fields of computability theory and computational complexity theory—most notably in decision problems. Her work on Hilbe ...

, mathematician *

John Sayles John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for ''Passion Fish'' (1992) and ''L ...

, filmmaker and writer * Richard M. Schoen, mathematician *

Peter Sellars Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where ...

, theater and opera director * Karen K. Uhlenbeck, mathematician * Adrian Wilson, book designer, printer, and book historian * Irene J. Winter, art historian and archaeologist *

Mark S. Wrighton Mark Stephen Wrighton (born June 11, 1949) is an American academic and chemist, and the current President of The George Washington University. In September 2021, Wrighton was named the Interim President of The George Washington University for an ...

, chemist

1984

* George W. Archibald, ornithologist *

Shelly Bernstein Shelly or Shelli may refer to: Places * Shelly, Minnesota, a small city in the United States * Shelly, Richland Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States * Shelly Township, Norman County, Minnesota * Shelly Park, a suburb in Auckl ...

, pediatric hematologist * Peter J. Bickel, statistician * Ernesto J. Cortes Jr., community organizer *

William Drayton William Drayton (December 30, 1776May 24, 1846) was an American politician, banker, and writer who grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. He was the son of William Drayton Sr., who served as justice of the Province of East Florida (1765–17 ...

, public service innovator *

Sidney Drell Sidney David Drell (September 13, 1926 – December 21, 2016) was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert. At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and senior fel ...

, physicist and arms policy analyst *

Mitchell J. Feigenbaum Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum (December 19, 1944 – June 30, 2019) was an American mathematical physics, mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants. Early life Feigenbaum was bor ...

, mathematical physicist * Michael H. Freedman, mathematician * Curtis G. Hames, family physician *

Robert Hass Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection ''Time and Materials: Poems 1997 ...

, poet, critic, and translator *

Shirley Heath Shirley Brice Heath (born 26 July 1939) is an American linguistic anthropologist, and Professor Emerita, Margery Bailey Professorship in English, at Stanford University. She graduated from Lynchburg College, Ball State University, and Columbia U ...

, linguistic anthropologist * J. Bryan Hehir, religion and foreign policy scholar *

Bette Howland Bette Howland (January 28, 1937 – December 13, 2017) was an American writer and literary critic. She wrote for ''Commentary Magazine''. Personal life Born Bette Lee Sotonoff to Sam Sotonoff, a machinist, and Jessie Berger, a homemaker, she focus ...

, writer and literary critic *

Bill Irwin William Mills Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor, clown, and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performer and has been noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He has made a n ...

, clown, writer, and performance artist * Robert Irwin, light and space artist *

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (; 7 May 19273 April 2013) was a British author and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. In 1951, Jhabvala ma ...

, novelist and screenwriter *

Fritz John Fritz John (14 June 1910 – 10 February 1994) was a German-born mathematician specialising in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation. He was a ...

, mathematician *

Galway Kinnell Galway Mills Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, ''Selected Poems'' and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1 ...

, poet *

Henry Kraus Henry Kraus (November 13, 1905 in Knoxville, Tennessee – January 27, 1995 in Paris) was a labor historian, and European art historian. He graduated from the University of Chicago and Western Reserve University with a master's degree in 1928. H ...

, labor and art historian *

Paul Oskar Kristeller Paul Oskar Kristeller (May 22, 1905 in Berlin – June 7, 1999 in New York, United States) was an important scholar of Renaissance humanism. He was awarded the Haskins Medal in 1992. He was last active as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Colum ...

, intellectual historian and philosopher *

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (born August 22, 1944) is an American sociologist who examines the culture of schools, the patterns and structures of classroom life, socialization within families and communities, and the relationships between culture an ...

, educator * Heather Lechtman, materials scientist and archaeologist * Michael Lerner, public health leader * Andrew W. Lewis, medieval historian * Arnold J. Mandell, neuroscientist and psychiatrist * Peter Mathews, archaeologist and epigrapher *

Matthew Meselson Matthew Stanley Meselson (born May 24, 1930) is a geneticist and molecular biologist currently at Harvard University, known for his demonstration, with Franklin Stahl, of semi-conservative DNA replication. After completing his Ph.D. under Linus ...

, geneticist and arms control analyst *

David R. Nelson David R. Nelson (born May 9, 1951) is an American physicist, and Arthur K. Solomon Professor of Biophysics, at Harvard University. Education and research David R. Nelson is currently thArthur K. Solomon Professor of Biophysics and Professor o ...

, physicist *

Beaumont Newhall Beaumont Newhall (June 22, 1908 – February 26, 1993) was an American curator, art historian, writer, photographer, and the second director of the George Eastman Museum. His book ''The History of Photography'' remains one of the most signific ...

, historian of photography * Roger S. Payne, zoologist and conservationist * Michael Piore, economist * Edward V. Roberts, disability rights leader * Judith N. Shklar, political philosopher *

Charles Simic Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; born May 9, 1938), known as Charles Simic, is a Serbian American poet and former co-poetry editor of the ''Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for ''The World Doesn't ...

, poet, translator, and essayist *

Elliot Sperling Elliot Sperling (January 4, 1951 – January 29, 2017) was one of the world's leading historians of Tibet and Tibetan-China, Chinese relations, and a MacArthur Fellow. He spent most of his scholarly career as an associate professor at Indiana Uni ...

, Tibetan studies scholar * David Stuart, linguist and epigrapher *

Frank Sulloway Frank Jones Sulloway (born February 2, 1947) is an American psychologist. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley and a visiting professor in the Department of Psycholo ...

, psychologist (child birth-order research) *

John E. Toews __NOTOC__ John E. Toews is a Canadian historian in the U.S., and Director of the Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington from 1981 to 2010. He graduated from Harvard University, with a Ph.D. in 1973. Awards * 1984 MacA ...

, intellectual historian *

Alar Toomre Alar Toomre (born 5 February 1937, in Rakvere) is an American astronomer and mathematician. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Toomre's research is focused on the dynamics of galaxies. He is a ...

, astronomer and mathematician *

James Turrell James Turrell (born May 6, 1943) is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. Much of Turrell's career has been devoted to a still-unfinished work, ''Roden Crater'', a natural cinder cone crater located outside ...

, light sculptor *

Amos Tversky Amos Nathan Tversky ( he, עמוס טברסקי; March 16, 1937 – June 2, 1996) was an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his ...

, cognitive scientist *

Bret Wallach Bret Wallach (February 5, 1943) is an American cultural geographer, and professor at University of Oklahoma. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley with an A.B. in 1964, M.A. in 1966, and Ph.D. in 1968. He taught at the University ...

, geographer * Jay Weiss, psychologist *

Arthur Winfree Arthur Taylor Winfree (May 15, 1942 – November 5, 2002) was a theoretical biologist at the University of Arizona. He was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. Winfree was noted for his work on the mathematical modeling of biologica ...

, physiologist and mathematician * J. Kirk Varnedoe, art historian * Carl R. Woese, molecular biologist *

Billie Young Billie Jean Young (born 1947, died March 2021) was an actor, activist, poet and educator. She lived in Marion, Alabama from which she traveled the world to teach and work with young people. She graduated from Judson College, and Samford Univer ...

, community development leader

1985

Joan Abrahamson Joan Abrahamson (born Los Angeles, California, United States) is an attorney, artist, former government appointee, and activist who is founder and president of the Jefferson Institute. She also worked in international security and economics, healt ...

, community development leader *

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

, poet * John F. Benton, medieval historian *

Harold Bloom Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was described as "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking wor ...

, literary critic *

Valery Chalidze Author and publisher Valery Nikolaevich Chalidze (russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Чали́дзе; ka, ვალერი ჭალიძე: 25 November 1938 – 3 January 2018) was a Soviet dissident and human rights activis ...

, physicist and human rights organizer *

William Cronon William Cronon (born September 11, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an environmental historian and the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madi ...

, environmental historian *

Merce Cunningham Mercier Philip "Merce" Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of American modern dance for more than 50 years. He frequently collaborated with artists of other discipl ...

, choreographer *

Jared Diamond Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books ''The Third Chimpanzee'' (1991); ''Guns, Germs, and Steel'' (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize); ...

, environmental historian and geographer *

Marian Wright Edelman Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for civil rights and children's rights. She is the founder and president emerita of the Children's Defense Fund. She influenced leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Hillary ...

, Children's Defense Fund founder *

Morton Halperin Morton H. Halperin (born June 13, 1938) is a longtime expert on U.S. foreign policy, arms control, civil liberties, and the workings of bureaucracies. He was a senior advisor to the Open Society Foundations, which was founded by George Soros. ...

, political scientist * Robert M. Hayes, lawyer and human rights leader *

Edwin Hutchins Edwin Hutchins (b. 1948) is a professor and former department head of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. Hutchins is one of the main developers of distributed cognition. Hutchins was a student of the cognitive anthrop ...

, cognitive scientist *

Sam Maloof Sam Maloof (January 24, 1916 – May 21, 2009)
''Press-Enterprise'', ...

, professional woodworker and furniture maker * Andrew McGuire, trauma prevention specialist *

Patrick Noonan Patrick F. Noonan (born 1943) is an American conservationist and was president of The Nature Conservancy from 1973 to 1980, and the Conservation Fund. He was a recipient of the Lady Bird Johnson Environmental Award. He graduated from Gettysburg C ...

, conservationist * George Oster, mathematical biologist * Thomas G. Palaima, classicist * Peter Raven, botanist *

Jane S. Richardson Jane Shelby Richardson (born January 25, 1941) is an American biophysicist best known for developing the Richardson diagram, or ribbon diagram, a method of representing the 3D structure of proteins. Ribbon diagrams have become a standard repr ...

, biochemist *

Gregory Schopen Gregory Schopen is Professor of Buddhist Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. He received his B.A. majoring in American literature from Black Hills State College, M.A. in history of religions from McMaster University in Ontario, Cana ...

, historian of religion *

Franklin Stahl Franklin (Frank) William Stahl (born October 8, 1929) is an American molecular biologist and geneticist. With Matthew Meselson, Stahl conducted the famous Meselson-Stahl experiment showing that DNA is replicated by a semiconservative mechanism, ...

, geneticist * J. Richard Steffy, nautical archaeologist *

Ellen Stewart Ellen Stewart (November 7, 1919 – January 13, 2011) was an American theatre director and producer and the founder of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. During the 1950s she worked as a fashion designer for Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodm ...

, theater director * Paul Taylor, choreographer, dance company founder *

Shing-Tung Yau Shing-Tung Yau (; ; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese-American mathematician and the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. In April 2022, Yau announced retirement from Harvard to become Chair Professor of mathem ...

, mathematician

1986

* Paul Adams, neurobiologist *

Milton Babbitt Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his Serialism, serial and electronic music. Biography Babbitt was born in Philadelphia t ...

, composer and music theorist *

Christopher Beckwith Christopher I. Beckwith (born October 23, 1945) is an American philologist and distinguished professor in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He has a B.A. in Chinese from Ohio State Unive ...

, philologist * Richard Benson, photographer *

Lester R. Brown Lester Russel Brown (born March 28, 1934) is an American environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and former president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C. BB ...

, agricultural economist *

Caroline Bynum Caroline Walker Bynum, FBA (born May 10, 1941, in Atlanta, Georgia)Caroline Walker Bynum short CV
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, medieval historian * William A. Christian, historian of religion *

Nancy Farriss Nancy Marguerite Farriss (born May 23, 1938) is an American historian who is professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. Life Nancy Marguerite Farriss was born on May 23, 1938. She specializes in the colonial history of Mexico, and com ...

, historian *

Benedict Gross Benedict Hyman Gross is an American mathematician who is a professor at the University of California San Diego, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at Harvard University, and former Dean of Harvard College.Daryl Hine William Daryl Hine (February 24, 1936 – August 20, 2012) was a Canadian poet and translator. A MacArthur Fellow for the class of 1986, Hine was the editor of ''Poetry'' from 1968 to 1978. He graduated from McGill University in 1958 and then st ...

, poet and translator * John Robert Horner, paleobiologist * Thomas C. Joe, social policy analyst *

David Keightley David Noel Keightley (October 25, 1932 – February 23, 2017) was an American sinologist. He was a professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a published author covering the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the ...

, historian and sinologist *

Albert J. Libchaber Albert Joseph Libchaber (born 23 October 1934, Paris) is a Detlev W. Bronk Professor at The Rockefeller University. He won the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1986. In 1999 he received the Prix des Trois Physiciens from the Fondation de France. Educatio ...

, physicist *

David C. Page David C. Page (born 1956) is an American biologist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the director of the Whitehead Institute, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator. He is best known for his work ...

, molecular geneticist *

George Perle George Perle (6 May 1915 – 23 January 2009) was an American composer and music theorist. As a composer, his music was largely atonal, using methods similar to the twelve-tone technique of the Second Viennese School. This serialist style, an ...

, composer and music theorist *

James Randi James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. Rodrigues 2010p. ...

, magician *

David Rudovsky David Rudovsky (born 1943, Queens, New York) is a civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia. He is a founding partner, in 1971, of the law firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg and Li and a Senior Fellow at University of Pennsylvania Law School, ...

, civil rights lawyer * Robert Shapley, neurophysiologist *

Leo Steinberg Leo Steinberg (July 9, 1920 – March 13, 2011) was a Russian-born American art critic and art historian. Life Steinberg was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, the son of Isaac Nachman Steinberg, a Jewish lawyer and Socialist Revolutionary Party polit ...

, art historian * Richard P. Turco, atmospheric scientist * Thomas Whiteside, journalist * Allan C. Wilson, biochemist * Jay Wright, poet and playwright *

Charles Wuorinen Charles Peter Wuorinen (; June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was an American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He performed his works and other 20th-century music as pianist and conductor. He composed more than ...

, composer

1987

Walter Abish Walter Abish (December 24, 1931 – May 28, 2022) was an Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories. He was conferred the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1981 and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship six years later. ...

, writer *

Robert Axelrod Robert Marshall Axelrod (born May 27, 1943) is an American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he has been since 1974. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work o ...

, political scientist * Robert F. Coleman, mathematician *

Douglas Crase Douglas Crase (born 1944) is an American poet, essayist and critic. He was born in 1944 in Battle Creek, Michigan. His poetry collection, ''The Revisionist'', was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and an American Book Award. He is ...

, poet *

Daniel Friedan Daniel Harry Friedan (born October 3, 1948) is an American theoretical physicist and one of three children of the feminist author and activist Betty Friedan. He is a professor at Rutgers University. Biography Education and career Friedan earned h ...

, physicist *

David Gross David Jonathan Gross (; born February 19, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. Gr ...

, physicist * Ira Herskowitz, molecular geneticist *

Irving Howe Irving Howe (; June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America. Early years Howe was born as Irving Horenstein in The Bronx, New York. He was the son o ...

, literary and social critic * Wesley Charles Jacobs Jr., rural planner * Peter Jeffery, musicologist * Horace Freeland Judson, historian of science * Stuart Alan Kauffman, evolutionary biologist * Richard Kenney, poet *

Eric Lander Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957) is an American mathematician and geneticist who served as the 11th director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President, serving on the presidential Cabinet. Lan ...

, geneticist and mathematician *

Michael Malin Michael C. Malin (born 1950) is an American astronomer, space scientist, and CEO of Malin Space Science Systems. His cameras have been important scientific instruments in the exploration of Mars. Malin designed and ran the orbiting Mars camera ( ...

, geologist and planetary scientist * Deborah W. Meier, education reform leader * Arnaldo Dante Momigliano, historian *

David Mumford David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for his work in algebraic geometry and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He won the Fields Medal and was a MacArthur Fellow. In 2010 he was awarded t ...

, mathematician *

Tina Rosenberg Tina Rosenberg (born April 14, 1960) is an American journalist and the author of three books. For one of them, '' The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism'' (1995), she won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the Nati ...

, journalist *

David Rumelhart David Everett Rumelhart (June 12, 1942 – March 13, 2011) was an American psychologist who made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artif ...

, cognitive scientist and psychologist * Robert Morris Sapolsky, neuroendocrinologist and primatologist *

Meyer Schapiro Meyer Schapiro (23 September 1904 – 3 March 1996) was a Lithuanian-born American art historian known for developing new art historical methodologies that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to the study of works of art. An expert on earl ...

, art historian *

John H. Schwarz John Henry Schwarz (; born November 22, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist. Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Joël Scherk, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, and Leonard Susskind, he is regarded as one of the founders of s ...

, physicist *

Jon Seger Jon Allen Seger is an American evolutionary ecologist, and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Utah. He helped develop the theory of bet-hedging in biology. His work has appeared in leading scientific journals such as ''Nature' ...

, evolutionary ecologist * Stephen Shenker, physicist *

David Dean Shulman David Dean Shulman (born January 13, 1949) is an Israeli Indologist, poet and peace activist, known for his work on the history of religion in South India, Indian poetics, Tamil Islam, Dravidian linguistics, and Carnatic music. Bilingual ...

, historian of religion * Muriel S. Snowden, community organizer *

Mark Strand Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004 ...

, poet and writer *

May Swenson Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson (May 28, 1913 – December 4, 1989) was an American poet and playwright. Harold Bloom considered her one of the most important and original poets of the 20th century. The first child of Margaret and Dan Arthur Sw ...

, poet * Huỳnh Sanh Thông, translator and editor *

William Julius Wilson William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is an American sociologist. He is a professor at Harvard University and author of works on urban sociology, race and class issues. Laureate of the National Medal of Science, he served as the 80th P ...

, sociologist *

Richard Wrangham Richard Walter Wrangham (born 1948) is an English anthropologist and primatologist; he is Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University. His research and writing have involved ape behavior, human evolution, violence, and cooking. ...

, primate ethologist

1988

Charles Archambeau Charles B. Archambeau is an American geophysicist. Life He graduated from California Institute of Technology with a PhD in 1964. He taught at University of Colorado, and California Institute of Technology. In 1997, he studied the geophysics of ...

, geophysicist *

Michael Baxandall Michael David Kighley Baxandall, FBA (18 August 1933 – 12 August 2008) was a British art historian and a professor emeritus of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and ...

, art historian *

Ruth Behar Ruth Behar (born 1956) is a Cuban-American anthropologist and writer.Ruth Beh ...

, cultural anthropologist *

Ran Blake Ran Blake (born April 20, 1935) is an American pianist, composer, and educator. He is known for his unique style that combines blues, gospel, classical, and film noir influences into an innovative and dark jazz sound. His career spans over 40 rec ...

, composer and pianist * Charles Burnett, filmmaker *

Philip James DeVries Philip James DeVries (born March 7, 1952) is a tropical biologist whose research focuses on insect ecology and evolution, especially butterflies. His best-known work includes symbioses between caterpillars, ants and plants, and community level ...

, insect biologist *

Andre Dubus Andre Jules Dubus II (August 11, 1936 – February 24, 1999) was an American short story writer and essayist. Biography Early life and education Andre Jules Dubus II was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the youngest child of Katherine (Burke) ...

, writer *

Helen T. Edwards Helen Thom Edwards (May 27, 1936 – June 21, 2016) was an American physicist. She was the lead scientist for the design and construction of the Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Career Edwards was best known for leadersh ...

, physicist *

Jon H. Else Jon H. Else is an American documentary filmmaker and professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He directs the documentary program. Biography Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Else moved west for college. He earned a B.A. (Engli ...

, documentary filmmaker * John G. Fleagle, primatologist and paleontologist * Cornell H. Fleischer, Middle Eastern historian * Getatchew Haile, philologist and linguist *

Raymond Jeanloz Raymond Jeanloz is a professor of earth and planetary science and of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Educated at the California Institute of Technology, Amherst College and at Deep Springs College, he has contributed researc ...

, geophysicist * Marvin Philip Kahl, zoologist * Naomi Pierce, biologist *

Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, scie ...

, novelist * Stephen J. Pyne, environmental historian *

Max Roach Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz Jazz drumming, drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in h ...

, drummer and jazz composer * Hipolito (Paul) Roldan, community developer * Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, archaeologist *

David Alan Rosenberg David Alan Rosenberg (born 1948) is a military historian, and was Admiral Harry W. Hill Chair of Maritime Strategy at the National War College from 1996 to 2003 and held the Class of 1957 Distinguished Chair of Naval Heritage at the United States ...

, military historian * Susan Irene Rotroff, archaeologist *

Bruce Schwartz Bruce D. Schwartz (born 1957) is an American puppeteer and sculptor. By extension, he is also a mimic, storyteller and clown. He is using a technique where, unlike most puppeteers, who usually hide their hands in gloves, or use strings or sticks, ...

, figurative sculptor and puppeteer * Robert Shaw, physicist * Jonathan Spence, historian * Noel M. Swerdlow, historian of science * Gary A. Tomlinson, musicologist *

Alan Walker Alan Olav Walker (born 24 August 1997) is a British-born Norwegian music producer and DJ primarily known for the critically acclaimed single " Faded" (2015), which was certified platinum in 14 countries. He has also made several songs including ...

, paleontologist *

Eddie N. Williams Eddie Williams (1932 - May 8, 2017) was President of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies from 1972 to 2004. During this time, he transformed it into the focal point of political thought and research within the black community along ...

, policy analyst and civil rights leader * Rita P. Wright, archaeologist * Garth Youngberg, agriculturalist

1989

Anthony Amsterdam Anthony Guy Amsterdam (born September 12, 1935) is an American lawyer and University Professor Emeritus at New York University School of Law. In 1981, Alan Dershowitz called Amsterdam “the most distinguished law professor in the United States.� ...

, attorney and legal scholar * Byllye Avery, women's healthcare leader * Alvin Bronstein, human rights lawyer *

Leo Buss Leo W. Buss (born 1953) is a retired Professor at Yale University's departments of geology, geophysics, and ecology and evolutionary biology. Life He graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D in 1979. His evoluti ...

, evolutionary biologist *

Jay Cantor Jay Cantor (born 1948 New York City) is an American novelist and essayist. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA, and from University of California, Santa Cruz with a Ph.D. He teaches at Tufts University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachuse ...

, writer * George Davis, environmental policy analyst *

Allen Grossman Allen R. Grossman (January 7, 1932 – June 27, 2014) was a noted American poet, critic and professor. Biography Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1932,Bruce Weber (June 29, 2014)Allen Grossman, A Poet's Poet, and Scholar, dies at 82 The N ...

, poet *John Harbison, composer and conductor *Keith Hefner, journalist and educator *Ralf Hotchkiss, rehabilitation engineer *John Rice Irwin, curator and cultural preservationist *Daniel H. Janzen, Daniel Janzen, ecologist *Bernice Johnson Reagon, music historian, composer, and vocalist *Aaron Lansky, cultural preservationist *Jennifer Moody, archaeologist and anthropologist *Errol Morris, filmmaker *Vivian Paley, educator and writer *Richard Powers, novelist *Martin Puryear, sculptor *Theodore Rosengarten, historian *Margaret W. Rossiter, historian of science *George Russell (composer), George Russell, composer and music theorist *Pam Solo, arms control analyst *Ellendea Proffer, Ellendea Proffer Teasley, translator and publisher *Claire Van Vliet, book artist *Baldemar Velasquez, farm labor leader *Bill Viola, video artist *Eliot Wigginton, educator *Patricia Wright (primatologist), Patricia Wright, primatologist

1990

*John Christian Bailar, biostatistician *Martha Clarke, theater director *Jacques d'Amboise (dancer), Jacques d'Amboise, dance educator *Guy Davenport, writer, critic, and translator *Lisa Delpit, education reform leader *John Eaton (composer), John Eaton, composer *Paul R. Ehrlich, population biologist *Charlotte Erickson, historian *Lee Friedlander, photographer *Margaret Geller, astrophysicist *Jorie Graham, poet *Patricia Hampl, writer *John Hollander, poet and literary critic *Thomas C. Holt, Thomas Cleveland Holt, social and cultural historian *David Kazhdan, mathematician *Calvin King, land and farm development specialist *M. A. R. Koehl, marine biologist *Nancy Kopell, mathematician *Michael Moschen, performance artist *Gary Paul Nabhan, Gary Nabhan, ethnobotanist *Sherry Ortner, anthropologist *Otis Pitts, community development leader *Yvonne Rainer, filmmaker and choreographer *Michael Schudson, sociologist *Rebecca J. Scott, historian *Marc Shell, scholar *Susan Sontag, writer and cultural critic *Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation founder, copyleft concept inventor *Guy Tudor, conservationist *Maria Varela, community development leader *Gregory Vlastos, classicist and philosopher *Kent Whealy, preservationist *Eric Wolf, anthropologist *Sidney M. Wolfe, Sidney Wolfe, physician *Robert Woodson, community development leader *José Zalaquett, human rights lawyer

1991

*Jacqueline Barton, biophysical chemist *Paul Berman, journalist *Jim Blinn, James Blinn, computer animator *Taylor Branch, social historian *Trisha Brown, choreographer *Mari Jo Buhle, American historian *Patricia Churchland, (neuro)philosopher *David Donoho, statistician *Steven Feld, anthropologist *Alice Fulton, poet *Guillermo Gómez-Peña, writer and artist *Jerzy Grotowski, theater director *David Hammons, artist *Sophia Bracy Harris, child care leader *Lewis Hyde, writer *Ali Akbar Khan, musician *Sergiu Klainerman, mathematician *Martin Kreitman, geneticist *Harlan Lane, psychologist and linguist *William Linder, community development leader *Patricia Locke, tribal rights leader *Mark Morris (choreographer), Mark Morris, choreographer and dancer *Marcel Ophüls, documentary filmmaker *Arnold Rampersad, biographer and literary critic *Gunther Schuller, composer, conductor, jazz historian *Joel Schwartz, epidemiologist *Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist and composer *Julie Taymor, theater director *David Werner, health care leader *James Westphal, engineer and scientist *Eleanor Wilner, poet

1992

*Janet Benshoof, human rights lawyer *Robert Blackburn (artist), Robert Blackburn, printmaker *Unita Blackwell, civil rights leader *Lorna Bourg, rural development leader *Stanley Cavell, philosopher *Amy Clampitt, poet *Ingrid Daubechies, mathematician *Wendy Ewald, photographer *Irving Feldman, poet *Barbara J. Fields, Barbara Fields, historian *Bob Hall (American political journalist), Robert Hall, journalist *Ann Ellis Hanson, historian *John Henry Holland, computer scientist *Wes Jackson, agronomist *Evelyn Fox Keller, Evelyn Keller, historian and philosopher of science *Steve Lacy (saxophonist), Steve Lacy, saxophonist and composer *Suzanne Lebsock, social historian *Sharon R. Long, Sharon Long, plant biologist *Norman Manea, writer *Paule Marshall, writer *Michael Massing, journalist *Robert McCabe, educator *Susan Meiselas, photojournalist *Amalia Mesa-Bains, artist and cultural critic *Stephen Schneider (scientist), Stephen Schneider, climatologist *Joanna Scott, writer *John T. Scott, artist *John Terborgh, conservation biologist *Twyla Tharp, dancer and choreographer *Philip Treisman, mathematics educator *Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, historian *Geerat J. Vermeij, evolutionary biologist *Günter P. Wagner, Günter Wagner, developmental biologist

1993

*Nancy Cartwright (philosopher), Nancy Cartwright, philosopher *Demetrios Christodoulou, mathematician and physicist *Maria Crawford, geologist *Stanley Crouch, jazz critic and writer *Nora England, anthropological linguist *Paul Farmer, medical anthropologist *Victoria Foe, developmental biologist *Ernest J. Gaines, Ernest Gaines, writer *Pedro José Greer, Pedro Greer, physician *Thom Gunn, poet and literary critic *Ann Hamilton (artist), Ann Hamilton, artist *Sokoni Karanja, child and family development specialist *Ann Lauterbach, poet and literary critic *Stephen Lee (chemist), Stephen Lee, chemist *Carol Levine, AIDS policy specialist *Amory Lovins, physicist and energy analyst *Jane Lubchenco, marine biologist *Ruth Lubic, nurse and midwife *Jim Powell (poet), Jim Powell, poet, translator, and literary critic *Margie Profet, evolutionary biologist *T. M. Scanlon, Thomas Scanlon, philosopher *Aaron Shirley, health care leader *Bill Siemering, William Siemering, journalist and radio producer *Ellen Silbergeld, toxicologist *Leonard van der Kuijp, philologist and historian *Frank N. von Hippel, Frank von Hippel, arms control and energy analyst *John Edgar Wideman, writer *Heather Williams (biologist), Heather Williams, biologist and ornithologist *Marion Williams, gospel music performer *Robert H. Williams (physicist), Robert H. Williams, physicist and energy analyst *Henry T. Wright, archaeologist and anthropologist

1994

*Robert Adams (photographer), Robert Adams, photographer *Jeraldyne Blunden, choreographer *Anthony Braxton, avant-garde composer and musician *Rogers Brubaker, sociologist *Ornette Coleman, jazz performer and composer *Israel Gelfand, mathematician *Faye Ginsburg, anthropologist *Heidi Hartmann, economist *Bill T. Jones, dancer and choreographer *Peter E. Kenmore, agricultural entomologist *Joseph E. Marshall, educator *Carolyn McKecuen, economic development leader *Donella Meadows, writer *Arthur Mitchell (dancer), Arthur Mitchell, company director and choreographer *Hugo Morales (radio), Hugo Morales, radio producer *Janine Pease, educator *Willie Reale, theater arts educator *Adrienne Rich, poet and writer *Sam-Ang Sam, musician and cultural preservationist *Jack Wisdom, physicist

1995

*Allison Anders, filmmaker *Jed Buchwald, Jed Z. Buchwald, historian *Octavia E. Butler, science fiction novelist *Sandra Cisneros, writer and poet *Sandy Close, journalist *Fred Cuny, Frederick C. Cuny, disaster relief specialist *Sharon Emerson, biologist *Richard Foreman, theater director *Alma Guillermoprieto, journalist *Virginia Hamilton, writer *Donald Hopkins, physician *Susan Kieffer, Susan W. Kieffer, geologist *Elizabeth LeCompte, theater director *Patricia Nelson Limerick, historian *Michael Marletta, chemist *Pamela Matson, ecologist *Susan McClary, musicologist *Meredith Monk, vocalist, composer, director *Rosalind P. Petchesky, political scientist *Joel Rogers, political scientist *Cindy Sherman, photographer *Bryan Stevenson, human rights lawyer *Nicholas Strausfeld, neurobiologist *Richard White (historian), Richard White, historian

1996

*Roger Angel, James Roger Prior Angel, astronomer *Joaquin Avila (lawyer), Joaquin Avila, voting rights advocate *Allan Bérubé, historian *Barbara Block, marine biologist *Joan Breton Connelly, classical archaeologist *Thomas Daniel (biologist), Thomas Daniel, biologist *Martin Daniel Eakes, economic development strategist *Rebecca Goldstein, writer *Robert Greenstein, public policy analyst *Richard Howard, poet, translator, and literary critic *John Jesurun, playwright *Richard Lenski, biologist *Louis Massiah, documentary filmmaker *Vonnie McLoyd, developmental psychologist *Thylias Moss, poet and writer *Eiko & Koma, Eiko Otake and Eiko & Koma, Koma Otake, dancers, choreographers *Nathan Seiberg, physicist *Anna Deavere Smith, playwright, journalist, actress *Dorothy Stoneman, educator *Bill Strickland, art educator

1997

*Luis Alfaro, writer and performance artist *Lee Breuer, playwright *Vija Celmins, artist *Eric Charnov, evolutionary biologist *Elouise P. Cobell, banker *Peter Galison, historian *Mark Harrington (HIV/AIDS activist), Mark Harrington, AIDS researcher *Eva Harris, molecular biologist *Michael Kremer, economist *Russell Lande, biologist *Kerry James Marshall, artist *Nancy A. Moran, evolutionary biologist and ecologist *Han Ong, playwright *Kathleen Ross, educator *Pamela Samuelson, copyright scholar and activist *Susan Stewart (poet), Susan Stewart, literary scholar and poet *Elizabeth Streb, dancer and choreographer *Trimpin, sound sculptor *Loïc Wacquant, sociologist *Kara Walker, artist *David Foster Wallace, author and journalist *Andrew Wiles, mathematician *Brackette Williams, anthropologist

1998

*Janine Antoni, artist *Ida Applebroog, artist *Ellen Barry (attorney), Ellen Barry, attorney and human rights activist *Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web *Linda Bierds, poet *Bernadette Brooten, historian *John Carlstrom, astrophysicist *Mike Davis (scholar), Mike Davis, historian *Nancy Folbre, economist *Avner Greif, economist *Kun-Liang Guan, biochemist *Gary Hill, artist *Edward Hirsch, poet, essayist *Ayesha Jalal, historian *Charles R. Johnson, writer *Leah Krubitzer, neuroscientist *Stewart Kwoh, human rights activist *Charles Lewis (journalist), Charles Lewis, journalist *William W. McDonald, rancher and conservationist *Peter N. Miller, historian *Don Mitchell (geographer), Don Mitchell, cultural geographer *Rebecca J. Nelson, Rebecca Nelson, plant pathologist *Elinor Ochs, linguistic anthropologist *Ishmael Reed, poet, essayist, novelist *Benjamin D. Santer, atmospheric scientist *Karl Sims, computer scientist and artist *Dorothy Thomas (activist), Dorothy Thomas, human rights activist *Leonard Zeskind, human rights activist *Mary Zimmerman, playwright

1999

*Jillian Banfield, geologist *Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Carolyn Bertozzi, chemist *Xu Bing, artist and printmaker *Bruce G. Blair, policy analyst *John Bonifaz, election lawyer and voting rights leader *Shawn Carlson, science educator *Mark Danner, journalist *Alison Des Forges, Alison L. Des Forges, human rights activist *Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Elizabeth Diller, architect *Saul Friedländer, historian *Jennifer Gordon, lawyer *David Hillis, biologist *Sara Horowitz, lawyer *Jacqueline Jones, historian *Laura L. Kiessling, biochemist *Leslie Kurke, classicist *David Levering Lewis, biographer and historian *Juan Martín Maldacena, Juan Maldacena, physicist *Gay McDougall, Gay J. McDougall, human rights lawyer *Campbell McGrath, poet *Denny Moore, anthropological linguist *Elizabeth Murray (artist), Elizabeth Murray, artist *Pepón Osorio, artist *Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Ricardo Scofidio, architect *Peter Shor, computer scientist *Eva Silverstein, physicist *Wilma Subra, scientist *Ken Vandermark, saxophonist, composer *Naomi Wallace, playwright *Jeffrey Weeks (mathematician), Jeffrey Weeks, mathematician *Fred Wilson (artist), Fred Wilson, artist *Ofelia Zepeda, linguist

2000

*Susan E. Alcock, archaeologist *K. Christopher Beard, paleontologist *Lucy Blake, conservationist *Anne Carson, poet *Peter J. Hayes, energy policy activist *David Isay, radio producer *Alfredo Jaar, photographer *Ben Katchor, graphic novelist *Hideo Mabuchi, physicist *Susan Marshall (choreographer), Susan Marshall, choreographer *Samuel Mockbee, architect *Cecilia Muñoz, civil rights policy analyst *Margaret Murnane, optical physicist *Laura Otis, literary scholar and historian of science *Lucia Perillo, Lucia M. Perillo, poet *Matthew Rabin, economist *Carl Safina, marine conservationist *Daniel P. Schrag, geochemist *Susan E. Sygall, civil rights leader *Gina G. Turrigiano, neuroscientist *Gary Urton, anthropologist *Patricia J. Williams, legal scholar *Deborah Willis (artist), Deborah Willis, historian of photography and photographer *Erik Winfree, computer and materials scientist *Horng-Tzer Yau, mathematician

2001

Professor Lene Hau in her laboratory at Harvard

*Andrea Barrett, writer *Christopher Chyba, astrobiologist *Michael Dickinson (biologist), Michael Dickinson, fly biologist, bioengineer *Rosanne Haggerty, housing and community development leader *Lene Hau, physicist *Dave Hickey, art critic *Stephen Hough, pianist and composer *Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist *Sandra Lanham, pilot and conservationist *Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, artist *Cynthia Moss, natural historian *Aihwa Ong, anthropologist *Dirk Obbink, classicist and papyrologist *Norman R. Pace, biochemist *Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright *Brooks Pate, physical chemist *Xiao Qiang, human rights leader *Geraldine Seydoux, molecular biologist *Bright Sheng, composer *David Spergel, astrophysicist *Jean Strouse, biographer *Julie Su (attorney), Julie Su, human rights lawyer *David Hildebrand Wilson, David Wilson, museum founder

2002

*Danielle Allen, classicist and political scientist *Bonnie Bassler, molecular biologist *Ann M. Blair, intellectual historian *Katherine Boo, journalist *Paul Ginsparg, physicist *David B. Goldstein (energy policy expert), David B. Goldstein, energy conservation specialist *Karen Hesse, writer *Janine Jagger, epidemiologist *Daniel Jurafsky, computer scientist and linguist *Toba Khedoori, artist *Liz Lerman, choreographer *George E. Lewis, trombonist *Liza Lou, artist *Edgar Meyer, bassist and composer *Jack Miles, writer and Biblical scholar *Erik Mueggler, anthropologist and ethnographer *Sendhil Mullainathan, economist *Stanley Nelson Jr., Stanley Nelson, documentary filmmaker *Lee Ann Newsom, paleoethnobotanist *Daniela L. Rus, computer scientist *Charles C. Steidel, astronomer *Brian Tucker, seismologist *Camilo José Vergara, photographer *Paul Wennberg, atmospheric chemist *Colson Whitehead, writer

2003

*Guillermo Algaze, archaeologist * Jim Collins, biomedical engineer *Lydia Davis, writer and translator *Erik Demaine, theoretical computer scientist *Corinne Dufka, human rights researcher *Peter Gleick, conservation analyst *Osvaldo Golijov, composer *Deborah S. Jin, Deborah Jin, physicist *Angela Johnson (writer), Angela Johnson, writer *Tom Joyce, blacksmith *Sarah H. Kagan, gerontological nurse *Ned Kahn, artist and science exhibit designer *Jim Yong Kim, public health physician *Nawal M. Nour, obstetrician and gynecologist *Loren H. Rieseberg, botanist *Amy Rosenzweig, biochemist *Pedro A. Sanchez, agronomist *Lateefah Simon, women's development leader *Peter Sís, illustrator *Sarah Sze, sculptor *Eve Troutt Powell, historian *Anders Winroth, historian *Daisy Youngblood, ceramic artist *Xiaowei Zhuang, biophysicist

2004

*Angela Belcher, materials scientist and engineer *Gretchen Berland, physician and filmmaker *James Carpenter (architect), James Carpenter, artist *Joseph DeRisi, biologist *Katherine Gottlieb, health care leader *David Green (social entrepreneur), David Green, technology transfer innovator *Aleksandar Hemon, writer *Heather Hurst, archaeological illustrator *Edward P. Jones, writer *John Kamm, human rights activist *Daphne Koller, computer scientist *Naomi Leonard, engineer *Tommie Lindsey, school debate coach *Rueben Martinez, businessman and activist *Maria Mavroudi, historian *Vamsi Mootha, physician and computational biologist *Judy Pfaff, sculptor *Aminah Robinson, artist *Reginald Robinson, pianist and composer *Cheryl Rogowski, farmer *Amy B. Smith, Amy Smith, inventor and mechanical engineer *Julie Theriot, microbiologist *Carolyn D. WC. D. Wright, poet

2005

Jonathan Lethem 2011 NBCC 2012 Shankbone 2

*Marin Alsop, symphony conductor *Ted Ames, fisherman, conservationist, marine biologist *Terry Belanger, rare book preservationist *Edet Belzberg, documentary filmmaker *Majora Carter, urban revitalization strategist *Lu Chen (scientist), Lu Chen, neuroscientist *Michael Cohen (pharmacist), Michael Cohen, pharmacist *Joseph Curtin, violinmaker *Aaron Dworkin, music educator *Teresita Fernández, sculptor *Claire F. Gmachl, Claire Gmachl, quantum cascade laser engineer *Sue Goldie, physician and researcher *Steven M. Goodman, Steven Goodman, conservation biologist *Pehr Harbury, biochemist *Nicole King, molecular biologist *Jon Kleinberg, computer scientist *Jonathan Lethem, novelist *Michael Manga, geophysicist *Todd Martinez, theoretical chemist *Julie Mehretu, painter *Kevin M. Murphy, economist *Olufunmilayo Olopade, clinician and researcher *Fazal Sheikh, photographer *Emily Thompson, aural historian *Michael Walsh (engineer), Michael Walsh, vehicle emissions specialist

2006

*David Carroll (naturalist), David Carroll, naturalist author and illustrator *Regina Carter, jazz violinist *Kenneth C. Catania, neurobiologist *Lisa Curran, tropical forester *Kevin Eggan, biologist *Jim Fruchterman, technologist, CEO of Benetech *Atul Gawande, surgeon and author *Linda Griffith, bioengineer *Victoria Hale, CEO of Institute for OneWorld Health, OneWorld Health *Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, journalist and author *David Macaulay, author and illustrator *Josiah McElheny, sculptor *D. Holmes Morton, physician *John A. Rich, physician *Jennifer Richeson, social psychologist *Sarah Ruhl, playwright *George Saunders, short story writer *Anna Schuleit Haber, Anna Schuleit, commemorative artist *Shahzia Sikander, painter *Terence Tao, mathematician *Claire J. Tomlin, aviation engineer *Luis von Ahn, computer scientist *Edith Widder, deep-sea explorer *Matias Zaldarriaga, cosmologist *John Zorn, composer and musician

2007

*Deborah Bial, education strategist *Peter Cole, translator, poet, publisher *Lisa Cooper, public health physician *Ruth DeFries, environmental geographer *Mercedes Doretti, forensic anthropologist *Stuart Dybek, short story writer *Marc Edwards (civil engineering professor), Marc Edwards, water quality engineer *Michael Elowitz, molecular biologist *Saul Griffith, inventor *Sven Haakanson, Alutiiq curator, anthropologist, preservationist *Corey Harris, blues musician *Cheryl Hayashi, spider silk biologist *My Hang V. Huynh, chemist *Claire Kremen, conservation biologist *Whitfield Lovell, painter and installation artist *Yoky Matsuoka, neuroroboticist *Lynn Nottage, playwright *Mark Roth (scientist), Mark Roth, biomedical scientist *Paul W. K. Rothemund, Paul Rothemund, nanotechnologist *Jay Rubenstein, medieval historian *Jonathan Shay, clinical psychiatrist and classicist *Joan Snyder, painter *Dawn Upshaw, vocalist *Shen Wei, choreographer

2008

*Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, novelist *Will Allen (urban farmer), Will Allen, urban farmer *Regina Benjamin, rural family doctor *Kirsten Bomblies, evolutionary plant geneticist *Tara Donovan, artist *Andrea M. Ghez, Andrea Ghez, astrophysicist *Stephen D. Houston, anthropologist *Mary Jackson (artist), Mary Jackson, weaver and sculptor *Leila Josefowicz, violinist *Alexei Kitaev, physicist *Walter Kitundu, instrument maker and composer *Susan Mango, developmental biologist *Diane E. Meier, geriatrician *David R. Montgomery, geomorphologist *John Ochsendorf, engineer and architectural historian *Peter Pronovost, critical care physician *Adam Riess, astrophysicist *Alex Ross (music critic), Alex Ross, music critic *Wafaa El-Sadr, infectious disease specialist *Nancy Siraisi, historian of medicine *Marin Soljačić, optical physicist *Sally Temple, neuroscientist *Jennifer Tipton, stage lighting designer *Rachel Wilson (neurobiologist), Rachel Wilson, experimental neurobiologist *Miguel Zenón, saxophonist and composer

2009

*Lynsey Addario, photojournalist *Maneesh Agrawala, computer vision technologist *Timothy Barrett (papermaker), Timothy Barrett, papermaker *Mark Bradford, mixed media artist *Edwidge Danticat, novelist *Rackstraw Downes, painter *Esther Duflo, economist *Deborah Eisenberg, short story writer *Lin He (biologist), Lin He, molecular biologist *Peter Huybers, climate scientist *James Longley (filmmaker), James Longley, filmmaker *Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, L. Mahadevan, applied mathematician *Heather McHugh, poet *Jerry Mitchell (investigative reporter), Jerry Mitchell, investigative reporter *Rebecca Onie, health services innovator *Richard Prum, ornithologist *John A. Rogers, applied physicist *Elyn Saks, mental health lawyer *Jill Seaman, infectious disease physician *Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist *Daniel Sigman, biogeochemist *Mary Tinetti, geriatric physician *Camille Utterback, digital artist *Theodore Zoli, bridge engineer

2010

*Amir Abo-Shaeer, physics teacher *Jessie Little Doe Baird, Wampanoag people, Wampanoag language preservation and revival *Kelly Benoit-Bird, marine biologist *Nicholas Benson, stone carver *Drew Berry, biomedical animator *Carlos D. Bustamante, population geneticist *Matthew Carter, type designer *David Cromer, theater director and actor *John Dabiri, biophysicist *Shannon Lee Dawdy, anthropologist *Annette Gordon-Reed, American historian *Yiyun Li, fiction writer *Michal Lipson, optical physicist *Nergis Mavalvala, quantum astrophysicist *Jason Moran (musician), Jason Moran, jazz pianist and composer *Carol Padden, sign language linguist *Jorge Pardo (artist), Jorge Pardo, installation artist *Sebastian Ruth, violist, violinist, and music educator *Emmanuel Saez, economist *David Simon, author, screenwriter, and producer *Dawn Song, computer security specialist *Marla Spivak, entomologist *Elizabeth Turk, sculptor

2011

*Jad Abumrad, radio host and producer *Marie-Therese Connolly, elder rights lawyer *Roland G. Fryer Jr., Roland Fryer, economist *Jeanne Gang, architect *Elodie Ghedin, parasitologist and virologist *Markus Greiner, condensed matter physicist *Kevin Guskiewicz, sports medicine researcher *Peter Hessler, long-form journalist *Tiya Miles, public historian *Matthew Nock, clinical psychologist *Francisco Núñez, choral conductor and composer *Sarah Otto, evolutionary geneticist *Shwetak Patel, sensor technologist and computer scientist *Dafnis Prieto, jazz percussionist and composer *Kay Ryan, poet *Melanie Sanford, organometallic chemist *William Seeley (neurologist), William Seeley, neuropathologist *Jacob Soll, European historian *A. E. Stallings, poet and translator *Ubaldo Vitali, conservator and silversmith *Alisa Weilerstein, cellist *Yukiko Yamashita, developmental biologist

2012

*Natalia Almada, documentary filmmaker *Uta Barth, photographer *Claire Chase, arts entrepreneur and flautist *Raj Chetty, economist *Maria Chudnovsky, mathematician *Eric Coleman (doctor), Eric Coleman, geriatrician *Junot Díaz, fiction writer *David Finkel, journalist *Olivier Guyon, optical physicist and astronomer *Elissa Hallem, neurobiologist *An-My Lê, photographer *Sarkis Mazmanian, medical microbiologist *Dinaw Mengestu, writer *Mauricio L. Miller, Maurice Lim Miller, social services innovator *Dylan C. Penningroth, historian *Terry Plank, geochemist *Laura Poitras, documentary filmmaker *Nancy Rabalais, marine ecologist *Benoît Rolland, stringed-instrument bow maker *Daniel Spielman, computer scientist *Melody Swartz, bioengineer *Chris Thile, mandolinist and composer *Benjamin Warf, neurosurgeon

2013

*Kyle Abraham, choreographer and dancer *Donald Antrim, writer *Phil S. Baran, Phil Baran, organic chemist *C. Kevin Boyce, paleobotanist *Jeffrey Brenner, primary care physician *Colin Camerer, behavioral economist *Jeremy Denk, pianist and writer *Angela Duckworth, research psychologist *Craig Fennie, materials scientist *Robin Fleming, medieval historian *Carl Haber (physicist), Carl Haber, audio preservationist *Vijay Iyer, jazz pianist and composer *Dina Katabi, computer scientist *Julie Livingston, public health historian and anthropologist *David Lobell, agricultural ecologist *Tarell Alvin McCraney, playwright *Susan Murphy, statistician *Sheila Nirenberg, neuroscientist *Alexei Ratmansky, choreographer *Ana Maria Rey, atomic physicist *Karen Russell, fiction writer *Sara Seager, astrophysicist *Margaret Stock, immigration lawyer *Carrie Mae Weems, photographer and video artist

2014

*Danielle Bassett, physicist *Alison Bechdel, cartoonist and graphic memoirist *Mary Bonauto, Mary L. Bonauto, civil rights lawyer *Tami Bond, environmental engineer *Steve Coleman, jazz composer and saxophonist *Sarah Deer, legal scholar and advocate *Jennifer Eberhardt, social psychologist *Craig Gentry (computer scientist), Craig Gentry, computer scientist *Terrance Hayes, poet *John Henneberger, housing advocate *Mark Hersam, materials scientist *Samuel D. Hunter, playwright *Pamela O. Long, historian of science and technology *Rick Lowe, public artist *Jacob Lurie, mathematician *Khaled Mattawa, translator and poet *Joshua Oppenheimer, documentary filmmaker *Ai-jen Poo, labor organizer *Jonathan Rapping, criminal lawyer *Tara Zahra, historian of modern Europe *Yitang Zhang, mathematician

2015

*Patrick Awuah Jr., Patrick Awuah, education entrepreneur *Kartik Chandran, environmental engineer *Ta-Nehisi Coates, journalist and memoirist *Gary Cohen (health advocate), Gary Cohen, environmental health advocate *Matthew Desmond, sociologist *William Dichtel, chemist *Michelle Dorrance, tap dancer and choreographer *Nicole Eisenman, painter *LaToya Ruby Frazier, photographer and video artist *Ben Lerner, writer *Mimi Lien, set designer *Lin-Manuel Miranda, playwright, songwriter, and performer *Dimitri Nakassis, classicist *John Novembre, computational biologist *Christopher Ré, computer scientist *Marina Rustow, historian *Juan Salgado, Chicago-based community leader *Beth Stevens, neuroscientist *Lorenz Studer, stem-cell biologist *Alex Truesdell, designer *Basil Twist, puppeteer *Ellen Bryant Voigt, poet *Heidi Williams, economist *Peidong Yang, inorganic chemist

2016

*Ahilan Arulanantham, human rights lawyer *Daryl Baldwin, linguist and cultural preservationist *Anne Basting, theater artist and educator *Vincent Fecteau, sculptor *Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, playwright *Kellie Jones, art historian and curator *Subhash Khot, theoretical computer scientist *Josh Kun, cultural historian *Maggie Nelson, writer *Dianne Newman, microbiologist *Victoria Orphan, geobiologist *Manu Prakash, physical biologist and inventor *José A. Quiñonez, financial services innovator *Claudia Rankine, poet *Lauren Redniss, artist and writer *Mary Reid Kelley, video artist *Rebecca Richards-Kortum, bioengineer *Joyce J. Scott, jewelry maker and sculptor *Sarah Stillman, long-form journalist *Bill Thies, computer scientist *Julia Wolfe, composer *Gene Luen Yang, graphic novelist *Jin-Quan Yu, synthetic chemist

2017

* Njideka Akunyili Crosby, painter * Sunil Amrith, historian * Greg Asbed, human rights strategist * Annie Baker, playwright * Regina Barzilay, computer scientist * Dawoud Bey, photographer * Emmanuel Candès, mathematician and statistician * Jason De León, anthropologist * Rhiannon Giddens, musician * Nikole Hannah-Jones, journalist * Cristina Jiménez Moreta, activist * Taylor Mac, performance artist * Rami Nashashibi, community leader * Viet Thanh Nguyen, writer * Kate Orff, landscape architect * Trevor Paglen, artist * Betsy Levy Paluck, psychologist * Derek R. Peterson, Derek Peterson, historian * Damon Rich, designer and urban planner * Stefan Savage, computer scientist * Yuval Sharon, opera director * Tyshawn Sorey, composer * Gabriel Victora, immunologist * Jesmyn Ward, writer

2018

*Matthew Aucoin, composer and conductor *Julie Ault, artist and curator *William Barber II, William J. Barber II, pastor *Clifford Brangwynne, biophysical engineer *Natalie Diaz, poet *Livia S. Eberlin, chemist *Deborah Estrin, computer scientist *Amy Finkelstein, health economist *Gregg Gonsalves, global health advocate *Vijay Gupta, musician *Becca Heller, lawyer *Raj Jayadev, community organizer *Titus Kaphar, painter *John Keene (writer), John Keene, writer *Kelly Link, writer *Dominique Morisseau, playwright *Okwui Okpokwasili, choreographer *Kristina Olson, psychologist *Lisa Parks (media scholar), Lisa Parks, media scholar *Rebecca Sandefur, legal scholar *Allan Sly (mathematician), Allan Sly, mathematician *Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay, geologist *Wu Tsang, filmmaker and performance artist *Doris Tsao, neuroscientist *Ken Ward Jr., Ken Ward Jr., investigative journalist

2019

*Elizabeth S. Anderson, philosopher *sujatha baliga, attorney *Lynda Barry, cartoonist *Mel Chin, artist *Danielle Citron, legal scholar *Lisa Daugaard, criminal justice reformer *Annie Dorsen, theater artist *Andrea Dutton, paleoclimatologist *Jeffrey Gibson, artist *Mary Halvorson, guitarist *Saidiya Hartman, literary scholar *Walter Hood, public artist *Stacy Jupiter, marine scientist *Zachary Lippman, plant biologist *Valeria Luiselli, writer *Kelly Lytle Hernández, historian *Sarah Michelson, choreographer *Jeffrey Alan Miller, literary scholar *Jerry X. Mitrovica, theoretical geophysicist *Emmanuel Pratt, urban designer *Cameron Rowland, artist *Vanessa Ruta, neuroscientist *Joshua Tenenbaum, cognitive scientist *Jenny Tung, evolutionary anthropologist *Ocean Vuong, writer *Emily Wilson (classicist), Emily Wilson, classicist and translator

2020

2018-us-nationalbookfestival-jacqueline-woodson

*Isaiah Andrews, econometrician *Tressie McMillan Cottom, sociologist, writer and public scholar *Paul Dauenhauer, chemical engineer *Nels Elde, evolutionary geneticist *Damien Fair, cognitive neuroscientist *Larissa FastHorse, playwright *Catherine Coleman Flowers, environmental health advocate *Mary L. Gray, anthropologist and media scholar *N.K. Jemisin, speculative fiction writer *Ralph Lemon, artist *Polina V. Lishko, cellular and developmental biologist *Thomas Wilson Mitchell, property law scholar *Natalia Molina, American historian *Fred Moten, cultural theorist and poet *Cristina Rivera Garza, fiction writer *Cécile McLorin Salvant, singer and composer *Monika Schleier-Smith, experimental physicist *Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost, biological chemist *Forrest Stuart, sociologist *Nanfu Wang, documentary filmmaker *Jacqueline Woodson, writer

2021

*Hanif Abdurraqib, music critic, essayist and poet *Daniel Alarcón, writer and radio producer *Marcella Alsan, physician-economist *Trevor Bedford (virologist), Trevor Bedford, computational virologist *Reginald Dwayne Betts, poet and lawyer *Jordan Casteel, painter *Don Mee Choi, poet and translator *Ibrahim Cissé (academic), Ibrahim Cissé, cellular biophysicist *Nicole R. Fleetwood, Nicole Fleetwood, art historian and curator *Cristina Ibarra, documentary filmmaker *Ibram X. Kendi, American historian and cultural critic *Daniel Lind-Ramos, sculptor and painter *Monica Muñoz Martinez, public historian *Desmond Meade, civil rights activist *Joshua Miele, adaptive technology designer *Michelle Monje, neurologist and neuro-oncologist *Safiya Noble, digital media scholar *J. Taylor Perron, geomorphologist *Alex Rivera, filmmaker and media artist *Lisa Schulte Moore, landscape ecologist *Jesse Shapiro, applied microeconomist *Jacqueline Stewart, cinema studies scholar and curator *Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, historian *Victor J. Torres, microbiologist *Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, choreographer and dance entrepreneur

2022

*Jennifer Carlson (sociologist), Jennifer Carlson, sociologist *Paul Chan (artist), Paul Chan, artist *Yejin Choi, computer scientist *P. Gabrielle Foreman, historian and academic *Danna Freedman, chemist and academic *Martha Gonzalez (musician), Martha Gonzalez, musician and academic *Sky Hopinka, artist and filmmaker *June Huh, mathematician *Moriba Jah, astrodynamicist *Jenna Jambeck, environmental engineer *Monica Kim, historian and academic *Robin Wall Kimmerer, writer *Priti Krishtel, lawyer *J. Drew Lanham, Joseph Drew Lanham, ornithologist *Kiese Laymon, writer *Reuben Jonathan Miller, sociologist and social worker *Ikue Mori, musician and composer *Steven Prohira, physicist *Tomeka Reid, cellist and composer *Loretta J. Ross, human rights advocate *Steven Ruggles, historical demographer *Tavares Strachan, interdisciplinary artist *Emily Wang, physician and researcher *Amanda Williams (artist), Amanda Williams, artist and architect *Melanie Wood, Melanie Matchett Wood, mathematician

References

External links

MacArthur Fellows Program website
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