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
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
.
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. 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
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''.
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 high ...
account for 175 fellowships, followed by the alumni of
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
(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 research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
(68), and
Columbia University
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(54). The following ten universities have the most alumni fellows.
1981
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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 ...
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
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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 ...
, 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 curr ...
, 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 ...
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, 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
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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 ...
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 MacArt ...
, arts educator
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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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 ...
, 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
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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, 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 ...
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 know ...
, 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 oth ...
, novelist
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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 firs ...
, 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
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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 Direc ...
, 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 ...
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 parties of the Soviet Union ...
, 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, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 cen ...
, 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 ...
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 Hilber ...
, 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 '' ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, 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, 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 Colu ...
, 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 ...
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 ...
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' ...
, 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- Chinese relations, and a MacArthur Fellow. He spent most of his scholarly career as an associate professor at Indiana Universi ...
, 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 Psychol ...
, psychologist (child birth-order research)
* John E. Toews, 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 outsid ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 worl ...
, 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 Priz ...
, 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. ...
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, ...
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 Goo ...
, 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 ...
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 ...
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 at < ...
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 ...
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, and ...
, 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 skepticism, scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific cla ...
, 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 ...
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 ...
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
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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 of ...
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. La ...
, 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 ( ...
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 ...
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' ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz 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 history. He work ...
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 ...
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, ...
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
John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938) is an American composer, known for his symphonies, operas, and large choral works.
Life
John Harris Harbison was born on December 20, 1938, in Orange, New Jersey, to the historian Elmore Harris Harbi ...
, composer and conductor
* Keith Hefner, journalist and educator
* Ralf Hotchkiss, rehabilitation engineer
*
John Rice Irwin
John Rice Irwin (December 11, 1930 – January 16, 2022) was an American cultural historian, and founder of the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee.
His interest in history began at an early age, and was inspired by his grandparents to st ...
, curator and cultural preservationist
*
Daniel Janzen
Daniel Hunt Janzen (born January 18, 1939 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American evolutionary ecologist, and conservationist. He divides his time between his professorship in biology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the DiMaura ...
, ecologist
*
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon (born Bernice Johnson on October 4, 1942) is a song leader, composer, scholar, and social activist, who in the early 1960s was a founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) Freedom Singers in t ...
, music historian, composer, and vocalist
* Aaron Lansky, cultural preservationist
*
Jennifer Moody
Jennifer Alice Moody is an American archaeologist, and research fellow at University of Texas at Austin.
She studies the archaeology, and environmental history of Crete.
Awards
* 1989 MacArthur Fellows Program
Works
* Alan Peatfield, Jennifer Mo ...
, archaeologist and anthropologist
*
Errol Morris
Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of its subjects. In 2003, his documentary film '' The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamar ...
Richard Powers
Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel '' The Echo Maker'' won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.Martin Puryear, sculptor
*
Theodore Rosengarten
Theodore Rosengarten (born December 17, 1944) is an American historian.
He graduated from Amherst College in 1966 with a BA, and earned his PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation on Ned Cobb (1885–1973), a former Alabama tenant far ...
Baldemar Velasquez
Baldemar Velásquez (born February 15, 1947)''Hispanic Americans Information Directory,'' 1991, p. 408. is an American labor union activist. He co-founded and is president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO. He was named a MacArthur ...
, farm labor leader
*
Bill Viola
Bill Viola ( , ; born 1951) is an American contemporary video artist whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in new media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, d ...
Martha Clarke
Martha Clarke (born June 3, 1944) is an American theater director and choreographer noted for her multidisciplinary approach to theatre, dance, and opera productions. Her best-known original work is ''The Garden of Earthly Delights'' (1984, re-im ...
Guy Davenport
Guy Mattison Davenport (November 23, 1927 – January 4, 2005) was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.
Life
Guy Davenport was born in Anderson, South Carolina, in the foothills of Appalachia on Novem ...
, writer, critic, and translator
* Lisa Delpit, education reform leader
*
John Eaton John Eaton may refer to:
* John Eaton (divine) (born 1575), English divine
* John Eaton (pirate) (fl. 1683–1686), English buccaneer
*Sir John Craig Eaton (1876–1922), Canadian businessman
* John Craig Eaton II (born 1937), Canadian businessman ...
, composer
*
Paul R. Ehrlich
Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources. He is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of St ...
, population biologist
*
Charlotte Erickson
Charlotte J. Erickson (October 22, 1923 in Oak Park, Illinois – July 9, 2008 in Cambridge) was an American historian.Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander (born July 14, 1934) is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fragm ...
Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham (; born May 9, 1950) is an American poet. The Poetry Foundation called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation." She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at ...
John Hollander
John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic. At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Connecticut College, Hunter ...
M. A. R. Koehl
Mimi A. R. Koehl is an American marine biologist, biomechanist, and professor at University of California, Berkeley, and head of the Koehl Lab. She was a MacArthur Fellow in 1990.
Education
M. A. R. Koehl graduated from Gettysburg College ma ...
Michael Moschen
Michael Moschen (born 1955 in Greenfield, Massachusetts) is an American juggler. He received a Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation (the Genius Grant) in 1990, has appeared on TV on PBS, and did ads for Motorola. Cirque du Soleil commission ...
, performance artist
* Gary Nabhan, ethnobotanist
*
Sherry Ortner
Sherry Beth Ortner (born September 19, 1941) is an American cultural anthropologist and has been a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA since 2004.
Biography
Ortner grew up in a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and attended Weequa ...
, anthropologist
* Otis Pitts, community development leader
*
Yvonne Rainer
Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental.
, filmmaker and choreographer
*
Michael Schudson
Michael S. Schudson
Michael S. Schudson (born November 3, 1946) is professor of journalism in the graduate school of journalism of Columbia University and adjunct professor in the department of sociology. He is professor emeritus at the Univers ...
Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to ...
, Free Software Foundation founder,
copyleft
Copyleft is the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in derivative works. In this sense, ''freedoms'' refers to the use of the work for any purpose ...
concept inventor
*
Guy Tudor
Guy or GUY may refer to:
Personal names
* Guy (given name)
* Guy (surname)
* That Guy (...), the New Zealand street performer Leigh Hart
Places
* Guy, Alberta, a Canadian hamlet
* Guy, Arkansas, US, a city
* Guy, Indiana, US, an unin ...
, conservationist
*
Maria Varela
Maria Varela (born January 1940) is a Mexican-American civil rights photographer, community organizer, a writer, and a teacher. She has been actively involved in Civil Rights movements, advocating rights for indigenous communities and protects cult ...
, community development leader
*
Gregory Vlastos
Gregory Vlastos (; el, Γρηγόριος Βλαστός; July 27, 1907 – October 12, 1991) was a preeminent scholar of ancient philosophy, and author of many works on Plato and Socrates. He transformed the analysis of classical philosophy ...
, classicist and philosopher
*
Kent Whealy
Kent Whealy (April 27, 1946 – March 23, 2018) was an American activist, journalist and philanthropist who co-founded Seed Savers Exchange and promoted organic agriculture and the saving of Heirloom plant, heirloom seeds. Raised in Wellington, ...
, preservationist
*
Eric Wolf
Eric Robert Wolf (February 1, 1923 – March 6, 1999) was an anthropologist, best known for his studies of peasants, Latin America, and his advocacy of Marxist perspectives within anthropology.
Early life Life in Vienna
Wolf was born in Vi ...
Paul Berman
Paul Lawrence Berman (born 1949) is an American writer on politics and literature.
His books include ''Terror and Liberalism'' ( a ''New York Times'' best-seller in 2003), ''The Flight of the Intellectuals'', ''A Tale of Two Utopias'', ''Power and ...
Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947) is an American author and historian who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and much of the history of the American civil rights movement. The final volume o ...
, social historian
*
Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown (November 25, 1936 – March 18, 2017) was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement. Brown’s dance/movement method, with which she and her dancer ...
, choreographer
*
Mari Jo Buhle
Mari Jo Buhle (born 1943) is an American historian and William J. Kenan Jr. University Professor Emerita at Brown University.
Early life and education
Buhle was born in 1943 as Mari Jo Kupski. She graduated from North Chicago Community High S ...
, American historian
*
Patricia Churchland
Patricia Smith Churchland (born 16 July 1943) is a Canadian-American analytic philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Cali ...
, (neuro)philosopher
*
David Donoho
David Leigh Donoho (born March 5, 1957) is an American statistician. He is a professor of statistics at Stanford University, where he is also the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences. His work includes the develop ...
, statistician
*
Steven Feld
Steven Feld (born August 20, 1949) is an American ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, and linguist, who worked for many years with the Kaluli ( Bosavi) people of Papua New Guinea. He earned a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991.
Early life
Feld was born ...
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican/Chicano performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. Gómez-Peña has created work in multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, photography and installation art. His fifteen b ...
, writer and artist
*
Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Marian Grotowski (; 11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre director and theorist whose innovative approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today.
He was born in Rzesz ...
, theater director
*
David Hammons
David Hammons (born July 24, 1943) is an American artist, best known for his works in and around New York City and Los Angeles during the 1970s and 1980s.
Early life
David Hammons was born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois, the youngest of ten ...
Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde (born 1945) is a scholar, essayist, translator, cultural critic and writer whose scholarly work focuses on the nature of imagination, creativity, and property.
Profile
Hyde was born in Cambridge, MA. He is the son of Elizabeth Sanfor ...
, writer
*
Ali Akbar Khan
Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 192218 June 2009) was a Indian Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod. Trained as a classical musician and instrumentalist by his father, Allauddin Khan, he a ...
, musician
*
Sergiu Klainerman
Sergiu Klainerman (born May 13, 1950) is a mathematician known for his contributions to the study of hyperbolic differential equations and general relativity. He is currently the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, w ...
Harlan Lane
Harlan Lawson Lane (August 19, 1936 – July 13, 2019) was an American psychologist. Lane was the Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, and founder o ...
Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophuls (; born 1 November 1927) is a German-French documentary film maker and former actor, best known for his films ''The Sorrow and the Pity'' and '' Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie''.
Life and career
Ophuls was bo ...
, documentary filmmaker
*
Arnold Rampersad
Arnold Rampersad (born 13 November 1941) is a biographer, literary critic, and academic, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the US in 1965. The first volume (1986) of his ''Life of Langston Hughes'' was a finalist for the Pulitzer ...
, biographer and literary critic
*
Gunther Schuller
Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician.
Biography and works
Early years
Schuller was born in Queens, New York City ...
, composer, conductor, jazz historian
* Joel Schwartz, epidemiologist
* Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist and composer
*
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director and writer of theater, opera and film. Her stage adaptation of ''The Lion King'' debuted in 1997, and received eleven Tony Award nominations, with Taymor receiving Tony Awards for Best ...
Unita Blackwell
Unita Zelma Blackwell (March 18, 1933 – May 13, 2019) was an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi.Blackwell 2006, p. 10. Blackwell was a project dir ...
, civil rights leader
* Lorna Bourg, rural development leader
*
Stanley Cavell
Stanley Louis Cavell (; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, an ...
Ingrid Daubechies
Baroness Ingrid Daubechies ( ; ; born 17 August 1954) is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression.
Daubechies is recognized for her study of the mathematical methods that enhance ...
Barbara Fields
Barbara Jeanne Fields (born 1947 in Charleston, South Carolina) is a professor of American history at Columbia University. Her focus is on the history of the American South, 19th century social history, and the transition to capitalism in the Uni ...
John Henry Holland
John Henry Holland (February 2, 1929 – August 9, 2015) was an American scientist and Professor of psychology and Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a pioneer in what became ...
Norman Manea
Norman Manea (; born July 19, 1936), is a Romanian Jewish writer and author of short fiction, novels, and essays about the Holocaust, daily life in a communist state, and exile. He lives in the United States, where he is a Professor and writer ...
, writer
*
Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall (April 9, 1929 – August 12, 2019) was an American writer, best known for her 1959 debut novel '' Brown Girl, Brownstones''. In 1992, at the age of 63, Marshall was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship grant.
Life and career
Marshall wa ...
, writer
*
Michael Massing
Michael Massing is an American writer based in New York City. He is a former executive editor of the ''Columbia Journalism Review''. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and a master's degree from the London School of Economics. He ...
, journalist
*
Robert McCabe
Robert H. McCabe (December 23, 1928 – December 23, 2014) was an American educator and the President Emeritus of Miami-Dade Community College.
He won a 1992 MacArthur Fellowship
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fel ...
, educator
*
Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas (born June 21, 1948) is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and been a full member since 1980. Currently she is the President of the Magnum Foundation. She is best known for h ...
Joanna Scott
Joanna Scott (born June 22, 1960) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Her award-winning fiction is known for its wide-ranging subject matter and its incorporation of historical figures into imagined narratives.
A native of ...
, writer
*
John T. Scott
John Tarrell Scott (June 30, 1940 – September 1, 2007) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, collagist, and MacArthur Fellow. The works of Scott meld abstraction with contemporary techniques infused with references to traditional Af ...
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp (; born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City. In 1966 she formed the company Twyla Tharp Dance. Her work often uses classical music, jazz, and contemporary pop music.
Fr ...
, dancer and choreographer
* Philip Treisman, mathematics educator
*
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor at Harvard University. Her approach to history has been described as a tribute to ...
Günter Wagner
Gunter or Günter may refer to:
* Gunter rig, a type of rig used in sailing, especially in small boats
* Gunter Annex, Alabama, a United States Air Force installation
* Gunter, Texas, city in the United States
People
Surname
* Chris Gunter ...
, developmental biologist
1993
*
Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright (born October 25, 1957) is an American actress. She is the long-time voice of Bart Simpson on the animated television series ''The Simpsons'', for which she has received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Perform ...
, philosopher
*
Demetrios Christodoulou
Demetrios Christodoulou ( el, Δημήτριος Χριστοδούλου; born 19 October 1951) is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the ...
, mathematician and physicist
* Maria Crawford, geologist
*
Stanley Crouch
Stanley Lawrence Crouch (December 14, 1945 – September 16, 2020) was an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist, and biographer. He was known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel ''Don't the Moon Look ...
, jazz critic and writer
* Nora England, anthropological linguist
*
Paul Farmer
Paul Edward Farmer (October 26, 1959 – February 21, 2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he was a University Professor and the chair of the Department of Glob ...
, medical anthropologist
* Victoria Foe, developmental biologist
*
Ernest Gaines
Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include:
People
*Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
*Ernest, M ...
Thom Gunn
Thomson William "Thom" Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004) was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement, and his later poetry in America, even after moving towards a looser, ...
Amory Lovins
Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American writer, physicist, and former chairman/chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has written on energy policy and related areas for four decades, and served on the US Nationa ...
, physicist and energy analyst
*
Jane Lubchenco
Jane Lubchenco (born December 4, 1947) is an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist who teaches and conducts research at Oregon State University. Her research interests include interactions between the environment and human well-be ...
, marine biologist
*
Ruth Lubic
Ruth Watson Lubic, CNM, EdD, FAAN, FACNM, (born January 18, 1927) is an American nurse-midwife and applied anthropologist who pioneered the role of nurse-midwives as primary care providers for women, particularly in maternity care. Lubic is con ...
, nurse and midwife
* Jim Powell, poet, translator, and literary critic
*
Margie Profet
Margaret J. "Margie" Profet (born August 7, 1958) is an American evolutionary biologist with no formal biology training who created a decade-long controversy when she published her findings on the role of Darwinian evolution in menstruation, all ...
, evolutionary biologist
* Thomas Scanlon, philosopher
*
Aaron Shirley
Aaron Shirley (January 3, 1933 – November 26, 2014) was an American physician and civil rights activist.
Shirley was born in Gluckstadt, Mississippi. He was Chairman of the Board for the Jackson Medical Mall Foundation, and an associate profess ...
Frank von Hippel
Frank N. von Hippel (born 1937) is an American physicist. He is Professor and Co-Director of Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
He is Arthur von Hippel's s ...
, arms control and energy analyst
*
John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and essayist. He was the first person to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice. His writing is known for experimental techniques and a focus o ...
Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto. Braxton grew up on the South Side of Ch ...
Israel Gelfand
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand ( yi, ישראל געלפֿאַנד, russian: Изра́иль Моисе́евич Гельфа́нд, uk, Ізраїль Мойсейович Гел� ...
, mathematician
*
Faye Ginsburg
Faye Ginsburg (born October 28, 1952) is an American anthropologist who has devoted her life to the exploration of different cultures and individuals’ styles of life. Ginsburg has published ethnographies about her fieldwork experiences in the U.S ...
, anthropologist
*
Heidi Hartmann
Heidi I. Hartmann is an American feminist economist who is founder and president of the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), a research organization created to conduct women-centered, public policy research. She is an e ...
Joseph E. Marshall
Joseph Earl Marshall, Jr. (born 1947) is an American author, lecturer, radio talk show host, and community activist.
Marshall grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and the South Central part of Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Loyola High S ...
, educator
*
Carolyn McKecuen Carolyn McKecuen is President of the Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Foundation
Foundation may refer to:
* Foundation (nonprofit), a type of charitable organization
** Foundation (United States law), a type of charitable organization in the U ...
, economic development leader
*
Donella Meadows
Donella Hager "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 – February 20, 2001) was an American environmental scientist, educator, and writer. She is best known as lead author of the books ''The Limits to Growth'' and '' Thinking In Systems: A Primer''.
E ...
, writer
* Arthur Mitchell, company director and choreographer
*
Hugo Morales
Hugo Alberto Morales (born 30 July 1974 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive rol ...
, radio producer
*
Janine Pease
Janine Pease is an American educator and Native American advocate. She is the founding president of the Little Big Horn College as well as the past president of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and director of the American Indian ...
, educator
*
Willie Reale
Willie Reale is an American lyricist who has received Academy Award nominations for best song category for his work as a lyricist on the movie ''Dreamgirls'' and has won 3 Emmy awards (in 2010, 2011) as one of the writer/producers for ''The Electr ...
, theater arts educator
*
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the ...
, poet and writer
*
Sam-Ang Sam
Sam-Ang Sam ( km, សំ សំអាង, ) is a Cambodian-American ethnomusicologist and 1994 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (as part of the Apsara Ensemble) in 1998.
Sam-Ang Sam and his wi ...
, musician and cultural preservationist
*
Jack Wisdom
Jack Wisdom (born 1953) is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. from Rice University in 1976 and his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1981. His research interests ar ...
, physicist
1995
*
Allison Anders
Allison Anders (born November 16, 1954) is an American independent film director whose films include ''Gas Food Lodging'', ''Mi Vida Loca'' and ''Grace of My Heart''. Anders has collaborated with fellow UCLA School of Theater, Film and Televisio ...
Octavia E. Butler
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowshi ...
, science fiction novelist
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Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, ''The House on Mango Street'' (1983), and her subsequent short story collection, '' Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories'' (1991). Her work e ...
, writer and poet
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Sandy Close
Alexandra Close is an American journalist and the founder of Ethnic Media Services. She was the executive director of Pacific News Service from 1974 to 2017 and of New America Media from 1996 to 2017.
Early life and education
Close received ...
Sharon Emerson
Sharon B. Emerson (born 1945) is an American biologist and was a research professor emeritus at the University of Utah.
In 1993, she was chair of the Division of Vertebrate Morphology of the American Society of Zoologists.
She taught at Univers ...
, biologist
*
Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman (born June 10, 1937 in New York City) is an American avant-garde playwright and the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
Achievements and awards
Foreman has written, directed and designed over fifty of his own plays, b ...
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Esther Hamilton (March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002) was an American children's books author. She wrote 41 books, including '' M. C. Higgins, the Great'' (1974), for which she won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Bo ...
Patricia Nelson Limerick
Patricia Nelson Limerick (born May 17, 1951) is an American historian, author, lecturer and teacher, considered to be one of the leading historians of the American West.
Early life and education
Limerick is the daughter of Grant and Patricia Ne ...
Pamela Matson
Pamela Anne Matson (born 1953) is an American scientist and professor. From 2002 - 2017 she was the dean of the Stanford University School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. She also previously worked at NASA and at the University of Cal ...
, ecologist
*
Susan McClary
Susan Kaye McClary (born October 2, 1946) is an American musicologist associated with " new musicology". Noted for her work combining musicology with feminist music criticism, McClary is professor of musicology at Case Western Reserve Universit ...
, musicologist
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Meredith Monk
Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recordin ...
Cindy Sherman
Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.
Her breakthrough work is often co ...
, photographer
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Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, h ...
Allan Bérubé
Allan Bérubé (pronounced BEH-ruh-bay; December 3, 1946 – December 11, 2007) was a gay American historian, activist, independent scholar, self-described "community-based" researcher and college drop-out, and award-winning author, best know ...
Rebecca Goldstein
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University, and ...
Richard Howard
Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022; adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz) was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a graduate of Columbia University, w ...
, poet, translator, and literary critic
* John Jesurun, playwright
*
Richard Lenski
Richard Eimer Lenski (born August 13, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist, a Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a MacArthur fellow. ...
, biologist
*
Louis Massiah
Louis J. Massiah is an American documentary filmmaker, MacArthur Prize winner, and community activist who has worked with Philadelphians to develop filmmaking skills and to access media resources in order to record their own stories.
He graduated ...
Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss (born February 27, 1954, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright of African-American, Native American, and European heritage. Her poetry has been published in a number of ...
, poet and writer
*
Eiko Otake
Eiko Otake and Takashi Koma Otake, generally known as Eiko & Koma, are a Japanese performance duo. Since 1972, Eiko & Koma have worked as co-artistic directors, choreographers, and performers, creating a unique theater of movement out of stillness ...
and
Koma Otake
Eiko Otake and Takashi Koma Otake, generally known as Eiko & Koma, are a Japanese performance duo. Since 1972, Eiko & Koma have worked as co-artistic directors, choreographers, and performers, creating a unique theater of movement out of stillness ...
, dancers, choreographers
*
Nathan Seiberg
Nathan "Nati" Seiberg (; born September 22, 1956) is an Israeli American theoretical physicist who works on quantum field theory and string theory. He is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United ...
, physicist
*
Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in '' The West Wing'' (2000–06), hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime series ''N ...
Bill Strickland
William E. Strickland (born August 25, 1947, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a community leader, author, and the President and CEO of the non-profit Manchester Bidwell Corporation based in Pittsburgh. The company's subsidiaries, the Manchester C ...
, art educator
1997
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Luis Alfaro
Luis Alfaro (born 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is a Chicano performance artist, writer, theater director, and social activist.
He grew up in the Pico Union district near Downtown Los Angeles, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in ...
, writer and performance artist
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Lee Breuer
Esser Leopold Breuer (February 6, 1937 – January 3, 2021) was an American playwright, theater director, academic, educator, filmmaker, poet, and lyricist. Breuer taught and directed on six continents.
Career
Breuer was a founding co-artistic ...
, playwright
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Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns;Hilarie M. Sheets and Randy Kennedy (September 24, 2015)''New York Times''. lv, Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and dr ...
, artist
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Eric Charnov
Eric Lee Charnov (born October 29, 1947) is an American evolutionary ecologist. He is best known for his work on foraging, especially the marginal value theorem, and life history theory, especially sex allocation and scaling/allometric rules. ...
Peter Galison
Peter Louis Galison (born May 17, 1955, New York) is an American historian and philosopher of science. He is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and physics at Harvard University.
Biography
Galison received his Ph.D. ...
Eva Harris
Eva Harris (born August 6, 1965) is a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founder and president of the Sustainable Sciences Institute. She focuses her research efforts on combating diseases ...
, molecular biologist
*
Michael Kremer
Michael Robert Kremer (born November 12, 1964) is an American development economist who is University Professor in Economics And Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He is the founding director of the Development Innovation Lab at the B ...
, economist
*
Russell Lande
Russell Scott Lande (born 1951) is an American evolutionary biologist and ecologist, and an International Chair Professor at Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is a fellow of the Roy ...
, biologist
*
Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall (born October 17, 1955) is an American artist and professor, known for his paintings of Black figures. He previously taught painting at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2017, Marshall ...
, artist
* Nancy A. Moran, evolutionary biologist and ecologist
*
Han Ong
Han Ong (born 1968) is an American playwright and novelist. He is both a high-school dropout and one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Born in the Philippines, he moved to the United States at 16. His works, wh ...
, playwright
*
Kathleen Ross Kathleen Ross, SNJM, is founding president of Heritage University, which opened in 1982.
A member of the religious order of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, she graduated from Fort Wright College with a B.A., from Georgetown Unive ...
, educator
*
Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information Management at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the UC Berkeley School of Information and Boalt Hall, the School of Law ...
, copyright scholar and activist
* Susan Stewart, literary scholar and poet
* Elizabeth Streb, dancer and choreographer
*
Trimpin
Trimpin (born Gerhard Trimpin) FutureMusic.com, June 21, 2006. Accessed online 6 October 2007. (born 195 ...
, sound sculptor
*
Loïc Wacquant
Loïc J. D. Wacquant (; born 1960) is a sociologist and social anthropologist, specializing in urban sociology, urban poverty, racial inequality, the body, social theory and ethnography.
Wacquant is a Professor of Sociology and Researc ...
, sociologist
*
Kara Walker
Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best ...
, artist
*
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel '' Infinite Jest'', whi ...
, author and journalist
*
Andrew Wiles
Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awa ...
Janine Antoni
Janine Antoni (born January 19, 1964) is a Bahamian–born American artist, who creates contemporary work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. Antoni's work focuses on process and the transitions between the making and finished product, ...
, artist
*
Ida Applebroog
Ida Applebroog (born November 11, 1929) is an American multi-media artist who is best-known for her paintings and sculptures that explore the themes of gender, sexual identity, violence and politics. Applebroog has been the recipient of multiple ...
, artist
* Ellen Barry, attorney and human rights activist
* Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
*
Linda Bierds
Linda Louise Bierds (born 1945 in Delaware) is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, where she also received her B.A. in 1969.
Her books include ''Flights of the Harvest Mare''; ''The Stil ...
John Carlstrom
John E. Carlstrom (born 1957) is an American astrophysicist, and Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Physics, at the University of Chicago.
He graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in 1981, and from the University of Ca ...
Nancy Folbre
Nancy Folbre (19 July 1952) is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family (or family economics), non-market work and the economics of care. She is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
...
Gary Hill
Gary Hill (born April 4, 1951) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Often viewed as one of the foundational artists in video art, based on the single-channel work and video- and sound-based installations of the 1970s ...
, artist
*
Edward Hirsch
Edward M. Hirsch (born January 20, 1950) is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published nine books of poems, including ''The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems'' (2010), which brings toget ...
, poet, essayist
*
Ayesha Jalal
Ayesha Jalal (Punjabi, ur, ) is a Pakistani-American historian who serves as the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, and was the recipient of the 1998 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
Family and early life
Ayesha Jala ...
Karl Sims Karl Sims (born 1962) is a computer graphics artist and researcher, who is best known for using particle systems and artificial life in computer animation.
Biography
Sims received a B.S. from MIT in 1984, and a M.S. from the MIT Media Lab in 1987. ...
Mary Zimmerman
Mary Zimmerman (born August 23, 1960) is an American theatre and opera director and playwright from Nebraska. She is an ensemble member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company, the Manilow Resident Director at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinoi ...
Carolyn Bertozzi
Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi (born October 10, 1966) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate, known for her wide-ranging work spanning both chemistry and biology. She coined the term "bioorthogonal chemistry" for chemical reactions compatible with ...
, chemist
*
Xu Bing
Xu Bing (; born 1955) is a Chinese artist who served as vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is known for his printmaking skills and installation art, as well as his creative artistic use of language, words, and text and how t ...
, artist and printmaker
* Bruce G. Blair, policy analyst
* John Bonifaz, election lawyer and voting rights leader
*
Shawn Carlson
Shawn Carlson (born 1960) is an American physicist, science writer, and a STEM educator.
Education
Carlson graduated from U.C. Berkeley with Bachelor of Science degrees in both Applied Mathematics and Physics in 1981. He graduated from UCLA wi ...
Elizabeth Diller
Elizabeth Diller, also known as Liz Diller, is an American architect and partner in Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which she co-founded in 1979. She is also an architecture professor at Princeton University.
Life
Elizabeth Diller was born in 1954 in ...
, architect
*
Saul Friedländer
Saul Friedländer (; born October 11, 1932) is a Czech-Jewish-born historian and a professor emeritus of history at UCLA.
Biography
Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a family of German-speaking Jews. He was raised in France and lived thro ...
David Hillis
David Mark Hillis (born December 21, 1958 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is an American evolutionary biologist, and the Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known for his studies of molecular e ...
, biologist
*
Sara Horowitz
Sara Horowitz (born January 13, 1963) is a founder of the Freelancers Union and a proponent of mutualism. She has been working for unions since age 18, when she held a summer internship at the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. She h ...
, lawyer
*
Jacqueline Jones
Jacqueline Jones (born 17 June 1948) is an American social historian. She held the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas from 2008 to 2017 and is Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. ...
Leslie Kurke Leslie V. Kurke (born 1959) is a Goldman School of Public Policy, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley.
She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a ...
, classicist
*
David Levering Lewis
David Levering Lewis (born May 25, 1936) is an American historian, a Julius Silver University Professor, and a professor of history at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for ...
, biographer and historian
*
Juan Maldacena
Juan Martín Maldacena (born September 10, 1968) is an Argentine theoretical physicist and the Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has made significant contributions to t ...
Pepón Osorio
Pepón Osorio is a Puerto Rican artist. He uses different objects as well as video in his pieces to portray political and social issues in the Latino community. He was born in 1955 in Santurce, Puerto Rico and studied at the Interamerican Universi ...
Peter Shor
Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT. He is known for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially f ...
Wilma Subra
Wilma Subra (born 1943) is an American environmental scientist. She is President of the Subra Company, an environmental consulting firm.
, scientist
*
Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964) is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.
A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compos ...
, saxophonist, composer
*
Naomi Wallace
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Biography
Naomi Wallace was born in Prospect, Kentucky, to ...
Lucy Blake Lucy Blake is an American conservationist, President of the Northern Sierra Partnership. She was a 2000 MacArthur Fellow.
She founded the Sierra Business Council and won the Pat Brown Award.
Blake works for the Department of Energy on energy and n ...
, conservationist
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Anne Carson
Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor.
Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the Unit ...
David Isay
David Avram "Dave" Isay (born December 5, 1965) is an American radio producer and founder of Sound Portraits Productions. He is also the founder of StoryCorps, an ongoing oral history project. He is the recipient of numerous broadcasting honors ...
, radio producer
*
Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar (; ; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives in New York City. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war— ...
, photographer
*
Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor (born November 19, 1951) is an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for the comic strip '' Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer''. He has contributed comics and drawings to ''The Forward'', ''The New Yorker,'' ''Metro ...
, graphic novelist
*
Hideo Mabuchi
Hideo Mabuchi (born 1971) is a physicist and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University, and the head of the Mabuchi Lab.
He graduated from Princeton University ''magna cum laude'', with an A.B. in Physics in 1992, and from
California I ...
Samuel Mockbee
Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee (December 23, 1944 – December 30, 2001) was an American architect and a co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama. After establishing a regular architectural practice in his native ...
, architect
*
Cecilia Muñoz
Cecilia Muñoz (born July 27, 1962) is an American political advisor who served as Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Obama, a position she held for five years. Prior to that, she served as the White House Direct ...
, civil rights policy analyst
* Margaret Murnane, optical physicist
*
Laura Otis
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She graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1983, and from the University of California, San Francisco ...
, literary scholar and historian of science
* Lucia M. Perillo, poet
*
Matthew Rabin
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, economist
*
Carl Safina
Carl Safina (born May 23, 1955) is an American ecologist and author of books and other writings about the human relationship with the natural world. His books include ''Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achiev ...
Gina G. Turrigiano
Gina G. Turrigiano is an American neuroscientist, and is the Levitan Chair of Vision Science at Brandeis University.
Turrigiano is known for her pioneering work on the mechanisms that allow brain circuits to remain both flexible and stable. Tu ...
, neuroscientist
*
Gary Urton
Gary Urton (born July 7, 1946) is an American anthropologist. He was the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies at Harvard University and the chair of its anthropology department between 2012 and 2019. Urton retired from Harvard in 20 ...
Horng-Tzer Yau
Horng-Tzer Yau (; born 1959 in Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician. He received his B.Sc. in 1981 from National Taiwan University and his Ph.D. in 1987 from Princeton University. Yau joined the faculty of NYU in 1988, and became a full ...
, mathematician
2001
*
Andrea Barrett
Andrea Barrett (born November 16, 1954) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her collection ''Ship Fever'' won the 1996 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, and she received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001. Her book ''Servants of the Ma ...
, writer
*
Christopher Chyba
Christopher F. Chyba is an American astrobiologist, and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.
He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1982, and studied mathematical phys ...
Rosanne Haggerty
Rosanne Haggerty (born 1961) is an American housing and community development leader, and founder of Common Ground Community and later of Community Solutions. Haggerty redeveloped the Times Square Hotel, a building on the National Register of H ...
, housing and community development leader
*
Lene Hau
Lene Vestergaard Hau (; born November 13, 1959) is a Danish physicist and educator. She is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University.
In 1999, she led a Harvard University team who, by use of a Bose–E ...
, physicist
*
Dave Hickey
David Hickey (December 5, 1938 – November 12, 2021) was an American art critic who wrote for many American publications including ''Rolling Stone'', ''ARTnews'', ''Art in America'', ''Artforum'', ''Harper's Magazine'', and ''Vanity Fair''. He ...
, art critic
*
Stephen Hough
Sir Stephen Andrew Gill Hough (; born 22 November 1961) is a British-born classical pianist, composer and writer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005 and thus has dual nationality (his father was born in Australia in 1926).
Biography
Houg ...
, pianist and composer
*
Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison (born June 22, 1946) is an American clinical psychologist and writer. Her work has centered on bipolar disorder, which she has had since her early adulthood. She holds the post of the Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders and Psy ...
, psychologist
* Sandra Lanham, pilot and conservationist
*
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (born 1961, Madrid, Spain) is an American Conceptual art, conceptual artist known for multidisciplinary, socially oriented sculpture, video and Installation art, installations and urban Community arts, community-based proje ...
, artist
*
Cynthia Moss
Cynthia Jane Moss (born July 24, 1940) is an American ethologist and conservationist, wildlife researcher, and writer. Her studies have concentrated on the demography, behavior, social organization, and population dynamics of the African elephant ...
, natural historian
*
Aihwa Ong
Aihwa Ong (; born February 1, 1950) is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, a member of the Science Council of the International Panel on Social Progress, and a former recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship for the s ...
, anthropologist
*
Dirk Obbink
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, classicist and papyrologist
* Norman R. Pace, biochemist
*
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963) is an American playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist. Her 2001 play ''Topdog/Underdog'' won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002; Parks was the first African-American woman to receive the award for d ...
Xiao Qiang
Xiao Qiang (, born November 19, 1961) is the Director and Research Scientist of the Counter-Power Lab, an interdisciplinary faculty-student research group focusing on digital rights and internet freedom, based in the School of Information, Univ ...
Bright Sheng
Bright Sheng ( Chinese: 盛宗亮 pinyin: ''Shèng Zōngliàng''; born December 6, 1955) is a Chinese-born American composer, pianist and conductor. Sheng has earned many honors for his music and compositions, including a MacArthur Fellowship in ...
, composer
*
David Spergel
David Nathaniel Spergel is an American theoretical astrophysicist and the Emeritus Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation at Princeton University. Since 2021, he has been the President of the Simons Foundation ...
Julie Su
Julie A. Su (born February 19, 1969) is an American attorney who has served as United States deputy secretary of labor since 2021. Before assuming that post, she was the California Labor Secretary, serving under Governor Gavin Newsom, and headed ...
, human rights lawyer
* David Wilson, museum founder
2002
*
Danielle Allen
Danielle Susan Allen (born November 3, 1971) is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. She is also the Director of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard in 2015, Allen ...
, classicist and political scientist
*
Bonnie Bassler
Bonnie Lynn Bassler (born 1962) is an American molecular biologist; the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University; and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. She h ...
, molecular biologist
*
Ann M. Blair
Ann M. Blair (born 1961) is an American historian, and the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University. She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe (16th-17th centuries), with an emphasis on ...
, intellectual historian
*
Katherine Boo
Katherine "Kate" J. Boo (born August 12, 1964) is an American investigative journalist who has documented the lives of people in poverty. She has won the MacArthur "genius" award (2002) and the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2012), and her wo ...
, journalist
*
Paul Ginsparg
Paul Henry Ginsparg (born January 1, 1955) is a physicist. He developed the arXiv.org e-print archive.
Education
He is a graduate of Syosset High School in Syosset, New York. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in phy ...
Daniel Jurafsky
Daniel Jurafsky is a professor of linguistics and computer science at Stanford University, and also an author. With Daniel Gildea, he is known for developing the first automatic system for semantic role labeling (SRL). He is the author of ''The ...
, computer scientist and linguist
* Toba Khedoori, artist
*
Liz Lerman
Liz Lerman (born 1947 in Los Angeles, CA) is an American choreographer and founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange .
Called by the Washington Post “the source of an epochal revolution in the scope and purposes of dance art,” she and her dancers ...
Edgar Meyer
Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is an American bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. He has won five Grammy Awards and been nominated seven times.
Meyer is a member of the Telluride Bluegras ...
, bassist and composer
*
Jack Miles
John R. "Jack" Miles (born July 30, 1942) is an American author. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the MacArthur Fellowship. His writings on religion, politics, and culture have appeared in numerous national pub ...
, writer and Biblical scholar
* Erik Mueggler, anthropologist and ethnographer
*
Sendhil Mullainathan
Sendhil Mullainathan () (born c. 1973) is an American professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author of '' Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much'' (with Eldar Sha ...
, economist
*
Stanley Nelson
Stanley Earl Nelson Jr. (born June 7, 1951) is an American documentary filmmaker and a MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellow known as a director, writer and producer of documentaries examining African-American history and experiences.
He i ...
Camilo José Vergara
Camilo José Vergara (born 1944 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean-born, New York-based writer, photographer and documentarian.
Vergara has been compared to Jacob Riis for his photographic documentation of American slums and decaying urban environ ...
, photographer
* Paul Wennberg, atmospheric chemist
*
Colson Whitehead
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of eight novels, including his 1999 debut work '' The Intuitionist''; '' The Underground Railroad'' (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Awar ...
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short (one or two pages long) short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of ...
, writer and translator
*
Erik Demaine
Erik D. Demaine (born February 28, 1981) is a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former child prodigy.
Early life and education
Demaine was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to artist sculptor Marti ...
, theoretical computer scientist
* Corinne Dufka, human rights researcher
*
Peter Gleick
Peter H. Gleick (; born 1956) is an American scientist working on issues related to the environment. He works at the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California, which he co-founded in 1987. In 2003 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his work ...
, conservation analyst
*
Osvaldo Golijov
Osvaldo Noé Golijov (; born December 5, 1960) is an Argentine composer of classical music and music professor, known for his vocal and orchestral work.
Biography
Osvaldo Golijov was born in and grew up in La Plata, Argentina, in a Jewish family ...
Angela Johnson Angela Johnson may also refer to:
*Angela Johnson (basketball) (born 1953), Canadian Olympic basketball player
*Angela Johnson (writer) (born 1961), children's author
*Angela Davis Johnson, American painter
*Angela Jonsson (born 1990), Indian model ...
Sarah H. Kagan
Sarah Hope Kagan, PhD, RN, FAAN, is an American gerontological nurse, and Lucy Walker Honorary Term Professor of Gerontological Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania.
Life
Professor Kagan teaches students across the baccalaureate, masters and ...
, gerontological nurse
*
Ned Kahn
Ned Kahn is an environmental artist and sculptor, known in particular for museum exhibits he has built for the Exploratorium in San Francisco. His works usually intend to capture an invisible aspect of nature and make it visible.
Early life
Kahn ...
, artist and science exhibit designer
*
Jim Yong Kim
Jim Yong Kim (; born December 8, 1959), also known as Kim Yong (/金墉), is an American physician and anthropologist who served as the 12th president of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019.
A global health leader, Kim was formerly the chair of ...
Lateefah Simon
Lateefah Simon (born January 29, 1977 in San Francisco) currently serves as President of Meadow Fund. Previously President oAkonadi Foundationand an advocate for civil rights, racial justice, and juvenile justice. In 2003, she became the youngest ...
, women's development leader
*
Peter Sís
Peter Sís (born Petr Sís; May 11, 1949) is a Czech-born American illustrator and writer of children's books. As a cartoonist his editorial illustrations have appeared in ''Time'', ''Newsweek'', ''Esquire'', and ''The Atlantic Monthly''. For his ...
, illustrator
*
Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze (; born 1969) is an American artist widely recognized for challenging the boundaries of painting, installation, and architecture. Sze's sculptural practice ranges from slight gestures discovered in hidden spaces to expansive installat ...
Daisy Youngblood
Daisy Youngblood (born 1945) is an American modern sculptor and ceramic artist. She grew up in North Carolina and lives in New Mexico. She was a 2003 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program genius grant.
Life
Youngblood was born in 1945 in As ...
, ceramic artist
*
Xiaowei Zhuang
Xiaowei Zhuang (; born January 1972) is a Chinese-American biophysicist who is the David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and an Investigator at the H ...
Joseph DeRisi
Joseph Lyman DeRisi is an American biochemist, specializing in molecular biology, parasitology, genomics, virology, and computational biology.
Life
He received a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1992) from the University of Califo ...
, biologist
*
Katherine Gottlieb
Katherine Gottlieb was the president and CEO of the Southcentral Foundation, an Alaska Native Healthcare Organization.
Life
She graduated from Alaska Pacific University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, a master's degree in business administration, ...
, health care leader
*
David Green
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
, technology transfer innovator
*
Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Xeмoн; born September 9, 1964) is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels '' Nowhere Man'' (2002) and '' The Lazarus Pr ...
Edward P. Jones
Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel '' The Known World'' received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award.
Biography
Edward Paul Jones was born ...
, writer
*
John Kamm
John Kamm is an American businessman and human rights activist. He is the founder of The Dui Hua Foundation, a nonprofit humanitarian organization that promotes universal human rights in well-informed, mutually respectful dialogue with China. He i ...
, human rights activist
*
Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller ( he, דפנה קולר; born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She was a professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient. She is one ...
Tommie Lindsey
Tommie Lindsey (born September 28, 1951 Oakland, California) is a Forensics coach, at James Logan High School.
Life
He graduated valedictorian from the University of San Francisco in Communication Arts and Social Science. He would later go on to r ...
, school debate coach
* Rueben Martinez, businessman and activist
*
Maria Mavroudi
Maria V. Mavroudi (born 1967) is a Greek-born American historian, linguist, and educator. She is a history professor at University of California, Berkeley.
Education
Mavroudi graduated from Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece; from the Un ...
, historian
*
Vamsi Mootha
Vamsi K. Mootha is an Indian-born American physician-scientist and computational biologist. He is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor of Systems Biology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Investigator in th ...
, physician and computational biologist
*
Judy Pfaff
Judy Pfaff (born 1946) is an American artist known mainly for installation art and sculptures, though she also produces paintings and prints. Pfaff has received numerous awards for her work, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundati ...
, sculptor
*
Aminah Robinson
Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (February 18, 1940 – May 22, 2015) was an American artist who represented Black history through art.
Early life and education
Robinson was born on February 18, 1940 to Leroy Edward Robinson and Helen Elizabeth Zimm ...
Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop ( �mɛər.ɪn ˈæːl.sɑːp born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor, the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She is music director laureate ...
Terry Belanger
Terry Belanger is the founding director of Rare Book School (RBS), an institute concerned with education for the history of books and printing, and with rare books and special collections librarianship. He is University Professor Emeritus at the ...
, rare book preservationist
*
Edet Belzberg
Edet Belzberg is a documentary filmmaker. She won a 2005 MacArthur Fellowship.
Biography
Belzberg received a B.A. in 1991 from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an M.A. in 1997 from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbi ...
, documentary filmmaker
*
Majora Carter
Majora Carter (born October 27, 1966) is an American urban revitalization strategist and public radio host from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded and led the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable ...
, urban revitalization strategist
* Lu Chen, neuroscientist
* Michael Cohen, pharmacist
*
Joseph Curtin
Joseph Curtin is an American contemporary violinmaker who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is recognised as one of the world's greatest violinmakers.
He was a 2005 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant".
He has also directed ...
, violinmaker
*
Aaron Dworkin
Aaron Paul Dworkin (born September 11, 1970) is an American violinist and music educator.
Early life
Dworkin was born on September 11, 1970, in Monticello, New York, to Vaughn and Audeen Moore, but they were forced to give their son up for adopt ...
Jon Kleinberg
Jon Michael Kleinberg (born 1971) is an American computer scientist and the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University known for his work in algorithms and networks. He is a recipient of the Nevanl ...
Michael Manga
Michael Manga (born July 22, 1968) is a Canadian-American geoscientist who is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Manga grew up in Ottawa. His father is a South African immigrant of Indian ...
, geophysicist
*
Todd Martinez
Todd or Todds may refer to:
Places
;Australia:
* Todd River, an ephemeral river
;United States:
* Todd Valley, California, also known as Todd, an unincorporated community
* Todd, Missouri, a ghost town
* Todd, North Carolina, an unincorporated ...
Fazal Sheikh
Fazal Sheikh (born June 27, 1965 in New York City) is an artist who uses photographs to document people living in displaced and marginalized communities around the world.
Life and career
Fazal Sheikh is an artist who uses photographs to document ...
* David Carroll, naturalist author and illustrator
*
Regina Carter
Regina Carter (born August 6, 1966) is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of jazz saxophonist James Carter.
Early life
Carter was born in Detroit and was one of three children in her family.
She began piano lessons at the age of t ...
Jim Fruchterman
Jim Fruchterman is an engineer and social entrepreneur. He was the founder and longtime CEO of Benetech, a Silicon Valley nonprofit technology company that develops software applications to address unmet needs of users in the social sector. He is ...
, technologist, CEO of
Benetech
Benetech is a nonprofit social enterprise organization that empowers communities with software for social good. Previous projects include the Route 66 Literacy Project, the Miradi environmental project management software, Martus (human rights ab ...
*
Atul Gawande
Atul Atmaram Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Departme ...
OneWorld Health
PATH (formerly known as the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) is an international, nonprofit global health organization based in Seattle, with 1,600 employees in more than 70 countries around the world. Its president and CEO is Nikol ...
*
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is an American journalist whose works focus on the marginalized members of society: adolescents living in poverty, prostitutes, women in prison, etc. She is best known for her 2003 non-fiction book '' Random Family''. She wa ...
, journalist and author
*
David Macaulay
David Macaulay (born 2 December 1946) is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include ''Cathedral'' (1973), '' The Way Things Work'' (1988) and ''The New Way Things Work'' (1998). His illustrations have been featured in ...
, author and illustrator
*
Josiah McElheny
Josiah McElheny (1966, Boston) is an artist and sculptor, primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects (see Glass art). He is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program. He liv ...
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, professor, and essayist. Among her most popular plays are ''Eurydice'' (2003), ''The Clean House'' (2004), and ''In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)'' (2009). She has been the reci ...
, playwright
*
George Saunders
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', '' Harper's'', ''McSweeney's'', and '' GQ''. He also contributed a w ...
, short story writer
* Anna Schuleit, commemorative artist
*
Shahzia Sikander
Shahzia Sikander (born 1969, in Lahore, Pakistan) is a Pakistani-American visual artist. Sikander works across a variety of mediums, including drawing, painting, printmaking, animation, installation, performance and video. Sikander currently lives ...
Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn (; born 19 August 1978) is a German-Guatemalan entrepreneur and a consulting professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcin ...
Peter Cole
Peter Cole is a MacArthur-winning poet and translator who lives in Jerusalem and New Haven. Cole was born in 1957 in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended Williams College and Hampshire College, and moved to Jerusalem in 1981. He has been called "o ...
, 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
*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