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 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants and impact investments to support non-profit organizations in approximately 50 countries around the world. It has an endowment of $7.0 billion and ...

typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the

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

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

. 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 ''

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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 Ac ...

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 highe ...

account for 175 fellowships, followed by the alumni of

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

(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 un ...

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

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

1981

* A. R. Ammons, poet *

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

, poet * John Cairns, molecular biologist * Gregory V. Chudnovsky, mathematician *

Joel E. Cohen Joel Ephraim Cohen (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematical biologist. He is currently Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University in New York City and at the Earth Institute of Columbia University, where he h ...

, population biologist * Robert Coles, child psychiatrist * Richard Critchfield, essayist * Shelly Errington, cultural anthropologist * Howard Gardner, 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 Amer ...

, literary critic * John Gaventa, sociologist * Michael Ghiselin, evolutionary biologist *

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

, paleontologist *

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

, archaeologist * David Hawkins, philosopher * John P. Holdren, arms control and energy analyst *

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

, architectural critic and historian * John Imbrie, climatologist *

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

, geographer *

Raphael Carl Lee Raphael Carl Lee (born October 29, 1949, in Sumter, South Carolina) is an American surgeon, medical researcher, biomedical engineer, and entrepreneur. Life Lee spent his childhood and adolescence in South Carolina. During medical school and gradua ...

, surgeon *

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

, arts educator *

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

, writer *

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

, geneticist *

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

, short story writer and essayist * Roy P. Mottahedeh, historian * Richard C. Mulligan, molecular biologist * Douglas D. Osheroff, physicist *

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

, historian of religion *

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

, historian of science *

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

, seismologist *

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

, biologist and historian of science *

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

, philosopher * Lawrence Rosen, attorney and anthropologist * Carl Emil Schorske, intellectual historian * Leslie Marmon Silko, writer * Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., astrophysicist *

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

, poet and playwright *

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

, poet, novelist, and literary critic * Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist and physicist * Michael Woodford, economist * George Zweig, physicist and neurobiologist

1982

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

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

, 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 kno ...

, statistician * William Gaddis, novelist *

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

, writer *

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

, educator and philosopher *

Richard A. Muller Richard A. Muller (born January 6, 1944) is an American physicist and emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In early 2010, Mul ...

, geologist and astrophysicist * Conlon Nancarrow, composer * Alfonso Ortiz, cultural anthropologist *

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

, Assyriologist and historian of science * Charles Sabel, political scientist and legal scholar * Ralph Shapey, composer and conductor * Michael Silverstein, linguist * Randolph Whitfield Jr., ophthalmologist * Frank Wilczek, 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, physicist, creator of the M-Theory

1983

* R. Stephen Berry, physical chemist * Seweryn Bialer, political scientist * William C. Clark, 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 ...

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

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

, medieval historian *

Mott T. Greene Mott T. Greene (born 1945) is an American historian of science, and is John B. Magee Professor of Science and Values Emeritus, at the University of Puget Sound, from which he retired in 2012. He is currently Affiliate Professor of Earth & Space S ...

, historian of science * James E. Gunn, astronomer *

Ramón A. Gutiérrez Ramón Arturo Gutiérrez is an American historian. He is the Preston & Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor in United States History and the college at the University of Chicago. Life He graduated from University of Wisconsin–Madis ...

, historian * John J. Hopfield, physicist and biologist *

Béla Julesz Béla Julesz (also Bela Julesz in English; February 19, 1928 – December 31, 2003) was a Hungarian-born American visual neuroscientist and experimental psychologist in the fields of visual and auditory perception. Julesz was the originator of ...

, psychologist * William Kennedy, novelist *

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

, historian of philosophy and religion * Sylvia A. Law, human rights lawyer * Brad Leithauser, poet and writer * Lawrence W. Levine, historian * Ralph Manheim, translator *

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

, historian and sociologist of science * Walter F. Morris Jr., cultural preservationist *

Charles S. Peskin Charles Samuel Peskin (born April 15, 1946) is an American mathematician known for his work in the mathematical modeling of blood flow in the heart. Such calculations are useful in the design of artificial heart valves. From this work has emerged ...

, mathematician and physiologist * A.K. Ramanujan, poet, translator, and literary scholar * Alice M. Rivlin, 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 '' ...

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

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

, theater and opera director * Karen K. Uhlenbeck, mathematician * Adrian Wilson, book designer, printer, and book historian *

Irene J. Winter Irene J. Winter (born 1940 in New York City) is an American art historian who is an influential and pioneering scholar of ancient Near Eastern art. Life BA Barnard College, Anthropology, 1960; MA University of Chicago, Near Eastern Studies, 1967 ...

, art historian and archaeologist * Mark S. Wrighton, chemist

1984

* George W. Archibald, ornithologist * Shelly Bernstein, pediatric hematologist * Peter J. Bickel, statistician * Ernesto J. Cortes Jr., community organizer *

William Drayton William Drayton (December 30, 1776May 24, 1846) was an American politician, banker, and writer who grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. He was the son of William Drayton Sr., who served as justice of the Province of East Florida (1765–178 ...

, 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 fe ...

, physicist and arms policy analyst * Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, mathematical physicist * Michael H. Freedman, mathematician *

Curtis G. Hames Dr. Curtis Gordon Hames Sr. (19 Feb 1920 Claxton, Georgia - January 6, 2005 Savannah, Georgia) was a family physician and pioneer in the epidemiologic study of heart disease and stroke. He graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in 194 ...

, family physician * Robert Hass, poet, critic, and translator * Shirley Heath, linguistic anthropologist * J. Bryan Hehir, religion and foreign policy scholar * Bette Howland, writer and literary critic *

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

, 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, 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. He ...

, labor and art historian * Paul Oskar Kristeller, intellectual historian and philosopher * Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, educator * Heather Lechtman, materials scientist and archaeologist * Michael Lerner, public health leader *

Andrew W. Lewis Andrew W. Lewis (5 September 1943 – 24 October 2017) was an American historian and professor at Missouri State University. His areas of interest were medieval Europe and the Renaissance. Awards and honors * Session 8: Autour du livre d'Andrew ...

, medieval historian *

Arnold J. Mandell Arnold J. Mandell is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist. Born in 1934, in Chicago, Illinois, he received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1954 and his M.D. from Tulane University in 1958. Founding chairman in 1969 of the Department of ...

, neuroscientist and psychiatrist * Peter Mathews, archaeologist and epigrapher *

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

, geneticist and arms control analyst * David R. Nelson, 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 signifi ...

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

, Tibetan studies scholar * David Stuart, linguist and epigrapher * Frank Sulloway, psychologist (child birth-order research) *

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

, intellectual historian * Alar Toomre, astronomer and mathematician * James Turrell, light sculptor *

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

, cognitive scientist * Bret Wallach, geographer * Jay Weiss, psychologist *

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

, physiologist and mathematician * J. Kirk Varnedoe, art historian * Carl R. Woese, molecular biologist * Billie Young, community development leader

1985

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

, community development leader *

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

, poet *

John F. Benton John F. Benton (1931 Philadelphia – February 25, 1988 Pasadena) was the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History, at the California Institute of Technology. He graduated from Haverford College, with a BA in 1953, from Princeton Universit ...

, medieval historian *

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

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

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

, cognitive scientist * Sam Maloof, professional woodworker and furniture maker *

Andrew McGuire Andrew McGuire (born in 1945 in Oakland, California) is an American trauma prevention specialist and grassroots campaigner. He was the first Executive Director of Action Against Burns (Boston, 1973–75), founder and Executive Director of the Bur ...

, trauma prevention specialist * Patrick Noonan, conservationist *

George Oster George Frederick Oster (April 20, 1940 – April 15, 2018) was an American mathematical biologist, and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He made seminal contributions to several varied fields includ ...

, mathematical biologist *

Thomas G. Palaima Thomas G. Palaima (born October 6, 1951) is a Mycenologist, the Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor and the founding director of the university's Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) in the Department of Classics at the University ...

, classicist *

Peter Raven Peter Hamilton Raven (born June 13, 1936) is an American botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Early life On June 13, 1936, Raven was born in Shanghai, China ...

, botanist * Jane S. Richardson, biochemist * Gregory Schopen, historian of religion * Franklin Stahl, geneticist * J. Richard Steffy, nautical archaeologist *

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

, theater director * Paul Taylor, choreographer, dance company founder * Shing-Tung Yau, mathematician

1986

* Paul Adams, neurobiologist *

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

, composer and music theorist * Christopher Beckwith, philologist * Richard Benson, photographer *

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

, agricultural economist *

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

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

, historian *

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

, poet and translator * John Robert Horner, paleobiologist *

Thomas C. Joe Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

, social policy analyst *

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

, historian and sinologist * Albert J. Libchaber, physicist * David C. Page, 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 skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. Rodrigues 2010 ...

, magician * David Rudovsky, civil rights lawyer * Robert Shapley, neurophysiologist * Leo Steinberg, art historian * Richard P. Turco, atmospheric scientist * Thomas Whiteside, journalist * Allan C. Wilson, biochemist * Jay Wright, poet and playwright *

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

, composer

1987

* Walter Abish, writer * Robert Axelrod, political scientist *

Robert F. Coleman Robert Frederick Coleman (November22 1954March24, 2014) was an American mathematician, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Biography After graduating from Nova High School, he completed his bachelor's degree at Harvard Univer ...

, mathematician *

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

, poet * Daniel Friedan, physicist * David Gross, physicist *

Ira Herskowitz Ira Herskowitz (July 14, 1946 – April 28, 2003) was an American phage and yeast geneticist geneticist who studied genetic regulatory circuits and mechanisms. He was particularly noted for his work on mating type switching and cellular differenti ...

, molecular geneticist *

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

, literary and social critic * Wesley Charles Jacobs Jr., rural planner * Peter Jeffery, musicologist *

Horace Freeland Judson Horace Freeland Judson (April 21, 1931 – May 6, 2011) was a journalist and later with more prominence a historian of molecular biology including authoring several books, including ''The Eighth Day of Creation'', a history of molecular biology, ...

, historian of science * Stuart Alan Kauffman, evolutionary biologist * Richard Kenney, poet *

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

, geneticist and mathematician *

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

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

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

, mathematician * Tina Rosenberg, 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, art historian * John H. Schwarz, physicist * Jon Seger, evolutionary ecologist *

Stephen Shenker Stephen Hart Shenker (born 1953) is an American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He is a professor at Stanford University and former director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His brother Scott Shenker is a comp ...

, physicist *

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

, historian of religion *

Muriel S. Snowden Muriel Sutherland Snowden (July 14, 1916 – September 30, 1988) was the founder and co-director of Freedom House, a community improvement center in Roxbury, Massachusetts. She is, together with her husband Otto P. Snowden, a major figure in B ...

, community organizer * Mark Strand, poet and writer * May Swenson, poet * Huỳnh Sanh Thông, translator and editor *

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

, sociologist *

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

, primate ethologist

1988

* Charles Archambeau, geophysicist *

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

, art historian * Ruth Behar, cultural anthropologist * Ran Blake, composer and pianist * Charles Burnett, filmmaker *

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

, insect biologist *

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

, writer *

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

, physicist * Jon H. Else, documentary filmmaker *

John G. Fleagle John G. Fleagle is an American anthropologist, primatologist, and Distinguished Professor at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He graduated from Yale University ''cum laude'' in 1971, and from Harvard University with a M.S. in Anthropolog ...

, primatologist and paleontologist * Cornell H. Fleischer, Middle Eastern historian *

Getatchew Haile Getatchew Haile (; April 19, 1931 – June 10, 2021) was an Ethiopian-American philologist widely considered the foremost scholar of the Ge'ez language and one of its most prolific (he published more than 150 books and articles). He was acknowle ...

, philologist and linguist * Raymond Jeanloz, geophysicist * Marvin Philip Kahl, zoologist *

Naomi Pierce Naomi E. Pierce (born 1954) is the Hessel Professor of Biology at Harvard University and a world authority on butterflies. Pierce is the university's Curator of Lepidoptera, a position once held by Vladimir Nabokov. Pierce was a Fulbright Postdo ...

, biologist *

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

, novelist * Stephen J. Pyne, environmental historian *

Max Roach Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz 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 ...

, drummer and jazz composer * Hipolito (Paul) Roldan, community developer *

Anna Curtenius Roosevelt Anna Curtenius Roosevelt (born 1946) is an American archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago. She studies human evolution and long-term human-environment interaction. She is one of the leading American ar ...

, archaeologist * David Alan Rosenberg, military historian * Susan Irene Rotroff, archaeologist * Bruce Schwartz, figurative sculptor and puppeteer * Robert Shaw, physicist *

Jonathan Spence Jonathan Dermot Spence (11 August 1936 – 25 December 2021) was an English-born American historian, Sinology, sinologist, and writer who specialized in History of China, Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale Universit ...

, historian * Noel M. Swerdlow, historian of science * Gary A. Tomlinson, musicologist *

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

, paleontologist * Eddie N. Williams, policy analyst and civil rights leader *

Rita P. Wright Rita P. Wright is an American anthropologist, and professor emeritus at New York University. She graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in 1975 and from Harvard University with an M.A. in 1978 and Ph.D. in 1984. She specializes in Near E ...

, archaeologist *

Garth Youngberg Ivan Garth Youngberg was the founder and director of the Institute for Alternative Agriculture. Life and work He graduated from the University of Illinois with a PhD in Political Science in 1971. He taught at Southwest Missouri State University, ...

, agriculturalist

1989

* Anthony Amsterdam, attorney and legal scholar * Byllye Avery, women's healthcare leader * Alvin Bronstein, human rights lawyer * Leo Buss, evolutionary biologist * Jay Cantor, 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 New ...

, poet * John Harbison, composer and conductor *

Keith Hefner Keith Hefner is the founder and Executive Director of Youth Communication, an influential nonprofit organization publishing magazines and books by and for youth. The magazines are ''YCteen'' (formerly known as New Youth Connections), written by N ...

, journalist and educator *

Ralf Hotchkiss Ralf Hotchkiss is an inventor and designer whose company, Whirlwind Wheelchair International, designs wheelchairs for use and manufacture in developing countries, involving wheelchair riders in all of its projects and activities. The organizatio ...

, rehabilitation engineer * John Rice Irwin, 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 th ...

, music historian, composer, and vocalist *

Aaron Lansky Aaron Lansky (born June 17, 1955 in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is the founder of the Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language publications. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 for his work. Lansky is ...

, cultural preservationist * Jennifer Moody, 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. McNama ...

, filmmaker * Vivian Paley, educator and writer * Richard Powers, novelist *

Martin Puryear Martin L. Puryear (born May 23, 1941) is an American artist known for his devotion to traditional craft. Working in wood and bronze, among other media, his reductive technique and meditative approach challenge the physical and poetic boundaries ...

, sculptor * Theodore Rosengarten, historian *

Margaret W. Rossiter Margaret W. Rossiter (born July 1944) is an American historian of science, and Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science, at Cornell University. Rossiter coined the term Matilda effect for the systematic suppression of information ...

, historian of science * George Russell, composer and music theorist * Pam Solo, arms control analyst * Ellendea Proffer Teasley, translator and publisher * Claire Van Vliet, book artist *

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 ...

, video artist *

Eliot Wigginton Eliot Wigginton (born Brooks Eliot Wigginton on November 9, 1942) is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator. He is most widely known for developing with his high school students the Foxfire Project, a writing project ...

, educator * Patricia Wright, primatologist

1990

John Christian Bailar John Christian Bailar III (October 9, 1932 – September 6, 2016) was an American statistician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He died at the age of 83 in Mitchellville, Maryland on September 6, 2016. He was born in Urbana, I ...

, biostatistician *

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 ...

, theater director * Jacques d'Amboise, dance educator * Guy Davenport, 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 an ...

, composer * Paul R. Ehrlich, 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, photographer *

Margaret Geller Margaret J. Geller (born December 8, 1947) is an American astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. Her work has included pioneering maps of the nearby universe, studies of the relationship between galaxies and their ...

, astrophysicist *

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 ...

, poet *

Patricia Hampl Patricia Hampl (born March 12, 1946) is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center. Life Patric ...

, writer *

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 ...

, poet and literary critic * Thomas Cleveland Holt, social and cultural historian *

David Kazhdan David Kazhdan ( he, דוד קשדן), born Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kazhdan (russian: Дми́трий Александро́вич Кажда́н), is a Soviet and Israeli mathematician known for work in representation theory. Kazhdan is a 1990 Ma ...

, mathematician * Calvin King, land and farm development specialist *

M. A. R. Koehl Mimi A. R. Koehl is an American marine biologist, Biomechanics, biomechanist, and professor at University of California, Berkeley, and head of the Koehl Lab. She was a MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellow in 1990. Education M. A. R. Koe ...

, marine biologist *

Nancy Kopell Nancy Jane Kopell (born November 8, 1942, New York City) is an American mathematician and professor at Boston University. She is co-director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology (CompNet). She organized and directs th ...

, mathematician * Michael Moschen, performance artist * Gary Nabhan, ethnobotanist * Sherry Ortner, anthropologist * Otis Pitts, community development leader * Yvonne Rainer, 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 ...

, sociologist * Rebecca J. Scott, historian *

Marc Shell Marc Shell, born 1947 in Montreal, is a Canadian literary critic. He has interests in nationalism and kinship. He serves as Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University. Over 5 of his publications have ...

, scholar *

Susan Sontag Susan Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, philosopher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay " Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. He ...

, writer and cultural critic *

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 unincorpo ...

, conservationist * Maria Varela, 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, 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 ...

, anthropologist * Sidney Wolfe, physician * Robert Woodson, community development leader * José Zalaquett, human rights lawyer

1991

Jacqueline Barton Jacqueline K. Barton (born May 7, 1952 New York City, NY), is an American chemist. She worked as a Professor of Chemistry at Hunter College (1980–82), and at Columbia University (1983–89) before joining the California Institute of Technology ...

, biophysical chemist * Paul Berman, journalist *

James Blinn James F. Blinn (born 1949) is an American computer scientist who first became widely known for his work as a computer graphics expert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), particularly his work on the pre-encounter animations for the Voy ...

, computer animator * Taylor Branch, 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 dancers ...

, choreographer * Mari Jo Buhle, 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, statistician * Steven Feld, anthropologist * Alice Fulton, poet *

Guillermo Gómez-Peña Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Chicano, 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 f ...

, 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 Rze ...

, theater director * David Hammons, artist * Sophia Bracy Harris, child care leader * Lewis Hyde, 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, mathematician * Martin Kreitman, geneticist * Harlan Lane, psychologist and linguist *

William Linder William J. Linder was an American community development leader, and founder of New Community Corporation. He was a 1991 MacArthur Fellow. He died on June 8, 2018. Life Linder was born in West New York, NJ and attended Saint Peter's Prep in Jersey ...

, community development leader * Patricia Locke, tribal rights leader * Mark Morris, choreographer and dancer * Marcel Ophüls, 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, composer, conductor, jazz historian * Joel Schwartz, epidemiologist *

Cecil Taylor Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet. Taylor was classically trained and was one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an energetic, physical approach, resulting in complex ...

, jazz pianist and composer * Julie Taymor, theater director *

David Werner David B. Werner (born 26 August, 1934) is author of the book ''Donde No Hay Doctor'' (''Where There is No Doctor''), co-founder and co-director of HealthWrights (based in Palo Alto, California) and Adjunct Associate Professor at Boston University ...

, health care leader *

James Westphal James Adolph Westphal (June 13, 1930 – September 8, 2004) was an American academic, scientist, engineer, inventor and astronomer and Director of Caltech's Palomar Observatory from 1994 through 1997.Danielson, G. Edward "Obituary: James Adolph ...

, engineer and scientist * Eleanor Wilner, poet

1992

* Janet Benshoof, human rights lawyer * Robert Blackburn, printmaker * Unita Blackwell, 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 ...

, philosopher *

Amy Clampitt Amy Clampitt (June 15, 1920 – September 10, 1994) was an American poet and author. Life Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920, of Quaker parents, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. In the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at nearby G ...

, poet *

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 ...

, mathematician * Wendy Ewald, photographer * Irving Feldman, poet *

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 ...

, historian * Robert Hall, journalist *

Ann Ellis Hanson Ann Ellis Hanson is an American papyrologist and historian who holds the position of senior research scholar and lecturer in the Department of Classics at Yale University. Professor Hanson received a B.A. (1957) and an M.A. (1963) from the Univer ...

, historian * John Henry Holland, computer scientist *

Wes Jackson Wes Jackson (born 1936) co-founded the Land Institute with Dana Jackson. He is also a member of the World Future Council. Early life and education Jackson was born and raised on a farm near Topeka, Kansas. After earning a BA in biology from ...

, agronomist * Evelyn Keller, historian and philosopher of science * Steve Lacy, saxophonist and composer *

Suzanne Lebsock Suzanne Lebsock (born December 1, 1949 at Williston, ND) is an American author and historian. Her works include her first book '' The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860'' which was published in 1984 and won ...

, social historian * Sharon Long, plant biologist * Norman Manea, 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 w ...

, 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. H ...

, 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 Miami Dade College (Miami Dade, MDC or Dade) is a public college in Miami, Florida. Founded in 1959, ...

, educator * Susan Meiselas, photojournalist *

Amalia Mesa-Bains Amalia Mesa-Bains (born July 10, 1943),Telgen, page 272-273 is a Chicana curator, author, visual artist, and educator. She is best known for her large-scale installations that reference home altars and ''ofrendas''. Her work engages in a conceptu ...

, artist and cultural critic * Stephen Schneider, climatologist *

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 Afri ...

, artist * John Terborgh, conservation biologist *

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 Philip Uri Treisman is an American mathematician and mathematics educator. He is the Director of the Charles A. Dana Center, and is a Professor of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with pioneering the Emerging Scho ...

, 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 ...

, historian * Geerat J. Vermeij, evolutionary biologist *

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, mathematician and physicist * Maria Crawford, geologist * Stanley Crouch, 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 Victoria Elizabeth Foe (born 1945) is an American developmental biologist, and Research Professor at the University of Washington's Center for Cell Dynamics. She is known for her work on the development of embryos. Early life and education As ...

, developmental biologist * Ernest Gaines, writer * Pedro Greer, physician * Thom Gunn, poet and literary critic * Ann Hamilton, artist *

Sokoni Karanja Sokoni Tacuma Karanja (Lathan Johnson) (born January 7, 1940 in Topeka, Kansas) is a child development expert, and President and CEO of the Center for New Horizons. He graduated from Topeka High School in 1958, from Washburn University with a B.A ...

, child and family development specialist * Ann Lauterbach, poet and literary critic * Stephen Lee, chemist * Carol Levine, AIDS policy specialist *

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- ...

, marine biologist * Ruth Lubic, nurse and midwife * Jim Powell, poet, translator, and literary critic * Margie Profet, 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 ...

, health care leader * William Siemering, journalist and radio producer * Ellen Silbergeld, toxicologist * Leonard van der Kuijp, philologist and historian *

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 ...

, arms control and energy analyst * John Edgar Wideman, writer * Heather Williams, biologist and ornithologist *

Marion Williams Marion Williams (August 29, 1927 – July 2, 1994) was an American gospel singer. Early years Marion Williams was born in Miami, Florida, to a religiously devout mother and musically inclined father. She left school when she was nine ...

, gospel music performer * Robert H. Williams, physicist and energy analyst * Henry T. Wright, archaeologist and anthropologist

1994

* Robert Adams, photographer * Jeraldyne Blunden, choreographer * Anthony Braxton, avant-garde composer and musician *

Rogers Brubaker Rogers Brubaker (; born 1956) is professor of sociology at University of California, Los Angeles and UCLA Foundation Chair. He has written academic works on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, ethnicity, religion, diasporas, gen ...

, sociologist *

Ornette Coleman Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Jazz: A Coll ...

, jazz performer and composer * Israel Gelfand, mathematician * Faye Ginsburg, anthropologist * Heidi Hartmann, economist * Bill T. Jones, dancer and choreographer * Peter E. Kenmore, agricultural entomologist * Joseph E. Marshall, educator *

Carolyn McKecuen Carolyn McKecuen is President of the Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Foundation. She supported Take our Daughters to the Polls as a non-partisan initiative. She is founder and director of Watermark, a member-owned craft cooperative.

, 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''. ...

, writer * Arthur Mitchell, company director and choreographer * Hugo Morales, 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 Co ...

, educator * Willie Reale, theater arts educator * Adrienne Rich, poet and writer * Sam-Ang Sam, musician and cultural preservationist * Jack Wisdom, 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 Televis ...

, filmmaker * Jed Z. Buchwald, historian *

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 Fellowship ...

, science fiction novelist * Sandra Cisneros, writer and poet * Sandy Close, journalist * Frederick C. Cuny, disaster relief specialist * Sharon Emerson, biologist * Richard Foreman, theater director *

Alma Guillermoprieto use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordinates = ...

, journalist * Virginia Hamilton, writer *

Donald Hopkins Donald R. Hopkins (born September 25, 1941) is a Bahamian American physician, a MacArthur Fellow and is the Vice President and Director of Health Programs at The Carter Center. He graduated from Morehouse College with a B.S., from the University ...

, physician * Susan W. Kieffer, geologist * Elizabeth LeCompte, theater director * Patricia Nelson Limerick, historian *

Michael Marletta Michael A. Marletta is an American biochemist. He graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia with an A.B. degree in biology and chemistry, and from the University of California, San Francisco with a Ph.D. degree in pharmaceutica ...

, chemist * Pamela Matson, ecologist * Susan McClary, musicologist * Meredith Monk, vocalist, composer, director * Rosalind P. Petchesky, political scientist *

Joel Rogers Joel Edwards Rogers is an American academic and political activist. Currently a professor of law, political science, public affairs and sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he also directs the Center on Wisconsin Strategy and its ...

, political scientist *

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 * Bryan Stevenson, human rights lawyer * Nicholas Strausfeld, neurobiologist * Richard White, historian

1996

* James Roger Prior Angel, astronomer * Joaquin Avila, voting rights advocate *

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 ...

, historian * Barbara Block, marine biologist * Joan Breton Connelly, classical archaeologist * Thomas Daniel, biologist *

Martin Daniel Eakes Martin Daniel Eakes is an American economic development strategist, and credit union CEO. Eakes grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina and graduated from Davidson College, where he majored in physics and philosophy, and holds a Juris Doctor, J.D. ...

, economic development strategist *

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 ...

, writer * Robert Greenstein, public policy analyst * Richard Howard, poet, translator, and literary critic * John Jesurun, playwright * Richard Lenski, biologist * Louis Massiah, documentary filmmaker * Vonnie McLoyd, developmental psychologist *

Thylias Moss 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 ...

, 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, dancers, choreographers * Nathan Seiberg, 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 ...

, playwright, journalist, actress * Dorothy Stoneman, educator *

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

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 i ...

, writer and performance artist *

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 * Vija Celmins, artist *

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. ...

, evolutionary biologist *

Elouise P. Cobell Elouise Pepion Cobell, also known as Yellow Bird Woman (November 5, 1945 – October 16, 2011) (''Niitsítapi'' Blackfoot Confederacy), was a tribal elder and activist, banker, rancher, and lead plaintiff in the groundbreaking class-action sui ...

, banker *

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. ...

, historian * Mark Harrington, AIDS researcher * Eva Harris, molecular biologist * Michael Kremer, 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, artist * Nancy A. Moran, evolutionary biologist and ecologist * Han Ong, 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 Univ ...

, 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 La ...

, copyright scholar and activist * Susan Stewart, literary scholar and poet *

Elizabeth Streb Elizabeth Streb (born February 23, 1950) is an American choreographer, performer, and teacher of contemporary dance. Background Streb was born and raised in Rochester, New York and, after graduating from the dance program of State University of ...

, dancer and choreographer *

Trimpin Trimpin (born Gerhard Trimpin)
FutureMusic.com, June 21, 2006. Accessed online 6 October 2007. (born 195 ...

, sound sculptor * Loïc Wacquant, sociologist * Kara Walker, 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, mathematician *

Brackette Williams Brackette F. Williams is an American anthropologist, and Senior Justice Advocate, Open Society Institute. She is currently an associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Arizona. Williams graduated from Cornell University ...

, anthropologist

1998

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, artist * Ellen Barry, attorney and human rights activist *

Tim Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a profes ...

, 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 Sti ...

, poet *

Bernadette Brooten Bernadette J. Brooten is an American religious scholar and Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University. Biography Brooten graduated from University of Portland with a B.A., and Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1982. She stu ...

, historian * John Carlstrom, astrophysicist * Mike Davis, historian * Nancy Folbre, economist *

Avner Greif Avner Greif (; born 1955) is an economics professor at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He holds a chaired professorship as Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences. Greif received his PhD in Economics at Northwestern U ...

, economist * Kun-Liang Guan, biochemist * Gary Hill, artist * Edward Hirsch, 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 ...

, historian * Charles R. Johnson, writer * Leah Krubitzer, neuroscientist *

Stewart Kwoh Stewart Kwoh (born September 16, 1948) is an American attorney, educator, and civil rights leader. Kwoh is the founding President and Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles, formerly known as the Asian Pacific Amer ...

, human rights activist * Charles Lewis, journalist * William W. McDonald, rancher and conservationist * Peter N. Miller, historian * Don Mitchell, cultural geographer * Rebecca Nelson, plant pathologist * Elinor Ochs, linguistic anthropologist *

Ishmael Reed Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright, editor and publisher known for his satirical works challenging American political culture. Perhaps his best-known work is '' M ...

, poet, essayist, novelist * Benjamin D. Santer, atmospheric scientist *

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. ...

, computer scientist and artist * Dorothy Thomas, human rights activist * Leonard Zeskind, human rights activist *

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 ...

, playwright

1999

* Jillian Banfield, geologist * Carolyn Bertozzi, chemist * Xu Bing, artist and printmaker *

Bruce G. Blair Bruce Gentry Blair (November 16, 1947 – July 19, 2020) was an American nuclear security expert, research scholar, national security expert, the author of articles and books on nuclear topics, and a television show producer. Education and backgro ...

, policy analyst *

John Bonifaz John C. Bonifaz (born 22, June 1966, in Wilmington, DE) is an Amherst-based attorney and political activist specializing in constitutional law and voting rights. He is the president and co-founder of Free Speech for People. He is also the found ...

, election lawyer and voting rights leader * Shawn Carlson, science educator *

Mark Danner Mark David Danner (born November 10, 1958) is an American writer, journalist, and educator. He is a former staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' and frequent contributor to ''The New York Review of Books''. Danner specializes in U.S. foreign affa ...

, journalist * Alison L. Des Forges, human rights activist * Elizabeth Diller, 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 thr ...

, historian * Jennifer Gordon, lawyer *

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 ...

, biologist * Sara Horowitz, 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. ...

, historian * Laura L. Kiessling, biochemist * Leslie Kurke, classicist * David Levering Lewis, biographer and historian * Juan Maldacena, physicist * Gay J. McDougall, human rights lawyer * Campbell McGrath, poet * Denny Moore, anthropological linguist * Elizabeth Murray, artist * Pepón Osorio, artist * Ricardo Scofidio, architect * Peter Shor, computer scientist *

Eva Silverstein Eva Silverstein (born October 24, 1970) is an American theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and string theorist. She is a professor of physics at Stanford University and director of the Modern Inflationary Cosmology collaboration within the Simons ...

, physicist * Wilma Subra, 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, playwright * Jeffrey Weeks, mathematician * Fred Wilson, artist *

Ofelia Zepeda Ofelia Zepeda (born in Stanfield, Arizona, 1952) is a Tohono O'odham poet and intellectual. She is Regents' Professor of Tohono O'odham language and linguistics and Director of the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) at The ...

, linguist

2000

* Susan E. Alcock, archaeologist * K. Christopher Beard, paleontologist * Lucy Blake, conservationist * Anne Carson, poet *

Peter J. Hayes Peter John Hayes (born 1953 in Melbourne) is the Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability,Nautilus Institute Staff Profile Peter Hayes', retrieved 7 April 2015 a non-governmental policy-oriented research and adv ...

, energy policy activist *

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, graphic novelist * Hideo Mabuchi, physicist * Susan Marshall, choreographer * Samuel Mockbee, 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 Margaret Mary Murnane NAS AAA&S (born 1959) is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, having moved there in 1999, with past positions at the University of Michigan and Washington State University. She is ...

, optical physicist * Laura Otis, literary scholar and historian of science * Lucia M. Perillo, poet *

Matthew Rabin Matthew Joel Rabin (born December 27, 1963) is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School. Rabin's research focuses primarily on incorporating psychologically more realist ...

, economist * Carl Safina, marine conservationist * Daniel P. Schrag, geochemist * Susan E. Sygall, civil rights leader * Gina G. Turrigiano, neuroscientist * Gary Urton, anthropologist *

Patricia J. Williams Patricia J. Williams (born August 28, 1951) is an American legal scholar and a proponent of critical race theory, a school of legal thought that emphasizes race as a fundamental determinant of the American legal system. Early life Williams rece ...

, legal scholar * Deborah Willis, historian of photography and photographer *

Erik Winfree Erik Winfree (born September 26, 1969) is an American applied computer scientist, bioengineer, and professor at California Institute of Technology. He is a leading researcher into DNA computing and DNA nanotechnology. In 1998, Winfree in colla ...

, computer and materials scientist *

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

Professor Lene Hau in her laboratory at Harvard

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 Map ...

, writer * Christopher Chyba, astrobiologist * Michael Dickinson, fly biologist, bioengineer * Rosanne Haggerty, 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, art critic * Stephen Hough, pianist and composer * Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist * Sandra Lanham, pilot and conservationist * Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, artist * Cynthia Moss, natural historian *

Aihwa Ong 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, classicist and papyrologist * Norman R. Pace, biochemist * Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright * Brooks Pate, physical chemist *

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 ...

, human rights leader * Geraldine Seydoux, molecular biologist * Bright Sheng, composer * David Spergel, astrophysicist *

Jean Strouse Jean Strouse (born 1945) is an American biographer, cultural administrator, and critic. She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Strouse was an editorial assistant at ''The New York Review o ...

, biographer * Julie Su, 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, molecular biologist * Ann M. Blair, 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 ...

, physicist * David B. Goldstein, energy conservation specialist *

Karen Hesse Karen S. Hesse (born August 29, 1952) is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. She won the Newbery Medal for ''Out of the Dust'' (1997). Early years and education Karen Hesse ...

, writer * Janine Jagger, epidemiologist * Daniel Jurafsky, computer scientist and linguist * Toba Khedoori, artist * Liz Lerman, choreographer * George E. Lewis, trombonist *

Liza Lou Liza Lou (born 1969) is an American visual artist. She is best known for producing large scale sculpture using glass beads. Lou ran a studio in Durban, South Africa from 2005 to 2014. She currently has a nomadic practice, working mostly outdoors ...

, artist * Edgar Meyer, 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 pu ...

, writer and Biblical scholar * Erik Mueggler, anthropologist and ethnographer * Sendhil Mullainathan, economist * Stanley Nelson, documentary filmmaker *

Lee Ann Newsom Lee Ann Newsom is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University at University Park. She has written numerous books and articles. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002. Education and career Newsom recei ...

, paleoethnobotanist *

Daniela L. Rus Daniela L. Rus is a roboticist and computer scientist, Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc ...

, computer scientist * Charles C. Steidel, astronomer *

Brian Tucker Brian E. Tucker is a seismologist specializing in disaster prevention. He is also the founder of GeoHazards International (GHI), a non-profit dedicated to ending preventable death and suffering caused by natural disasters in the world’s most v ...

, seismologist * Camilo José Vergara, 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 ...

, writer

2003

* Guillermo Algaze, archaeologist * Jim Collins, biomedical engineer * Lydia Davis, writer and translator * Erik Demaine, theoretical computer scientist * Corinne Dufka, human rights researcher * Peter Gleick, conservation analyst * Osvaldo Golijov, composer * Deborah Jin, physicist *

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 m ...

, writer * Tom Joyce, blacksmith * Sarah H. Kagan, 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, public health physician * Nawal M. Nour, obstetrician and gynecologist * Loren H. Rieseberg, botanist * Amy Rosenzweig, biochemist * Pedro A. Sanchez, agronomist * Lateefah Simon, women's development leader * Peter Sís, illustrator * Sarah Sze, sculptor *

Eve Troutt Powell Eve M. Troutt Powell is an American historian of the Middle East and North Africa and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a previous recipient of a MacA ...

, historian *

Anders Winroth Anders Winroth (born 1965 in Ludvika in Sweden) is a professor of medieval history at the University of Oslo and previously taught in the same field at Yale University Life After graduation from Stockholm University, Winroth did his master's ...

, historian *

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 ...

, ceramic artist * Xiaowei Zhuang, biophysicist

2004

* Angela Belcher, materials scientist and engineer * Gretchen Berland, physician and filmmaker * James Carpenter, artist *

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 California ...

, biologist * Katherine Gottlieb, health care leader * David Green, 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 ...

, writer * Heather Hurst, archaeological illustrator * Edward P. Jones, writer * John Kamm, 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 o ...

, computer scientist *

Naomi Leonard Naomi Ehrich Leonard is the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. She is the director of the Princeton Council on Science and Technology and an associated faculty member in the Program in Applie ...

, engineer * Tommie Lindsey, school debate coach * Rueben Martinez, businessman and activist * Maria Mavroudi, 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 the ...

, physician and computational biologist * Judy Pfaff, sculptor * Aminah Robinson, artist * Reginald Robinson, pianist and composer * Cheryl Rogowski, farmer * Amy Smith, inventor and mechanical engineer * Julie Theriot, microbiologist *

C. D. Wright Carolyn D. Wright (January 6, 1949 – January 12, 2016) was an American poet. She was a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island. Background C. D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas, to a chancery jud ...

, poet

2005

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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 ...

, symphony conductor * Ted Ames, fisherman, conservationist, marine biologist * Terry Belanger, rare book preservationist * Edet Belzberg, 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 Sustainab ...

, 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, music educator * Teresita Fernández, sculptor *

Claire Gmachl Claire F. Gmachl is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. She is best known for her work in the development of quantum cascade lasers. Education and honors Gmachl earned her M.Sc. in Physics from the U ...

, quantum cascade laser engineer *

Sue Goldie Dr. Sue J. Goldie (born 1961) is the Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health, the Director of the Center for Health Decision Science (Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health), Director of the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator ...

, physician and researcher * Steven Goodman, conservation biologist *

Pehr Harbury Pehr A. B. Harbury (born 1965) is an American biochemist, and Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University. He is a native of Menlo Park. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA, and from Harvard Medical School, with a ...

, biochemist *

Nicole King Nicole King (born 1970) is an American biologist and faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley in molecular and cell biology and integrative biology. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2005. She has been an investigator wit ...

, molecular biologist * Jon Kleinberg, computer scientist *

Jonathan Lethem Jonathan Allen Lethem (; born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, '' Gun, with Occasional Music'', a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was publi ...

, novelist * Michael Manga, geophysicist * Todd Martinez, theoretical chemist *

Julie Mehretu Julie Mehretu (born November 28, 1970) is an Ethiopian Americans, Ethiopian American contemporary visual artist, known for her multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes on a large scale. Her paintings, drawings, and prints depict the cumula ...

, painter * Kevin M. Murphy, economist * Olufunmilayo Olopade, clinician and researcher * Fazal Sheikh, photographer * Emily Thompson, aural historian * Michael Walsh, vehicle emissions specialist

2006

* David Carroll, naturalist author and illustrator * Regina Carter, jazz violinist * Kenneth C. Catania, neurobiologist * Lisa Curran, tropical forester * Kevin Eggan, biologist *

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 abu ...

* Atul Gawande, surgeon and author *

Linda Griffith Linda Gay Griffith (born August 30, 1960 Atlanta, Georgia) is an American biological engineer, and Professor of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also directs the Center for Gyn ...

, bioengineer *

Victoria Hale Victoria Hale founded the nonprofit pharmaceutical company The Institute for OneWorld Health in San Francisco, California in 2000 and was its chairman and CEO until 2008, when she became Chair Emeritus. She then went on to found Medicines360, a ...

, CEO of OneWorld Health *

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, sculptor *

D. Holmes Morton D. Holmes Morton is an American physician specializing in genetic disorders of Old Order Amish and Mennonite children. In 1989 he established the Clinic for Special Children in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, to focus on these diseases. Life Morton ...

, physician *

John A. Rich John Armand Rich is Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was a 2006 MacArthur Fellows Program#2006, MacArthur Fellow. Early life Rich, originally from Queen ...

, physician * Jennifer Richeson, social psychologist *

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, 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 ...

, painter *

Terence Tao Terence Chi-Shen Tao (; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. His research includes ...

, mathematician * Claire J. Tomlin, aviation engineer * Luis von Ahn, computer scientist *

Edith Widder Edith Anne "Edie" Widder Smith (born 1951) is an American oceanographer, marine biologist, author and the Co-founder, CEO and Senior Scientist at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association. Books * The Bioluminescence Coloring Book Below ...

, deep-sea explorer *

Matias Zaldarriaga Matias Zaldarriaga is an Argentinean cosmologist. Life Born in Coghlan neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, at the present time he works in the Institute for Advanced Study located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. He is known especially for hi ...

, cosmologist *

John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of j ...

, composer and musician

2007

Deborah Bial Deborah Bial (born 1965) is an education strategist, the founder and president of the Posse Foundation and a trustee of Brandeis University. Bial is known for the concept of her foundation, which is to send groups of around ten students to collab ...

, education strategist *

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

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

2021

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

2022

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

References

External links

MacArthur Fellows Program website
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