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

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five ma ...

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

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

''.

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

is the managing director leading the MacArthur Fellows Program.

Recipients

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

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

account for 175 fellowships, followed by the alumni of

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

(93),

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

(75),

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ...

(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 Manha ...

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

1981

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

, poet *

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

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

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

, essayist *

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

, cultural anthropologist *

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

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

, sociologist *

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

, evolutionary biologist *

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

, 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'' publish ...

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

, climatologist *

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

, geographer * Raphael Carl Lee, surgeon *

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

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

, molecular biologist *

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

, physicist * Elaine H. Pagels, 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 Mathemati ...

, 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, 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 ph ...

, philosopher * Lawrence Rosen, attorney and anthropologist *

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

, intellectual historian *

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

, writer *

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

, 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 Walcott ...

, poet and playwright *

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

, poet, novelist, and literary critic *

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

, computer scientist and physicist * Michael Woodford, economist *

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

, physicist and neurobiologist

1982

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

, political scientist * Charles A. Bigelow, type designer *

Peter Robert Lamont Brown Peter Robert Lamont Brown (born 26 July 1935) is Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He is credited with having brought coherence to the field of Late Antiquity, and is sometimes regarded as the inventor of the fiel ...

, 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 know ...

, statistician *

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

, novelist *

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

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

, composer *

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

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

, composer and conductor *

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

, linguist * Randolph Whitfield Jr., ophthalmologist *

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

, physicist *

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

, documentary filmmaker *

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

, physicist, creator of the M-Theory

1983

R. Stephen Berry Richard Stephen Berry (April 9, 1931 – July 26, 2020) was an American professor of physical chemistry. He was the James Franck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago. He was also Special Advisor for National Sec ...

, physical chemist *

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

, political scientist *

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

, ecologist and environmental policy analyst * Philip D. Curtin, historian of Africa * William H. Durham, biological anthropologist *

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

, statistician *

David L. Felten David L. Felten is an American neuroscientist. He is associate dean of clinical sciences at the University of Medicine and Health Sciences, and was formerly associate dean of research at Oakland University and vice president for research and med ...

, 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 (F ...

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

, 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 John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative neural network in 1982. It is now more commonly known as the Hopfield network. Biography Hopfield was born in 1933 to Pol ...

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

, poet and writer * Lawrence W. Levine, historian *

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

, 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 t ...

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

, 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), where ...

, theater and opera director *

Karen K. Uhlenbeck Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (born August 24, 1942) is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Sid W. Richar ...

, mathematician * Adrian Wilson, book designer, printer, and book historian * Irene J. Winter, art historian and archaeologist *

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

, 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 (1765–1780 ...

, 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 fello ...

, physicist and arms policy analyst *

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

, mathematical physicist *

Michael H. Freedman Michael Hartley Freedman (born April 21, 1951) is an American mathematician, at Microsoft Station Q, a research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the 4-dimensional gener ...

, mathematician * Curtis G. Hames, family physician *

Robert Hass Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection ''Time and Materials: Poems 199 ...

, poet, critic, and translator *

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

, 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 nu ...

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

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

, novelist and screenwriter *

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

, mathematician *

Galway Kinnell Galway Mills Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, ''Selected Poems'' and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 19 ...

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

, intellectual historian and philosopher *

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

, educator *

Heather Lechtman Heather Lechtman is an American materials scientist and archaeologist, and Director at the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She specializes in prehistoric technology o ...

, materials scientist and archaeologist *

Michael Lerner Michael or Mike Lerner may refer to: * Michael Lerner (actor) (1941–2023), American actor *Michael Lerner (angler) (1890–1978), American angler and businessman * Michael Lerner (rabbi) (born 1943), social activist *Michael Benjamin Lerner (born ...

, public health leader * Andrew W. Lewis, 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 Linus ...

, 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 signific ...

, historian of photography * Roger S. Payne, zoologist and conservationist *

Michael Piore Michael Joseph Piore (born August 14, 1940) is an American economist and professor of economics and political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research centers on labor economics, immigration, and innovation. He was awar ...

, economist * Edward V. Roberts, disability rights leader *

Judith N. Shklar Judith Nisse Shklar (September 24, 1928 – September 17, 1992) was a philosopher and political theorist who studied the history of political thought, notably that of the Enlightenment period. She was appointed the John Cowles Professor of Governm ...

, political philosopher *

Charles Simic Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; born May 9, 1938), known as Charles Simic, is a Serbian American poet and former co-poetry editor of the '' Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for ''The World Does ...

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

, psychologist (child birth-order research) *

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

, intellectual historian *

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

, astronomer and mathematician *

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

, light sculptor *Amos Tversky, cognitive scientist *Bret Wallach, geographer *Jay Weiss, psychologist *Arthur Winfree, physiologist and mathematician *Kirk Varnedoe, J. Kirk Varnedoe, art historian *Carl Woese, Carl R. Woese, molecular biologist *Billie Young, community development leader

1985

*Joan Abrahamson, community development leader *John Ashbery, poet *John F. Benton, medieval historian *Harold Bloom, literary critic *Valery Chalidze, physicist and human rights organizer *William Cronon, environmental historian *Merce Cunningham, choreographer *Jared Diamond, environmental historian and geographer *Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund founder *Morton Halperin, political scientist *Robert M. Hayes (lawyer), Robert M. Hayes, lawyer and human rights leader *Edwin Hutchins, cognitive scientist *Sam Maloof, professional woodworker and furniture maker *Andrew McGuire, trauma prevention specialist *Patrick Noonan, conservationist *George Oster, mathematical biologist *Thomas G. Palaima, classicist *Peter H. Raven, Peter Raven, botanist *Jane S. Richardson, biochemist *Gregory Schopen, historian of religion *Franklin Stahl, geneticist *J. Richard Steffy, nautical archaeologist *Ellen Stewart, theater director *Paul Taylor (choreographer), Paul Taylor, choreographer, dance company founder *Shing-Tung Yau, mathematician

1986

*Paul Adams (scientist), Paul Adams, neurobiologist *Milton Babbitt, composer and music theorist *Christopher I. Beckwith, Christopher Beckwith, philologist *Richard Benson (photographer), Richard Benson, photographer *Lester R. Brown, agricultural economist *Caroline Bynum, medieval historian *William A. Christian, historian of religion *Nancy Farriss, historian *Benedict Gross, mathematician *Daryl Hine, poet and translator *Jack Horner (paleontologist), John Robert Horner, paleobiologist *Thomas C. Joe, social policy analyst *David Keightley, historian and sinologist *Albert J. Libchaber, physicist *David C. Page, molecular geneticist *George Perle, composer and music theorist *James Randi, magician *David Rudovsky, civil rights lawyer *Robert Shapley, neurophysiologist *Leo Steinberg, art historian *Richard P. Turco, atmospheric scientist *Thomas Whiteside (journalist), Thomas Whiteside, journalist *Allan Wilson (biologist), Allan C. Wilson, biochemist *Jay Wright (poet), Jay Wright, poet and playwright *Charles Wuorinen, composer

1987

*Walter Abish, writer *Robert Axelrod, political scientist *Robert F. Coleman, mathematician *Douglas Crase, poet *Daniel Friedan, physicist *David Gross, physicist *Ira Herskowitz, molecular geneticist *Irving Howe, literary and social critic *Wesley Charles Jacobs Jr., rural planner *Peter Jeffery, musicologist *Horace Freeland Judson, historian of science *Stuart Kauffman, Stuart Alan Kauffman, evolutionary biologist *Richard Kenney (poet), Richard Kenney, poet *Eric Lander, geneticist and mathematician *Michael C. Malin, Michael Malin, geologist and planetary scientist *Deborah Meier, Deborah W. Meier, education reform leader *Arnaldo Momigliano, Arnaldo Dante Momigliano, historian *David Mumford, mathematician *Tina Rosenberg, journalist *David Rumelhart, cognitive scientist and psychologist *Robert Sapolsky, Robert Morris Sapolsky, neuroendocrinologist and primatologist *Meyer Schapiro, art historian *John Henry Schwarz, John H. Schwarz, physicist *Jon Seger, evolutionary ecologist *Stephen Shenker, physicist *David Dean Shulman, historian of religion *Muriel S. Snowden, community organizer *Mark Strand, poet and writer *May Swenson, poet *Huỳnh Sanh Thông, translator and editor *William Julius Wilson, sociologist *Richard Wrangham, primate ethologist

1988

*Charles Archambeau, geophysicist *Michael Baxandall, art historian *Ruth Behar, cultural anthropologist *Ran Blake, composer and pianist *Charles Burnett (director), Charles Burnett, filmmaker *Philip James DeVries, insect biologist *Andre Dubus, writer *Helen T. Edwards, physicist *Jon H. Else, documentary filmmaker *John G. Fleagle, primatologist and paleontologist *Cornell Fleischer, Cornell H. Fleischer, Middle Eastern historian *Getatchew Haile, philologist and linguist *Raymond Jeanloz, geophysicist *M. Philip Kahl, Marvin Philip Kahl, zoologist *Naomi Pierce, biologist *Thomas Pynchon, novelist *Stephen J. Pyne, environmental historian *Max Roach, drummer and jazz composer *Paul Roldan, Hipolito (Paul) Roldan, community developer *Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, archaeologist *David Alan Rosenberg, military historian *Susan I. Rotroff, Susan Irene Rotroff, archaeologist *Bruce Schwartz, figurative sculptor and puppeteer *Robert Shaw (physicist), Robert Shaw, physicist *Jonathan Spence, historian *Noel Swerdlow, Noel M. Swerdlow, historian of science *Gary Tomlinson, Gary A. Tomlinson, musicologist *Alan Walker (anthropologist), Alan Walker, paleontologist *Eddie N. Williams, policy analyst and civil rights leader *Rita P. Wright, archaeologist *Garth Youngberg, agriculturalist

1989

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

1990

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

1991

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

1992

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

1993

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

1994

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

1995

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

1996

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

1997

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

1998

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

1999

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

2000

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

2001

Professor Lene Hau in her laboratory at Harvard

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

2002

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

2003

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

2004

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

2005

Jonathan Lethem 2011 NBCC 2012 Shankbone 2

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

2006

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

2007

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

2008

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

2009

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

2010

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

2011

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

2012

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

2013

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

2014

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

2015

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

2016

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

2017

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

2018

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

2019

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

2020

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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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