The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically 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
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.
According to the foundation's website, "the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishments 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. 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
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. Most new fellows first learn of their nomination and award upon receiving a congratulatory phone call. MacArthur Fellow Jim Collins described this experience in an editorial column of ''
The New York Times
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''.
Marlies Carruth is the program's current director.
Recipients
As of 2023, since 1981, 1131 people have been named MacArthur Fellows, ranging in age from 18 to 82.
In the five broad categories defined by the foundation, the breakdown for recipient focus is as follows: Arts 336; Humanities 170; Public Issues 257;
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335; and Social Sciences 120.
Of the 965 terminal degrees earned by 928 fellows during the period 1981 through 2018, 540 (56%) are doctorates, with the Ph.D. accounting for 514 (53.3%). Ivy league schools awarded 306 (31.7%) degrees to 300 (32.3%) fellows.
The award is made to individuals of varying educational background but among the 1131 fellowship awards through the class of 2023, the following ten institutions have the most alumni fellows, with
Harvard University
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having the most overall and the
California Institute of Technology
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Joseph Brodsky
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Richard Critchfield Richard Patrick Critchfield (March 23, 1931 – December 10, 1994) was an American journalist and essayist who wrote principally about agricultural village life in developing countries.
Career
Richard Critchfield was born in Minneapolis and grew up ...
, essayist
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Shelly Errington
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Howard Gardner
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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
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Michael Ghiselin
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He is known for his work concerning sea slugs, and for his c ...
, evolutionary biologist
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Stephen Jay Gould
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, writer
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Barbara McClintock
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David Pingree
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Life
Pingree gra ...
Robert Root-Bernstein
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He has also researched and consu ...
, biologist and historian of science
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Richard Rorty
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Robert Penn Warren
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, poet, novelist, and literary critic
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Stephen Wolfram
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, computer scientist and physicist
* Michael Woodford, economist
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George Zweig
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Persi Diaconis
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He is particularly known f ...
Michael Silverstein
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Frank Wilczek
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, physicist
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Frederick Wiseman
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, documentary filmmaker
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Edward Witten
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Leszek Kołakowski
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Ralph Manheim
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John Sayles
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Mark S. Wrighton
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William Drayton
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Bill Irwin
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Paul Oskar Kristeller
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James Turrell
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, light sculptor
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Amos Tversky
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Much of his early work concerned th ...
John Ashbery
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Harold Bloom
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, literary critic
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* William Cronon, environmental historian
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Merce Cunningham
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Jared Diamond
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Ellen Stewart
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, theater director
* Paul Taylor, choreographer, dance company founder
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Shing-Tung Yau
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George Perle
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, composer and music theorist
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James Randi
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Charles Wuorinen
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David Gross
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Eric Lander
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David Mumford
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David Rumelhart
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May Swenson
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Andre Dubus
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Jonathan Spence
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Alan Walker
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Errol Morris
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Bill Viola
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Guy Davenport
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Guy Davenport was born in Anderson, South Carolina, in the foothills of Appalachia on Novem ...
, writer, critic, and translator
* Lisa Delpit, education reform leader
* John Eaton, composer
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Paul R. Ehrlich
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David Kazhdan
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Susan Sontag
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, writer and cultural critic
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Richard Stallman
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, Free Software Foundation founder,
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concept inventor
* Guy Tudor, conservationist
* Maria Varela, community development leader
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Gregory Vlastos
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, social historian
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Trisha Brown
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, choreographer
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Mari Jo Buhle
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David Donoho
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, statistician
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Steven Feld
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Early life
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, anthropologist
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Alice Fulton
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, poet
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, composer, conductor, jazz historian
* Joel Schwartz, epidemiologist
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Cecil Taylor
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Julie Taymor
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Stanley Cavell
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, philosopher
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Amy Clampitt
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Life
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, poet
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Ingrid Daubechies
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John Henry Holland
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Stanley Crouch
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, jazz critic and writer
* Nora England, anthropological linguist
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Paul Farmer
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John Edgar Wideman
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Early years
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, avant-garde composer and musician
* Rogers Brubaker, sociologist
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Ornette Coleman
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Israel Gelfand
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, anthropologist
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Heidi Hartmann
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Bill T. Jones
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Adrienne Rich
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, poet and writer
* Sam-Ang Sam, musician and cultural preservationist
* Jack Wisdom, physicist
1995
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Allison Anders
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Cindy Sherman
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, photographer
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Bryan Stevenson
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Russell Lande
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Andrew Wiles
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Janine Antoni
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Nancy Folbre
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, economist
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Avner Greif
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Ishmael Reed
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Mary Zimmerman
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Saul Friedländer
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, 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
*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), 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
*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 (conductor), 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., investigative journalist
2019
*Elizabeth S. Anderson, philosopher
*Sujatha Baliga, attorney
*Lynda Barry, cartoonist
*Mel Chin, artist
*Danielle Citron, legal scholar
*Lisa Daugaard, criminal justice reformer
*Annie Dorsen, theater artist
*Andrea Dutton, paleoclimatologist
*Jeffrey Gibson, artist
*Mary Halvorson, guitarist
*Saidiya Hartman, literary scholar
*Walter Hood, public artist
*Stacy Jupiter, marine scientist
*Zachary Lippman, plant biologist
*Valeria Luiselli, writer
*Kelly Lytle Hernández, historian
*Sarah Michelson, choreographer
*Jeffrey Alan Miller, literary scholar
*Jerry X. Mitrovica, theoretical geophysicist
*Emmanuel Pratt, urban designer
*Cameron Rowland, artist
*Vanessa Ruta, neuroscientist
*Joshua Tenenbaum, cognitive scientist
*Jenny Tung, evolutionary anthropologist
*Ocean Vuong, writer
*Emily Wilson (classicist), Emily Wilson, classicist and translator
2020
*Isaiah Andrews, econometrician
*Tressie McMillan Cottom, sociologist, writer and public scholar
*Paul Dauenhauer, chemical engineer
*Nels Elde, evolutionary geneticist
*Damien Fair, cognitive neuroscientist
*Larissa FastHorse, playwright
*Catherine Coleman Flowers, environmental health advocate
*Mary L. Gray, anthropologist and media scholar
*N. K. Jemisin, speculative fiction writer
*Ralph Lemon, artist
*Polina V. Lishko, cellular and developmental biologist
*Thomas Wilson Mitchell, property law scholar
*Natalia Molina, American historian
*Fred Moten, cultural theorist and poet
*Cristina Rivera Garza, fiction writer
*Cécile McLorin Salvant, singer and composer
*Monika Schleier-Smith, experimental physicist
*Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost, biological chemist
*Forrest Stuart, sociologist
*Nanfu Wang, documentary filmmaker
*Jacqueline Woodson, writer
2021
*Hanif Abdurraqib, music critic, essayist and poet
*Daniel Alarcón, writer and radio producer
*Marcella Alsan, physician–economist
*Trevor Bedford (virologist), Trevor Bedford, computational virologist
*Reginald Dwayne Betts, poet and lawyer
*Jordan Casteel, painter
*Don Mee Choi, poet and translator
*Ibrahim Cissé (academic), Ibrahim Cissé, cellular biophysicist
*Nicole R. Fleetwood, Nicole Fleetwood, art historian and curator
*Cristina Ibarra, documentary filmmaker
*Ibram X. Kendi, American historian and cultural critic
*Daniel Lind-Ramos, sculptor and painter
*Monica Muñoz Martinez, public historian
*Desmond Meade, civil rights activist
*Joshua Miele, adaptive technology designer
*Michelle Monje, neurologist and neuro-oncologist
*Safiya Noble, digital media scholar
*J. Taylor Perron, geomorphologist
*Alex Rivera, filmmaker and media artist
*Lisa Schulte Moore, landscape ecologist
*Jesse Shapiro, applied microeconomist
*Jacqueline Stewart, cinema studies scholar and curator
*Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, historian
*Victor J. Torres, microbiologist
*Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, choreographer and dance entrepreneur
2022
*Jennifer Carlson (sociologist), Jennifer Carlson, sociologist
*Paul Chan (artist), Paul Chan, artist
*Yejin Choi, computer scientist
*P. Gabrielle Foreman, historian and academic
*Danna Freedman, chemist and academic
*Martha Gonzalez (musician), Martha Gonzalez, musician and academic
*Sky Hopinka, artist and filmmaker
*June Huh, mathematician
*Moriba Jah, astrodynamicist
*Jenna Jambeck, environmental engineer
*Monica Kim (historian), Monica Kim, historian and academic
*Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist and 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
2023
*E. Tendayi Achiume, legal scholar
*Andrea Armstrong (lawyer), Andrea Armstrong, incarceration law scholar
*Rina Foygel Barber, statistician
*Ian Bassin, lawyer and democracy advocate
*Courtney Bryan (composer), Courtney Bryan, composer and pianist
*Jason D. Buenrostro, cellular and molecular biologist
*María Magdalena Campos-Pons, multidisciplinary artist
*Raven Chacon, composer and artist
*Diana Greene Foster, demographer and reproductive health researcher
*Lucy Hutyra, environmental ecologist
*Carolyn Lazard, artist
*Ada Limón, poet
*Lester Mackey, computer scientist and statistician
*Patrick Makuakāne, Kumu hula and cultural preservationist
*Linsey Marr, environmental engineer
*Manuel Muñoz (writer), Manuel Muñoz, author
*Imani Perry, interdisciplinary scholar and writer
*Dyani White Hawk, multidisciplinary artist
*A. Park Williams, hydroclimatologist
*Amber Wutich, anthropologist
2024
*Loka Ashwood, sociologist
*Ruha Benjamin, transdisciplinary scholar and writer
*Justin Vivian Bond, artist and performer
*Jericho Brown, poet
*Tony Cokes, media artist
*Nicola Dell, computer and information scientist
*Johnny Gandelsman, violinist and producer
*Sterlin Harjo, filmmaker
*Juan Felipe Herrera, poet, educator, and writer
*Ling Ma, writer
*Jennifer L. Morgan, historian
*Martha M. Muñoz, evolutionary biologist
*Shailaja Paik, historian
*Joseph Parker (biologist), Joseph Parker, evolutionary biologist
*Ebony G. Patterson, multimedia artist
*Shamel Pitts, dancer and choreographer
*Wendy Red Star, visual artist
*Jason Reynolds, children's and young adult writer
*Dorothy Roberts, legal scholar and public policy researcher
*Keivan Stassun, Keivan G. Stassun, science educator and astronomer
*Benjamin Van Mooy, oceanographer
*Alice Wong (activist), Alice Wong, writer, editor, disability justice activist
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References
External links
Official website
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MacArthur Fellows,
Fellowships
Lists of award winners