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

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

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''.

Cecilia Conrad Cecilia Ann Conrad (born 4 January 1955) is the CEO of Lever for Change, emeritus professor of economics at Pomona College, and managing director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She formerly served as the Associate Dean of 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, 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, 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, short story writer and essayist * Roy P. Mottahedeh, historian * Richard C. Mulligan, molecular biologist * Douglas D. Osheroff, 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, writer * Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., astrophysicist *

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem '' Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as 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, political scientist * Charles A. Bigelow, type designer * Peter Robert Lamont Brown, historian *

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

, European historian *

Persi Diaconis Persi Warren Diaconis (; born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly 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, cultural anthropologist * Francesca Rochberg, 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, 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, historian of science * James E. Gunn, astronomer *

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

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

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

, psychologist * William Kennedy, novelist *

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

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

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

, cognitive scientist * Bret Wallach, geographer * Jay Weiss, psychologist * Arthur Winfree, physiologist and mathematician * J. Kirk Varnedoe, art historian *

Carl R. Woese Carl Richard Woese (; July 15, 1928 – December 30, 2012) was an American microbiologist and biophysicist. Woese is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain of life) in 1977 through a pioneering phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a ...

, molecular biologist * Billie Young, community development leader

1985

* Joan Abrahamson, community development leader *

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

, poet * John F. Benton, medieval historian *

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

, literary critic * Valery Chalidze, physicist and human rights organizer *

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

, environmental historian *

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

, choreographer *

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

, environmental historian and geographer *

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

, Children's Defense Fund founder *

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

, political scientist *

Robert M. Hayes Robert or Bob Hayes may refer to: * Bob Hayes (1942–2002), Olympic gold-medal sprinter and receiver for the Dallas Cowboys * Robert Hayes (legal scholar) (1942–2011), Australian law scholar * Robert M. Hayes (information scientist) (born 1926) ...

, lawyer and human rights leader * Edwin Hutchins, cognitive scientist * Sam Maloof, professional woodworker and furniture maker * Andrew McGuire, trauma prevention specialist *

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

, conservationist * George Oster, mathematical biologist * Thomas G. Palaima, classicist * Peter Raven, botanist * Jane S. Richardson, biochemist *

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

, historian of religion *

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

, geneticist * J. Richard Steffy, nautical archaeologist *

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

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

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

, mathematician

1986

* Paul Adams, neurobiologist *

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

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

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

, agricultural economist * Caroline Bynum, medieval historian * William A. Christian, historian of religion *

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

, historian *

Benedict Gross Benedict Hyman Gross is an American mathematician who is a professor at the University of California San Diego, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at Harvard University, and former Dean of Harvard College.Daryl Hine, poet and translator * John Robert Horner, paleobiologist * Thomas C. Joe, social policy analyst *

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

, historian and sinologist * Albert J. Libchaber, physicist * David C. Page, molecular geneticist *

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

, composer and music theorist *

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

, magician * David Rudovsky, civil rights lawyer * Robert Shapley, neurophysiologist *

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

, art historian *

Richard P. Turco Richard Peter "Rich" Turco (born 1943) is an American atmospheric sciences, atmospheric scientist, and Professor at the Institute of the Environment, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles. He won an ...

, atmospheric scientist * Thomas Whiteside, journalist *

Allan C. Wilson Allan Charles Wilson FRS AAA&S (18 October 1934 – 21 July 1991) was a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, a pioneer in the use of molecular approaches to understand evolutionary change and reconstruct phylog ...

, biochemist * Jay Wright, poet and playwright *

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

, composer

1987

* Walter Abish, writer *

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

, political scientist * Robert F. Coleman, mathematician *

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

, poet *

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

, physicist *

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

, physicist * Ira Herskowitz, molecular geneticist *

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

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

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

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

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

, geneticist and mathematician * Michael Malin, geologist and planetary scientist *

Deborah W. Meier Deborah Meier (born April 6, 1931) is an American educator often considered the founder of the modern small schools movement. After spending several years as a kindergarten teacher in Chicago, Philadelphia and then New York City, in 1974, Meier b ...

, education reform leader * Arnaldo Dante Momigliano, historian *

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

, mathematician * Tina Rosenberg, journalist *

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

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

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

, art historian * John H. Schwarz, physicist *

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

, evolutionary ecologist *

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

, physicist *

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

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

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

, poet and writer *

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

, poet *

Huỳnh Sanh Thông Huỳnh Sanh Thông (Saigon, July 15, 1926 – November 15, 2008) was a Vietnamese American scholar and translator. Life He was born to a rice-miller mother (Lâm Thị Kén) and a Francophile primary schoolteacher father (Huỳnh Sanh Thi ...

, translator and editor *

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

, sociologist *

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

, primate ethologist

1988

* Charles Archambeau, geophysicist *

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

, art historian *

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

, cultural anthropologist *

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

, composer and pianist * Charles Burnett, filmmaker * Philip James DeVries, insect biologist *

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

, writer *

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

, physicist * Jon H. Else, documentary filmmaker * John G. Fleagle, primatologist and paleontologist * Cornell H. Fleischer, Middle Eastern historian * Getatchew Haile, philologist and linguist * Raymond Jeanloz, geophysicist * Marvin Philip Kahl, zoologist * Naomi Pierce, biologist *

Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, Literary genre, genres and Theme (narrative), them ...

, novelist * Stephen J. Pyne, environmental historian *

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

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

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

, archaeologist * David Alan Rosenberg, military historian * Susan Irene Rotroff, archaeologist *

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

, figurative sculptor and puppeteer * Robert Shaw, physicist *

Jonathan Spence Jonathan Dermot Spence (11 August 1936 – 25 December 2021) was an English-born American historian, sinologist, and writer who specialized in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His m ...

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

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

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

1989

* Anthony Amsterdam, attorney and legal scholar *

Byllye Avery Byllye Yvonne Avery (born October 20, 1937) is an American health care activist. A proponent of reproductive justice, Avery has worked to develop healthcare services and education that address black women's mental and physical health stressors. ...

, women's healthcare leader *

Alvin Bronstein Alvin J. Bronstein (June 8, 1928 – October 24, 2015) was an American lawyer, and founder and Director Emeritus of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation.http://www.prisoncommission.org/public_hearing_4_witne ...

, human rights lawyer * Leo Buss, evolutionary biologist * Jay Cantor, writer * George Davis, environmental policy analyst * Allen Grossman, poet *

John Harbison John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938) is an American composer, known for his symphonies, operas, and large choral works. Life John Harris Harbison was born on December 20, 1938, in Orange, New Jersey, to the historian Elmore Harris Harb ...

, composer and conductor *

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

, journalist and educator * Ralf Hotchkiss, rehabilitation engineer * John Rice Irwin, curator and cultural preservationist *

Daniel Janzen Daniel Hunt Janzen (born January 18, 1939 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American evolutionary ecologist, and conservationist. He divides his time between his professorship in biology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the DiMaura ...

, ecologist *

Bernice Johnson Reagon Bernice Johnson Reagon (born Bernice Johnson on October 4, 1942) is a song leader, composer, scholar, and social activist, who in the early 1960s was a founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) Freedom Singers in ...

, music historian, composer, and vocalist *

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

, cultural preservationist * Jennifer Moody, archaeologist and anthropologist *

Errol Morris Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of its subjects. In 2003, his documentary film '' The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamar ...

, filmmaker *

Vivian Paley Vivian Gussin Paley (January 25, 1929 – July 26, 2019) was an American pre-school and kindergarten teacher and early childhood education researcher. She taught and did most of her research at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and was ...

, educator and writer *

Richard Powers Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel '' The Echo Maker'' won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.Martin Puryear Martin L. Puryear (born May 23, 1941) is an American artist known for his devotion to traditional craft. Working in wood and bronze, among other media, his reductive technique and meditative approach challenge the physical and poetic boundaries ...

, sculptor *

Theodore Rosengarten Theodore Rosengarten (born December 17, 1944) is an American historian. He graduated from Amherst College in 1966 with a BA, and earned his PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation on Ned Cobb (1885–1973), a former Alabama tenant farm ...

, historian * Margaret W. Rossiter, historian of science * George Russell, composer and music theorist * Pam Solo, arms control analyst *

Ellendea Proffer Teasley Ellendea Proffer Teasley (born 1944) is an American author, publisher, and translator of Russian literature into English. Biography She received her Ph.D. from Indiana University, taught at Wayne State University and University of Michigan, Dearbor ...

, translator and publisher *

Claire Van Vliet Claire Van Vliet (born 1933 in Ottawa, Ontario) is an artist, illustrator, and typographer who founded Janus Press in San Diego, California in 1955. Biography Van Vliet received the Bachelor of Arts in 1952 from San Diego State College, and th ...

, book artist * Baldemar Velasquez, farm labor leader *

Bill Viola Bill Viola ( , ; born 1951) is an American contemporary video artist whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in new media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, d ...

, video artist * Eliot Wigginton, educator * Patricia Wright, primatologist

1990

* John Christian Bailar, biostatistician *

Martha Clarke Martha Clarke (born June 3, 1944) is an American theater director and choreographer noted for her multidisciplinary approach to theatre, dance, and opera productions. Her best-known original work is ''The Garden of Earthly Delights'' (1984, re-im ...

, theater director * Jacques d'Amboise, dance educator *

Guy Davenport Guy Mattison Davenport (November 23, 1927 – January 4, 2005) was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher. Life Guy Davenport was born in Anderson, South Carolina, in the foothills of Appalachia on Novem ...

, writer, critic, and translator * Lisa Delpit, education reform leader *

John Eaton John Eaton may refer to: *John Eaton (divine) (born 1575), English divine *John Eaton (pirate) (fl. 1683–1686), English buccaneer *Sir John Craig Eaton (1876–1922), Canadian businessman * John Craig Eaton II (born 1937), Canadian businessman a ...

, composer *

Paul R. Ehrlich Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources. He is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of S ...

, population biologist *

Charlotte Erickson Charlotte J. Erickson (October 22, 1923 in Oak Park, Illinois – July 9, 2008 in Cambridge) was an American historian.Lee Friedlander Lee Friedlander (born July 14, 1934) is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fragm ...

, photographer *

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

, astrophysicist *

Jorie Graham Jorie Graham (; born May 9, 1950) is an American poet. The Poetry Foundation called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation." She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at ...

, poet *

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

, writer *

John Hollander John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic. At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Connecticut College, Hunter ...

, poet and literary critic * Thomas Cleveland Holt, social and cultural historian * David Kazhdan, mathematician * Calvin King, land and farm development specialist *

M. A. R. Koehl Mimi A. R. Koehl is an American marine biologist, biomechanist, and professor at University of California, Berkeley, and head of the Koehl Lab. She was a MacArthur Fellow in 1990. Education M. A. R. Koehl graduated from Gettysburg Colleg ...

, marine biologist * Nancy Kopell, mathematician * Michael Moschen, performance artist * Gary Nabhan, ethnobotanist *

Sherry Ortner Sherry Beth Ortner (born September 19, 1941) is an American cultural anthropologist and has been a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA since 2004. Biography Ortner grew up in a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and attended Weequ ...

, anthropologist * Otis Pitts, community development leader *

Yvonne Rainer Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental.

, filmmaker and choreographer *

Michael Schudson Michael S. Schudson Michael S. Schudson (born November 3, 1946) is professor of journalism in the graduate school of journalism of Columbia University and adjunct professor in the department of sociology. He is professor emeritus at the Univer ...

, sociologist * Rebecca J. Scott, historian * Marc Shell, scholar *

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

, writer and cultural critic *

Richard Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman (; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to u ...

, Free Software Foundation founder,

copyleft Copyleft is the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in derivative works. In this sense, ''freedoms'' refers to the use of the work for any purpose, ...

concept inventor * Guy Tudor, conservationist * Maria Varela, community development leader *

Gregory Vlastos Gregory Vlastos (; el, Γρηγόριος Βλαστός; July 27, 1907 – October 12, 1991) was a preeminent scholar of ancient philosophy, and author of many works on Plato and Socrates. He transformed the analysis of classical philosophy ...

, classicist and philosopher *

Kent Whealy Kent Whealy (April 27, 1946 – March 23, 2018) was an American activist, journalist and philanthropist who co-founded Seed Savers Exchange and promoted organic agriculture and the saving of heirloom seeds. Raised in Wellington, Kansas he was ...

, preservationist *

Eric Wolf Eric Robert Wolf (February 1, 1923 – March 6, 1999) was an anthropologist, best known for his studies of peasants, Latin America, and his advocacy of Marxist perspectives within anthropology. Early life Life in Vienna Wolf was born in ...

, anthropologist * Sidney Wolfe, physician *

Robert Woodson Robert Leon Woodson Sr. (born April 8, 1937) is an American civil rights activist, community development leader, author, and founder and president of the Woodson Center. The Woodson Center is a non-profit research and demonstration organization t ...

, community development leader * José Zalaquett, human rights lawyer

1991

* Jacqueline Barton, biophysical chemist * Paul Berman, journalist * James Blinn, computer animator *

Taylor Branch Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947) is an American author and historian who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and much of the history of the American civil rights movement. The final volume ...

, social historian *

Trisha Brown Trisha Brown (November 25, 1936 – March 18, 2017) was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement. Brown’s dance/movement method, with which she and her dance ...

, choreographer *

Mari Jo Buhle Mari Jo Buhle (born 1943) is an American historian and William J. Kenan Jr. University Professor Emerita at Brown University. Early life and education Buhle was born in 1943 as Mari Jo Kupski. She graduated from North Chicago Community High S ...

, American historian *

Patricia Churchland Patricia Smith Churchland (born 16 July 1943) is a Canadian-American analytic philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Cal ...

, (neuro)philosopher * David Donoho, statistician *

Steven Feld Steven Feld (born August 20, 1949) is an American ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, and linguist, who worked for many years with the Kaluli ( Bosavi) people of Papua New Guinea. He earned a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991. Early life Feld was bo ...

, anthropologist *

Alice Fulton Alice Fulton (born 1952) is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Fulton is the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English Emerita at Cornell University. Her awards include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, ...

, poet * Guillermo Gómez-Peña, writer and artist *

Jerzy Grotowski Jerzy Marian Grotowski (; 11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre director and theorist whose innovative approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today. He was born in Rzes ...

, theater director *

David Hammons David Hammons (born July 24, 1943) is an American artist, best known for his works in and around New York City and Los Angeles during the 1970s and 1980s. Early life David Hammons was born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois, the youngest of ten ...

, artist * Sophia Bracy Harris, child care leader *

Lewis Hyde Lewis Hyde (born 1945) is a scholar, essayist, translator, cultural critic and writer whose scholarly work focuses on the nature of imagination, creativity, and property. Profile Hyde was born in Cambridge, MA. He is the son of Elizabeth Sanfor ...

, writer *

Ali Akbar Khan Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 192218 June 2009) was a Indian Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod. Trained as a classical musician and instrumentalist by his father, Allauddin Khan, he ...

, musician *

Sergiu Klainerman Sergiu Klainerman (born May 13, 1950) is a mathematician known for his contributions to the study of hyperbolic differential equations and general relativity. He is currently the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, wh ...

, mathematician * Martin Kreitman, geneticist *

Harlan Lane Harlan Lawson Lane (August 19, 1936 – July 13, 2019) was an American psychologist. Lane was the Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, and founder o ...

, psychologist and linguist *

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

, community development leader * Patricia Locke, tribal rights leader * Mark Morris, choreographer and dancer *

Marcel Ophüls Marcel Ophuls (; born 1 November 1927) is a German-French documentary film maker and former actor, best known for his films '' The Sorrow and the Pity'' and '' Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie''. Life and career Ophuls was b ...

, documentary filmmaker *

Arnold Rampersad Arnold Rampersad (born 13 November 1941) is a biographer, literary critic, and academic, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the US in 1965. The first volume (1986) of his ''Life of Langston Hughes'' was a finalist for the Pulitzer ...

, biographer and literary critic *

Gunther Schuller Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician. Biography and works Early years Schuller was born in Queens, New York City ...

, composer, conductor, jazz historian * Joel Schwartz, epidemiologist *

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

, jazz pianist and composer *

Julie Taymor Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director and writer of theater, opera and film. Her stage adaptation of '' The Lion King'' debuted in 1997, and received eleven Tony Award nominations, with Taymor receiving Tony Awards for Best ...

, theater director * David Werner, health care leader *

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

, engineer and scientist * Eleanor Wilner, poet

1992

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

Lorna Bourg Lorna Bourg (; ) is an American charity director who is President and Executive Director of the Southern Mutual Help Association (SMHA). Biography She graduated from St. Joseph's Academy and received a Master's degree in Psychology from the Univ ...

, rural development leader *

Stanley Cavell Stanley Louis Cavell (; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, an ...

, philosopher * Amy Clampitt, poet *

Ingrid Daubechies Baroness Ingrid Daubechies ( ; ; born 17 August 1954) is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression. Daubechies is recognized for her study of the mathematical methods that enhance i ...

, mathematician * Wendy Ewald, photographer * Irving Feldman, poet * Barbara Fields, historian * Robert Hall, journalist * Ann Ellis Hanson, historian *

John Henry Holland John Henry Holland (February 2, 1929 – August 9, 2015) was an American scientist and Professor of psychology and Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a pioneer in what became ...

, computer scientist *

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

, agronomist * Evelyn Keller, historian and philosopher of science *

Steve Lacy Steve Lacy may refer to: Music * Steve Lacy (saxophonist) (1934–2004), American jazz saxophonist and composer * Steve Lacy (singer) (born 1998), American musician Other occupations *Steve Lacy (coach) (1908–2000), American college sports coach ...

, saxophonist and composer *

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

, social historian * Sharon Long, plant biologist *

Norman Manea Norman Manea (; born July 19, 1936), is a Romanian Jewish writer and author of short fiction, novels, and essays about the Holocaust, daily life in a communist state, and exile. He lives in the United States, where he is a Professor and wri ...

, writer *

Paule Marshall Paule Marshall (April 9, 1929 – August 12, 2019) was an American writer, best known for her 1959 debut novel ''Brown Girl, Brownstones''. In 1992, at the age of 63, Marshall was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship grant. Life and career Marshall wa ...

, writer *

Michael Massing Michael Massing is an American writer based in New York City. He is a former executive editor of the '' Columbia Journalism Review''. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and a master's degree from the London School of Economics. ...

, journalist *

Robert McCabe Robert H. McCabe (December 23, 1928 – December 23, 2014) was an American educator and the President Emeritus of Miami-Dade Community College. He won a 1992 MacArthur Fellowship. He died on December 23, 2014 of cancer. Works *''No One to Was ...

, educator *

Susan Meiselas Susan Meiselas (born June 21, 1948) is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and been a full member since 1980. Currently she is the President of the Magnum Foundation. She is best known for ...

, photojournalist *

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

, artist and cultural critic * Stephen Schneider, climatologist * Joanna Scott, writer * John T. Scott, artist * John Terborgh, conservation biologist *

Twyla Tharp Twyla Tharp (; born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City. In 1966 she formed the company Twyla Tharp Dance. Her work often uses classical music, jazz, and contemporary pop music. Fr ...

, dancer and choreographer * Philip Treisman, mathematics educator *

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor at Harvard University. Her approach to history has been described as a tribute t ...

, historian * Geerat J. Vermeij, evolutionary biologist * Günter Wagner, developmental biologist

1993

Nancy Cartwright Nancy Cartwright (born October 25, 1957) is an American actress. She is the long-time voice of Bart Simpson on the animated television series ''The Simpsons'', for which she has received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Perform ...

, philosopher *

Demetrios Christodoulou Demetrios Christodoulou ( el, Δημήτριος Χριστοδούλου; born 19 October 1951) is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the ...

, mathematician and physicist * Maria Crawford, geologist *

Stanley Crouch Stanley Lawrence Crouch (December 14, 1945 – September 16, 2020) was an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist, and biographer. He was known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel ''Don't the Moon Look ...

, jazz critic and writer *

Nora England Nora Clearman England (November 8, 1946 – January 26, 2022) was an American linguist, Mayanist, and Dallas TACA Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focused on the grammar of Mayan languages and contemporary ...

, anthropological linguist *

Paul Farmer Paul Edward Farmer (October 26, 1959 – February 21, 2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he was a University Professor and the chair of the Department of Glob ...

, medical anthropologist * Victoria Foe, developmental biologist * Ernest Gaines, writer * Pedro Greer, physician *

Thom Gunn Thomson William "Thom" Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004) was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement, and his later poetry in America, even after moving towards a looser, ...

, poet and literary critic * Ann Hamilton, artist * Sokoni Karanja, child and family development specialist *

Ann Lauterbach Ann Lauterbach (born 1942) is an American poet, essayist, art critic, and professor. Selected bibliography Full-length poetry collections * ''Spell'' (Penguin Books, 2018) * ''Under the Sign'' (Penguin Books, 2013) * ''Or to Begin Again'' (Peng ...

, poet and literary critic * Stephen Lee, chemist * Carol Levine, AIDS policy specialist *

Amory Lovins Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American writer, physicist, and former chairman/chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has written on energy policy and related areas for four decades, and served on the US Nationa ...

, physicist and energy analyst *

Jane Lubchenco Jane Lubchenco (born December 4, 1947) is an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist who teaches and conducts research at Oregon State University. Her research interests include interactions between the environment and human well-be ...

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

Margie Profet Margaret J. "Margie" Profet (born August 7, 1958) is an American evolutionary biologist with no formal biology training who created a decade-long controversy when she published her findings on the role of Darwinian evolution in menstruation, alle ...

, evolutionary biologist * Thomas Scanlon, philosopher *

Aaron Shirley Aaron Shirley (January 3, 1933 – November 26, 2014) was an American physician and civil rights activist. Shirley was born in Gluckstadt, Mississippi. He was Chairman of the Board for the Jackson Medical Mall Foundation, and an associate profess ...

, health care leader * William Siemering, journalist and radio producer * Ellen Silbergeld, toxicologist * Leonard van der Kuijp, philologist and historian * Frank von Hippel, arms control and energy analyst *

John Edgar Wideman John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and essayist. He was the first person to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice. His writing is known for experimental techniques and a focus o ...

, writer * Heather Williams, biologist and ornithologist *

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

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

1994

* Robert Adams, photographer * Jeraldyne Blunden, choreographer *

Anthony Braxton Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto. Braxton grew up on the South Side of ...

, avant-garde composer and musician * Rogers Brubaker, sociologist *

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

, jazz performer and composer *

Israel Gelfand Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand ( yi, ישראל געלפֿאַנד, russian: Изра́иль Моисе́евич Гельфа́нд, uk, Ізраїль Мойсейович Гел� ...

, mathematician * Faye Ginsburg, anthropologist *

Heidi Hartmann Heidi I. Hartmann is an American feminist economist who is founder and president of the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), a research organization created to conduct women-centered, public policy research. She is an ...

, economist * Bill T. Jones, dancer and choreographer * Peter E. Kenmore, agricultural entomologist * Joseph E. Marshall, educator *

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

, economic development leader * Donella Meadows, writer * Arthur Mitchell, company director and choreographer * Hugo Morales, radio producer * Janine Pease, educator *

Willie Reale Willie Reale is an American lyricist who has received Academy Award nominations for best song category for his work as a lyricist on the movie ''Dreamgirls'' and has won 3 Emmy awards (in 2010, 2011) as one of the writer/producers for ''The Electri ...

, theater arts educator *

Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the ...

, poet and writer *

Sam-Ang Sam Sam-Ang Sam ( km, សំ សំអាង, ) is a Cambodian-American ethnomusicologist and 1994 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (as part of the Apsara Ensemble) in 1998. Sam-Ang Sam and his wi ...

, musician and cultural preservationist * Jack Wisdom, physicist

1995

Allison Anders Allison Anders (born November 16, 1954) is an American independent film director whose films include ''Gas Food Lodging'', ''Mi Vida Loca'' and ''Grace of My Heart''. Anders has collaborated with fellow UCLA School of Theater, Film and Televisio ...

, filmmaker * Jed Z. Buchwald, historian * Octavia E. Butler, science fiction novelist *

Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, ''The House on Mango Street'' (1983), and her subsequent short story collection, '' Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories'' (1991). Her work e ...

, writer and poet * Sandy Close, journalist * Frederick C. Cuny, disaster relief specialist * Sharon Emerson, biologist *

Richard Foreman Richard Foreman (born June 10, 1937 in New York City) is an American avant-garde playwright and the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Achievements and awards Foreman has written, directed and designed over fifty of his own plays, b ...

, theater director * Alma Guillermoprieto, journalist * Virginia Hamilton, writer * Donald Hopkins, physician * Susan W. Kieffer, geologist *

Elizabeth LeCompte Elizabeth LeCompte (born April 28, 1944) is an American director of experimental theater, dance, and media. A founding member of The Wooster Group, she has directed that ensemble since its emergence in the late 1970s.Mitter, Shomit, and Maria She ...

, theater director * Patricia Nelson Limerick, historian * Michael Marletta, chemist * Pamela Matson, ecologist *

Susan McClary Susan Kaye McClary (born October 2, 1946) is an American musicologist associated with " new musicology". Noted for her work combining musicology with feminist music criticism, McClary is professor of musicology at Case Western Reserve Universit ...

, musicologist *

Meredith Monk Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recor ...

, vocalist, composer, director * Rosalind P. Petchesky, political scientist *

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

, political scientist *

Cindy Sherman Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Her breakthrough work is often co ...

, photographer *

Bryan Stevenson Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, he ...

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

1996

* James Roger Prior Angel, astronomer * Joaquin Avila, voting rights advocate * Allan Bérubé, historian * Barbara Block, marine biologist * Joan Breton Connelly, classical archaeologist *

Thomas Daniel Thomas Daniel may refer to: *Thomas Daniel (merchant) (1762–1854), Bristol merchant *Thomas Daniel (biologist), American biologist *Thomas Daniel (MP), Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon, 1386–1390 * Thomas Daniel (actor), actor in ''The B ...

, biologist * Martin Daniel Eakes, economic development strategist *

Rebecca Goldstein Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University, and ...

, writer * Robert Greenstein, public policy analyst *

Richard Howard Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022; adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz) was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a graduate of Columbia University, w ...

, poet, translator, and literary critic * John Jesurun, playwright *

Richard Lenski Richard Eimer Lenski (born August 13, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist, a Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a MacArthur fellow. ...

, biologist * Louis Massiah, documentary filmmaker * Vonnie McLoyd, developmental psychologist *

Thylias Moss Thylias Moss (born February 27, 1954, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright of African-American, Native American, and European heritage. Her poetry has been published in a number o ...

, poet and writer * Eiko Otake and

Koma Otake Eiko Otake and Takashi Koma Otake, generally known as Eiko & Koma, are a Japanese performance duo. Since 1972, Eiko & Koma have worked as co-artistic directors, choreographers, and performers, creating a unique theater of movement out of stillness ...

, dancers, choreographers *

Nathan Seiberg Nathan "Nati" Seiberg (; born September 22, 1956) is an Israeli American theoretical physicist who works on quantum field theory and string theory. He is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United ...

, physicist *

Anna Deavere Smith Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in ''The West Wing'' (2000–06), hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime series '' Nu ...

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

Bill Strickland William E. Strickland (born August 25, 1947, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a community leader, author, and the President and CEO of the non-profit Manchester Bidwell Corporation based in Pittsburgh. The company's subsidiaries, the Mancheste ...

, art educator

1997

* Luis Alfaro, writer and performance artist *

Lee Breuer Esser Leopold Breuer (February 6, 1937 – January 3, 2021) was an American playwright, theater director, academic, educator, filmmaker, poet, and lyricist. Breuer taught and directed on six continents. Career Breuer was a founding co-artistic ...

, playwright *

Vija Celmins Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns;Hilarie M. Sheets and Randy Kennedy (September 24, 2015)''New York Times''. lv, Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and d ...

, artist *

Eric Charnov Eric Lee Charnov (born October 29, 1947) is an American evolutionary ecologist. He is best known for his work on foraging, especially the marginal value theorem, and life history theory, especially sex allocation and scaling/allometric rules ...

, evolutionary biologist * Elouise P. Cobell, banker *

Peter Galison Peter Louis Galison (born May 17, 1955, New York) is an American historian and philosopher of science. He is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and physics at Harvard University. Biography Galison received his Ph.D ...

, historian * Mark Harrington, AIDS researcher *

Eva Harris Eva Harris (born August 6, 1965) is a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founder and president of the Sustainable Sciences Institute. She focuses her research efforts on combating diseases ...

, molecular biologist *

Michael Kremer Michael Robert Kremer (born November 12, 1964) is an American development economist who is University Professor in Economics And Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He is the founding director of the Development Innovation Lab at the Be ...

, economist *

Russell Lande Russell Scott Lande (born 1951) is an American evolutionary biologist and ecologist, and an International Chair Professor at Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is a fellow of the Roy ...

, biologist *

Kerry James Marshall Kerry James Marshall (born October 17, 1955) is an American artist and professor, known for his paintings of Black figures. He previously taught painting at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2017, Marshall ...

, artist *

Nancy A. Moran Nancy A. Moran (born December 21, 1954, Dallas, Texas) is an American evolutionary biologist and entomologist, University of Texas Leslie Surginer Endowed Professor, and co-founder of the Yale Microbial Diversity Institute. Since 2005, she has bee ...

, evolutionary biologist and ecologist * Han Ong, playwright * Kathleen Ross, educator *

Pamela Samuelson Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information Management at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the UC Berkeley School of Information and Boalt Hall, the School of Law. ...

, copyright scholar and activist * Susan Stewart, literary scholar and poet * Elizabeth Streb, dancer and choreographer * Trimpin, sound sculptor * Loïc Wacquant, sociologist *

Kara Walker Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is bes ...

, artist *

David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel '' Infinite Jest'', whi ...

, author and journalist *

Andrew Wiles Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awar ...

, mathematician * Brackette Williams, anthropologist

1998

Janine Antoni Janine Antoni (born January 19, 1964) is a Bahamian–born American artist, who creates contemporary work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. Antoni's work focuses on process and the transitions between the making and finished product, ...

, artist *

Ida Applebroog Ida Applebroog (born November 11, 1929) is an American multi-media artist who is best-known for her paintings and sculptures that explore the themes of gender, sexual identity, violence and politics. Applebroog has been the recipient of multiple ...

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

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

, inventor of the World Wide Web * Linda Bierds, poet * Bernadette Brooten, historian *

John Carlstrom John E. Carlstrom (born 1957) is an American astrophysicist, and Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Physics, at the University of Chicago. He graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in 1981, and from the University of Ca ...

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

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

, economist *

Kun-Liang Guan Kun-Liang Guan (; born 1963), is a Chinese-born American biochemist. He won the MacArthur Award in 1998. Career In 1963, Guan was born in Tongxiang (Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province), China. In 1982, Guan graduated (B.S.) from the Department of Bio ...

, biochemist *

Gary Hill Gary Hill (born April 4, 1951) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Often viewed as one of the foundational artists in video art, based on the single-channel work and video- and sound-based installations of the 197 ...

, artist *

Edward Hirsch Edward M. Hirsch (born January 20, 1950) is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published nine books of poems, including ''The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems'' (2010), which brings toget ...

, poet, essayist *

Ayesha Jalal Ayesha Jalal (Punjabi, ur, ) is a Pakistani-American historian who serves as the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, and was the recipient of the 1998 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Family and early life Ayesha Jal ...

, 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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