MacArthur Fellows Program
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The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (nickname
Nickname
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d the Genius Award) is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 United States citizens
Citizenship in the United States
Citizenship in the United States is a status given to individuals that entails specific rights, duties, privileges, and benefits between the United States and the individual...

 or residents, of any age and working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work
Creative work
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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." The current amount of the award is $500,000, paid as quarterly installments over five years. , there have been 756 recipients who have received a total of more than $350 million. Recipients have been as young as 18 and as old as 82.

The Fellowship has no application. People are nominated anonymously by a body of nominators who submit recommendations to a small selection committee of about a dozen people, also anonymous. The committee then reviews every nominee and passes along their recommendations to the President and the board of directors
Board of directors
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. Most new MacArthur Fellows first learn that they have been considered when they receive the congratulatory phone call. An editorial published in The New York Times
The New York Times
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by MacArthur Fellow James Collins
James Collins (Boston University)
James J. Collins is an American bioengineer, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator...

 describes the experience.

1981

  • A. R. Ammons, poet
  • Joseph Brodsky
    Joseph Brodsky
    Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...

    , poet
  • Gregory V. Chudnovsky, mathematician
  • Robert Coles
    Robert Coles
    Martin Robert Coles is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor at Harvard University.-Life and career:...

    , child psychiatrist
  • Shelly Errington
    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 of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz....

    , cultural anthropologist
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and...

    , literary critic
  • Michael Ghiselin
    Michael Ghiselin
    Michael T. Ghiselin is an American biologist, philosopher/historian of biology currently at the California Academy of Sciences.B.A., University of Utah ; Ph.D., Stanford University ; Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University ; Postdoctoral Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory ; Assistant Professor of...

    , evolutionary biologist
  • Stephen Jay Gould
    Stephen Jay Gould
    Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation....

    , paleontology
  • Ian Graham
    Ian Graham
    Ian Graham is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL during the 1960s.His best season came in 1964 when he won the Copeland Trophy for Collingwood's Best and Fairest player...

    , archaeologist
  • John Imbrie
    John Imbrie
    John Imbrie is an American paleoceanographer best known for his work on the theory of ice ages.After serving with the 10th Mountain Division in Italy during World War II, Imbrie earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University. He then went on to receive a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1951...

    , climatologist
  • Elma Lewis
    Elma Lewis
    Elma Idna Lewis was the founder of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts. She received the MacArther Fellows Grant in 1981. She was also given a Presidential Medal for the Arts by President Ronald Reagan in 1983...

    , arts educator
  • James Alan McPherson
    James Alan McPherson
    -External links:*...

    , novelist, writer
  • Roy P. Mottahedeh
    Roy Mottahedeh
    Roy Parviz Mottahedeh is a professor of pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East at Harvard University and expert on Iranian culture.-Life:...

    , historian
  • Douglas D. Osheroff
    Douglas D. Osheroff
    Douglas Dean Osheroff is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C...

    , physicist
  • Robert Root-Bernstein
    Robert Root-Bernstein
    Robert Root-Bernstein is a professor of physiology at Michigan State University. In 1981, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as a "genius grant."...

    , biologist and historian of science
  • Lawrence Rosen
    Lawrence Rosen (anthropologist)
    Lawrence Rosen is an American anthropologist and scholar of law.Rosen earned his B.A. at Brandeis University in 1964, his Ph.D. in Anthropology form the University of Chicago in 1968, and his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974. In 1981 he became one of the first generation of MacArthur...

    , attorney and anthropologist
  • Carl E. Schorske
    Carl E. Schorske
    Carl Emil Schorske is an American cultural historian and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture , which remains highly significant to modern European intellectual history...

    , intellectual historian
  • Leslie Marmon Silko
    Leslie Marmon Silko
    Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance...

    , writer
  • Derek Walcott
    Derek Walcott
    Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...

    , poet and playwright
  • Robert Penn Warren
    Robert Penn Warren
    Robert Penn Warren 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 influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935...

    , poet, writer, and literary critic
  • Stephen Wolfram
    Stephen Wolfram
    Stephen Wolfram is a British scientist and the chief designer of the Mathematica software application and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine.- Biography :...

    , computer scientist and physicist

  • John Cairns
    John Cairns (biochemist)
    John Forster Cairns FRS is a British physician and molecular biologist who made significant contributions to molecular genetics, cancer research, and public health....

    , molecular biologist
  • Joel E. Cohen
    Joel E. Cohen
    Joel E. Cohen is a mathematical biologist. He is currently Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University in New York City and at the Earth Institute of Columbia University, where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the...

    , population biologist
  • Richard Critchfield
    Richard Critchfield
    -Works:*** -Works:*** -Works:*** (reprint 1994 ISBN 9780385420501-External links:...

    , essayist
  • Howard Gardner
    Howard Gardner
    Howard Earl Gardner is an American developmental psychologist who is a professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero and author of over twenty books translated into thirty languages. Since 1995, he has...

    , psychologist
  • John Gaventa
    John Gaventa
    John Gaventa is the director of the Coady International Institute and Vice-President of International Development at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada....

    , sociologist
  • David Hawkins
    David Hawkins (philosopher)
    David Hawkins, was a professor whoseinterests included the philosophy of science, mathematics, economics, childhood science education, and ethics.. He also served as the official historian of the Manhattan Project....

    , philosopher
  • John P. Holdren, arms control and energy analyst
  • Ada Louise Huxtable
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    Ada Louise Huxtable is an architecture critic and writer on architecture. In 1970 she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for "distinguished criticism during 1969."...

    , architectural critic and historian
  • Robert Kates
    Robert Kates
    Robert W. Kates is an American geographer and independent scholar in Trenton, Maine, and University Professor at Brown University.- Background :...

    , geographer
  • Raphael Carl Lee
    Raphael Carl Lee
    Raphael Carl Lee is an American surgeon, medical researcher, biomedical engineer, and entrepreneur.-Life:...

    , surgeon
  • Cormac McCarthy
    Cormac McCarthy
    Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road...

    , writer
  • Barbara McClintock
    Barbara McClintock
    Barbara McClintock , the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics...

    , geneticist
  • Richard C. Mulligan
    Richard C. Mulligan
    Richard C. Mulligan, Ph.D., is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Harvard Gene Therapy Initiative.He is a Director of Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Biogen Idec, Inc..-Works:...

    , molecular biologist
  • Elaine H. Pagels
    Elaine Pagels
    Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey , is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the Gnostic Gospels...

    , historian of religion
  • David Pingree
    David Pingree
    David Edwin Pingree was a University Professor and Professor of History of Mathematics and Classics at Brown University, and was one of America's foremost historians of the exact sciences in antiquity.-Life:He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1950 and thereafter attended...

    , Historian of Science
  • Paul G. Richards
    Paul G. Richards
    Paul G. Richards is an English-born, American seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to the theory of seismic wave link propagation and in methods to understand how the recorded shapes of seismic waves are affected by processes of diffraction, attenuation and scattering...

    , seismologist
  • Richard Rorty
    Richard Rorty
    Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. He had a long and diverse academic career, including positions as Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University...

    , philosopher
  • Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., astrophysicist
  • Michael Woodford
    Michael Woodford (economist)
    Michael Dean Woodford is an American macroeconomist and monetary theorist who currently teaches at Columbia University.-Academic career:...

    , economist
  • George Zweig
    George Zweig
    George Zweig was originally trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman and later turned his attention to neurobiology...

    , physicist and neurobiologist


1982

  • Fouad Ajami
    Fouad Ajami
    Fouad A. Ajami , is a MacArthur Fellowship winning, Lebanese-born American university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He is currently a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution....

    , political scientist
  • Charles A. Bigelow
    Charles Bigelow (type designer)
    Charles A. Bigelow is a type historian, professor, and designer. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982. Along with Kris Holmes, he is the co-creator of Lucida and Wingdings font families...

    , graphic designer
  • Peter Robert Lamont Brown, historian
  • Robert Darnton
    Robert Darnton
    Robert Darnton is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on 18th-century France.-Life:He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb,...

    , European historian
  • Persi Diaconis
    Persi Diaconis
    Persi Warren Diaconis is an American mathematician and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University....

    , statistician
  • William Gaddis
    William Gaddis
    William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. was an American novelist. He wrote five novels, two of which won National Book Awards and one of which, The Recognitions , was chosen as one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005...

    , novelist
  • Ved Mehta
    Ved Mehta
    Ved Parkash Mehta is a writer who was born in Lahore, British India to a Hindu family. He lost his sight at the age of four as the result of an attack of cerebrospinal meningitis...

    , writer
  • Robert Parris Moses
    Robert Parris Moses
    Robert Parris Moses is an American, Harvard-trained educator who was a leader in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and later founded the nationwide U.S. Algebra project.-Biography:...

    , educator and philosopher
  • Richard A. Muller
    Richard A. Muller
    Richard A. Muller is a noted American professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.-Career:...

    , geologist and astrophysicist
  • Conlon Nancarrow
    Conlon Nancarrow
    Conlon Nancarrow was a United States-born composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life. He became a Mexican citizen in 1955.Nancarrow is best remembered for the pieces he wrote for the player piano...

    , composer

  • Alfonso Ortiz
    Alfonso Ortiz
    Alfonso Alex Ortiz was a Native-American cultural anthropologist.-Life:He graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1961, and from the University of Chicago with a masters degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology...

    , cultural anthropologist
  • Francesca Rochberg
    Francesca Rochberg
    Francesca Rochberg is an American Assyriologist, historian of science, and Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies at University of California, Berkeley....

    , Assyriologist and historian of science
  • Charles Sabel
    Charles Sabel
    Charles Frederick Sabel is an American academic and professor of Law and Social Science at the Columbia Law School. His research centers on public innovations, European Union governance, labor standards, economic development, and ultra-robust networks.Sabel attended Harvard University and...

    , political scientist and legal scholar
  • Ralph Shapey
    Ralph Shapey
    Ralph Shapey was an American composer and conductor. He is well-known for his work as a composition professor at the University of Chicago, where he founded and directed the Contemporary Chamber Players...

    , composer and conductor
  • Michael Silverstein
    Michael Silverstein
    Michael Silverstein is a professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology at the University of Chicago. He is a theoretician of semiotics and linguistic anthropology. Over the course of his career he has drawn together research on linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language ideology,...

    , linguist
  • Randolph Whitfield, Jr
    Randolph Whitfield, Jr
    Randolph Whitfield Jr. is an American ophthalmologist. He conducts pioneering surveys that trace the spread of blindness in deprived areas-Life:He received his medical and graduate degrees from University of Virginia in 1965 under a dual program....

    , ophthalmologist
  • Frank Wilczek
    Frank Wilczek
    Frank Anthony Wilczek is a theoretical physicist from the United States and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ....

    , physicist
  • Frederick Wiseman
    Frederick Wiseman
    Frederick Wiseman is an American documentary filmmaker. He came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer...

    , documentary filmmaker
  • Edward Witten
    Edward Witten
    Edward Witten is an American theoretical physicist with a focus on mathematical physics who is currently a professor of Mathematical Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study....

    , physicist. Creator of the M-Theory


1983

  • R. Stephen Berry
    R. Stephen Berry
    R. Stephen Berry is a U.S. professor of physical chemistry.He is the James Franck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago and Special Advisor to the Director for National Security, at Argonne National Laboratory...

    , physical chemist
  • Philip D. Curtin
    Philip D. Curtin
    Philip De Armind Curtin was a Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University and historian on Africa and the Atlantic slave trade...

    , historian of Africa
  • William H. Durham
    William H. Durham
    William H. Durham is an American biological anthropologist, and Bing Professor in Human Biology, at Stanford University.-Life:William Durham earned a B.A...

    , biological anthropologist
  • Bradley Efron
    Bradley Efron
    Bradley Efron is an American statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application...

    , statistician
  • David L. Felten
    David L. Felten
    David L. Felten is an American neuroscientist.He is associate dean for research, at Oakland University, and vice president for research and medical director of the Beaumont Research Institute.-Life:...

    , neuroscientist
  • Shelomo Dov Goitein
    Shelomo Dov Goitein
    Shelomo Dov Goitein was a German-Jewish ethnographer, historian and Arabist known for his research on Jewish life in the Islamic Middle Ages.-Biography:...

    , medieval historian
  • Ramón A. Gutiérrez
    Ramón A. Gutiérrez
    -Life:He graduated from University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a Ph.D.He taught at the University of California, San Diego.He teaches at the University of Chicago.-Awards:* 1992 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the American Historical Association...

    , historian
  • Bela Julesz
    Béla Julesz
    Béla Julesz was a visual neuroscientist and experimental psychologist in the fields of visual and auditory perception.Julesz was the originator of random dot stereograms which led to the creation of autostereograms...

    , psychologist
  • William Kennedy
    William Kennedy (author)
    William Joseph Kennedy is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York. Many of his novels feature the interaction of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family, and make use of incidents of Albany's history and the supernatural...

    , novelist
  • Leszek Kołakowski, historian of philosophy and religion
  • Brad Leithauser
    Brad Leithauser
    Brad E. Leithauser 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 & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, he is now on faculty at The...

    , poet and writer
  • Lawrence W. Levine
    Lawrence W. Levine
    Lawrence William Levine was an American historian. He was born in Manhattan and died in Berkeley, California.-Life:...

    , historian
  • Ralph Manheim
    Ralph Manheim
    Ralph Frederick Manheim was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian...

    , translator
  • Charles S. Peskin
    Charles S. Peskin
    Charles S. Peskin is a professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He is a MacArthur Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Science....

    , mathematician and physiologist
  • Julia Robinson
    Julia Robinson
    Julia Hall Bowman Robinson was an American mathematician best known for her work on decision problems and Hilbert's Tenth Problem.-Background and education:...

    , mathematician
  • John Sayles
    John Sayles
    John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter and author.-Early life:Sayles was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary , a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator. He was raised Catholic and took to labeling himself "a Catholic atheist"...

    , filmmaker and writer
  • Peter Sellars
    Peter Sellars
    Peter Sellars is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays...

    , theater and opera director

  • Adrian Wilson (book designer)
    Adrian Wilson (book designer)
    Adrian Wilson was an influential book designer, and author of the classic 1967 work entitled The Design of Books.In 1983, he was an early recipient of a MacArthur Foundation award.-External links:** at The Bancroft Library...

    , book designer, printer, and historian of the book
  • Irene J. Winter
    Irene J. Winter
    -Life:BA Barnard College, Anthropology, 1960; MA University of Chicago, Near Eastern Studies, 1967; PhD Columbia University, Art History and Archaeology...

    , art historian and archaeologist
  • Mark S. Wrighton
    Mark S. Wrighton
    Mark Stephen Wrighton is an American academic, a chemist, and the current Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Wrighton received his B.S. in Chemistry from Florida State University in 1969. While at Florida State, he won the Monsanto Chemistry Award for...

    , chemist
  • Seweryn Bialer
    Seweryn Bialer
    Seweryn Bialer is an emeritus professor of political science at Columbia University and an expert on the Communist parties of the Soviet Union and Poland. He was the Director of Columbia's Research Institute on International Change....

    , political scientist
  • William C. Clark
    William C. Clark
    William C. Clark is an American ecologist and environmental policy analyst, and Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the John F...

    , ecologist and environmental policy analyst
  • Randall W. Forsberg, political scientist and arms control strategist
  • Alexander L. George
    Alexander L. George
    Alexander L. George was an American behavioral scientist. He was the Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University.-Life:His parents were Assyrians from Urmia in north-west Iran....

    , political scientist
  • Mott T. Greene
    Mott T. Greene
    Mott T. Greene is an American historian of science, and John B. Magee Professor of Science and Values, at the University of Puget Sound.-Life:He graduated from Columbia College in 1967, and University of Washington with an MA and PhD in 1978....

    , historian of science
  • John J. Hopfield, physicist and biologist
  • Sylvia A. Law
    Sylvia A. Law
    Sylvia A. Law is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry and the Co-Director of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program at New York University School of Law.-Biography:...

    , human rights lawyer
  • Robert K. Merton
    Robert K. Merton
    Robert King Merton was a distinguished American sociologist. He spent most of his career teaching at Columbia University, where he attained the rank of University Professor...

    , historian and sociologist of science
  • Walter F. Morris, Jr.
    Walter F. Morris, Jr.
    -Life:He is coordinator of Mexican initiatives the NGO Aid to Artisans, based in Hartford, Connecticut.He is a member of the Board of the Pellizzi Collection of Textiles of Chiapas.He is a research associate at the Science Museum of Minnesota....

    , cultural preservationist
  • A.K. Ramanujan, poet, translator, and literary scholar
  • Alice M. Rivlin, economist and policy analyst
  • Richard M. Schoen, mathematician
  • Karen K. Uhlenbeck, mathematician

1984

  • George W. Archibald, ornithologist
  • Ernesto J. Cortes, Jr., community organizer
  • Robert Hass
    Robert Hass
    Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:...

    , poet, critic, and translator
  • J. Bryan Hehir, religion and foreign policy scholar
  • Robert Irwin
    Robert Irwin (artist)
    Robert Irwin is an American Installation artist. He lives and works in San Diego, California.-Beginnings:Robert Irwin was born in 1928 in Long Beach, California to Robert Irwin and Goldie Anderberg Irwin...

    , painter and installation artist
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
    Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
    Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant...

    , novelist and screenwriter
  • Paul Oskar Kristeller
    Paul Oskar Kristeller
    Paul Oskar Kristeller 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 Columbia University in New York, where he mentored both Irving Louis Horowitz and A...

    , intellectual historian and philosopher
  • Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
    Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
    Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot 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 and learning styles...

    , educator
  • Heather Lechtman
    Heather Lechtman
    Heather Lechtman is an American materials scientist and archaeologist, and Director, Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.-Life:...

    , materials scientist and archaeologist
  • Michael Lerner (environmentalist)
    Michael Lerner (environmentalist)
    Michael Lerner is co-founder of Commonweal Wellness, a health and environmental research institute, and of Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C.He is a member of the Advisory Board of the American Cancer Society....

    , public health leader
  • Andrew W. Lewis
    Andrew W. Lewis
    Andrew W. Lewis is an American historian and professor at Missouri State University. His special areas of interest are medieval Europe and the Renaissance.-Works:...

    , medieval historian
  • Arnold J. Mandell
    Arnold J. Mandell
    Arnold J. Mandell is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist. He received his M.D. from Tulane Universiry in 1958. Founding chairman in 1969 of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego,...

    , neuroscientist and psychiatrist
  • Matthew Meselson
    Matthew Meselson
    Matthew Stanley Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist whose research was important in showing how DNA replicates, recombines and is repaired in cells. In his mature years, he has been an active chemical and biological weapons activist and consultant...

    , geneticist and arms control analyst
  • David R. Nelson, physicist
  • Michael Piore, economist
  • Judith N. Shklar
    Judith N. Shklar
    Judith Nisse Shklar was a political theorist, and the John Cowles Professor of Government at Harvard University.-Biography:...

    , political philosopher
  • Charles Simic
    Charles Simic
    Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...

    , poet, translator, and essayist
  • David Stuart
    David Stuart (Mayanist)
    David Stuart is a Mayanist scholar and professor of Mesoamerican art and writing at the University of Texas at Austin.-Early life:He is the son of Mayanist scholars George Stuart and Gene S. Stuart...

    , linguist and epigrapher
  • John E. Toews
    John E. Toews
    John E. Toews is a Canadian historian in the U.S., and Director of the Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington from 1981-2010.He graduated from Harvard University, with a Ph.D...

    , intellectual historian
  • James Turrell
    James Turrell
    James Turrell is an American artist primarily concerned with light and space. Turrell was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984. He is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York...

    , light sculptor
  • Jay Weiss
    Jay Weiss
    Jay Michael Weiss is an American psychologist, and Jenny Culbreth Adams Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences....

    , psychologist
  • Carl R. Woese, molecular biologist
  • Shelly Bernstein, pediatric hematologist
  • Peter J. Bickel
    Peter J. Bickel
    Peter John Bickel is an American statistician, Professor of Statistics in University of California, Berkeley, who is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences...

    , statistician

  • William Drayton, public service innovator
  • Sidney Drell
    Sidney Drell
    Sidney David Drell is an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert. He is a professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Drell is a noted contributor in the field of quantum electrodynamics and particle...

    , physicist and arms policy analyst
  • Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, mathematical physicist
  • Michael H. Freedman, mathematician
  • Curtis G. Hames
    Curtis G. Hames
    Dr. Curtis G. Hames Sr. was a family physcian and pioneer in the epidemologic study of heart disease and stroke.He graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in 1944....

    , family physician
  • Shirley Heath
    Shirley Heath
    Shirley Brice Heath 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 University, with a Ph.D. in 1970...

    , linguistic anthropologist
  • Bette Howland
    Bette Howland
    Bette Howland is an American writer and literary critic.She wrote for Commentary Magazine.She appeared at Yaddo.-Works:*The iron year, University of Iowa., 1967*W-3, Viking Press, 1974, ISBN 9780670748631...

    , writer and literary critic
  • Bill Irwin
    Bill Irwin
    William Mills "Bill" Irwin is an American actor and clown noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He is known for his vaudeville-style stage acts, but has made a number of appearances on film and television and won a Tony Award for a dramatic role on...

    , clown, writer, and performance artist
  • Fritz John
    Fritz John
    Fritz John 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.-Biography:...

    , mathematician
  • Galway Kinnell
    Galway Kinnell
    Galway Kinnell is an American poet. He was Poet Laureate of Vermont from 1989 to 1993. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St...

    , poet
  • Henry Kraus
    Henry Kraus
    Henry Kraus was a labor historian, and European art historian.He graduated from the University of Chicago and Western Reserve University with a master's degree in 1928....

    , labor and art historian
  • Peter Mathews
    Peter Mathews (archaeologist)
    Peter Mathews is an Australian archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist. He was a professor at the University of Calgary, and is Co Director of the Naachtun Archaeology Project. He is a professor of Archaeology and Maya Hieroglyphs at La Trobe University.He graduated from University of Calgary...

    , archaeologist and epigrapher
  • Beaumont Newhall
    Beaumont Newhall
    Beaumont Newhall was an influential curator, art historian, writer, and photographer. His The History of Photography remains one of the most significant accounts in the field and has become a classic photo history textbook...

    , historian of photography
  • Roger S. Payne, zoologist and conservationist
  • Edward V. Roberts
    Ed Roberts (activist)
    Edward Verne Roberts was an American activist. He was the first student with severe disabilities to attend the University of California, Berkeley. He was a pioneering leader of the disability rights movement.-Early life:...

    , disability rights leader
  • Elliot Sperling
    Elliot Sperling
    Elliot Sperling is Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and an expert on the history of Tibet and Tibetan-Chinese relations at Indiana University.He earned his B.A. at Queens College , and his Ph.D...

    , Tibetan studies scholar
  • Frank Sulloway
    Frank Sulloway
    Frank J. Sulloway is a visiting Scholar in the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychology....

    , psychologist (child birth-order research)
  • Alar Toomre
    Alar Toomre
    Alar Toomre is an Estonian-born astronomer and mathematician who immigrated to the United States in 1949. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

    , astronomer and mathematician
  • Amos Tversky
    Amos Tversky
    Amos Nathan Tversky, was a cognitive and mathematical psychologist, a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement...

    , cognitive scientist
  • J. Kirk Varnedoe, art historian
  • Bret Wallach
    Bret Wallach
    Bret Wallach is an American cultural geographer, and professor at University of Oklahoma.He graduated from University of California, Berkeley with an A.B. in 1964, M.A. in 1966, and Ph.D. in 1968. He taught at the University of Victoria, Pennsylvania State University, University of California,...

    , geographer
  • Arthur Winfree
    Arthur Winfree
    Arthur Taylor Winfree was a theoretical biologist at the University of Arizona. He was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States....

    , physiologist and mathematician
  • Billie Young
    Billie Young
    Billie Jean Young is an actor, activist, poet and educator.She lives in Pennington, Alabama from which she travels the world to teach, work with young people....

    , community development leader


1985

  • Joan Abrahamson
    Joan Abrahamson
    Joan Abrahamson is President of the Jefferson Institute, a public policy institute that brings creative thinking to practical problems. The Institute identifies innovative approaches to current policy problems and works to implement these solutions. A major emphasis of the Jefferson Institute is...

    , community development leader
  • John Ashbery
    John Ashbery
    John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...

    , poet
  • John F. Benton
    John F. Benton
    John F. Benton was the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History, at the California Institute of Technology....

    , medieval historian
  • Harold Bloom
    Harold Bloom
    Harold Bloom is an American writer and literary critic, and is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his unique and controversial theories of poetic influence, and his prodigious literary output, particularly for a literary...

    , literary critic
  • Valery Chalidze
    Valery Chalidze
    Valery Chalidze is a Georgian-American author, publisher, and the former Soviet dissident and human rights activist.Chalidze was born in Moscow...

    , physicist and human rights organizer
  • William Cronon
    William Cronon
    William 'Bill' Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...

    , environmental historian
  • Merce Cunningham
    Merce Cunningham
    Mercier "Merce" Philip Cunningham was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of the American avant-garde for more than 50 years. Throughout much of his life, Cunningham was considered one of the greatest creative forces in American dance...

    , choreographer
  • Jared Diamond
    Jared Diamond
    Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist and author whose work draws from a variety of fields. He is currently Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA...

    , environmental historian and Geographer
  • Marian Edelman, Children's Defense Fund founder
  • Morton Halperin
    Morton Halperin
    Morton H. Halperin is an American expert on foreign policy and civil liberties. He served in the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations and in a number of roles with think tanks and universities such as the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University.- Early career :Halperin received...

    , political scientist
  • Robert M. Hayes
    Robert M. Hayes
    Robert Mayo Hayes is Professor Emeritus and former dean of the School of Library Service, later known as the Graduate School of Library and Information Science , now the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. In the early years, he jointly taught mathematics and...

    , lawyer and human rights leader
  • Edwin Hutchins
    Edwin Hutchins
    Edwin Hutchins is a professor and former department head of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. Hutchins is one of the main developers of distributed cognition....

    , cognitive scientist
  • Sam Maloof
    Sam Maloof
    Sam Maloof was a furniture designer and woodworker. He was born in Chino, California, USA, to parents who emigrated to the United States from Lebanon...

    , Woodworker

  • Andrew McGuire
    Andrew McGuire
    Andrew McGuire is an American trauma prevention specialist and grassroots campaigner. He was the first Executive Director of Action Against Burns , founder and Executive Director of the Burn Council , which was renamed the Trauma Foundation, in 1981...

    , trauma prevention specialist
  • Patrick Noonan
    Patrick Noonan
    Patrick F. Noonan is an American conservationist, and was president of The Nature Conservancy, from 1973 to 1980, and the Conservation Fund....

    , conservationist
  • George Oster
    George Oster
    George Oster is an American mathematical biologist, and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of California, Berkeley.He graduated from Columbia University, with a Ph.D., in Nuclear Engineering....

    , mathematical biologist
  • Thomas G. Palaima
    Thomas G. Palaima
    Thomas G. Palaima is a Mycenologist, the Raymond F. Dickson Centennial Professor and the founding director of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin....

    , classicist
  • Peter Raven, botanist
  • Jane S. Richardson
    Jane S. Richardson
    Jane Shelby Richardson is an American biochemist who developed the Richardson diagram, or ribbon diagram, method of representing proteins...

    , biochemist
  • Gregory Schopen
    Gregory Schopen
    Gregory Schopen is a Buddhist historian, and Professor at University of California, Los Angeles, chair of the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures.He was born in Deadwood, South Dakota....

    , historian of religion
  • Franklin Stahl
    Franklin Stahl
    Dr. Franklin William Stahl is an American molecular biologist. With Matthew Meselson, Stahl conducted the famous Meselson-Stahl experiment showing that DNA is replicated by a semiconservative mechanism, meaning that each strand of the DNA serves as a template for the "replicated" strand.He is...

    , geneticist
  • J. Richard Steffy
    J. Richard Steffy
    John Richard Steffy was an American nautical archaeologist.He attended the Milwaukee School of Engineering.He taught at University of Pennsylvania....

    , nautical archaeologist
  • Ellen Stewart
    Ellen Stewart
    Ellen Stewart was an American theater director and producer and the founder of La MaMa, E.T.C. . In the 1950s she worked as a fashion designer for Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Lord & Taylor, and Henri Bendel.-Biography:Ellen Stewart was either born in Alexandria, Louisiana or Chicago,...

    , theater director
  • Paul Taylor, choreographer, dance company founder
  • Shing-Tung Yau
    Shing-Tung Yau
    Shing-Tung Yau is a Chinese American mathematician working in differential geometry. He was born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China into a family of scholars from Jiaoling, Guangdong Province....

    , mathematician


1986

  • Paul Adams
    Paul Adams (scientist)
    Paul Richard Adams, FRS is a neurobiologist currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Stony Brook University in New York....

    , neurobiologist
  • Milton Babbitt
    Milton Babbitt
    Milton Byron Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.-Biography:...

    , composer
  • Christopher Beckwith
    Christopher Beckwith
    Christopher I. Beckwith is a professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.He received his Ph.D. degree from Indiana University in Uralic and Altaic Studies ....

    , philologist
  • Richard Benson
    Richard Benson
    Richard M.A. Benson is an American photographer.He teaches at the Yale University and was dean of the Yale School of Art, from 1996 to 2006.-Awards:* 1978 Guggenheim Fellow* National Endowment for the Arts fellow...

    , photographer
  • Lester R. Brown
    Lester R. Brown
    Lester Russel Brown is a United States environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C...

    , agricultural economist
  • Caroline Bynum
    Caroline Bynum
    Caroline Walker Bynum is an American Medieval scholar. She is a University Professor Emerita at Columbia University, where she still teaches, and a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She was the first woman to be appointed University Professor at Columbia...

    , medieval historian
  • William A. Christian
    William A. Christian
    William A. Christian is a religious historian, and was the J.E. and Lillian Byrne Tipton DistinguishedVisiting Professor in Religious Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.-Works:*, Arxiu d'Ethnographia de Cataluyna 1989 7:39-55...

    , historian of religion
  • Nancy Farriss
    Nancy Farriss
    -Works:* Ecclesiastical immunity in new Spain 1760-1815 1965* Crown and clergy in colonial Mexico, 1759-1821: the crisis of ecclesiastical privilege, Athlone Press, 1968-External links:...

    , historian
  • Benedict Gross
    Benedict Gross
    Benedict Hyman Gross is an American mathematician, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and former Dean of Harvard College....

    , mathematician
  • Daryl Hine
    Daryl Hine
    Daryl Hine is a Canadian poet and translator.-Life:Daryl Hine was born in Burnaby in 1936 and grew up in New Westminster B.C. He attended McGill University in Montreal 1954-58...

    , poet and translator
  • John Robert Horner
    Jack Horner (paleontologist)
    John "Jack" R. Horner is an American paleontologist who discovered and named Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young. He is one of the best-known paleontologists in the United States...

    , paleobiologist
  • Thomas C. Joe, social policy analyst
  • David Keightley
    David Keightley
    David N. Keightley is an American sinologist, historian, and Professor Emeritus, Department of History, at University of California, Berkeley.He graduated from Columbia University with a PhD.-Works:*, Chinese Science, 12, 1995...

    , historian and sinologist

  • Albert J. Libchaber
    Albert J. Libchaber
    Albert J. Libchaber is a Detlev W. Bronk Professor at Rockefeller University. He won the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1986.-Education:...

    , physicist
  • David C. Page, molecular geneticist
  • George Perle
    George Perle
    George Perle was a composer and music theorist. He was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. Perle was an alumnus of DePaul University...

    , composer and music theorist
  • James Randi
    James Randi
    James Randi is a Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation...

    , educator
  • David Rudovsky
    David Rudovsky
    David Rudovsky is a civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia. He is a founding partner of the law firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, and Feinberg, and a Senior Fellow at University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he teaches evidence and constitutional criminal procedure. In 1986 he was named a...

    , civil rights lawyer
  • Robert Shapley
    Robert Shapley
    Robert Shapley is an American neurophysiologist, and professor at the New York University Center for Neural Science.He graduated from Harvard University, and from Rockefeller University with a PhD in neurophysiology and biophysics.-Works:...

    , neurophysiologist
  • Leo Steinberg
    Leo Steinberg
    Leo Steinberg was an American art critic and art historian and a naturalized citizen of the U.S.-Life:Steinberg was born in Moscow, Russia and grew up in Berlin, Germany. He was the son of Isaac Nachman Steinberg. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art...

    , art historian
  • Richard P. Turco
    Richard P. Turco
    Richard Peter Turco is an American atmospheric scientist, and Professor at the Institute of the Environment, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles. He won an award in 1986, from MacArthur Fellows Program....

    , atmospheric scientist
  • Thomas Whiteside
    Thomas Whiteside
    Thomas Whiteside was an American journalist.Born in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Whiteside studied at the University of Chicago. During World War II, he worked for the Office of War Propaganda, compiling reports on Axis propaganda. His work appeared in the Newsweek, The New Republic, and The New Yorker...

    , journalist
  • Allan C. Wilson, biochemist
  • Jay Wright
    Jay Wright (poet)
    Jay Wright is an African-American poet, playwright, and essayist. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he currently lives in Bradford, Vermont. Although his work is not as widely known as other American poets of his generation, it has received considerable critical acclaim...

    , poet and playwright
  • Charles Wuorinen
    Charles Wuorinen
    Charles Peter Wuorinen is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. His catalog of more than 250 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works...

    , composer


1987

  • Walter Abish
    Walter Abish
    Walter Abish is an Austrian-American author of experimental novels and short stories.-Biography:Abish was born in Vienna, Austria to Adolph and Frieda . At a young age, his family fled from the Nazis, traveling first to Italy and Nice before settling in Shanghai from 1940 to 1949...

    , writer
  • Robert Axelrod
    Robert Axelrod
    Robert M. Axelrod 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 on the evolution of cooperation, which has been cited in numerous articles...

    , political scientist
  • Robert F. Coleman
    Robert F. Coleman
    Robert F. Coleman is an American mathematician, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary research area is in number theory, with specific interest in p-adic analysis and arithmetic geometry...

    , mathematician
  • Douglas Crase
    Douglas Crase
    Douglas Crase is an American poet, essayist and critic. He was born in 1944 in Battle Creek, Michigan. His poetry collection, The Revisionist, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and an American Book Award. He is a former MacArthur Fellow. Crase lives in New York City and...

    , poet
  • Daniel Friedan
    Daniel Friedan
    Daniel Harry Friedan is an American theoretical physicist and is one of two sons of the feminist author and activist Betty Friedan. He earned his Ph.D...

    , physicist
  • David Gross
    David Gross
    David Jonathan Gross is an American particle 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. He is currently the director and holder of the Frederick W...

    , physicist
  • Ira Herskowitz
    Ira Herskowitz
    Ira Herskowitz was an American geneticist. He was noted for his work on cellular differentiation.Hew was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology, and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D...

    , molecular geneticist
  • Irving Howe
    Irving Howe
    Irving Howe was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.-Life and career:...

    , literary and social critic
  • Wesley Charles Jacobs, Jr.
    Wesley Charles Jacobs, Jr.
    Wesley Charles Jacobs, Jr. is an Oglala Sioux rural planner, who works in South Dakota for the First Nation's Financial Project.He graduated from University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a Master's in Rural Planning, in 1984....

    , rural planner
  • Peter Jeffery
    Peter Jeffery
    -Life:He graduated from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art, and the Performing Arts, in New York City, and from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D...

    , musicologist
  • Horace Freeland Judson
    Horace Freeland Judson
    Horace Freeland Judson was a historian of molecular biology and the author of several books, including The Eighth Day of Creation, a history of molecular biology, and The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science, an examination of the deliberate manipulation of scientific data.-Life and career:The Eighth...

    , historian of science
  • Stuart Alan Kauffman, evolutionary biologist
  • Richard Kenney
    Richard Kenney
    Richard L. Kenney is a poet and professor of English at the University of Washington. He is the author of four books of poetry: The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, Orrery, The Invention of the Zero, and The One-Strand River....

    , poet
  • Eric Lander
    Eric Lander
    Eric Steven Lander is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , a member of the Whitehead Institute, and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career toward realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He is co-chair of U.S...

    , geneticist and mathematician
  • Michael Malin
    Michael C. Malin
    Michael C. Malin is an American astronomer, space-scientist, and CEO of Malin Space Science Systems. His cameras have been important scientific instruments in the Exploration of Mars....

    , geologist and planetary scientist
  • Deborah W. Meier, education reform leader

  • Arnaldo Dante Momigliano, historian
  • David Mumford
    David Mumford
    David Bryant Mumford is an American mathematician known for distinguished 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 the National Medal of Science...

    , mathematician
  • Tina Rosenberg
    Tina Rosenberg
    Tina Rosenberg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. She frequently writes for The New York Times Magazine....

    , journalist
  • David Rumelhart
    David Rumelhart
    David Everett Rumelhart was an American psychologist who made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artificial intelligence, and parallel distributed processing...

    , cognitive scientist and psychologist
  • Robert Morris Sapolsky, neuroendocrinologist and primatologist
  • Meyer Schapiro
    Meyer Schapiro
    Meyer Schapiro was a Lithuanian-born American art historian known for forging new art historical methodologies that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to the study of works of art...

    , art historian
  • John H. Schwarz, physicist
  • Jon Seger
    Jon Seger
    Jon Seger is an American evolutionary ecologist, and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Utah.His work has appeared in leading scientific journals such as Nature, Science, Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, as well as popular magazines...

    , evolutionary ecologist
  • Stephen Shenker
    Stephen Shenker
    Stephen Hart Shenker 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 computer scientist...

    , physicist
  • David Dean Shulman
    David Dean Shulman
    David Dean Shulman is an Indologist and regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on the languages of India. His research embraces many fields, including the history of religion in South India, Indian poetics, Tamil Islam, Dravidian linguistics, and Carnatic music...

    , historian of religion
  • Muriel S. Snowden
    Muriel S. Snowden
    Muriel Sutherland Snowden was the founder and co-director of Freedom House, a community improvement center in Roxbury, Massachusetts.-Life:She was raised in Glen Ridge, New Jersey...

    , community organizer
  • Mark Strand
    Mark Strand
    Mark Strand is an American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia University.- Biography :...

    , poet and writer
  • May Swenson
    May Swenson
    Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson was an American poet and playwright...

    , poet
  • Huynh Sanh Thong
    Huynh Sanh Thong
    Huỳnh Sanh Thông was a Vietnamese American scholar and translator.-Life:He was born to a rice-miller mother and a Francophile primary schoolteacher father in Hóc Môn, close to Sài Gòn...

    , translator and editor
  • William Julius Wilson
    William Julius Wilson
    William Julius Wilson is an American sociologist. He worked at the University of Chicago 1972-1996 before moving to Harvard....

    , sociologist
  • Richard Wrangham
    Richard Wrangham
    Richard W. Wrangham is a British primatologist. He is the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and his research group is now part of the newly established Department of Human Evolutionary Biology....

    , primate ethologist


1988

  • Charles Archambeau
    Charles Archambeau
    -Life:He graduated from California Institute of Technology with a PhD in 1964.He taught at University of Colorado, and California Institute of Technology.In 1997, he studied the geophysics of Yucca Mountain, with John Davies, commissioned by the state of Nevada....

    , geophysicist
  • Michael Baxandall
    Michael Baxandall
    Michael David Kighley Baxandall, FBA was a British-born art historian and a professor emeritus of Art History at University of California, Berkeley...

    , art historian
  • Ruth Behar
    Ruth Behar
    Ruth Behar is a Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of Michigan.After receiving her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1977, she studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University...

    , cultural anthropologist
  • Ran Blake
    Ran Blake
    Ran Blake is an American pianist and composer from Springfield, Massachusetts. In a career that spans five decades, Blake has created a unique niche in improvised music as an artist and educator...

    , composer and pianist
  • Charles Burnett
    Charles Burnett (director)
    Charles Burnett is an African-American film director, film producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer...

    , filmmaker
  • Philip James DeVries
    Philip James DeVries
    Philip James DeVries PhD is a tropical biologist whose research focuses on insect ecology and evolution, especially butterflies...

    , insect biologist
  • Andre Dubus
    Andre Dubus
    Andre Dubus, II was an American short story writer, essayist, and autobiographer. Dubus is recognized as one of the most prolific American short-story writers in the 20th century.-Early life and education:...

    , writer
  • Helen T. Edwards
    Helen T. Edwards
    Helen Thom Edwards is an American physicist. She led the effort to design and build the Tevatron, then the world's highest energyparticle acceleratorand the first high-energy accelerator completely based on superconducting magnets....

    , physicist
  • Jon H. Else
    Jon H. Else
    -Awards:* 1988 MacArthur Fellows Program• 1989 Emmy, "Yosemite The Fate Of Heaven" director• 1993 Emmy, "The Great Depression" writer• 1998 Emmy "Don't Say Goodby" cinematographer• 1999 Emmy "Sing Faster: The Stagehands Ring Cycle"...

    , documentary filmmaker
  • John G. Fleagle
    John G. Fleagle
    John G. Fleagle is an American anthropologist, primatologist, and Distinguished Professor at State University of New York, Stony Brook.He graduated from Yale University cum laude in 1971, and from Harvard University with a M.S. in Anthropology in 1973, and from Harvard University, with a Ph.D...

    , primatologist and paleontologist
  • Cornell H. Fleischer, Middle Eastern historian
  • Getatchew Haile
    Getatchew Haile
    Getatchew Haile is American philologist, Regents Professor Emeritus of Medieval Studies, and Curator, Ethiopian Study Center at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University....

    , philologist and linguist
  • Raymond Jeanloz
    Raymond Jeanloz
    Raymond Jeanloz is a professor of earth and planetary science and of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Educated at the California Institute of Technology, Amherst College and at Deep Springs College, he has contributed research fundamental to understanding of the composition of...

    , geophysicist
  • Marvin Phillip Kahl, zoologist
  • Naomi Pierce
    Naomi Pierce
    Naomi E. Pierce is the Hessel Professor of Biology at Harvard University and a world authority on butterflies. Pierce is the university's Curator of Lepidoptery, a position once held by Vladimir Nabokov....

    , biologist
  • Thomas Pynchon
    Thomas Pynchon
    Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American novelist. For his most praised novel, Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon received the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature...

    , novelist

  • Stephen J. Pyne
    Stephen J. Pyne
    Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, specializing in environmental history, the history of exploration, and the history of fire.-Education and academic activities:...

    , environmental historian
  • Max Roach
    Max Roach
    Maxwell Lemuel "Max" Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history...

    , drummer and jazz composer
  • Hipolito (Paul) Roldan
    Paul Roldan
    Hipolito Roldan, is an affordable housing developer in Chicago.In 2001, he participated in a comprehensive community planning effort to manage development in Humboldt Park, Chicago, on the city’s west side...

    , community developer
  • Anna Curtenius Roosevelt
    Anna Curtenius Roosevelt
    Anna Curtenius Roosevelt is an American archaeologist, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Curator of Archaeology at the Field Museum from 1991 to 2002....

    , archaeologist
  • David Alan Rosenberg
    David Alan Rosenberg
    David Alan Rosenberg is a military historian, and was Admiral Harry W. Hill Chair of Maritime Strategy at the National War College from 1996 to 2003.-Life:...

    , military historian
  • Susan Irene Rotroff
    Susan Irene Rotroff
    Susan Irene Rotroff is an American archaeologist, and Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities, at Washington University in St. Louis.She graduated from Princeton University, with a Ph.D in 1976...

    , archaeologist
  • Bruce Schwartz
    Bruce Schwartz
    Bruce D. Schwartz 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, he does the opposite and shows his hands.He performed the puppet...

    , figurative sculptor and puppeteer
  • Robert Shaw
    Robert Shaw (physicist)
    Robert Stetson Shaw is an American physicist who was part of Eudaemonic Enterprises in Santa Cruz in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1988 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his work in Chaos theory.-Chaos theory:...

    , physicist
  • Jonathan Spence
    Jonathan Spence
    Jonathan D. Spence is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most famous book is The Search for Modern China, which has become one of the standard texts on the last several...

    , historian
  • Noel M. Swerdlow
    Noel Swerdlow
    Noel M. Swerdlow is a professor emeritus of history, astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He is currently a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology.-Career:...

    , historian of science
  • Gary A. Tomlinson
    Gary A. Tomlinson
    Gary Tomlinson is an American musicologist, and Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, at the University of Pennsylvania. Beginning in the fall of 2011, he will be a full time faculty member at Yale University....

    , musicologist
  • Alan Walker
    Alan Walker (academic)
    Alan Walker , is Evan Pugh Professor of Biological Anthropology and Biology at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his B.A. from Cambridge University in 1962, and his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1967. He was also awarded a MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" in 1988.Dr...

    , paleontologist
  • Eddie Williams
    Eddie Williams
    Edward Laquan Williams is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and third baseman....

    , policy analyst and civil rights leader
  • Rita P. Wright
    Rita P. Wright
    Rita P. Wright is an American anthropologist, and professor at New York University.She graduated from Wellesley College, with a B.A. in 1975, and from Harvard University with an M.A. in 1978 and Ph.D. in 1984.-Works:...

    , archaeologist
  • Garth Youngberg
    Garth Youngberg
    Ivan Garth Youngberg was the founder and director of the Institute for Alternative Agriculture.He graduated from the University of Illinois with a PhD in Political Science in 1971....

    , agriculturalist


1989

  • Anthony Amsterdam, attorney and legal scholar
  • Byllye Avery
    Byllye Avery
    Byllye Yvonne Avery is an American health care activist, who has worked to improve the welfare of African-American women by creating the National Black Women's Health Project in 1981. She has received the MacArthur Foundation's Fellowship for Social Contribution and the Gustav O...

    , women's healthcare leader
  • Alvin Bronstein
    Alvin Bronstein
    Alvin J. Bronstein is an American lawyer, and founder and Director Emeritus of the NationalPrison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. According to his ACLU biography, 'he has argued numerous prisoners’ rights cases in federal trial and appellatecourts as well as the Supreme...

    , human rights lawyer
  • Leo Buss
    Leo Buss
    Leo W. Buss is a Professor in Yale University's departments of geology, geophysics, and ecology and evolutionary biology.-Life:He graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D in 1979....

    , evolutionary biologist
  • Jay Cantor
    Jay Cantor
    Jay Cantor, B.A., Ph.D. is an American novelist, and essayist.He graduated from Harvard University with a BA, and from University of California, Santa Cruz with a Ph.D.He teaches at Tufts University....

    , writer
  • George Davis, environmental policy analyst
  • Allen Grossman
    Allen Grossman
    Allen Grossman is a noted American poet, critic and professor.-Biography:Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1932, Grossman was educated at Harvard University, graduating with an MA in 1956 after several interruptions. He went on to receive a PhD from Brandeis University in 1960, where he remained a...

    , poet
  • John Harbison
    John Harbison
    John Harris Harbison is an American composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.-Life:...

    , composer and conductor
  • Keith Hefner
    Keith Hefner (activist)
    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 New Youth Connections, written by New York City teens, and Represent, by and for foster youth...

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

    , rehabilitation engineer
  • John Rice Irwin
    John Rice Irwin
    John Rice Irwin is an American cultural historian, and founder of the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee.Rice was born in Union County, Tennessee, but while still an infant his family moved twice, and would eventually permanently reside on a farm near Norris, Tennessee...

    , curator and cultural preservationist
  • Daniel Janzen
    Daniel Janzen
    Daniel Hunt Janzen is an evolutionary ecologist, naturalist, and conservationist and the son of a previous Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service...

    , ecologist
  • Bernice Johnson Reagon
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    Bernice Johnson Reagon is a singer, composer, scholar, and social activist, who founded the a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock in 1973.-Early life and education:...

    , music historian, composer, and vocalist
  • Aaron Lansky
    Aaron Lansky
    Aaron Lansky is the founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language publications. When he began saving books in the early 1980s, most experts believe that there were fewer than 70,000 Yiddish volumes extant...

    , cultural preservationist
  • Jennifer Moody
    Jennifer Moody
    Jennifer Alice Moody is an American archaeologist, and research fellow at University of Texas at Austin.She studies the archaeology, and environmental history of Crete.-Works:...

    , archaeologist and anthropologist

  • Errol Morris
    Errol Morris
    Errol Mark Morris is an American director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. Also in 2003, his film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.-Early life and...

    , filmmaker
  • Vivian Paley
    Vivian Paley
    Vivian Gussin Paley is an American pre-school and kindergarten teacher and early childhood education researcher. Now retired, she taught and did most of her research at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools...

    , educator and writer
  • Richard Powers
    Richard Powers
    Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology.- Life and work :...

    , novelist
  • Martin Puryear
    Martin Puryear
    Martin Puryear is an African American sculptor. He works in media including wood, stone, tar, and wire, and his work is a union of minimalism and traditional crafts.-Life:...

    , sculptor
  • Theodore Rosengarten
    Theodore Rosengarten
    Theodore Rosengarten is an American historian.He graduated from Amherst College in 1966 with a BA, and received his PhD from Harvard for a thesis which became the National Book Award winning non-fiction All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, which was adapted into a one-man play starring...

    , historian
  • Margaret W. Rossiter
    Margaret W. Rossiter
    Margaret W. Rossiter is an American historian of science, and Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science, at Cornell University.-Awards:* 1989 MacArthur Fellows Program* 1997 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize -Works:...

    , historian of science
  • George Russell, composer and music theorist
  • Pam Solo
    Pam Solo
    Pam Solo is an arms control analyst, and Founder and President of the Civil Society Institute.-Life:She co-founded the Rocky Flats campaign.In 1978 she was co-director the national Nuclear Weapons Facilities Task Force....

    , arms control analyst
  • Ellendea Proffer Teasley
    Ellendea Proffer Teasley
    Ellendea Proffer Teasley is an American author, publisher, and translator of Russian literature into English.She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1966.She married Carl R...

    , translator and publisher
  • Claire Van Vliet
    Claire Van Vliet
    Claire Van Vliet was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1933. She is a fine artist, illustrator and typographer who founded Janus Press in San Diego, California in 1955. Van Vliet received the Bachelor of Arts in 1952 from San Diego State College, and the Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate School...

    , book artist
  • Baldemar Velasquez
    Baldemar Velasquez
    Baldemar Velásquez is an American labor union activist. He co-founded and is president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO...

    , farm labor leader
  • Bill Viola
    Bill Viola
    Bill Viola is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media...

    , video artist
  • Eliot Wigginton
    Eliot Wigginton
    Eliot Wigginton is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator. He was most widely known for developing the Foxfire Project, a writing project that led to a magazine and the series of best-selliing Foxfire books, twelve volumes in all...

    , educator
  • Patricia Wright
    Patricia Wright
    Patricia C. Wright is the Executive Director of the Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments and Professor at Stony Brook University in New York. Dr. Wright, a MacArthur Fellow, has been active in research and conservation in Madagascar since 1985. In 1986, Dr...

    , primatologist


1990

  • John Christian Bailar
    John Christian Bailar
    John Christian Bailar III is an American statistician, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago.He is the son of John C. Bailar, Jr., a chemistry professor....

    , biostatistician
  • Martha Clarke
    Martha Clarke
    Martha Clarke is an American theater director and choreographer noted for her multidisciplinary approach to theatre, dance, and opera productions. She is the creator of plotless, dreamlike works that are perhaps described by the term "moving paintings. Her work frequently emphasizes striking...

    , theater director
  • Jacques d'Amboise, dance educator
  • Guy Davenport
    Guy Davenport
    Guy Mattison Davenport was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.-Life:...

    , writer and critic
  • Lisa Delpit
    Lisa Delpit
    Lisa D. Delpit is an American educationalist and author. She is also an Eminent Scholar and Executive Director of the Center for Urban Educational Excellence at in Miami, Florida and Felton G...

    , education reform leader
  • John Eaton
    John Eaton (composer)
    John Charles Eaton is an American composer , MacArthur Fellow, is professor emeritus of composition at the University of Chicago John Charles Eaton (born 30 March 1935 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is an American composer (Anon. [n.d.]; Morgan 2001), MacArthur Fellow, is professor emeritus of...

    , composer
  • Paul R. Ehrlich
    Paul R. Ehrlich
    Paul Ralph Ehrlich is an American biologist and educator who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. By training he is an entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera , but...

    , population biologist
  • Charlotte Erickson
    Charlotte Erickson
    Charlotte Erickson was an American historian.-Life:Erickson was born in Oak Park, Illinois a suburb of Chicago, where her father was a Swedish Lutheran minister...

    , historian
  • Lee Friedlander
    Lee Friedlander
    Lee Friedlander is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 70s, working primarily with 35mm cameras and black and white film, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of the photographs including fragments of...

    , photographer
  • Margaret Geller
    Margaret Geller
    Margaret Joan Geller is an American astronomer and professor. She is a Senior Astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and has written numerous articles and produced several award-winning scientific short films....

    , astrophysicist
  • Jorie Graham
    Jorie Graham
    Jorie Graham is an American poet. The U.S. Poetry Foundation suggests "She is perhaps the most celebrated poet of the American post-war generation". She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor at Harvard, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position...

    , poet
  • Patricia Hampl
    Patricia Hampl
    Patricia Hampl is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She is a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 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:Hampl was...

    , writer
  • John Hollander
    John Hollander
    John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...

    , poet and literary critic
  • Thomas Cleveland Holt
    Thomas C. Holt
    Thomas Cleveland Holt is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago; he has produced a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora....

    , social and cultural historian
  • David Kazhdan
    David Kazhdan
    David Kazhdan or Každan, Kazhdan, formerly named Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kazhdan , is a Soviet and Israeli mathematician known for work in representation theory.-Life:...

    , mathematician
  • Calvin King
    Calvin King
    Calvin R. King is an American farm developer, and the President of the Arkansas Land and Farm Development Corp.He graduated from Philander Smith College in 1975....

    , land and farm development specialist
  • M. A. R. Koehl
    M. A. R. Koehl
    Mimi A. R. Koehl is an American marine biologist, professor at University of California, Berkeley, and head of the Koehl Lab.She graduated from Gettysburg College Magna Cum Laude, with a B.A. in Biology, and Duke University with a Ph.D...

    , marine biologist
  • Nancy Kopell
    Nancy Kopell
    Nancy Jane Kopell is an American mathematician, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University, and Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics.She grew up in the Bronx....

    , mathematician

  • Michael Moschen
    Michael Moschen
    Michael Moschen is a juggler. He received a Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation in 1990, has appeared on TV on PBS, and done ads for Motorola. Cirque du Soleil commissioned Moschen to create a new work for their permanent theatrical circus in Las Vegas, Nevada.Moschen is particularly known...

    , performance artist
  • Gary Nabhan, ethnobotanist
  • Sherry Ortner
    Sherry Ortner
    Sherry Beth Ortner is an American cultural anthropologist and has been Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA since 2004.-Biography:...

    , anthropologist
  • Otis Pitts, community development leader
  • Yvonne Rainer
    Yvonne Rainer
    Yvonne Rainer is an American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental. Her work is classified as minimalist art.- Early life :...

    , filmmaker and choreographer
  • Michael Schudson
    Michael Schudson
    Michael Schudson is an American academic sociologist working in the fields of journalism and its history, and public culture.-Life:...

    , sociologist
  • Rebecca J. Scott
    Rebecca J. Scott
    Rebecca Jarvis Scott is an American historian, and Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, at University of Michigan.-Life:...

    , historian
  • Marc Shell
    Marc Shell
    Marc Shell, born 1947 in Montreal, is a Canadian literary critic, currently Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University.-"New Economic Criticism":...

    , scholar
  • Susan Sontag
    Susan Sontag
    Susan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, feminist and political activist whose works include On Photography and Against Interpretation.-Life:...

    , writer and cultural critic
  • Richard Stallman
    Richard Stallman
    Richard Matthew Stallman , often shortened to rms,"'Richard Stallman' is just my mundane name; you can call me 'rms'"|last= Stallman|first= Richard|date= N.D.|work=Richard Stallman's homepage...

    , Free Software Foundation founder, Copyleft
    Copyleft
    Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work...

     concept inventor
  • Guy Tudor, conservationist
  • Maria Varela, community development leader
  • Gregory Vlastos
    Gregory Vlastos
    Gregory Vlastos was a scholar of ancient philosophy, and author of several works on Plato and Socrates. He was also a Christian and has written on Christian faith as well.-Life and works:...

    , classicist and philosopher
  • Kent Whealy
    Kent Whealy
    Kent Whealy and Diane Ott Whealy founded the Seed Savers Exchange, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the seed lines of heirloom plants and to the sharing of such seeds both through sales and by facilitating exchanges among member gardeners. The organization works to...

    , preservationist
  • Eric Wolf
    Eric Wolf
    Eric Robert Wolf was an anthropologist, best known for his studies of peasants, Latin America, and his advocacy of Marxian perspectives within anthropology.-Early life:...

    , anthropologist
  • Sidney Wolfe
    Sidney M. Wolfe
    Sidney M. Wolfe, MD, is a physician and currently the director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, a consumer and health advocacy lobbying group.He has publicly crusaded against many pharmaceuticals, which Dr...

    , physician
  • Robert Woodson
    Robert Woodson
    Robert L. Woodson is an American community development leader, and founder and president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise .In 1954, he joined the United States Air Force, and earned his G.E.D....

    , community development leader
  • Jose Zalaquett
    José Zalaquett
    José "Pepe" Zalaquett Daher is a Chilean lawyer, renowned for his work in the defence of human rights during the de facto regime that governed Chile under General Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990.-The coup d'état and the Pro Paz Committee:...

    , human rights lawyer


1991

  • Jacqueline Barton
    Jacqueline Barton
    Jacqueline K. Barton is an American chemist. She is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology...

    , biophysical chemist
  • Paul Berman
    Paul Berman
    Paul Berman is an American writer. His articles have been published in numerous periodicals, such as: The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review and Slate...

    , journalist
  • James Blinn, computer animator
  • Taylor Branch
    Taylor Branch
    Taylor Branch is an American author and historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and some of the history of the American civil rights movement...

    , social historian
  • Trisha Brown
    Trisha Brown
    Trisha Brown is a postmodernist American choreographer and dancer.Brown was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and received a B.A. degree in dance from Mills College in 1958. Brown later received a D.F.A. from Bates College in 2000. For several summers she studied with Louis Horst at the American Dance...

    , choreographer
  • Mari Jo Buhle
    Mari Jo Buhle
    Mari Jo Buhle is an American historian, and William J. Kenan Jr. University Professor Emerita, at Brown University.She graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a Ph.D., in 1974.-Works:*, University of Illinois Press, 1983, ISBN 9780252010453...

    , American historian
  • Patricia Churchland
    Patricia Churchland
    Patricia Smith Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She has been a Professor at the University of California, San Diego since 1984...

    , (Neuro)philosopher
  • David Donoho
    David Donoho
    David Leigh Donoho, born on March 5, 1957 in Los Angeles, is a professor of statistics at Stanford University, where he is also the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences...

    , statistician
  • Steven Feld
    Steven Feld
    Steven Feld is an American ethnomusicologist anthropologist, and linguist, who worked for many years with the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea. He earned a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991....

    , anthropologist
  • Alice Fulton
    Alice Fulton
    Alice Fulton is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.- Biography :Fulton was born and raised in Troy, New York, the youngest of three daughters. Her father was the proprietor of the historic Phoenix Hotel, and her mother was a visiting nurse. She began writing poetry in high school...

    , poet
  • Guillermo Gómez-Peña
    Guillermo Gómez-Peña
    Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born in Mexico City and moved to the US in 1978, where he established himself as a performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. He has pioneered multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, performance photography and installation art...

    , writer and artist
  • Jerzy Grotowski
    Jerzy Grotowski
    Jerzy Grotowski was a Polish theatre director and innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre" concepts....

    , theater director
  • David Hammons
    David Hammons
    David Hammons is an African-American artist mostly known for his works in and around New York City during the 1970s and 1980s.Much of his work, including Spade with Chains , reflects his commitment to the civil rights and Black Power movements...

    , artist
  • Sophia Harris, child care leader
  • Lewis Hyde
    Lewis Hyde
    Lewis Hyde is a scholar, essayist, translator, cultural critic and writer whose scholarly work focuses on the nature of imagination, creativity, and property.-Early life:...

    , writer
  • Ali Akbar Khan
    Ali Akbar Khan
    Ali Akbar Khan , often referred to as Khansahib or by the title Ustad , was a Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod...

    , musician

  • Sergiu Klainerman
    Sergiu Klainerman
    Sergiu Klainerman is a mathematician known for his contributions to the study of hyperbolic differential equations and general relativity. He is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University, a position he held since 1987. From 1980 to 1987 he was a faculty member at New...

    , mathematician
  • Martin Kreitman
    Martin Kreitman
    Martin Kreitman is an American geneticist, and Professor at the University of Chicago.He graduated from Stony Brook University with a B.S. Biology, in 1975, and from University of Florida with a M.S. Zoology, in 1977, and from Harvard University with a Ph.D...

    , geneticist
  • Harlan Lane
    Harlan Lane
    Harlan Lane is Distinguished University professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, and founder of the Center for Research in Hearing, Speech, and Language. His research is focused on speech, Deaf culture, and sign language. Lane was born in...

    , psychologist and linguist
  • William Linder
    William Linder
    Monsignor William J. Linder is an American community development leader, and founder of New Community Corporation.He is a 1991 MacArthur Fellow.-Life:He graduated from Seton Hall University with a BA, and from Fordham University with an MA and PhD....

    , community development leader
  • Patricia Locke
    Patricia Locke
    Patricia A. Locke was an American Indian educator.Born on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Locke was a Standing Rock Sioux, Hunkpapa band also known as Lakota, and Mississippi Band of White Earth Chippewa.She was the daughter of John and Eva McGillis; they lived for a time in Parker, Arizona...

    , tribal rights leader
  • Mark Morris
    Mark Morris
    Mark William Morris is an American dancer, choreographer and director whose work is acclaimed for its craftsmanship, ingenuity, humor, and at times eclectic musical accompaniments...

    , choreographer and dancer
  • Marcel Ophüls
    Marcel Ophuls
    Marcel Ophüls is a documentary film maker and former actor.He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of the director Max Ophüls...

    , documentary filmmaker
  • Arnold Rampersad
    Arnold Rampersad
    Arnold Rampersad is a biographer and literary critic. The first volume of his Life Of Langston Hughes was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He was born in Trinidad and Tobago....

    , biographer and literary critic
  • Gunther Schuller
    Gunther Schuller
    Gunther Schuller is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.- Biography and works :...

    , composer, conductor, jazz historian
  • Joel Schwartz
    Joel Schwartz
    Joel Schwartz is an American epidemiologist, and Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, at Harvard University, School of Public Health.He graduated from Brandeis University with a Ph.D...

    , epidemiologist
  • Cecil Taylor
    Cecil Taylor
    Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...

    , jazz pianist and composer
  • Julie Taymor
    Julie Taymor
    Julie Taymor is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song...

    , theater director
  • David Werner
    David Werner
    David Werner is author of the book Donde No Hay Doctor , co-founder and co-director of HealthWrights and a Visiting Professor at Boston University International School of Public Health...

    , health care leader
  • James Westphal
    James Westphal
    James Adolf Westphal was an American academic, scientist, engineer, inventor and astronomer and Director of Caltech's Palomar Observatory from 1994 through 1997....

    , engineer and scientist
  • Eleanor Wilner
    Eleanor Wilner
    -Life:She graduated from Goucher College, and from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D.She was editor of The American Poetry Review, and she is Advisory Editor of Calyx....

    , poet


1992

  • Janet Benshoof
    Janet Benshoof
    Janet Benshoof is an American human rights lawyer, and President of the Global Justice Center.She graduated from the University of Minnesota summa cum laude, and from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor....

    , attorney
  • Robert Blackburn
    Robert Blackburn (artist)
    Robert Blackburn was an African American artist, teacher and printmaker.Born Robert Hamilton Blackburn in Summit, New Jersey in 1920, he grew up in Harlem. He attended P.S...

    , printmaker
  • Unita Blackwell
    Unita Blackwell
    Unita Blackwell is an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman, and the tenth African-American, to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and helped organize voter drives...

    , civil rights leader
  • Lorna Bourg
    Lorna Bourg
    Lorna Bourg is President/Executive Director of the Southern Mutual Help Association .She graduated from St. Joseph’s Academy and received a Master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, from Harvard University’s JFK School of Government in the Sr...

    , rural development leader
  • Stanley Cavell
    Stanley Cavell
    Stanley Louis Cavell is an American philosopher. He is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.-Life:...

    , philosopher
  • Amy Clampitt
    Amy Clampitt
    -Life:Amy Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920 of Quaker parents, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. In the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at nearby Grinnell College she began a study of English literature that eventually led her to poetry. She graduated from Grinnell College, and from...

    , poet
  • Ingrid Daubechies
    Ingrid Daubechies
    Ingrid Daubechies is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She was between 2004 and 2011 the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in the mathematics and applied mathematics departments at Princeton University. In January 2011 she moved to Duke University as a Professor in mathematics. She is the first...

    , mathematician
  • Persi Diaconis
    Persi Diaconis
    Persi Warren Diaconis is an American mathematician and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University....

    , mathematician and statistician
  • Wendy Ewald
    Wendy Ewald
    Wendy Ewald is an American photographer and educator. Her work is directed toward "helping children to see" and using the "camera as a tool for expression"...

    , photographer
  • Irving Feldman
    Irving Feldman
    Irving Feldman Irving Feldman Irving Feldman (born on 22 September 1928 in Brooklyn, New York is an American poet and professor of English.-Academic career:Born and raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn, Feldman worked as a merchant seaman, farm hand, and factory worker through his university education...

    , poet
  • Barbara Fields, historian
  • Robert Hall, journalist
  • Ann Ellis Hanson
    Ann Ellis Hanson
    Ann Ellis Hanson is an American historian, and senior research scholar at the Papyrological Institute at Yale University.-Works:*, Before sexuality: the construction of erotic experience in the ancient Greek world, Editors David M. Halperin, John J. Winkler, Froma I...

    , historian
  • John Henry Holland
    John Henry Holland
    John Henry Holland is an American scientist and Professor of Psychology and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a pioneer in complex systems and nonlinear science. He is known as the father of genetic algorithms. He was awarded...

    , computer scientist
  • Wes Jackson
    Wes Jackson
    -Early life and Education:Jackson was born and raised on a farm near Topeka, Kansas. After earning a BA in biology from Kansas Wesleyan University, an MA in botany from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in genetics from North Carolina State University, Wes Jackson established and served as chair...

    , agronomist
  • Evelyn Keller
    Evelyn Fox Keller
    Evelyn Fox Keller is an American physicist, author and feminist. She is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller has also taught at the State University of New York at Purchase, New York University and in the department of...

    , historian and philosopher of science
  • Steve Lacy
    Steve Lacy
    Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....

    , saxophonist and composer

  • Suzanne Lebsock
    Suzanne Lebsock
    Suzanne Lebsock is an award winning 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 the Bancroft Prize, and A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial...

    , social historian
  • Sharon Long
    Sharon R. Long
    Sharon R. Long, Ph.D. is an American plant biologist, and a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, and director of the Long Lab. -Education and career:...

    , plant biologist
  • Norman Manea
    Norman Manea
    Norman Manea is a Jewish Romanian writer and author of short fiction, novels, and essays about the Holocaust, daily life in a communist state, and exile. He is a Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer in residence at Bard College...

    , writer
  • Paule Marshall
    Paule Marshall
    Paule Marshall is an American author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at Girls High School, Brooklyn College and Hunter College . Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose...

    , writer
  • Michael Massing
    Michael Massing
    Michael Massing is a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. Michael Massing received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard and an MS from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He often writes for the New York Review of Books concerning the media and foreign affairs...

    , journalist
  • Robert McCabe
    Robert McCabe
    Robert H. McCabe is an American educator, and President Emeritus of Miami-Dade Community College.He won a 1992 MacArthur Fellowship.-Works:*No One to Waste: A Report to Public Decision-Makers and Community College Leaders, Community College Press, 2000, ISBN 9780871173300*General education in a...

    , educator
  • Susan Meiselas
    Susan Meiselas
    Susan Meiselas is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and a full member since 1980. Her works have been published in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Times, Time, Geo and Paris Match...

    , photojournalist
  • Amalia Mesa-Bains
    Amalia Mesa-Bains
    Amalia Mesa-Bains , born in Santa Clara, California, is a psychologist, curator, author and artist. She received a B.A. in painting from San Jose State University before earning a M.A. in interdisciplinary education from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D...

    , artist and cultural critic
  • Stephen Schneider
    Stephen Schneider
    Stephen Henry Schneider was Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, a Co-Director at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment...

    , climatologist
  • Joanna Scott
    Joanna Scott
    Joanna Scott is an American author and Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.Scott has received critical acclaim for her novels...

    , writer
  • John T. Scott
    John T. Scott
    John T. Scott was an African American sculptor, painter, printmaker and collagist. He was awarded a Bachelor of arts degree from Xavier University in New Orleans and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan...

    , artist
  • John Terborgh
    John Terborgh
    John W. Terborgh is a conservation biologist.Terborgh graduated from Harvard College in 1958 and received his PhD in plant physiology from Harvard University in 1963....

    , conservation biologist
  • Twyla Tharp
    Twyla Tharp
    Twyla Tharp is an American dancer and choreographer, who lives and works in New York City.-Early years:Tharp was born in 1941 on a farm in Portland, Indiana, and was named after Twila Thornburg, the "Pig Princess" of the 89th Annual Muncie Fair in Indiana.she spend hours working on it to help her...

    , dancer and choreographer
  • Philip Treisman
    Philip Treisman
    Philip Uri Treisman is an American mathematician, and mathematics educator. He is currently the Director of the Charles A. Dana Center, and Professor of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with pioneering the Emerging Scholars Program , aimed at helping students from...

    , mathematics educator
  • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    Laurel Thatcher Ulrich , is a historian of early America and the history of women and a university professor at Harvard University...

    , historian
  • Geerat J. Vermeij
    Geerat J. Vermeij
    Dr. Geerat J. Vermeij, born in the Netherlands, is a professor of geology at the University of California at Davis. Blind from the age of three, he graduated from Princeton University in 1968 and received his Ph.D. in biology and geology from Yale University in 1971.An evolutionary biologist and...

    , evolutionary biologist
  • Gunter Wagner
    Günter P. Wagner
    Günter P. Wagner is Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary biology at Yale University, and head of the Wagner Lab.-Education and training:...

    , developmental biologist


1993

  • Nancy Cartwright
    Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)
    Nancy Cartwright FBA is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and the University of California at San Diego, and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship...

    , philosopher
  • Demetrios Christodoulou
    Demetrios Christodoulou
    Demetrios Christodoulou is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime...

    , mathematician and physicist
  • Maria Crawford
    Maria Crawford
    Maria Luisa Crawford is an American geologist.She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and from University of California, Berkeley with a PhD in geology in 1964.In 1982 and 1999, she spoke at the Philadelphia Geological Society....

    , geologist
  • Stanley Crouch
    Stanley Crouch
    Stanley Crouch is an American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism, and his novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?- Biography :...

    , jazz critic and writer
  • Nora England
    Nora England
    Nora Clearman England is an American linguist, Mayanist, and Dallas TACA Centennial Professor at University of Texas at Austin.She graduated from the University of Florida with a Ph.D.She taught at the University of Iowa....

    , anthropological linguist
  • Paul Farmer
    Paul Farmer
    Dr. Paul Edward Farmer is an American anthropologist and physician. He is currently the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University, formerly the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an attending physician and Chief...

    , medical anthropologist
  • Victoria Foe
    Victoria Foe
    Victoria Elizabeth Foe is an American developmental biologist, and Research Professor at the University of Washington's Center for Cell Dynamics....

    , developmental biologist
  • Ernest Gaines
    Ernest Gaines
    Ernest James Gaines is an African-American author. His works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. Four of his works have been made into television movies.His 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the...

    , writer
  • Pedro Greer, physician
  • Thom Gunn
    Thom Gunn
    Thom Gunn, born Thomson William Gunn , was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style...

    , poet and literary critic
  • Ann Hamilton, artist
  • Sokoni Karanja
    Sokoni Karanja
    Sokoni Tacuma Karanja is a child development expert, and President and CEO of the Center for New Horizons.He graduated from Topeka High School in 1958, from Washburn University with a B.A...

    , child and family development specialist
  • Ann Lauterbach
    Ann Lauterbach
    Ann Lauterbach is an American poet, essayist, and professor. Her most recent poetry collection is Or to Begin Again , a 2009 National Book Award finalist. Her other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur...

    , poet and literary critic
  • Stephen Lee
    Stephen Lee (chemist)
    Stephen Lee is a MacArthur Award winning chemist and son of Tsung-Dao Lee, the winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is currently a professor at Cornell University.-Education:Lee attended Yale University, and graduated with a BA in 1978...

    , chemist
  • Carol Levine
    Carol Levine
    Carol Levine is the Director of the Families and Health Care Project of the United Hospital Fund.In 1991, she founded The Orphan Project: Families and Children in the HIV Epidemic....

    , AIDS policy specialist
  • Amory Lovins
    Amory Lovins
    Amory Bloch Lovins is an American environmental scientist and writer, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has worked in the field of energy policy and related areas for four decades...

    , physicist and energy analyst

  • Jane Lubchenco
    Jane Lubchenco
    Dr. Jane Lubchenco is a Ukrainian-American environmental scientist and marine ecologist. On March 19, 2009, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first woman to serve as the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .While performing duties as head of NOAA, Dr...

    , marine biologist
  • Ruth Lubic
    Ruth Lubic
    Ruth Watson Lubic is a nurse midwife and a MacArthur “genius” award winner who has championed personalized care during labor and childbirth for all women, particularly those in low-income neighborhoods...

    , nurse / midwife
  • Jim Powell
    Jim Powell (poet)
    Jim Powell is an American poet, translator, and classicist from the San Francisco Bay Area.-Career:Powell’s poetry of 1977-2007 is collected in It Was Fever That Made The World and Substrate . He has translated the poetry of Sappho and selections from other ancient Greek and Latin lyric poets,...

    , poet and translator
  • Margie Profet
    Margie Profet
    Margie Profet 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, allergies and morning sickness....

    , evolutionary biologist
  • Thomas Scanlon
    T. M. Scanlon
    Thomas Michael Scanlon is the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity in Harvard University's Department of Philosophy. He has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant. He grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana; earned his Ph.D...

    , philosopher
  • Aaron Shirley
    Aaron Shirley
    Aaron Shirley is an American physician, Chairman of the Board for the Jackson Medical Mall Foundation, and an associate professor in pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.He is a graduate of Tougaloo College and Meharry Medical College....

    , health care leader
  • William Siemering
    Bill Siemering
    William "Bill" Siemering was the first Director of Programming of National Public Radio, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. He invented the first signature program of public radio, All Things Considered. This followed his authorship of the new public network's first statement...

    , journalist and radio producer
  • Ellen Silbergeld
    Ellen Silbergeld
    Ellen Kovner Silbergeld is a leading expert in the field of environmental health. After graduating from Vassar College summa cum laude in 1967, she earned a Ph.D. in environmental engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1972...

    , toxicologist
  • Leonard van der Kuijp
    Leonard van der Kuijp
    Leonard van der Kuijp is a Dutch professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and chairman of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian studies at Harvard University....

    , philologist and historian
  • Frank von Hippel
    Frank N. von Hippel
    Frank N. von Hippel, Professor and Co-Director, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.-Positions held:...

    , arms control and energy analyst
  • John Edgar Wideman
    John Edgar Wideman
    John Edgar Wideman is an American writer, professor at Brown University, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.-Early life:...

    , writer
  • Heather Williams
    Heather Williams (biologist)
    Heather Williams is an American ornithologist, and professor at Williams College.She graduated from Bowdoin College with a A.B. in Biology in 1977, from Rockefeller University with a Ph.D...

    , biologist and ornithologist
  • Marion Williams
    Marion Williams
    Marion Williams 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 years old to help support the family, and worked as a maid, a nurse, and in factories and...

    , gospel music performer
  • Robert H. Williams
    Robert H. Williams
    Robert H. Williams is a Senior Research Scientist at the Princeton Environmental Institute , Princeton University.He graduated from Yale University with a BS in physics in 1962, and from University of California, Berkeley with a PhD, in theoretical plasma physics, in 1967.He taught at University of...

    , physicist and energy analyst
  • Henry T. Wright
    Henry T. Wright
    Henry T. Wright is an American anthropologist, and professor at the University of Michigan, and at the Santa Fe Institute.He graduated from University of Michigan, and from the University of Chicago with a PhD.-Works:...

    , archaeologist and anthropologist


1994

  • Robert Adams
    Robert Adams (photographer)
    Robert Adams is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through the book The New West and the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape...

    , photographer
  • Jeraldyne Blunden
    Jeraldyne Blunden
    Jeraldyne Blunden was an American choreographer, founder and artistic director of the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company.She developed a training programme at Wright State University, in the Department of Theatre Arts....

    , choreographer
  • Anthony Braxton
    Anthony Braxton
    Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s...

    , avant-garde composer and musician
  • Rogers Brubaker
    Rogers Brubaker
    Rogers Brubaker is an American sociologist, and professor at University of California, Los Angeles.-Works:*, Harvard University Press, 1992, ISBN 9780674131781* , Princeton University Press, 2006, ISBN 9780691128344...

    , sociologist
  • Ornette Coleman
    Ornette Coleman
    Ornette Coleman is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s....

    , jazz performer and composer
  • Israel Gelfand
    Israel Gelfand
    Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand was a Soviet mathematician who made major contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and functional analysis...

    , mathematician and biologist
  • Faye Ginsburg
    Faye Ginsburg
    Faye Ginsburg is an American anthropologist, and David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She founded the Center for Media, Culture and History at NYU....

    , anthropologist
  • Heidi Hartmann
    Heidi Hartmann
    Heidi Hartmann is a pioneering feminist economist and the founder of the Institute for Women's Policy Research , a scientific research organization formed to meet the need for women-centered, public policy research. She is also the organization's president and a Research Professor at the The...

    , economist
  • Bill T. Jones
    Bill T. Jones
    Bill T. Jones is an American artistic director, choreographer and dancer.-Early life:Jones was born in Bunnell, Florida and his family moved North as part of the Great Migration in the first half of the twentieth century. They settled in Wayland, New York, where Jones attended Wayland High School...

    , dancer and choreographer
  • Peter E. Kenmore
    Peter E. Kenmore
    Peter E. Kenmore is an American agricultural entomologist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations .-Works:*, Integrated Pest Management: Dissemination and Impact, Editors Rajinder Peshin, Ashok K. Dhawan, Springer, 2009, ISBN 9781402089893-External links:*...

    , agricultural entomologist
  • Joseph E. Marshall
    Joseph E. Marshall
    Joseph E. Marshall is an American author, lecturer, radio talk show host, and community activist.He graduated from San Francisco State University with a BA in in Political Science and Sociology, with an M.A. in Education in 1974, and from the Wright Institute with a Ph.D...

    , educator

  • Carolyn McKecuen
    Carolyn McKecuen
    Carolyn McKecuen is an American economic development leader, and President of the Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Foundation.She is a consultant for Human Resources Development, in Elizabeth City, N.C....

    , economic development leader
  • Donella Meadows
    Donella Meadows
    Donella H. "Dana" Meadows was a pioneering American environmental scientist, teacher and writer. She is best known as lead author of the influential book The Limits to Growth, which made headlines around the world.- Life :Born in Elgin, Illinois, Meadows was educated in science, receiving a B.A...

    , writer
  • Arthur Mitchell
    Arthur Mitchell (dancer)
    Arthur Mitchell is an African-American dancer and choreographer who created a training school and the first African-American classical ballet company, Dance Theatre of Harlem...

    , company director and choreographer
  • Hugo Morales
    Hugo Morales (radio)
    Hugo Morales is a latino founder and Executive Director of Radio Bilingüe, Inc.He is a Mixtec raised in Oaxaca, Mexico, until his family immigrated to California.He worked as a farmworker in Sonoma County....

    , radio producer
  • Janine Pease
    Janine Pease
    Janine Pease is an American Indian educator and advocate. She is the founding president of the Little Big Horn College as well as the past president of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and director of the American Indian College Fund...

    , educator
  • Willie Reale
    Willie Reale
    Willie Reale is an American playwright and lyricist who often works with his elder brother Robert Reale.He had small acting roles in The Hudsucker Proxy, The Laser Man, Tales from the Darkside and The Burning...

    , theater arts educator
  • Adrienne Rich
    Adrienne Rich
    Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:...

    , poet and writer
  • Sam-Ang Sam
    Sam-Ang Sam
    Sam-Ang Sam, Ph.D. is a Cambodian American ethnomusicologist and recent MacArthur Fellow. As founder of Sam-Ang Sam Ensemble, he has released several albums for sale in mainstream American markets in an attempt to revive Classical Khmer music and stimulate interest in the various Cambodian...

    , musician and cultural preservationist
  • Vincent Almendros, animator
  • Jack Wisdom, physicist


1995

  • Allison Anders
    Allison Anders
    Allison Anders is an American film and television director. Anders has directed many independent films, on which she frequently collaborates with fellow UCLA film school graduate Kurt Voss.-Biography:...

    , filmmaker
  • Jed Z. Buchwald, historian
  • Octavia Butler, science fiction novelist
  • Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros
    Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories...

    , writer and poet
  • Sandy Close
    Sandy Close
    Sandy Close is an American journalist and the Executive Director of the Bay Area Institute / Pacific News Service, and New America Media.Close graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with BA in 1964....

    , journalist
  • Frederick C. Cuny
    Fred Cuny
    Frederick C. Cuny was an American disaster relief specialist who was active in many humanitarian projects around the world from 1969 until his forced disappearance in Chechnya in 1995.-Life and career:...

    , disaster relief specialist
  • Sharon Emerson
    Sharon Emerson
    Sharon B. Emerson is an American biologist, and was researcher at the University of Utah.In 1993, she was chair of the Division of Vertebrate Morphology of the American Society of Zoologists.She taught at University of Illinois, Chicago.-Works:...

    , biologist
  • Richard Foreman
    Richard Foreman
    Richard Foreman is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.-Life :...

    , theater director
  • Alma Guillermoprieto
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Alma Guillermoprieto is a Mexican journalist who has written extensively about Latin America for the British and American press. Her writings have also been widely disseminated within the Spanish-speaking world.-Life:...

    , journalist
  • Virginia Hamilton
    Virginia Hamilton
    Virginia Esther Hamilton was an award-winning author of children's books. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal....

    , writer
  • Donald Hopkins
    Donald Hopkins
    Donald R. Hopkins is an American physician, a MacArthur Fellow and is the Vice President and Director of Health Programs at The Carter Center. He graduated from Morehouse College with a B.S., from the University of Chicago with a Doctor of Medicine, and from the Harvard School of Public Health...

    , physician
  • Susan W. Kieffer
    Susan Kieffer
    Susan Elizabeth Werner Kieffer is an American physical geologist and planetary scientist. Kieffer is known for her work on the fluid dynamics of volcanoes, geysers, and rivers, and for her model of the thermodynamic properties of complex minerals...

    , geologist

  • Elizabeth LeCompte
    Elizabeth LeCompte
    Elizabeth LeCompte is a founding member and the theater director of experimental theater collective The Wooster Group .-Biography:...

    , theater director
  • Patricia Nelson Limerick
    Patricia Nelson Limerick
    Patricia Nelson Limerick is an American historian, considered to be one of the leading historians of the American West. She was born and raised in Banning, California....

    , historian
  • Michael Marletta
    Michael Marletta
    Michael A. Marletta is an American biochemist, professor at University of California, Berkeley and president-elect of The Scripps Research Institute....

    , chemist
  • Pamela Matson
    Pamela Matson
    Pamela Anne Matson is an American scientist, professor, and dean of the Stanford University School of Earth Sciences. She previously worked at NASA and at the University of California Berkeley. Her professional titles at Stanford are Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, and...

    , ecologist
  • Susan McClary
    Susan McClary
    Susan McClary is a musicologist associated with the "New Musicology". Noted for her work combining musicology and a feminist music criticism, McClary is Professor of Musicology at Case Western Reserve University.-Biography:...

    , musicologist
  • Meredith Monk
    Meredith Monk
    Meredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records.-Life and work:Meredith Monk is primarily known for her...

    , vocalist, composer, director
  • Rosalind P. Petchesky
    Rosalind P. Petchesky
    Rosalind P. Petchesky is an American political scientist, and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is the founder of the International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group ....

    , political scientist
  • Joel Rogers
    Joel Rogers
    Joel Rogers is an American academic and political activist. Currently a professor of law, political science, public affairs and sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he also directs the Center on Wisconsin Strategy and its projects, including the Center for State Innovation, Mayors...

    , political scientist
  • Cindy Sherman
    Cindy Sherman
    Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in...

    , photographer
  • Bryan Stevenson, human rights lawyer
  • Nicholas Strausfeld
    Nicholas Strausfeld
    Nicholas James Strausfeld FRS is Regents Professor at the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and Director, Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona.He received a B.Sc. and Ph.D...

    , neurobiologist
  • Richard White
    Richard White (historian)
    Richard White is an American historian, a past President of the Organization of American Historians, and the author of influential books on the American West, Native American history, and environmental history...

    , historian


1996

  • James Angel
    James Angel
    James Roger Prior Angel is an American astronomer, and is Regents Professor and Professor of Astronomy and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona....

    , astronomer
  • Joaquin Avila
    Joaquin Avila
    Joaquin Avila is Managing Director of the global private equity firm, Carlyle Group, where he is responsible for researching and discovering opportunities in the field of buyout investments.He holds a B.S. from Universidad IberoAmericana, a M.S...

    , voting rights advocate
  • Allan Berube
    Allan Berube
    Allan Ronald Bérubé was an American historian, activist, independent scholar, self-described "community-based" researcher and college drop-out, and award-winning author, best known for his research and writing about homosexual members of the American Armed Forces during World War II...

    , historian
  • Barbara Block
    Barbara Block
    Barbara Block is an American marine biologist, and Charles & Elizabeth Prothro Professor in Marine SciencesEvolutionary, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, at Stanford University....

    , marine biologist
  • Joan Breton Connelly
    Joan Breton Connelly
    Joan Breton Connelly is an American classical archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University. She is Director of the Yeronisos Island Excavations and Field School in Cyprus. Connelly was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1996...

    , classical archaeologist
  • Thomas Daniel
    Thomas Daniel
    Thomas Daniel is an American biologist, Joan and Richard Komen Endowed Chair of Biology at University of Washington, and leads the Daniel Lab.He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BS and MS, and from Duke University with a PhD, where he studied with Steven Vogel and Stephen...

    , biologist
  • Martin Daniel Eakes
    Martin Daniel Eakes
    Martin Daniel Eakes is an American economic development strategist, and credit union CEO.Eakes grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina and graduated from Davidson College, where he majored in physics and philosophy, and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.P.P...

    , economic development strategist
  • Rebecca Goldstein
    Rebecca Goldstein
    Rebecca Goldstein is an American novelist and professor of philosophy. She has written five novels, a number of short stories and essays, and biographical studies of mathematician Kurt Gödel and philosopher Baruch Spinoza....

    , writer
  • Robert Greenstein
    Robert Greenstein
    Robert Greenstein is founder and executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities , a Washington, DC think tank that focuses on federal and state fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals...

    , public policy analyst
  • Richard Howard
    Richard Howard
    Richard Howard is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches...

    , poet

  • John Jesurun
    John Jesurun
    John Jesurun is writer, director and multi-media artist, based in a New York, USA. His work Chang in a Void Moon is a live serial running since 1983, originally at the Pyramid Club in the East Village, and now less frequently at venues worldwide. He was born 1951 in Battle Creek, Michigan.-...

    , playwright
  • Richard Lenski
    Richard Lenski
    Richard E. Lenski is an American evolutionary biologist. He is the son of sociologist Gerhard Lenski. He earned his BA from Oberlin College in 1976, and his PhD from the University of North Carolina in 1982...

    , biologist
  • Louis Massiah
    Louis Massiah
    Louis J. Massiah is an American documentary filmmaker.He graduated from Cornell University with a B.A., and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an M.S...

    , documentary filmmaker
  • Vonnie McLoyd, developmental psychologist
  • Thylias Moss
    Thylias Moss
    Thylias Moss is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright, of African American, Indian, and European heritage, who has published a number of poetry collections, children’s books, essays, and multimedia work she calls poams, products of acts of making, related to...

    , poet and writer
  • Eiko Otake & Koma Otake, dancers, choreographers
  • Nathan Seiberg
    Nathan Seiberg
    Nathan "Nati" Seiberg is an Israeli American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He was recipient of a 1996 MacArthur Fellowship and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1998. He is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, USA...

    , physicist
  • Anna Deavere Smith
    Anna Deavere Smith
    Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is currently the artist in residence at the Center for American Progress.-Early life:...

    , playwright/journalist/actress
  • Dorothy Stoneman
    Dorothy Stoneman
    Dorothy Stoneman is the founder and president of YouthBuild USA, and chairman of the YouthBuild Coalition, with over 1000 member organizations in 43 states, Washington D.C. and the Virgin Islands.-External links:* -See also:* YouthBuild USA...

    , educator
  • William E. Strickland
    William E. Strickland
    William E. Strickland is the President and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation.He graduated from University of Pittsburgh cum laude with a bachelor's degree in American history and foreign relations in 1969....

    , art educator


1997

  • Luis Alfaro
    Luis Alfaro
    Luis Alfaro is a renowned Chicano performance artist, writer, theater director, and social activist. His plays and fiction are set in Los Angeles's Chicano barrios, including the Pico Union district, and often feature gay and lesbian and working-class themes. Many of Alfaro's plays also deal with...

    , writer and performance artist
  • Lee Breuer
    Lee Breuer
    Lee Breuer is an American academic, educator, film maker, poet, lyricist, writer and stage director.-Work with Mabou Mines:Lee Breuer is a founding artistic director of Mabou Mines Theater Company in New York City, which he began in 1970 with colleagues Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne...

    , playwright
  • Vija Celmins
    Vija Celmins
    Vija Celmins is an American artist.-Early life:Vija Celmins immigrated to the United States with her family from Latvia when she was ten years old. She and her family settled in Indiana...

    , artist
  • Eric Charnov
    Eric Charnov
    Eric L. Charnov 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. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and...

    , evolutionary biologist
  • Elouise Cobell, banker
  • Peter Galison
    Peter Galison
    Peter Louis Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University.Galison received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in both Physics and the History of Science in 1983. His publications include Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics ...

    , historian
  • Mark Harrington
    Mark Harrington (activist)
    Mark Harrington is an AIDS researcher, and co-founder and policy director of the Treatment Action Group , in 1992.He graduated from Harvard College in 1983.He started as an AIDS activist with ACT UP in 1988.-Works:...

    , AIDS researcher
  • Eva Harris
    Eva Harris
    Eva Harris 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...

    , molecular biologist
  • Michael Kremer
    Michael Kremer
    Michael Robert Kremer is a development economist and is currently the Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and was named a Young Global...

    , economist
  • Russell Lande
    Russell Lande
    Russell Lande is an American evolutionary biologist and ecologist, and a Royal Society Research Professor at Imperial College London, in Silwood Park.-Education and career:...

    , biologist
  • Kerry James Marshall
    Kerry James Marshall
    Kerry James Marshall is an artist born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Chicago where he previously taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago...

    , artist
  • Nancy A. Moran
    Nancy A. Moran
    Nancy A. Moran is an American evolutionary biologist, Yale professor, and co-founder of the The Yale Microbial Diversity Institute....

    , evolutionary biologist and ecologist

  • Han Ong
    Han Ong
    Playwright and novelist Han Ong is both a high-school dropout and one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Born in the Philippines, he moved to the United States at 16...

    , playwright
  • Kathleen Ross
    Kathleen Ross
    Kathleen Ross, SNJM is founding president of Heritage University.She graduated from Fort Wright College with a B.A., from Georgetown University with a M.A., and from the Claremont Graduate School with a Ph.D., where she studied with Peter Drucker and Howard Bowen...

    , educator
  • Pamela Samuelson
    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. She was appointed Visiting Professor of Law at...

    , copyright scholar and activist
  • Susan Stewart, literary scholar and poet
  • Elizabeth Streb
    Elizabeth Streb
    Elizabeth Streb is an American choreographer, performer, and teacher of contemporary dance.-Background:Streb was born and raised in Rochester, New York and, after graduating from the dance program of State University of New York at Brockport in 1972, she was interested in experimental works and...

    , dancer and choreographer
  • Trimpin
    Trimpin
    Trimpin is a Seattle, Washington-based kinetic sculptor, sound artist, musician, and composer, most of whose pieces integrate both sculpture and music in some way, and many of which make use of computers to play these instruments...

    , sound sculptor
  • Loïc Wacquant
    Loïc Wacquant
    Loïc Wacquant is a sociologist, specializing in urban sociology, urban poverty, racial inequality, the body, social theory and ethnography....

    , sociologist
  • Kara Walker
    Kara Walker
    Kara Walker is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes, such as The Means to an End--A Shadow Drama in Five Acts.-Biography:Walker was born in...

    , artist
  • David Foster Wallace
    David Foster Wallace
    David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California...

    , writer
  • Andrew Wiles
    Andrew Wiles
    Sir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory...

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

    , anthropologist


1998

  • Janine Antoni
    Janine Antoni
    Janine Antoni is a contemporary artist whose work focuses mostly on process. She often uses her whole body or different parts of it, such as her mouth, hair, eyelashes, and brain as tools and with them performs everyday activities to create her artwork.She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College...

    , artist
  • Ida Applebroog
    Ida Applebroog
    Ida Applebroog is a notable American painter. Her work is included in many public collections in the United States. During the decade of the 1990s, she received multiple honors including the College Art Association Distinguished Art Award for Lifetime Achievement, an Honorary Doctorate of Fine...

    , artist
  • Ellen Barry
    Ellen Barry (attorney)
    Ellen M. Barry is an American attorney, and public interest lawyer. She was a 1998 MacArthur Fellow.-Life:She grew up in Somerville, Massachusetts.She graduated from Swarthmore College, and New York University Law School...

    , Attorney and Human Rights Leader
  • Tim Berners-Lee
    Tim Berners-Lee
    Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, , also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web...

    , inventor of the World Wide Web protocol
  • Linda Bierds
    Linda Bierds
    Linda Louise Bierds is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, where she also received her B.A...

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

    , historian
  • John Carlstrom
    John Carlstrom
    John E. Carlstrom is an American astrophysicist, and Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Physics, at the University of Chicago....

    , astrophysicist
  • Mike Davis
    Mike Davis (scholar)
    Mike Davis is an American Marxist social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California.-Life:...

    , historian
  • Nancy Folbre
    Nancy Folbre
    Nancy Folbre is a feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family, non-market work and the economics of care.She is currently an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst....

    , economist
  • Avner Greif
    Avner Greif
    Avner Greif is an economics professor at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He holds a chaired professorship as Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences....

    , economist
  • Kun-Liang Guan
    Kun-Liang Guan
    Kun-Liang Guan , is an American biochemist. He won the MacArthur Award in 1998.-Career:In 1963, Guan was born in Tongxiang , China. In 1982, Guan graduated from the Department of Biology, Hangzhou University . He did his postgraduate study at Purdue University...

    , biochemist
  • Gary Hill
    Gary Hill
    Gary Hill is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide . He is represented by Donald Young Gallery of Chicago.An anthology on the work of Gary Hill by Robert C...

    , artist
  • Edward Hirsch
    Edward Hirsch
    Edward Hirsch is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published eight books of poems, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems , which brings together thirty-five years of work. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial...

    , poet, essayist
  • Ayesha Jalal
    Ayesha Jalal
    Ayesha Jalal is a Pakistani-American sociologist and historian. She is a professor of history at Tufts University and a 1998 MacArthur Fellow. The bulk of her work deals with the creation of Muslim identities in modern South Asia....

    , historian
  • Charles R. Johnson
    Charles R. Johnson
    Charles R. Johnson is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. Johnson, an African-American, has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Middle Passage and Dreamer....

    , writer

  • Leah Krubitzer
    Leah Krubitzer
    Leah Krubitzer is an American neuroscientist, Professor at University of California, Davis, and head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Neurobiology.She was a reviewer for the 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Award.-Works:...

    , neuroscientist
  • Stewart Kwoh
    Stewart Kwoh
    Stewart Kwoh is an American attorney, educator, and civil rights leader. Kwoh is the founding President and Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California , a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice.-Early Life and Education:Stewart Kwoh was...

    , human rights activist
  • Charles Lewis
    Charles Lewis (journalist)
    Charles Lewis is an investigative journalist based in Washington D.C. since 1977. Charles Lewis founded the Center for Public Integrity and three other nonprofit organizations and is currently the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University School of...

    , journalist
  • William W. McDonald
    William W. McDonald
    William W. McDonald is an American rancher, and conservationist. He is executive director of the Malpai Borderlands Group.He was a 1998 MacArthur Fellow.-External links:*http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6142&page=519...

    , rancher and conservationist
  • Peter N. Miller
    Peter N. Miller
    Peter N. Miller is an American historian, and Dean Professor at Bard College.He was a 1998 MacArthur Fellow.-Works:*Sovereignty and obligation in republican England: political thought in the engagement controversy, Harvard University, 1986...

    , historian
  • Don Mitchell
    Don Mitchell (geographer)
    Don Mitchell is Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. From an academic household in California, he is a graduate of San Diego State University , Pennsylvania State University and received his Ph.D...

    , cultural geographer
  • Rebecca Nelson
    Rebecca J. Nelson
    Rebecca Nelson , B.A. Swarthmore College, 1982, Ph.D. University of Washington, 1988 . Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture at Cornell University. She is also Program Director for The McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crop Research Program...

    , plant pathologist
  • Elinor Ochs
    Elinor Ochs
    Elinor Ochs is an American linguistic anthropologist, and professor of Anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles. Ochs is married to Alessandro Duranti, faculty member at UCLA and current Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA.-Works:...

    , linguistic anthropologist
  • Ishmael Reed
    Ishmael Reed
    Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, essayist, and novelist. A prominent African-American literary figure, Reed is known for his satirical works challenging American political culture, and highlighting political and cultural oppression.Reed has been described as one of the most controversial...

    , poet, essayist, novelist
  • Benjamin D. Santer
    Benjamin D. Santer
    Dr. Benjamin D. Santer is a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and former researcher at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit...

    , atmospheric scientist
  • Karl Sims
    Karl Sims
    Karl Sims is a computer graphics artist and researcher, who is best known for using particle systems and artificial life in computer animation....

    , computer scientist and artist
  • Dorothy Thomas
    Dorothy Thomas
    Dorothy Quincy Thomas is an American human rights activist. She was a 1998 MacArthur Fellow, and a 1995 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.-Life:She graduated from Georgetown University with an M.A. in 1984....

    , human rights activist
  • Leonard Zeskind
    Leonard Zeskind
    Leonard Zeskind is an American human rights activist, and president of the Institute for Research & Education of Human Rights .He worked in industry for thirteen years.Since 1982, he has been a community activist and human rights advocate...

    , human rights activist
  • Mary Zimmerman
    Mary Zimmerman
    Mary Zimmerman is an American theatre director and playwright, born in Lincoln, Nebraska.-Career:Zimmerman is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company and is an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. She received her BS, MA and PhD from Northwestern University, where...

    , playwright


1999

  • Jillian Banfield, geologist
  • Carolyn Bertozzi
    Carolyn R. Bertozzi
    Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi is an American chemist. She is the T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley; Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of California, San...

    , chemist
  • Xu Bing
    Xu Bing
    Xu Bing is a Chinese-born artist, resident in the United States since 1990. He currently resides in Beijing.-Biography:...

    , printmaker
  • Bruce G. Blair
    Bruce G. Blair
    Bruce G. Blair is the president of the World Security Institute, a non-profit organization that he founded in 2000 to promote independent research and journalism on global affairs. He is an executive producer of Countdown to Zero, a documentary film on nuclear weapons, which was released in 2010...

    , policy analyst
  • John Bonifaz
    John Bonifaz
    John C. Bonifaz is a Boston-based attorney and political activist specializing in constitutional law and voting rights, and founder of the National Voting Rights Institute. He is also a former candidate for Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth...

    , election lawyer and voting rights leader
  • Shawn Carlson
    Shawn Carlson
    Shawn Carlson is an American science educator who founded the Society for Amateur Scientists in 1994, which is dedicated to "Helping ordinary people do extraordinary science." In 2010, he founded the LabRats Science Education Program, to inspire students aged 11 to 18 to "love learning about...

    , science educator
  • Mark Danner
    Mark Danner
    Mark David Danner is a prominent American writer, journalist, and educator. He is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Danner specializes in U.S. foreign affairs, war and politics, and has written extensively on Haiti, Central America,...

    , journalist
  • Alison L. Des Forges, human rights activist
  • Elizabeth Diller, architect
  • Saul Friedländer
    Saul Friedländer
    Saul Friedländer is an award-winning Israeli historian and currently a professor of history at UCLA.-Biography:...

    , historian
  • Jennifer Gordon
    Jennifer Gordon
    Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project in 1992, a non-profit worker center in Hempstead, New York, which organizes immigrant workers, mostly from Central and South America. The Workplace Project lobbied for and won a strong wage enforcement law in New York state. Gordon was the executive...

    , lawyer
  • David Hillis
    David Hillis
    David Mark Hillis is an American evolutionary biologist, and the Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known for his studies of molecular evolution, phylogeny, and vertebrate systematics...

    , biologist
  • Sara Horowitz
    Sara Horowitz
    Sara Horowitz is the founder of Working Today and Freelancers Union, leading organizations of independent workers. She was an Echoing green fellow in 1995, and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1999...

    , lawyer
  • Jacqueline Jones
    Jacqueline Jones
    Jacqueline Jones is Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. She is an expert in American social history in addition to writing on economics , women, and class.- Background :Born in...

    , historian
  • Laura L. Kiessling
    Laura L. Kiessling
    Laura L. Kiessling is an American biochemist, and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the director of the Keck Center for Chemical Genomics, and the NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program....

    , biochemist
  • Leslie Kurke
    Leslie Kurke
    Leslie Kurke is a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley.She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in 1981, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D...

    , classicist

  • David Levering Lewis
    David Levering Lewis
    David Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois...

    , biographer and historian
  • Juan Maldacena, physicist
  • Gay J. McDougall
    Gay McDougall
    Gay J. McDougall was Executive Director of Global Rights, Partners for Justice . In August 2005, she was named the first United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues.- Early years :...

    , human rights lawyer
  • Campbell McGrath
    Campbell McGrath
    Campbell McGrath is a notable modern American poet. He is the author of nine full-length collections of poetry, including his most recent, Seven Notebooks , Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition , and In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys .- Life :McGrath was born in Chicago, Illinois, and...

    , poet
  • Denny Moore
    Denny Moore
    Denny Moore is an American linguist, and anthropologist.He graduated from the University of Michigan, and from the City University of New York with a Ph.D...

    , anthropological linguist
  • Elizabeth Murray, artist
  • Pepon Osorio
    Pepon Osorio
    Pepón Osorio is a Latino artist.He was educated at the Universidad Inter-Americana, Puerto Rico, Lehman College, and graduated from Columbia University with an MA in 1985....

    , artist
  • Ricardo Scofidio, architect
  • Peter Shor
    Peter Shor
    Peter Williston Shor is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT, most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical...

    , computer scientist
  • Eva Silverstein
    Eva Silverstein
    Eva Silverstein is a string theorist. She is married to fellow string theorist Shamit Kachru. She and Kachru were both proteges of Edward Witten.She is best known for her work on tachyon condensation...

    , physicist
  • Wilma Subra
    Wilma Subra
    Wilma Subra is an American environmental scientist.She graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in microbiology, chemistry and computer sciences....

    , scientist
  • Ken Vandermark
    Ken Vandermark
    Ken Vandermark is an American jazz composer and saxophone and clarinet player.A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compositions, which typically balance intricate orchestration with passionate...

    , saxophonist, composer
  • Naomi Wallace
    Naomi Wallace
    Naomi Wallace is a playwright, screenwriter and poet from Prospect, Kentucky, United States.-Life:Wallace obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College and did graduate studies at the University of Iowa....

    , playwright
  • Jeffrey Weeks
    Jeffrey Weeks (mathematician)
    Jeffrey Renwick Weeks is an American mathematician, a geometric topologist and cosmologist.-Biography:Weeks received his B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1978, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1985, under the supervision of William Thurston...

    , mathematician
  • Fred Wilson
    Fred Wilson (artist)
    Conceptual artist Fred Wilson describes himself as of "African, Native American, European and Amerindian" descent. Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1999 and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 2003. Wilson represented the United States at the Biennial Cairo in 1992 and the...

    , artist
  • Ofelia Zepeda
    Ofelia Zepeda
    Ofelia Zepeda is a Tohono O'odham poet and intellectual. Zepeda is a professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and is well known for her efforts in the preservation of her native language and promotion literacy in it. She is also known for her work as a consultant and advocate on...

    , linguist


2000

  • Susan E. Alcock
    Susan E. Alcock
    Susan Alcock is a American archaeologist specializing in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman empire. Alcock grew up in Massachusetts and was educated at Yale and the University of Cambridge....

    , archaeologist
  • K. Christopher Beard
    K. Christopher Beard
    K. Christopher Beard is an American paleontologist, Curator of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Mary R. Dawson Chair of Vertebrate Paleontology, at University of Pittsburgh. He was co-author with Dan Gebo about an extinct primate from China...

    , paleontologist
  • Lucy Blake
    Lucy Blake
    Lucy Blake is an American conservationist, and president of the Northern Sierra Partnership. She was a 2000 MacArthur Fellow.She founded the Sierra Business Council.She won the Pat Brown Award....

    , conservationist
  • Anne Carson
    Anne Carson
    Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....

    , poet
  • Peter J. Hayes
    Peter J. Hayes
    Peter John Hayes is the Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development.He graduated from the University of Melbourne with a degree in History, and from University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D...

    , energy policy activist
  • David Isay, radio producer
  • Alfredo Jaar
    Alfredo Jaar
    Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives in New York. He was born in 1956 in Santiago de Chile. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war - the best known perhaps being the 6-year long...

    , photographer
  • Ben Katchor
    Ben Katchor
    Ben Katchor is an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. He has contributed comics and drawings to The New Yorker and The New York Times...

    , graphic novelist
  • Hideo Mabuchi
    Hideo Mabuchi
    Hideo Mabuchi is an American physicist. He is Department Chair and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University, and the boss of the Mabuchi Lab....

    , physicist
  • Susan Marshall
    Susan Marshall
    Susan Marshall is an American choreographer and dancer. She is the Artistic Director and Choreographer of Susan Marshall & Company which she formed sometime between 1982 and 1983, working initially with dancers Arthur Armijo, David Dorfman, Jackie Goodrich, and David Landis...

    , choreographer
  • Samuel Mockbee
    Samuel Mockbee
    Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee was an American architect and a co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama....

    , architect
  • Cecilia Muñoz
    Cecilia Muñoz
    Cecilia Muñoz has served as the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House since January 21, 2009. A longtime civil rights advocate, she worked as Senior Vice President for the Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza , a nonprofit organization...

    , civil rights policy analyst
  • Margaret Murnane
    Margaret Murnane
    Margaret Mary Murnane is an Irish physicist. She is a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1999. Her interests are Atomic & Molecular Physics, Nanoscience, and Optical Physics...

    , optical physicist

  • Laura Otis
    Laura Otis
    Laura Otis is an American historian of science, and Professor of English, at Emory University.She graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1983, and from the University of California at San Francisco with an M.A. in Neuroscience in 1988, and from...

    , literary scholar and historian of science
  • Lucia M. Perillo, poet
  • Matthew Rabin
    Matthew Rabin
    Matthew Joel Rabin is the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley...

    , economist
  • Carl Safina
    Carl Safina
    Carl Safina is president and co-founder of the , and author of several writings on marine ecology and the ocean, including the award winning and .-Biography:...

    , marine conservationist
  • Daniel P. Schrag
    Daniel P. Schrag
    Daniel P. Schrag is Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Director of the University Center for the Environment, and Director of the Laboratory for Geochemical Oceanography at Harvard University. He is also an external professor at the Santa Fe...

    , geochemist
  • Susan E. Sygall, civil rights leader
  • Gina G. Turrigiano
    Gina G. Turrigiano
    Gina G. Turrigiano is an American neuroscientist, and Professor of Biology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems, at Brandeis University.She graduated from Reed College, B.A.,and from University of California, San Diego, with a Ph.D....

    , neuroscientist
  • Gary Urton
    Gary Urton
    Gary Urton is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies at Harvard University. He was previously Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University from 1978 to 2001. Dr. Urton is a specialist in Andean archaeology, particularly the quipu numerical recording system used in the Inca...

    , anthropologist
  • Patricia J. Williams
    Patricia J. Williams
    Patricia J. Williams is an American legal scholar and a proponent of critical race theory, a school of legal thought that emphasizes race as a fundamental determinant of the American legal system....

    , legal scholar
  • Deborah Willis, historian of photography and photographer
  • Erik Winfree
    Erik Winfree
    Erik Winfree is an American computer scientist, bioengineer, and associate professor at California Institute of Technology. He is a leading researcher into DNA computing and DNA nanotechnology....

    , computer and materials scientist
  • Horng-Tzer Yau
    Horng-Tzer Yau
    Horng-Tzer Yau is a Taiwanese-American mathematician. Born 1959 in Taiwan, he has a B.Sc. in 1981 from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in 1987 from Princeton University. He joined the faculty of NYU in 1988, and became a full professor at its Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in...

    , mathematician


2001

  • Andrea Barrett
    Andrea Barrett
    Andrea Barrett is an American novelist, and short story writer. Her Ship Fever collection of novella and short stories won the National Book Award in 1996...

    , writer
  • Christopher Chyba
    Christopher Chyba
    Christopher F. Chyba is an American astrobiologist, and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University....

    , astrobiologist
  • Michael Dickinson
    Michael Dickinson (biologist)
    Michael H. Dickinson is an American fly bioengineer, and Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering at California Institute of Technology, and director of the Dickinson Lab....

    , fly biologist/bioengineer
  • Rosanne Haggerty
    Rosanne Haggerty
    Rosanne Haggerty is an American housing and community development leader, and founder of Common Ground Community.She graduated from Amherst College, in 1982.She studied at Columbia University.She was an Adelaide Thinker in Residence....

    , housing and community development leader
  • Lene Hau
    Lene Hau
    Lene Vestergaard Hau is a Danish physicist. In 1999, she led a Harvard University team who, by use of a superfluid, succeeded in slowing a beam of light to about 17 metres per second, and, in 2001, was able to momentarily stop a beam.In 1989, Hau accepted a two-year appointment as a postdoctoral...

    , physicist
  • Dave Hickey
    Dave Hickey
    David Hickey is an American art and cultural critic. He has written for many American publications including Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Harper's Magazine, and Vanity Fair...

    , art critic
  • Stephen Hough
    Stephen Hough
    Stephen Andrew Gill Hough is a British-born classical pianist, composer and writer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005 and thus has dual nationality .-Biography:...

    , pianist
  • Kay Redfield Jamison
    Kay Redfield Jamison
    Kay Redfield Jamison is an American clinical psychologist and writer whose work has centered on bipolar disorder which she has suffered from since her early adulthood...

    , psychologist
  • Sandra Lanham
    Sandra Lanham
    Sandra Lanham is the founder and sole pilot of Environmental Flying Services, a non-profit organization located in Tucson, Arizona. E-Flying was created to help researchers and scientists such as Conservation International....

    , pilot and conservationist
  • Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
    Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
    Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is an American artist.He graduated from Williams College with a BA in 1983, and from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in 1989....

    , artist
  • Cynthia Moss
    Cynthia Moss
    Cynthia Moss is an American conservationist, wildlife researcher and writer, who specialises in elephant behaviour. She has published several books including Portraits in the Wild: Animal Behaviour in East Africa .-Life and work:Moss graduated at Smith College in Massachusetts in 1962, majoring in...

    , natural historian

  • Dirk Obbink
    Dirk Obbink
    Dirk D. Obbink is an American-born papyrologist and Classicist. He is the Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature in the Faculty of Classics at Oxford University and is the head of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project...

    , classicist and papyrologist
  • Norman R. Pace
    Norman R. Pace
    Norman Richard Pace, Jr. is an American biochemist, and is Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado. He is principal investigator at the Pace lab....

    , biochemist
  • Suzan-Lori Parks
    Suzan-Lori Parks
    Suzan-Lori Parks is an African American playwright and screenwriter. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Topdog/Underdog.-Early years:...

    , playwright
  • Brooks Pate
    Brooks Pate
    Brooks H. Pate is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of chemistry, at the University of Virginia.He graduated from University of Virginia with a B.S. in 1987, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in 1992. He was a NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST, from 1992 to 1993. He heads the Pate...

    , physical chemist
  • Xiao Qiang
    Xiao Qiang
    Xiao Qiang is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bi-lingual China news website, and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley...

    , human rights leader
  • Geraldine Seydoux
    Geraldine Seydoux
    Geraldine C. Seydoux is a Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University, and Investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute.She heads the Seydoux Lab....

    , molecular biologist
  • Bright Sheng
    Bright Sheng
    Bright Sheng is a Chinese-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He has lived in the United States since 1982 and is on faculty at the University of Michigan. In 1999, the White House commissioned Sheng to compose a piece to honor the Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji at a state dinner hosted by...

    , composer
  • David Spergel
    David Spergel
    David Nathaniel Spergel , is an American theoretical astrophysicist and Princeton University professor known for his work on the WMAP mission. Professor Spergel is a MacArthur Fellow. He has served as the chair of the Astrophysics Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council and was once the W.M...

    , astrophysicist
  • Jean Strouse
    Jean Strouse
    Jean Strouse is an American biographer, editor and critic. She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan....

    , biographer
  • Julie Su (attorney)
    Julie Su (attorney)
    Julie A. Su is the current Labor Commissioner of California and the former litigation director at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California...

    , human rights lawyer
  • David Wilson
    David Hildebrand Wilson
    David Hildebrand Wilson is the co-founder of the Museum of Jurassic Technology along with his wife, Diana Wilson. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001. He received an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in 1976. He and his museum are the subject of...

    , creator of The Museum of Jurassic Technology
    Museum of Jurassic Technology
    The Museum of Jurassic Technology is an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the lower jurassic...



2002

  • Danielle Allen
    Danielle Allen
    Danielle S. Allen is an American classicist and political scientist, and UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study....

    , classicist and political scientist
  • Bonnie Bassler
    Bonnie Bassler
    Bonnie Lynn Bassler is an American molecular biologist. She has been a professor at Princeton University since 1994.Born in Chicago and raised in Danville, California, Bassler received a B.S. in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Johns Hopkins...

    , molecular biologist
  • Ann M. Blair
    Ann M. Blair
    Ann M. Blair is an American historian, and Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University.-Works:*"Disciplinary Distinctions before the 'Two Cultures,'" The European Legacy 13:5 , pp. 577–88, in a special issue on "The Languages of the Sciences and the Languages of the...

    , intellectual historian
  • Katherine Boo
    Katherine Boo
    Katherine Boo is an award-winning journalist known primarily for writing about America's poor and disadvantaged.-Life:A native of Washington, D.C., Boo graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College and began her career in journalism with editorial positions at Washington's City Paper and then the...

    , journalist
  • Paul Ginsparg
    Paul Ginsparg
    Paul Ginsparg is a physicist widely known for his development of the ArXiv.org e-print archive and for contributions to theoretical physics.-Career in physics:...

    , physicist
  • David B. Goldstein
    David B. Goldstein
    David B. Goldstein is an American energy conservation policy expert. He co-directs the Natural Resources Defense Council's Energy Program.He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D...

    , energy conservation specialist
  • Karen Hesse
    Karen Hesse
    Karen Hesse is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings.-Life:...

    , writer
  • Janine Jagger
    Janine Jagger
    Janine Jagger is an American epidemiologist, Becton Dickinson Professor of Research of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and director of the International Health Care Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia School of Medicine....

    , epidemiologist
  • Daniel Jurafsky
    Daniel Jurafsky
    Daniel Jurafsky is a Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at Stanford University.With James Martin, he wrote the textbook .He was given a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002....

    , computer scientist and linguist
  • Toba Khedoori
    Toba Khedoori
    Toba Khedoori is an Australian-born artist of Iraqi heritage, known primarily for highly-detailed mixed-media paintings executed on large sheets of wax-coated paper. Khedoori's works often fill the spectator's entire field of vision; a 'typical' Khedoori painting combines elements of drawing,...

    , artist
  • Liz Lerman
    Liz Lerman
    Liz Lerman is an American choreographer and founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.They have appeared at the National Cathedral, Kennedy Center Opera House, and Millennium Stage, Lansburgh Theater, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.She plans to retire...

    , choreographer
  • George E. Lewis
    George Lewis (trombonist)
    George E. Lewis is a trombone player, composer, and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians since 1971, and is a pioneer of computer music.- Biography :Lewis graduated from Yale University with a...

    , trombonist
  • Liza Lou
    Liza Lou
    Liza Lou is an American visual artist best known for producing large-scale work in unlikely and tedious mediums, such as beads.Lou came to prominence with the work "Kitchen" , a to-scale and fully equipped replica of a kitchen covered in beads...

    , artist

  • Edgar Meyer
    Edgar Meyer
    Edgar Meyer is a prominent contemporary bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger...

    , bassist and composer
  • Jack Miles
    Jack Miles
    Jack Miles is an American author and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. His work on religion, politics, and culture has appeared in numerous national publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Los...

    , writer and Biblical scholar
  • Erik Mueggler
    Erik Mueggler
    Erik Mueggler is an American anthropologist, and Professor at the University of Michigan.He attended Deep Springs College and graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in socio-cultural anthropology, and Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D...

    , anthropologist and ethnographer
  • Sendhil Mullainathan
    Sendhil Mullainathan
    Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He was hired with tenure by Harvard in 2004 after having spent six years at MIT, first as a junior faculty member and then as a full professor. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" and conducts research on...

    , economist
  • Stanley Nelson, documentary filmmaker
  • Lee Ann Newsom
    Lee Ann Newsom
    Lee Ann Newsom is currently an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University at University Park. She has written numerous books & articles...

    , paleoethnobotanist
  • Daniela L. Rus
    Daniela L. Rus
    Daniela L. Rus is an American roboticist and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is director of the Distributed Robotics Lab at CSAIL, the Co-Director of the CSAIL Center for Robotics, and an Associate...

    , computer scientist
  • Charles C. Steidel
    Charles C. Steidel
    Charles C. Steidel is an American astronomer, and Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology....

    , astronomer
  • Brian Tucker
    Brian Tucker
    Brian E. Tucker is a seismologist specialising in disaster prevention.He holds a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, an M.A. in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a B.A....

    , seismologist
  • Camilo José Vergara
    Camilo José Vergara
    Camilo José Vergara is a Chilean-born, New York-based writer, photographer and documentarian. He was born in Santiago, Chile.Vergara has been compared to Jacob Riis for his photographic documentation of American slums and decaying urban environments...

    , photographer
  • Paul Wennberg
    Paul Wennberg
    Paul Wennberg is an atmospheric scientist at Caltech. His research focuses on measurements of atmospheric trace gases towards accurately describing the exchange of carbon dioxide and other gases between the atmosphere and the land and ocean...

    , atmospheric chemist
  • Colson Whitehead
    Colson Whitehead
    Colson Whitehead is a New York-based novelist. He is best known as the author of the 2001 novel John Henry Days. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.-Early life:...

    , writer


2003

  • Guillermo Algaze
    Guillermo Algaze
    Guillermo Algaze is a recipient of the MacArthur Award in 2003 and 2004. Algaze is the chair of the anthropology department at University of California, San Diego, and project director of the Titris Hoyuk excavation in southern Turkey....

    , archaeologist
  • Jim Collins
    James Collins (Boston University)
    James J. Collins is an American bioengineer, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator...

    , biomedical engineer
  • Lydia Davis
    Lydia Davis
    Lydia Davis is a contemporary American writer noted for her short stories. Davis is also a French translator, and has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Proust's Swann’s Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary....

    , writer
  • Erik Demaine
    Erik Demaine
    Erik D. Demaine , is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.-Early life:...

    , theoretical computer scientist
  • Corinne Dufka
    Corinne Dufka
    Corinne Dufka is a senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Africa Division, and was criminal investigator in Sierra Leone.She was a photojournalist for the Reuters news agency, in Central America, Europe and Africa....

    , human rights researcher
  • Peter Gleick
    Peter Gleick
    Dr. Peter H. Gleick is a scientist working on issues related to the environment, economic development, and international security, with a focus on global freshwater challenges. He works at the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California, which he co-founded in 1987. In 2003 he was awarded a MacArthur...

    , conservation analyst
  • Osvaldo Golijov
    Osvaldo Golijov
    Osvaldo Noé Golijov is a Grammy award–winning composer of classical music.-Biography:Osvaldo Golijov was born in and grew up in La Plata, Argentina, in a Jewish family that had emigrated to Argentina in the 1920s from Romania and Russia.Golijov has developed a rich musical language, the result of...

    , composer
  • Deborah Jin, physicist
  • Angela Johnson
    Angela Johnson (writer)
    Angela Johnson is an American children's book and poetry author with over 40 books to her credit since beginning her writing career in 1989. Her books for young children are simple yet poetic stories about African American families, friendships, and common childhood experiences such as moving...

    , writer
  • Tom Joyce
    Tom Joyce
    Tom Joyce is an American blacksmith living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Tom Joyce is a blacksmith, who since 1977 from his base in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has forged architectural ironwork projects throughout the United States...

    , blacksmith
  • Sarah H. Kagan
    Sarah H. Kagan
    Sarah H. Kagan is an American gerontological nurse, and Doris R. Schwartz Term Associate Professor in Gerontological Nursing at University of Pennsylvania....

    , gerontological nurse
  • Ned Kahn
    Ned Kahn
    Ned Kahn is an environmental artist and sculptor, famous in particular for museum exhibits he has built for the Exploratorium in San Francisco...

    , artist and science exhibit designer

  • Jim Yong Kim
    Jim Kim
    Jim Yong Kim is a Korean-American physician, and 17th President of Dartmouth College. He has been a Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was a co-founder and later Executive Director of Partners in...

    , public health physician
  • Nawal M. Nour
    Nawal M. Nour
    Nawal M. Nour is an American obstetrician and gynecologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, she won 2003 Genius Award...

    , obstetrician and gynecologist
  • Loren H. Rieseberg
    Loren H. Rieseberg
    Loren H. Rieseberg is a Canadian-American botanist. He is a Professor of Botany at the University of British Columbia and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana University, and head of the Rieseberg Lab....

    , botanist
  • Amy Rosenzweig
    Amy Rosenzweig
    Amy C. Rosenzweig is an American biochemist, professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, at Northwestern University, and Principal Investigator at the Rosenzweig Lab....

    , biochemist
  • Pedro A. Sanchez, agronomist
  • Lateefah Simon
    Lateefah Simon
    Lateefah Simon was executive director of the Center for Young Women's Development. She is Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights.She graduated from Mills College.-Awards:* 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program...

    , women's development leader
  • Peter Sis
    Peter Sis
    Peter Sís is an award-winning children's book writer and illustrator. Sís attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London...

    , illustrator
  • Sarah Sze
    Sarah Sze
    Sarah Sze is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. Sze uses ordinary objects to create sculptures and site-specific installations.-Early life:Sze graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yale University in 1991...

    , sculptor
  • Eve Troutt Powell
    Eve Troutt Powell
    Eve M. Troutt Powell is a historian of the Middle East and North Africa, and an Associate Professor at University of Pennsylvania in the Department of History.She graduated with a B.A, M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University....

    , historian
  • Anders Winroth
    Anders Winroth
    Anders Winroth is a history professor at Yale University.After graduation from Stockholm University, Winroth did his master's and doctoral studies at Columbia University under Robert Somerville. He worked on the Decretum of Gratian. He discovered that the original version was only about half the...

    , historian
  • Daisy Youngblood
    Daisy Youngblood
    Daisy Youngblood is an American modern sculptor and ceramic artist. She grew up in North Carolina and currently lives in New Mexico. She was a 2003 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant"....

    , ceramic artist
  • Xiaowei Zhuang
    Xiaowei Zhuang
    Xiaowei Zhuang is an American biophysicist, and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Physics, at Harvard University, and the Zhuang Research Lab.She is an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute....

    , biophysicist


2004

  • Angela Belcher
    Angela Belcher
    Angela M. Belcher is a materials scientist, biological engineer, and W.M. Keck Professor of Energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. She is director of the Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT and a 2004 MacArthur Fellow.Belcher grew up in San...

    , materials scientist and engineer
  • Gretchen Berland
    Gretchen Berland
    Gretchen Kimberly Berland is an American physician and filmmaker, and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.She graduated from Pomona College with a BA in 1986, and Oregon Health & Sciences University, with a M.D., in 1996. She was a Fellow in the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson...

    , physician and filmmaker
  • James Carpenter
    James Carpenter (artist)
    James Carpenter is an American light artist, and architect.He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in sculpture in 1972...

    , artist
  • Joseph DeRisi
    Joseph DeRisi
    Joseph DeRisi is an American biochemist, specializing in molecular biology, parasitology, genomics, virology, and computational biology.He received a B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D...

    , biologist
  • Katherine Gottlieb
    Katherine Gottlieb
    Katherine Gottlieb is the president and CEO of the Southcentral Foundation, an Alaska Native Healthcare Organization.She graduated from Alaska Pacific University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, a master’s in business administration, and an honorary doctorate....

    , health care leader
  • David Green
    David Green (social entrepreneur)
    David Green is an American social entrepreneur.He is an Ypsilanti, Michigan native.He graduated from the University of Michigan with an MPH.He helped the Seva Foundation establish Aurolab, a nonprofit manufacturer of medical products....

    , technology transfer innovator
  • Aleksandar Hemon
    Aleksandar Hemon
    Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American fiction writer. He is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation grant. He has written four acclaimed books: Love and Obstacles: Stories , The Lazarus Project: A Novel , which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle...

    , writer
  • Heather Hurst
    Heather Hurst
    Heather Hurst is an American archaeologist, and anthropologist.She graduated from Skidmore College in 1997, and from Yale University with a Ph.D. in anthropology...

    , archaeological illustrator
  • Edward P. Jones
    Edward P. Jones
    Edward Paul Jones is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel The Known World received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-Biography:...

    , writer
  • John Kamm
    John Kamm
    John Kamm is an American businessman, Human Rights activist, and founder of The Dui Hua Foundation. He is credited with having helped over 400 religious and political prisoners in China.- Early work :...

    , human rights activist
  • Daphne Koller
    Daphne Koller
    Daphne Koller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Her general research area is artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences...

    , computer scientist
  • Naomi Leonard
    Naomi Leonard
    Naomi Ehrich Leonard is Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University.She graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. degree in mechanical engineering in 1985....

    , engineer

  • Tommie Lindsey
    Tommie Lindsey
    Tommie Lindsey is a Forensics coach, at James Logan High School.He graduated valedictorian from the University of San Francisco in Communication Arts and Social Science....

    , school debate coach
  • Rueben Martinez
    Rueben Martinez
    Rueben Martinez is a Mexican-American activist and businessman. Seeing no future for himself in the small mining town where he grew up, at the age of seventeen Martinez left Arizona for Southern California...

    , businessman and activist
  • Maria Mavroudi
    Maria Mavroudi
    Maria Mavroudi is a history professor at University of California, Berkeley.Fluent in classical Greek and Arabic, she also understands Coptic, Latin, and Syriac, and speaks modern Greek and English fluently...

    , historian
  • Vamsi Mootha
    Vamsi Mootha
    Vamsi Mootha is an Indian-American physician-scientist and computational biologist. He holds the position of Professor of Systems Biology and Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School...

    , physician and computational biologist
  • Judy Pfaff
    Judy Pfaff
    Judy Pfaff, born 1946 in London, England, is an American artist, known mainly for Installation art. Pfaff has received numerous awards for her work, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National...

    , American sculptor
  • Aminah Robinson
    Aminah Robinson
    Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson is an American artist.-Life:She graduated from the Columbus Art School cum laude in 1960, studying at Ohio State University, Franklin University, and Bliss College....

    , artist
  • Reginald Robinson
    Reginald Robinson
    Reginald R. Robinson is a noted composer and performer of ragtime music. In 2004, he received a MacArthur Genius Grant. He was raised by working class parents in Chicago, for many years living in the Henry Horner Homes, a South Side housing project...

    , pianist and composer
  • Cheryl Rogowski
    Cheryl Rogowski
    Cheryl Rogowski is an American farmer from Pine Island, New York.She began farming in 1983 when the Onion Harvest Festival was reestablished and she was crowned Princess....

    , farmer
  • Amy Smith
    Amy B. Smith
    Amy Smith is an American inventor, educator, and founder of at . She works to develop technologies and build creative capacity internationally.-Early life and education:...

    , inventor and mechanical engineer
  • Julie Theriot
    Julie Theriot
    Julie A. Theriot is an American microbiologist, professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Theriot Lab. She was a Predoctoral Fellow, and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.She graduated from...

    , microbiologist
  • C. D. Wright
    C. D. Wright
    Carolyn D. "C. D." Wright is an American poet.-Biography:Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas to a chancery judge and a court reporter. She earned a BA from Memphis State College in 1971 and briefly attended law school before leaving to pursue an MFA from the University of Arkansas, which...

    , poet


2005

  • Marin Alsop
    Marin Alsop
    Marin Alsop is an American conductor and violinist. She is the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.In 2012, Alsop will replace Yan Pascal Tortelier as principal conductor of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra....

    , symphony conductor
  • Ted Ames
    Ted Ames
    Ted Ames is a Maine fisherman, and hatchery director of Penobscot East Resource Center. He graduated from the University of Maine with a master's degree in biochemistry. He mapped the fish spawning grounds over time showing a loss of productive grounds...

    , fisherman, conservationist, marine biologist
  • Terry Belanger
    Terry Belanger
    Terry Belanger is the founding director of Rare Book School , an institute concerned with education for the history of books and printing, and with rare books and special collections librarianship. He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia , where RBS has its home base...

    , rare book preservationist
  • Edet Belzberg
    Edet Belzberg
    - Biography :Belzberg received a B.A. in 1991 from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an M.A. in 1997 from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. She received the Columbia University School of Journalism's John M...

    , documentary filmmaker
  • Majora Carter
    Majora Carter
    Majora Carter is an economic consultant, public radio host, and environmental justice advocate from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable South Bronx before entering the private sector.-Early life:Carter...

    , urban revitalization strategist
  • Lu Chen
    Lu Chen (scientist)
    Lu Chen is a Chinese American neuroscientist who is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute....

    , neuroscientist
  • Michael Cohen
    Michael Cohen (pharmacist)
    Michael Cohen is an American pharmacist, and president of The Institute for Safe Medication Practices. He was a 2005 MacArthur Fellow.-Life:He graduated from Temple University with a RPh, and MS. He wrote a column for the journal Hospital Pharmacy...

    , pharmacist
  • Joseph Curtin
    Joseph Curtin
    Joseph Curtin is a contemporary violinmaker.Established in Ann Arbor, co-founder with Gregg Alf of the firm Curtin & Alf.He was a 2005 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant". He has also directed workshops on violin design through the Violin Society of America, a group of...

    , violinmaker
  • Aaron Dworkin
    Aaron Dworkin
    Aaron Paul Dworkin is an African American violinist, and music educator.-Early life:Aaron Paul Dworkin was born on September 11, 1970 in Monticello, New York to Vaughn and Audeen Moore, but they decided to give their son up for adoption...

    , music educator
  • Teresita Fernández
    Teresita Fernandez
    Teresita Fernández is a contemporary sculptor and artist based in New York. A recipient of the 2005 MacArthur Foundation "Genius Fellowship", Fernández's work is characterized by an interest in perception and the psychology of looking. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and the Louis...

    , sculptor
  • Claire Gmachl, quantum cascade laser engineer
  • Sue Goldie
    Sue Goldie
    Dr. Sue J. Goldie is the , the Director of the and Faculty Director of the .Dr. Goldie has a secondary appointment as Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine...

    , physician / researcher
  • Steven Goodman
    Steven Goodman
    Steven Goodman is an American Conservation Biologist, and field biologist on staff in the Department of Zoology at the Field Museum of Natural History....

    , conservation biologist

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

    , biochemist
  • Nicole King
    Nicole King
    Nicole King is an American biologist and faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley in molecular and cell biology and integrative biology...

    , molecular biologist
  • Jon Kleinberg
    Jon Kleinberg
    -External links:**** Stephen Ibaraki*Yury Lifshits,...

    , computer scientist
  • Jonathan Lethem
    Jonathan Lethem
    Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels...

    , novelist
  • Michael Manga
    Michael Manga
    Michael Manga is a MacArthur Fellow and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Part of his work has been funded by the National Science Foundation . The award from the NSF suppored his studies of geological fluid mechanics and...

    , geophysicist
  • Todd Martinez
    Todd Martinez
    Todd J. Martínez is a David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and a Professor of Photon Science at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He received his B.S . from Calvin College in 1989 and his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1994...

    , theoretical chemist
  • Julie Mehretu
    Julie Mehretu
    Julie Mehretu is an artist, best known for her densely-layered abstract paintings and prints. She lives and works in New York City...

    , painter
  • Kevin M. Murphy
    Kevin M. Murphy
    Kevin Miles Murphy is the George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution....

    , economist
  • Olufunmilayo Olopade
    Olufunmilayo Olopade
    Olufunmilayo I. Olopade is an hematology oncologist, Associate Dean for Global Health and Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago...

    , clinician/researcher
  • Fazal Sheikh
    Fazal Sheikh
    Fazal Sheikh is an American photographer.He graduated from Princeton University in 1987.He exhibited at the International Center of Photography, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, at Tate Modern, London; the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.He...

    , photographer
  • Emily Thompson
    Emily Thompson
    Emily Ann Thompson is an American aural historian.She teaches at Princeton University.She graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Physics in 1984, and from Princeton University, with a Ph.D...

    , aural historian
  • Michael Walsh
    Michael Walsh (engineer)
    -Life:He graduated from Manhattan College with a B.S. , and studied at Princeton University .He worked in government service, directing motor vehicle pollution control efforts in the City of New York Department of Air Resources and the U.S...

    , vehicle emissions specialist


2006

  • David Carroll
    David Carroll (naturalist)
    David M. Carroll is an American naturalist, author and illustrator.He has investigated for the endangered species programs of New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Park Service...

    , naturalist author/illustrator
  • Regina Carter
    Regina Carter
    Regina Carter is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of famous jazz saxophonist James Carter.-Early life:...

    , jazz violinist
  • Kenneth C. Catania
    Kenneth C. Catania
    Kenneth C. Catania is a neurobiologist. Catania is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University, where he studies star-nosed moles and naked mole rats. In 1989, Catania received a BS in zoology from the University of Maryland. In 1992, he received an MS in Neurosciences...

    , neurobiologist
  • Lisa Curran
    Lisa Curran
    Lisa Curran is an American tropical forester, and Roger and Cynthia Lang Professor in Environment & Anthropology, at Stanford University.She graduated from Harvard University, and Princeton University with a Ph.D....

    , tropical forester
  • Kevin Eggan
    Kevin Eggan
    Kevin Eggan is Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University, known for his work in stem cell research , and as a spokesperson for stem cell research in the United States. He was a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship...

    , biologist
  • Jim Fruchterman
    Jim Fruchterman
    Jim Fruchterman is a leading social entrepreneur. He is a former rocket scientist and technology entrepreneur who creates social technology enterprises that target under-served communities....

    , technologist, CEO Benetech
    Benetech
    Benetech was founded in 1989 by high technology entrepreneur Jim Fruchterman in Palo Alto, California. Benetech is a not-for-profit social enterprise organization: it creates technology social ventures, such as Bookshare , the Route 66 Literacy Project, the Miradi environmental project management...

  • Atul Gawande
    Atul Gawande
    Atul Gawande is an American physician and journalist. He serves as a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health...

    , surgeon and author
  • Linda Griffith
    Linda Griffith
    Linda G. Griffith is an American biological engineer, and Professor of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also directs the ....

    , bioengineer
  • Victoria Hale
    Victoria Hale
    Dr. Victoria Hale founded the nonprofit pharmaceutical company The Institute for OneWorld Health in San Francisco, California in 2000 and was its chairman and CEO until 2008. She remains on the iOWH board as Chair Emeritus...

    , CEO OneWorld Health
  • Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is an American journalist whose works focus on the marginalized members of society: adolescents living in poverty, prostitutes, women in prison, etc. She is best known for her 2003 non-fiction book Random Family...

    , journalist and author
  • David Macaulay
    David Macaulay
    David Macaulay is an author and illustrator. Now a resident of Norwich, Vermont, United States, he is an alumnus and faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design.- Biography :...

    , author/illustrator
  • Josiah McElheny
    Josiah McElheny
    Josiah McElheny is an artist and sculptor, primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects . He is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant"...

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

    , physician

  • John A. Rich
    John A. Rich
    John Armand Rich is Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was a 2006 MacArthur Fellow,...

    , physician
  • Jennifer Richeson
    Jennifer Richeson
    Jennifer A. Richeson is an African-American social psychologist who studies racial identity and interracial interactions.-Education:Dr. Richeson completed a B.S. in psychology at Brown University and earned her Ph.D. in social psychology at Harvard University...

    , social psychologist
  • Sarah Ruhl
    Sarah Ruhl
    Sarah Ruhl is an American playwright. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.-Biography:Ruhl was born in Wilmette, Illinois. Originally, she intended to be a poet. However, after she studied under Paula Vogel at Brown University , she was convinced to switch to playwrighting...

    , playwright
  • George Saunders
    George Saunders
    George Saunders is a New York Times bestselling American writer of short stories, essays, novellas and children's books. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's and GQ, among other publications...

    , short story writer
  • Anna Schuleit
    Anna Schuleit
    Anna Schuleit is a visual artist who lives and works in the United States. She attended high school in the United States at Northfield Mount Hermon School before pursuing painting at the Rhode Island School of Design where she received her B.F.A. in 1998, and creative writing / book arts at...

    , commemorative artist
  • Shahzia Sikander
    Shahzia Sikander
    Shahzia Sikander is an artist from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Sikander is a Pakistani American artist, now living in New York City, who specializes in Mughal miniature painting and Persian miniature painting. She has also created murals, installations, mixed-media works and performance art. She...

    , painter
  • Terence Tao
    Terence Tao
    Terence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory...

    , mathematician
  • Claire J. Tomlin
    Claire J. Tomlin
    Claire Jennifer Tomlin is an American researcher in hybrid systems, distributed and decentralized optimization and control theory.-Life:...

    , aviation engineer
  • Luis von Ahn
    Luis von Ahn
    Luis von Ahn is an entrepreneur and an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of the idea of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009...

    , computer scientist
  • Edith Widder
    Edith Widder
    Edith Widder is an American oceanographer, marine biologist, and the Co-founder, CEO and Senior Scientist at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association....

    , deep-sea explorer
  • Matias Zaldarriaga
    Matias Zaldarriaga
    Matias Zaldarriaga is an Argentine cosmologist. Born in Coghlan neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, at the present time he works in the Institute for Advanced Study located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. He is known especially for his work on the cosmic microwave background...

    , cosmologist
  • John Zorn
    John Zorn
    John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...

    , composer and musician


2007

  • Deborah Bial
    Deborah Bial
    Deborah Bial is an education strategist, Founder and President of the Posse Foundation.She graduated from Brandeis University in 1987 and earned master’s and Ph.D degrees from...

    , education strategist
  • Peter Cole
    Peter Cole
    Peter Cole is an American Jewish poet who lives in Jerusalem and New Haven.-Early life:Cole was born in 1957 in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended Williams College and Hampshire College, and moved to Jerusalem in 1981.-Literary career:...

    , translator/poet/publisher
  • Lisa Cooper
    Lisa Cooper
    Lisa A. Cooper is a public health physician, and professor at Johns Hopkins.She graduated from Emory University with a B.A. and from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine with an M.D., and from the Johns Hopkins University with an M.P.H...

    , public health physician
  • Ruth DeFries
    Ruth DeFries
    Ruth DeFries is an environmental geographer who specializes in the use of remote sensing to study Earth's habitability under the influence of human activities, such as deforestation, that influence regulating biophysical and biogeochemical processes...

    , environmental geographer
  • Mercedes Doretti
    Mercedes Doretti
    -Life:Her mother is Magdalena Ruiz Guinazu, a radio journalist.She was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and earned an advanced degree in Anthropological Sciences in 1987 from the National University of Buenos Aires....

    , forensic anthropologist
  • Stuart Dybek
    Stuart Dybek
    -Personal life:Dybek was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dybek graduated from St. Rita of Cascia High School in 1959...

    , short story writer
  • Marc Edwards
    Marc Edwards (civil engineering professor)
    Marc Edwards is a civil engineering/environmental engineer and the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech....

    , water quality engineer
  • Michael Elowitz
    Michael Elowitz
    Michael B Elowitz is a biologist and professor of Biology, Bioengineering, and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2007 he was the recipient of the Genius grant, better known as the MacArthur Fellows Program for the...

    , molecular biologist
  • Saul Griffith
    Saul Griffith
    Saul Griffith is an Australian American inventor. He is best known for his inexpensive technique for making prescription eyeglasses. This method uses two flexible surfaces and a pourable resin.-Early life and education:...

    , inventor
  • Sven Haakanson
    Sven Haakanson
    Sven Haakanson, Jr. is an American anthropologist, and the Executive Director of the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska....

    , Alutiiq
    Alutiiq
    The Alutiiq , also called Pacific Yupik or Sugpiaq, are a southern coastal people of the Native peoples of Alaska. Their language is called Sugstun, and it is one of Eskimo languages, belonging to the Yup’ik branch of these languages. They are not to be confused with the Aleuts, who live further...

     curator/anthropologist/preservationist
  • Corey Harris
    Corey Harris
    Corey Harris is an American blues and reggae musician, currently residing in Virginia. Along with Keb' Mo' and Alvin Youngblood Hart, he raised the flag of acoustic guitar blues in the mid 1990s...

    , blues musician
  • Cheryl Hayashi
    Cheryl Hayashi
    Cheryl Hayashi is a biologist at University of California, Riverside who specializes in the genetic structure of spider silk.A professor at UC Riverside since 2001, she received her Ph.D from Yale University in 1996.She was a speaker at TED 2010 Conference....

    , spider silk biologist

  • My Hang V. Huynh
    My Hang V. Huynh
    My Hang V. Huynh is a Vietnamese chemist in the High Explosives Science and Technology Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Huynh's research has led to the creation of "Green Primary Explosives" which are "designed to replace traditional mercury and lead-based explosives and reduce damaging...

    , chemist
  • Claire Kremen
    Claire Kremen
    Claire Kremen is an American biologist, and professor of conservation biology at University of California, Berkeley.She graduated from Stanford University with a B.S...

    , conservation biologist
  • Whitfield Lovell
    Whitfield Lovell
    Whitfield Lovell is an African-American artist who works in a variety of media, including charcoal and oil stick on wood and on paper...

    , painter/installation artist
  • Yoky Matsuoka
    Yoky Matsuoka
    Yoky Matsuoka is an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington , director of that university's Neurobotics Laboratory, director of the and a 2007 MacArthur Fellow...

    , neuroroboticist
  • Lynn Nottage
    Lynn Nottage
    Lynn Nottage is an American playwright whose work often deals with the lives of women of African descent, African Americans and women. She was born in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and a MacArthur Genius...

    , playwright
  • Mark Roth
    Mark Roth (scientist)
    Mark Roth is an American biochemist, and director of the Roth Lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is a professor at the University of Washington....

    , biomedical scientist
  • Paul Rothemund, nanotechnologist
  • Jay Rubenstein
    Jay Rubenstein
    -Life:He graduated with a B.A. from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1989, was a Rhodes Scholar, received an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D...

    , medieval historian
  • Jonathan Shay
    Jonathan Shay
    Jonathan Shay is a doctor and clinical psychiatrist. He holds a B.A from Harvard and an M.D. and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His early medical work was with the behaviour of brain cells in and after strokes, but after suffering a stroke and financial hard times, he began work...

    , clinical psychiatrist/classicist
  • Joan Snyder
    Joan Snyder
    Joan Snyder is an American painter from New York. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her paintings have been exhibited at several museums, including the de Saisset Museum and the Jewish Museum.-Painting styles:...

    , painter
  • Dawn Upshaw
    Dawn Upshaw
    Dawn Upshaw is an American soprano described as "one of the most consequential performers of our time" by the Los Angeles Times. The recipient of several Grammy Awards and Edison Prize-winning discs, Upshaw is at home both in opera and art song, and in repertoire from Baroque to contemporary...

    , vocalist
  • Shen Wei
    Shen Wei
    Shen Wei is a Chinese choreographer and dancer. He lives and works in New York City and is director of the modern dance company Shen Wei Dance Arts...

    , choreographer


2008

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer.Her family is of Igbo descent. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.-Early life and education:...

    , novelist
  • Will Allen, "urban farmer"
  • Regina Benjamin
    Regina Benjamin
    Vice Admiral Regina Marcia Benjamin, USPHS is an American physician who serves as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Benjamin previously directed a nonprofit primary care medical clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama and served on the Board of Trustees for the Morehouse School of...

    , rural family doctor
  • Kirsten Bomblies
    Kirsten Bomblies
    Kirsten Bomblies is a biological researcher. She was born in 1973 in Germany and grew up in Castle Rock, CO. She received a BA in Biochemistry and Biology from The University of Pennsylvania in 1996. Her research plumbs the genetic, biophysical and other processes that may give rise to new species....

    , evolutionary plant geneticist
  • Tara Donovan
    Tara Donovan
    Tara Donovan is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for site-specific installation art that utilizes everyday materials whose form is in keeping with generative art.-Biography:...

    , artist
  • Andrea Ghez
    Andrea Ghez
    Andrea Mia Ghez is an American astronomer and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. She received a BS in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and her Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1992...

    , astrophysicist
  • Stephen D. Houston
    Stephen D. Houston
    Stephen Douglas Houston is an American anthropologist, archaeologist, epigrapher and Mayanist scholar, who is particularly renowned for his research into the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica...

    , anthropologist
  • Mary Jackson
    Mary Jackson (artist)
    Mary Jackson is an African American fiber artist. She is married to Stoney Jackson.A descendent of the Gullah community of coastal South Carolina, she works in Charleston, South Carolina....

    , weaver and sculptor
  • Leila Josefowicz
    Leila Josefowicz
    Leila Bronia Josefowicz , is an American/Canadian classical violinist.-Biography:Josefowicz was born in Missisauga, Ontario, Canada. When she was a young child her family moved to Los Angeles, California where she started studying violin at the age of three and a half using the Suzuki method...

    , violinist
  • Alexei Kitaev
    Alexei Kitaev
    Alexei Kitaev is a professor of physics and computer science at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known for introducing the quantum phase estimation algorithm and the concept of the topological quantum computer while working at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. For...

    , physicist
  • Walter Kitundu
    Walter Kitundu
    Walter Kitundu is a musical instrument builder, graphic artist, and musical composer from San Francisco, California.-Biography:Kitundu was born in Rochester, Minnesota and spent his early years in Tanzania. He returned to Minnesota from age 8 to 25, then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in...

    , instrument maker and composer
  • Susan Mango
    Susan Mango
    Susan E. Mango is an American biologist, and H.A. and Edna Benning Professor of Oncological Sciences at University of Utah, and professor Harvard University...

    , developmental biologist
  • Diane E. Meier
    Diane E. Meier
    Diane E. Meier, M.D., is an American geriatrician and the Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City...

    , geriatrician

  • David R. Montgomery
    David R. Montgomery
    David R. Montgomery is a Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he leads the Geomorphological Research Group and is a member of the Quaternary Research Center....

    , geomorphologist
  • John Ochsendorf
    John Ochsendorf
    John Ochsendorf is a structural engineer and historian of construction; since 2002 he has been an associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

    , engineer and architectural historian
  • Peter Pronovost
    Peter Pronovost
    Peter J. Pronovost is an intensive care specialist physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.He is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Surgery, Professor of Health Policy and Management...

    , critical care physician
  • Adam Riess
    Adam Riess
    Adam Guy Riess is an American astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute and is widely known for his research in using supernovae as Cosmological Probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul...

    , astrophysicist
  • Alex Ross, music critic
  • Wafaa El-Sadr
    Wafaa El-Sadr
    Wafaa El-Sadr MD, MPH is director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiologic Research at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health...

    , infectious disease specialist
  • Nancy Siraisi
    Nancy Siraisi
    Nancy G. Siraisi is an American historian of medicine, and Distinguished Professor Emerita in History at Hunter College, and City University of New York. Nancy Siraisi received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York...

    , historian of medicine
  • Marin Soljačić
    Marin Soljacic
    Marin Soljačić is a Croatian physicist and electrical engineer known for wireless non-radiative energy transfer.-Biography:...

    , optical physicist
  • Sally Temple
    Sally Temple
    Sally Temple is a developmental neuroscientist in Albany, New York. She is Scientific Director of and Professor of Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology at Albany Medical College.In 2008, Dr...

    , neuroscientist
  • Jennifer Tipton
    Jennifer Tipton
    Jennifer Tipton is a lighting designer. She has designed for dance, theater and opera.In 1958, she graduated from Cornell University...

    , stage lighting designer
  • Rachel Wilson
    Rachel Wilson (neurobiologist)
    -Biography:Wilson was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She received an A.B. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco...

    , experimental neurobiologist
  • Miguel Zenón
    Miguel Zenon
    Miguel Zenón is an alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader.-Biography:Miguel Zenón was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. While studying at the Escuela Libre de Musica in San Juan, he won a scholarship to the “Berklee in Puerto Rico” program of the Berklee College of Music and a scholarship to...

    , saxophonist and composer


2009

  • Lynsey Addario
    Lynsey Addario
    Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist currently based in New Delhi. Her work often focuses on conflicts and human rights issues, especially the role of women in traditional societies.-Life and work:...

    , photojournalist
  • Maneesh Agrawala
    Maneesh Agrawala
    Maneesh Agrawala is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, where he leads the Visualization Lab.He received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2009....

    , computer vision technologist
  • Timothy Barrett
    Timothy Barrett (papermaker)
    Timothy D. Barrett is an American papermaker, and director of the Center for the Book, at the University of Iowa, from 1996 to 2002.He graduated from Antioch College with a BA degree in Art Communications in 1973.-Works:...

    , papermaker
  • Mark Bradford
    Mark Bradford
    Mark Bradford is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles.-Life and work:He studied at the California Institute of the Arts, located at Valencia, California, U.S., earning an MFA in 1997 and a BFA in 1995....

    , mixed media artist
  • Edwidge Danticat, novelist
  • Rackstraw Downes
    Rackstraw Downes
    Rackstraw Downes is a British-born realist painter and author. His oil paintings are notable for their meticulous detail accumulated during months of plein-air sessions, depictions of industry and the environment, and elongated compositions with complex perspective.-Education:Born Rodney Harry...

    , painter
  • Esther Duflo
    Esther Duflo
    Esther Duflo is a French economist, currently the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also co-founder and the Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab...

    , economist
  • Deborah Eisenberg, short story writer
  • Lin He
    Lin He
    Lin He is an assistant professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, where she leads a lab focusing on identifying non-coding RNA which may play a role in tumorigenesis and tumor maintenance.-Life and...

    , molecular biologist
  • Peter Huybers
    Peter Huybers
    Peter Huybers is an American climate scientist, and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.-Life and work:...

    , climate scientist
  • James Longley
    James Longley (filmmaker)
    - Career :His work includes the documentary, Gaza Strip, released in 2002. His production, Iraq in Fragments, presents a view of Iraq and Iraqis during the first two years of Iraq war. It was awarded three jury awards at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for...

    , filmmaker
  • L. Mahadevan
    L. Mahadevan
    Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan is an Indian American mathematician, and Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, at Harvard University...

    , applied mathematician

  • Heather McHugh
    Heather McHugh
    -Life:Heather McHugh, a poet, translator, and educator, was born in San Diego, California, to Canadian parents, John Laurence, a marine biologist, and Eileen Francesca . They raised McHugh in Gloucester Point, Virginia. There, her father directed the marine biological laboratory on the York River...

    , poet
  • Jerry Mitchell, investigative reporter
  • Rebecca Onie
    Rebecca Onie
    Rebecca Onie is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Health Leads.In 1996, during her sophomore year at Harvard College, Rebecca Onie founded Health Leads with Dr. Barry Zuckerman, Chair of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center...

    , health services innovator
  • Richard Prum
    Richard Prum
    Richard O. Prum is William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, at Yale University....

    , ornithologist
  • John A. Rogers
    John A. Rogers
    John A. Rogers is a physical chemist and materials engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.-Education:Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992...

    , applied physicist
  • Elyn Saks
    Elyn Saks
    Elyn Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School and an expert in mental health law....

    , mental health lawyer
  • Jill Seaman
    Jill Seaman
    Jill Seaman is an American doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières . She is a native of Moscow, Idaho and a graduate of Middlebury College and the University of Washington School of Medicine....

    , infectious disease physician
  • Beth Shapiro
    Beth Shapiro
    Beth A. Shapiro is an American evolutionary molecular biologist. She has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the Pennsylvania State University since 2007. Shapiro's work has centered on the analysis of ancient DNA...

    , evolutionary biologist
  • Daniel Sigman
    Daniel Sigman
    Daniel Sigman is an American geoscientist, and the Dusenbury Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences in at Princeton University. Sigman received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 2009.He graduated from Stanford University with a B.S...

    , biogeochemist
  • Mary Tinetti
    Mary Tinetti
    Mary Tinetti is an American physician, and Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University, and Director of the Yale Program on Aging....

    , geriatric physician
  • Camille Utterback
    Camille Utterback
    Camille Utterback is an interactive installation artist. Initially trained as a painter, her work is at the intersection of painting and interactive art.-Biography:...

    , digital artist
  • Theodore Zoli
    Theodore Zoli
    Theodore P. Zoli, P.E. is an American structural engineer, and a leading designer of cable-stayed bridges.-Life:Zoli graduated from Princeton University with a B.S. in 1988, and from the California Institute of Technology with an M.S. in 1989. Since 1990, he has worked for HNTB Corporation, where...

    , bridge engineer


2010

  • Amir Abo-Shaeer
    Amir Abo-Shaeer
    Amir Abo-Shaeer is an educator. In 2001, during his first year of teaching, he established the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy on the Dos Pueblos High School campus. In addition to being the Director of the DPEA, he teaches physics, engineering, robotics, machining and manufacturing...

    , physics teacher
  • Jessie Little Doe Baird, Wampanoag
    Wampanoag
    The Wampanoag In the 1600s when encountered by the English, the Wampanoag lived in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as within a territory that encompassed current day Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket...

     language preservation and revival
  • Kelly Benoit-Bird, marine biologist
  • Nicholas Benson, stone carver
  • Drew Berry
    Drew Berry (animator)
    Drew Berry is a biomedical animator at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. His scientifically accurate and aesthetically rich visualizations are elucidating cellular and molecular processes for a wide range of audiences...

    , biomedical animator
  • Carlos D. Bustamante, population geneticist
  • Matthew Carter
    Matthew Carter
    Matthew Carter is a type designer. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Carter's career in type design has witnessed the transition from physical metal type to digital type...

    , type designer
  • David Cromer
    David Cromer
    David Cromer is an American theatre director and stage actor. He has received recognition for his work Off-Broadway and in his native Chicago. Cromer has won or been nominated for numerous awards, including winning the Lucille Lortel Award and Obie Award for his direction of Our Town...

    , theater director
  • John Dabiri, biophysicist
  • Shannon Lee Dawdy, anthropologist
  • Annette Gordon-Reed
    Annette Gordon-Reed
    Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and law professor noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson. Gordon-Reed was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. She is Professor of Law and History at Harvard, and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe...

    , American historian
  • Yiyun Li
    Yiyun Li
    Yiyun Li is a Chinese American writer. Her debut short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won the 2005 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and her second collection Gold Boy, Emerald Girl was shortlisted for the same award...

    , fiction writer

  • Michal Lipson
    Michal Lipson
    Michal Lipson is an American physicist known for her work on silicon photonics. She is an associate professor at Cornell University in the school of electrical and computer engineering and a member of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience at Cornell...

    , optical physicist
  • Nergis Mavalvala, quantum astrophysicist
  • Jason Moran
    Jason Moran (musician)
    Jason Moran is a jazz pianist and composer who debuted as a band leader with the 1999 album Soundtrack to Human Motion. Since then, he has garnered much critical acclaim and won a number of awards for his playing and compositional skills, which combine elements of stride piano, avant-garde jazz,...

    , jazz pianist and composer
  • Carol Padden
    Carol Padden
    Carol A. Padden is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, where she has been teaching since 1983. She was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, and a 1992 Guggenheim Fellow....

    , sign language linguist
  • Jorge Pardo, installation artist
  • Sebastian Ruth, violist, violinist, and music educator
  • Emmanuel Saez
    Emmanuel Saez
    Emmanuel Saez is a French economist. Saez is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley...

    , economist
  • David Simon
    David Simon
    David Simon is an American author, journalist, and a writer/producer of television series. He worked for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years. He wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood with Ed Burns...

    , author, screenwriter, and producer
  • Dawn Song
    Dawn Song
    Dawn Song is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2010.-Life and work:...

    , computer security specialist
  • Marla Spivak, entomologist
  • Elizabeth Turk
    Elizabeth Turk
    Elizabeth Turk is an American artist and sculptor. She is known for her work, Collars. In 2010 she was named MacArthur Fellow and a Barnett & Annalee Newman Foundation Fellow...

    , sculptor


2011

  • Jad Abumrad
    Jad Abumrad
    Jad Abumrad is a Lebanese-American radio host and producer. He has reported and produced documentaries for a number of local and National Public Radio programs, including On the Media, PRI's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Democracy Now!, and WNYC's "24...

    , radio host and producer
  • Marie-Therese Connolly
    Marie-Therese Connolly
    Marie-Therese Connolly is an American lawyer, Coordinator at the Elder Justice and Nursing Home Initiative, at the US Department of Justice, and Senior Trial Counsel, in the Civil Division. She won a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship.-Life:...

    , Elder Rights lawyer
  • Roland Fryer, economist
  • Jeanne Gang
    Jeanne Gang
    -External links:* official website* "Jeanne Gang: The Art of Nesting"...

    , architect
  • Elodie Ghedin
    Elodie Ghedin
    Elodie Ghedin is a parasitologist and a virologist as well as an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Her work focuses on the molecular biology of the parasites that cause diseases such as leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, elephantiasis, and...

    , parasitologist and virologist
  • Markus Greiner
    Markus Greiner
    Markus Greiner is a German physicist. He is the winner of the thesis award of the American Physical Society 2004 and of the William L. McMillan Award 2005 for outstanding contributions in condensed matter physics...

    , condensed matter physicist
  • Kevin Guskiewicz
    Kevin Guskiewicz
    Kevin Guskiewicz is an American sports medicine researcher, and Kenan Distinguished Professor, at the University of North Carolina. He is Principal Investigator of the Injury Prevention Research Center, and directs the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center.He is a...

    , sports medicine researcher
  • Peter Hessler
    Peter Hessler
    Peter Hessler is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of three acclaimed books about China and has contributed numerous articles to The New Yorker and National Geographic, among other publications...

    , long-form journalist
  • Tiya Miles
    Tiya Miles
    Tiya Miles is an American historian, and professor in the Department of History and chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is a 2011 MacArthur Fellow....

    , public historian
  • Matthew Nock
    Matthew Nock
    Matthew K. Nock is an American clinical psychologist and the director of the at Harvard University. He was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow."-External links:* from Harvard Magazine...

    , clinical psychologist
  • Francisco Núñez
    Francisco Núñez
    Francisco Núñez is an American conductor, composer, and director of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City.He is a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.-Life:He grew up in Washington Heights, in New York City....

    , choral conductor and composer

  • Sarah Otto
    Sarah Otto
    Sarah Otto is a theoretical biologist, author, and the director of the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.-Education:...

    , evolutionary geneticist
  • Shwetak Patel
    Shwetak Patel
    Shwetak Naran Patel is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known for his work on developing novel sensing solutions and ubiquitous computing. He is an assistant professor at the University of Washington in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, where he joined in 2008...

    , sensor technologist and computer scientist
  • Dafnis Prieto
    Dafnis Prieto
    Dafnis Prieto is a Cuban Drummer, Composer and Educator. He is a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.-Life:"His arrival in the U.S. has been compared by to that of an asteroid hitting New York."...

    , jazz percussionist and composer
  • Kay Ryan
    Kay Ryan
    Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. Ryan was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate, from 2008 to 2010...

    , poet
  • Melanie Sanford
    Melanie Sanford
    Melanie Sanford is an American chemist, and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry at University of Michigan. Sanford is best known for her studies of high-valent organopalladium species, particularly those implicated in Pd-catalyzed C–H functionalization reactions. She has received numerous...

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