MacArthur Fellows Program
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The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 citizens or residents of the U.S., of any age and working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work." According to the Foundation 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 in quarterly installments over five years. There have been 707 recipients to date.
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. The entire process is anonymous and confidential. Most new MacArthur Fellows first learn that they have even been considered when they receive the congratulatory phone call.
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[edit] List of MacArthur Fellows
MacArthur Fellows organized by the year of their awards:
[edit] 1981
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[edit] 1982
- Fouad Ajami
- Charles A. Bigelow
- Peter Robert Lamont Brown
- Robert Darnton
- Persi Diaconis
- William Gaddis, novelist
- Ved Mehta
- Robert Parris Moses
- Richard A. Muller
- Conlon Nancarrow
- Alfonso Ortiz
- Francesca Rochberg
- Charles Sabel
- Ralph Shapey
- Michael Silverstein
- Randolph Whitfield, Jr
- Frank Wilczek
- Frederick Wiseman
- Edward Witten
[edit] 1983
- R. Stephen Berry
- Philip Curtin
- William Durham
- Bradley Efron
- David Felten
- Seloma Goitein
- Ramon Gutierrez
- Bela Julesz
- William Kennedy
- Leszek Kolakowski
- Brad Leithauser
- Lawrence W. Levine
- Ralph Manheim, translator
- Charles Peskin
- Julia Robinson
- John Sayles
- Peter Sellars
- Adrian Wilson (book designer)
- Irene Winter
- Mark Wrighton
- Seweryn Bialer
- William C. Clark
- Randall Forsberg
- Alexander L. George
- Mott Greene
- John Hopfield
- Sylvia Law
- Robert K. Merton
- Walter Morris
- A.K. Ramanujan
- Alice Rivlin
- Richard Schoen
- Karen Uhlenbeck
- Thomas Jorgensen
[edit] 1984
- George Archibald
- Ernesto Cortes
- Robert Hass
- J. Bryan Hass
- Robert Irwin
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Paul Oskar Kristeller
- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
- Heather Lechtman
- Michael Lerner (environmentalist)
- Andrew Lewis
- Arnold Mandell
- Matthew Meselson
- David R. Nelson
- Michael Piore
- Judith Shklar
- Charles Simic
- David Stuart
- John Toews
- James Turrell
- Jay Weiss
- Carl Woese
- Shelly Bernstein
- Peter Bickel
- William Drayton
- Sidney Drell
- Mitchell Feigenbaum
- Michael Freedman
- Curtis Hames
- Shirley Heath
- Bette Howland
- Bill Irwin
- John Fritz
- Galway Kinnell
- Henry Kraus
- Peter Mathews
- Beaumont Newhall
- Roger Payne
- Edward V. Roberts
- Elliot Sperling
- Frank Sulloway
- Alar Toomre, astrophysicist
- Amos Tversky, cognitive scientist
- J. Kirk Varnedoe
- Bret Wallach
- Arthur Winfree
- Billie Young
[edit] 1985
- Joan Abrahamson
- John Ashbery
- John F. Benton
- Harold Bloom, literary critic
- Valery Chalidze
- William Cronon
- Merce Cunningham, dancer
- Jared Diamond
- Marian Edelman
- Morton Halperin
- Robert M. Hayes
- Edwin Hutchins
- Sam Maloof, Woodworker
- Andrew McGuire
- Patrick Noonan
- George Oster
- Thomas G. Palaima
- Peter Raven
- Jane Richardson
- Gregory Schopen
- Franklin Stahl
- J. Richard Stahl
- Ellen Stewart
- Paul Taylor
- Shing-Tung Yau
[edit] 1986
- Paul Adams
- Milton Babbitt
- Christopher Beckwith
- Richard Benson
- Lester Brown
- Caroline Bynum
- William A. Christian
- Nancy Farriss
- Benedict Gross
- Daryl Hine
- John Horner
- Thomas Joe
- David Keightley
- Albert Libchaber
- David Page
- George Perle
- James Randi
- David Rudovsky
- Robert Shapley
- Leo Steinberg
- Richard Turco
- Thomas Whiteside
- Allan Wilson
- Jay Wright
- Charles Wuorinen
[edit] 1987
- Walter Abish
- Robert Axelrod
- Robert Coleman
- Douglas Crase
- Daniel Friedan
- David Gross
- Ira Herskowitz
- Irving Howe
- Wesley Jacobs
- Peter Jeffery
- Horace Judson
- Stuart Kauffman
- Richard Kenney
- Eric Lander
- Michael Malin
- Deborah Meier
- Arnaldo Momigliano
- David Mumford
- Tina Rosenberg
- David Rumelhart
- Robert Sapolsky
- Meyer Shapiro
- John H. Schwarz
- Jon Seger
- Stephen Shenker
- David Dean Shulman
- Muriel Snowden
- Mark Strand
- May Swenson
- Huynh Thong
- William Julius Wilson
- Richard Wrangham
- Joe Mama
[edit] 1988
- Charles Archambeau
- Michael Baxandall
- Ruth Behar
- Ran Blake
- Charles Burnett
- Philip DeVries
- Andre Dubus, writer
- Helen Edwards
- Jon Else
- John Fleagle
- Cornell Fleischer, Middle Eastern historian and scholar
- Getatchew Haile
- Raymond Jeanloz
- Marvin Kahl
- Naomi Pierce
- Thomas Pynchon, novelist
- Stephen J. Pyne
- Max Roach
- Paul Roldan
- Anna Roosevelt
- David Rosenberg
- Susan Rotroff
- Bruce Schwartz
- Robert S. Shaw
- Jonathan Spence
- Noel Swerdlow
- Gary Tomlinson
- Alan Walker
- Eddie Williams
- Rita Wright
- Garth Youngberg
[edit] 1989
- Anthony Amsterdam, attorney and legal scholar
- Byllye Avery, women's healtcare leader
- Alvin Bronstein, human rights lawyer
- Leo Buss, evolutionary biologist
- Jay Cantor, writer
- George Davis, environmental policy analyst
- Allen Grossman, poet
- John Harbison, composer and conductor
- Keith Hefner, journalist and educator
- Ralf Hotchkiss, rehabilitation engineer
- John Rice Irwin, curator and cultural preservationist
- Daniel Janzen, ecologist
- Bernice Johnson Reagon, music historian, composer, and vocalist
- Aaron Lansky, cultural preservationist
- Jennifer Moody, archaeologist and anthropologist
- Errol Morris, filmmaker
- Vivian Paley, educator and writer
- Richard Powers, novelist
- Martin Puryear, sculptor
- Theodre Rosengarten, historian
- Margaret W. Rossiter, historian of science
- George Russell, composer and music theorist
- Pam Solo, arms control analyst
- Ellendea Proffer Teasley, translator and publisher
- Clair Van Vliet, book artist
- Baldemar Velasquez, farm labor leader
- Bill Viola, video artist
- Eliot Wigginton, educator
- Patricia Wright, primatologist
[edit] 1990
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[edit] 1991
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[edit] 1992
- Janet Benshoof, attorney
- Robert Blackburn, printmaker
- Unita Blackwell, civil rights leader
- Lorna Bourg, rural development leader
- Stanley Cavell, philosopher
- Amy Clampitt, poet
- Ingrid Daubechies, mathematician
- Wendy Ewald, photographer
- Irving Feldman, poet
- Barbara Fields, historian
- Robert Hall, journalist
- Ann Hanson, historian
- John Henry Holland, computer scientist
- Wes Jackson, agronomist
- Evelyn Keller, historian and philosopher of science
- Steve Lacy, saxophonist and composer
- Suzanne Lebsock, social historian
- Sharon Long, plant biologist
- Norman Manea, writer
- Paule Marshall, writer
- Michael Massing, journalist
- Robert McCabe, educator
- Susan Meiselas, photojournalist
- Amalia Mesa-Bains, artist and cultural critic
- Stephen Schneider, climatologist
- Joanna Scott, writer
- John T. Scott, artist
- John Terborgh, conservation biologist
- Twyla Tharp, dancer and choreographer
- Philip Treisman, mathematics educator
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, historian
- Geerat J. Vermeij, evolutionary biologist
- Gunter Wagner, developmental biologist
[edit] 1993
- Nancy Cartwright, philosopher
- Demetrios Christodoulou, mathematician and physicist
- Maria Crawford, geologist
- Stanley Crouch, jazz critic and writer
- Nora England, anthropological linguist
- Paul Farmer, medical anthropologist
- Victoria Foe, developmental biologist
- Ernest Gaines, writer
- Pedro Greer, physician
- Thom Gunn, poet and literary critic
- Ann Hamilton, artist
- Sokoni Karanja, child and family development specialist
- Ann Lauterbach, poet and literary critic
- Stephen Lee, chemist
- Carol Levine, AIDS policy specialist
- Amory Lovins, physicist, environmentalist, co-CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute
- Jane Lubchenco, marine biologist
- Ruth Lubic, nurse / midwife
- Jim Powell, poet and translator
- Margie Profet, evolutionary biologist
- Thomas Scanlon, philosopher
- Aaron Shirley, health care leader
- William Siemering, journalist and radio producer
- Ellen Silbergeld, biologist
- Leonard van der Kuijp, philologist and historian
- Frank von Hippel, arms control and energy analyst
- John Wideman, writer
- Heather Williams, biologist and orinthologist
- Marion Williams, gospel music performer
- Robert H. Williams, physicis and energy analyst
- Henry T. Wright, archaeologist and anthropologist
[edit] 1994
- Robert Adams, photographer
- Jeraldyne Blunden, choreographer
- Anthony Braxton (Avant-Garde composer and musician)
- Rogers Brubaker, sociologist
- Ornette Coleman, jazz performer and composer
- Israel Gelfand, mathematician and biologist
- Faye Ginsburg, anthropologist
- Heidi Hartmann, economist
- Bill T. Jones (dancer and choreographer)
- Peter E. Kenmore, agricultural entomologist
- Joseph E. Marshall, educator
- Carolyn McKecuen, economic development leader
- Donella Meadows, writer
- Arthur Mitchell, choreogrpher
- Hugo Morales, radio producer
- Janine Pease, educator
- Willie Reale, theater arts educator
- Adrienne Rich, poet and writer
- Sam-Ang Sam, musician and cultural preservationist
- Jack Wisdom, physicist
[edit] 1995
- Allison Anders, filmmaker
- Jed Z. Buchwald, historian
- Octavia Butler, science fiction novelist
- Sandra Cisneros, writer and poet
- Sandy Close, journalist
- Frederick C. Cuny, disaster relief specialist
- Sharon Emerson, biologist
- Richard Foreman, theater director
- Alma Guillermoprieto, journalist
- Virginia Hamilton, writer
- Donald Hopkins, physician
- Susan W. Kieffer, geologist
- Elizabeth LeCompte, theater director
- Patricia Nelson Limerick, historian
- Michael Marletta, chemist
- Pamela Matson, ecologist
- Susan McClary, musicologist
- Meredith Monk, vocalist, composer, director
- Rosalin P. Petchesky, political scientist
- Joel Rogers, political scientist
- Cindy Sherman, photographer
- Bryan Stevenson, human rights lawyer
- Nicholas Strausfeld, neurobiologist
- Richard White, historian
[edit] 1996
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[edit] 1997
- Luis Alfaro, writer and performance artist
- Lee Breur, playwright
- Vija Celmins, artist
- Eric Charnov, evolutionary biologist
- Elouise Cobell, banker
- Peter Galison, historian
- Mark Harrington, AIDS researcher
- Eva Harris, molecular biologist
- Michael Kremer, economist
- Russel Lande, biologist
- Kerry James Marshall, artist
- Nancy Moran, artist
- Han Ong, playwright
- Kathleen Ross, educator
- Pamela Samuelson, copyright scholar and activist
- Susan Stewart, literary scholar and poet
- Elizabeth Streb, dancer and choreographer
- Trimpin, sound sculptor
- Loïc Wacquant, sociologist
- Kara Walker, artist
- David Foster Wallace, writer and journalist
- Andrew Wiles, mathematician
- Brackette Williams, anthropologist
[edit] 1998
- Janine Antoni, artist
- Ida Applebroog, artist
- Ellen Barry, lawyer
- Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web protocol
- Linda Bierds, poet
- Bernadette Brooten, historian
- John Carlstrom, astrophysicist
- Mike Davis, historian
- Nancy Folbre, economist
- Avner Greif, economist
- Kun-Liang Guan, biochemist
- Gary Hill, artist
- Edward Hirsch, poet, essayist
- Ayesha Jalal, historian
- Charles R. Johnson, writer
- Leah Krubitzer, neuroscientist
- Stewart Kwoh, human rights activist
- Charles Lewis, journalist
- William McDonald, rancher and conservationist
- Peter Miller, historian
- Don Mitchell, cultural geographer
- Rebecca Nelson, plant pathologist
- Elinor Ochs, linguistic anthropologist
- Ishmael Reed, poet, essayist, novelist
- Benjamin D. Santer, atmospheric scientist
- Karl Sims, computer scientist and artist
- Dorothy Thomas, human rights activist
- Leonard Zeskind, human rights activist
- Mary Zimmerman, playwright
[edit] 1999
- Jillian Banfield, geologist
- Carolyn Bertozzi, chemist
- Xu Bing, printmaker
- Bruce G. Blair, policy analyst
- John Bonifaz, election lawyer and voting rights leader
- Shawn Carlson, educator
- Mark Danner, journalist
- Alison L. Des Forges, human rights activist
- Elizabeth Diller, architect
- Saul Friedländer, historian
- Jennifer Gordon, lawyer
- David Hillis, biologist
- Sara Horowitz, lawyer
- Jacqueline Jones, historian
- Laura Kiessling, biochemist
- Leslie Kurke, scholar
- David Levering Lewis, biographer and historian
- Juan Maldacena, physicist
- Gay J. McDougall, human rights lawyer
- Campbell McGrath, poet
- Denny Moore, anthropological linguist
- Elizabeth Murray, artist
- Pepon Osorio, artist
- Ricardo Scofidio, architect
- Peter Shor, computer scientist
- Eva Silverstein, physicist
- Wilma Subra, scientist
- Ken Vandermark, saxophonist, composer
- Naomi Wallace, playwright
- Jeffrey Weeks, mathematician
- Fred Wilson, artist
- Ofelia Zepeda, linguist
[edit] 2000
- Susan E. Alcock, archaeologist
- K. Christopher Beard, paleontologist
- Lucy Blake, conservationist
- Anne Carson, poet
- Peter Hayes, energy policy activist
- David Isay, radio producer
- Alfredo Jaar, photographer
- Ben Katchor, graphic novelist
- Hideo Mabuchi, physicist
- Susan Marshall, choreographer
- Samuel Mockbee, architect
- Cecilia Muñoz, civil rights activist
- Margaret Murnane, optical physicist
- Laura Otis, scholar
- Lucia Perillo, poet
- Matthew Rabin, economist
- Carl Safina, marine conservationist
- Daniel Schrag, geochemist
- Susan Sygall, civil rights leader
- Gina Turrigiano, neuroscientist
- Gary Urton, anthropologist
- Patricia J. Williams, legal scholar
- Deborah Willis, historian of photography
- Erik Winfree, scientist
- Horng-Tzer Yau, mathematician
[edit] 2001
- Danielle Allen, classicist
- Andrea Barrett, writer
- Christopher Chyba, astrobiologist
- Michael Dickinson, fly biologist/bioengineer
- Rosanne Haggerty, housing and community development leader
- Lene Hau, physicist
- Dave Hickey, art critic
- Stephen Hough, pianist
- Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist
- Sandra Lanham, pilot and conservationist
- Todd Martinez, theoretical chemist
- Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, artist
- Cynthia Moss, natural historian
- Dirk Obbink, classicist and papyrologist
- Norman Pace, biochemist
- Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright
- Brooks Pate, physical chemist
- Xiao Qiang, human rights leader
- Geraldine Seydoux, molecular biologist
- Bright Sheng, composer
- David Spergel, astrophysicist
- Jean Strouse, biographer
- Julie Su, human rights lawyer
- David Wilson, creator of The Museum of Jurassic Technology
[edit] 2002
- Bonnie Bassler, molecular biologist
- Ann Blair, intellectual historian
- Katherine Boo, Journalist
- Paul Ginsparg, physicist
- David B. Goldstein, energy conservation specialist
- Karen Hesse, writer
- Janine Jagger, epidemiologist
- Daniel Jurafsky, computer scientist and linguist
- Toba Khedoori, artist
- Liz Lerman, choreographer
- George Lewis, trombonist
- Liza Lou, artist
- Edgar Meyer, bassist and composer
- Jack Miles, writer and Biblical scholar
- Erik Mueggler, anthropologist and ethnographer
- Sendhil Mullainathan, economist
- Stanley Nelson, documentary filmmaker
- Lee Ann Newsom, paleoethnobotanist
- Daniela Rus, computer scientist
- Charles Steidel, astronomer
- Brian Tucker, seismologist
- Camilo José Vergara, photographer
- Paul Wennberg, atmospheric chemist
- Colson Whitehead, writer
[edit] 2003
- Guillermo Algaze, archaeologist
- James J. Collins, biomedical engineer
- Lydia Davis, writer
- Erik Demaine, theoretical computer scientist
- Corinne Dufka, human rights researcher
- Peter Gleick, conservation analyst
- Osvaldo Golijov, composer
- Deborah Jin, physicist
- Angela Johnson, writer
- Tom Joyce, blacksmith
- Sarah H. Kagan, nurse
- Ned Kahn, graphic artist
- Jim Yong Kim, physician
- Nawal Nour, physician
- Loren Rieseberg, botanist
- Amy Rosenzweig, biochemist
- Pedro A. Sanchez, agronomist
- Lateefah Simon, women's advocate
- Peter Sis, illustrator
- Sarah Sze, sculptor
- Eve Troutt Powell, historian
- Anders Winroth, historian
- Daisy Youngblood, ceramic artist
- Xiaowei Zhuang, biophysicist
[edit] 2004
- Guillermo Algaze, anthropologist and archaeologist
- Angela Belcher, materials scientist and engineer
- Gretchen Berland, physician and filmmaker
- James Carpenter, artist
- Joseph DeRisi, Biologist
- Katherine Gottlieb, health care leader
- David Green, technology transfer innovator
- Aleksandar Hemon, writer
- Heather Hurst, archaeological illustrator
- Edward P. Jones, writer
- John Kamm, human rights activist
- Daphne Koller, computer scientist
- Naomi Leonard, engineer
- Tommie Lindsey, school debate coach
- Rueben Martinez, businessman and activist
- Maria Mavroudi, historian
- Vamsi Mootha, clinical molecular biologist
- Judy Pfaff, American sculptor
- Aminah Robinson, artist
- Reginald Robinson, pianist and composer
- Cheryl Rogowski, farmer
- Amy Smith, inventor and mechanical engineer
- Julie Theriot, microbiologist
- C. D. Wright, poet
[edit] 2005
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[edit] 2006
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[edit] References in popular culture
The grant was featured on an episode of the television show Family Guy; the main character, Peter Griffin, attempted to become a MacArthur Fellow but scored so low on the test that he was deemed mentally retarded. In reality, applications are not accepted and no tests are performed. Instead, the foundation selects leaders in their respective fields to nominate and select fellows under confidential conditions.
On an episode of Mad About You, Paul's character receives the call that he had won the "Genius Grant" after his documentary Buckman.
In the televison show Friends, Ross Geller dates a character all of whose ex-boyfriends, save one, are Nobel Prize winners. The only one to not win the Nobel Prize was however, a MacArthur Fellow.
Stephen Colbert talked about the program on the September 20, 2006 episode of The Colbert Report.
The grant was also a key plot point in the film Little Miss Sunshine. Frank (played by Steve Carell) was in contention for the grant vis-a-vis his status as the preeminent Marcel Proust scholar in the United States. His key academic and romantic rival usurps him by receiving the grant and Frank's love interest. This is used to establish the complete failure of his life's ambitions.
