The MacArthur fellowships, awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for “extraordinary originality and dedication,” come with a no-strings-attached award of $625,000, distributed over five years. Here is a complete list of the 2019 fellows.
[Read more about the MacArthur winners.]
Elizabeth Anderson, 59
Philosopher
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Sujatha Baliga, 48
Attorney and restorative justice practitioner
Restorative Justice Project, Impact Justice
Oakland, Calif.
Lynda Barry, 63
Graphic novelist, cartoonist and educator
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wis.
Mel Chin, 67
Artist
Egypt, N.C.
Danielle Citron, 50
Legal scholar
Boston University School of Law
Boston
Lisa Daugaard, 53
Criminal justice reformer
Public Defender Association
Seattle
Annie Dorsen, 45
Theater artist
New York
Andrea Dutton, 46
Geochemist and paleoclimatologist
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wis.
Jeffrey Gibson, 47
Visual artist
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Mary Halvorson, 38
Guitarist and composer
New York
Saidiya Hartman, 58
Literary scholar and cultural historian
Columbia University
New York
Walter Hood, 61
Landscape and public artist
Hood Design Studio; University of California, Berkeley
Oakland, Calif.
Stacy Jupiter, 43
Marine scientist
Wildlife Conservation Society
Suva, Fiji
Zachary Lippman, 41
Plant biologist
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
Valeria Luiselli, 36
Writer
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, 45
Historian
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Sarah Michelson, 55
Choreographer
New York
Jeffrey Alan Miller, 35
Literary scholar
Montclair State University
Montclair, N.J.
Jerry X. Mitrovica, 58
Theoretical geophysicist
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.
Emmanuel Pratt, 42
Urban designer
Sweet Water Foundation
Chicago
Cameron Rowland, 30
Artist
New York
Vanessa Ruta, 45
Neuroscientist
Rockefeller University
New York
Joshua Tenenbaum, 47
Cognitive scientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Mass.
Jenny Tung, 37
Evolutionary anthropologist and geneticist
Duke University
Durham, N.C.
Ocean Vuong, 30
Poet and fiction writer
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, Mass.
Emily Wilson, 47
Classicist and translator
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
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