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Meet the 1988 MacArthur Fellows

  • Charles Archambeau

    Area of focus: Earth and Environmental Sciences

  • Michael Baxandall

    Area of focus: Art History and Criticism

  • Ruth Behar

    Area of focus: Cultural Anthropology

  • Ran Blake

    Area of focus: Music

  • Charles Burnett

    Area of focus: Photography, Filmmaking, and Television

  • Philip James DeVries

    Area of focus: Ecology and Evolution

  • Andre Dubus

    Area of focus: Fiction

  • Helen T. Edwards

    Area of focus: Physics

  • Jon H. Else

    Area of focus: Photography, Filmmaking, and Television

  • John G. Fleagle

    Area of focus: Biological Anthropology

  • Cornell H. Fleischer

    Area of focus: History

  • Getatchew Haile

    Area of focus: Linguistics

  • Raymond Jeanloz

    Area of focus: Earth and Environmental Sciences

  • Marvin Philip Kahl

    Area of focus: Earth and Environmental Sciences

  • Naomi Pierce

    Area of focus: Ecology and Evolution

  • Thomas Pynchon

    Area of focus: Fiction

  • Stephen J. Pyne

    Area of focus: History

  • Max Roach

    Area of focus: Music

  • Hipolito (Paul) Roldan

    Area of focus: Community Affairs

  • Anna Curtenius Roosevelt

    Area of focus: Archaeology

  • David Alan Rosenberg

    Area of focus: American History

  • Susan Irene Rotroff

    Area of focus: Archaeology

  • Bruce Schwartz

    Area of focus: Theater and Performing Arts

  • Robert S. Shaw

    Area of focus: Computer Science

  • Jonathan Dermot Spence

    Area of focus: History

  • Noel M. Swerdlow

    Area of focus: History and Philosophy of Science

  • Gary A. Tomlinson

    Area of focus: Musicology

  • Alan Walker

    Area of focus: Biological Anthropology

  • Eddie Williams

    Area of focus: Public Policy

  • Rita P. Wright

    Area of focus: Archaeology

  • I. Garth Youngberg

    Area of focus: Agriculture

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