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Each year, the MacArthur Foundation selects between 20-30 recipients for the five-year, $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship. Between June 1981 and September 2012, 873 Fellows have been named from a range of disciplines. Past recipients have been writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, entrepreneurs, farmers, and fishermen, among many others.

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MacArthur Fellow

Now showing "July 1996"

  • J. Roger Angel

    Area of focus: Astronomy

  • Joaquin Avila

    Area of focus: Human Rights

  • Allan Bérubé

    Area of focus: American History

  • Barbara Block

    Area of focus: Biology

  • Joan Breton Connelly

    Area of focus: Archaeology

  • Thomas L. Daniel

    Area of focus: Biology

  • Martin Daniel Eakes

    Area of focus: Community Affairs

  • Rebecca Goldstein

    Area of focus: Fiction

  • Robert Greenstein

    Area of focus: Public Policy

  • Richard Howard

    Area of focus: Poetry

  • John Jesurun

    Area of focus: Theater and Performing Arts

  • Richard E. Lenski

    Area of focus: Biology

  • Louis Massiah

    Area of focus: Photography, Filmmaking, and Television

  • Vonnie C. McLoyd

    Area of focus: Psychology and Cognitive Science

  • Thylias Moss

    Area of focus: Poetry

  • Eiko And Koma Otake

    Area of focus: Choreography and Dance

  • Nathan Seiberg

    Area of focus: Physics

  • Anna Deavere Smith

    Area of focus: Theater and Performing Arts

  • Dorothy Stoneman

    Area of focus: Economic Development

  • William E. Strickland Jr.

    Area of focus: Economic Development

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June 21, 2012 - Press Release
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Cecilia Conrad to Direct MacArthur Fellows Program

Cecilia Conrad, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Pomona College, has been selected to serve as the next Director of the MacArthur Fellows Program. An economist, Dr. Conrad conducts research on economic inequality. Read More
October 2, 2012 - Press Release
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23 MacArthur Fellows Announced

MacArthur named 23 new MacArthur Fellows for 2012. Working across a broad spectrum of endeavors, the Fellows include a pediatric neurosurgeon, a marine ecologist, a journalist, a photographer, an optical physicist and astronomer, a stringed-instrument bow ... Read More