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This list organizes current and previous recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship based on areas of principal focus. It is intended solely to provide a sense of the range and breadth of their activities collectively. The selection process considers each nominee's creative efforts as a whole, not just with respect to their contributions to a particular discipline or field. Because MacArthur Fellows often cross disciplinary boundaries, readers should not interpret a specific entry as fully descriptive or infer that nominees are chosen on the basis of their fit within any of the categories on this list. There is no such thing as a MacArthur Fellow “in” a specific field.
Susan Alcock
Archaeologist
Guillermo Algaze
Anthropologist and Archaeologist
Joan Breton Connelly
Archaeologist
Ian Graham
Archaeologist
Heather Hurst
Archaeological Illustrator
Heather Nan Lechtman
Materials Scientist and Archaeologist
Peter Mathews
Archaeologist and Epigrapher
Jennifer Alice Moody
Archaeologist and Anthropologist
Anna Curtenius Roosevelt
Archaeologist
Susan Irene Rotroff
Archaeologist
J. Richard Steffy
Nautical Archaeologist
Henry T. Wright
Archaeologist and Anthropologist
Rita P. Wright
Archaeologist
Ruth Behar
Cultural Anthropologist
Jared M. Diamond
Environmental Historian and Physiologist
Shelly Errington
Cultural Anthropologist
Steven Feld
Anthropologist and Ethnomusicologist
Faye D. Ginsburg
Anthropologist
Shirley Brice Heath
Anthropological Linguist
Stephen Houston Anthropologist
Erik Mueggler
Anthropologist and Ethnographer
Alfonso Ortiz
Cultural Anthropologist
Sherry B. Ortner
Anthropologist
Lawrence Rosen
Attorney and Anthropologist
Gary Urton
Anthropologist
Brackette F. Williams
Anthropology
Eric Wolf
Anthropologist
Esther Duflo Economist
Nancy Folbre
Economist
Avner Greif
Economist and Historian of Economics
Heidi I. Hartmann
Economist
Michael Robert Kremer
Economist
Sendhil Mullainathan
Economist
Kevin Murphy
Economist
Michael J. Piore
Economist
Matthew Rabin
Economist
Alice M. Rivlin
Economist and Policy Analyst
Charles F. Sabel
Political Scientist and Legal Scholar
Michael Woodford
Economist
Christopher Beckwith
Philologist
Nora C. England
Anthropological Linguist
Getatchew Haile
Philologist and Linguist
Dennis A. Moore
Anthropological Linguist
Elinor R. Ochs
Linguistic Anthropologist
Michael Silverstein
Linguist
David Stuart
Linguist and Epigrapher
Ofelia Zepeda
Linguist and Cultural Preservationist
Fouad Ajami
Political Scientist
Danielle Allen
Classicist and Political Scientist
Robert Axelrod
Political Scientist
Seweryn Bialer
Political Scientist
Alexander George
Political Scientist
Robert Coles
Child Psychiatrist
Howard Gardner
Psychologist
Edwin Hutchins
Cognitive Scientist
Bela Julesz
Psychologist
Vonnie C. McLoyd
Developmental Psychologist
Kay Redfield Jamison
Psychologist
Jennifer Richeson
Social Psychologist
David Rumelhart
Cognitive Scientist and Psychologist
Jonathan Shay
Clinical Psychiatrist and Classicist
Amos Tversky
Cognitive Psychologist
Rogers Brubaker
Sociologist
Michael Ryan Davis
Historian
Robert K. Merton
Historian and Sociologist of Science
Donald M. Mitchell
Cultural Geographer
Michael S. Schudson
Sociologist
Loic Wacquant
Sociologist
William Julius Wilson
Sociology
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