MacArthur Fellows

Expanding the potential of vocal and orchestral music to convey emotional, dramatic, and literary meaning

Redefining the role of the artwork and the artist by melding artistic, curatorial, archival, editorial, and activist practices into a new form of cultural production

Building broad-based fusion coalitions as part of a moral movement to confront racial and economic inequality

Using the principles of soft matter physics and cell biology to illuminate novel mechanisms of cellular compartmentalization that drive biological development

Drawing on her experience as a Mojave American and Latina to challenge the mythological and cultural touchstones underlying American society

Developing mass spectrometry-based methods to differentiate more quickly and accurately diseased from healthy tissues during surgery

Designing open-source platforms that leverage mobile devices and data to address socio-technological challenges such as personal health management

Formulating robust empirical methods to illuminate the hidden complexities of health care policy and provide data-driven guidance for future innovations in theory and practice

Working at the intersection of human rights and public health research and practice to address inequities in global health

Providing musical enrichment and valuable human connection to the homeless, incarcerated, and other under-resourced communities in Los Angeles

Mobilizing the resources of law schools and law firms to defend the rights of refugees and improve protection outcomes for many of the world’s most at-risk populations

Creating a model of grassroots collective action that enables individuals facing incarceration, their families, and their communities to play an active role in their defense

Highlighting the lack of representation of people of color in the canon of Western art with works that deconstruct the literal and visual structure of the artwork

Exploring the impact of historical narratives on contemporary lives and re-imagining the history of the Americas from the perspective of suppressed voices

Pushing the boundaries of literary fiction in works that combine the surreal and fantastical with the concerns and emotional realism of contemporary life

Examining the intersection of choice and circumstance in works that portray individuals and communities grappling with economic and social changes

Making visible the interior lives of women whose stories of resistance and resilience have been left out of dominant cultural narratives

Advancing the scientific understanding of gender and shedding light on the social and cognitive development of transgender and gender-nonconforming youth

Exploring the global reach of information technology infrastructures and the cultural, political, and humanitarian implications of the flow of information

Promoting a new, evidence-based approach to increasing access to civil justice for low-income communities

Applying probability theory to resolve long-standing problems in statistical physics and computer science

Advancing new theories of how celestial collisions give birth to planets and their natural satellites, such as the Earth and Moon

Creating new conceptual and visual vocabularies for exploring hidden histories and marginalized narratives in works that collapse the boundaries between documentary and fiction

Uncovering the fundamental neural principles that underlie one of the primate brain’s most astonishing capabilities: perception of the visual world

Revealing the human and environmental toll of natural resource extraction in West Virginia and spurring greater accountability among public and private stakeholders