MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners for 2020: The Full List
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/arts/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-list.html Version 0 of 1. 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 2020 fellows. [Read more about the MacArthur winners.] Isaiah Andrews, 34 Econometrician Harvard University Cambridge, Mass. Tressie McMillan Cottom, 43 Sociologist, writer and public scholar University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Paul Dauenhauer, 39 Chemical engineer University of Minnesota Minneapolis Nels Elde, 47 Evolutionary geneticist University of Utah Salt Lake City Damien Fair, 44 Cognitive neuroscientist University of Minnesota Medical School Minneapolis Larissa FastHorse, 49 Playwright Santa Monica, Calif. Catherine Coleman Flowers, 62 Environmental health advocate Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice Montgomery, Ala. Mary L. Gray, 51 Anthropologist and media scholar Microsoft Research Cambridge, Mass. N. K. Jemisin, 48 Speculative-fiction writer New York Ralph Lemon, 68 Artist Cross Performance Inc. New York Polina V. Lishko, 46 Cellular and developmental biologist University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, Calif. Thomas Wilson Mitchell, 55 Property law scholar Texas A&M University School of Law Fort Worth Natalia Molina, 49 American historian University of Southern California Los Angeles Fred Moten, 58 Cultural theorist and poet New York University New York Cristina Rivera Garza, 56 Fiction writer University of Houston Houston Cécile McLorin Salvant, 31 Singer and composer New York Monika Schleier-Smith, 37 Experimental physicist Stanford University Stanford, Calif. Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost, 41 Biological chemist Princeton University Princeton, N.J. Forrest Stuart, 38 Sociologist Stanford University Stanford, Calif. Nanfu Wang, 34 Documentary filmmaker Montclair, N.J. Jacqueline Woodson, 57 Writer New York |