List of recipients of MacArthur Fellowships

This is a list of recipients of MacArthur Fellowships. Fellowships, often described as "genius awards", are made annually by the The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, each with a term of five years.

Table of contents

1 Notable recipients 2 Current recipients 2.1 October 2003 through September 2008 2.2 September 2002 through August 2007 2.3 October 2001 through September 2006 2.4 July 2000 through June 2005 2.5 July 1999 through June 2004 3 External links

Notable recipients

• Joan Abrahamson
• Fouad Ajami
• John Ashbery
• Milton Babbitt
• John F. Benton
• Paul Berman
• Tim Berners-Lee
• R. Stephen Berry
• Allan Bérubé
• Harold Bloom
• Taylor Branch
• Joseph Brodsky
• Lester R. Brown
• Octavia Butler
• Patricia Smith Churchland
• Robert Coles
• Ernesto J. Cortes, Jr
• Stanley Crouch
• Jacques d'Amboise
• Persi Diaconis
• Jared M. Diamond
• Andre Dubus
• Paul R. Ehrlich
• Mitchell J. Feigenbaum
• William Gaddis
• Ernest J. Gaines
• Howard Gardner
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr
• Guillermo Gómez-Peña
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Alma Guillermoprieto
• James E. Gunn
• Virginia Hamilton
• Ira Herskowitz
• Irving Howe
• Ada Louise Huxtable
• Bill Irwin
• Robert W. Irwin
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• Charles Johnson
• Bill T. Jones
• Stuart Kauffman
• William Kennedy
• Ali Akbar Khan
• Michael Lerner
• Andrew W. Lewis
• Cormac McCarthy
• Barbara McClintock
• James McPherson
• Ved Mehta
• Susan Meiselas
• Robert K. Merton
• Meredith Monk
• Robert Parris Moses
• Richard A. Muller
• Patrick F. Noonan
• Marcel Ophuls
• Elaine H. Pagels
• Naomi Pierce
• Thomas Pynchon
• Stephen J. Pyne
• A. K. Ramanujan
• Arnold Rampersad
• James Randi
• Ishmael Reed
• Max Roach
• Richard Rorty
• Tina Rosenberg
• Kathleen A. Ross
• Benjamin D. Santer
• John Sayles
• Peter Sellars
• Robert Shapley
• Susan Sontag
• Richard Stallman
• Cecil Taylor
• Julie Taymor
• Twyla Tharp
• Amos Tversky
• Derek Walcott
• Robert Penn Warren
• John Edgar Wideman
• Andrew Wiles
• Allan C. Wilson
• William Julius Wilson
• Stephen Wolfram
• Charles Wuorinen

Current recipients

List of MacArthur Fellows organized by terms of their awards.

October 2003 through September 2008

• Guillermo Algaze, archaeologist
• James J. Collins, biomedical engineer
• Lydia Davis, writer
• Erik Demaine, mathematician
• Corinne Dufka, human rights researcher
• Peter Gleick, conservation analyst
• Osvaldo Golijov, composer
• Deborah Jin, physicist
• Angela Johnson, writer
• Tom Joyce, blacksmith
• Sarah H. Kagan, nurse
• Ned Kahn, graphic artist
• Jim Yong Kim, physician
• Nawal Nour, physician
• Loren Rieseberg, botanist
• Amy Rosenzweig, biochemist
• Pedro A. Sanchez, agronomist
• Lateefah Simon, women's advocate
• Peter Sis, illustrator
• Sarah Sze, sculptor
• Eve Troutt Powell, historian
• Anders Winroth, historian
• Daisy Youngblood, ceramic artist
• Xiaowei Zhuang, biophysicist

September 2002 through August 2007

• Bonnie Bassler
• Ann Blair
• Katherine Boo
• Paul Ginsparg
• David B. Goldstein
• Karen Hesse
• Janine Jagger
• Daniel Jurafsky
• Toba Khedoori
• Liz Lerman
• George Lewis
• Liza Lou
• Edgar Meyer
• Jack Miles
• Erik Mueggler
• Sendhil Mullainathan
• Stanley Nelson
• Lee Ann Newsom
• Daniela Rus
• Charles Steidel
• Brian Tucker
• Camilo José Vergara
• Paul Wennberg
• Colson Whitehead

October 2001 through September 2006

• Danielle Allen
• Andrea Barrett
• Christopher Chyba
• Michael Dickinson
• Rosanne Haggerty
• Lene Hau
• Dave Hickey
• Stephen Hough
• Kay Redfield Jamison
• Sandra Lanham
• Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
• Cynthia Moss
• Dirk Obbink
• Norman Pace
• Suzan-Lori Parks
• Brooks Pate
• Xiao Qiang
• Geraldine Seydoux
• Bright Sheng
• David Spergel
• Jean Strouse
• Julie Su
• David Wilson (US)

July 2000 through June 2005

• Susan E. Alcock
• K. Christopher Beard
• Lucy Blake
• Anne Carson
• Peter Hayes
• David Isay
• Alfredo Jaar
• Ben Katchor
• Hideo Mabuchi
• Susan Marshall
• Samuel Mockbee
• Cecilia Muñoz
• Margaret Murnane
• Laura Otis
• Lucia Perillo
• Matthew Rabin
• Carl Safina
• Daniel Schrag
• Susan Sygall
• Gina Turrigiano
• Gary Urton
• Patricia J. Williams
• Deborah Willis
• Erik Winfree
• Horng-Tzer Yau

July 1999 through June 2004

• Jillian Banfield
• Carolyn Bertozzi
• Xu Bing
• Bruce Blair
• John Bonifaz
• Shawn Carlson
• Mark Danner
• Alison Des Forges
• Elizabeth Diller
• Saul Friedländer
• Jennifer Gordon
• David Hillis
• Sara Horowitz
• Jacqueline Jones
• Laura Kiessling
• Leslie Kurke
• David Levering Lewis
• Juan Maldacena
• Gay J. McDougall
• Campbell McGrath
• Denny Moore
• Elizabeth Murray
• Pepon Osorio
• Ricardo Scofidio
• Peter Shor
• Eva Silverstein
• Wilma Subra
• Ken Vandermark
• Naomi Wallace
• Jeffrey Weeks
• Fred Wilson
• Ofelia Zepeda

External links

• MacArthur Fellows announcement