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.
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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