MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the Genius Award) is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 United States citizens or residents, of any age and working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work."

According to the Foundation's website, "the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishment, but rather an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential." The current amount of the award is $500,000, paid as quarterly installments over five years. As of 2007, there have been 756 recipients who have received a total of more than $350 million.

The Fellowship has no application. People are nominated anonymously by a body of nominators who submit recommendations to a small selection committee of about a dozen people, also anonymous. The committee then reviews every nominee and passes along their recommendations to the President and the board of directors. Most new MacArthur Fellows first learn that they have even been considered when they receive the congratulatory phone call. An editorial published in The New York Times by MacArthur Fellow James Collins describes the experience. [1]

Contents

List of MacArthur Fellows

MacArthur Fellows organized by the year of their awards:

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

  • Max Roach, percussionist and jazz composer
  • Hipolito (Paul) Roldan, community developer
  • Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, archaeologist
  • David Alan Rosenberg, military historian
  • Susan Irene Rotroff, archaeologist
  • Bruce Schwartz, figurative sculptor and puppeteer
  • Robert Shaw, physicist
  • Jonathan Spence, historian
  • Noel M. Swerdlow, historian of science
  • Gary A. Tomlinson, musicologist
  • Alan Walker, paleontologist
  • Eddie Williams, policy analyst and civil rights leader
  • Rita P. Wright, archaeologist
  • Garth Youngberg, agriculturalist[12]

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

  • Jane Lubchenco, marine biologist
  • Ruth Lubic, nurse / midwife
  • Jim Powell, poet and translator
  • Margie Profet, evolutionary biologist
  • Thomas Scanlon, philosopher
  • Aaron Shirley, health care leader
  • William Siemering, journalist and radio producer
  • Ellen Silbergeld, toxicologist
  • Leonard van der Kuijp, philologist and historian
  • Frank von Hippel, arms control and energy analyst
  • John Wideman, writer
  • Heather Williams, biologist and ornithologist
  • Marion Williams, gospel music performer
  • Robert H. Williams, physicist and energy analyst
  • Henry T. Wright, archaeologist and anthropologist[17]

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

References

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  2. ^ The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. "MacArthur Fellows June 1981". http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142675/k.24F6/Fellows_List__June_1981.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-02. 
  3. ^ The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. "MacArthur Fellows December 1981". http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1139463/k.738A/Fellows_List__December_1981.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-02. 
  4. ^ The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. "MacArthur Fellows August 1982". http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1139465/k.79DA/Fellows_List__August_1982.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-02. 
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  7. ^ The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. "MacArthur Fellows March 1984". http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142681/k.5724/Fellows_List__March_1984.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-02. 
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