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Meet the 1988 MacArthur Fellows

  • Charles Archambeau

    Area of focus: Earth and Environmental Sciences

  • Michael Baxandall

    Area of focus: Art History and Criticism

  • Ruth Behar

    Area of focus: Cultural Anthropology

  • Ran Blake

    Area of focus: Music

  • Charles Burnett

    Area of focus: Photography, Filmmaking, and Television

  • Philip James DeVries

    Area of focus: Ecology and Evolution

  • Andre Dubus

    Area of focus: Fiction

  • Helen T. Edwards

    Area of focus: Physics

  • Jon H. Else

    Area of focus: Photography, Filmmaking, and Television

  • John G. Fleagle

    Area of focus: Biological Anthropology

  • Cornell H. Fleischer

    Area of focus: History

  • Getatchew Haile

    Area of focus: Linguistics

  • Raymond Jeanloz

    Area of focus: Earth and Environmental Sciences

  • Marvin Philip Kahl

    Area of focus: Earth and Environmental Sciences

  • Naomi Pierce

    Area of focus: Ecology and Evolution

  • Thomas Pynchon

    Area of focus: Fiction

  • Stephen J. Pyne

    Area of focus: History

  • Max Roach

    Area of focus: Music

  • Hipolito (Paul) Roldan

    Area of focus: Community Affairs

  • Anna Curtenius Roosevelt

    Area of focus: Archaeology

  • David Alan Rosenberg

    Area of focus: American History

  • Susan Irene Rotroff

    Area of focus: Archaeology

  • Bruce Schwartz

    Area of focus: Theater and Performing Arts

  • Robert S. Shaw

    Area of focus: Computer Science

  • Jonathan Dermot Spence

    Area of focus: History

  • Noel M. Swerdlow

    Area of focus: History and Philosophy of Science

  • Gary A. Tomlinson

    Area of focus: Musicology

  • Alan Walker

    Area of focus: Biological Anthropology

  • Eddie Williams

    Area of focus: Public Policy

  • Rita P. Wright

    Area of focus: Archaeology

  • I. Garth Youngberg

    Area of focus: Agriculture

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June 21, 2012 - Press Release
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Cecilia Conrad to Direct MacArthur Fellows Program

Cecilia Conrad, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Pomona College, has been selected to serve as the next Director of the MacArthur Fellows Program. An economist, Dr. Conrad conducts research on economic inequality. Read More
October 2, 2012 - Press Release
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23 MacArthur Fellows Announced

MacArthur named 23 new MacArthur Fellows for 2012. Working across a broad spectrum of endeavors, the Fellows include a pediatric neurosurgeon, a marine ecologist, a journalist, a photographer, an optical physicist and astronomer, a stringed-instrument bow ... Read More