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Explore Our Grantmaking

Meet the 1999 MacArthur Fellows

Jillian Banfield

Area of focus: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Carolyn Bertozzi

Area of focus: Chemistry
Xu Bing

Area of focus: Crafts and Design
Bruce G. Blair

Area of focus: International Security
John C. Bonifaz

Area of focus: Human Rights
Shawn Carlson

Area of focus: Education
Mark Danner

Area of focus: Journalism
Alison L. Des Forges

Area of focus: Human Rights
Elizabeth Diller

Area of focus: Architecture
Saul Friedlander

Area of focus: History
Jennifer Gordon

Area of focus: Labor
David M. Hillis

Area of focus: Ecology and Evolution
Sara Horowitz

Area of focus: Labor
Jacqueline Jones

Area of focus: American History
Laura L. Kiessling

Area of focus: Chemistry
Leslie V. Kurke

Area of focus: Classics
David Levering Lewis

Area of focus: Biography
Juan Martin Maldacena

Area of focus: Physics
Gay J. McDougall

Area of focus: Human Rights
Campbell McGrath

Area of focus: Poetry
Dennis A. Moore

Area of focus: Linguistics
Elizabeth Murray

Area of focus: Visual Arts
Pepon Osorio

Area of focus: Visual Arts
Ricardo Scofidio

Area of focus: Architecture
Peter W. Shor

Area of focus: Computer Science
Eva Silverstein

Area of focus: Physics
Wilma Alpha Subra

Area of focus: Public Health and Medicine
Ken Vandermark

Area of focus: Music
Naomi Wallace

Area of focus: Theater and Performing Arts
Jeffrey R. Weeks

Area of focus: Mathematics
Fred Wilson

Area of focus: Visual Arts
Ofelia Zepeda

Area of focus: Linguistics