2022 MacArthur Fellows
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The Macarthur Foundation picked an additional twenty-five 2022 Macarthur Fellows.[1] Selection is sometimes called a "genius grant" as those picked are regarded as the top of their fields, and a fellowship comes with a no-strings-attached cash stipend, of $800,000.[2]
| name | notes |
|---|---|
| Jennifer Carlson | studied "gun culture" in America.[1][2][3] |
| Paul Chan | an artist[1][2][4] |
| Yejin Choi | uses computational linguistics to detect frauds.[1][2] |
| P. Gabrielle Foreman | a historian who documented on 19th centure black history.[1][2] |
| Danna Freedman | a synthetic inorganic chemist.[1][2] |
| Martha Gonzalez | a musician and scholar.[1][2] |
| Sky Hopinka | an artist[1][2] |
| June Huh | a mathematician.[1][2] |
| Moriba Jah | advocates for conserving Earth’s orbit, as a finite natural resource.[1][2] |
| Jenna Jambeck | investigates the scale and pathways of plastic pollution.[1][2] |
| Monica Kim | a historian.[1][2] |
| Robin Wall Kimmerer | a plant ecologist known for integrating the body of knowledge cultivated by Indigenous peoples into modern practics[1][2] |
| Priti Krishtel | a lawyer working to reform how drug patents are issued, which will prevent price gouging and make medications more affordable.[1][2] |
| Joseph Drew Lanham | an ornithologist and naturalist.[1][2] |
| Kiese Laymon | a writer.[1][2] |
| Reuben Jonathan Miller | a sociologist, criminologist and social worker.[1][2] |
| Ikue Mori | a musician credited with changing how percussion was used in modern music[1][2] |
| Steven Prohira | a particle physicist[1][2] |
| Tomeka Reid | a jazz composer[1][2] |
| Loretta J. Ross | works to combat "cancel culture".[1][2] |
| Steven Ruggles | a demographer who built the world’s largest publicly available database of population statistics.[1][2] |
| Tavares Strachan | an artist[1][2] |
| Emily Wang | a primary-care physician and researcher..[1][2] |
| Amanda Williams | An artist who had an installation at the Museum of Modern Art in 2021.[1][2] |
| Melanie Matchett Wood | a mathematician.[1][2] |
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 Matt Stevens (2022-10-12). "MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New ‘Genius’ Grant Winners". New York Times: p. C2. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/arts/macarthur-foundation-genius-grant-winners.html. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 Elizabeth Blair (2022-10-12). "An ornithologist, a cellist and a human rights activist: the 2022 MacArthur Fellows". National Public Radio. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/12/1128352140/2022-macarthur-fellows-genius-grants. Retrieved 2022-10-15. "It's also a sweet cash prize. This year's 25 MacArthur Fellows will each receive $800,000, a 'no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential,' according to the MacArthur Foundation website."
- ↑ "Jennifer Carlson, Sociologist: Class of 2022". Macarthur Foundation. https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2022/jennifer-carlson#searchresults. Retrieved 2022-10-15. "Jennifer Carlson is a sociologist reconfiguring our understanding of gun culture in the United States. Through ethnographic research with gun owners, educators, and sellers; law enforcement; and state licensing bodies, Carlson investigates the motivations and assumptions that drive gun culture."
- ↑ "Paul Chan, Artist: Class of 2022". Macarthur Foundation. https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2022/paul-chan. Retrieved 2022-10-15. "Paul Chan is an artist striving to express humanity’s complexities and contradictions through an artistic practice that moves across media. He makes drawings, sculptures, and digital projections; writes essays on culture and history; ran a publishing enterprise; and staged a play."
