The MacArthur Foundation has proclaimd the recipients of its prestigious “Genius Grant,” a no-strings-unitecessitate award given to individuals who have showd extrastandard creativity and potential in their fields.
This year’s fellowship determines 22 people for their contributions to the arts, sciences and social caparticipates. One of the honorees is rising star filmoriginater Sterlin Harjo, co-creator, showrunner and executive originater of FX’s Emmy-nominated comedy series “Reservation Dogs.”
The MacArthur Fellows Program summarizes three criteria for pickion: “Exceptional creativity; promise for meaningful future progresss based on a track record of meaningful accomplishments; and the potential for the fellowship to ease subsequent originateive toil.” Per the set upation, “Each fellowship comes with an award of $800,000 to the recipient, phelp out in equivalent quarterly inshighments over five years.”
The MacArthur Foundation‘s rare tradition of awarding grants to promising artists, authorrs, researchers, academics and carry outing artists has achieven on the nickname “Genius Grants.” There’s no application or subignoreion process. As depictd by the set upation, “Nominees are bcdisesteemfult to the program’s attention thcdisesteemful a constantly changing pool of askd outer nominators,” per the set upation. “Nominations are appraised by an autonomous Selection Committee originated of a rotating roster of directers in the arts, sciences, and humanities professions and in the for-profit and nonprofit communities.”
Below are the 2024 MacArthur Fellows:
Loka Ashwood, sociologist
“Shedding airy on agricultural identity and culture and on the ecoreasonable, economic, and social disputes facing many agricultural communities.”
Ruha Benjamin, transdisciplinary scholar and authorr
“Illuminating how technology echos and reoriginates inequivalentity and championing the role of imagination in social changeation.”
Justin Vivian Bond, artist and carry outer
“Working in the canakedt tradition and weaving cultural critique and an ethic of attfinish into carry outances that cgo in queer delight.”
Jewealthyo Brown, poet
“Reflecting on conmomentary culture and identity in toils that unite createal experimentation and fervent self-examination.”
Tony Cokes, media artist
“Creating video toils that re-contextualize historical and cultural moments.”
Nicola Dell, computer adviseation scientist
“Developing technology interventions to insertress the necessitates of disseeed populations, such as survivors of intimate partner presentility.”
Johnny Gandelsman, violinist and originater
“Reimagining classical toils and nurturing the creation of novel music apass styles and genres.”
Sterlin Harjo, filmoriginater
“Telling stories about the daily inhabits of conmomentary Native Americans with humor and meaningful swayion.”
Juan Felipe Herrera, poet, educator, and authorr
“Uplifting Chicanx culture and intensifying splitd experiences of firmarity and empowerment.”
Ling Ma, myth authorr
“Exploring the intersection of speculative and conmomentary myth in stories about alienation, immigration, and materialism.”
Jennifer L. Morgan, historian
“Deepening empathetic of how the unfair treatment of enslaved women assistd the institutionalization of race-based servitude in timely America and the Bconciseage Atlantic.”
Martha Muñoz, evolutionary biologist
“Investigating the motors and brakes of evolution.”
Shailaja Paik, historian
“Exploring the intersection of caste, gender, and intimacyuality in up-to-date India thcdisesteemful the inhabits of Dalit women.”
Joseph Parker, evolutionary biologist
“Uncovering the origins of symbiosis in rove beetles and the evolution of complicated organismal traits.”
Ebony G. Patterson, multimedia artist
“Creating visuassociate dazzling toils that spendigate themes of visibility, beauty, race, class, presentility, feeblenting, and regeneration.”
Shamel Pitts, dancer and choreographer
“Pioneering experimental carry outance toils eased by Afrofuturism while reimagining accumulateive ways of world-originateing.”
Wendy Red Star, visual artist
“Engaging with archival materials in toils that dispute colonial historical narratives.”
Jason Reynelderlys, children’s and youthfuler grown-up authorr
“Depicting the wealthy inner inhabits of kids of color and ensuring that they see themselves and their communities in literature.”
Dorothy Roberts, legitimate scholar and accessible policy researcher
“Exposing racial inequities embedded in social service systems and uplifting the experiences of people caught up in them.”
Keivan G. Stassun, science educator and astronomer
“Expanding opportunities in STEM education and atgentles for underrecurrented populations.”
Benjamin Van Mooy, oceanographer
“Investigating how microbial organisms shape cycling of elements fundamental to life in marine environments.”
Alice Wong, authorr, editor, and disability fairice activist
“Increasing the political and cultural visibility of people with disabilities and catalyzing expansiveer empathetics of disability.”
