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October 13, 2023 1:00 PM   Subscribe

The MacArthur Foundation recently announced the 2023 MacArthur Fellows. Even the short video introductions (2023 Fellows in 90 seconds, 2023 Fellows in 3 minutes) fill me with joy. Working in varied endeavors - statistics, jazz, law, fiction, anthropology, hula, poetry, biology, painting - these individuals give us new ways to see and understand our shared world. The MacArthur Fellows Program at Wikipedia.

This year's fellows:

E. Tendayi Achiume, Legal Scholar
Andrea Armstrong, Incarceration Law Scholar
Rina Foygel Barber, Statistician
Ian Bassin, Lawyer and Democracy Advocate
Courtney Bryan, Composer and Pianist
Jason D. Buenrostro, Cellular and Molecular Biologist
María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Multidisciplinary Artist
Raven Chacon, Composer and Artist
Diana Greene Foster, Demographer and Reproductive Health Researcher
Lucy Hutyra, Environmental Ecologist
Carolyn Lazard, Artist
Ada Limón, Poet
Lester Mackey, Computer Scientist and Statistician
Patrick Makuakāne, Kumu Hula and Cultural Preservationist
Linsey Marr, Environmental Engineer
Manuel Muñoz, Fiction Writer
Imani Perry, Interdisciplinary Scholar and Writer
Dyani White Hawk, Multidisciplinary Artist
A. Park Williams, Hydroclimatologist
Amber Wutich, Anthropologist

Previously 2022. Previously 2010.
posted by kristi (3 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
Linsey Marr! That is way cool.
posted by LobsterMitten at 6:13 PM on October 13, 2023 [1 favorite]


I’m always so inspired by this list. Thanks for posting.
posted by Miko at 6:44 PM on October 13, 2023


Ada Limón! Excuse to link my favorite poem, but she's got lots of great stuff.


Nice to see reproductive health research and legal work on democracy and incarceration also getting recognized.
posted by the primroses were over at 1:31 PM on October 14, 2023


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