Dear Commons Community,

The MacArthur Fellowships were announced yesterday. They are awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for “extraordinary originality and dedication” and come with a no-strings-attached award of $625,000, distributed over five years. This year’s fellows include artists, writers, scientists, college professors, urban designers, and community activists. Below is a complete list of the 2019 fellows.

Congratulations to all!

Tony

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Elizabeth Anderson, 59

Philosopher

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Mich.

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Sujatha Baliga, 48

Attorney and restorative justice practitioner

Restorative Justice Project, Impact Justice

Oakland, Calif.

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Lynda Barry, 63

Graphic novelist, cartoonist and educator

University of Wisconsin

Madison, Wis.

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Mel Chin, 67

Artist

Egypt, N.C.

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Danielle Citron, 50

Legal scholar

Boston University School of Law

Boston

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Lisa Daugaard, 53

Criminal justice reformer

Public Defender Association

Seattle

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Annie Dorsen, 45

Theater artist

New York

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Andrea Dutton, 46

Geochemist and paleoclimatologist

University of Wisconsin

Madison, Wis.

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Jeffrey Gibson, 47

Visual artist

Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.

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Mary Halvorson, 38

Guitarist and composer

New York

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Saidiya Hartman, 58

Literary scholar and cultural historian

Columbia University

New York

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Walter Hood, 61

Landscape and public artist

Hood Design Studio; University of California, Berkeley

Oakland, Calif.

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Stacy Jupiter, 43

Marine scientist

Wildlife Conservation Society

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Suva, Fiji

Zachary Lippman, 41

Plant biologist

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.

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Valeria Luiselli, 36

Writer

Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.

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Kelly Lytle Hernandez, 45

Historian

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles

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Sarah Michelson, 55

Choreographer

New York

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Jeffrey Alan Miller, 35

Literary scholar

Montclair State University

Montclair, N.J.

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Jerry X. Mitrovica, 58

Theoretical geophysicist

Harvard University

Cambridge, Mass.

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Emmanuel Pratt, 42

Urban designer

Sweet Water Foundation

Chicago

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Cameron Rowland, 30

Artist

New York

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Vanessa Ruta, 45

Neuroscientist

Rockefeller University

New York

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Joshua Tenenbaum, 47

Cognitive scientist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Mass.

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Jenny Tung, 37

Evolutionary anthropologist and geneticist

Duke University

Durham, N.C.

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Ocean Vuong, 30

Poet and fiction writer

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Amherst, Mass.

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Emily Wilson, 47

Classicist and translator

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia