Bright Sheng received a B.A. (1982) from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, an M.A. (1984) from Queens College, CUNY, and a Ph.D. (1993) from Columbia University. He is the Leonard Bernstein ...

Revealing the human costs of political violence through a compelling blend of history, memory, and imagination. Maaza Mengiste is a fiction writer depicting the moral and personal harms of political ...

In connection with MexiCali Biennial, the PARA/normal Borders Conversation Series of three public events brings together MacArthur Fellows whose work expands our understanding of borders across ...

Awarding unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. Exceptional ...

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Wu Tsang is a filmmaker and performance artist who combines documentary and narrative techniques with fantastical detours into the imaginary in works that explore hidden histories, marginalized ...

Brian Tucker is a seismologist whose work focuses on preventing readily avoidable disasters in the world’s poorest countries by using affordable civil engineering practices. He founded GeoHazards ...

Edwin Hutchins studies human cognition from an anthropological perspective, focusing on the nature of cognitive activity in real-world settings. Hutchins’ interdisciplinary method involves the ...

Chronicling the impacts of inequality and hardship on people and places. Matt Black is a photographer chronicling people and landscapes in marginalized communities across the United States. In ...

Navigating regulatory processes to develop affordable drugs for neglected diseases and to deliver them around the world to those most in need. Victoria Hale is a pharmaceutical chemist who combined ...

Investigating the subtle, complex, largely unconscious yet deeply ingrained ways that individuals racially code and categorize people and the far-reaching consequences of stereotypic associations ...