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 ...

Exploring the political, cultural, and multisensory dimensions of sound, spoken language, and communication. Christine Sun Kim is an artist exploring the political, cultural, and multisensory ...

Designing new materials, atom by atom, that have electrical, magnetic, and optical properties desirable for electronics and improved communication technology. Craig Fennie is a materials scientist ...

Tommy Orange is a fiction writer capturing a diverse range of Native American experiences and lives in novels that traverse time, space, and narrative perspectives. Orange’s novels center his ...

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 ...

Characterizing and engineering viral protein structures to develop vaccines for infectious diseases. Jason McLellan is a structural biologist investigating virus fusion proteins and developing new ...

Foregrounding Indigenous understandings of land and place in maps that visualize Native Peoples’ knowledge, history, and stories. Margaret Wickens Pearce is a cartographer creating maps that ...

The program will advance the well-being of Native communities through deepened relationships. MacArthur today introduced a program on Native self-determination as a step forward in our ongoing ...

Telling stories about the daily lives of contemporary Native Americans with humor and deep affection. Sterlin Harjo is a filmmaker telling stories about the daily lives of contemporary Native ...

Deepening understanding of how the exploitation of enslaved women enabled the institutionalization of race-based slavery in early America and the Black Atlantic. Jennifer L. Morgan is a historian ...

Depression is one of the most common and disabling of psychiatric disorders. According to the World Health Organization, in 1990 it was the fourth highest cause of disability and death worldwide; by ...

Developing tools to reduce false positives and improve confidence in high-dimensional data models. Rina Foygel Barber is a statistician studying the theoretical foundations of formal inference and ...