Ruth Behar

Ruth Behar

female, 53 years old
Latin Americanist, Anthropology writer, Anthropology educator, Princeton University alumni, University of Michigan faculty, Wesleyan University alumni…MacArthurFellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellow
Ruth Behar (born Havana, Cuba, 1956) is a Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of Michigan. After...
Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton

male, 70 years old
Harvard University Library, Harvard University, rhodes scholar, European history, Légion d'honneur recipient, American Historical Association…MacArthurFellowship, MacArthur Fellow
Robert Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on eighteenth century France. He graduated...
Lester R. Brown

Lester R. Brown

male, 75 years old
worldwatch institute, Humanist, Earth Policy Institute, MacArthurFellowship, Nonprofit, non-profit organization
Lester Russell Brown (born 1934) is an environmental analyst who has written several books on global environmental issues. He is the founder of the...
James Alan McPherson

James Alan McPherson

male, 66 years old
Harvard Law School alumni, Savannah, University of California, Santa Cruz, MacArthurFellowship, The Best American Essays, MacArthur Fellows Program…MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellowship
James Alan McPherson (born September 16, 1943 in Savannah, Georgia) is a United States short story writer and essayist, and a recipient of the...

David Stuart

male, 44 years old
University of Texas, Austin, mesoamerica, pre-Columbian, Maya civilization, mayanist…MacArthurFellowship
Dr. David Stuart (b. 1965) is a Mayanist scholar and Professor of Mesoamerican Art and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. He began...
Maria Mavroudi

Maria Mavroudi

female
Harvard University, professor, MacArthur Fellow, Academic, philology, byzantium…MacArthurFellowship
Fluent in both classical Greek and Arabic, Dr. Maria Mavroudi is a history professor at University of California, Berkeley. After earning her...

Jack Wisdom

male
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy, H. C. Urey Prize, dynamics, MacArthurFellowship, planetary science…macarthur foundation, MacArthur Fellow
Jack Wisdom is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D from Caltech in 1981. His...
Daniel Jurafsky

Daniel Jurafsky

male
Stanford University, MacArthur Fellow, Non-fiction writer, linguistics, MacArthurFellowship, American
Daniel Jurafsky is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at Stanford University. With James Martin, he wrote the textbook Speech and Language...
Robert Root-Bernstein

Robert Root-Bernstein

male, 56 years old (East Lansing, Michigan, United States)
Princeton University, AIDS, Michigan State University faculty, Rethinking AIDS, hiv, American…MacArthur Fellow, MacArthurFellowship, former MacArthur Fellow
Professor Robert Root-Bernstein (b. August 7, 1953) (PhD, Princeton University) is a professor of life sciences at Michigan State University. In...
William Cronon

William Cronon

male, 55 years old
Bancroft Prize, Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford, Jesus College, Oxford, Uncommon ground toward reinventing nature, environmental historian, environmental history…MacArthurFellowship, MacArthur Fellow
William Cronon (September 11, 1954 -) is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies...