Sociologist. Artist. Digital Humanist. Musician. Activista. Historian...
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"The 2022 MacArthur Fellows are architects of new modes of activism, artistic practice, and citizen science. They are excavators uncovering what has been overlooked, undervalued, or poorly understood. They are archivists reminding us of what should survive."
The 25 MacArthur Fellows for 2022 explore the world in an extraordinary range of disciplines:
Jennifer Carlson, Sociologist: Uncovering the motivations, assumptions, and social forces that drive gun ownership and shape gun culture in the United States.
Paul Chan, Artist: Testing the capacity of art to make human experience available for critical reflection and to effect social change.
Yejin Choi, Computer Scientist: Using natural language processing to develop artificial intelligence systems that can understand language and make inferences about the world.
P. Gabrielle Foreman, Literary Historian and Digital Humanist: Catalyzing inquiry into historic nineteenth-century collective Black organizing efforts through initiatives such as the Colored Conventions Project.
Danna Freedman, Synthetic Inorganic Chemist: Creating novel molecular materials with unique properties directly relevant to quantum information technologies.
Martha Gonzalez, Musician, Scholar, and Artist/Activist: Strengthening cross-border ties and advancing participatory methods of artistic knowledge production in the service of social justice.
Sky Hopinka, Artist and Filmmaker: Combining imagery and language in films and videos that offer new strategies of representation for the expression of Indigenous worldviews.
June Huh, Mathematician: Discovering underlying connections between disparate areas of mathematics and proving long-standing mathematical conjectures.
Moriba Jah, Astrodynamicist: Envisioning transparent and collaborative solutions for creating a circular space economy that improves oversight of Earth’s orbital spheres.
Jenna Jambeck, Environmental Engineer: Investigating the scale and pathways of plastic pollution and galvanizing efforts to address plastic waste.
Monica Kim, Historian: Examining the interplay between U.S. foreign policy, military intervention, processes of decolonization, and individual rights in regional settings around the globe.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Plant Ecologist, Educator, and Writer: Articulating an alternative vision of environmental stewardship informed by traditional ecological knowledge.
Priti Krishtel, Health Justice Lawyer: Exposing the inequities in the patent system to increase access to affordable, life-saving medications on a global scale.
Joseph Drew Lanham, Ornithologist, Naturalist, and Writer: Creating a new model of conservation that combines conservation science with personal, historical, and cultural narratives of nature.
Kiese Laymon, Writer: Bearing witness to the myriad forms of violence that mark the Black experience in formally inventive fiction and nonfiction.
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Sociologist, Criminologist, and Social Worker: Tracing the long-term consequences that incarceration and re-entry systems have on the lives of individuals and their families.
Ikue Mori, Electronic Music Composer and Performer: Transforming the use of percussion in improvisation and expanding the boundaries of machine-based music.
Steven Prohira, Physicist: Challenging conventional theories and engineering new tools to detect ultra-high energy sub-atomic particles that could hold clues to long-held mysteries of our universe.
Tomeka Reid, Jazz Cellist and Composer: Forging a unique jazz sound that draws from a range of musical traditions and expanding the expressive possibilities of the cello in improvised music.
Loretta J. Ross, Reproductive Justice and Human Rights Advocate: Shaping a visionary paradigm linking social justice, human rights, and reproductive justice.
Steven Ruggles, Historical Demographer: Setting new standards in quantitative historical research by building the world’s largest publicly available database of population statistics.
Tavares Strachan, Interdisciplinary Conceptual Artist: Expanding the possibilities for what art can be and illuminating overlooked contributions of marginalized figures throughout history.
Emily Wang, Primary Care Physician and Researcher: Partnering with people recently released from prison to address their needs and the ways that incarceration influences chronic health conditions.
Amanda Williams, Artist and Architect: Reimagining public space to expose the complex ways that value, both cultural and economic, intersects with race in the built environment., Melanie Matchett Wood: Addressing foundational questions in number theory from the perspective of arithmetic statistics.
The 25 MacArthur Fellows for 2022 explore the world in an extraordinary range of disciplines:
Jennifer Carlson, Sociologist: Uncovering the motivations, assumptions, and social forces that drive gun ownership and shape gun culture in the United States.
Paul Chan, Artist: Testing the capacity of art to make human experience available for critical reflection and to effect social change.
Yejin Choi, Computer Scientist: Using natural language processing to develop artificial intelligence systems that can understand language and make inferences about the world.
P. Gabrielle Foreman, Literary Historian and Digital Humanist: Catalyzing inquiry into historic nineteenth-century collective Black organizing efforts through initiatives such as the Colored Conventions Project.
Danna Freedman, Synthetic Inorganic Chemist: Creating novel molecular materials with unique properties directly relevant to quantum information technologies.
Martha Gonzalez, Musician, Scholar, and Artist/Activist: Strengthening cross-border ties and advancing participatory methods of artistic knowledge production in the service of social justice.
Sky Hopinka, Artist and Filmmaker: Combining imagery and language in films and videos that offer new strategies of representation for the expression of Indigenous worldviews.
June Huh, Mathematician: Discovering underlying connections between disparate areas of mathematics and proving long-standing mathematical conjectures.
Moriba Jah, Astrodynamicist: Envisioning transparent and collaborative solutions for creating a circular space economy that improves oversight of Earth’s orbital spheres.
Jenna Jambeck, Environmental Engineer: Investigating the scale and pathways of plastic pollution and galvanizing efforts to address plastic waste.
Monica Kim, Historian: Examining the interplay between U.S. foreign policy, military intervention, processes of decolonization, and individual rights in regional settings around the globe.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Plant Ecologist, Educator, and Writer: Articulating an alternative vision of environmental stewardship informed by traditional ecological knowledge.
Priti Krishtel, Health Justice Lawyer: Exposing the inequities in the patent system to increase access to affordable, life-saving medications on a global scale.
Joseph Drew Lanham, Ornithologist, Naturalist, and Writer: Creating a new model of conservation that combines conservation science with personal, historical, and cultural narratives of nature.
Kiese Laymon, Writer: Bearing witness to the myriad forms of violence that mark the Black experience in formally inventive fiction and nonfiction.
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Sociologist, Criminologist, and Social Worker: Tracing the long-term consequences that incarceration and re-entry systems have on the lives of individuals and their families.
Ikue Mori, Electronic Music Composer and Performer: Transforming the use of percussion in improvisation and expanding the boundaries of machine-based music.
Steven Prohira, Physicist: Challenging conventional theories and engineering new tools to detect ultra-high energy sub-atomic particles that could hold clues to long-held mysteries of our universe.
Tomeka Reid, Jazz Cellist and Composer: Forging a unique jazz sound that draws from a range of musical traditions and expanding the expressive possibilities of the cello in improvised music.
Loretta J. Ross, Reproductive Justice and Human Rights Advocate: Shaping a visionary paradigm linking social justice, human rights, and reproductive justice.
Steven Ruggles, Historical Demographer: Setting new standards in quantitative historical research by building the world’s largest publicly available database of population statistics.
Tavares Strachan, Interdisciplinary Conceptual Artist: Expanding the possibilities for what art can be and illuminating overlooked contributions of marginalized figures throughout history.
Emily Wang, Primary Care Physician and Researcher: Partnering with people recently released from prison to address their needs and the ways that incarceration influences chronic health conditions.
Amanda Williams, Artist and Architect: Reimagining public space to expose the complex ways that value, both cultural and economic, intersects with race in the built environment., Melanie Matchett Wood: Addressing foundational questions in number theory from the perspective of arithmetic statistics.
Steven Ruggles's work (and his crew) with IPUMs is an incredible public service. Happy to see him get this.
posted by dismas at 12:30 PM on October 14, 2022
posted by dismas at 12:30 PM on October 14, 2022
I've loved Tomeka Reid's music for over a decade! So happy for her.
posted by cnidaria at 12:50 PM on October 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by cnidaria at 12:50 PM on October 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
Kiese Laymon, on MetaFilter
Long Division
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
posted by Gorgik at 1:03 PM on October 14, 2022 [10 favorites]
Long Division
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
posted by Gorgik at 1:03 PM on October 14, 2022 [10 favorites]
Tomeka Reid! Very happy to see this - she's a great musician, very much a carrier of the flame of the AACM forward into the 21st century.
posted by ryanshepard at 1:49 PM on October 14, 2022
posted by ryanshepard at 1:49 PM on October 14, 2022
Steven Ruggles!
The IPUMS project is the gold standard in so many forms of population statistics, which can be used in virtually all quantitiative social sciences. In particular, IPUMS makes analysis of historical and international data a lot more tractable a problem. It's an amazing resource.
IPUMS is a foundation on which so much research is built, it's remarkable.
posted by Superilla at 1:58 PM on October 14, 2022
The IPUMS project is the gold standard in so many forms of population statistics, which can be used in virtually all quantitiative social sciences. In particular, IPUMS makes analysis of historical and international data a lot more tractable a problem. It's an amazing resource.
IPUMS is a foundation on which so much research is built, it's remarkable.
posted by Superilla at 1:58 PM on October 14, 2022
Crying some happy tears. And these are only the best of the best! What inspiration. Thank you, kristi.
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 2:26 PM on October 14, 2022
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 2:26 PM on October 14, 2022
Pleased to see Dr. Joseph Drew Lanham. He's an eloquent and powerful spokesperson for the birds, conservation, and the connections with human culture and history. I highly recommend watching the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's video on the Deveaux Bank narrated by him.
posted by kmkrebs at 2:33 PM on October 14, 2022 [5 favorites]
posted by kmkrebs at 2:33 PM on October 14, 2022 [5 favorites]
Melanie Matchett Wood is a collaborator of mine and a longtime faculty member here at Wisconsin before her recent move to Harvard -- she is a real leader in number theory and a very worthy recipient!
posted by escabeche at 2:44 PM on October 14, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by escabeche at 2:44 PM on October 14, 2022 [4 favorites]
P. Gabrielle Foreman, et al. "Writing about Slavery/Teaching About Slavery: This Might Help"
Sky Hopinka on Vimeo
posted by Wobbuffet at 3:03 PM on October 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
Sky Hopinka on Vimeo
posted by Wobbuffet at 3:03 PM on October 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
So happy for Kiese Laymon. Also happy to read more generally about so many talented people.
posted by praemunire at 4:24 PM on October 14, 2022
posted by praemunire at 4:24 PM on October 14, 2022
kmkrebs:
YES! Earlier, I clicked through to Dr. Lanham's page and saw the video of birds and thought, "wait - is that the whimbrel guy?" and sure enough - your comment got me to go back and find this:
From last November here on MetaFilter, posted by Katullus: “I don’t think there’s anybody who doesn’t love a beautiful thing” - that was my introduction to that lovely Devereaux Bank video.
Yay. Whimbrels are the best, and those videos are beautiful, and Dr. Lanham is doing wonderful work. (Also, his 9 Rules for the Woke Birdwatcher, which I discovered today via the MacArthur site, is an amazing piece: thoughtful, mindful, poetic, humanizing in less than 400 words.)
posted by kristi at 5:23 PM on October 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
YES! Earlier, I clicked through to Dr. Lanham's page and saw the video of birds and thought, "wait - is that the whimbrel guy?" and sure enough - your comment got me to go back and find this:
From last November here on MetaFilter, posted by Katullus: “I don’t think there’s anybody who doesn’t love a beautiful thing” - that was my introduction to that lovely Devereaux Bank video.
Yay. Whimbrels are the best, and those videos are beautiful, and Dr. Lanham is doing wonderful work. (Also, his 9 Rules for the Woke Birdwatcher, which I discovered today via the MacArthur site, is an amazing piece: thoughtful, mindful, poetic, humanizing in less than 400 words.)
posted by kristi at 5:23 PM on October 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
I love seeing this list every year! I love learning about the amazing and creative and optimistic work people are doing, and I love seeing people whose work I already know and appreciate (Kiese Laymon!!!) being recognized.
I just borrowed J. Drew Lanham's Sparrow Envy from the library, and I'm excited to read it.
posted by mixedmetaphors at 5:52 PM on October 14, 2022
I just borrowed J. Drew Lanham's Sparrow Envy from the library, and I'm excited to read it.
posted by mixedmetaphors at 5:52 PM on October 14, 2022
Kiese Laymon, Ikue Mori, and Tomeka Reid are all excellent choices.
Time to check out some of the other fellows--thanks for this post.
posted by box at 5:17 AM on October 15, 2022
Time to check out some of the other fellows--thanks for this post.
posted by box at 5:17 AM on October 15, 2022
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I confess to being unfamiliar with everyone else on the list - one of my favorite things about the MacArthurs is getting to learn about so many people doing so many fascinating and inspiring things.
posted by kristi at 12:19 PM on October 14, 2022 [8 favorites]