Other 2018 MacArthur Fellowship Winners

Matthew Aucoin, a composer and conductor with the American Modern Opera Company, for expanding the potential of vocal and orchestral music to convey emotional, dramatic and literary meaning.

Julie Ault, a New York artist and curator, for redefining the role of artwork and the artist by melding artistic, curatorial, archival, editorial and activist practices into a new form of cultural production.

William J. Barber II, a Goldsboro, N.C., pastor and social justice advocate, for building broad-based coalitions as part of a movement to confront racial and economic inequality.

Clifford Brangwynne, a biophysics engineer at Princeton University, for using the principles of soft matter physics and cell biology to illuminate novel mechanisms of cellular compartmentalization that drive biological development.

Natalie Diaz, an Arizona State University poet, for drawing on her experience as a Mojave American Indian and Latina to challenge the mythological and cultural touchstones underlying American society.

Livia S. Eberlin, an analytical chemist at the University of Texas at Austin, for developing mass spectrometry-based methods to differentiate more quickly and accurately between diseased and healthy tissues during surgery.

Deborah Estrin, a computer scientist at Cornell Tech, in New York, for designing open-source platforms that leverage mobile devices and data to address sociotechnological challenges such as personal health management.

Amy Finkelstein, a health economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for formulating robust empirical methods to illuminate the hidden complexities of health-care policy and provide data-driven guidance for future innovations in theory and practice.

Gregg Gonsalves, an epidemiologist at Yale University, for his work combining human rights and public health to address inequities in global health.

Vijay Gupta, a violinist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, for providing musical enrichment to homeless, incarcerated and low-income communities in Los Angeles.

Becca Heller, a human rights lawyer at the International Refugee Assistance Project in New York, for mobilizing law schools and law firms to defend the rights of refugees and at-risk populations.

Titus Kaphar, a New Haven, Conn., painter, for using his works to highlight the lack of people of color in Western art.

John Keene, a writer at Rutgers University, for exploring the impact of historical narratives on contemporary lives and re-imagining the history of the Americas from the perspective of suppressed people.

Kelly Link, a fiction writer from Northampton, Mass., for pushing the boundaries of literary fiction by combining the surreal and fantastical with the concerns and emotional realism of contemporary life.

Dominique Morisseau, a playwright at Signature Theatre in New York, for examining the intersection of choice and circumstance in works that portray individuals and communities grappling with economic and social changes.

Okwui Okpokwasili, a New York choreographer and performer, for showing the interior lives of women and their stories of resistance and resilience.

Kristina Olson, a psychologist at the University of Washington for advancing the scientific understanding of gender and shedding light on the social and cognitive development of transgender and gender-nonconforming youth.

Lisa Parks, a media scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for exploring the global reach of information technology and the cultural, political and humanitarian implications of the flow of information.

Rebecca Sandefur, a sociologist and legal scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for promoting a new evidence-based approach to increasing access to civil justice for low-income communities.

Allan Sly, a Princeton University mathematician, for applying probability theory to resolve long-standing problems in statistical physics and computer science.

Wu Tsang, a New York filmmaker and performance artist, for creating conceptual and visual techniques that explore hidden histories and narratives that collapse the boundaries between documentary and fiction.

Doris Tsao, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology for uncovering the fundamental neural principles that underlie the primate brain’s perception of the visual world.

Ken Ward, Jr., an investigative journalist with the Charleston Gazette-Mail, in Charleston, W. Va., for revealing the human and environmental toll of natural resource extraction in West Virginia and spurring greater accountability among public and private stakeholders.