Historians Among 2022 Crop of MacArthur Grant Recipients

“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.

Their work extends from the molecular level to the land beneath our feet to Earth’s orbital environment—offering new ways for us to understand the communities, systems, and social forces that shape our lives around the globe.”

—Marlies Carruth
Director, MacArthur Fellows

P. Gabrielle Foreman
Literary Historian and Digital Humanist | Class of 2022
Catalyzing inquiry into historic nineteenth-century collective Black organizing efforts through initiatives such as the Colored Conventions Project.

Monica Kim
Historian | Class of 2022
Examining the interplay between U.S. foreign policy, military intervention, processes of decolonization, and individual rights in regional settings around the globe.

Steven Ruggles
Historical Demographer | Class of 2022
Setting new standards in quantitative historical research by building the world’s largest publicly available database of population statistics.