Kimmerer, Foreman Named 2022 MacArthur Fellows

Robin Wall Kimmerer, P. Gabrielle Foreman

The class of 2022 MacArthur Fellows (colloquially known as the "genius" awards, announced by the MacArthur Foundation on Oct. 12) includes two scholars with recent ties to Humanities Center programming.

Robin Wall Kimmerer (SUNY-Syracuse) drew a capacity crowd to the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (114 Bird) with her talk, "Widening the Circle: Indigenous Knowledge on the Personhood of All Beings and Justice for the Land," presented as the 2019 Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities, co-organized by the Department of Physics.

P. Gabrielle Foreman (Pennsylvania State University) served as the 2021 Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities. Activities across Foreman's mini-residency focused on her work with the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk and Colored Conventions Project.

Additional coverage of 2022 MacArthur Fellows:

• National Public Radio
• New York Times
• Washington Post

Photos courtesy of macfound.org.