THE JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION
                           1992 REPORT ON ACTIVITIES

MacArthur Fellows Program

      The MacArthur Fellows Program entered its second decade with the
 naming of 33 new Fellows in June 1992.  The 1992 Fellows range in age from
 32 to 72.  Seventeen are women.  They live in 14 states and France.
 Thirteen of the Fellows work in the visual, performing or literary arts.
 These include two writers whose work evolves from Holocaust themes, one of
 America's most innovative choreographers, and two journalists whose work --
 in words and photographs --addresses some of society's most troubling
 issues.
      The five Fellows working in the humanities are involved in studies
 ranging from slave society of 19th century Maryland to the functioning of
 the Roman Empire.
      Among the ten Fellows working in the sciences are biologists who are
 developing improved land cultivation techniques, investigating the
 interaction of climate change and human society, and training Peruvian
 conservationists to protect their native tropical forests.  Also among the
 1992 recipients are a mathematician/physicist studying the field of wavelets
 and an electrical engineer who has pioneered new forms of computation in
 computer science.
      Five of the Fellows address issues of public policy and social
 justice, including reproductive rights, the economic and social
 infrastructure of the rural south, and the empowerment of American farm
 workers and miners to secure fair working conditions and appropriate
 compensation and benefits.
      Several of the Fellows apply their work in a particular discipline to
 broader social concerns:  a mathematician who has developed new methods to
 help minority students succeed in the study of mathematics; a scientist
 whose writing examines the effect of gender on the way in which science is
 conducted; and a documentary photographer whose published collections
 provide insight into the lives or women and children in remote regions
 through photos taken by those women and children.

Program Policies:

      The MacArthur Fellows Program provides unrestricted fellowships to
 exceptionally talented and promising individuals who have shown evidence of
 originality, dedication to creative pursuits, and capacity for self-
 direction.  The Foundation awards Fellows an income in quarterly
 installments over five years so that they may have the time and the freedom
 to fulfill their potential by devoting themselves to their own endeavors at
 their own pace.  The Foundation hopes that this freedom from financial
 constraints will lead to discoveries or other significant contributions to
 society that otherwise might not be made.
      MacArthur fellowships are intended to enhance the ability of
 recipients to pursue their work in accordance with their own inclinations.
 Fellowships are granted directly to the individuals rather than through
 institutions.  They are administered without project proposals or
 applications, and without evaluations or expectations of specific products
 or reports.  The fellowships are intended to support individuals, not
 projects.
      MacArthur Fellows are free to focus on more than one area through
 interdisciplinary work, to change fields if they wish, or even to alter the
 direction of their careers. They may be writers, scientists, artists, social
 scientists, humanists, activists, or workers in any other field or fields,
 with or without institutional affiliations.
      MacArthur Fellows are paid $30,000 to $75,000 annually.  The amount is
 determined by the individual's age and is not influenced by the Fellow's
 professional field.  They are provided with comprehensive health insurance.
      All Fellows are invited, but not required, to attend periodic informal
 gatherings to meet with one another and exchange ideas.
      The MacArthur Fellows Program depends for its candidates on more than
 one hundred nominators across the country in many different academic and
 professional fields.  Nominators are invited to serve for one year and are
 asked to propose extraordinarily creative and promising individuals who are
 at points in their careers when a fellowship could make a marked difference.
      Applications and informal nominations are not accepted.  Only an
 individual whose name is submitted by a designated nominator is eligible.
 Every nominee is considered by a selection committee, which makes its
 recommendations to the Board of Directors of the Foundation. Nominees are
 not contacted.  Nominators and selectors serve anonymously.
      Candidates for fellowships must be either residents or citizens of the
 United States, but no other restrictions are placed on nominators regarding
 their nominees.
      There are no set times for announcements or yearly quotas of MacArthur
 Fellows.

Summary of Grants Authorized 1992:  Fellowship awards            $10,221,000
                                    MacArthur Fellows Asc. Trust     653,421
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                                    TOTAL                        $10,874,421


[This is a direct quote from the document entitled above; any typos are my
 own fault. -- Corgi]


The 1992 Fellows are:

 Janet Benshoof, Pres. Ctr. for Reproductive Law & Policy, NY
 Robert Blackburn, Dir. Printmaking Workshop, NY
 Unita Blackwell, Mayor, Mayersville, MS
 Lorna E. Bourg, Cofounder/Asst. Exec. Dir. Southern Mutual Help Assoc., LA
 Stanley Cavell, Chair Prof. of Philosophy, Harvard, MA
 Amy Clampitt, Poet & essayist, NY
 Ingrid Daubechies, Prof. of Mathematics, Rutgers, NJ
 Wendy T. Ewald, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke, NC
 Irving M. Feldman, Prof. of English, SUNY, NY
 Barbara Jeanne Fields, Prof. of History, Columbia, NY
 Robert H. Hall, Research dir., Inst. for Southern Studies, NC
 Ann Ellis Janson, Prof. of Classical Studies, U. of MI, MI
 John H. Holland, Prof. of Electrical Engineering & Comp. Sci., U of MI, MI
 Wes Jackson, Land Institute, KS
 Evelyn Fox Keller, Professor, MIT, MA
 Steve Lacy, Jazz musician, res. in Paris, France
 Suzanne Lebsock, Prof. of History, Rutgers, NJ
 Sharon Rugel Long, Prof. of Biological Sciences, Stanford, CA
 Norman Manea, Author & fellow, Bard College, NY
 Paule B. Marshall, Prof. of English, VA Commonwealth U., VA
 Michael Massing, Journalist, NY
 Robert T. McCabe, Pres. Miami-Dade Comm. College, FL
 Susan Meiselas, Photojournalist, NY
 Amalia Mesa-Bains, Artist & critic, CA
 Stephen H. Schneider, Prof. of Biological Sciences, Standford, CA
 Joanna Scott, Assoc. prof. of English, U. of Rochester, NY
 John T. Scott, Prof. of Fine Arts, Xavier U., LA
 John W. Terborgh, Dir. Ctr. Tropical Conservation, Duke, NC
 Twyla Tharp, Choreographer, NY
 Philip Uri Treisman, Prof. of Mathematics, U. of TX, TX
 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Assoc. Prof. of History, U. of NH, NH
 Geerat Vermeij, Prof. of Geology, U. of CA Davis, CA
 Gunter Paul Wagner, Prof. of Biology, Yale, CT