Other winners of the MacArthur Foundation “genius grants”:
Bonnie Bassler, 40, Princeton, N.J.; associate professor of molecular biology at Princeton University.
Ann Blair, 40, Cambridge, Mass.; professor of history at Harvard University.
Paul Ginsparg, 46, Ithaca, N.Y.; professor of physics and computing and information science at Cornell University.
David B. Goldstein, 51, San Francisco; energy program co-director of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Karen Hesse, 50, Brattleboro, Vt.; a novelist.
Janine Jagger, 52, Charlottesville, Va.; founder and director of International Health Care Worker Safety Center and an epidemiologist.
Daniel Jurafsky, 39, Boulder, Colo.; associate professor of linguistics and computer science at the University of Colorado.
Toba Khedoori, 37, Los Angeles; artist who works in wax and oil.
Liz Lerman, 54, Takoma Park, Md.; founder and artistic director of Dance Exchange.
Edgar Meyer, 41, Nashville; bassist and composer.
Jack Miles, 60, Los Angeles; senior adviser to the president of the J. Paul Getty Trust and a literary scholar and critic interpreting the Bible.
Erik Mueggler, 40, Ann Arbor, Mich.; associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan.
Stanley Nelson, 48, New York; director, producer, writer at Firelight Media/Half-Nelson Films and a documentary filmmaker.
Charles Steidel, 39, Pasadena, Calif.; professor of astronomy at California Institute of Technology.
Camilo Jose Vergara, 58, New York; urban archivist and photographer.
Paul Wennberg, 40, Pasadena, Calif.; professor of atmospheric chemistry and environmental engineering at California Institute of Technology.
Colson Whitehead, 32, New York; novelist.
