Defying Boundaries: MacArthur Fellows at 45 @macfound

Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

This moment calls for creative courage. For 45 years, MacArthur Fellows have expanded the boundaries of possibility by questioning conventions, crossing disciplines, and driving collective progress.

Throughout 2026, the Foundation is celebrating the groundbreaking work of the Fellows and inspiring public dialogue through a series of nationwide events and conversations.

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Defying Boundaries: MacArthur Fellows at 45

Fellow Spotlight | 2023 MacArthur Fellow Manuel Muñoz

$Ieva Jusionyte | 2025 MacArthur Fellow Meet Ieva Jusionyte, a cultural anthropologist and 2025 #MacFellow exploring the political and moral ambiguities of border regions and historically shifting distinctions between legal and illegal practices. Her ethnographic accounts are based on years of fieldwork and immersion among people whose occupations give them frontline vantage points on the ways border policies play out in the lives of individuals and communities. From these rarely observed perspectives, Jusionyte reveals how security mechanisms and cycles of violence perpetuate states of emergency and social fracture. Learn more about Ieva Jusionyte: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2025/ieva-jusionyte$

Justin Vivian Bond | 2024 MacArthur Fellow

Fellow Spotlight | 2023 MacArthur Fellow Andrea Armstrong