CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Two female professors with Chicago ties join 23 other people as recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation's genius grants.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Jacqueline Stewart each will receive a $625,000 fellowship. Stewart is a professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Chicago. Yamahtta Taylor, who lived in Chicago for 10 years but now teaches at Princeton University, is an activist who had worked to end the death penalty and exonerate Black men on death row in Illinois.
The Chicago-based foundation announced the recipients this week.
The 2021 class includes scientists, artists, writers, economists and historians. The MacArthur Foundation has granted billions of dollars since its founding in 1970. Nominations are made anonymously.
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