Tap dancer and 2015 MacArthur “genius grant” victor Michelle Dorrance will bring her dance troupe to SUNY Oswego.
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Along with 21 others, they are winners of the 2015 “genius” grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He is an inorganic chemist working in the field of semiconductor nanowires and nanowire photonics.
The winners, known as MacArthur Fellows and who did not apply for the award, received calls from the selection committee describing their work and congratulating them on their award – which consists of $625,000 (£412,635) per person paid over five years.
Desmond’s study also reported that domestic violence victims in Milwaukee faced the risk of eviction if they called police because of a city ordinance that counted the calls as a “nuisance”, my colleague John Diedrich reported in 2013 story.
A list of all the winners and their full biographies can be read on the MacArthur Foundation’s website.
Dr. Matthew Desmond is a sociology professor at Harvard and studies the effects of eviction on low-income families and individuals. The Columbia University associate professor and environmental engineer uses microbes to turn wastewater into fertilizer, energy and clean water.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, 39, Washington, D.C.: “Journalist interpreting complex and challenging issues around race and racism through the lens of personal experience and nuanced historical analysis”.
Matthew Desmond, 35, Cambridge, Mass.: “Urban sociologist revealing the impact of eviction on poor families and the role of housing policy in sustaining poverty and racial inequality in large American cities”.
The tap dancer and choreographer from New York says she “strategically” told her mother – knowing her mother would tell her father.
Lien’s theatre designs include New York productions of NATASHA, PIERRE, AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 and AN OCTOROON.
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The study was based on 2008 and 2009 data.
