The 2021 MacArthur fellows

Monica Muñoz Martinez, 37, Austin historian who brought to light long-obscured cases of racial violence along the U.S.Mexico border and their reverberations in the present.

Hanif Abdurraqib, 38, Columbus, Ohio, music critic, essayist, and poet.

Daniel Alarcón, 44, New York writer and radio producer.

Marcella Alsan, 44, Cambridge, Mass., physician-economist.

Trevor Bedford, 39, Seattle computational virologist.

Reginald Dwayne Betts, 40, New Haven, Conn., poet and lawyer.

Jordan Casteel, 32, New York, painter.

Don Mee Choi, 59, Seattle poet and translator.

Ibrahim Cissé, 38, Pasadena, Calif., cellular biophysicist.

Nicole Fleetwood, 48, New York art historian and curator.

Cristina Ibarra, 49, Pasadena, Calif., documentary filmmaker.

Ibram X. Kendi, 39, Boston historian and cultural critic.

Daniel Lind-Ramos, 68, Loiza, Puerto Rico, sculptor and painter.

Desmond Meade, 54, Orlando, Fla., civil rights activist.

Joshua Miele, 52, Berkeley, Calif., adaptive technology designer.

Michelle Monje, 45, Palo Alto, Calif., neurologist and neurooncologist.

Safiya Noble, 51, Los Angeles digital media scholar.

J. Taylor Perron, 44, Cambridge, Mass., geomorphologist.

Alex Rivera, 48, Pasadena, Calif., filmmaker and media artist.

Lisa Schulte Moore, 50, Ames, Iowa, landscape ecologist.

Jesse Shapiro, 41, Providence, R.I., applied microeconomist.

Jacqueline Stewart, 51, Los Angeles cinema studies scholar and curator.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 49, Princeton, N.J., historian.

Victor Torres, 44, New York microbiologist.

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, 70, Tallahassee, Fla., choreographer.