Saidiya Hartman Receives MacArthur “Genius Grant”

Last month, the MacArthur Foundation announced its 2019 MacArthur Fellows (the fellowship is known colloquially as a “genius grant”). Among the recipients is Saidiya Hartman, former co-director of the Engendering the Archive working group. Professor Hartman was also a speaker at the CSSD 10 year anniversary symposium What We CAN Do When There's Nothing to Be Done.

The MacArthur Fellowship is “a $625,000, no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential.” The MacArthur foundation calls Professor Hartman’s work “meticulous” and “inventive,” noting that she “has influenced an entire generation of scholars.”

Read their description of her work here.