Park Parent Hahrie Han Receives 2025 MacArthur Fellowship
Congratulations to Hahrie Han, Park parent, on being named a recipient of a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship! The award, often called a genius grant, is given annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to “extraordinarily talented and creative individuals,” a mix of visual artists and writers, scientists and scholars.
Han is a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and inaugural director of the university’s SNF Agora Institute, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, and Faculty Director of the P3 Research Lab. She specializes in the study of organizing, movements, collective action, civic engagement, and democracy.
An award-winning author of five books and numerous scholarly articles, her latest book, Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church (Knopf, 2024), about faith and race in America with a focus on evangelical megachurches, was named to the New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of the Year in 2024 and the New Yorker’s list of Recommended Books for 2024. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was named a 2022 Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year by the World Economic Forum’s Schwab Foundation.
The MacArthur Fellowship is among the nation’s most prestigious and significant recognitions with only 22 recipients each year. Honorees are nominated by anonymous experts in their fields and receive $800,000 over five years to advance their work in any way they see fit, “no strings attached.”
“We are thrilled that the MacArthur Foundation has chosen to recognize Hahrie Han as worthy of their ‘genius’ grant,” Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels said (from JHU’s Hub publication). “She is, of course, the visionary inaugural director who brought our SNF Agora Institute to life. But this honor celebrates Hahrie Han, the researcher whose scholarship is transforming her field and deepening our understanding of how to build stronger democracies at this historic moment. We are so proud to call Hahrie one of our own at Hopkins, and even more so to know she will extend the reach of her insights in the years ahead thanks to the support of the MacArthur Fellowship.”
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