History, Natural History & the Arts
The MacArthur Fellowship is a $800,000, no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential.
Among the 20 individuals to receive a MacArthur Award in 2026 are just two from New York State, Buffalo Sociologist and Energy Policy Researcher Holly Jean Buck and Brooklyn Saxophonist and Composer Immanuel Wilkins. [Read more…] about A Buffalo Sociologist, Brooklyn Saxophonist Named MacArthur Fellows
Using case studies and an auto-ethnographic study of rural education history in New York State, Casey Thomas Jakubowski’s Rural Education History: State Policy Meets Local Implementation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) provides an introduction to recent events in state-level educational policy implementation.
This work focuses on the history of New York rural schools, often overlooked in narratives. [Read more…] about Rural Education History: State Policy Meets Local Implementation
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