Hahrie Han, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and inaugural director of its SNF Agora Institute, is one of 22 individuals chosen from around the world as a 2025 MacArthur Fellow. She will receive a no-strings-attached monetary award of $800,000, sometimes referred to as a “genius grant,” over five years.

Han , 50, is the only Marylander on the list released this week by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , which is known for selecting “extraordinarily talented and creative individuals” to receive cash awards “as an investment in their potential.”

Another recipient with a Hopkins connection is Jason McLellan , a professor of molecular biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a structural biologist who earned a PhD from the Johns Hopkins U

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