CPD Faculty Fellow Receives MacArthur Genius Grant

Joining nine Californian awardees, Josh Kun, USC Annenberg Professor and CPD Faculty Fellow, has been awarded one of 23 prestigious MacArthur "Genius" Fellowships granted by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation this year.

Kun is a cultural historian exploring how the arts and popular culture can serve as conduits for cross-cultural exchange. He is the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America, which won a 2006 American Book Award, and To Live and Dine in LA: Menus and the Making of the Modern City in 2015.

In 2006 Kun participated in CPD's program on Jazz, Public Diplomacy and Dizzy Gillespie and currently serves as the director of the Popular Music Project in the Norman Lear Center at USC.

Click here to read the September 21 Los Angeles Times piece on Kun's award.

For more information about the 2016 MacArthur Fellows, click here.

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