The Michigan Society of Fellows has selected 10 new fellows to serve three-year appointments as postdoctoral scholars and assistant professors, beginning this fall.
The Society of Fellows received 1,062 applications this year, a record number and an increase of almost 20 percent over the previous year. The fellows were chosen for the importance and quality of their scholarship and for their interest in interdisciplinary work. During their tenure at U-M they will teach selected courses in their affiliated departments and continue their scholarly research.
The new fellows, with their affiliated department at U-M, their degree-granting institution and their research project include:
• Burcu Baran, mathematics, University of Rome; “Number Theory”
• Lydia Barnett, history, Stanford University; “The Living Rock: Natural, Sacred and Human Histories of the Earth from Descartes to Climate Change”
• Carrie Brezine, anthropology, Harvard University; “The Technology of Intimate Space”
• Eric Calderwood, romance languages and literatures, Harvard University; “Questioning Convivencia: The Legacy of Al-Andalus in Spain and the Modern Arab World”
• Kimberley Kinder, urban planning/natural resources and the environment, University of California, Berkeley; “Information Housing in Detroit Suburbs”
• Seth Marvel, complex systems/mathematics, Cornell University; “Complex Systems with Social Applications”
• Laura Miles, English language and literature, Yale University; “Mary’s Book: The Annunciation in Medieval England/The Sisters of Syon Abbey: Literacy and Devotion”
• Adedamola Osinulu, Afroamerican and African studies, University of California, Los Angeles; “Pentecostal Christianity in African Cities”
• Elizabeth Pringle, natural resources and the environment/ecology and evolutionary biology, Stanford University; “Plant-Animal-Microbe Symbioses”
• Rubens Reis, astronomy, University of Cambridge; “The Nature and Evolution of Accretion Flows”
The Michigan Society of Fellows was founded in 1970 with grants from the Ford Foundation and Horace H. and Mary Rackham Funds.
