The Michigan Society of Fellows has selected eight new fellows out of 932 applications to serve three-year appointments as postdoctoral scholars and assistant professors.
The fellows, who will begin this fall, 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 scholarly research.
The new fellows, along with their affiliated department at U-M, degree-granting institution and research project, include:
❚ Sarah Besky, natural resources and environment/anthropology; University of Wisconsin, Madison; The Death of the Indian Tea Auction: Bureaucrats, Brokers and the Politics of Taste.
❚ Brian Ellis, civil and environmental engineering; Princeton University; Risk of Groundwater Contamination from Shale-Gas Hydraulic Fracturing Activity.
❚ Elizabeth Hinton, Afroamerican and African studies; Columbia University; Federal Crime Control, Narcotics Enforcement and Mass Incarceration.
❚ Sarah Kile, Asian languages and cultures; Columbia University; Toward and Extraordinary Everyday: Li Yu’s (1611-1680) Vision, Writing, and Practice.
❚ Lucas Kirkpatrick, urban planning; University of California, Davis; Political Economy of Infrastructure and the Urban Built Environment.
❚ Erik Linstrum, history; Harvard University; Psychology and Violence in the Twentieth-Century British Empire.
❚ Eric Plemons, anthropology; University of California, Berkeley; Sex Reassignment Surgery and the Theory of Technique.
❚ Lauren Sallan, ecology and evolutionary biology; The University of Chicago; The Function of Ecology in Early Vertebrate Biodiversity and Evolution.
The Michigan Society of Fellows was founded in 1970 with grants from the Ford Foundation and Horace H. and Mary Rackham Funds.
