The Michigan Society of Fellows has selected six new members out of more than 860 applicants to serve three-year appointments as postdoctoral fellows and non-tenure track assistant professors, beginning this fall.
The fellows were chosen for the importance and quality of their scholarship and their interest in interdisciplinary work. During their time at the University of Michigan, they will teach selected courses in their affiliated departments and continue their scholarly research.
The new junior fellows, with their affiliated department at U-M, their degree-granting institution and their research project are:
- Aabid Allibhai, law in the Law School, Harvard University; “Belinda Sutton’s World: Everyday Life, Legal Claims, and Political Activism in Early Black New England.”
- Amber Jacob, Department of Middle East Studies in LSA, New York University; “Reconstructing Scientific Knowledge Exchange: Medical Multiculturalism in Graeco-Roman Egypt.”
- Teresa Paneque-Carreño, Department of Astronomy in LSA, Leiden University; “Tracing Structure, Chemistry and Turbulence at the Origins of Planets.”
- Erik Peterson, Department of Physics in LSA, Duke University; “Unlocking the Future of Supernova Cosmology: Peculiar Velocities, the Near Infrared, and Dust.”
- Sylvia Ryerson, Department of American Culture in LSA, Yale University; “Listening Past Carceral Power in Central Appalachia.”
- Phoebe Springstubb, Department of History of Art in LSA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; “The Inhabited Arctic: Architecture, Land, and the Politics of Time in the Bering Strait.”
Fellows appointed in previous years who will continue as members of the Michigan Society of Fellows are: Zoë Berman, Afroamerican and African studies; Ismael Biyashev, history; James Boyko, ecology and evolutionary biology; Ifeolu David, epidemiology; Anne Kort, earth and environmental sciences; Paul Kurek, Germanic languages and literatures; Dina Mahmoud, comparative literature; Justin Miller, classical studies; Mo Torres, public policy and sociology; and Julio Villa-Palomino, anthropology.
The Michigan Society of Fellows was founded in 1970 with grants from the Ford Foundation and Horace H. and Mary Rackham Funds. It provides financial and intellectual support to individuals selected for professional promise and interdisciplinary interests.
Competition for the fellowships is open to eligible candidates in the physical and life sciences, engineering, the social sciences, education, the humanities and the arts.
