The Michigan Society of Fellows has selected six new members to serve three-year appointments as postdoctoral fellows and non-tenure-track assistant professors, beginning this fall.
The fellows were chosen from more than 560 applicants 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 fellows, with their affiliated department at U-M, their degree-granting institution and their research project are:
- Zoë Berman, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies in LSA; University of Chicago; “Ideology at the Hearth: Generational Aspirations and the Politics of Identity in Post-Genocide Rwanda.”
- James Boyko, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in LSA; University of Arkansas; “Deep-neural Networks as a Tool for Advancing Evolutionary Analysis.”
- Mina Magda, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in LSA; Yale University; “Becoming Modern: Negrophilia, Russophilia, and the Making of Modernist Paris.”
- Dina Mahmoud, Department of Comparative Literature in LSA; Pennsylvania State University; “Reading (Il)literacies in Arts Initiatives across the Sudanese and Lebanese Civil Conflicts.”
- Justin Miller, Department of Classical Studies in LSA; Harvard University; “Linguistic Consciousness in the Hellenistic World, Linguistic Borders in the Ancient Mediterranean.”
- Julio Villa-Palomino, Department of Anthropology in LSA; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; “Mental Health, Suspicion, and Care in a Peruvian Community.”
Fellows appointed in previous years who will continue as members of the Michigan Society of Fellows are: Ismael Biyashev, history; Ifeolu David, epidemiology; Elizabeth Durham, anthropology; Natalie Hofmeister, ecology and evolutionary biology; Anne Kort, earth and environmental sciences; Paul Kurek, Germanic languages and literatures; Sungwon Park, nursing; Meghna Sapui, English language and literature; Henry Stoll, musicology; and Mo Torres, public policy and sociology.
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, social sciences, education, humanities and the arts.
