The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) is pleased to announce its inaugural 2016–18 IPRH-Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Bio-Humanities, and its 2016–17 IPRH-Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowships in Bio-Humanities. Led by the IPRH-Mellon Faculty Fellow in Bio-Humanities, Professor Samantha Frost, these fellows will pursue their own Bio-Humanities-related research projects and participate in all activities of the Mellon Bio-Humanities Research Group. In addition, IPRH has selected three undergraduate IPRH-Mellon Bio-Humanities Interns who will participate in the research group’s work, pursue their own research projects, and organize a showcase of undergraduate research to coincide with Undergraduate Research Week in April 2017. The fellows, interns, and research group are funded by a seven-year grant of $2,050,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to IPRH to support the development of emerging areas in the humanities. You can learn more about the “Bio-Humanities” and this research initiative at the IPRH website. Please join IPRH in congratulating the below fellows and interns on their selection from a very competitive field of applicants.
IPRH-Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in Bio-Humanities, 2016–18
Daniel Liu (History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD expected May 2016), “Visions and calculation of living matter”
Rosine Kelz (PhD, Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, 2014), “‘Beyond the human?’: Concepts of Humanity, Responsibility, and Agency in Political Theory and Biotechnology.”
IPRH-Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellows in Bio-Humanities, 2016–17
Lydia Crafts (History), “Empire’s Laboratory: Race, Ethics, and Medical Experimentation in Guatemala during the Cold War”
Rebecah Pulsifer (English), “Signifying Nothing: Intelligence and Intellectual Disability in British Modernism.”
IPRH-Mellon Undergraduate Interns in Bio-Humanities, 2016-17
Sneha Adusimulli (Molecular and Cellular Biology)
Miranda Dawson (Bioengineering)
Sana Khadri (English and Integrative Biology)
More information about the IPRH fellowship programs can be found online at www.iprh.illinois.edu.