2024

Postdoctoral Fellows join a unique interdisciplinary community composed of their peers as well as the Senior Fellows of the Society, who include many of the University’s leading scholars. Past Fellows of the Society have gone on to become distinguished scholars at institutions around the world.

Zoë Berman

  • Appointment 2024-2027
  • Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Afroamerican & African Studies (DAAS)
  • Research Project: “Ideology at the Hearth: Generational Aspirations and the Politics of Identity in Post-Genocide Rwanda”

Zoë Berman is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses on generational memory and political ideology in post-genocide Rwanda. Her second project will explore the development of Rwanda’s mental health sector after 1994.

    James Boyko

    • Appointment 2024-2027
    • Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
    • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB)
    • Research Project: “Deep-neural Networks as a Tool for Advancing Evolutionary Analysis“

    James Boyko is a computation biologist interested in studying sudden and punctuated shifts in organismal form over millions of years. By developing AI frameworks, Boyko hopes to utilize previously intractable datasets.

      Dina Mahmoud

      • Appointment 2024-2027
      • Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
      • Comparative Literature
      • Research Project: “Reading (Il)literacies in Arts Initiatives across Sudanese and Lebanese Civil Conflicts“

      Dina Mahmoud is a comparatist and visual studies scholar of Southwest Asia and East Africa. Her research explores the ethics of different reading and witnessing practices within and outside academic institutions.

        Justin Miller

        • Appointment 2024-2027
        • Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
        • Classical Studies
        • Research Project: “Linguistic Consciousness in the Hellenistic World, Linguistic Borders in the Ancient Mediterranean“

        Justin Miller researches identity in the ancient Mediterranean world of the Greeks, Romans, and beyond, by situating sociolinguistic methods within a historical framework. His current work demonstrates how traces of linguistic stereotyping and profiling in literary and documentary evidence of the Hellenistic period represent a symbiotic historical process of complicated past societies. His future project explores language as a territorial boundary and its correlation with the physical space of the Greek and Roman cultural worlds. 

          Julio Villa-Palomino

          • Appointment 2024-2027
          • Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
          • Anthropology
          • Research Project: “Mental Health, Suspicion, and Care in a Peruvian Community“

          Julio Villa-Palomino is a Peruvian sociocultural and medical anthropologist. His research ethnographically examines the shape-shifting nature of psychiatric power at a time of “community mental health.”