2025

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.

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Aabid Allibhai

  • Appointment 2025-2028
  • Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Law
  • Research Project: “Belinda Sutton’s World: Everyday Life, Legal Claims, and Political Activism in Early Black New England”

Aabid Allibhai is a historian of the Atlantic World. He holds a PhD in African & African American Studies and an AM in History from Harvard University and a JD from Harvard Law School.

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    Amber Jacob

    • Appointment 2025-2028
    • Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
    • Middle East Studies
    • Research Project: “Reconstructing Scientific Knowledge Exchange: Medical Multiculturalism in Graeco-Roman Egypt”

    Amber Jacob is an Egyptologist who studies ancient medicine and cross-cultural encounters between the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. Her dissertation presents the first edition of an unpublished Demotic medical compendium. She received her PhD from New York University, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

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      Teresa Paneque-Carreño

      • Appointment 2025-2028
      • Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
      • Astronomy
      • Research Project: “Tracing Structure, Chemistry, and Turbulence at the Origins of Planets”

      Chilean astronomer, obtained her PhD in Astronomy in 2024 from Leiden University. Currently 51 Pegasi b and MSF Fellow at the University of Michigan. Additionally, she has been an ambassador for UNICEF Chile since 2023 and a prominent science communicator and author.

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        Erik Peterson

        • Appointment 2025-2028
        • Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
        • Physics
        • Research Project: “Unlocking the Future of Supernova Cosmology: Peculiar Velocities, the Near Infrared, and Dust”

        Erik is a supernova cosmologist who uses exploding stars to better measure the expansion of the Universe. He specializes in accounting for the motions of galaxies and near-infrared supernova analysis. He holds a PhD in Physics from Duke University.

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          Sylvia Ryerson

          • Appointment 2025-2028
          • Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
          • American Culture
          • Research Project: “Listening Past Carceral Power in Central Appalachia”

          Sylvia Ryerson received her PhD in American Studies from Yale University. Her research focuses on the intersecting crises of mass incarceration, extraction, and abandonment in Central Appalachia from 1980-present day.

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            Phoebe Springstubb

            • Appointment 2025-2028
            • Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
            • History of Art
            • Research Project: “The Inhabited Arctic: Architecture, Land, and the Politics of Time in the Bering Strait”

            Phoebe Springstubb is an architectural historian whose research focuses on ephemeral architecture, the environment, and the politics of time in the Circumpolar North from the eighteenth century to the present. She obtained her PhD in History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.