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.
Elizabeth Durham
- Appointment 2022-2025
- Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
- Anthropology
Elizabeth Durham is a medical and political anthropologist. Her research interests include health justice (secular and religious), the politics of responsibility and of time, and the ethics of social science research and collaboration in clinical and humanitarian settings, with a particular focus on public psychiatry in the Republic of Cameroon. She earned her PhD in anthropology from Princeton University in 2022.
Natalie Hofmeister
- Appointment 2022-2025
- Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Natalie Hofmeister, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (LSA); Cornell University; “Historical and Genetic Approaches to Understanding Invasion Success of the European Starling.” Natalie is an evolutionary biologist and ornithologist who studies how scientific methods and social practices come into conflict when managing invasive species. She is particularly interested in how residents of the U.S. have related to non-native European starlings during the birds’ ongoing expansion.
Sungwon Park
- Appointment 2022-2025
- Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
- Nursing
Sungwon Park, Nursing; University of Illinois, Chicago; “Development and Pilot Testing of an Intervention to Increase Regular Physical Activity.” Sungwon researches health behavior adherence to prevent chronic disease. She interned at OSHA and earned her Ph.D. from UIC. She is developing an internet-based exercise and sedentary lifestyle intervention.
Henry Stoll
- Appointment 2022-2025
- Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
- Music
Henry Stoll is a musicologist who specializes in the cultural history of Haiti and the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French Atlantic. His research and teaching interests include global musicology, Afro-diasporic music, music in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean, and opera. He holds a PhD in Historical Musicology from Harvard University, along with a Certificate in Latin American Studies.