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.
Ismael Biyashev
- Appointment 2023-2026
- Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
- History
- Research Project: “Beyond Myths and Ruins: Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire and the Early USSR 1850-1920s”
Ismael Biyashev, History (LSA); University of Illinois, Chicago; Biyashev is a historian of empire, and a specialist in Russian imperial and early Soviet history. Biyashev’s book manuscript examines the emergence of “nomadic archaeology” in late imperial and early Soviet Russia and charts its historical development.
Ifeolu David
- Appointment 2023-2026
- Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
- Epidemiology
- Research Project: “Comparing COVID19 Perspectives and Vaccine Decision Among Healthworkers in Low and High Income Setting”
Ifeolu David, Epidemiology (School of Public Health); University of Missouri, Colombia; David is a Sierra Leonean physician who earned his Ph.D. in health and rehabilitation science. His research interests include health disparity, social and behavioral determinants of health, and infectious diseases. He is particularly interested in strengthening global preparedness for public health emergencies.
Anne Kort
- Appointment 2023-2026
- Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
- Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Research Project: “Evolution of locomotion in changing landscapes”
Anne Kort, Earth & Environmental Sciences (LSA); Indiana University-Bloomington; Kort is a paleontologist who studies the evolution of locomotion in mammals using 3D scans of fossils.
Paul Kurek
- Appointment 2023-2026
- Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
- Germanic Languages & Literature
- Research Project: “Heavy Load-Bearing Modernity: A Cultural Geology of Albert Speer’s Berlin/Germania”
Paul Kurek, Germanic Languages & Literature (LSA); University of California, Los Angeles; Inspired by his participation in the Urban Humanities Initiative, a think tank of artists, architects, urban planners and humanists, Kurek’s writing explores the intersection of material and intellectual history.
Meghna Sapui
- Appointment 2023-2026
- Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
- English Language & Literature
- Research Project: “Edible Empire: Eating in Indian Anglophone Literature, 1820-1910”
Meghna Sapui, English Language & Literature (LSA); University of Florida; Sapui’s research demonstrates how representations of foodways and gastro narratives in 19th-century South Asian literature mediate discourses of race, gender, ecology and labor in the construction of colonial bodies.
Mo Torres
- Appointment 2023-2026
- Assistant Professor | Postdoctoral Fellow
- Sociology | Public Policy
- Research Project: “Race, Place, and the Politics of Urban Austerity in Michigan, 1970s-2010s”
Mo Torres, Sociology (LSA) | Public Policy (Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy); Harvard University; Torres is a historical sociologist interested in questions of urban political economy and racial inequality. His doctoral research traces the development of urban austerity in Michigan cities experiencing fiscal crisis.