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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, 2024–2025

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships, which provide a year of support for doctoral students preparing to embark on innovative dissertation research projects. This program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships support graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before research and writing are advanced. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.

ACLS believes that humanistic scholarship benefits from inclusivity of voices, narratives, and subjects that have historically been underrepresented or under-studied in academe. We especially welcome applications from PhD candidates whose perspectives and/or research projects cultivate greater openness to new sources of knowledge, innovation in scholarly communication, and, above all, responsiveness to the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, and Indigenous communities from around the world; people with disabilities; queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people; and people of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. We also believe that institutional diversity enhances the scholarly enterprise, and we encourage applications from doctoral students from all types of institutions in the United States.

The program supports projects that push the traditional approaches to dissertation research in new directions. The strongest applications will show evidence of thoughtful plans for engaging the sources, resources, scholars, and communities – on campus and/or off – necessary to advance their projects. Fellows might design a fellowship year that includes:

• directed interdisciplinary research and methodological training that pushes beyond the scope of their field’s norms with faculty within and/or outside their home institutions;
• exploration of new modes of scholarly communication and dissertation design;
• intensive digital methods training and research;
• collaboration with community partners;
• a short-term practicum with a non-academic organization (such as a think-tank or social justice organization) to develop experience with applied methods, site-based research involving community-engaged or collaborative approaches.

The list above is by no means exhaustive. ACLS seeks to support a range of innovation in doctoral research — practical, trans- or interdisciplinary, digital, collaborative, critical, or methodological — as well as innovative forms and modes of publication.

ACLS has long supported interdisciplinary work and collaboration with partners outside of the academy through our various fellowship programs, and the program would welcome proposals from graduate students, in consultation with advisors and/or departmental directors of graduate study, that engage with scholars from other institutions, disciplines, or outside of the academy.

These fellowships also support the expansion of an applicant’s advisory network through external mentorship. The external mentor, who might come from another division of the university, another academic institution, or from beyond the academy, should be selected for the mentor’s capacity to offer critical perspective and expertise on the fellow’s project.

ACLS will award up to 45 fellowships in this competition for a one-year term beginning between July and September 2024 for nine to twelve months, covering the 2024-25 academic year. The fellowship may be carried out in residence at the fellow’s home institution or at any other appropriate site for the research. These fellowships may not be held concurrently with any other fellowship or grant.

Eligibility This program intends to intervene at the formative stages of project development. Given the variation in graduate student trajectories, and the variation of curricular requirements across departments and schools, this program gives only broad parameters for the eligible period of tenure of the fellowship. Some applicants may be applying in the year immediately before candidacy to support the first year of work as a PhD candidate; others may seek to expand their field/methodological horizons at an earlier stage of their graduate studies. The program requires applicants to have completed all required coursework in their doctoral curriculum by the time the fellowship commences. Individuals must be enrolled full-time and may not accept teaching or research assistantships, other major fellowships, internships, or similar internal or external awards during fellowship tenure.

Applicants must:

• Be a PhD student in a humanities or social science department in the United States.
• Be able to take up a full year (9-12 months) of sustained specialized research and training, released from normal coursework, assistantships, and teaching responsibilities.
• Have completed at least two years and all required coursework in the PhD programs in which they are currently enrolled by the start of the fellowship term.
• Have not advanced to PhD candidacy/ABD status prior to January 1, 2023.

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American Council of Learned Societies Announces Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship Program

New Program Will Support Early Career Scholars Pursuing Innovative Approaches to Dissertation Research in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the launch of the  Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships , a new program designed to support emerging scholars as they advance bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. The Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program will make awards to doctoral students who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before writing is advanced, and provide time and support for emerging scholars’ innovative approaches to dissertation research – practical, trans- or interdisciplinary, collaborative, critical, or methodological. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.

“The energy, curiosity, and creativity of emerging scholars can make a dissertation project into scholarship that refreshes and helps transform our fields and disciplines,” said Joy Connolly, president of ACLS. “ACLS has long supported innovation in the scholarly humanities, including work that crosses traditional boundaries and opens new directions of inquiry. We are thrilled to partner with the Mellon Foundation to support graduate students and their advisors with this new initiative.” The program will seek projects that push the traditional approaches to dissertation research in new directions. The strongest applications will show evidence of thoughtful plans for engaging the sources, resources, scholars, and communities necessary to advance their projects. Fellows might design a year that incorporates intensive digital methods training, a short-term practicum with a think-tank or social justice organization to develop experience with applied methods, and/or site-based research involving community-engaged or collaborative approaches. Each awardee will receive a $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year, as well as access to funding for research, travel, training, and other professional development activities. The award also supports additional mentorship for fellows, offering a stipend for external mentors who can bring critical perspectives to fellows’ projects. ACLS will also facilitate cross-cohort networking among fellows and advisors. ACLS is launching the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship as it winds down its long-running  Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) program , which supported doctoral students in the final year of dissertation research and writing. Over the course of 16 competitions, the program provided funding to more than 1,000 promising scholars across a broad spectrum of disciplines in the humanities and interpretive social sciences and drew on the expertise of over 1,500 doctoral faculty as peer reviewers. ACLS looks forward to announcing a final cohort of 50 Dissertation Completion Fellows in the coming days. ACLS will build on the relationships established through the DCF program, as well as work on the future of doctoral education among our member societies, to support our ongoing advocacy for salutary systems change in higher education. ACLS will begin accepting applications for the new Dissertation Innovation Fellowship in July 2022, with an application deadline in late October 2022. ACLS will host a series of webinars over the coming months and through September of this year.

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Formed a century ago, the  American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)  is a nonprofit federation of 78 scholarly organizations. As the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, ACLS upholds the core principle that knowledge is a public good. In supporting its member organizations, ACLS utilizes its $179 million endowment and $34 million annual operating budget to expand the forms, content, and flow of scholarly knowledge, reflecting our commitment to diversity of identity and experience. ACLS collaborates with institutions, associations, and individuals to strengthen the evolving infrastructure for scholarship. In all aspects of our work, ACLS is committed to principles and practices in support of racial and social justice. The  Mellon Foundation  is the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Mellon believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom to be found there. Through its grants, Mellon seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. The Foundation makes grants in four core program areas: Arts and Culture; Higher Learning; Humanities in Place; and Public Knowledge.

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Two doctoral students selected as mellon/acls dissertation innovation fellows.

May 8, 2023

By Katya Hrichak

Two Cornell graduate students have been selected as Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Innovation Fellows , which will provide them with a stipend as well as funding for research and other activities to the fellowship year.

Chijioke Onah , a doctoral student in English language and literature, and Nic Vigilante , a doctoral student in music, were two of 45 fellows selected for the inaugural cohort from a pool of nearly 700 applicants.

“As a latecomer to the humanities, this fellowship is an especially heartening gesture of support from one of the world’s leading scholarly organizations,” Vigilante said.

The fellowship, which supports doctoral students in humanities and interpretive social science programs, will provide a $50,000 award, comprising a $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year; $8,000 for project-related research, training, professional development, and travel expenses; and a $2,000 stipend to support external mentorship and advising.

“With this fellowship, I can devote my time completely to my dissertation and other research projects,” said Chijioke, whose dissertation focuses on the ecological violence of toxic waste and pollutants globally in African and Black communities. “With this freedom and the financial support of the fellowship and the Graduate School, I will also be able to do extra fieldwork in Nigeria and Ghana.”

“Being selected as a member of the inaugural cohort of Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows is an incredibly exciting opportunity to join a cohort of my peers from other universities across the U.S. who are working to push the boundaries of humanistic scholarship,” said Vigilante, who researches the ways in which music, sound, and performance create spaces of “unreality” in virtual reality, augmented reality, and nightlife.

Both Vigilante and Chijioke look forward to the academic freedom provided by the funding.

The 2023 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows program aims to promote research methodologies, project formats, and areas of inquiry that challenge traditional norms of doctoral education made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

Ph.D. Candidates Cho, Espinosa Receive 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

Duke Ph.D. candidates Jieun Cho (Cultural Anthropology) and Martha L. Espinosa (History) have received the Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year.

The ACLS awarded 50 fellowships from a pool of more than 800 applicants. The prestigious award, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides a $35,000 stipend and up to $8,000 in research funds and university fees to exceptional graduate students in their final year of dissertation writing. Fellows will also participate in a professional development workshop to help prepare them for postdoctoral career opportunities within and beyond the academy.

Here’s a look at this year’s Duke recipients:

Cultural Anthropology

Dissertation: “Anxious Care: Radioactive Uncertainty and the Politics of Life in Post-Nuclear Japan”

This project investigates what conceptions of “life” are re/produced in a risky environment after the 2011 Fukushima meltdown in Japan. Despite the striking visibility of “Fukushima children” as the signature victims of the disaster in risk politics, there is little research on actual families who are raising children amidst post-Fukushima radiation. By studying the strivings of families who seek to raise healthy children in differentially exposed towns of Fukushima, this project examines how livability is created despite and through radioactive uncertainty. What constitutes “life” when it continues amidst chronic exposure to radiation? How can such life be made livable and in what sense? What are the implications of new forms of care and relations around a child imperiled by radiation? Exploring these questions ethnographically, this project argues that notions of life are undergoing a moment of reconfiguration in post-nuclear Japan both by real-life families and the family form.

Martha L. Espinosa

Dissertation: “The Science of Family Planning. Mexico’s ‘Demographic Explosion,’ Contraceptive Technologies, and the Power of Expert Knowledge”

This project studies the joint efforts of Mexican doctors, chemists, and demographers who tried to curb Mexico’s “demographic explosion” in the mid-20th century. These experts formed alliances with international foundations and pharmaceutical companies to produce knowledge about the consequences of population growth and develop contraceptives in Mexico between 1950-1970, a period in which the government maintained a pronatalist and antiimperialist stance. This research demonstrates that such Mexican experts dodged the opposition of the government and the Catholic Church to family planning, and they became key actors in testing the birth control pill with local women, a forgotten episode in the history of contraceptive technologies.

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ACLS invites applications for Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships, which provide a year of support for doctoral students preparing to embark on innovative dissertation research projects. This program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships support graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before research and writing are advanced. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.

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New Program Will Support Early Career Scholars Pursuing Innovative Approaches to Dissertation Research in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences

NEW YORK , April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the launch of the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships , a new program designed to support emerging scholars as they advance bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

The Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program will make awards to doctoral students who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before writing is advanced, and provide time and support for emerging scholars' innovative approaches to dissertation research – practical, trans- or interdisciplinary, collaborative, critical, or methodological. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.

"The energy, curiosity, and creativity of emerging scholars can make a dissertation project into scholarship that refreshes and helps transform our fields and disciplines," said Joy Connolly , president of ACLS. "ACLS has long supported innovation in the scholarly humanities, including work that crosses traditional boundaries and opens new directions of inquiry. We are thrilled to partner with the Mellon Foundation to support graduate students and their advisors with this new initiative."

The program will seek projects that push the traditional approaches to dissertation research in new directions. The strongest applications will show evidence of thoughtful plans for engaging the sources, resources, scholars, and communities necessary to advance their projects. Fellows might design a year that incorporates intensive digital methods training, a short-term practicum with a think-tank or social justice organization to develop experience with applied methods, and/or site-based research involving community-engaged or collaborative approaches.

Each awardee will receive a $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year, as well as access to funding for research, travel, training, and other professional development activities. The award also supports additional mentorship for fellows, offering a stipend for external mentors who can bring critical perspectives to fellows' projects. ACLS will also facilitate cross-cohort networking among fellows and advisors.

ACLS is launching the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship as it winds down its long-running Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) program, which supported doctoral students in the final year of dissertation research and writing. Over the course of 16 competitions, the program provided funding to more than 1,000 promising scholars across a broad spectrum of disciplines in the humanities and interpretive social sciences and drew on the expertise of over 1,500 doctoral faculty as peer reviewers. ACLS looks forward to announcing a final cohort of 50 Dissertation Completion Fellows in the coming days. ACLS will build on the relationships established through the DCF program, as well as work on the future of doctoral education among our member societies, to support our ongoing advocacy for salutary systems change in higher education.

ACLS will begin accepting applications for the new Dissertation Innovation Fellowship in July 2022 , with an application deadline in late October 2022 . ACLS will host a series of webinars over the coming months and through September of this year. Sign up for alerts and news about this program.

Formed a century ago, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 78 scholarly organizations. As the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, ACLS upholds the core principle that knowledge is a public good. In supporting its member organizations, ACLS utilizes its $179 million endowment and $34 million annual operating budget to expand the forms, content, and flow of scholarly knowledge, reflecting our commitment to diversity of identity and experience. ACLS collaborates with institutions, associations, and individuals to strengthen the evolving infrastructure for scholarship. In all aspects of our work, ACLS is committed to principles and practices in support of racial and social justice.

The Mellon Foundation is the nation's largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Mellon believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom to be found there. Through its grants, Mellon seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. The Foundation makes grants in four core program areas: Arts and Culture; Higher Learning; Humanities in Place; and Public Knowledge.

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Three Florida State University doctoral students receive 2023 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships

By: Anna Prentiss | Published: September 12, 2023 | 2:51 PM | See original story at news.fsu.edu

Three Florida State University doctoral students have received a national fellowship designed to support emerging scholars as they pursue bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.

Carine Schermann , a doctoral candidate studying French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, part of the College of Arts and Sciences, and two doctoral musicology students in the College of Music,  Alaba Ilesanmi   and  Danielle Davis,  were awarded the 2023 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, or ACLS.

“Having three students in the inaugural cohort is an amazing accomplishment as FSU continues to climb to national prominence. It is a testament to the strength of FSU’s humanities programs and the competitiveness of our graduate students in national award competitions,” said Keith McCall, assistant director for the Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards. “Alaba, Carine and Danielle proposed compelling projects that are interdisciplinary, theoretically rigorous and exactly the sort of innovative research Mellon/ACLS aims to support.”

Schermann, Ilesanmi and Davis are among a cohort of 45 fellows selected from a pool of more than 700 applicants through a multi-stage peer review process that drew on the expertise of 170 scholars from institutions of higher education across the country.

Schermann is part of the inaugural cohort for this new category of fellowship created to support the most current and innovative movements in humanities fields.

“I feel incredibly proud and grateful to the ACLS, the FSU Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards and everyone who has helped me with my research,” Schermann said. “I’m ecstatic to receive such a prestigious award and reminded of how lucky I am to be surrounded by such a positive and caring community of professors, peers and friends.”

Schermann’s project, “Under the Skin: Monstrosity, Myth-Making, and Resistance Across and Beyond the Haitian-Dominican Border,” focuses on beasts, monsters and supra-human beings in Haitian and Dominican social imaginaries and folklores. Her work touches on different sets of mostly contemporary objects and artifacts, ranging from literature and visual arts to music and editorial practices.

One scholarly shortcoming Schermann aims to counter with her dissertation project is the segmentation of Haitian and Dominican Republic studies. Haiti and the Dominican Republic are two Caribbean countries that share the island of Hispaniola, with Haiti occupying the western half of the island and the Dominican Republic in the eastern half. Scholarship often separates the countries along borderlines with a focus on conflict.

“I want to participate in the scholarly effort to rewrite the island’s narrative away from tropes of essential enmity and mutual hatred,” she said.

Davis’s research, “Virginian Hip-hop in Hampton Roads: Investigating the Production of Place in the Tidewater Trio’s Music From 1990-2005,” sheds light on the Afro-Filipino musical collaboration of Chad Hugo, Shay Haley and Pharrell Williams, revealing interracial intimacies in historical narratives that play out in the interpersonal politics of Southern hip-hop.

“I appreciate the art of a well-crafted story,” Davis said. “As a musicologist, I get to tell all kinds of stories about the nature of humans and the sounds they make and encounter in everyday life. When we as humans play music, we can remember who we are and who we were, while working towards the future of who we wish to be collectively.”

Davis said she has wished for the opportunity to push the boundaries of scholarship beyond text-bound, print-based media.

“Winning this award helped me better understand who I am as an artist-scholar,” she said. “I am excited about the ways in which my thinking will mature after this year.”

Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Ilesanmi was drawn to musicology at an early age.

“I did not only want to know how to play or sing — I tried to understand why people make music,” Ilesanmi said. “I wondered why music was important in people’s lives within my community and beyond.”

Ilesanmi’s research topic draws upon this same curiosity. “The Sound of Black Solidarity: (Re)Incarnations of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in the Global Black Politics and Soundscapes” explores the enduring fascination with Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the Nigerian musician and pioneer of the Afrobeat genre. The project explores the enduring fascination with Kuti for the Black world, what it reveals about global Black experiences and solidarity, the conceptualization of Afro-musical aesthetics in the twenty-first century and the understanding of contemporary global Black soundscapes.

“Receiving this award means so much to me,” said Ilesanmi. “Of course, my project and research will be well-funded. However, on a much deeper level, this award marks and reflects the immense support and the quality mentorship I continue to receive at FSU, the College of Music and our Musicology program.”

The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation and administered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.

“ACLS is thrilled to partner with the Mellon Foundation to support these exceptional emerging scholars as they pursue pathbreaking research,” said Joy Connolly, ACLS president. “By expanding the range of research methodologies, formats and areas of inquiry traditionally considered acceptable for the dissertation, we can forge pathways toward a more diverse and inclusive academy.”

To learn more about how FSU graduate students can fund their academic endeavors, visit FSU’s Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards at  ogfa.fsu.edu .

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Five early-career scholars will contribute to Stanford’s research and teaching related to race and ethnicity.

Five early-career scholars in the study of race and ethnicity will join the Stanford community for three years beginning in fall 2023 as part of the IDEAL Provostial Fellows program. Launched in 2021, this novel program is designed to support the work of promising early-career researchers who will lead the next generation of scholarship in race and ethnicity.

The five scholars – Jennifer Alpert, Ariel Chan, Safyer McKenzie-Sampson, María Del Socorro Velázquez, and Sarah Riley – will join the first two cohorts of fellows who have been appointed since the program began.

“I’m pleased to welcome this year’s cohort of IDEAL Provostial Fellows to Stanford,” said C. Matthew Snipp, vice provost for faculty development, diversity and engagement. “They were selected for their impressive research in their fields and for their commitment to improving our society. I know they will contribute much to Stanford and beyond – ultimately, we hope their work will help us rethink and reshape race relations in this country.”

The 2023-26 fellows will work within Stanford schools and departments, where they will have a mentor selected from among Stanford’s Academic Council faculty. Each fellow will teach one course per year while expanding on their research. The IDEAL fellows also will help organize a major Stanford conference that will bring together scholars at the forefront of the study of race and ethnicity. This year’s conference, organized by the 2022-25 cohort, is scheduled for Oct. 12 and 13.

The IDEAL Provostial Fellows program was established by Stanford Provost Persis Drell to increase the amount of research and teaching related to race and ethnicity at Stanford, as well as nationally.

“One of the goals for this program is to provide a pathway to help diversify the national professoriate,” said Snipp. “In fact, some of our IDEAL fellows have already accepted faculty positions at Stanford and other institutions.”

Short profiles of the 2023-26 fellows follow.

Jennifer Alpert, Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages and Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures

Jennifer Alpert (Image credit: Courtesy Jennifer Alpert)

Jennifer Alpert is a film scholar interested in how cinema and media address and represent marginalized groups, with a focus on human rights in Latin America and its U.S. diaspora. Her research interests include the cinemas of Latin America, race and gender in Hollywood, genre, popular animation, colonialism and decolonial visual representation and theory, and migration in film.

She received her PhD in film and media from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2021. Since then, she has held a faculty appointment at Harvard University in the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature, where she has taught courses in Latin American and ethnic studies and advised undergraduate and graduate theses.

She has worked in the Hollywood film industry, including at Pixar Animation Studios and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, aiming to increase Latin American and Latinx representation in popular media. She currently serves as an advisor for the UCLA Film and TV Archive’s global cinema project Science Fiction Against the Margins.

Ariel Chan, linguistics

Ariel Chan (Image credit: Courtesy Ariel Chan)

Ariel Chan’s scholarship intersects the disciplines of bilingualism, heritage and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and interactional linguistics. Her research is centered on studying bilingualism in its own right, examining bilinguals’ language and cognitive development as a proper cultural form rather than an exception from white monolingual English norms.

She received her PhD in East Asian linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her dissertation research has been supported by a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award from the National Science Foundation.

She has also received multiple competitive intramural awards at UCLA, including a Dissertation Year Fellowship, a Hiroshi Wagatsuma Fellowship, a Sasakawa Graduate Fellowship, a Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship for International Studies, and a Teaching Assistant Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Safyer McKenzie-Sampson, medicine

Safyer McKenzie-Sampson (Image credit: Courtesy Safyer McKenzie-Sampson)

Safyer McKenzie-Sampson is a PhD candidate in epidemiology and translational science in the School of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Her research explores how exposure to structural and interpersonal racism during pregnancy and the postpartum period influences the risk of adverse perinatal outcomes in Black communities, with the goal of translating findings into interventions to increase birth justice.

Safyer’s dissertation investigated neighborhood-level structural racism as a risk factor for preterm birth and small-for-gestational-age birth among American- and African-born Black women currently residing in California.

She joins the School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics.

Sarah Riley, communication

Sarah Riley (Image credit: Courtesy Sarah Riley)

Sarah Riley is an information science PhD candidate at Cornell University, where she studies municipal algorithmic systems, race and racism, and inequality.

Her dissertation focuses on the administration of pretrial risk assessments in Virginia. She uses a mixed-methods approach to understand how human discretion in the pretrial process – particularly on the part of pretrial officers – affects risk scores, pretrial detention decisions, and life outcomes for accused people.

Her interest in municipal algorithmic systems arose while working at the New York City Department of Education to re-engage out-of-school youth and volunteering for the Dignity in Schools Campaign, a national coalition working to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline.

Her research is funded by the Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship, the MacArthur Foundation, and UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. She also holds a master’s in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from Amherst College.

María Del Socorro Velázquez, education

María Del Socorro Velázquez (Image credit: Courtesy María Del Socorro Velázquez)

Through her research, María Del Socorro Velázquez investigates the systems, structures, and processes that shape inequities in schools and communities. She also looks at how educators, families, and community members contest and disrupt inequities in schools and neighborhoods.

As a community-engaged scholar, Velázquez is actively working to expand the ways in which her scholarship and service align. She aims to bridge relevant and rigorous research with ongoing efforts to shape critical policies and practices toward transformative futures for minoritized and low-income youth and families.

Velázquez’s current research examines the connections between housing, educational policy, and place. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds an MA in Educational Policy from UW-Madison and a BA in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Each year, cohorts of four to five recent PhD recipients are selected for the program by a committee of Stanford faculty and appointed by the provost to a three-year term. Fellowships may be in any school of the university. To date, Stanford has recruited 15 scholars to the IDEAL Fellows Program, representing a wide variety of fields.

Read more about the IDEAL Provostial Scholars Program on the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Development, Diversity and Engagement website.

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• Published: 20 May 2011

Possibilities of including the taxonomy of soils and parent materials of Moscow city into the classification system of the soils of Russia

• I. I. Lebedeva 1 &
• M. I. Gerasimova 1  

Eurasian Soil Science volume  44 ,  pages 572–575 ( 2011 ) Cite this article

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The analysis of the taxonomy of the soils and soil-forming rocks of Moscow city was performed in view of the compatibility of the taxonomy proposed with the new classification system of the soils of Russia. The common platform, which determines the possibility to incorporate the taxonomy of urban soils into the new classification system, is the principle of the priority of the diagnostic horizons, which provides the properties-oriented conceptual background of the compared systems. It was shown that the considered classification developments do not have any fundamental differences either in ideology or in concrete manifestations. Some contradictions in place can be eliminated by respective discussions and agreements.

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Lebedeva, I.I., Gerasimova, M.I. Possibilities of including the taxonomy of soils and parent materials of Moscow city into the classification system of the soils of Russia. Eurasian Soil Sc. 44 , 572–575 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229311050103

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