Society of Fellows
The Michigan Society of Fellows, under the auspices of the Rackham Graduate School, was established in 1970 with endowment grants from the Ford Foundation and the Horace H. and Mary Rackham Funds. Each year the Society selects four outstanding applicants for appointment to three-year fellowships in the social, physical, and life sciences, and in the professional schools. In 2007 the Mellon Foundation awarded a grant to add four Mellon Fellows annually in the humanities, expanding the number of fellowships awarded each year from four to eight. The newly appointed 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. Alumni Fellows of the Society have gone on to become distinguished scholars at institutions around the world. The Chair of the Society is Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.
0540 Rackham Building
915 E. Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070
Phone: (734) 763-1259
E-mail:society.of.fellows@umich.edu
2017-18 Postdoctoral Fellowships—Weiser Center, University of Michigan
EMERGING DEMOCRACIES POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
Fellowship period: September 2018 – May 2020
Application deadline: January 15, 2018
The Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED) at the University of Michigan invites postdoctoral scholars to apply for the Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship supports research on the broad historical, political, economic, and societal conditions under which democracies emerge—and autocracies endure. [Read more]
Eligibility:
We welcome excellent applicants from all disciplines. Eligibility is restricted to those who have received their PhD after January 1, 2016 and before beginning the fellowship.
Application:
The application instructions are available at ii.umich.edu/wced. Inquiries may be sent to wced.postdoc@umich.edu.