PLAN, Manage Your Professional Development as a Graduate Student
Michigan Society of Fellows
0540 Rackham Building
915 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070
Phone: (734) 763-1259
Fax: (734)
E-mail: society.of.fellows@umich.edu
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. The most distinctive aspect of the Society is its multidisciplinary emphasis. 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. Past 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.
The Society invites applications from qualified candidates at the beginning of their academic careers, having received the Ph.D. or comparable professional or artistic degree between June 1, 2007 and September 1, 2010. Applications from degree candidates and recipients of the Ph.D. from the University of Michigan will not be considered. Non-US citizens may apply.
The 2009 Michigan Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship Application deadline has passed, and no more submissions will be accepted. Applicant Materials for the 2010 Fellowship will be available on June 1, 2010.
University of Michigan
Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies
915 E. Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
