Michigan Society of Fellows

3572 Rackham Building
915 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070
Phone: (734) 763-1259
E-mail: society.of.fellows@umich.edu

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The Michigan Society of Fellows

2008-2011 Postdoctoral Fellowships Application

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 a multidisciplinary emphasis which gives the Fellows an opportunity to interact across disciplines and to expand their horizons and knowledge. While their own scholarship is enriched, the Fellows also enrich the University of Michigan through teaching during their residency and bringing new insights to other faculty members. 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 three Mellon Fellows annually in the humanities, expanding the number of fellowships awarded each year from four to seven. The newly appointed Postdoctoral Fellows join a unique interdisciplinary community composed of their peers as well as Senior Fellows. Past Fellows of the Society include some of the most distinguished scholars in the nation. The Chair of the Society is Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.

We invite applications from qualified candidates who are at the beginning of their academic careers, having received the Ph.D. or comparable professional or artistic degree between June 1, 2005 and September 1, 2008. Fellows are appointed as Assistant Professors in appropriate departments at the University of Michigan and as Postdoctoral Scholars in the Michigan Society of Fellows. They are expected to be in residence during the academic years of the fellowship, to teach for the equivalent of one academic year, to participate in the informal intellectual life of the Society, and to devote time to their independent research. The annual stipend will be $50,000.

Applications from degree candidates and recipients of the Ph.D. from The University of Michigan will not be considered.

Please see our online application instructions, or send requests for application materials to our contact information.