Congratulations 2017 Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program Awardees!
The Smithsonian Office of Fellowships and Internships (OFI) is pleased to announce the 2017 Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Awardees. SI Fellowships are offered in order to provide opportunities for graduate students, predoctoral students, and postdoctoral and senior investigators to conduct research in association with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff, and to utilize the resources of SI. They are key to the Smithsonian’s aspiration to discover, create, innovate and diversify.
You can find out about the 2018 Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) here.
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2017 Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program Awardees
Chelsey Armstrong
Simon Fraser University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Indigenous Forest Gardens: Ancient Cultural and Ecological Impacts on Contemporary Landscapes
Rita Austin
The University of Oklahoma
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Microbes and Museums: Creating a Smithsonian Collections Oral Microbiome Database
Leann Biancani
University of Maryland, College Park
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
The Evolutionary History of Visual Strategies in Hyperiidea
Jessica Burch
Tougaloo College
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Door to Door Capitalism: Direct Selling in America from the New Deal to the Internet Age
Yecheng Cao
Princeton University
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (FSGA)
Comparative Studies on the Yangtze Bronzes in the Freer and Sackler Galleries
Marcos Caraballo-Ortiz
The Pennsylvania State University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Phylogeography and plastome evolution of Neotropical mistletoes.
Gerald Carter
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
How do vampire bats develop and enforce reciprocal food sharing?
Joyce Chery
University of California Berkeley
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Systematics of Paullinia and the evolution of vascular cambial variants
Christian Cloke
University of Cincinnati
National Museum of American History (NMAH) and Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Iconography of the “Other” on Ancient Greco-Roman and American Money
Nathan Cooper
National Zoological Park (NZP)
How does winter weather and habitat drive the migration timing, survival, and reproductive success of an endangered migratory bird?
Sarah Cowan
University of California, Berkeley
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Mending Abstraction: Howardena Pindell’s Black Feminist Critiques, 1967-1986
David Curry
Baltimore Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Hayes Presidential China in the Context of 19th Century American Painting
Anastasia Day
University of Delaware
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Productive Plots: Nature, Nation, and Industry in the Victory Gardens of the U.S. World War II Home Front
Gustavo deMiranda
University of Copenhagen
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Phylogeography of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: whip spiders as a model system using a combination of next generation sequencing and multi-locus appr
Michael Donovan
Pennsylvania State University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Evolutionary and ecological responses of insect herbivores to glacial-interglacial climatic fluctuations in the Middle Pennsylvanian-Early Permian
Margaret Doolin
SUNY Oneonta
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Using molecules and morphology to understand diversity in Neoechinorhynchus (Acanthocephala)
Henry Fandel
Binghamton University
National Zoological Park (NZP)
Patterns of Inbreeding in the Critically Endangered Island Endemic, Corvus kubaryi
Irene Feinkle
University of Melbourne
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) & Museum Conservation Institute (MCI)
Investigation into methods of testing fluids used to preserve natural history specimens
Rebecca Fenton
Indiana University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Cloth as Conduit: Art, Fashion, and Commerce in Mande Diasporas
Karl Fetter
University of Vermont
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Computer-assisted detection of stomatal traits from epidermal images.
Spring Greeney
University of Wisconsin-Madison
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Line Dry: An Environmental History of Doing the Wash, 1845-1992
Mark Hauser
Carnegie Mellon University
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
All the Comforts of Hell: Doughboys and American Mass Culture, 1916-1921
Miriam Hiebert
University Of Maryland
Museum Conservation Institute (MCI)
The Applications of Atomic Layer Deposited Films for the Prevention of Glass Disease
Megan Holycross
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Partitioning of vanadium in high pressure systems as a function of oxygen fugacity
Charlotte Horlyck
University of London
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (FSGA)
Collecting Korean art and the rise of the Korean art market, 1880-1950
Peter Hosner
School for Field Studies
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Callum Kingwell
Cornell University
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Group living through chemistry: queen pheromones in social evolution
Rebecca Koll
University of Florida
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Taxonomic relationships, insect herbivory, and floral diversity of the Early and Middle Permian Landscape of Western Pangea
Perrin Lathrop
Princeton University
National Museum of African Art (NMAfA)
A Sublime Art: Akinola Lasekan and Colonial Modernism in Nigeria
Jun Lim
University of California, Berkeley
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Evolution
Chan Lin
University of Maryland Baltimore County
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Comparative neuroanatomy in hyperiid amphipods: how sensory adaptations shape their brains
Lucey Noelle
University of Pavia
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
The role of phenotypic plasticity and adaptation in marine ectotherm?s long-term persistence to increasingly warm and hypoxic coastal habitats
Alison Martin
Indiana University
Anacostia Community Museum (ACM)
Hearing Gentrification: Soundscape Analysis in Shaw, Washington, DC
Carlos Martinez
Greifswald University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
New World Scolopendromorpha Online Database and revision of New World Scolopendra types
Nokuthula Mbanyana Nhleko
Stellenbosch University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Unraveling the phylogeography of the southern African ant genus Ocymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): using a genetic and morphological approach.
Rebecca Mendelsohn
University at Albany, SUNY
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Ancient Plant Use on Mexico’s Pacific Coast
Lara Mouttham
National Zoological Park (NZP)
Characterizing and Mitigating the Effects of Cryopreservation on Global Genomic Structure and Function in the Ovarian Tissue.
Samantha Muka
University of Pennsylvania
Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA)
Water Worlds: Aquarium expertise and the amateur professional borderlands, 1880-1930
Kevin Mulder
University of Porto
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Stuck on an island: exploring the parallel evolution of viviparity within Salamandra salamandra on the Holocene islands of Ons and San Martino.
Murad Mumtaz
University of Virginia
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (FSGA)
Sufi Icons: Mullah Shah, Jahanara, Dara Shikoh, and the Birth of a Genre
Danielle O’Steen
University of Maryland
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Plastic Fantastic: American Sculpture in the Age of Synthetics
Ivan Prates
City University of New York
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
The evolution of sexual signals in mainland anole lizards: a comparative genomic approach
Adam Pritchard
Yale University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
The Early Evolution of Crown-Group Reptiles: New Perspectives on Anatomical Innovation & Ecological Diversification
Natalia Przelomska
University of Cambridge
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Deified to extinction? Insights into human impacts on Hawaiian forest birds through the genomic analysis of `ahu`ula (feather capes)
Mei Rado
Bard Graduate Center
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (FSGA)
Arresting Silk: Textiles, Representation, and Narrative in Late Imperial China
Crystal Rie
Georgetown University
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Korean Cuisine in the USA: Introduced, Reshaped, and Incorporated
Katherine Riestenberg
Georgetown University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Describing Zapotec tone: Implications for historical linguistics and language conservation
Susana Rodriguez
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Performing Exile: Cuban-American Women’s Performance Art, 1972-2014
Shay Rotics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
National Zoological Park (NZP)
Pre-mortem movement analysis: A general approach to understanding mortality causes by tracking animals to their death
Peter Schafran
Old Dominion University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Unraveling the evolutionary relationships of allotetraploid species of Isoetes in the eastern United States and adjacent Canada
Hillary Sebeny
Florida State University
Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA)
After Alone: Richard Evelyn Byrd and the Decline of Heroic Exploration in the United States, 1934-1957
Brian Sedio
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Does evolution of chemical defenses drive the diversification of plant lineages?
Andrew Sellers
McGill University
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Effects of Seasonal Upwelling on Algal-Herbivore Interactions in Tropical Intertidal Communities
Holly Shaffer
Dartmouth College
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (FSGA)
Viral Media: European and American Prints of India
Sherri Sheu
University of Colorado-Boulder
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Bass Americana: An Environmental History of America’s Favorite Fish
Christina Smith
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Determining drought resistance of lianas and trees with leaf anatomy and visualization of embolism
Lynette Strickland
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Tracking the genes involved in metallic coloration through development in C. alternans
JosephThompson
University of Virginia
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Sounding Southern: Music, Militarism, and the Making of the Sunbelt
Juan Uribe
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Phylogenomic Relationships of Vetigastropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda): Capture by Hybridization of DNA of Exotic Specimens from Museum Collections
Emily Voelker
Boston University
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Performing Indigeneity Abroad: Prince Roland Bonaparte’s Photographs of Plains Indians in 1880s Paris
Rachel Walker
University of Maryland, College Park
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
A Beautiful Mind: Faces, Beauty, and Brains in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1780-1860
Charnan Williams
University of Michigan
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Slavery and Freedom in the City of Angels: Black and Indian Angelenos from Mexican Independence to the Civil War, 1821-1865
Brett Wolfe
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Do tropical trees routinely suffer and repair hydraulic damage?
Rebecca Wolff
University of California, Los Angeles
National Museum of African Art (NMAfA)
Artistic Production Surrounding the Nigerian Civil War
Jennifer Yordy
Cornell University
National Zoological Park (NZP)
A comprehensive approach to improve management of an endangered wild canid
Michael Yuan
University of California, Berkeley
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Convergent Evolution of Lesser Antillean Anoles in Response to Xeric-Mesic Environmental Gradients