2016 Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) Awardees
The Smithsonian Office of Fellowships and Internships (OFI) is pleased to announce the 2016 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 the Institution. They are key to the Smithsonian’s aspiration to discover, create, innovate and diversify.
You can find out about the 2017 Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP), as well as its affiliated programs, here.
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Ingrid Ahlgren
Australian National University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Marshallese weaving patterns: Encoding class and clan through design
Alvita Akiboh
Northwestern University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Material Culture and the Making of American Identity in the U.S. Overseas Possessions
Sophie Barbisan
Institut National du Patrimoine
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Local cleaning of stained artworks on paper with rigid gels
Remi Bardou
University of California, Los Angeles
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Using physiological tolerance experiments to understand the processes that set mangrove range limits in North America
Kate Baumann
University of Queensland
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Hardening up: Metal composition in aculeate ovipositors
Meaghan Beadle
University of Virgina
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
This is What a Feminist Looks Like! Photography and American Feminism, 1968-1987
Mary Benage
Georgia Institute of Technology
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Explosive volcanic plume dynamics: examination of air entrainment through experiments, image analysis of eruptions, and numerical models
Kelly Bennett
University of Manchester
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Population history and adaptive landscape of the invasive arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus.
Paul Brewer
Colorado State University
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (SERC)
Origination and global estimation - Determining the size and source of global tree methane production
Sophie Brockmann
Institute of Latin American Studies
Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA)/National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Researchers in the Field: Science and Society in Central America, 1873-1940
Eliana Buenaventura Ruiz
University of Copenhagen
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
What Highly Conserved DNA Regions tell us about evolution: Anchored hybrid enrichment and massively parallel sequencing for comparative studies at shallow evolutionary time scales of flesh flies
Javier Carrera Rubio
University of Maryland
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
A Dialogical Approach to the Art of Yanomami Storytelling
Jennifer Chuong
Harvard University
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
The Chargeable Surface: Investment, Interval, and Yield in Early America (1760-1820)
Laurel Collins
Florida International University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Paleobiogeography of Neotropical Neogene Foraminifera
Kathy Curnow
Cleveland State University
National Museum of African Art (NMAfA)
Splendor, Spectacle and Substance under Oba Esigie: Sixteenth-Century Art and Culture in the Benin Kingdom
Diana Delicado Inglesias
Justus Liebig University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Why do taxa differ in species richness? A multifactorial evolutionary investigation of microgastropods
John Devaney
University of College Cork
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (SERC)
Land-Use History and Regeneration of Natural and Plantation Forests
Mariana Di Giacomo
University of Delaware
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Museum Conservation Institute (MCI)
Deterioration of organic and inorganic coatings and consolidants in natural science collections
Pavel Dobyrynin
National Zoological Park (NZP)
Applying novel genomic tools to improve management of endangered ungulates in herds
Michael Donovan
Pennsylvania State University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Origins of extant plant-insect associations in the Paleocene and Eocene of the Western Hemisphere
Dan Du
The University of Georgia
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
American Tea Consumption in the Nineteenth Century
Meaghan Duell
Arizona State University
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Predicting climate change effects on animal physiology: the role of temperature in size-dependent scaling of flight performance
Tracy Ehrlich
The New School
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (CH)
Carlo Marchionni’s Eloquent Figures: Redefining the Early Modern Architectural Drawing
Nathaniel Evans
University of Florida
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Patterns of molecular evolution associated with physiological adaptation to low-salinity environments in Portunoid crabs.
Eric Griffin
University of Pittsburgh
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (SERC)
Evaluating the degree to which host identity, diversity, and traits structure endophyte communities: a large-scale experimental approach
Daniel Guadagnolo
University of Wisconsin-Madison
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Segmenting America: Historical Approaches to Niche Marketing
Marcus Guidoti Soares
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Phylogeny of Tingidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera)
Amanda Guzman
University of California, Berkeley
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)/ Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Reassembling Puerto Rican Object Narratives: the Vidal Collection at the National Museum of American History & the National Museum of American Art
Taylor Hains
Fordham University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Historical Population Demographics and Functional Adaptations of Crocodylus in Latin America: Implications for Crocodilian Evolution and Conservation
Elizabeth Harmon
University of Michigan
Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA)/ National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
The Politics of Surplus Wealth: Philanthropic Foundations and the Creation of a Third Sector in U.S. Society and Culture, 1860-1930
Charlotte Herbert
University of California Davis
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Evolution, Prey-Specificity, and Venom in Assassin Flies (Diptera: Asilidae)
Pedro Jimenez Mejias
Washington State University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Spread and diversification of Boreo-temperate elements in the Neotropics: Carex L. as a case study.
Annika Johnson
University of Pittsburgh
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Agency and the Confluence of Eastern Dakota and Euro-American Visual Cultures in the Upper Midwest, 1836-1912
Maggie Johnson
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Taking the pulse of coral reefs in the face of global change: Implications of ocean acidification for sustainability of biodiversity and function
Rachel Tess Korobkin
Yale University
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Sculptural Bodies of the Great Depression
Naa Oyo Kwate
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
National Museum of Natural History (NMAH)
Race at the drive-thru: African Americans and fast food’s color line
Adrianna Link
The Johns Hopkins University
Smithsonian Institute Archives (SIA)/ National Museum of Natural History (NMAH)
Urgent Anthropology: Salvaging a Record for Humankind, 1964-1984
Lauren Linsmayer
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Diel Cellular Metabolism and Oxygen in Healthy and Bleached Corals
Laura Logozzo
CUNY City College
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (SERC)
Microbial degradation of marsh-exported carbon
Phyllis May-Machunda
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH)
Kate Rinzler: Documenting & Presenting African American Children’s Folklore at the Festival of American Folklife
Christina Michelon
University of Minnesota
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)/ National Museum of Natural History (NMAH)
Interior Impressions: Printed Material in the Nineteenth-Century American Home
Alexander Morgan
University of Virginia
National Air and Space Museum (NASM)
Investigating Processes of Alluvial Fan Formation and Evolution and the Implications for Mars’ Climate
Dana Moseley
College of William and Mary
National Zoological Park (NZP)
How do urban environments affect the song and mating preferences of a vocal mimic?
Troy Murphy
Trinity University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Hybridizing titmice and pre-mating reproductive isolating via a communication signal of status
Sylvester Ogbechie
University of California Santa Barbara
National Museum of African Art (NMAfA), Smithsonian Libraries (SIL)
Rethinking African Art History: Indigenous Arts, Modernity, and Discourses of the Contemporary.
Giorgi Papashvili
Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
Freer and Sackler Galleries (FSG)
Photography of Antoine Sevruguin and its East-West Cultural Context
Silvia Pavan
City University of New York
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Tracking the evolutionary history of Neotropical squirrels (Sciuridae)
William Pressly
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
America’s Paper Money: A Canvas for an Emerging Nation
Gabriela Procopio Camacho
Federal University of Parana
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Taxonomy and phylogeny of Gnamptogenys Roger (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ectatomminae): A genomics perspective to the relations within the genus
Levi Prombaum
University College London
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
James Baldwin’s early portraits, 1945-1966
Rosannette Quesada
Universidade de Sao Paulo
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution (STRI)
Sex role reversal in a neotropical harvestman with exclusive paternal care: male mate choice and female competition for access to mates
Adela Roa-Varon
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Multi-scale phylogenetics of Gadiformes with emphasis on hakes (Merluccius, Merlucciidae), a high- priority group for fisheries conservation.
James Rosenow
University of Chicago
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), National Museum of Natural History (NMAH)
“For God’s Sake Don’t Call it Art”: The 1930s American Laboratory and its Film Experiments
Bernardo Santos
Richard Gilder Graduate School
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Evolution of convergent functional systems in a hyperdiverse clade of parasitic wasps: a morphospace approach using phylogenomic ultraconserved elemen
Lauret Savoy
Mount Holyoke College
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
On the River’s Back: A History of Landscape and Mixed Heritage in the Chesapeake Tidewater and Piedmont
Sherri Sheu
University of Colorado-Boulder
Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA)/ National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Spencer Baird, G. Brown Goode, and Nineteenth-Century American Fish Knowledge
Jieun Shin
University of Minnesota
Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA)/ National Air and Space Museum (NASM)
Displaying Cold War Science: The Planning of The National Air and Space Museum, 1946- 1976
Jennifer Sichel
University of Chicago
Archives of American Art (AAA)
Criticism without Authority: Gene Swenson, Jill Johnston, Gregory Battcock
Helis Sikk
The College of William and Mary
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
The Limits of Citizenship: LGBT Media and Transgender Identity
Bruno Sotto Mayor
National Museum - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
National Museum of African Art (NMAfA)
Rethinking Chokwe Art History
Laura Southcott
University of Chicago
Smithsnoian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Genetic and behavioural underpinnings of reinforcement in Costa Rican Heliconius butterflies
Calandra Stanley
University of Maryland, College Park
National Zoological Park (NZP)
Seasonal Interaction Assessment via Stable Isotopes in a Migratory Songbird, the Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)
Emma Stein
Yale University
Freer and Sackler Galleries (FSG)
All Streets Lead to Temples: Mapping Monumental Histories in Kanchipuram (Tamil Nadu, South India), ca. 690 - 1199 CE
Justin Tackett
Stanford University
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
“Listening Between the Lines: Sound Technology and Poetry, 1850-1930”
Amelia Villasenor
The George Washington University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
“Vegetation and mammalian community variation within the Pliocene Afar and Turkana Basins”
Kate Wersan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Natinal Museum of American History (NMAH)
Between the Calendar and the Clock, an Environmental History of American Timekeeping from 1660-1920
LaShanda Williams
Rutgers University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Exploring oral bacterial diversity of early 20th century European immigrants and New York City residents
David Wright
The Ohio State University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
How do mass extinctions reshape ecologic diversity in the marine biosphere? Evaluating pre- and post-extinction dynamics with fossils and phylogenies
Wenjing Xu
The University of Georgia
National Zoological Park (NZP)
Impacts of railway/highway on Habitat use of the Tibetan antelopes in Hoh-Xil National Reserve, China
Hannah Yohalem
Princeton University
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
The Johns Device: Bodies, Words, and Objects in Jasper Johns’s Art, 1954-1968