2018 Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) Awardees
The Smithsonian Office of Fellowships and Internships (OFI) is pleased to announce the awardees of the 2018 Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP). Through this flagship program, fellowship awards are offered 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.
Jennifer Ackerfield
Colorado State University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
A Prickly Puzzle: Phylogeny, Evolution, and Diversification of the thistles Cirsium (Cardueae: Compositae) in North America
Alba Alvarez
Antwerp University
Museum Conservation Institute (MCI)
MCI Technical Studies Fellowship for Early 20th Century Costume and Fashion
Alice Assmar
Universidade Federal da Bahia
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Review, curation, and digitization of the spongeflies (Insecta: Neuroptera: Sisyridae) with a revision of the genus Climacia McLachlan
Renee Ater
University of Maryland
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past: Race, Memorialization, Public Space, and Civic Engagement
Andrew Bell
Boston University
Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA)
Digging Deep: Archaeologists and American Foreign Relations in a World of Empire, 1880-1945
Silas Bossert
Cornell University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
The better snack? Did broader pollen diets boost diversification in Mining bees?
Jessica Bouwmeester
Qatar University
National Zoological Park (NZP)
Physiology and reproductive challenges in reef-building corals exposed to a changing climate
Paul Brewer
Smithsonian Inst
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Origination and global estimation - Determining the size, source, and dynamics of global tree CH4 production
James Brookes
University of Nottingham, UK
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Picturing the Civil War: Visual Culture of the Rank-and-File
Andrew Brown
Texas A&M University
Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA)/ National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Ambassadors for Science: The Smithsonian-Peace Corps Environmental Program and Science Diplomacy in the 1970s
Sergio Cabrera-Cruz
University of Delaware
National Zoological Park (NZP)
Mapping migration stopover habitat along the southern Gulf of Mexico
Grace Capshaw
University of Maryland, College Park
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
A comparative study of the salamander auditory system: Assessing extratympanic pathways for hearing in an ecologically diverse group
Jose Centeno-Melendez
University of Texas, Austin
Smithsonian Latino Center (SLC)/ Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH)
The Changing Face of Latinidad: Salvadorian Place Making and Community Formation in the Nation’s Capitol
Aung Chan
Colorado State University
National Zoological Park (NZP)
Step-selection function to determine foraging strategies of Asian elephants in Myanmar
E-Chieh Chock
Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia
Freer Sackler Galleries (FSG)
Condition survey, technical study and conservation of Chinese lacquer furniture in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Caitlin Colleary
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Museum Conservation Institute (MCI)
How do proteins preserve in the fossil record?
Manuela DalForno
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Starting from scratch: Using whole genome sequencing to understand lichenization in Basidiomycota
Marjorie Dixon
University of Texas at Austin
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
The influence of bats on the nocturnal soundscape
Sarah Donelan
Northeastern University
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Using parental effects to improve oyster offspring performance in response to interacting environmental stressors in Chesapeake Bay
Luis Escobedo Morales
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
National Zoological Park (NZP)
Phylogeography and genetic diversity of the elusive Mesoamerican brocket deer Mazama pandora and M. temama
Jay Falk
Cornell University
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Function and Maintenance of Female-Limited Polychromatism in a Hummingbird (Florisuga mellivora)
Gabriela Farfan
MIT-WHOI Joint Program
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Assessing mineralogy, crystallography and morphological disorder in opals from biogenic and geological origins
Mael Glon
The Ohio State University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Taxonomic investigation of populations of devil crayfish (Cambarus diogenes) from the Eastern United States
Brett Gonzalez
University of Copenhagen
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Extreme Scale Worm Diversity: The Path to Pelagicism (Aphroditiformia, Annelida)
Christopher Green
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
Masked Moderns: Northwest Coast Native Art Beyond Revival
Peter Haffner
University of California Las Angeles
National Museum of African Art (NMAfA)
Making Hatian Art: The Production, Exhibition, and Circulation of the Work of Hatian Visual Artists
Jinbo Hou
University of California-Riverside
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
New insights into the exopod of the middle Cambrian trilobite Olenoides serratus from the Burgess Shale fauna
Laura Iglesias-Lukin
Rutgers University
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975
Travis Jones
University of Georgia
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
A High-Resolution Radiocarbon Settlement Chronology for the Middle Missouri Region, North and South Dakota
Hyoungee Kong
Pennsylvania State University
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Middle Class Women’s Japonisme in Popular Visual Culture 1870-1914
Boyoung Lee
University of Oxford
Museum Support Center (MSC)-Suitland
Protein Mass Spectrometry of Silks
Sarah Maccracken
University of Maryland, College Park
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Latitudinal variation of insect herbivory in Late Cretaceous North America
Rivka Maizlish
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH)
To Arrange and Rearrange: The Eighty Year Project of American Folk
Mary Mendoza
University of Vermont
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Unnatural Border: Race and Environment at the U.S.-Mexico Divide
Elizabeth Murray
Cornell University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Evolution and relationships of the Chrysidoidea and their relatives
Edward Myers
American Museum of Natural History
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Diversification Across South American Arid Biomes: Spatially Explicit Demographic Model Selection in Crotalus durissus
Karen Neves
Federal University of Uberlândia
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of ant assemblages in savanna and forest formations of the Brazilian Cerrado
Daniel Nicholson
Queen Mary University of London
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Natural Selection and contemporary evolution of atropical ectotherm in response to environmental
change
Joel Nitta
National Museum of Nature and Science
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
The Biogeographical Past and Future of Ferns in French Polynesia
Carlos Parra
University of Southern California
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Rediscovering the History of U.S. Spanish-Language Television through the American History “Escuchame” Collection
Carlos Peredo
George Mason University
NMNH
Feeding in a marine environment: convergence in cetacean and pinniped teeth
Jose Pons
Georgetown University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Unweaving Colorful Narratives: The Visual and Political Histories of Huichol People as seen through the Visual Archives of the National Museum of Natural History
Niklas Reichelt
Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Establishing Target Enrichment Probes to study the Evolution and Historical Biogeography of the Genus Zanthoxylum (Prickly Ash, Rutaceae)
Antonia Rodrigues
Simon Fraser University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Uncovering Traditional Marine Tenure Systems and Salmon Stewardship on the Northwest Coast of British Colombia: an Integrated Approach
Hassan Salem
Emory University
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Evolution of Nitrogen Fixation Genes in Symbiotic Cyannobacteria
Talia Shabtay
Northwestern University
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
From THINK to Look: Vision and the Mathematical Sciences in the Cybernetic Age, 1946-1961
Michaela Shifley
University of Montana, Missoula
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
The Economics of Blackfoot Moccasin Construction
Jieun Shin
University of Minnesota
Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA)/National Museum of American History (NMAH)
International Museum Building: The Korean-Smithsonian Project in the 1960s
Jacqueline Stewart
University of Chicago
National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
Everyday Technologies in Post World War II African American Home Movies
Benton Taylor
Columbia University
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
The hidden half of symbiotic nitrogen fixation: How the diversity of endosymbiotic bacteria influence nitrogen fixation rates
Pairwat Thammapreechakorn
Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum, Bangkok University
Free Sackler Galleries (FSGA)
Chinese Trade Ware Found in Southeast Asia: Advances in Origin, Dating and Identity
Samantha Thompson
Arizona State University
National Air and Space Museum (NASM)
Electronic Eyes: The development, promotion, and reception of electronic imaging in astronomy, 1954-1975
Phillip Troutman
The George Washington University
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
`Incendiary Pictures’: the Radical Visual Rhetoric of American Abolition in the 1830s
Nicole Welk-Joerger
University of Pennsylvania
National Museum of American History (NMAH)
Feeding Others to Feed Ourselves: Animal Nutrition and the Politics of Health since 1900
Jessica Williams
Harvard University
National Museum of African Art (NMAfA)
The Path to Apartheid: New Women Photographers and South Africa’s Documentary Tradition, 1938-48
Molly Womack
University of California
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Rampant middle ear evolution in frogs and lizards
Wenjing Xu
University of California, Berkeley
National Zoological Park (NZP)
Land Tenure Impacts on Wildlife Migration: A Social-Ecological Perspective on Wildlife Migration across Arid and Semi-Arid Rangelands
Michael Yuan
University of California, Berkeley
National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)
Concordance of Genetic, Morphological, and Cellular Convergence in Skin Color across Lesser Antillean Anoles