The Offices of the Dean of the Graduate School and the Dean of the Faculty are pleased to share the Deans’ Faculty Fellows Program for 2023-2024. The Deans’ Faculty Fellows program will award selected students a two-semester academic year appointment as Visiting Assistant Professors, following completion of the Ph.D. degree.
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Deans’ Faculty Fellows Opportunities
View the Opportunities for Deans’ Faculty Fellows. The program will prioritize opportunities that involve hosting students from departments that have paused admission, support DIAP-related courses, are aligned with University teaching and administrative needs, and offer students valuable career development.
Typically, the fellowship involves teaching or co-teaching one course each semester in a host department. Deans’ Faculty Fellows may take on additional research or teaching duties if funding is available from grants or other departmental sources.
Applicant Eligibility
Applicants must be recent Brown PhD alumni, who have the PhD in hand, or Brown doctoral students who commit to completing all requirements for the degree (including completing, defending, and depositing the dissertation) by August 1 of 2023. Applicants may be in any year of their graduate program at the time of application, including in year six or above. Brown PhD alumni who received the degree in October 2022 or earlier are not eligible.
The program is open to students of all nationalities. However, international students will have to arrange with the Office of International Students and Scholars (OISSS) for authorization for employment for the term of the appointment (Optional Practical Training). Please note that many students are limited to just 12 months of OPT, and the appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor will count for 9 months of the OPT. Interested international students should consult in advance with OISSS and follow all guidance as directed, as the process is time-sensitive and delays may prevent stepping into the DFF role.
Applicant Selection Criteria
The applicant selection criteria will include the applicant’s record of excellence in teaching and scholarship; their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; their timely completion of the degree (with extra consideration for applicants completing in 6 years or less), or, for applicants who do not have the PhD in hand, their timely progress toward degree completion and their plan for completion; and, for all applicants, the support from the advisor and department.
Application
The application will be available through UFunds. Applicants should review the posted Deans’ Faculty Fellows opportunities before applying.
- Step 1: Applicant completes the Deans’ Faculty Fellows application form in UFunds, including the email address of their faculty advisor, director of graduate study, and department chair. Applicants may apply to be considered for up to three posted Deans’ Faculty Fellows opportunities. (The application will be available under “Graduate School Distinctive Opportunities” in UFunds.)
- Step 2:The DGS and advisor receive an email prompting them to complete the relevant section of the form in UFunds. When applicable, Chairs receive a request to confirm funding availability.
Timeline and Funding
Fellows appointed for the 2023-2024 academic year will receive a salary of $35,000 for 9 months. Fellows who are not otherwise insured and who seek health insurance through Brown will receive an additional taxable health subsidy of $6,500 to be added to their salary. For graduate programs that did not pause admissions for 2021-2022 admissions cycle, funding for positions will be drawn primarily from departmental resources
- January 9, 2023: Deadline for Hosts to Submit Requests for DFF positions
- January 17, 2023: Positions posted and applications made available to DFF applicants
- February 13, 2023: Applications due from DFF applicants
- Late February / Early March: Offers to DFFs made
Please note that applicants who are eligible for COVID Appointment Extensions may apply for a summer-only appointment extension if selected for a DFF and/or submit an application for an academic year extension if not selected for a DFF.
Questions
For questions, please contact Senior Associate Dean of Student Development, Vanessa Ryan at graduate_dean@brown.edu or Byrd McDaniel, Assistant Director of Student Development.
Current Deans’ Faculty Fellows
- Flor Chiaramonte
Department: Hispanic Studies - Laura Chilson-Parks
Department: History of Art and Architecture - Sloane Garelick
Department: Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences - Rob Grace
Department: Political Science - Emily Joyce
Department: Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences - Nicholas Kahn
Department: Comparative Literature - Matthew Lueckheide
Department: Chemistry - Sarah McGrath
Department: Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences - David Mullins
Department: Comparative Literature - Christian Obst
Department: German - Kaitlyn Quaranta
Department: French and Francophone Studies - Les Robinson
Department: History - Eleanor Rowe
Department: English - Amber Vistein
Department: Music
Past Deans’ Faculty Fellows
Ethel Barja Cuyutupa
Department: Hispanic Studies
Aimee Bourassa
Program/Department: Urban Studies
Cyrus Cousins
Program/Department: Computer Science
Pedro de Almeida
Program/Department: Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Christopher DiBona
Program/Department: Religious Studies
Matthew Ellis
Program/Department: Modern Culture and Media
Berta Garcia Faet
Department: Hispanic Studies
Michael Gastiger
Department: English
Claire Grandy
Center/Institute: Pembroke Center
Leland Grigoli
Department: History
Cassandra Guan
Department: Science and Technology Studies
Warren Harding
Department: Africana Studies
Milen Ivanov
Department: Applied Mathematics
Morris Karp
Center/Institute: Cogut Institute
Erica Kinias
Department: History of Art and Architecture
Christopher Lee
Department: English
Kristine Li
Department: Political Science
Alex Marko
Center/Institute: Joukowsky Institute
Sean Monahan
Department: Political Science
Emily Monty
Department: History of Art and Architecture
Jon Nelson
Department: Sociology
Michelle Rose
Department: Political Science
Miriam Rothenberg
Center/Institute: Joukowsky Institute
Simeon Simeonov
Department: History
Jan Stockbruegger
Department: Political Science
Yuezhu Sun
Department: Anthropology
Tanner Walker
Department: Religious Studies
James Wang
Department: History
Christopher Yates
Department: English
Brett Zehner
Department: Theatre and Performance Studies
Jatan Burch
Department: Physics
Course: Space Invaders: Astroparticle Probes of Dark Matter Physics
Nikole Bonacorsi
Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Course: 500 Million Years of Land Plants
John Krantz
Department: Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Course: Sustainability and Mineral Resources
Ross Parker
Department: Applied Math
Course: Applied Dynamical Systems
Ian Russell
Department: Hispanic Studies
Course: Queer Aesthetics and Intimacies en Español
Silvia Stubnova
Department: Egyptology and Assyriology
Course: Life on the Nile: Ancient Egypt Beyond the Pharahos
Virginia Thomas
Department: American Studies
Course: Queering Oral History: Theory and Practice and Building Alternative Archives
Alyssa Anderson
Department: American Studies
Dissertation Title: Violence and the Repertoire: Coming of Age in the Age of Mass Shootings
Course: From Eternal Sunshine to Lieux de Mémoire: Memory and Forgetting in Popular Culture
Claudia Becerra-Mendez
Department: Hispanic Studies
Dissertation Title: Personas, Animales y Objetos: Hacia una Ética de la Relación en la Poesía Latinoamericana de los Sesenta y Setenta
Course: Animals and Poetry: Toward a 20th century Latin American Bestiary
Benjamin Chilson-Parks
Department: Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Dissertation Title: The Geochemistry of Cenozoic Volcanism in the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone, 34⁰S-38⁰S: Evaluating the Role of Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle in Alkali Magma Petrogenesis
Course: Assembling Rhode Island
Mamikon Gulian
Department: Math
Dissertation Title: Discovering and Solving Fractional Partial Differential Equations: Machine Learning and Monte Carlo Methods
Course: Machine Learning of Differential Equations
Rebecca Haubrich
Department: German Studies
Dissertation Title: Mourning (M)others: Images of a Maternal Education
Course: Mis(s)Education: Feminist Undoings of the German 'Bildungsroman'
Tavid Mulder
Department: Comparative Literature
Dissertation Title: The Peripheral Metropolis: The City, Montage and Modernity
Course: The Torn Halves of Modernism
Brian Stankus
Department: Chemistry
Dissertation Title: Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics: Photochemistry in Real Time
Course: CHEM0330: Equilibrium, Rate, and Structure
Joseph Skitka
Department: Physics
Dissertation Title: Quasilinear Modeling of Planetary Boundary-Layer Turbulence
Course: Introduction to Fluids
Alyce de Carteret
Department: Anthropology
Dissertation Title: The Craft of Housebuilding among the Classic Maya
Course: Ancient Worldviews: The Archaeology of Belief and Ritual
Andrew Dufton
Department: Archaeology & the Ancient World
Dissertation Title: Processing the City: Urban Change and Social Transformation in Roman North Africa (246 BCE- 193 CE)
Course: Worlds divided: Towards an Archaeology of Inequality
Patrick Heck
Department: Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Dissertation Title: The Role of Uniqueness Motivation in Self- and Social- Judgement
Course: Social Judgement & Decision Making
Virginia-Eirini Kilikian
Department: Applied Math
Dissertation Title: Developing Mathematical Models of Chemotaxis by Motile Bacteria
Course: Introduction to Scientific Computing
Natalie Lozinski-Veach
Department: Comparative Literature
Dissertation Title: Creaturely Constellations: Animals, Literature, and Critical Thought after Auschwitz
Course: Species Matters: Animals in Literature, Film, and Theory
Philip Zucker
Department: Physics
Dissertation Title: Novel Probes Topological Orders
Course: Topological Matter
Natalie Adler
Department: Comparative Literature
Dissertation Title: Beyond the Poetic Principle
Course: Convulsive Beauty: Hysteria in the Arts
Mark Cetilia
Department: Computer Music and Multimedia
Dissertation Title: Schaulust: A Study in Light and Sound
Course: The Art of Sound: Applied Synthesis Techniques
Müge Durusu
Department: Archaeology and the Ancient World
Dissertation Title: Occupy Hattuša: Views from the Borderlands of the Hittite Empire
Course: From Gilgamesh to Hektor: Heroes of the Bronze Age
Rachel Gostenhofer
Department: History
Dissertation Title: The Pursuit of Priority in Enlightenment Paris
Course: Piracy, Patents, and Intellectual Property
Elizabeth Makrides
Department: Applied Mathematics
Dissertation Title: Structure and Stability in Localized Patterns
Course: Quantitative Models of Biological Systems
John McNeill
Department: Economics
Dissertation Title: Essays on Menu Preference: Flexibility and Commitment
Course: Behavioral Economics
Rijuta Mehta
Department: Modern Culture and Media
Dissertation Title: The Anticolonial Snapshot: South Asian Disruptions
Course: Colonial Visions
Martin Willis Monroe
Department: Egyptology and Assyriology
Dissertation Title: Advice from the Stars: The Micro-Zodiac in Seleucid Babylon
Course: Theory and Thought in the Ancient World
Timothy Raben
Department: Physics
Dissertation Title: Regge Scattering and Applications to Strong Coupling Phenomenology
Course: Quantum Technology and Information: How Quantum Mechanics Permeates Society and Paves the Way for the Future
Nathaniel Trask
Department: Applied Mathematics
Dissertation Title: High Order Meshfree Methods for Direct Numerical Simulation of Incompressible Fluid Mechanics
Course: Finite Volume Method for Computational Fluid Dynamics: A Survey