Professor Meaghan O'Keefe has been selected as one of just twelve recipients across the nation for a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Serious interdisciplinary research often requires established scholar-teachers to pursue formal substantive and methodological training in addition to the PhD. New Directions Fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who seek to acquire systematic training outside their own areas of special interest. The program is intended to enable scholars in the humanities to work on problems that interest them most, at an appropriately advanced level of sophistication. In addition to facilitating the work of individual faculty members, these awards should benefit scholarship in the humanities more generally by encouraging the highest standards in cross-disciplinary research.
During her fellowship, Prof. O'Keefe will be pursuing additional training related to her research on "Technologies of Life."