Society of Fellows at BU Arts & Sciences

The Society of Fellows at BU Arts & Sciences is a vibrant community of current BU faculty and Postdoctoral Scholars committed to advancing excellent, innovative research and teaching, and interdisciplinary scholarship in the academy.

Letter from the Director

Boston University’s Society of Fellows was established in 2021 as a cross-disciplinary program fostering excellence in research and teaching across the liberal arts & sciences. Since then, we have welcomed new cohorts of outstanding Postdoctoral Scholars in fields such as ethnomusicology, women’s and gender studies, particle physics, archaeology, medieval literature, Black diaspora studies, political science, sociology, environmental studies, and more. As a broad constituency of postdocs and faculty, we are committed to the idea that it is by engaging with each other – within and across disciplinary expertise and conventions – we enrich our capacity to communicate about our intellectual passions, we gain often-unexpected ideas and insights, we nourish each other’s best work, and we perhaps even transform current and future modes of scholarly inquiry and production. These processes come alive during our weekly colloquium – the centerpiece of our programming – during which members share works-in-progress and we learn from each other through sustained and substantive interaction across different kinds of scholarship.

We are now delighted to open our community to advanced PhD students at BU through dissertation completion fellowships for the 2026-2027 academic year. If you are a PhD student in any discipline in BU’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and this sounds like something you want to be a part of, then please do follow the application links below. We look forward to learning more about your work!

Joanna Davidson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Faculty Director, Arts & Sciences Society of Fellows