Lantz named to Michigan Society of Fellows

The Michigan Society of Fellows is welcoming its newest cohort of 13 senior fellows including Paula Lantz, Ph.D., M.S., M.A., professor of public policy. Lantz joins 16 other faculty who were appointed in years past to help create a spirited intellectual community and serve as models, mentors and colleagues for the society’s postdoctoral fellows.

The Society of Fellows, under the auspices of the Rackham Graduate School, was founded in 1970 by seven U-M faculty members, including then-president Robben Fleming, to stimulate cross-disciplinary awareness and exchange. Out of these conversations have come new ideas, methodological experiments and collaborative projects.

“The Society of Fellows serves a unique and vital function at the University of Michigan, especially in establishing a committed, connected community in which sustained dialogue can take place across disciplinary and generational lines,” said President Santa J. Ono.

Drawing from across all scholarly and artistic fields, the society welcomes six postdoctoral fellows each year for three-year terms, and a group of senior fellows, drawn from distinguished faculty across the university, for four-year terms.

Continuing the long tradition of presidential commitment to the society, Ono invited 13 candidates to join the society as senior fellows.

Senior fellows help select the newest cohort of postdoctoral fellows, participate in monthly dinners at which all the fellows present their newest work, and recommend a new cohort of senior fellows each year.