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SCAS News - 15 June, 2021

A New Generation of Fellows Appointed to the Pro Futura Scientia Programme

Today, the Swedish Collegium is pleased to announce the names of the promising researchers who
have been appointed Pro Futura Scientia XVI Fellows. The Pro Futura Scientia programme is a
cutting-edge research programme in the humanities and social sciences, to which admittance is based
upon nominations. A collaboration between the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) and
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ), the programme offers talented early-career scholars optimal research
conditions and the chance to pursue curiosity- driven research during a five-year period.

The sixteenth round of the programme since its inception in 1999 attracted a total of 30 nominations,
out of which four promising researchers – two women and two men - have now been selected.

The new Fellows are:
(listed in alphabetical order)

Thor Berger, Department of Economic History, Lund University (nominated by Lund University).
Research project: Intergenerational Mobility from the Past to the Present

Wally Vincente Cirafesi, Department of Biblical Studies and Theology, The Moody Theological
Seminary of Chicago (nominated by Lund University).
Research project: Rewriting the History of Ancient Synagogues and Jewish-Christian Relations in the
Roman and Byzantine East: The First Seven Centuries

Jennifer Mack, School of Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (nominated
by KTH Royal Institute of Technology).
Research project: Public Modernism: Reports from the Welfare City

Ester Oras, Department of Archaeology. University of Tartu (nominated by University of Tartu)
Research project: Dairy Diaries: Ancient Biomolecules Reveal the Deep History of Domesticated
Ruminants and their Products in the Eastern Baltic

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ABOUT THE PROGRAMME:
The Pro Futura Scientia programme was initiated in 1999 by the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
(SCAS) and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). Thanks to the carefully designed structure of the programme,
talented scholars are given optimal scope for developing as researchers, over several years and in stimulating
environments, and it has thus proved to be an attractive career path.

The programme attracts promising young scholars not only from Sweden, but also from abroad. An increasing
number of researchers from the international arena enter the Swedish university and research system this way.
The important role that the programme has come to play in the Swedish academic system over the years is
shown through the large number of current or former Pro Futura researchers that have taken up distinguished professorships, and/or have been elected members of scholarly academies and societies and joined research
councils and key bodies at universities.

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