SCAS Announces Fellows of the Academic Year 2026-27 (6)
Three more SCAS Pro Futura Scientia Fellows will also join the cohort of Fellows in residence at the Collegium during 2026-27. You will meet them below.
Some Fellows will be in residence during the entire academic year, whereas others will be at the Collegium either during the autumn or the spring semester.
Further names will be announced throughout the spring.
More information about each Fellow will be available later on.
Previous announcements:
SCAS Announces Fellows of the Academic Year 2026-27 (1)
SCAS Announces Fellows of the Academic Year 2026-27 (2)
SCAS Announces Fellows of the Academic Year 2026-27 (3)
SCAS Announces Fellows of the Academic Year 2026-27 (4)
SCAS Announces Fellows of the Academic Year 2026-27 (5)
Jennifer Mack
Associate Professor of Theory and History of Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
About
Jennifer Mack is an anthropologist and historian of the built environment. Her manuscript, “Modernism’s Hereafters: Reports from the Welfare City,” analyzes Danish and Swedish modernist neighborhoods from their planning in the postwar period into the present, when they have been targeted for renovations and demolitions. This emerges from her ongoing Pro Futura project, “Public Modernism,” which counters the seemingly indelible idea of “failed” welfare cities by uncovering alternative narratives about them.
Jennifer Mack is a SCAS Pro Futura Scientia XVI Fellow, admitted to the programme in 2021. She will be in residence at the Collegium during the autumn semester of 2026.
Chakad Ojani
Researcher, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
About
Chakad Ojani’s research interests lie at the intersection of the anthropology of infrastructure, environmental anthropology, and science and technology studies. As a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, he is working on the project “Infrastructuring the Extra-terrestrial, Un-earthing Anthropology.” Taking Sweden as its ethnographic focus, this study investigates the making and reshaping of (extra)planetary ecologies through various forms of infrastructural mediation. Specifically, Ojani will examine the discursive, material, and speculative practices whereby environments – both on and off Earth – are reimagined and modified amidst contemporary efforts to infrastructuring Earth’s orbital environment and beyond. Against this empirical backdrop, the project seeks to elucidate the possibilities and limitations of a geocentric politics of the environment and climate change.
Chakad Ojani is a SCAS Pro Futura Scientia XVIII Fellow, admitted to the programme in 2023. He will be in residence at SCAS during the autumn semester of 2026.
Lewis Webb
Associate Professor of Ancient History, University of Gothenburg
About
As a Pro Futura Fellow, Webb will use anthropological and psychological perspectives to critically examine religious crisis management in ancient Italian communities. His project is entitled ‘Enduring Uncertain Futures: Constant Crisis, Religious Coping Practices, and Social Resilience in Roman Republican Italy’.
Lewis Webb is a SCAS Pro Futura Scientia XIX Fellow, admitted to the programme in 2025. He will be in residence at SCAS during the academic year 2026-27.