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Current Fellows

2025-26

The Fellows are in residence for the entire academic year, unless otherwise specified.

Invited Fellows 2025-26:

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Egil Asprem (Spring 2026)
Sabbatical Fellow, SCAS

Professor of History of Religions, Stockholm University

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Navnita Chadha Behera
Fellow, SCAS

Professor of International Relations, University of Delhi

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Peter Bergsten (Spring 2026)
Sabbatical Fellow, SCAS

Professor, Department of Medical Cell Biology and Affiliated Researcher, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University

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Anders Ekström
Global Horizons Senior Fellow, SCAS

Professor of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University

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Johan Elverskog
Fellow, SCAS

Dedman Family Distinguished Professor, Professor of Religious Studies, and, by courtesy, Professor of History, Southern Methodist University

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Sahana Ghosh (Autumn 2025)
Fellow, SCAS

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, National University of Singapore

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David Goldstein (Spring 2026)
Human Past Senior Fellow, SCAS

A. Richard Diebold Jr. Professor of Indo-European Studies, Professor of Linguistics & Professor of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles

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Anthony Jakob
Human Past Junior Fellow, SCAS


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Dana Katz
Fellow, SCAS

Researcher, Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main

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Andreas Kirschning (March 2026)
Sabbatical Fellow, SCAS

Professor of Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover

Guest Professor of Chemistry, Uppsala Biomedical Center (BMC), Uppsala University

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Geoffrey Maguire (Spring 2026)
Fellow, SCAS

Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Cambridge

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Jing-Bao Nie (Autumn 2025)
Barbro Klein Fellow, SCAS.

Professor of Bioethics, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago

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Niklas Olsen (Autumn 2025)
SCAS-Nordic Fellow, SCAS

Professor of Intellectual History, University of Copenhagen

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Hugo Reyes-Centeno (Autumn 2025)
Human Past Senior Fellow, SCAS

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Kentucky

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Feyda Sayan-Cengiz (Spring 2026)
Barbro Klein Fellow, SCAS

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Manisa Celal Bayar University

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Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed (Autumn 2025)
Fellow, SCAS

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Uppsala University

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Paul Seaward (Spring 2026)
Fellow, SCAS

Emeritus Director, The History of Parliament Trust, London

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Jane Shaw (Autumn 2025)
Fellow, SCAS

Professor of the History of Religion, University of Oxford

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Hanna Shevtsova
SCAS-VUIAS Fellow, SCAS

Principal Researcher, Institute of Industrial Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

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Samuli Simelius
SCAS-Nordic Fellow, SCAS

Researcher, University of Helsinki

Pro Futura Scientia Fellows in Residence 2025-26:

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Chakad Ojani (Spring 2026)
Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS

Researcher, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University

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Olle Risberg
Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS

Researcher, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University.

Project Coordinator, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm

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Ylwa Sjölin Wirling
Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS

Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg

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Julia Velkova
Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS

Professor of Media and Culture, Linköping University

Research Affiliate, Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Jack Wright
Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS

Associate Professor of Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg

Non-Resident Long-term Fellows in Residence 2025-26:

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Naoko Shimazu (September 2025)
Non-resident Long-term Fellow for Programmes on Modern History and International Relations, SCAS

Professor and Deputy Director, Tokyo College, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo

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Michael John Watts (Mid-September - October 2025)
Non-resident Long-term Fellow for Programmes on the Political Economy of Development and Development Policy, SCAS.

Class of ‘63 Professor of Geography Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley.

Visiting Professor, Committee on Environment, Globalization &