Comprised of distinguished faculty from across campus, the Fellowship Board determines recipients of the Graduate College's main fellowship and grant programs. Those programs include the Illinois Distinguished Fellowships, Doctoral & Master's Merit Fellowships, Aspire Fellowships, Distinguished Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities & Arts, Dissertation Completion Fellowships, and Travel Grants. The Fellowship Board also advises the Graduate College on fellowship-related issues and plays a key role in helping the University of Illinois recruit and support exemplary graduate students.
Fellowship Board Membership 2022-2023
Staff
Ken Vickery, Director of Fellowships
section 1: diversity & INCLUSION recruitment fellowships (dOCTORAL/mASTER'S mERIT fellowships & aspire fellowships)
Engineering, Physical Sciences, & Mathematics (Area I)
| Karen Mortensen | 2022-2025 | Mathematics |
| R. Mohan Sankaren | 2022-2025 | Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiation Engineering |
| Vetle Torvik | 2021-2024 | Information Sciences |
Humanities & Arts (Area II)
| Manisha Basu | 2020-2023 | English |
| Jason P. Chambers | 2022-2025 | Media |
| Adam Kruse | 2022-2025 | Music |
Social & Behavioral Sciences & Professional Programs (Area III)
| Andrew J. Greenlee | 2022-2025 | Urban & Regional Planning |
| Brian Jordan Jefferson | 2022-2025 | Geography & Geographic Information Science |
| Sharde Smith | 2021-2024 | Human Development & Family Studies |
Biological & Agricultural Sciences (Area IV)
| Juanmahel Davila | 2021-2024 | Comparative Biosciences |
| Zeynep Madak-Erdogan | 2022-2023 | Food Science & Human Nutrition (Graduate College Faculty Fellow) |
| James O'Dwyer | 2022-2025 | Plant Biology |
section 2: illinois distinguished fellowships, distinguished graduate fellowships in humanities & arts, dissertation completion fellowships, & travel grants
Engineering, Physical Sciences, & Mathematics (Area I)
| Lance Cooper | 2021-2024 | Physics |
| Wawosz Dobrucki | 2020-2023 | Bioengineering |
| R. S. Sreenivas | 2022-2025 | Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering |
Humanities & Arts (Area II)
| Christina Bashford | 2020-2023 | Music |
| Javier Irigoyen-Garcia | 2021-2024 | Spanish & Portuguese |
| Peter Leslie Mortensen | 2022-2025 | English |
Behavioral & Social Sciences & Professional Programs (Area III)
| Christy L. Lleras | 2022-2025 | Human Development & Family Studies |
| Anna-Maria Marshall | 2020-2023 | Sociology |
| Matthew S. Winters | 2022-2025 | Political Science |
Biological & Agricultural Sciences (Area IV)
| Maria Cattai de Godoy | 2021-2024 | Animal Sciences |
| CheMyong Jay Ko | 2022-2025 | Comparative Biosciences |
| Yuan-Xiang Pan | 2022-2025 | Food Science & Human Nutrition |