[Sci-tech-public] Clapperton Mavhunga named Poesis Fellow

[David Mindell]

I'm very happy to announce that STS Professor Clapperton Mavhunga has been
selected among the first group of Poesis Fellows. This is a new initiative
based at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. 

 

The Fellowship enables Prof. Mavhunga to join a community of researchers and
practitioners engaged in

rethinking the basic ways in which people make and remake the world we hold
in common. The

focus for the initial fellowship group is on cities. The fellowship consists
of a stipend and participation in a small, international network of junior
scholars and senior mentors who meet regularly to discuss research. 

 

Poesis is directed by Richard Sennett, University Professor of the
Humanities, and Craig Calhoun,

University Professor of the Social Sciences and Director of the Institute
for Public Knowledge at

New York University. A group of senior fellows is being formed, and already
includes Ash Amin

(geography, Durham University), Peter Claussen (engineer, Dresden), Gerald
Frug (Harvard Law

School), Bruno Latour (sociologist, Sciences Po, Paris), Klaus Mainzer
(physicist and information

scientist, Munich), Saskia Sassen (sociologist, Columbia University),
Alejandro Zarea-Polo (architect,

Spain and Britain).

 

The Fellowship will provide support for collective activities including
group meetings, opportunities

to share work in progress, and publications. Each Fellow will be assigned an
individual mentor from

the group of Senior Fellows. Pairings will be made across fields and
practice-an architect may be

mentored by an expert in particle physics-with the explicit understanding
that this will challenge

disciplinary thinking. Mentors will also be encouraged to invite their
Fellows to engage with their

own work, and Fellows will have opportunities to inform the current projects
of their mentors.

 

Please join me in congratulating Clapperton on this high, and well-deserved,
honor! 

 

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