For the past ten years, a PSTC postdoctoral fellow has been funded each year by the NICHD. The two-year position allows fellows to spend part of their time working independently and part of their time working collaboratively with one or more mentors from among the PSTC's faculty associates. The PSTC's NICHD postdoctoral fellows have had great success in securing positions following their time at the Center.
NICHD Postdoctoral Fellows
Isabel García Valdivia
2022-
Isabel García Valdivia is a sociologist specializing in [im]migration, life course and aging, and race and ethnicity.
Sonia Rupcic
2020-2022
Rupcic is an legal and medical anthropologist who investigates social categories of harm. Through ethnographic attention to everyday practices of remedy and redress, she explores the intersection of gender, ethnicity and violence.
Maria Steenland
2018-2020
Steenland is a health scientist with training in epidemiology, health economics, econometrics, and impact evaluation. Her research uses econometric methods to evaluate maternal and reproductive health programs and policies in sub-Saharan Africa and in the U.S.
Elyse Singer
2017-2018
Elyse Singer is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. She is a qualitative medical anthropologist whose research centers on reproductive health, human rights, bioethics, gender, and citizenship.
Casey Miller
2016-2017
Miller is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Muhlenberg College. He is a cultural and medical anthropologist whose research examines the intersections of gender, sexuality, kinship, civil society, and health in China.
Andrew Fenelon
2012-2014
Fenelon is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Sociology and an Affiliate Member of the Population Research Institute at Penn State University. His main research interests focus on health disparities, population health, health policy, and methods.
Kenneth Maes
2010-2012
Maes is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Oregon State University. He is a biocultural medical anthropologist interested in links between health workers, health policy, and health outcomes.
Michelle Poulin
2008-2010
Poulin is a sociologist working in the Africa Region Gender Innovation Lab within the World Bank's Africa Region's Chief Economist's office. Her research interests include culture, economic activity, family and changes in the family, and methods of data collection.