Presidential Initiatives
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports the career development of outstanding Ph.D. recipients with great potential for advancing the ASU Charter through a future tenure track appointment at ASU. The fellowship program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, or service contribute to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion at ASU. Part of the LIFT Initiative, this program ensures our continued evolution as a premier public research institution with a fundamental responsibility to the communities that it serves.
About this program
Funding
Each Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship scholar will receive up to 2 years of funding. Options for a third or fourth year of funding may be offered, depending on each fellow’s progress and training needs.
Scholars will receive a minimum of $5,000 toward moving expenses and a minimum of $3,000 per year toward career development activities. It is expected that a majority of appointees will receive offers to continue their academic careers at ASU in a tenure track position. Such appointments will require a process of review within the designated tenure home unit.
ASU's commitment
ASU and its programs are committed to providing individualized mentorship and career development to ensure each scholar is well prepared to succeed in a future tenure track appointment. This commitment includes ensuring an inclusive research environment, including plans to integrate the postdoctoral scholar(s) into the life of the host department, relevant research labs, teaching, and unit culture and a plan for faculty training to accommodate, support and sustain faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Scholars will work with their selected mentors to collaboratively develop training goals and an Individual Development Plan.
Career development and community building will occur through programmatic support at the ASU Graduate College’s Postdoctoral Affairs Office and through research, teaching opportunities, and mentorship in the scholar’s hiring unit.
Training opportunities to build a community of support through networking, professional development and cohort-building activities with other Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship scholars as well as the broader community of postdoctoral scholars at ASU.
A special emphasis on training activities related to the transition toward a tenure-track position, including topics such as starting up a research group, preparing proposals, student recruitment, teaching with innovative methods, service to the university and profession, and navigating the tenure track process.
Participation in a peer mentoring program designed to bring together faculty from underrepresented backgrounds in their discipline who share an interest in a broad topic, a discipline or disciplinary group (e.g. “engineering”) at ASU. Each group will be paired with a senior faculty mentor who has committed to advancing faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion at ASU.
Call for Proposals
The program offers a commitment of centralized funding for two-year postdoctoral research positions, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, or service contribute to inclusive excellence at ASU. Awarded units will work with their college to submit hiring plans and secure funding to transition fellows to tenure-track appointments. This program ensures our continued evolution as a premier public research institution with a fundamental responsibility to the communities that it serves.
The success of this program rests on our commitment to provide an inclusive and supportive culture and high-quality training to prepare postdoctoral scholars for successful independent careers. This is fundamentally a faculty development program. Academic units therefore must commit to provide individualized mentorship and career development to ensure each candidate is well prepared to succeed in a future tenure track appointment.
All academic units (schools/departments) are eligible to apply. Units can propose to host a single postdoctoral scholar or a cohort of no more than three scholars. Academic units with tenure/tenure track appointments that are interested in hosting one or more scholars must submit a proposal to their college. The dean or a dean’s designee will determine which proposal(s) will advance to the selection committee for further review. The dean may set a deadline to facilitate internal review. Colleges may submit only one proposal per unit.
Submission
Call for Proposals for Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowships
Info Sessions for Faculty and Staff: Wednesday, July 31, 2024 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. and Monday, August 12, 2024 from 1:00-2:30 p.m. Preregistration is required.
Due Date for Proposals: Colleges interested in recruiting postdoctoral scholars through this program must submit a proposal through this link by September 18, 2024.
Selection
Contact
Academic units should contact Tiffany R. King with questions.
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowships
Scholar Name | Academic Unit |
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Mariam Abazeri | School of Human Evolution and Social Change |
Iris Acquarone | School of Politics and Global Studies |
Racquel Armstrong | Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College |
Ehiremen Azugbene | College of Health Solutions |
Michele Cadigan | Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics |
Rafael Ceja Ayala | School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences |
Keith Chew | School of Politics and Global Studies |
Amber Coleman | School of Art |
Nia Flowers | Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics |
Jian Gao | School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies |
Rolando Garcia | School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence |
Karena Gill | School of Earth and Space Exploration |
Saira Hamid | School of Earth and Space Exploration |
Leslie (Leke) Hutchins | School of Life Sciences |
Lydia Jennings | School of Sustainability |
Rebecca Kariuki | School of Sustainability |
Kyle Lopez | School of Molecular Sciences |
Kiara Lyons | College of Health Solutions |
Ishmael Miller | Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College |
Joan Ponce | School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences |
Daniel Tolosa | School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences |
Davina Two Bears | School of Human Evolution and Social Change |
Kay Varela | School of Criminology and Criminal Justice |
Esteban Vargas Bernal | School of Molecular Sciences |
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowships Advanced to Tenure-track Faculty
Assistant Professor Name | Academic Unit |
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Krystlelynn Caraballo | School of Criminology and Criminal Justice |
Nsa Dada | School of Life Sciences |
Adrian Fisher | School of Life Sciences |
Aaron Flores | School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning |
Matthew Jones | School of Life Sciences |
Lindsay Oluyede | School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning |
Eyitayo Omolara Owolabi | Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation |
JoAnna Reyes | School of Art |
Emmanuel Salifu | School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment |
Krystal Tsosie | School of Life Sciences |
Sa Whitley | School of Social Transformation |