Awards and Fellowships

Dean's Faculty Research Fellowship

2025-2026

Kathryn Maxson Jones

Kathryn Maxson Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History. Her research and teaching span the histories of science, technology, and medicine and related policy issues.

Dr. Maxson Jones plans to use her fellowship to bring to fruition two books and catapult research on forthcoming projects. The first book, Sea Change: The Squid Giant Axon and the Transformation of Neurobiology in the 20th Century, explores the intertwined histories of aquatic organisms, seaside laboratories, and biophysical and biochemical studies of nerves. Her second book examines shifting assumptions regarding the medical value of experiments with non-human, regenerating nerves, looking at the 19th through the 21st centuries. Taken together, these books provide fresh perspectives on how biology can impact medicine.

2024-2025

Javier Gomez-Lavin

Javier Gomez-Lavin is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University whose research lies at the intersection of cognitive science, moral psychology, and philosophy of mind.

During the fellowship, Dr. Lavin will be working on several large grant proposals related to his work on AI and VR, and he's finishing a draft of a manuscript that extends work done during his dissertation on working memory. He will also complete a series of journal articles in the new fields of computational philosophy of science and experimental philosophy.