Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Celebration
The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships are part of a long heritage of funding for outstanding Ph.D. students from across varying disciplines dating back to the 1930s. Each spring, graduate programs from across the University of Michigan nominate their most talented scholars to receive this prestigious award. The recipients are advanced doctoral students who use the fellowship to complete their dissertation research and writing.
2025–2026 Predoctoral Fellows
The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards granted by Rackham Graduate School. Doctoral candidates who expect to graduate within six years since beginning their degrees are eligible to apply, and the strength and quality of their dissertation abstract, publications and presentations, and recommendations are all taken into consideration when granting this award. Congratulations to all of the following graduate students:
Biological and Health Sciences
- Philip Barrison
- Adrian Boltz
- Hannah Carter
- Kristofer Castro
- Monica Chanda
- Congyi Dai
- Angelo Guilatco
- Yi Hsiao
- Hyunwoo Jang
- Matheus Januario Lopes de Sousa
- Soubhagyalaxmi Jema
- Guoxuan Ma
- Rebecca Malcore
- Brandon McClellan
- Alexander Meyer
- Niloufar Pouyan
- Charlotte Probst
- Keerthikka Ravi
- Claire Shudde
- Stephanie Steltzer
- Natasha Stepanova
- Austin Ventura
- Xiaotong Yang
- Leyao Zhang
- Xingwu Zhou
Humanities and the Arts
Physical Sciences and Engineering
- Nishkarsh Agarwal
- Eva Albalghiti
- Justin Berman
- Anne Blackwell
- Anthony Chen
- Yingtian Chen
- HuaiHsuan Chiu
- Hyesun Chung
- Madeline Clough
- Sanaa Elsayed
- Zachary Fritts
- Alejandro Garcia
- Lucas Gomes
- Kaila Jenkins
- Ruya Karagulle
- Hyunsuk Kim
- Seokmu Kwon
- Thanh Lai
- Xiao Li
- Jisoon Lim
- Zhenyu Ma
- Felipe Maia Polo
- Firaol Midekssa
- Shiyu Sun
- Jeronimo Morales Toledo
- Hannah Myers
- Neha Nagpal
- Emily Nolan
- Urshita Pal
- Harsh Hemantkumar Patel
- Dongjae Shin
- Rachel Silcox
- Jingyu Song
- Unique Subedi
- Emily Thomas
- Mustafa Tobah
- Jingying Wang
- Hochul Woo
- Yuchen Wu
- Shihao Wu
- Minghui Wu
- Yuhao Xian
- Zirui Xu
- Diwen Xue
- Mingze Yao
- Can Yaras
- Carissa Yim
- Hongyu Zhou
- Yuan Zhu
Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Erina Baci
- Emma Banchoff
- Karin Brown
- Alex Burnett
- Sujin Cha
- Siyi Chen
- Sarah Day Dayon
- Reynolds Hahamovitch
- Matthew Hiller
- Brittany Joyce
- Martin Macias Medellin
- Irene Melani
- Marcela Ortiz Guerrero
- Valeria Ortiz Villalobos
- Morgan Perry
- Irene Routte
- Yu Song
- Pavani Vissapragada
- Morgan Wofford
- Anna Wood
- Liuyun Xu