Ayten Gündoğdu, Tow Associate Professor of Political Science, and Matthew Keegan, Moinian Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures have been selected for fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2024–25 academic year.
Established in 1930, IAS fosters an international community of scholars who engage in free and open exchange of ideas and intellectual inquiry. The institute conducts research across the four Schools of Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science. Through a competitive selection process, more than 250 of the world’s most promising post-doctoral researchers are chosen as visiting scholars each year. Membership in this prestigious organization allows for focused research and the free and open exchange of ideas among an international community of scholars at one of the foremost centers for intellectual inquiry.
Gündoğdu and Keegan will join the ranks of IAS scholars who have previously included luminaries such as Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, 35 Nobel Laureates, and more. As part of their collaboration with IAS, both professors will develop research projects that push the boundaries of human knowledge. Gündoğdu will complete a book on migrant deaths and disappearances, examining the regime of impunity surrounding racialized operations of border violence. Keegan will research the understudied poetry and prose of the era between the First Crusade and the fall of Baghdad to the Mongols.