The Center for Advanced Study announces the Associates, Fellows and Beckman Fellows for 2019-20.

The Center for Advanced Study announces the Associates, Fellows and Beckman Fellows for 2019-20. An asterisk before a name denotes a Beckman Fellow.

Associates

Dolores Albarracin, psychology, business administration and Carle Illinois College of Medicine; Steven Bradlow, mathematics; Marcelo Bucheli, business administration; David Cahill, materials science and engineering; Aida El-Khadra, physics; Christopher Freeburg, English; Charles Gammie, astronomy and physics; Vera Mikyoung Hur, mathematics; Fatima Husain, speech and hearing science; Lilya Kaganovsky, comparative and world literature and Slavic languages and literatures; Anke Pinkert, Germanic languages; Gilberto Rosas, anthropology and Latina/o studies; and Alex Shakar, English.

Fellows

*Jefferson Chan, chemistry; *Michael Dann, religious studies; *Ying Diao, chemical and biomolecular engineering; Citlali Lopez-Ortiz, kinesiology and community health; Benjamin Marx, economics; *Naveen Naidu Narisetty, statistics; and Julia “Jessie” Shelton, physics.

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