Edelstein Fellowship

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For more information on funding support from the Edelstein Fellows Program, contact Evva Parsons at [email protected].

Edelstein Fellows Program Information

Graduate student training and research has been at the heart of the Edelstein Family Foundation’s commitment to the American Mosaic Project (AMP) since its inception. Indeed, the “Edelstein Fellows” program has provided direct support of graduate students from diverse backgrounds who work in the core areas of race, religion, anti-Semitism, and diversity. In the past five years alone, the Foundation has provided substantial educational support and research experience to eleven different graduate students in the Sociology department, and this isn’t even to mention the additional dozen or so who benefited from working on the American Mosaic Project research team before that.

Support from the Foundation for graduate students has included year-long fellowships in students’ first year as well as fellowships for summer research support and collaborative research projects with the principal investigators using American Mosaic Project data.

Project Alumni and Placements

Funding from the Edelstein Foundation has supported more than a dozen students throughout the years through several waves of data from 2004, 2014, and 2018. Below are where alumni who have worked with the project have secured positions:

  • Christine Delp (incoming Assistant Professor at University of Oklahoma, PhD 2026)

  • Amber (Hamilton) Alton (Innovation Consultant, MN Dept of Employment and Economic Development, PhD 2022)

  • Edgar Campos (Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University (on leave)/Lecturer at University of California Davis, PhD 2022)

  • Ryan Larson (Assistant Professor at Hamline University, PhD 2022)

  • Neeraj Rajasekar (Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Springfield, PhD 2021)

  • Jacqui Frost (Assistant Professor at Purdue University, PhD 2020)

  • Alex Manning (Research Scientist at Yale University, PhD 2019)

  • Evan Stewart (Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts Boston, PhD 2019)

  • Jack Delehanty (Associate Professor at Clark University, PhD 2018)

  • Paul Croll (Professor at Augustana College, PhD 2008)

  • Joyce Bell (Associate Professor at University of Chicago, PhD 2007)

  • Melissa Weiner (Professor at Holy Cross, PhD 2006)

  • Darren Wheelock (Professor, Marquette University, PhD 2006)