Initiative
Provost’s Early Career Fellows
The Provost’s Early Career Fellows program aims to support postdoctoral fellows and graduate students in their pursuit of attaining academic positions at top tier institutions. Fellows are promising early career scholars from all disciplines and backgrounds who would benefit from our programmatic offerings.
Program Description
The purpose of this training program allows early career researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduating PhD students to develop and pursue research and teaching topics upon which a future academic career can be built. The program enables fellows to build a network of emerging scholars and benefit from the mentorship of top faculty in their field.
Provost’s Early Career Fellows will join an energetic community of other fellows training in different departments across the university. Fellows participate in support activities that equip them with research, scholarship, creative activities and professional skills necessary to successfully undertake independent academic research and teaching at UT Austin or other top research-intensive institutions. This initiative also provides guidance to facilitate their transition to an independent, tenure-track faculty position. In addition, the program enables fellows to form a network of emerging scholars and benefit from the mentorship of top faculty in their field. Through our programmatic offerings, we are investing in the career development and professional growth of future faculty.
Program Participation
The Provost’s Early Career Fellow’s program is open to current postdocs and 4th or 5th year Ph.D. students who are already at the University of Texas at Austin and who may be first generation academics and/or scholars who would benefit from interaction in a community of practice.
Consideration for the 2023-2024 cohort is closed.
Advisory Committee for Early Career Fellows
Catherine Cubbin | Steve Hicks School of Social Work |
Marvin Hackert | Graduate Studies |
Sharon L. Wood | Executive Vice President and Provost |
Martin Kevorkian | Department of English |
Miyong Kim | School of Nursing |
Brad Love | Moody College of Communications |
Raul Madrid | Department of Government |
Deborah Parra-Medina | College of Liberal Arts |
Shelley Payne | College of Natural Sciences |
Stephen Russell | College of Natural Sciences |
Mark Smith | Graduate School |
Elizabeth Vandewater | Office of the Vice President for Research |
Additional Information
For questions about the program and process, please contact:
Dr. Del Watson
Director of Faculty Engagement
provost.office@austin.utexas.edu
Meet the 2023 Fellows
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Department of History

Department of Anthropology

Department of Mexican American &Latina/o Studies

Population Research Center andDepartment of Psychology

Department of Psychology

Department of Mexican American &Latina/o Studies

Theater and Dance

David Alfonso Castilla-Casadiego
Department of Chemical Engineering

Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering

Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering

Computational Engineering and Sciences

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Educational Psychology

Kinesiology and Health Education

School of Social Work

Natasha (Quynh Nhu) La Frinere-Sandoval
School of Social Work

School of Social Work

School of Social Work

Department of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

Nutritional Sciences

Neuroscience

Integrative Biology and Marine Sciences

Integrative Biology

Astronomy

Nutritional Sciences

Department of Molecular Biosciences

Department of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

Center for Learning and Memory

Molecular Biosciences

Molecular Biosciences

Department of Chemistry

Strategic Academic Initiatives

LBJ School of Public Affairs

LBJ School of Public Affairs

School of Information

Jackson School of Geosciences