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.

Meet the fellows

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 4^th or 5^th 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

Previous Cohorts

Meet the 2023 Fellows

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We are pleased to present the 2023 Provost’s Early Career Fellows Cohort from a variety of disciplines and colleges across the university. Please join us in welcoming this talented group of individuals, already engaged in exciting, scholarly work in their areas of expertise. Click on the name of each fellow for more information.