Sponsors for Scholars and Visiting Fellows

Applicants for graduate fellowships and postdoctoral positions may select a sponsor from the following list of Field Museum scientists. Applicants are required to contact their prospective sponsor well in advance of the application deadline.

• Kenneth Angielczyk, MacArthur Curator of Paleomammalogy and Section Head, Earth Sciences e-mail
• Foreman Bandama, Assistant Curator of African Anthropology e-mail
• John Bates, Curator of Zoology (Birds) e-mail
• Rüdiger Bieler, Curator of Zoology (Invertebrates) e-mail
• Lesley de Souza, Conservation Scientist: Rapid Inventories e-mail
• Gary Feinman, MacArthur Curator of Mesoamerican, Central American, and East Asian Anthropology e-mail
• Adam Ferguson, Negaunee Collection Manager (Mammals), e-mail
• Lance Grande, Negaunee Distinguished Service Curator (Fossil Fishes) e-mail
• Felix Grewe, Genome Analyst e-mail
• Shannon Hackett, The Richard and Jill Chaifetz Associate Curator (Birds and Pritzker DNA Lab) e-mail
• Lawrence Heaney, Negaunee Curator of Mammals e-mail
• Philipp Heck, Robert A. Pritzker Curator for Meteoritics and Polar Studies; Head, Robert A. Pritzker Center; Interim Director, Negaunee Integrative Research Center(Meteorites, Terrestrial Rocks, Minerals) e-mail
• Thorsten Lumbsch, Curator (Botany) and Vice President, Science and Education e-mail
• Ben Marks, Collections Manager, Birds e-mail
• Caleb McMahan, Collections Manager, Fishes e-mail
• Jingmai O' Connor,  Associate Curator of Fossil Reptiles e-mail
• William Parkinson, Curator (Anthropology) and Section Head, Social Sciences e-mail
• Bruce Patterson, MacArthur Curator of Mammals e-mail
• Nigel Pitman, Senior Conservation Ecologist e-mail
• Richard Ree, Curator (Botany) and Section Head of Life Sciences e-mail
• Olivier Rieppel, Rowe Family Curator of Evolutionary Biology (Vertebrate Paleontology, history and philosophy of comparative biology) e-mail
• Sara Ruane, Assistant Curator of Herpetology e-mail
• Petra Sierwald, Associate Curator of Zoology (Insects) e-mail
• John Edward Terrell, Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology e-mail
• Maureen Turcatel, Collections Manager (Insects) e-mail
• Janet R. Voight, Women’s Board Associate Curator for Invertebrate Zoology e-mail
• Matt von Konrat, Collections Manager Bryophytes & Pteridophytes, Head, Collections e-mail
• Corine Vriesendorp, Andes-Amazon Program Director e-mail
• Alaka Wali, Curator, North American Anthropology Collections e-mail
• Patrick Ryan Williams, Associate Curator, Social Sciences e-mail

In addition to the above list, applicants for Visiting Scholarships and Bass Senior Visiting Fellowships may also select from the following list of prospective sponsors. Applicants are encouraged to contact their prospective sponsors as soon as possible.

• Abigail Derby Lewis, Conservation Ecologist e-mail
• Steve Goodman, MacArthur Field Biologist e-mail
• Matt Nelsen, Research Scientist, e-mail