#  Fellowships 

 



##  The Center offers postdoctoral fellowships and dissertation completion fellowships to scholars working on research that crosses disciplinary and divisional boundaries. 

 

 

 

##  Our Fellowship Programs 

 



  [### Postdoctoral Fellowships

 ](/postdoctoral-fellowships)The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for five one-year postdoctoral fellowships on the topic of the environmental humanities, drawn from any humanistic discipline.



 

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  [### Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion Fellowships

 ](/interdisciplinary-dissertation-completion-fellowships)The Mahindra Humanities Center offers two annual dissertation completion fellowships open to Harvard graduate students. These fellowships are intended to support work that crosses disciplinary (and even divisional) boundaries



 

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##  Current Fellows 

 



  [### Oliver Aas

 ](/people/oliver-aas)Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 

      ![Oliver Aas](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Aas_photo.jpg?h=55eec6c2&itok=dHZCtJF7) 

 

 

 

   [### Lama Elsharif

 ](/people/lama-elsharif)Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 

      ![Lama Elsharif](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Elsharif.png?itok=DHWPdLEy) 

 

 

 

   [### Pujita Guha

 ](/people/pujita-guha)Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 

      ![Pujita Guha](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Untitled%20design%20%2825%29.png?itok=oWGuIOxx) 

 

 

 

   [### Manuela Luengas Solano

 ](/people/manuela-luengas-solano)Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 

      ![Manuela Luengas Solano](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/MLS%20Photo-bio.jpg?h=3d15bd83&itok=zgw0TKpB) 

 

 

 

   [### Cana McGhee

 ](/people/cana-mcghee)Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion Fellow

 

 

 

      ![Cana McGhee](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/mcghee.jpg?h=522d6e6a&itok=k3hA8x1v) 

 

 

 

   [### Julia Mead

 ](/people/julia-mead)Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 

      ![Julia Mead](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Mead_Headshot_2025.jpg?h=a73f94f9&itok=8uHNYCeJ) 

 

 

 

  

 

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