2023 Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows

Baba Badji is a Senegalese/American poet, translator, and a comparatist whose multi-dimensional research studies Transnational Black Cultures, Critical Translation, and Poetry. Dr. Badji obtained his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. His work pursues an interdisciplinary analysis of Négritude that allows for a recognizing of the differences of people, cultures, and the systems of colonization within Africa and beyond. 

Corday R. Selden’s research weds field-based observations, laboratory experiments, and computational methods to investigate interactions between marine microbes and their environment and the imprints these dynamics impart.

Kiersten Formoso is a vertebrate paleobiologist who completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California. There, she studied the biomechanical and functional morphological controls of evolution into aquatic environments. For her Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship, she is taking a similar approach and instead asking whether or not certain aspects of an animal's terrestrial morphology and biomechanics may prevent aquatic specialization in the case of animals like dinosaurs.

Anat Chemerinski's research will focus on exploring the role of the endometrium in establishing healthy pregnancies through non-invasive techniques such as ultrasound.

Eun-Jin Keish Kim studies im/migration, diaspora, and feminist (dis)abilities focusing on queer and undocumented im/migration. She approaches history and literature through a transnational and multidisciplinary lens. Her work emphasizes social justice, women of color feminism, and undocuqueer episteme. 

Marisol Marroquín is a social worker with extensive clinical practice and research experience, which overall aims to improve health and mental health equity for historically marginalized communities, in particular for communities that are Latinx and autistic. Dr. Marroquín uses community-based participatory research methods to collaborate with and highlight the voices of the Latinx and neurodiverse communities.