Announcing the 2023–25 RBS-Mellon SoFCB Junior Fellows


The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) at Rare Book School is pleased to welcome its 2023–25 cohort of Junior Fellows. Many congratulations to all the new Junior Fellows; we look forward to seeing you at RBS!

The names and institutional affiliations of 2022–24 RBS-Mellon SoFCB Junior Fellows are:

Jiayi Chen – Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Du Fei – Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Cornell University

Heng Du – Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Wellesley College

Margaret Geoga – Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania

Sharmeen Mehri – Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Buffalo, State University of New York

Christina Michelon – Associate Curator, Special Collections, Boston Athenaeum

Taylor M. Moore – Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Alec Pollak – Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University

Neil B. Weijer – Curator of the Harold & Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection, Department of Special and Area Studies Collections, University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries

Carly Yingst – Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Harvard University