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Manja Holland
Michigan Fellow
Ph.D., Yale University, 2008
U-M affiliation(s)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Contact information
University of Michigan
Kraus Natural Science Building
830 N. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
Phone: (734) 764-9426
Fax: (734) 763-0544
Email: manja@umich.edu |
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Fields of study
Disease ecology
Academic background
B.A., Carleton College, 1998
M.S., Cornell University, 2003
Ph.D., Yale University, 2008
News
Michigan Society of Fellows: EEB now boasts two Fellows
The Michigan Society of Fellows, under the auspices of the Rackham Graduate School, was established in 1970 with endowment grants from the Ford Foundation and the Horace H. and Mary Rackham Funds. Each year the society selects four outstanding applicants for appointment to three-year fellowships in the social, physical, and life sciences, and in the professional schools. In 2007, the Mellon Foundation awarded a grant to add four Mellon Fellows annually in the humanities, expanding the number of fellowships awarded each year from four to eight. These diverse young scholars share their creativity and excellence through interaction and mutual enlightenment, making a truly unique contribution to the quality of scholarly life at U-M.
EEB is fortunate to currently have two Michigan Fellows. Manja Holland joined EEB in 2008 after earning her Ph.D. with distinction from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She researches the ecology of disease with a particular focus on environmental contexts that promote disease emergence as well as collateral effects on communities. Her previous research focused on patterns of macroparasite infection and disease in amphibian hosts in the human-dominated landscapes of the northeastern U.S.
Holland is also interested in the broader role of parasites in structuring ecological communities and food webs and maintaining biodiversity. Holland taught Disease Ecology in 2008-2009 with Professor Johannes Foufopoulos.
Evan Economo, EEB's new Michigan Fellow, hails from the University of Texas at Austin where he earned his Ph.D. in ecology, evolution and behavior. His research interests are in three interrelated areas: biodiversity theory, which seeks to mechanistically explain patterns of diversity across geographic space and across the tree of life; the ecology, evolution, and biodiversity of ants in the Pacific islands, a spatially complex network of communities; and biological scaling, particularly the consequences of allometric scaling of metabolism for populations and ecosystems.
Professor and Chair Deborah Goldberg is currently a Senior Michigan Fellow. “It saves my sanity,” she says of her experience, “and reminds me why I wanted to be at a university.”
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