Stony Brook University’s Susannah Glickman Awarded Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study

STONY BROOK, NY- July 30, 2026 - State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University) Assistant Professor of History, Susannah Glickman, was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). Glickman will complete her fellowship in the School of Social Science between 2026-2027.

This prestigious membership allows for focused research and the free and open exchange of ideas among an international community of scholars at one of the foremost centers for intellectual inquiry.

"The IAS fellowship will give both the time and intellectual community to fully develop my book in the ambitious directions I want it to go," said Glickman. "It also gives me the freedom to explore ideas both in a very natural direction for my work via the theme seminar on global political economy and those far but resonant or generative via the community and general seminar. I am excited for an intellectually productive year that helps me develop my scholarship in fresh and unexpected directions."

Professor Glickman is a historian who works on the history of science and political economy of the military-scientific-industrial-complex. She has a background in anthropology and mathematics. During her fellowship, Professor Glickman will be writing her book project about the rise and fall of the post-Cold War state through the lens of high-tech and defense industries.

"The Department of History is very proud, but not very surprised, that the Institute for Advanced Study recognized the quality and importance of Susannah's work," said Sara Lipton, professor and chair, Department of History. "Her analysis of the intersections between technology, industry, labor, and military policy illuminate the most pressing questions and prominent currents of our day."

Professor Glickman holds a PhD from Columbia University and has been working at Stony Brook since Fall 2023. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

IAS

Each year, IAS welcomes more than 250 of the most promising post-doctoral researchers and distinguished scholars from around the world to advance fundamental discovery as part of an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment. Visiting scholars are selected through a highly competitive process for their bold ideas, innovative methods, and deep research questions by the permanent Faculty-each of whom are preeminent leaders in their fields. Past IAS Faculty include, Albert Einstein, Erwin Panofsky, John von Neumann, Hetty Goldman, George Kennan, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Located in Princeton, NJ, the Institute for Advanced Study was established in 1930. Today, research at IAS is conducted across four Schools-Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science-to push the boundaries of human knowledge.

Among past and present scholars, there have been 35 Nobel Laureates, 44 of the 62 Fields Medalists, and 23 of the 27 Abel Prize Laureates, as well as MacArthur and Guggenheim fellows, winners of the Turing Award and the Wolf, Holberg, Kluge, and Pulitzer Prizes.