Rini Mehta, Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literature, and Religion, Mehta has been named a Faculty Fellow for 2019-2020 by The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for her project, “The Big Picture: Media, Capital and Networks of Influence.”

Mehta, one of seven professors receiving such fellowships this year, will be working with NCSA collaborators Kalina Borkiewicz, Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, and Luigi Marini.

The NCSA Faculty Fellowship is a competitive program for faculty and researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign which provides seed funding for new collaborations that include NCSA staff as integral contributors to the project.

Additionally, Mehta has been selected as a recipient of the Public Voices Fellowship in its inaugural year at the University of Illinois, 2019-20. This program is sponsored by the Executive Vice-President/Vice President for Academic Affairs.

The Fellowship is a year-long program open to tenure system faculty that provides a cohort of twenty thought leaders, the majority of whom will be underrepresented (including women), with extraordinary support, leadership skills and knowledge to ensure their ideas shape not only their fields, but also the greater public conversations of our age.