Pro Futura is an advanced research program in the humanities and social sciences that the Riksbanken Jubileumsfond (RJ) runs together with the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS). Selected universities and colleges are invited to nominate up to four researchers per institution. For a number of years, a handful of foreign universities have also been invited to nominate researchers.

The sixteenth round resulted in two women and two men being admitted to the program, they contribute in a wide range of research in the humanities and social sciences:

• Thor Berger, nominated by Lund University: Intergenerational Mobility from the Past to the Present
• Wally Cirafesi, nominated by Lund University: Rewriting the History of Ancient Synagogues and Jewish - Christian Relations in the Roman and Byzantine East: The First Seven Centuries
• Jennifer Mack, nominated by KTH: Public Modernism: Reports from the Welfare City
• Ester Oras, nominated by the University of Tartu: Dairy Diaries: Ancient Biomolecules Reveal the Deep History of Domesticated Ruminants and their Products in the Eastern Baltic

SCAS is responsible for the preparation of the program with the help of an international preparation committee. The researchers stay as an essential part of the program at institutes for advanced studies, together with highly qualified researchers from different countries and disciplines.

For more information about Pro Futura contact SCAS at info@swedishcollegium.se

More about Pro Futura: www.rj.se/Forskning_finansiering/Om-rjs-stodformer/Pro-Futura/