Marjorie Boulton Fellowships Awarded
1 August 2026
The Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) awarded a Marjorie Boulton Fellowship in 2026 to:
- Lauren Salig, University of Michigan
Lauren “Ren” Salig is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan (https://umich.edu/), who holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science from the University of Maryland (www.umgc.edu/). Starting in August 2026, she will be an Assistant Professor of Psychology at The College of New Jersey. (https://tcnj.edu/) Working at the intersection of psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience, Dr. Salig studies how variation in language contexts and experiences affects language processing and cognition. For example, her dissertation work suggests that bilinguals pay more attention after hearing a switch between their languages. With the support of the Marjorie Boulton Fellowship, Dr. Salig will continue to evaluate how different language contexts affect bilinguals’ learning and attention, working to better inform policies that can best support students in educational settings.
The Boulton Fellowships support research in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, particularly as they relate to interlinguistics, linguistic justice, intercultural communication, Esperanto, and related phenomena. They were created in honor of the legacy of the late Marjorie Boulton, a prolific author of plays, poems, and prose in Esperanto, as well as the leading biographer in English of L. L. Zamenhof. Previous Fellowship recipients include postdoctoral researchers Edwin Micheilsen (now at the University of Hong Kong) and Guilherme Fians (currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of St. Andrews), Magdalena Madany-Saa, who recently defended her PhD at Pennsylvania State University and Cecilia Gialdini, a postdoctoral researcher at Ulster University. More information on past recipients.
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