E-Mail IMAGE: NYU's Sonali Shukla McDermid, an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Studies view more Credit: Mathew McDermid New York University's Sonali Shukla McDermid has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, one of 26 selected to the 2021 class for a program that provides support for scholars in the social sciences and humanities, the Carnegie Corporation of New York announced today. Fellows will each be supported by $200,000 "to fund significant research and writing in the social sciences and humanities that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society," the philanthropic foundation said in making its announcement, adding that the criteria for selection "prioritize the originality and promise of the research, its potential impact on the field, and the scholar's plans for communicating the findings to a broad audience."