Announcing the 2025-2026 SEI Research Fellows

September 4, 2025

The Script Encoding Initiative's Research Fellows program provides mentorship and funding for early-career scholars from anywhere in the world to pursue innovative research on scripts and their digitization. Thanks to the generous support we received during this spring's Big Give campaign, we are delighted to announce an expanded cohort of three Research Fellows for 2025–26!

This year's fellows are Febri Muhammad Nasrullah (working on indigenous Indonesian scripts), Julie Sayo (working on the Kulitan script from the Philippines), and Jordan Williams (documenting ancient Nsibidi writing from Nigeria and Cameroon). Read the announcement on the SEI blog to learn more about their work.