Ver Steeg Fellowship

The Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship Award supports research and scholarship and is awarded annually to two tenured Northwestern professors whose work enhances the national and international reputation of the University. It carries an award of $45,000 per award recipient.

Clarence Ver Steeg was for many years a faculty member in the Department of History, served as dean of The Graduate School, and was a leader in the Northwestern community.

Congratulations to the 2025 Recipients

Stephanie Edgerly

Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Medill School of Journalism

Stephanie Edgerly is a professor with a specialization in audience insight. Her research explores how features of new media alter the way audiences consume news and impact engagement. She is particularly interested in the mixing of news and entertainment content, how individuals and groups create and share news over social media, and how audiences selectively consume media. Recent projects have explored why people don't consume news and the varied ways that people make sense of the larger media environment.

Edgerly 's research has garnered several recent honors. In 2020, her article "Deciding What's News: News-ness as an Audience Concept for the Hybrid Media Environment" won the "Outstanding Article" award in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. In 2018, her publication about patterns of news consumption among U.S. teenagers was a finalist for the award. In 2019, Edgerly was awarded the inaugural Sharon Dunwoody Early Career Award from the University of Wisconsin. Edgerly earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Sergio Rebelo

MUFG Distinguished Professorship of International Finance, Kellogg School of Management

Sergio Rebelo holds the MUFG Distinguished Professorship of International Finance at the Kellogg School of Management, where he has previously served as Chair of the Finance Department. He is also the co-director of the Center for International Macroeconomics at Northwestern.

Rebelo’s research focuses on macroeconomics and international finance, addressing topics such as the causes of business cycles, the impact of economic policy on growth, and the sources of exchange rate fluctuations. The National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the Sloan Foundation, and the Olin Foundation have funded his work.

He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Center for Economic Policy Research. He has also served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Economic Growth. Professor Rebelo earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester.