Fellowship Recipients
2020-2021
Short-term Fellowships
- Katheryn Laborde: Flannery O'Connor's Manhattan
- Emily Van Duyne: Loving Sylvia Plath
- Michael Glenfield: Nature and Landscape in the Poetry of Michael Longley
- Marina Magloire: "Some Damn Body": Black Feminist Embodiment in the Spirit Writing of Lucille Clifton
- Olaf Recktenwald: The Primal Dwelling: Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
- Cathy Curtis: Of Love and Loss: A Biography of Edna O'Brien
- Armen Davoudian: No Single Poem: The Poetry Volume in the 20th Century
- Colin Newton: Zombie
- Holly Ranger: Sylvia Plath and Greco-Roman Literature
- Edward O'Rourke: Maeve Brennan original archival research for PhD thesis
- Bart Elmore: Country Capitalism: The American South and Global Ecological Change
- Amanda Stafford: The Radical Press and the New Left in Georgia, 1968-1976
- Daniel Ciba: Blue Roses: Tennessee Williams, Memory, and the Queer Archive
- Colin Campbell: Choose to Attack: Punk Rock, Whiteness, and America’s Nazi Skinhead Underground, 1977-1993
- Mark Markov: Wars not Fought: Neutrality and European Navies in American Waters during the US Civil War
- Michelle Colbert: Stone Mountain within the cultural landscape of the city of Atlanta
- Madison Clark: Exploring the Effects of the Confederados
- Phillip A. Smith: Leading While Black and Male: A Historiography of Black Male School Leadership
- Marcus P. Smith: The Black Panther Party and Mother Country Radicals: Black-White Alliances During the Black Power Movement
- Fiona Gregory: Gender, Performance and Global Citizenship: Actresses’ Tours to Australia, 1920s-1960s
- Sierra King: Build Your Archive
- La' Nora Jefferson: Female Talented Tenth: Black Women's Activism, the AUC and the Transformation of Higher Education
- Kori Graves: Skin to Skin: Dudley Beauty Corporation, Mary Kay, and the Transnational Evolution of Black Beauty
- Mattie Webb: A Matter of Principle
- Jalylah Burrell: Capacity for Laughter: Black Women and the American Comedic Tradition
LGBTQ Fellowship
- Mark Lockwood: Black Inches: Masculinity, Visuality, and Performance in Thug Pornography
Billops-Hatch Award
- Jodi Hays: The Paul R. Jones Anthology and Exhibition Project
- Lisa Blatt: The Paul R. Jones Anthology and Exhibition Project
- Rachel Stephens: Hidden in Plain Sight: Slavery and Suppresson in Antebellum American Art
- Sandra Jackson-Opoku: Black Rice
- Hayley O'Malley: Producing Blackness: African American Art and Activism in the 20th Century
- Martina Schaefer: Black Power and African Diasporic Religions: The Spiritual and Cultural Trajectory of Black Empowerment, 1965-1998
- Jersten Ray Seraile: God Done Opened the Sky
- Justin Haynes: Two Hands to Clap
- Julie Burrell: Performing Diasporic Time: Enactments of African American History
- Dan Gutstein: Li’l Liza Jane: A Movie About A Song
- Kimberly A. Probolus-Cedroni: Art in a Chocolate City: Visual Culture in the Nation's Capital 1927-1998
Donald C. Locke Award
- Akima McPherson: Synchronicities or productive dialogues? Reflecting Guyana in the oeuvre of Donald Locke, a Diaspora Guyanese artist
J. Herman Blake & Emily L. Moore Award for Research in Black Panther Party Collections
- Sydney-Paige Patterson: Between Home and City: Radical Private Space in the Black and Dalit Panther Parties
- Traci Parker: Beyond Loving: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Black Freedom Movement
Leonard and Louise Riggio Award
- Charlotte Teague: Matriarchal Domains: An Analysis of Spaciality of Power in Representational Novels by African American Women
Nancy & Randall Burkett Award for Research in Black Print Culture Collections
- Cynthia J. Charles: The Contributions of Carter G. Woodson Scholarly Resources to African American History Curriculums at HBCUs
- Sheila Bonner: Womanist Intellectual Activism: Three Women's Narratives
- Sid Ahmed Ziane: How Ebony Magazine Engaged and Reacted to the Black Power Movement in the 1960s and 1970s
- Jeong Yeon Lee: Apocalyptic Violence in the Works of David Walker and James Weldon Johnson
- Todd Carmody: Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and Reform in Progressive America
- Brian Piper: African American Photographers and the Studio Tradition, 1900-1970
- Kayleigh Whitman: Faith in the World Community: Sue Bailey Thurman and Black Women's World Reconstruction, 1920-1950
- Taina Douge: A Mixtape for Congo
Richard A. Long / HBCU Fellowship
- Arthur M. Reese: The Importance of the Black Theater Alliance