2026-2027 Travel Award Recipients

Francisca Fernández Arce
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University of York Short-Term Travel Award Editing Poetic Identity in the Honest Ulsterman (1968-1974)
Eva Baylin
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Vanderbilt University Short-Term Travel Award Gender and the Radical Right: A Cultural History from the Margins to the Center of American Politics, 1965 to 2014
Paul Bernard
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Short-Term Travel Award Reframing the Southern “Photo Boom”: Photography and Cultural Institutions in Atlanta, 1970s–1990s
Mickell Carter
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Brown University Short-Term Travel Award Stylin’ Black Power: Fashioning Identity and Masculinity
Merve Fezjula
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University of Missouri Short-Term Travel Award The Age of All Women: The Becoming of Younousse Seye
Nicole Morris Johnson
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Dartmouth College Leonard & Louise Riggio Award Archived Pasts, the Collective Present, and Activating Futures: The Mangrove Logics Exhibition Project
Sabo Kpade
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Independent Scholar Short-Term Travel Award Reframing Donald Locke’s "Resistant Forms": A Material and Diasporic Study Across Rose Library and Billops-Hatch Archives,
Malcom Noble
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Leicester Vaughan College LGBTQ Collection Travel Award Organizing, Circulating, Documenting: Atlanta AIDS activism in six Rose Library collections
Dave Ragland
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Independent Scholar Billops-Hatch Travel Award Early Dramatic Literature and Performing Arts Oral Histories from Underrepresented Communities
Marie Sellier
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Sorbonne Universite Short-Term Travel Award New forms of lynching narratives through art : the "Without Sanctuary" collection
Celine Shanosky
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Harvard University Short-Term Travel Award Other than Genetic: Poetics, Inheritance, and the Long Modernist Period,
Althea Sircar
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University of Redlands Short-Term Travel Award Surviving the Unlivable: Agency and care in pursuit of creation and critique
Samanthis Smalls
Savannah State Universiy Richard A. Long-HBCU Award Disturbance from the Outside: The Woman's Suffrage Club of Chatham County
Connall Maclennan
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University College London Short-Term Travel Award The Church and the Formation of Queer Identity, Community, and Politics in the State of Georgia, 1945-2015
V. Walton
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Maryland Institute College of Art Donald C. Locke Travel Award Poetics of Clay: Materiality and. Black Craft
Karen Woods Weierman
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Worcester State Universiy Short-Term Travel Award Theodore Ward’s Civil War/Reconstruction Trilogy