2025-2026 Research Fellowship Recipients

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Nicole Adrian
University of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellowship, Southern History and Culture Self-Help for Agribusiness: Farm Debt, the Rural U.S. Landscape, and the Federal Credit System, 1898–1980

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Tamlyn Avery
The University of Adelaide Short-Term Fellowship, African-American History and Culture Writing the Collar-Line: Louise Thompson Patterson and the Politics of Textual Labour

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Lauren Ashley Bradford
Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University Short-Term Fellowship, Southern History and Culture "With Blood on Their Stockings”: Women’s Public Participation in Racial Terror in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America

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Jacob A. Bruggeman
Johns Hopkins University Short-Term Fellowship, Political and Social Movements Securing the System: Phone Phreaks, Computer Hackers, and Political Order, 1963-2013

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Justin Cervantes
Curatorial Consultant The Nancy and Randall Burkett Award for Research in Black Print Culture The T-Shirt as a Diasporic Canvas of Black Identity from Négritude to the Present

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Sydney A. Coleman
Howard University Short-Term Fellowship, African-American History and Culture Sue Bailey Thurman: Pioneer of the Black History Movement

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Maria Amor Barros del Rio
University of Burgos Short-Term Fellowship, English-Language Poetry and Literature Edna O’Brien’s Papers: A Transcultural Writer?

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Anna Duensing
Villanova University Short-Term Fellowship, Political and Social Movements Fascism Is Already Here: Antifascism and the Black Freedom Struggle

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Murphy Fallon
Boston University Leonard and Louise Riggio Fellowship "To Be a Walking Filing Cabinet": Alice Walker's Preservation Practices as Poetry

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Rebecca Gould
SOAS University of London Marcus Garvey Foundation Fellowship Short-Term Fellowship, English-Language Poetry and Literature

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Anthony Grant
Brandeis University Marcus Garvey Foundation Fellowship Connecting Policy, Theory, and Literature to Study How Intraracial Xenophobia Manifests in the U.S. Between African American, Caribbean, and African People

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Jewell Hamm
Artist/Poet J Herman Blake and Emily L. Moore Award Resistance Kitchen

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Emily Hawk
Princeton University Pellom McDaniels Fellowship Embodying the Movement: How African American Choreographers Redefined "Black Dance," 1960-1989

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Casey Ellis Johnson
Indiana University-Bloomington Marcus Garvey Foundation Fellowship Borders as Both Barriers and Conduits: How Black Organizations Transcended the US-Canadian Divide

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Malte Kanefendt
Free University of Berlin Short-Term Fellowship, African-American History and Culture Walter Rodney, the Institute of the Black World and the emergence of racial capitalism as a radical analytical framework in the 1970s

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Faiza Khan
Binghamton University Short-Term Fellowship, Southern History and Culture James Cobb Burke in South Asia – Dacca 1954

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Joshua Massey
Bard Graduate Center Short-Term Fellowship-Southern History and Culture Cultivating the “Vernacular”: William Arnett and Black Art from the American South, 1980-2020

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Jamie McGhee
Humboldt University Short-Term Fellowship-African-American History and Culture Just a Little Chaos: Teaching Revolution with Septima Clark

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Sinead Moynihan
University of Exeter Short-Term Fellowship-English-Language Poetry and Literature For Export Only: Irish Writers and U.S. Magazines, 1940-1975

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Kache' Attayana Mumford
Artist/Poet Short-Term Fellowship-African-American History and Culture Speechless-Reclaiming of Negro Spirituals

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Crystal Nelson
University of Colorado Boulder Short-Term Fellowship-African-American History and Culture The Importance of Safe Space in Black Cultural Production: Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, 1960s-1970s

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Alexandra Phillipa Nicome
Williams College Billops-Hatch Fellowship Billops-Hatch: Collecting, Documentary, and Aesthetic Practices

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Cynthia Patterson
University of South Florida Short-Term Fellowship-African-American History and Culture Religious Foundations of the Black Chautauqua Movement 1874-1954

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Rose Percy
Boston University Short-Term Fellowship-African-American History and Culture Archival Devotion and the Poetics of Scholarship: Unveiling Lucille Clifton's Legacy

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Leah Pires
Villanova University Short-Term Fellowship, African-American History and Culture Finessing the Flame: Art and Power in Postmodern New York

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Isiah Frost Rivera
University of Texas at Austin Short-Term Fellowship, African-American History and Culture Black Queer Grief: The Ontological Stakes of African Diasporic Life

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Chanelle N. Rose
Rowan University Short-Term Fellowship, African-American History and Culture Beyond Boundaries: Grassroots Black Conservatism and the Post-WWII Urban Crisis

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Alexandria Russell
Harvard University Short-Term Fellowship, African-American History and Culture A Pioneer Public Historian: Sue Bailey Thurman and African American Women’s Memorialization in the 20th Century

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Kaylen D. Smith
Princeton University Short-Term Fellowship, African-American History and Culture Black Power Prophets?: Redefining Religion and Spirituality in the Black Power Movement

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Marlo Starr
College of Wooster Short-Term Fellowship, African-American History and Culture Lucille Clifton: Divining Memory

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Travis Wagner
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign LGBTQ Collections Fellowship LGBTQ & VHS

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Milena Williamson
Queen's University Belfast Short-Term Fellowship, African-American History and Culture Ciaran Carson's War Correspondences: Intertextual Fusion in Breaking News and Beyond

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Ying Zhou
Nanjing University of Science and Technology Short-Term Fellowship, English-Language Poetry and Literature Ways of Being: Landscape in Northern Irish Poetry