Fellowship Recipients

2024-2025 Fellowships

2024-2025 Fellowships 

Short-term Fellowships   

  • Elizabeth Asher, University of Maryland- Standardizing Pollution, Making Remedies: Nuclear Waste Management at the Savannah River Site 

  • Diminic D’Amour, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)-Ralph McGill: An Intellectual in the Service of President Johnson 

  • Ariele Dionne-Krosnick, McGill University-Swimming Studies: The SCLC 

  • John Donoghue, Loyola University-American Insurrections: An Unruly History of White Nationalism 

  • Alexander Dossin, University of Oregon-The Complete Piano Music of George Walker  

  • Samantha Edge-University of Southampton-Undine Smith Moore: The Dean of Black Women Composers 

  • Rachel Kirk, Louisiana State University-Sybil Kein, Louisiana Creole, and Transnational Francophone Histories in the Michel Fabre Collection 

  • Katherine Lanning, Wichita State University-Diagetic Paratext in Bram Stoker's Dracula 

  • Chare McCarter, University of New Mexico-The Emotional World of Ex-Confederate Expatriates in Latin America, 1865-1870 

  • Claude Mohr, University of Florida-Queer Temporality and Brion Gysin's Dreamachine (1959) 

  • Thomas Munroe, Yale-Postimperial Classics in the United Kingdom, 1939-2021 

  • James Costello O’Reilly, Queen’s University-Northern Irish Poetry & The News 

  • Summer Perritt, Rice University-A Southern Reclamation: Understanding Black Identity and Return Migration in the Post-Civil Rights Era 

  • Corey Stout, Rice University-Gulf Coast Modernism: Forrest Bess, John Biggers, and the Arts Festival at Texas Southern University 

  • Nick Twemlow, University of Chicago- KaliVision: Visions and Revisions 

  • Michael Uy, Writer/Scholar-Vantile Whitfield and the National Endowment for the Arts's Expansion Arts Program 

  • Elena Valli, Trinity College- Efforts of Attention: Anthony Hecht's Meditative Poetry 

  • Mary Bathory Vidaver, University of Mississippi-Miss Lucy and Her Allies: Religious Faith, Social Justice, and the Multi-Generational Struggle for a Democratic South, 1880-1964 

  • Edward Yang, UNC Chapel Hill-Creating Enchantment: A History of the Gothic and Inspiring Interactive Reading 

The Benny Andrews Award 

  • Sinclair Spratley-Columbia “We Remember Attica”: Carceral Politics in Art in the Long 1970s 

J. Herman Blake and Emily L. Moore Award 

  • Desiree McCray, Writer/Educator-Mothers of the Movement: Women's Contributions Toward the Work of Liberation 

Billops-Hatch Fellowship 

  • Ebonie Pollock, Harvard-Gold Would Not Be Too Precious a Medium: The Material and Memory of African American Women’s Modern Figurative Sculpture 

Nancy and Randall Burkett Award for Research in Black Print Culture 

  • Joan Bryant-Syracuse University-Kelly Miller's Book-Making and Agents 

LGBTQ Collection Fellowship 

  • Sam King-Shaw, SUNY at Buffalo-Constructing Alternative Genealogies, Desiring Alternative Futures 

The Donald C. Locke Award 

  • Grace Aneiza Ali, Florida State University-Donald Locke:  Nexus Exhibit 

  • Monique Major, Howard University-Rev. Leon H. Sullivan:  A Multidimensional Person  

Pellom McDaniels Fellowship 

  • Bianca Jackson, Virginia Humanities HBCU Scholar- Undine Smith Moore 

Geffen and Lewyn Family Southern Jewish Research Fellowship 

  • Josh Renaud, St. Louis Post-Dispatch-Educational Computer Games 

Leonard and Louise Riggio Fellowship 

  • Christina Thomas, Jackson State University- “Worth More Than Just Money:” Friends of Children of Mississippi and the Battle for Early Childhood Education, 1966-1969 

Dana White Graduate Fellowship for Research in Atlanta History 

  • Bethany Bell, University of Virginia-How Free and Unfree Black Southerners Experienced, Claimed, and Reshaped the Built Environment During the U.S. Civil War