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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

Fellowship Year
Related Program

Marcus P. Adams

Year:
  • 2013
  • 2020
University of Albany, State University of New York
Mechanical Epistemology and Mixed Mathematics: Descartes’ Problems and Hobbes’ Unity

Tyler Benjamin Adkins

Year:
  • 2020
Princeton University
The Life of Forms and Forms of Life in Post-Soviet Siberia

Oluseyi O. Agbelusi

Year:
  • 2021
Syracuse University
British Anti-Slavery, Trade, and Nascent Colonialism on the Freetown Peninsula, Sierra Leone

Julio Aguilar

Year:
  • 2021
University of California, Davis
A Thirsty Colonization: Water and Urban Political Ecology in the Silver City of Potosí, 1573-1770

Danya Al-Saleh

Year:
  • 2020
  • 2021
University of California, Los Angeles
Petro-education: Engineering Fossil Fuel Futurities between Texas and Qatar

Marina Alamo-Bryan

Year:
  • 2021
Columbia University
The Bodies and the Archive: Bureaucratization of Violence and Communal Exhumation in Mexico

Andy Alfonso

Year:
  • 2022
Princeton University
Un/exceptional Shadowlands: Space, Memory, and Archives in the Wake of the Cuban Revolution

Heba Alnajada

Year:
  • 2021
University of California, Berkeley
150 Years of Refuge into Jordan: Land Tenure, Camps, and Hospitality (1878-Present)

Alex Alston

Year:
  • 2022
Columbia University
Animal Ambivalence: Black Literature and the Discourse of Species

Christian David Alvarado

Year:
  • 2022
University of California, Santa Cruz
The Storm in Kenya: Mau Mau in Systems of Thought

Felipe Álvarez de Toledo López-Herrera

Year:
  • 2021
Duke University
'Pinturas Infinitas para América.’ A Data-Driven History of the Market for Paintings in Seville (1500-1700)

Ligia A. Arguilez

Year:
  • 2022
University of Texas at El Paso
Making the Desert Place: An Environmental History of a Desert Shrub from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Nohora A. Arrieta

Year:
  • 2020
Georgetown University
Bittersweet Poetics: Politics and Aesthetics of the Sugar Plantation in Contemporary Brazilian and Caribbean Arts (1990-2018)

Megan Baker

Year:
  • 2022
University of California, Los Angeles
Building More than an Economy: Histories of Choctaw-U.S. Laws, Land, and Development in Oklahoma

Gabriel S. Bámgbóṣé

Year:
  • 2021
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
In My Mother’s House: African Women, Poetic Literacy, and Radical Translation of Négritude

Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed

Year:
  • 2021
Columbia University
Negotiating the Empty Time of Modernity: Sufi Temporality in Postcolonial Arabic Thought and Literature

Samuel Boateng

Year:
  • 2021
University of Pittsburgh
Jazz Ghana: Historical Perspectives, Transnational Routes, Space, and Sustainability

Caitlyn Bolton

Year:
  • 2020
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
The Spirit of Progress: Islamic Education, Development, and Modernity in Zanzibar

David Bond

Year:
  • 2012
  • 2022
Bennington College
Hydrocarbon Frontiers: Science and Politics in the BP Oil Spill

Clementine Bordeaux

Year:
  • 2022
University of California, Los Angeles
Wówayupike: Relationships between Lakota Art, Land, and Culture

Clifton Boyd

Year:
  • 2021
Yale University
The Role of Vernacular Music Theory in the American Barbershop Community

Sarah Brothers

Year:
  • 2020
Yale University
Expertise, Gender, and Marginality: Health Related Practices by People who Inject Drugs in the United States

Dmitri Joseph Brown

Year:
  • 2021
University of California, Davis
Tewa Pueblos at the Dawn of Atomic Modernity

Sarah E. Bruno

Year:
  • 2020
  • 2021
Duke University
Emotion in Motion: Bomba Puertorriqueña, the Archive, and Diasporas

Kathleen M. Burns

Year:
  • 2021
Duke University
Vegetal Forms: How Plants Cultivate Life in Literature and Science

Hector Miguel Callejas

Year:
  • 2021
University of California, Berkeley
Reimagining the Countryside: Settler Colonialism, National Culture, and Indigeneity in Contemporary El Salvador

Bobby Cervantes

Year:
  • 2021
University of Kansas
Las Colonias: The Housing of Poverty in Modern Americas

Dean Mohammed Chahim

Year:
  • 2020
Stanford University
Draining the Infinite Metropolis: Engineering and the Banality of Disaster in Mexico City

Ariel Chan

Year:
  • 2022
University of California, Los Angeles
The Diaspora of Bilinguals: Code-switching in Three Groups of Cantonese-English Bilinguals

A. Véronique Charles

Year:
  • 2021
University of Pennsylvania
Writing Atlantic-African Slavery: The Middle Passage in Continental Terms

Maria Agustina Checa

Year:
  • 2022
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Analog Weavings: Cassettes, Alternative Economies and Relational Values in Argentina's Independent Music Scenes

Chuan Hao Chen

Year:
  • 2022
University of Pennsylvania
Building Biocontainment, Regulating Race: Scientific Infrastructures for American Safety against Emerging Diseases

Mimi Cheng

Year:
  • 2021
University of Rochester
China on the Horizon: German Orientalism and the Colonial Built Environment, 1860-1914

Yasmeen Chism

Year:
  • 2022
New York University
Tracing Black Movements: Chor[e]ographing Dis/placements in North Carolina’s Piedmont

Jieun Cho

Year:
  • 2022
Duke University
Anxious Care: Radioactive Uncertainty and the Politics of Life in Post-Nuclear Japan

Robert Christensen

Year:
  • 2021
Georgetown University
Worlds in Conflict: Indigenous Peoples, Environmental Challenges, and the 'Conquista del Desierto' in the Making of Argentina, 1870-1900

Taylor A. Coleman

Year:
  • 2022
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
"Converging Diasporas": Garveyism, Afrolatinidades, and the Pan-Africanist Vision in the Hispanic Caribbean

Eden G. Consenstein

Year:
  • 2020
Princeton University
Religion at Time Inc.: From the Beginning of Time to the End of Life

Xiomara Cornejo

Year:
  • 2020
University of Missouri
The Performance and Puppet of Saint Oscar Romero in Post-Revolution Nicaragua: Transnational Solidarity between Bread and Puppet Theater and the Farm Worker's Theater Movement (MECATE)

Lou Cornum

Year:
  • 2020
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Skin Worlds: Science Fiction Theorizing in Black and Indigenous Science Fiction since the 1970s

Alexander Cors

Year:
  • 2021
Emory University
Newcomers and New Borders: Migration, Property Formation, and Conflict over Land along the Mississippi River, 1750-1820

Katherine Cosby

Year:
  • 2020
University of California, Irvine
Flowers Grew Out of the Asphalt: Black Women's Territories in São Paulo, 1871-1930

Johaina Katinka B. Crisostomo

Year:
  • 2021
University of California, Berkeley
Imperfect Sacrifice: The Ethical Crisis in the Novels and Vernacular Political Theologies of Transimperial Philippines (1890-1946)

Terrence Cullen

Year:
  • 2021
New York University
Take Note: Listening to French Literature in the Long Thirteenth Century

Constance de Font-Reaulx

Year:
  • 2020
Johns Hopkins University
The Power of Water: The Politics of the Parisian Waterworks (1660-1799)

Augusta Lynn Dell'Omo

Year:
  • 2021
University of Texas at Austin
Saving Apartheid: Trans-Atlantic Whiteness in the U.S.-South African Relationship, 1980-1994

Ashley D. Dennis

Year:
  • 2021
Northwestern University
The Intellectual Emancipation of the Negro: The Thought and Activism of Black Women Educators during the Mid-Twentieth Century

Rosanna Dent

Year:
  • 2016
  • 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Studying Indigenous Brazil: The Xavante and the Human Sciences, 1958-2015

Meenu Deswal

Year:
  • 2021
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Uneven Terrains of Struggle: Caste, Class, Gender, and the Everyday Experience of Law in Colonial South Asia, 1849-1940

Estela B. Diaz

Year:
  • 2022
Columbia University
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