Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships

Sergio Alarcón Robledo
Year:
- 2023
Harvard University
From Archives to Soundscape analysis: Architectural change and power display in Early Dynastic Egypt

Gokh Amin Alshaif
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Santa Barbara
Native Outsiders: The Black Muhamasheen of Yemen
Keziah Anderson
Year:
- 2024
Harvard University
Excavating Archivally-Disfigured Lives: Afro-Indigenous “Incompetent” Women, Legal Surveillance, Dependence, and Alternative Geographies in Jim Crow Oklahoma

Aja J. Antoine Jones
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Berkeley
Policing, Pollution, Plague: Breath and Death in an Unequal Society

Aja J. Antoine Jones
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Berkeley
Policing, Pollution, Plague: Breath and Death in an Unequal Society

Paras Arora
Year:
- 2024
Stanford University
“A Future of My Own, A Future Amongst My Own”: Families, Institutional Care Homes, and the Aspirations of Neurodivergent Adults in Delhi, India

Lorenzo Bradford
Year:
- 2024
Harvard University
Courtroom Conjuring: Law, Space and Memory in New York’s Long Black Power Movement, 1968-1993

Cam Cannon
Year:
- 2024
The George Washington University
Standard: Trans Activism and the History of Gender-Affirming Medicine in the United States

Nicola Chávez Courtright
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Los Angeles
Archive, memory and emotion in Salvadoran LGBTQ+ organizing

Janessa M. Chinana
Year:
- 2023
University of Washington
Xaadláa Gwáay.yaay: Indigenous Border Nationhood and Haida Governance Across Settler-States

María Ximena Dávila
Year:
- 2024
University of Texas at Austin
Landscapes of Harm: War, Toxicity and Reproduction in Colombia

Danielle Davis
Year:
- 2023
Florida State University
Virginian Hip-hop in Hampton Roads: Investigating the Production of Place in the Tidewater Trio’s Music From 1990-2005

Ramon L. C. de Haan
Year:
- 2024
The New School
Repair and Reparations, Black Transnationalism, and Speculative Futures: Investigating Repair Activism and Black Liberation in the Afro-Dutch Diaspora

Lorena De la Puente Burlando
Year:
- 2024
University of California, Los Angeles
Energizing consent: Lithium mining and community-engaged licensing for a just energy transition in California, USA, and Puno, Peru

Kale Serrato Doyen
Year:
- 2024
University of Pittsburgh
Mapping the Teenie Harris Archive: Photography, Community, and Pittsburgh's Black Built Environment

Ash Duhrkoop
Year:
- 2023
University of Virginia
When the Dust Unsettles: Modernism and Extractivism in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin
Year:
- 2024
Stanford University
“From My Sometimes-Broken Hillside Window”: Environment, Race, and Infrastructure in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point

Karina M. Edouard
Year:
- 2024
Cornell University
Woman, Migrant, Other: The politics of motherhood and resistance in the Haitian Diaspora

Taaja El-Shabazz
Year:
- 2023
Brown University
The Many-Threaded Hydra: A Patchwork Labor History of the American Womenswear Industry, 1924-1941

Alfredo Escudero
Year:
- 2023
Florida International University
The Land is the Laboratory: Indigenous Labor, Land Inspections and the Engineering of the Colonial Andes

Stephen Eyman
Year:
- 2024
University of California, Davis
Disabled Language not Welcome: The Relationship between Disability and Language in Policy, Practice, and Experience in Higher Education

Yuri Fraccaroli
Year:
- 2024
University of California, Santa Barbara
Archivo vivo! An Ethnography of the Archive: Latin American Sex and Gender Community Archives

Katherine Funes
Year:
- 2024
University of California, Irvine
Queering the State of Exception: LGBTIQ Resistance Amidst Carceral Regimes in El Salvador

K. Ermelinda Garcia
Year:
- 2024
Indiana University Bloomington
Constructing Ties: Chosen Families and Intimacy among Women in Mexico City’s Ambiente, 1970-2023

Kuhelika Ghosh
Year:
- 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cultivating Caribbean Voices: Multispecies Gardens, Care, and Food Justice in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Luisa Helena Goncalves de Melo
Year:
- 2024
Tulane University
Refusing Spatial Exclusion: Black Placemaking in the Margins of Brazil’s Capital City

Nohely Guzmán Narváez
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Los Angeles
Intimate Encounters and the Conquest of the Amazon: The Affective Infrastructures of China’s Geopolitical Frontier-making in Bolivia

Tiên Dung Hà
Year:
- 2023
Stanford University
Science and Spirit: Searching for the remains of Vietnam's MIAs four decades later

Johanna Hernández Pérez
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Los Angeles
Negotiating Blackness: How Jamaica and Puerto Rico Represent Race for Tourism

Johanna Hernández Pérez
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Los Angeles
Negotiating Blackness: How Jamaica and Puerto Rico Represent Race for Tourism

Alaba Ilesanmi
Year:
- 2023
Florida State University
The Sound of Black Solidarity: (Re)Incarnations of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in the Global Black Politics and Soundscapes

Emily Brooke Jackson
Year:
- 2024
Cornell University
Abortion Access, Informal Rights, and Reform in Latin America

Kayla K. Jackson
Year:
- 2024
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Resistance in Action: Protest Reimagined through the Lens of Black Resistance

Raymond S. Jennings
Year:
- 2024
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Liberté, Égalité, Sonorité(s): Theorizing the Sonic Landscape of Racialized Urban governance, Youth Politics, and Place-making in Mantes-la-Jolie, France

Jennie Jiang
Year:
- 2024
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Re-Scaling Toxic Harm: Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the United States

Joseph Zavaan Johnson
Year:
- 2024
Indiana University Bloomington
Black Banjo Bodylands: Recovering an African-American Instrument

Andreza Jorge
Year:
- 2024
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Escrevivencia corporal: Performance as resistance and collective memory of Amefrican women at Carnival in Latin America

Larissa A. Juip
Year:
- 2023
Michigan Technological University
Re-Storying an Industrial Landscape: Moving Beyond Traditional Approaches to Heritage Interpretation

Joshua Chun Wah Kam
Year:
- 2024
Cornell University
Terrain and Terroir: Indigenous Fine Dining and National Gastronomy in Malaysia

Rae Keʻala Kuruhara
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Los Angeles
Man(g)a, Moʻolelo, and the Many Bodied Forms of Indigenous Comics

Anthony A. Landers
Year:
- 2023
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Prisons As Sinks: Mapping the Slow Violence of Carceral Spaces

Jose Mari Hall Lanuza
Year:
- 2024
University of Massachusetts Amherst
A Multi-sited Ethnography of Electoral Disinformation in the Philippines

Daniel Lobo
Year:
- 2024
University of California, Berkeley
Toward a Theory on the Causes, Contours, and Consequences of “Culture Add” Hiring at Elite Firms

Jessica R. Locklear
Year:
- 2023
Emory University
The Other Lands We Know: Intergenerational Histories of Lumbee Mobility, 1880-1980

Jessica R. Locklear
Year:
- 2023
Emory University
The Other Lands We Know: Intergenerational Histories of Lumbee Mobility, 1880-1980

Victor Chimaway Lopez
Year:
- 2024
University of California, Davis
Weaving Histories in Chumash Homelands/Waters: Reading Ecological and Geological Agencies in Indigenous Networks of Survivance

Elsa Lora
Year:
- 2023
Harvard University
Mothers of Crime: Family and the Making of the US Carceral State, 1877-2016

Irma Losada Olmos
Year:
- 2024
University of California, Los Angeles
Bordering Development: Exploring the Maya Train's Variegated Mobilities in Southern Mexico

Kenya Jihan Loudd
Year:
- 2024
Yale University
“A School and Not an Asylum”: Recovering and Re-Imagining Histories of Segregated Schools for the Deaf and Blind in the South