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
Alyssa C. Arnell
Year:
- 2025
University of New Hampshire
Condemnation for Preservation: The Taking of Fazendeville, Louisiana
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
Luke Boyle
Year:
- 2025
Arizona State University
For the Cities Yet to Come: Reimagining African Urban Futures from the Margins
Lorenzo Bradford
Year:
- 2024
Harvard University
Courtroom Conjuring: Law, Space and Memory in New York’s Long Black Power Movement, 1968-1993
Sofia Butnaru
Year:
- 2025
University of Chicago
Seeds of Debt: The Racial and Environmental Underpinnings of Consumer Credit
Nia Cambridge
Year:
- 2025
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Banking on Blue: Debt Restructuring, Carbon Crediting and the Financialization of Marine Ecosystem Services in The Bahamas
Cam Cannon
Year:
- 2024
The George Washington University
Standard: Trans Activism and the History of Gender-Affirming Medicine in the United States
Licelot Caraballo
Year:
- 2025
Brown University
Transborder Mobilities: Border Market Work and Solidarity at the Haitian-Dominican Border
María Carrillo Marquina
Year:
- 2025
Tulane University
Sculpting Identity: The Material Worlds of Colonial Afro-Latin American Confraternities
Nicola Chávez Courtright
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Los Angeles
Archive, memory and emotion in Salvadoran LGBTQ+ organizing
Lena Chen
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Berkeley
Yellow Power Play: Art and Activism in Asian American Sex Work
Jerry Chen
Year:
- 2025
Harvard University
“In Common Justice and Humanities”: Alien Land Law Litigation and Asian American Legal Culture, 1913-29
Janessa M. Chinana
Year:
- 2023
University of Washington
Xaadláa Gwáay.yaay: Indigenous Border Nationhood and Haida Governance Across Settler-States
Felipe Coimbra Moretti
Year:
- 2025
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The Dam, the Road, the Port: The Transformation of the Brazilian Northeast during the Long Twentieth-Century
Marie Comuzzo
Year:
- 2025
Brandeis University
A Sonically Reimagined Silence: How the Discovery of Whale Songs Inspired an Environmental Commitment to the Ocean
Patrick Das
Year:
- 2025
University of Colorado Boulder
A Spatial Approach to Language Contact in The Eastern Himalayan Region
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
Ria J. Gualano
Year:
- 2025
Cornell University
Cripping Time Across “Realities”: Technology-Integrated Storytelling through a Co-Curated Disability and Neurodiversity Arts Exhibition
Martha D. Guerrero Badillo
Year:
- 2025
Yale University
Putting Migrants to Work: How the Contested World of U.S. Immigration Reform Created New Workers, Citizens, and Transnational Economies (1976-2006)
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
Michelle Ha
Year:
- 2025
Stanford University
Fiber Optics: Henequén Classification and its Consequences
Steven M. Hernandez
Year:
- 2025
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Doubly Different: Autism and Neurotypicality as Cognitive Styles
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
Aziza Izamova
Year:
- 2025
Harvard University
Visual Art and Craft Production in Central Asian Modernism, 1917-1945
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
Tamara Z. Jamil
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Berkeley
Jail Expansion, Aesthetics of "Blight," and Rural Landscapes: Understanding the ongoing silent jail boom in rural California