Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships
Supporting innovative approaches to dissertation research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences
Bea Abbott
Year:
- 2026
University of Kentucky
Visualizing Border Space from Below: Networked Images and Contested Visual Politics in the Aegean Sea
Nicolas Allen
Year:
- 2026
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Black Transducers: A Technology History of Brazilian Popular Music
Keziah Anderson
Year:
- 2024
Harvard University
Excavating Archivally-Disfigured Lives: Afro-Indigenous “Incompetent” Women, Legal Surveillance, Dependence, and Alternative Geographies in Jim Crow Oklahoma
Tirzah Anderson
Year:
- 2026
Princeton University
Afro-Indigenous Worldmaking in the Midst of Death in Indian Territory and Oklahoma, 1890s-1930s
Rose Archer
Year:
- 2026
Emory University
Narrating the Womb: Speculative Medicine and the (Re)Framing of Obstetric Grammars Across Digital and Embodied Terrains
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
Ihsan Arsalan
Year:
- 2026
Rice University
When Frozen Worlds Flood: Tracing the Paradoxical Reverberations of Karakoram Glacial Activity from Pakistan to European Labs
Ruthie Block
Year:
- 2026
Yale University
Holding Patterns: Black Women Collectors, Itinerant Texts, and the Domestic Stewardship of a Black Material Past
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
Jarred Brewster
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Los Angeles
Pastoralist, Wage Labor, and the Linguistic Pastoral: Heritage Learners and Migrant Workers as Minority Language Speakers in Southern Oman
Danielle Burke
Year:
- 2026
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Handicraft Map: Aesthetic Ecologies in a 1947 Directory of American Craft
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
Chand
Year:
- 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
Laboring For Justice Towards Trans Livelihoods: The Quest for Dignity and Otherwise Worlds
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
Kelsey Chen
Year:
- 2026
Stanford University
An Other Science: Silkpunk, Speculation, and the Making of a Taoist Technoscience
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
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
Diego de Jesus Santos
Year:
- 2025
University of Texas at Austin
Shifting Banks: Mapping Environmental Racism and Resilience in Brazilian Aquatic Spaces
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
Chiara Di Leone
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Los Angeles
Re-running Utopia: the Latin American World Model (1976) and the Global Politics of the Future
Kale Serrato Doyen
Year:
- 2024
- 2026
University of Pittsburgh
Mapping the Teenie Harris Archive: Photography, Community, and Pittsburgh's Black Geography
Ellen Holtzman Fellow
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
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
Lucy Z. Fang
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Irvine
Serial Mediations: Geopolitics and the Transnational Chinese/American Novel, 1931-1955
Ololade Faniyi
Year:
- 2026
Emory University
Technologies Beyond Man: African Feminist Reimaginings of the Human/Techno-Modernity
Anna Elizabeth Feign
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Berkeley
Contesting the Public: Worldmaking from Guyana’s Oil Frontier
Julia Fine
Year:
- 2026
Stanford University
Pyrites & Power: Imperial Mining Corporations in a Planetary Age
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
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)
Estelle Guéville
Year:
- 2026
Yale University
“Qui scripsit scribat semper.” Female Scribal Practices in Medieval Europe
Mira Guth
Year:
- 2026
Brown University
Caring for California Cows: Veterinary Interventions in Human/Animal Health
Michelle Ha
Year:
- 2025
Stanford University
Fiber Optics: Henequén Classification and its Consequences
Becca Hamilton
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Santa Barbara
Circulating Contagion, Collective Forms: Microbial Encounter in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination
Steven M. Hernandez
Year:
- 2025
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Doubly Different: Autism and Neurotypicality as Cognitive Styles
Sadam Hussain
Year:
- 2026
Syracuse University
In the Wake of Silence: Sound, Ethics, and Everyday Politics in Kashmir
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
Roderick E. Jackson
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Berkeley
Making Life Livable: Black Masculinity, Labor, and Communities of Care in the Calumet Region
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
Max Jefferson
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Berkeley
Sound as Black Situation: Black Nationalist Music, Black Music Criticism, Black Worlding, 1965-1972
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
Renee Yu Jin
Year:
- 2026
University of Rochester
Factories of Creativity: Labor, Value, and Aesthetic Production in Contemporary China
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
Joshua Chun Wah Kam
Year:
- 2024
Cornell University
Terrain and Terroir: Indigenous Fine Dining and National Gastronomy in Malaysia
Malay Kotal
Year:
- 2026
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Living Part-Apart: Migrants Weaving Life Across Distance in Contemporary India
Jose Mari Hall Lanuza
Year:
- 2024
University of Massachusetts Amherst
A Multi-sited Ethnography of Electoral Disinformation in the Philippines
Rebecca Lentjes
Year:
- 2026
University of Kentucky
Unsound Justice: An Auditory Ethnography of the Antiabortion Movement
Annie Li
Year:
- 2026
Princeton University
Chinatown’s Calling: Chinese American Religious Activism in the Civil Rights and Asian American Movements
Richard Lim
Year:
- 2025
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Complicated Coalitions: The Relationship Between Hate Violence, Policing, and Solidarity
Daniel Lobo
Year:
- 2024
University of California, Berkeley
Toward a Theory on the Causes, Contours, and Consequences of “Culture Add” Hiring at Elite Firms
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
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
Chloé Luu
Year:
- 2025
University of Southern California
Des immigrés qui font des vagues: Bad Asians, Differential Racialization and Traces of Empire