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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joyce Sauann Lu
Year:
- 2023
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
“Se embolsan los animalitos:” the changing biosocial life of antibiotics in the western highlands of Guatemala

Andreina Malki
Year:
- 2023
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tracing Racial Capitalism in Place: Indigenous Dispossession, Plantations, and Private Immigrant Incarceration in North Carolina

Edward Kenneth Lazaro Nadurata
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Irvine
Reimagining Care: Aging, Retirement and Neoliberal Governance in the Philippines

Ayaan Natala
Year:
- 2023
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Recovering Freedom Dreams: Black Lives Matter and New Visions of Black Liberation in Minnesota

Jermani Ojeda-Ludena
Year:
- 2023
University of Texas at Austin
The Indigenous Rhetoric’s Resurgence: The Quechua Radio Broadcasting Creates a Sonorous Community and Challenges Settler Voices.

Joel Daniel Olea-Calixto
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Davis
Studying for Corporate Imperialism: Mining Colleges, Racial Capitalism, and the Rise of Mexico’s Mining Technocrats, 1908-1996

Chijioke K. Onah
Year:
- 2023
Cornell University
Toxic Intimacies: The (Bio)Politics of Waste and Disposability in Africa and African Diaspora

Nnenna Onuoha
Year:
- 2023
Harvard University
Monumental Silences: de/post/Colonial Remembrance along the Wilhelmstraße and the M-Straße, Berlin, Germany

Michele D. Pflug
Year:
- 2023
University of Oregon
Hidden Histories of Insect Collections: Women, Empire, and Entomology in the Early Eighteenth Century

Joshua K. Reason
Year:
- 2023
University of Pennsylvania
Brazil After Dark: Memory, Haunting, and Desire in Northern-Northeastern Brazil

Kristen Reynolds
Year:
- 2023
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
The Human in the Machine: Black Speculation and Revolutionary Technoculture Beyond the Human

Maurice Rippel
Year:
- 2023
Yale University
“A Different Type of Time”: Modernity, Mobility, and Quiet Violence in the Black Atlantic

Soyoon Ryu
Year:
- 2023
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
We Live Here: Collectivization and Art in the Field in East and Southeast Asia, 1972-1992

Ha’åni Lucia Falo San Nicolas
Year:
- 2023
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Famalao’an CHamoru, Reproductive Liberation, and Resurgent Poetics

Carine Schermann
Year:
- 2023
Florida State University
Under the Skin: Monstrosity, Myth-Making, and Resistance Across and Beyond the Haitian-Dominican Border

Brandon O. Scott
Year:
- 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The American Grove: On Nineteenth Century Vegetal Aesthetics.

Brayan Serratos Garcia
Year:
- 2023
Vanderbilt University
Navigating the Cross and Crossing the Sea: Collaborative Knowledge-Production, Visual Literacies, and Racial Formations in Spanish Asia and America

Destry Maria Sibley
Year:
- 2023
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
After Mother: Genres of the Maternal in Twenty-First Century American Memoir

Margie Tang-Oxley
Year:
- 2023
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
The “Oriental Julia Child”: Chinese American Cuisine, Gendered Orientalism, and the Cold War

Sanggay Tashi
Year:
- 2023
University of Colorado Boulder
Indigenous Innovations: Nomadic Agency, State Intervention, and Community-Based Research in Amdo Tibet, China

Merve Tekgurler
Year:
- 2023
Stanford University
Crucible of Empire: Danubian Borderlands and the Making of Ottoman Administrative Mentalities

Nic Vigilante
Year:
- 2023
Cornell University
Rethinking Ethnography in a Pandemic and Beyond: Sonic Performances of the Unreal in QTAPI Nightlife, Virtual Reality, and Esports

Anca Wilkening
Year:
- 2023
Harvard University
Red Sisters, Womanly Fathers, and Queer Domesticities: Radical Pietism, Kinship, and Intimacy in Lenape and Mohican Homelands

Travis Wright
Year:
- 2023
Indiana University Bloomington
You Can Help: SNCC, the Friends of SNCC and the Struggle for Black Freedom

Alan T. Yeh
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Berkeley
Con ăn cơm chưa? Refugee Lessons on Feeding and Care in the Vietnamese Diaspora