Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships
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Sergio Alarcón Robledo
Year:
- 2023
Harvard University
From Archives to Soundscape analysis: Architectural change and power display in Early Dynastic Egypt
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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
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Aja J. Antoine-Jones
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Berkeley
Policing, Pollution, Plague: Breath and Death in an Unequal Society
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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
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Lorenzo Bradford
Year:
- 2024
Harvard University
Courtroom Conjuring: Law, Space and Memory in New York’s Long Black Power Movement, 1968-1993
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Cam Cannon
Year:
- 2024
The George Washington University
Standard: Trans Activism and the History of Gender-Affirming Medicine in the United States
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Nicola Chávez Courtright
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Los Angeles
Archive, memory and emotion in Salvadoran LGBTQ+ organizing
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Janessa M. Chinana
Year:
- 2023
University of Washington
Xaadláa Gwáay.yaay: Indigenous Border Nationhood and Haida Governance Across Settler-States
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María Ximena Dávila
Year:
- 2024
University of Texas at Austin
Landscapes of Harm: War, Toxicity and Reproduction in Colombia
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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
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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
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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
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Kale Serrato Doyen
Year:
- 2024
University of Pittsburgh
Mapping the Teenie Harris Archive: Photography, Community, and Pittsburgh's Black Built Environment
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Ash Duhrkoop
Year:
- 2023
University of Virginia
When the Dust Unsettles: Modernism and Extractivism in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
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Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin
Year:
- 2024
Stanford University
“From My Sometimes-Broken Hillside Window”: Environment, Race, and Infrastructure in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point
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Karina M. Edouard
Year:
- 2024
Cornell University
Woman, Migrant, Other: The politics of motherhood and resistance in the Haitian Diaspora
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Taaja El-Shabazz
Year:
- 2023
Brown University
The Many-Threaded Hydra: A Patchwork Labor History of the American Womenswear Industry, 1924-1941
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Alfredo Escudero
Year:
- 2023
Florida International University
The Land is the Laboratory: Indigenous Labor, Land Inspections and the Engineering of the Colonial Andes
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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
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Yuri Fraccaroli
Year:
- 2024
University of California, Santa Barbara
Archivo vivo! An Ethnography of the Archive: Latin American Sex and Gender Community Archives
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Katherine Funes
Year:
- 2024
University of California, Irvine
Queering the State of Exception: LGBTIQ Resistance Amidst Carceral Regimes in El Salvador
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K. Ermelinda Garcia
Year:
- 2024
Indiana University Bloomington
Constructing Ties: Chosen Families and Intimacy among Women in Mexico City’s Ambiente, 1970-2023
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Kuhelika Ghosh
Year:
- 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cultivating Caribbean Voices: Multispecies Gardens, Care, and Food Justice in Anglophone Caribbean Literature
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Luisa Helena Goncalves de Melo
Year:
- 2024
Tulane University
Refusing Spatial Exclusion: Black Placemaking in the Margins of Brazil’s Capital City
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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
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Tiên Dung Hà
Year:
- 2023
Stanford University
Science and Spirit: Searching for the remains of Vietnam's MIAs four decades later
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Johanna Hernández-Pérez
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Los Angeles
Negotiating Blackness: How Jamaica and Puerto Rico Represent Race for Tourism
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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
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Emily Brooke Jackson
Year:
- 2024
Cornell University
Abortion Access, Informal Rights, and Reform in Latin America
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Kayla K. Jackson
Year:
- 2024
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Resistance in Action: Protest Reimagined through the Lens of Black Resistance
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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
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Jennie Jiang
Year:
- 2024
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Re-Scaling Toxic Harm: Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the United States
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Joseph Zavaan Johnson
Year:
- 2024
Indiana University Bloomington
Black Banjo Bodylands: Recovering an African-American Instrument
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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
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Larissa A. Juip
Year:
- 2023
Michigan Technological University
Re-Storying an Industrial Landscape: Moving Beyond Traditional Approaches to Heritage Interpretation
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Joshua Chun Wah Kam
Year:
- 2024
Cornell University
Terrain and Terroir: Indigenous Fine Dining and National Gastronomy in Malaysia
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Rae Keʻala Kuruhara
Year:
- 2023
University of California, Los Angeles
Man(g)a, Moʻolelo, and the Many Bodied Forms of Indigenous Comics
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Anthony A. Landers
Year:
- 2023
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Prisons As Sinks: Mapping the Slow Violence of Carceral Spaces
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Jose Mari Hall Lanuza
Year:
- 2024
University of Massachusetts Amherst
A Multi-sited Ethnography of Electoral Disinformation in the Philippines
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Daniel Lobo
Year:
- 2024
University of California, Berkeley
Toward a Theory on the Causes, Contours, and Consequences of “Culture Add” Hiring at Elite Firms
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Jessica R. Locklear
Year:
- 2023
Emory University
The Other Lands We Know: Intergenerational Histories of Lumbee Mobility, 1880-1980
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Jessica R. Locklear
Year:
- 2023
Emory University
The Other Lands We Know: Intergenerational Histories of Lumbee Mobility, 1880-1980
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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
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Elsa Lora
Year:
- 2023
Harvard University
Mothers of Crime: Family and the Making of the US Carceral State, 1877-2016
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Irma Losada Olmos
Year:
- 2024
University of California, Los Angeles
Bordering Development: Exploring the Maya Train's Variegated Mobilities in Southern Mexico
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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
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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
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Mabrouka M'Barek
Year:
- 2024
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Traces of Nomadism: A comparative study of colonial curtailment of mobility and community resilience in North Africa and North America