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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

Fellowship Year
Related Program

Andy Alfonso

Year:
  • 2022
Princeton University
Un/exceptional Shadowlands: Space, Memory, and Archives in the Wake of the Cuban Revolution

Alex Alston

Year:
  • 2022
Columbia University
Animal Ambivalence: Black Literature and the Discourse of Species

Christian David Alvarado

Year:
  • 2022
University of California, Santa Cruz
The Storm in Kenya: Mau Mau in Systems of Thought

Ligia A. Arguilez

Year:
  • 2022
University of Texas at El Paso
Making the Desert Place: An Environmental History of a Desert Shrub from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Megan Baker

Year:
  • 2022
University of California, Los Angeles
Building More than an Economy: Histories of Choctaw-U.S. Laws, Land, and Development in Oklahoma

Clementine Bordeaux

Year:
  • 2022
University of California, Los Angeles
Wówayupike: Relationships between Lakota Art, Land, and Culture

Ariel S L Chan

Year:
  • 2022
University of California, Los Angeles
The Diaspora of Bilinguals: Code-switching in Three Groups of Cantonese-English Bilinguals

Ariel S L Chan

Year:
  • 2022
University of California, Los Angeles
The Diaspora of Bilinguals: Code-switching in Three Groups of Cantonese-English Bilinguals

Chuan Hao Chen

Year:
  • 2022
University of Pennsylvania
Building Biocontainment, Regulating Race: Scientific Infrastructures for American Safety against Emerging Diseases

Yasmeen Chism

Year:
  • 2022
New York University
Tracing Black Movements: Chor[e]ographing Dis/placements in North Carolina’s Piedmont

Jieun Cho

Year:
  • 2022
Duke University
Anxious Care: Radioactive Uncertainty and the Politics of Life in Post-Nuclear Japan

Taylor A. Coleman

Year:
  • 2022
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
"Converging Diasporas": Garveyism, Afrolatinidades, and the Pan-Africanist Vision in the Hispanic Caribbean

Estela B. Diaz

Year:
  • 2022
Columbia University
Promise: Admissions to Preschool and Kindergarten

Raed El Rafei

Year:
  • 2022
University of California, Santa Cruz
Queer Film and Art Practice from Lebanon: New Political Imaginaries, Radical Aesthetics, and Utopian Futures

Zohar Elmakias

Year:
  • 2022
Columbia University
Minefield, Temple: National, Theological, and Military Power and Site-Making in Israel

Martha L. Espinosa

Year:
  • 2022
Duke University
The Science of Family Planning. Mexico’s “Demographic Explosion,” Contraceptive Technologies, and the Power of Expert Knowledge

Marcelitte Failla

Year:
  • 2022
Emory University
The Black Witch: Ontological Power, Black Worldmaking, and Spiritual Co-Creation

Whitney Nicole Fields

Year:
  • 2022
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Captive in Promised Land: Black Lives, Confinement, and Incarceration in Nineteenth Century Urban America

Hongdeng Gao

Year:
  • 2022
Columbia University
Adapting Biomedicine for Underserved Chinese New Yorkers: Medical Education and Health Activism in Post-World War II New York City

Isabel Guzzardo Tamargo

Year:
  • 2022
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Maroon Entanglements: Women's and Femme's Erotic Strategies in Caribbean Narrative

Emily E. Hoge

Year:
  • 2022
University of California, Berkeley
Combat Brotherhood: Disabled Afghan War Veterans, Traumatic Masculinity and the Mafia State

Kimberly V. Jones

Year:
  • 2022
Rice University
Critical Bodies: Gender, Disability and Slavery in Early Republic Virginia

Erich J. Kessel

Year:
  • 2022
Yale University
Antiblackness and Late Capitalist Aesthetic Production, 1970s-present

Riad M. Kherdeen

Year:
  • 2022
University of California, Berkeley
Spectral Modernisms: Decolonial Aesthetics and Haunting in the Aftershock of Morocco's Agadir Earthquake (1960)

Eri Kitada

Year:
  • 2022
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Intimate and Intertwined Settler Colonialisms: Filipino Women in the US-Japanese Imperial Formations, 1903-1956

Marius Ami Kothor

Year:
  • 2022
Yale University
Securing Ablodé Blibo: Togolese Women Merchants and the Transnational Politics of Decolonization, 1933-1993.

Olanrewaju B. Lasisi

Year:
  • 2022
College of William & Mary
Landscapes of Power: A Historical Archaeology and Cultural Astronomy of Ijebu-Yoruba Palatial Urbanscape, AD1000-1900

Valeriya Minakova

Year:
  • 2022
Pennsylvania State University
“If my language dies tomorrow…”: Understandings of language and language maintenance practices of the Circassians (Adyghes) in Russia

Sophia Mo

Year:
  • 2022
Columbia University
Liberating Women, Algeria, and the World: Women Writing from the Margins of the Media

Silpa Mukherjee

Year:
  • 2022
University of Pittsburgh
Cinema as Contraband: Bombay Film Culture between 1977-1991

Sauda Nabukenya

Year:
  • 2022
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
In Pursuit of Right, Justice, and Peace: Ordinary Litigants and the Making of Uganda’s Legal Culture, ca. 1900-1970

Shay O'Brien

Year:
  • 2022
Princeton University
Dallas: Kinship, Mobility, and Inheritance in an Elite Population, 1895-1945

Eriko Okamoto

Year:
  • 2022
Georgetown University
The Unity of Knowledge in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy: Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī's Classification of the Sciences

Victoria Piehowski

Year:
  • 2022
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
The Social Uses of Trauma: Establishing and Expanding Veterans Treatment Courts in Minnesota

Sarah A. Preston

Year:
  • 2022
University of Oregon
A State of Want: Advertising and Toxicity in Environmental Justice Literature

Samin Rashidbeigi

Year:
  • 2022
Princeton University
State of Blood: Transfusion Science, the Urban Poor, and the Making of the Modern Donor in Iran

Nelesi Gabriela Rodriguez

Year:
  • 2022
University of Pittsburgh
Contact Composition: Enacting a Movement-inflected Composition Pedagogy

Tarika Sankar

Year:
  • 2022
University of Miami
Beyond the Culture Concept: Indo-Caribbean Identity as Diasporic Consciousness

Ettore Santi

Year:
  • 2018
  • 2022
University of California, Berkeley
Designing a Land Revolution: the Corporate Reinvention of China’s Rural Environment

Aanchal Saraf

Year:
  • 2022
Yale University
Atomic Afterlives, Pacific Archives: Unsettling the Geographies and Science of Nuclear Colonialism in the Marshall Islands and Hawaii

Shavagne Arlene Scott

Year:
  • 2022
New York University
Women on the "Fringes": Reimagining Marronage through the Gendered Landscape of Colonial Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone, 1655-1834

Taimoor Shahid

Year:
  • 2022
University of Chicago
Traveling Tales of Saif al-Mulūk: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Indian Ocean World

Shelby M. Sinclair

Year:
  • 2022
Princeton University
"Gason konn bouke, men pa fanm": Black Women Workers and the United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934

D. Caleb Smith

Year:
  • 2022
Tulane University
Been On The Shop Floor Too Long – Black Labor After The 1964 Civil Rights Act

Stephen Sullivan

Year:
  • 2022
Northwestern University
Amplifying Gentrification: Contestations of Sound and Space in Brooklyn, NY

Mark Tseng-Putterman

Year:
  • 2022
Brown University
The Internationalists: Asian/American Politics in the Shadow of Cold War Empire

Joseph Wei

Year:
  • 2022
University of Virginia
Refugee Poetics: Southeast Asian American Poets, Literary Institutions, and Structures of Postmemory

Sara Elizabeth Wenger

Year:
  • 2022
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Synthetic Women: Gender, Power, and Humanoid Sex Robots

Tiana U. Wilson

Year:
  • 2022
University of Texas at Austin
Liberation for All: Recovering the Lasting Legacy of the Third World Women’s Alliance, 1968-2012

Anna M. Woźny

Year:
  • 2022
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
"Marriage-hunting": Markets, Morals, and Marriageability in Contemporary Japan
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