Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

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

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