Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships

Keziah Anderson

Year:
  • 2024
Harvard University
Excavating Archivally-Disfigured Lives: Afro-Indigenous “Incompetent” Women, Legal Surveillance, Dependence, and Alternative Geographies in Jim Crow Oklahoma

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

Lorenzo Bradford

Year:
  • 2024
Harvard University
Courtroom Conjuring: Law, Space and Memory in New York’s Long Black Power Movement, 1968-1993

Cam Cannon

Year:
  • 2024
The George Washington University
Standard: Trans Activism and the History of Gender-Affirming Medicine in the United States

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

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

Kale Serrato Doyen

Year:
  • 2024
University of Pittsburgh
Mapping the Teenie Harris Archive: Photography, Community, and Pittsburgh's Black Built Environment

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

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

Kuhelika Ghosh

Year:
  • 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cultivating Caribbean Voices: Multispecies Gardens, Care, and Food Justice in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Luisa Helena Goncalves de Melo

Year:
  • 2024
Tulane University
Refusing Spatial Exclusion: Black Placemaking in the Margins of Brazil’s Capital City

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

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

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

Jose Mari Hall Lanuza

Year:
  • 2024
University of Massachusetts Amherst
A Multi-sited Ethnography of Electoral Disinformation in the Philippines

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

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

David P. Morales

Year:
  • 2024
University of California, Davis
Attending Conquest: Power and Performance in the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1820s-1880s

Rubén F. Morales Forte

Year:
  • 2024
Tulane University
Who Speaks How? Sociolinguistic Patterns Among Ch'orti' Communities in Guatemala

Fauziyatu Moro

Year:
  • 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Strangers at Play: Migrant Urban Leisure and Social Life in the Making of Twentieth-Century Accra

Jessica A. Newby

Year:
  • 2024
Johns Hopkins University
Kinship in Motion: Women and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Justine Parkin

Year:
  • 2024
University of California, Santa Cruz
Oceanic Coordinations: Decolonial Ecologies in the Indigenous Pacific

Vignesh Ramachandran

Year:
  • 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Working Class Life in the Wake of Digital Taylorism: Immigrant Delivery Workers and the After-Effects of Scientific Management

Nanea Renteria

Year:
  • 2024
Columbia University
Two Spirits: Gender, Oral History, and the Peyote Way

Anika M. Rice

Year:
  • 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vulnerabilities and Resistance: Intersections of land access, gender and migration in rural Guatemala

Salma Shash

Year:
  • 2024
University of California, Santa Barbara
Villagers, Criminals, and Policemen: Policing and Justice in Rural Egypt, 1854-1914

Marcus P. Smith

Year:
  • 2024
University of Massachusetts Amherst
This Proud Home: Grassroots Museums, Historic Preservation, and Social Change in the Rural and Coastal South

Darius Stewart

Year:
  • 2024
The University of Iowa
Erotic Discretion: Toward a Speculative Memoir on Desire, Betrayal, and Black Gay Monogamy

Daniel J. Vazquez Sanabria

Year:
  • 2024
University of Texas at Austin
Signs of Deficiency: Deafness, Disability, and Emerging Sign Languages in Puerto Rico

Brittany Delores White

Year:
  • 2024
University of Virginia
A Black History of the Late Ottoman Empire

Nasema Zeerak

Year:
  • 2024
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
“[Afghanistan] as Method”: A Contrapuntal Reading of Violence and Knowledge

Jun Zhou

Year:
  • 2024
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Woman-in-the-Loop: Gender, Labor, and the Human-Machine Reconfiguration in China

Tinghao Zhou

Year:
  • 2024
University of California, Santa Barbara
At the Ends of Media: E-Waste Pollution, Secondhand Extraction, and Environmental Politics in Guiyu, China