Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships
Alyssa C. Arnell
Year:
- 2025
University of New Hampshire
Condemnation for Preservation: The Taking of Fazendeville, Louisiana
Luke Boyle
Year:
- 2025
Arizona State University
For the Cities Yet to Come: Reimagining African Urban Futures from the Margins
Sofia Butnaru
Year:
- 2025
University of Chicago
Seeds of Debt: The Racial and Environmental Underpinnings of Consumer Credit
Nia Cambridge
Year:
- 2025
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Banking on Blue: Debt Restructuring, Carbon Crediting and the Financialization of Marine Ecosystem Services in The Bahamas
Licelot Caraballo
Year:
- 2025
Brown University
Transborder Mobilities: Border Market Work and Solidarity at the Haitian-Dominican Border
María Carrillo Marquina
Year:
- 2025
Tulane University
Sculpting Identity: The Material Worlds of Colonial Afro-Latin American Confraternities
Lena Chen
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Berkeley
Yellow Power Play: Art and Activism in Asian American Sex Work
Jerry Chen
Year:
- 2025
Harvard University
“In Common Justice and Humanities”: Alien Land Law Litigation and Asian American Legal Culture, 1913-29
Felipe Coimbra Moretti
Year:
- 2025
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The Dam, the Road, the Port: The Transformation of the Brazilian Northeast during the Long Twentieth-Century
Marie Comuzzo
Year:
- 2025
Brandeis University
A Sonically Reimagined Silence: How the Discovery of Whale Songs Inspired an Environmental Commitment to the Ocean
Patrick Das
Year:
- 2025
University of Colorado Boulder
A Spatial Approach to Language Contact in The Eastern Himalayan Region
Ria J. Gualano
Year:
- 2025
Cornell University
Cripping Time Across “Realities”: Technology-Integrated Storytelling through a Co-Curated Disability and Neurodiversity Arts Exhibition
Martha D. Guerrero Badillo
Year:
- 2025
Yale University
Putting Migrants to Work: How the Contested World of U.S. Immigration Reform Created New Workers, Citizens, and Transnational Economies (1976-2006)
Michelle Ha
Year:
- 2025
Stanford University
Fiber Optics: Henequén Classification and its Consequences
Steven M. Hernandez
Year:
- 2025
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Doubly Different: Autism and Neurotypicality as Cognitive Styles
Aziza Izamova
Year:
- 2025
Harvard University
Visual Art and Craft Production in Central Asian Modernism, 1917-1945
Tamara Z. Jamil
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Berkeley
Jail Expansion, Aesthetics of "Blight," and Rural Landscapes: Understanding the ongoing silent jail boom in rural California
Max Jefferson
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Berkeley
Sound as Black Situation: Black Nationalist Music, Black Music Criticism, Black Worlding, 1965-1972
Diego Jesus
Year:
- 2025
University of Texas at Austin
Shifting Banks: Mapping Environmental Racism and Resilience in Brazilian Aquatic Spaces
Richard Lim
Year:
- 2025
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Complicated Coalitions: The Relationship Between Hate Violence, Policing, and Solidarity
Chloé Luu
Year:
- 2025
University of Southern California
Des immigrés qui font des vagues: Bad Asians, Differential Racialization and Traces of Empire
Joaquin Marreros-Nunez
Year:
- 2025
Brown University
Peruvian Maricones: Queer Urban Life, Race, and Violence in Twentieth-Century Peru
Kamini Masood
Year:
- 2025
Columbia University
Troubled Waters : Natural Disaster, Space, and the State in Precolonial Panjab (1707-1849)
Bethel S. Moges
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Los Angeles
Black Anti-settler Placemaking: Cooperation Jackson's Eco-villages from Mississippi to Vermont
Sara Moya
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Los Angeles
Of Love and Packages: The Care Economy of Separated Families
Kasyoka Mwanzia
Year:
- 2025
Duke University
Gaming Futures: Play, Work, and Youth Aspiration in Urban Kenya
Hossein Nakhaei
Year:
- 2025
University of Pittsburgh
Luminous Past, Fragmented Present: Persian Luster Tiles from Sacred Architecture to Museum Galleries
Olarotimi Ogungbemi
Year:
- 2025
University of Texas at San Antonio
The Entangled Waters: Climate, Sovereignty, and Environmental Politics in Lagos, Nigeria
Vincent Pacheco
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Berkeley
The postcolonial documentary and neo-noir: Imagining populism, state-sponsored violence, and aesthetic communities in Indonesia and the Philippines
Julia Shizuyo Popham
Year:
- 2025
University of Colorado Boulder
Uneasy Intimacies: Seeing Irei and Aesthetic Ambiguity Through Fukunosuke Kusumi's Art
Balakrishnan Raghavan
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Santa Cruz
Everyday Resistance from the Margins: Feminist, Queer and Digital Incursions in Indian Song Traditions
Muhammad Raqib
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Irvine
Law-Making as Statemaking: Lawfare in Post-Revolution Bangladesh
John Sabogal Venegas
Year:
- 2025
Duke University
Searching for the Missing: Indigenous People, Ex-Combatants, and Transitional Justice in Colombia
Kiara Sample
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Berkeley
Return to the Earth: Herbalism, Rootwork, and Black Femme Ecologies of Survival
Daniela Sánchez
Year:
- 2025
University of Texas at Austin
'Acompañamiento': Transnational Feminist Interventions on Abortion Access in Mexico
Catalina Segú
Year:
- 2025
University of Rochester
White Unsettlements: Atmospheric Aesthetics and Erosions of the White Body in the Latin American Southern Cone
Letícia Fernanda Carvalho Silva
Year:
- 2025
University of Massachusetts Amherst
A Negra: Unearthing Enslaved Women’s Histories from Tarsila do Amaral’s pictorial narrative
Ingrid E. Sub Cuc
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Davis
Our Language is Our Health: Conceptualizing Health and Wellbeing in Kaqchikel Maya to Improve Indigenous Health Outcomes
Babette Thomas
Year:
- 2025
Yale University
“Can You Hear Me Now?” Twentieth-Century Black Feminist Soundwork in Transmission and Reception
Kristian E. Vasquez
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Coloniality of the Wor(l)d: Aesthetics, Heresy, and the Decolonial Spirit of La Xicanada
Alexis Emily Wood
Year:
- 2025
University of California, Berkeley
State of Mine(Mind): Affective Geographies of California's Rural North
Marcus Yee
Year:
- 2025
Yale University
Urban Tropics: Dwelling under South and Southeast Asian Urban Microclimates
Gabriela Yepes-Rossel
Year:
- 2025
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Disruptive repertoires, intuitive world-making: performance, feminism, and indigeneity in the Southern Peruvian Andes