Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships
Supporting innovative approaches to dissertation research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences
Bea Abbott
Year:
- 2026
University of Kentucky
Visualizing Border Space from Below: Networked Images and Contested Visual Politics in the Aegean Sea
Nicolas Allen
Year:
- 2026
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Black Transducers: A Technology History of Brazilian Popular Music
Tirzah Anderson
Year:
- 2026
Princeton University
Afro-Indigenous Worldmaking in the Midst of Death in Indian Territory and Oklahoma, 1890s-1930s
Rose Archer
Year:
- 2026
Emory University
Narrating the Womb: Speculative Medicine and the (Re)Framing of Obstetric Grammars Across Digital and Embodied Terrains
Ihsan Arsalan
Year:
- 2026
Rice University
When Frozen Worlds Flood: Tracing the Paradoxical Reverberations of Karakoram Glacial Activity from Pakistan to European Labs
Ruthie Block
Year:
- 2026
Yale University
Holding Patterns: Black Women Collectors, Itinerant Texts, and the Domestic Stewardship of a Black Material Past
Jarred Brewster
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Los Angeles
Pastoralist, Wage Labor, and the Linguistic Pastoral: Heritage Learners and Migrant Workers as Minority Language Speakers in Southern Oman
Danielle Burke
Year:
- 2026
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Handicraft Map: Aesthetic Ecologies in a 1947 Directory of American Craft
Chand
Year:
- 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
Laboring For Justice Towards Trans Livelihoods: The Quest for Dignity and Otherwise Worlds
Kelsey Chen
Year:
- 2026
Stanford University
An Other Science: Silkpunk, Speculation, and the Making of a Taoist Technoscience
Chiara Di Leone
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Los Angeles
Re-running Utopia: the Latin American World Model (1976) and the Global Politics of the Future
Lucy Z. Fang
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Irvine
Serial Mediations: Geopolitics and the Transnational Chinese/American Novel, 1931-1955
Ololade Faniyi
Year:
- 2026
Emory University
Technologies Beyond Man: African Feminist Reimaginings of the Human/Techno-Modernity
Anna Elizabeth Feign
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Berkeley
Contesting the Public: Worldmaking from Guyana’s Oil Frontier
Julia Fine
Year:
- 2026
Stanford University
Pyrites & Power: Imperial Mining Corporations in a Planetary Age
Estelle Guéville
Year:
- 2026
Yale University
“Qui scripsit scribat semper.” Female Scribal Practices in Medieval Europe
Mira Guth
Year:
- 2026
Brown University
Caring for California Cows: Veterinary Interventions in Human/Animal Health
Becca Hamilton
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Santa Barbara
Circulating Contagion, Collective Forms: Microbial Encounter in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination
Sadam Hussain
Year:
- 2026
Syracuse University
In the Wake of Silence: Sound, Ethics, and Everyday Politics in Kashmir
Roderick E. Jackson
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Berkeley
Making Life Livable: Black Masculinity, Labor, and Communities of Care in the Calumet Region
Renee Yu Jin
Year:
- 2026
University of Rochester
Factories of Creativity: Labor, Value, and Aesthetic Production in Contemporary China
Malay Kotal
Year:
- 2026
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Living Part-Apart: Migrants Weaving Life Across Distance in Contemporary India
Rebecca Lentjes
Year:
- 2026
University of Kentucky
Unsound Justice: An Auditory Ethnography of the Antiabortion Movement
Annie Li
Year:
- 2026
Princeton University
Chinatown’s Calling: Chinese American Religious Activism in the Civil Rights and Asian American Movements
Lisandro Andres Mendieta
Year:
- 2026
Northwestern University
Archiving Otherwise: Towards a Genealogy of Trans Masculinities in South America
Yevhenii Monastyrskyi
Year:
- 2026
Harvard University
They Chose the USSR: Migration Regimes, Political Asylum and Belonging in the Soviet Union, 1918-1991
Sean Muller
Year:
- 2026
Columbia University
Addicted Bodies, Blighted Property, and the Pursuit of Reparative Funding in Rural New York State
Gauri Nagpal
Year:
- 2026
Cornell University
Carbon Brokers: The Fiscal Politics of Urban Climate Finance in India and South Africa
Graham David Sean O'Toole
Year:
- 2026
Harvard University
Tribute in Medieval Ireland from the 11th to the 14th Century
Shahill Parsons
Year:
- 2026
Rice University
When Tragedy Sparks Caution: Examining Patterns of Police Behavior Following High-Profile Events—A Causal and Game-Theoretic Analysis
Manoel Carlos Pereira Neto
Year:
- 2026
Cornell University
The Operating System of Housing: Platform Capitalism and the New Logic of Rental Provision
Jediael Peterson
Year:
- 2026
State University of New York, Stony Brook
The Rivers Are Dying: Naked Protest and Ecological Alienation in the Niger Delta
Griffin Pion
Year:
- 2026
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
The Cognitive Engine of Misunderstanding: Polysemy and Public Discourse
Nathan Porter
Year:
- 2026
Duke University
Recovering the Lost Voices of Early North African Intellectuals: Authorship and Identity in Late Antiquity
Simon Rakei
Year:
- 2026
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Transfer Pricing Value: Southern African Mining and the Modern Formation of Offshore Finance
Chelsea Kai Roesch
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Santa Barbara
Casino Capitalism: Digital Gambling, Screen Workers, and Cyberlibertarians
Laurian Rosa Rosa
Year:
- 2026
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Colonial remains: the afterlives of militarization and the politics of redevelopment in eastern Puerto Rico
Catalina Santamaria
Year:
- 2026
University of Texas at Austin
Documenting and Describing Damana in Collaboration
Ben Schneider
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Los Angeles
Building Health, Restricting Care: Hospital Expansion in Los Angeles, 1965-1991
Grace Simbulan
Year:
- 2026
University of Southern California
Archives of the Unforgotten: Ecologies of Justice in Post-Duterte Manila
Alexa Torres Skillicorn
Year:
- 2026
New York University
Jazz as Territorial Practice: Urban Geographies of Sound in Mexico and Chile
Sydney Smith
Year:
- 2026
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Reading for the Revolution: Black Bookstores and the Black Radical Tradition in Chicago, 1930-1980
Dimitrios Konstantinos Sparis
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Berkeley
Polis Without a Place: the Moral Economy of Exile in the Ancient Greek World
Sami Stroud
Year:
- 2026
University of Oregon
Theorizing “with” Belugas: Care, Violence, and the Colonial Politics of Conservation
Andre Tarleton
Year:
- 2026
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Social and Political Life of Tabletop Roleplay Games
Taylor Wilson Thompson
Year:
- 2026
Yale University
The Choreography of Capital: A Performance History of Nineteenth-Century Black Political Economy
Raquel Torua Padilla
Year:
- 2026
University of Texas at Austin
Yaqui Soldiers: Impressment, Conscription, and Diaspora in the Twentieth Century
Erika Villeroy da Costa
Year:
- 2026
University of California, Riverside
Viper genealogies: Choreographing transnational blackness between Rio de Janeiro and New York (1951-1972)
