Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
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Oluseyi O. Agbelusi
Year:
- 2021
Syracuse University
British Anti-Slavery, Trade, and Nascent Colonialism on the Freetown Peninsula, Sierra Leone
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Julio Aguilar
Year:
- 2021
University of California, Davis
A Thirsty Colonization: Water and Urban Political Ecology in the Silver City of Potosí, 1573-1770
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Marina Alamo-Bryan
Year:
- 2021
Columbia University
The Bodies and the Archive: Bureaucratization of Violence and Communal Exhumation in Mexico
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Andy Alfonso
Year:
- 2022
Princeton University
Un/exceptional Shadowlands: Space, Memory, and Archives in the Wake of the Cuban Revolution
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Heba Alnajada
Year:
- 2021
University of California, Berkeley
150 Years of Refuge into Jordan: Land Tenure, Camps, and Hospitality (1878-Present)
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Alex Alston
Year:
- 2022
Columbia University
Animal Ambivalence: Black Literature and the Discourse of Species
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Christian David Alvarado
Year:
- 2022
University of California, Santa Cruz
The Storm in Kenya: Mau Mau in Systems of Thought
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Felipe Álvarez de Toledo López-Herrera
Year:
- 2021
Duke University
'Pinturas Infinitas para América.’ A Data-Driven History of the Market for Paintings in Seville (1500-1700)
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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
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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
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Gabriel S. Bámgbóṣé
Year:
- 2021
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
In My Mother’s House: African Women, Poetic Literacy, and Radical Translation of Négritude
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Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed
Year:
- 2021
Columbia University
Negotiating the Empty Time of Modernity: Sufi Temporality in Postcolonial Arabic Thought and Literature
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Samuel Boateng
Year:
- 2021
University of Pittsburgh
Jazz Ghana: Historical Perspectives, Transnational Routes, Space, and Sustainability
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Clementine Bordeaux
Year:
- 2022
University of California, Los Angeles
Wówayupike: Relationships between Lakota Art, Land, and Culture
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Clifton Boyd
Year:
- 2021
Yale University
The Role of Vernacular Music Theory in the American Barbershop Community
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Dmitri Joseph Brown
Year:
- 2021
University of California, Davis
Tewa Pueblos at the Dawn of Atomic Modernity
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Kathleen M. Burns
Year:
- 2021
Duke University
Vegetal Forms: How Plants Cultivate Life in Literature and Science
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Hector Miguel Callejas
Year:
- 2021
University of California, Berkeley
Reimagining the Countryside: Settler Colonialism, National Culture, and Indigeneity in Contemporary El Salvador
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Bobby Cervantes
Year:
- 2021
- 2024
Harvard University
Las Colonias: An American History
ACLS Oscar Handlin Fellow
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Ariel S L Chan
Year:
- 2022
University of California, Los Angeles
The Diaspora of Bilinguals: Code-switching in Three Groups of Cantonese-English Bilinguals
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Ariel S L Chan
Year:
- 2022
University of California, Los Angeles
The Diaspora of Bilinguals: Code-switching in Three Groups of Cantonese-English Bilinguals
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A. Véronique Charles
Year:
- 2021
University of Pennsylvania
Writing Atlantic-African Slavery: The Middle Passage in Continental Terms
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Chuan Hao Chen
Year:
- 2022
University of Pennsylvania
Building Biocontainment, Regulating Race: Scientific Infrastructures for American Safety against Emerging Diseases
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Mimi Cheng
Year:
- 2021
University of Rochester
China on the Horizon: German Orientalism and the Colonial Built Environment, 1860-1914
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Yasmeen Chism
Year:
- 2022
New York University
Tracing Black Movements: Chor[e]ographing Dis/placements in North Carolina’s Piedmont
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Jieun Cho
Year:
- 2022
Duke University
Anxious Care: Radioactive Uncertainty and the Politics of Life in Post-Nuclear Japan
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Robert Christensen
Year:
- 2021
Georgetown University
Worlds in Conflict: Indigenous Peoples, Environmental Challenges, and the 'Conquista del Desierto' in the Making of Argentina, 1870-1900
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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
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Alexander Cors
Year:
- 2021
Emory University
Newcomers and New Borders: Migration, Property Formation, and Conflict over Land along the Mississippi River, 1750-1820
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Johaina Katinka B. Crisostomo
Year:
- 2021
University of California, Berkeley
Imperfect Sacrifice: The Ethical Crisis in the Novels and Vernacular Political Theologies of Transimperial Philippines (1890-1946)
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Terrence Cullen
Year:
- 2021
New York University
Take Note: Listening to French Literature in the Long Thirteenth Century
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Augusta Lynn Dell'Omo
Year:
- 2021
University of Texas at Austin
Saving Apartheid: Trans-Atlantic Whiteness in the U.S.-South African Relationship, 1980-1994
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Ashley D. Dennis
Year:
- 2021
Northwestern University
The Intellectual Emancipation of the Negro: The Thought and Activism of Black Women Educators during the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Meenu Deswal
Year:
- 2021
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Uneven Terrains of Struggle: Caste, Class, Gender, and the Everyday Experience of Law in Colonial South Asia, 1849-1940
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Daniel Driscoll
Year:
- 2021
University of California, San Diego
Pricing Carbon: Globalism, Growth, and Populism
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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
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Aaron F. Eldridge
Year:
- 2021
University of California, Berkeley
Monastic Life in Aftermath: Formations of Arab Orthodox Christian Asceticism in Lebanon
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Zohar Elmakias
Year:
- 2022
Columbia University
Minefield, Temple: National, Theological, and Military Power and Site-Making in Israel
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Martha L. Espinosa
Year:
- 2022
Duke University
The Science of Family Planning. Mexico’s “Demographic Explosion,” Contraceptive Technologies, and the Power of Expert Knowledge
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Kareem Estefan
Year:
- 2021
Brown University
Witnessing as Worldbuilding: Imagining Repair and Decolonization in Palestinian Visual Culture
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Cesar Estrella
Year:
- 2021
University of California, Santa Cruz
The Strong Arm of Capital: Protecting US National Security
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Marcelitte Failla
Year:
- 2022
Emory University
The Black Witch: Ontological Power, Black Worldmaking, and Spiritual Co-Creation
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Jennifer M. Farquhar
Year:
- 2021
University of Pittsburgh
Human-Environment Interactions: The Role of Foragers in the Development of Mobile Pastoralism in Mongolia's Desert-Steppe.
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Whitney Nicole Fields
Year:
- 2022
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Captive in Promised Land: Black Lives, Confinement, and Incarceration in Nineteenth Century Urban America
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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
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Jorge A. García-Granados
Year:
- 2021
University of Georgia
The Journey of Three Andean Fausts: Dramas of Damnation in Eighteenth-century Colonial Peru
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Sage M. Gerson
Year:
- 2021
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Leaky Grid: Black and Native Electrified Imaginaries
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Liliana Gil
Year:
- 2021
The New School
Beyond Make-Do Innovation: Practices and Politics of Technological Improvisation in Brazil
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Camille J. Goldmon
Year:
- 2021
Emory University
On the Right Side of Radicalism: African American Farmers, Tuskegee Institute, and Agrarian Radicalism in the Alabama Black Belt, 1881–1940