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Awardees
National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation
Adair, Zakiya Renecia. Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Missouri
Project:
Negotiating Spectacle: Black Women Vaudeville Performers and Trans-Atlantic Theatre, 1920-1935
Fuentes, Marisa Joanna. Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s Studies and History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Project:
"The Archives of Slavery: Gender, Power and Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century Urban Caribbean"
National Endowment for the Humanities/Mellon Foundation
Goldberg, David. Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies, Wayne State University
Project:
“Courage Under Fire: African Americans and the FDNY
Jackson, Regine O. Assistant Professor, Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
Project:
"Diasporic Subjects: Haitian Émigrés in Postcolonial Congo"
National Endowment for the Humanities/Newhouse Foundation
Mirabal, Nancy Raquel. Associate Professor, Department of Latina/o Studies, San Francisco State University
Project:
‘"Echando Pleito‘: El Club Julio Antonio Mella, El Club Cubano lnter-Americano and the Emergence of Diasporic Afro-Cubanidades."
Meehan, Kevin. Professor, Department of English, University of Central Florida
Project:
“Translating Léon-Gontran Damas: Selected Prose Writings and Decolonization”
Independent
Lightfoot, Natasha J. Assistant Professor, History Department, Columbia University. (Ford Foundation Fellow.)
Project: "Contingent Freedom: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in Antigua, 1831-1858"
Awardees
Fellows of the Schomburg Center are listed by (1) the years during which they held fellowships; (2) the institutions and departments with which they were affiliated at the time of their fellowships or shortly thereafter; (3) the titles of the Projects they worked on at the Center.
Independent
Wilkerson, Margaret. Chair, Department of Theatre Arts, University of California at Berkeley. (Ford Foundation and National Research Council.)
Project:
Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
Independent
Franklin, V.P. Professor of History, Department of History and Politics, Drexel University. (Ford Foundation and National Research Council.)
Project:
The Black Twenties: An Exploration of New Negro Consciousness, 1917-1930
Rockefeller Foundation
Birt, Rodger C. Professor, Humanities Department, San Francisco State University.
Project:
With a Camera in Harlem: The Career and Works of James Van Der Zee.
Walker, Sheila S. Director, Center for African and African American Studies and Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor, Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin.
Project:
Creation of slide/tape and video presentations about Africa and the African Diaspora.
Documentary Film: Bahia: Africa in the Americas
Schomburg Center
Greene, Larry A. Professor, Department of History. Seton Hall University.
Project:
Social Aspects of the Depression in Harlem: Family Life and Education, 1930-1940.
Jones, Ferdinand. Director, Psychological Services and Professor of Psychology, Brown University.
Project:
Jazz and Adaptive Afro-American Styles
Independent
Sandler, Kathe. Independent Filmmaker. (Various funding sources.)
Project:
Documentary Film: A Question of Color
Rockefeller Foundation
Brier, Eloise A. Assistant Professor, Department of French Studies, State University of New York at Albany.
Project:
Negritude: Origins and Effects in the United States
Graziano, John M. Professor, Department of Music, The City College, City University of New York.
Project:
Black Musical Theater, 1890-1935: A Chronicle
Schomburg Center
Bethel, Elizabeth Rauh. Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Lander College.
Project:
Afro-American Responses to the First Emancipation, 1780-1865
Wilson, Joseph F. Tow Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Diversity and Multi cultural Studies, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York.
Project:
Documentary History of the "Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Independent
Hare, Bruce. Associate Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Project:
Community Control of Education in New York City
Rockefeller Foundation
Dixon, Melvin. (Deceased) Professor, English Department, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Project:
What is Africa to Me?: Memory of the Imperatives of Ancestry in Modern Black Poetry
Horne, Gerald. Professor of Black Studies, Department of History, University of California at Santa Barbara.
Project:
Biography of Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.
Talalay, Kathryn. Archivist/Editor, The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Project:
From Harlem to Hue: A Critical Biography of Philippa Duke Schuyler, 1931-1967
Ford Foundation
Leeming, David Adams. Associate Professor, Department of English and Contemporary Literature, University of Connecticut.
Project:
A Biography of James Baldwin
Spears, Arthur K. Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, Department of Anthropology, The City College, The City University of New York; and Anthropology and Linguistics, The Graduate School, The City University of New York.
Project:
The Black English Verbal System
Yellin, Jean Fagan. Professor of English and Director, New York City Humanities Program, Pace University.
Project:
Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in a Life
National Endowment for the Humanities
Govan, Sandra T. Associate Professor, Department of English, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
Project:
The Turbulent Times of Gwendolyn Bennett: Art and Politics After the Renaissance
Israel, Adrienne M. Associate Professor, Department of History, Guilford College.
Project:
Amanda Berry Smith: An Historical Biography of a Spiritual Pioneer
Aaron Diamond Foundation
Beane, Carol A. Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages, Howard University.
Project:
The Representation of Slavery in Latin American Literature
Dwight, Margaret L. Professor, Department of History, North Carolina A&T.
Project:
Economic Boycott as Non-Violent Sanctions in Political and Social Conflict in the Civil Rights Movement
Greene, Larry A. Chairman and Associate Professor, Department of History, Seton Hall University.
Project:
An Oral History of Harlem in Depression and War: 1930-1945
Lindfors, Bernth Olof. Professor of English and African Literature, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin.
Project:
The Early Career of Ira Aldridge
Independent
Dodson, Jualynne E. Associate Professor, Religious Studies and Afro-American Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder. (Ford Foundation Fellow.)
Project:
Women, Power, Church: The First Century
Wright, John Samuel. Associate Professor, Department of Afro-American & African Studies, University of Minnesota. (Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow.)
Project:
The Riddle of Freedom: Art, Ideas, and the Worlds of Afro-American Cultural Thought
National Endowment for the Humanities
Barlow, William. Associate Professor, Department of Radio, TV, Film, School of Communication, Howard University.
Project:
A Cultural History of Black Radio
Grant, Joanne (Deceased). Independent Scholar.
Project:
Grand Lady: The Lifework of Ella J. Baker
Aaron Diamond Foundation
Malone, Jacqueline Delores. Associate Professor, Drama, Theater and Dance, Queens College, City University of New York.
Project:
Dynamic Suggestion: Tracing African-American Vernacular Dance
Finley, Cheryl. Independent Scholar.
Project:
Photographic Images of African Americans from the F.S.A. Years: The Development of an Afro-Centric Perspective
Gort, Enid. Independent Scholar.
Project:
A Career of Conscience: The Story of Franklin H. Williams
Independent
Butler Jones, Katherine Elizabeth. Independent.
Project:
Journey to the Promised Land: Social Economic and Political Influences Affecting an African American Family Migrating Through New York State 1770s-1930
National Endowment for the Humanities
Miller, Patrick Bryant. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona at Tucson.
Project:
Pillars of Fire: A History of Traditionally African American Colleges and Universities
Redkey, Edwin S. Associate Professor of History, Department of Humanities, State University of New York.
Project:
A History of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Regiments
Aaron Diamond Foundation
Browning, Barbara Lee. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Princeton University.
Project:
Afro-Atlantic Syncratic Narratives: A Study of Literature in the Pan-Yoruba Tradition
Gerson, Jeffrey Nathan. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
Project:
Black Succession in Central Brooklyn, 1964-1991
McCaskill, Barbara Ann. Assistant Professor, Department of English, University Georgia at Athens.
Project:
Reconsidering Race: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of African American Women
Pedersen, Carl George. Associate Professor, Institute of Language and Culture, Roskilde University Center, Denmark.
Project:
Claude McKay: From Socialism to Negritude
Independent
Franklin, j.e. Director, the Zora Neale Hurston Writer's Workshop, New York City.
Project:
Gray Panthers: The Second Decatet. Ten Ten-Minute Dramas on the Lives of African-American Elders
Lamont, Michele. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.
Project:
Male Working Class Culture in France and the United States
National Endowment for the Humanities
Green, Venus. Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies, The City College, City University of New York.
Project:
Black Women: Working and Organizing, 1920-1980
Miller, James Arthur. Professor of English and American Studies, Department of English and American Studies, Trinity College.
Project:
African-American Cultural Politics of the 1930s
Plummer, Brenda Gayle. Associate Professor of History, Joint Appointment: Department of Afro-American Studies/Department of History, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Project:
Race, Gender, and the Cold War
Taylor, Ula. Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, University of California at Berkeley.
Project:
The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey
Aaron Diamond Foundation
Jones, Lawrence Patrick. Independent Scholar.
Project:
Identity, Drama, and Mutual Aid in the Black Pentecostal Church
Jackson-Brown, Irene Viola. Senior Fellow, Program in Education Policy and School Reform, Phelps-Stokes Fund.
Project:
The Black Church as Progenitor of Musical Performance in the African American Community
Rachleff, Melissa Jane. Assistant Curator, Exit Art, Inc.
Project:
Morgan and Marvin Smith: Photography in Harlem, 1933-1950
National Endowment for the Humanities
Stakeman, Randolph. Director of Africana Studies/Associate Professor of History, Bowdoin College.
Project:
The NAACP in International Affairs, 1918-1968
Suggs, Jon-Christian. Professor, Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York.
Project:
Status, Text, and Substance: A Study of the Interrelationships Between African-American Literature and American Law
Aaron Diamond Foundation
Drewal, Henry John. Evjue-Bascom Professor, Department of Art History and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Project:
Art History, and Hegemony: An African Diaspora in the Caribbean
Hayden, Robert C. Lecturer, Department of History, College of Public and Commonwealth Service, University of Massachusetts at Boston and Northeastern University.
Project:
Dr. Louis Tompkins Wright and the Development of Medicine in Harlem (New York City) between 1919-1952
James, Joy Ann. Assistant Professor, Women Studies, Department of Women Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Project:
Race, Representation and the Demystification of Sexual Violence in American Visual Culture, 1892-1992
National Endowment for the Humanities
Watkins-Owens, Irma. Assistant Professor, African American Studies Institute and Social Sciences Division, Fordham College at Lincoln Center.
Project:
Migration and Community: African American Women in New York City, 1890-1940
Aaron Diamond Foundation
Kaplan, Carla. Assistant Professor, Department of English; Affiliate Appointments in African-American and Women's Studies, Yale University.
Project:
The Twenties in Black And White: Modernism's Undesirable Desire
Smith, Barbara. Publisher, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.
Project:
African American Lesbian and Gay History
Walker-Hill, Helen Siemens. Visiting Assistant Professor, African American Studies Program, University of Wyoming.
Project:
African-American Women Composers: The Intersection of Race, Gender, Class and Musical Creativity
National Endowment for the Humanities
Ferrer, Ada. Assistant Professor, Department of History, New York University.
Project:
To Make a Free Nation: Race and the Struggle for Independence in Cuba, 1868-1898
James, Winston Anthony. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Columbia University.
Project:
Claude McKay: From Bolshevism To Black Nationalism, 1923 to 1948
Aaron Diamond Foundation
Anderson, Jervis B. (Deceased). Staff Writer, Editorial Department, The New Yorker Magazine, New York City.
Project:
A Biography of Bayard Rustin
Cleaver, Kathleen Neal. Visiting Scholar, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University.
Project:
Memories of Love and War
Fitzgerald, Sharon Gail. Contributing Writer, American Vision Magazine.
Project:
The Biography of Jean Blackwell Hutson
Independent
Brown, Fahamisha Patricia. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Fordham University. (Fordham University Fellow.)
Project:
Black Poetry: The Hidden Years
Hare, Bruce R. Professor of Africana Studies, College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
Project:
African Americans and Sociology: A Critical Analysis and Issues in African American Education
King, Nicole R. Assistant Professor, Caribbean and Afro-American Literature, Department of English, University of Maryland. (Ford Foundation Fellow.)
Project:
C.L.R. James and Caribbean Cultural Identity
Soto, Isabel. Associate Professor, English Studies Department, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain and visiting Scholar, Vassar College.
Project:
Langston Hughes in Spain
National Endowment for the Humanities
Edwards, Brent Hayes. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Rugters University.
Project:
Black Globality: The International Shape of Black Intellectual Culture
Gill, Gerald Robert (Deceased). Associate Professor, Department of History, Tufts University.
Project:
Struggling Yet In Freedom's Birthplace - The Civil Rights Movement in Boston, 1935-1972
Aaron Diamond Foundation
Chambers, Douglas Brent. Independent.
Project:
The Invention of Creolization: Melville and Frances Herskovits and the History of a Key Concept in Africana Studies
Graham, Maryemma. Professor, Department of English, Northeastern University.
Project:
Southern Roads, Gendered Gardens: An Intellectual Biography of Margaret Walker
Torres, Alexandra Clarke. Richard and Edna Salomon Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University.
Project:
Black, White and In Color: Television, African American and the Production of National History.
Independent
Garrison, Jeffrey G. Professor, Department of English Languages and Literature, Komazawa University, Tokyo, Japan.
Project:
Depiction of Blacks in the Works of Modern White American Dramatists
National Endowment for the Humanities
Brown, Carolyn Anderson. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University.
Project:
Cowboys, Letterwriters and Dancing Women: Identity and Struggles Over Space, Leisure and Time in Enugu, Nigeria, 1914-1955
Stewart, Jeffrey Conrad. Associate Professor, Department of History, George Mason University.
Project:
Enter The New Negro: A Biography of Alain Locke, 1885-1954
Irene Diamond Foundation
Hodes, Martha Elizabeth. Assistant Professor, Department of History, New York University.
Project:
Place and Race, Borders and Identities: Black and White Migrations in the Civil War Era
King, Debra Walker. Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Florida.
Project:
African Americans and the Culture of Pain
Vendryes, Margaret Rose. Lecturer, Department of Continuing Education, Fairfield University.
Project:
Representation of the New Negro: The Black Body as Metaphor in Modern American Art and Literature
Ford Foundation Endowment
Wilder, Craig Steven. Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Williams College.
Project:
Black Institutions in Colonial and Early National New York.
Independent
Harris, Leslie M. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Emory University.
Project:
Creating the African-American Working Class in New York City, 1626-1863
National Endowment for the Humanities
Adenaike, Carolyn Keyes. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Memphis.
Project:
God Knew His Brother: War, Slavery, and the Creation of Yoruba Identity
Miller, Ivor Lynn. Independent.
Project:
The Cuban Abakua Society
Irene Diamond Foundation
Lindberg, Kathryne Victoria (Deceased). Professor of English and American Literature; Adjunct Faculty in Africana Studies, Department of English, Wayne State University.
Project:
From Claude McKay to Huey Newton: Revolutionary Intercommunalism and Black Syndicalist Lyrics.
Lindsey, Lydia. Assistant Professor, Department of History, North Carolina Central University.
Project:
Claudia Jones: A Political Biography
Smith, Shawn Michelle. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman.
Project:
Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois' Photographs for the 1900 Paris Exposition
Ford Foundation
Biondi, Martha. Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University.
Project:
The Civil Rights Movement in New York City, 1945-1955
National Endowment for the Humanities
Goldsby, Jacqueline Denise. Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago.
Project:
A Spectacular Secret: The Cultural Logic of Lynching in American Life and Literature, 1882-1992
Kelley, Robin D.G. Professor of History and Africana Studies, Department of History and Africana Studies, New York University.
Project:
Misterioso: In Search of Thelonious Monk
McNeil, Genna Rae. Professor of History, Department of History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Project:
Joan Little and the 'Free Joan Little' Movement in Historical Perspective
National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
Butler, Kim D. Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Department, Rutgers University.
Project:
The African Diaspora: Paradigms of Power
National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center
Gross, Kali Nicole. Doctoral Fellow, Department of History, Occidental College.
Project:
The Dismembered Body of Wakefield Gaines and Other Tales of African-American Female Criminality in Philadelphia, 1880-1910
Green, Cecilia A. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh.
Project:
Between Respectability and Self-Respect: Afro-Caribbean Women Negotiating Livelihoods
National Endowment for the Humanities
El Hamel, Chouki. Assistant Professor, African and African-American Studies, Duke University.
Project:
The History of the Blacks in Morocco: Race and Gender in Moroccan Slavery
Frederick, Rhonda D. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Boston College.
Project:
Colon Man a Come: Mythographies of Panama Canal Migration
National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center
Mitchell, Michele. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Center for Afro-American & African Studies, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Project:
To Find Their Way to Heaven: African Americans, Racial Destiny, and the Politics of Collective Reproduction after Reconstruction
Roberts, Samuel Kelton. Thurgood Marshall Fellow, Program in African and African-American Studies, Department of History, Dartmouth College.
Project:
Infectious Fear: Tuberculosis, Public Health, and the Logic of Race and Illness in the Urban South, 1880-1930
Sammons, Jeffrey Thomas. Professor, Department of History, New York University.
Project:
Harlem's 'Hellfighters' and the Crusade for Citizenship: The 369th and the 'Great War'
Savage, Barbara Dianne. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania.
Project:
A New Heaven and a New Earth: African American Religion, Politics, and Culture in the Interwar Years
Independent
Collins, Lisa Gail. Assistant Professor, Art & Africana Studies, Vassar College.
Project:
Art of African American Folklore
Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Connecticut.
Project:
The New Avant Garde: The Culture and Politics of Hip Hop Music in the Late 20th Century
Reinhardt, Thomas. Scientific Employee, Frobenius Institute, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany.
Project:
Afrocentricity - Processes of Appropriation in African-American Identity Formation
Rothman, Barbara Katz. Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology & Women's Studies, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Project:
Children of a Diaspora: African Americans Raised by White Families Weaving a Way Home
National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse
Guridy, Frank Andre. Visiting Scholar-in-Residence, Department of History, Wheaton College.
Project:
Racial Knowledge and the Black Transnational Community in Cuba and the United States During the Age of Depression and War, 1929-45
National Endowment for the Humanities
Mathieu, Sarah-Jane. Assistant Professor, Department of History, African American Studies, Princeton University.
Project:
Jim Crow Rides This Train: The Social and Political Impact of African American Sleeping Car Porters in Canada, 1870-1955
Bilby, Kenneth M. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Music, Bard College, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution.
Project:
Where Good and Evil Meet: Ethnographic, Literary, and Popular Representations of Obeah
Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey. Associate Professor, Department of History, State University of New York at Binghamton.
Project:
The Cultural Politics of Slave Emancipation in the British West Indies and the United States, 1831-1888
National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center Fellow
Kennedy, Winston. Professor Emeritus, Department of Art, Howard University.
Project:
Out of the Shadows: The African American Image in Print
Priestley, George A. Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Latin American Studies, Queens College, City University of New York.
Project:
George Westerman and West Indian-Panamanians in the 20th Century: Negotiating Identity, Culture and Nationality
Independent
Hare, Bruce. Professor, Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University.
Project:
2001 Race Odyssey
Hernandez, Tanya K. Professor, Rutgers School of Law.
Project:
"Civil Rights Movements in the Americas: Racial Identity and Group Race Consciousness”
National Endowment for the Humanities
Goyal, Yogita. Graduate Fellow, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Brown University
Project:
Diasporic Nationalisms, Nationalist Diasporas: Theorizing Race in the Black Atlantic
Hall, Stephen Gillroy. Assistant Professor, Department of History, The Ohio State University.
Project:
To Give A Faithful Account of the Race: History and Historical Writing in the African American Community, 1817-1915
Hicks, Cheryl D. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Williams College.
Project:
Confined to Womanhood: Women, Prisons, and Race in the State of New York, 1890-1935
Malone, Jacqueline Delores. Professor, Department of Drama, Theater and Dance, Queens College, City University of New York.
Project:
Jazz Music in Motion: African American Women in Tap and Jazz Dance
Schomburg Center/Samuel I. Newhouse
Gray, John. Independent.
Project:
Black Music in the Diaspora: An International Bio-Bibliography and Resource Guide
National Endowment for the Humanities
Gore, Dayo Folayan. Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Project:
“To Light a Candle in a Gale Wind:” Black Women Radicals and Post World War II U.S. Politics
Miller, Monica Lynn. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Barnard College.
Project:
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism in the Atlantic Diaspora
National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse
Horton-Stallings, LaMonda. Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Florida.
Project:
Making Jelly: Respectability, Liberation, and the Making of Black Sexual Culture
Mumford, Kevin J. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa.
Project:
In the Life of Joseph Beam
Independent
Strickland, Jeffrey. Assistant Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, University of Texas–Panamerican.
Project:
Ethnicity and Race in the Urban South: German Immigrants And African-Americans during Reconstruction
National Endowment for the Humanities
Babb, Valerie Melissa. Professor, Department of English/African American Studies, University of Georgia.
Project:
The Ghana Renaissance: Afro Art and Politics, 1960-1966
Brooks, Daphne Ann. Assistant Professor, Department of English & African American Studies, Princeton University.
Project:
I Hold No Grudge: Black Feminist Satire, Performance, & Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Nero, Charles Isidore. Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric & Theater, Bates College.
Project:
Writing a New African Diasporic World: Melvin Dixon, Joseph Beam and the Generation of the 1980s
Shukla, Sandhya R. Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Asian American Studies Program, Columbia University.
Project:
Cross-Cultural Twentieth Century Harlem
Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma. Associate Professor, Department of English/Cinema & Media, University of Chicago.
Project:
At the Crossroads: Style, Segregation, and the Films of Spencer Williams
National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse
Jones, William Powell. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Project:
Roots of the New Unionism: Black Public Service Workers and the Transformation of Urban Politics, 1945-1985
Independent
Hills, Patricia. Professor, Department of History, Boston University.
Project:
Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence
National Endowment for the Humanities
Krauthamer, Barbara. Assistant Professor, Department of History, New York University.
Project:
Runaway Slave Women: Race, Gender and Freedom in the American Southeast, 1730-1840
Lindquist, Malinda Alaine. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Minnesota, Twins Cities.
Project:
The Gender of Racial Science: Modern Black Manhood and its Making, 1890-2000
Njoku, Raphael Chijioke. Assistant Professor, Department of Pan African Studies/History, University of Louisville.
Project:
African Masks and Masquerades: A Comparative Study of Symbols and Meaning of African Masquerades and Carnivals of the Diaspora
Page, Kezia Ann. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Colgate University.
Project:
Kingston 21: Diaspora, Migrancy, and Caribbean Literature
Williams, Chad Louis. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hamilton College.
Project:
Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers and the Era of the First World War
National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse
Green, Venus. Associate Professor, Department of History, The City College, CUNY.
Project:
Black Fraternal Orders and Labor Activism, 1900-1980
Independent
Collins, Lisa Gail. Associate Professor, Art History and Africana Studies, Vassar College
Project:
The Art of Healing
Babb, Valerie. Professor, Department of English/African American Studies, University of Georgia.
Project:
The Ghana Renaissance: Afro Art and Politics, 1960-1966
Kaplan, Carla. Professor, Department of English, Northeastern University.
Project:
Miss Ann in Harlem
National Endowment for the Humanities
Fernandez, Johanna. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University.
Project:
When the World was their Stage: The Young Lords and the 1960s
Gross, Kali Nicole. Assistant Professor, Department of History & Politics, Drexel University.
Project:
Mary Hannah Tubbs, Murderess: A Case Study of Social Violence, 1887
King, Shannon. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon.
Project:
Home to Harlem: Community, Gender, and Working-Class Politics in Harlem, New York, 1916-1928
Shockley, Evie E. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Project:
Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry
National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation
Fleetwood, Nicole Rachelle. Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, RutgersUniversity.
Project:
In the Light: Visuality, Gender and the Discourse of Blackness
National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse
Miller, Ivor Lynn. Visiting Research Faculty, Department of African Studies Center, Boston University.
Project: West African Ekpe and Cuban Abakua: A CrossRiver Basin Diaspora in the Caribbean
National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation
Brown, Carolyn Anderson. Associate Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University.
Project:
Militant Mineworkers, Respectable Clerks and Unruly Youth: Honor and Urban Masculinity in the Radicalization of Enugu Nigeria 1939-1955
Gershenhorn, Jerry Bruce. Associate Professor, Department of History, North Carolina Central University, Durham.
Project:
The Freedom of Africa Depends on Us: African American Scholars and the Development of African Studies Programs in the US, 1942-1960
National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
Foy, Anthony S. Assistant Professor, Department of English Literature, Swarthmore College.
Project:
Black Ideography: Autobiography, Ideology, Image
Guerron-Montero, Carla Maria. Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware.
Project:
Like an Alien in We Own Land: Tourism and the Construction of National and Transnational Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama
National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Mathes, Carter Alexander. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Project:
Imagine the Sound: Black Radicalism and Experimental Form in Post-1965 African-American Literary Culture
Woodard, Laurie Avent. Lecturer, Department of African American Studies and History, Yale University.
Project:
Astonishingly Pretty for a Real Negro Girl: Resistance, Identity, and Meaning in the life and work of Fredi Washington during the New Negro Renaissance, 1920-1950
National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation
Desch-Obi, M. Thomas J. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Baruch College, CUNY.
Project:
Sugar: Movement, Masculinity, and the Sweet Science in Africa and the African Diaspora
Duvivier, Sandra Caona. Assistant Professor, Department of English, James Madison University.
Project:
Blurring the Borders: Trans-American and Metaphysical Kinship in Erna Brodber’s ‘Louisiana’
Priest, Myisha Tandika. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Santa Clara University.
Project:
How I wish I Could Live on That Shore: African American Literature and the Culture of the Antebellum Waterways
Pritchard, Eric Darnell. Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric & Writing/African American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin.
Project:
Black Queer Literacies
Randolph, Sherie M. Assistant Professor, Department of History and Center for Afro-American & African Studies, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Project:
Black Feminist in White America: Floryance “Flo” Kennedy and Black Feminist Politics in Postwar America
Spencer, Robyn Geanne. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Lehman College.
Project:
No Justice, No Peace: African Americans Against Vietnam
National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Childs, Dennis R. Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego.
Project:
Formations of Neoslavery
Hayes, Robin J. Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies/Political Science, Santa Clara University.
Project:
A Diasporic Underground: African Liberation and Black Power, 1957-1994
Jimenez Roman, Miriam. Visiting Scholar, Department of Africana Studies/Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University
Project:
Shifting Affinities: Afro-Latin@s in New York City, 1900-1945
Muyumba, Walton M. Associate Professor, Department of English, University of North Texas.
Project:
Artistry of a Different Kind: John Edgar Widemen’s Improvised Literary Aesthetics
Power-Greene, Ousmane Kirumu. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Clark University.
Project:
Leaves Torn From the Diary of a Critic: Hubert Harrison and the New Negro Movement
National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Collins, Lisa. Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Africana, Vassar College.
Project:
The Art of African American Folklore
Kernan, Ryan James. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Rutgers University
Project:
Black Translation: An Internationalist Portrait of Langston Hughes and the Rise of Black Radicalism
National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation
Lezra, Esther. Assistant Professor, Department of Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Project:
Writers and Fighters and Makers of Freedom
McGruder, Kevin. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Lehman College.
Project:
Race and Real Estate: Interracial Conflict and Coexistence in Harlem, 1890-1920
National Endowment for the Humanities /Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
Petty, Adrienne. Assistant Professor, Department of History, The City College of New York, C.U.N.Y.
Project:
Standing Their Ground: The Struggle of Black Farm Owners in the Tobacco South
Polyne, Millery. Assistant Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University.
Project:
A Better Destiny: Human Rights, Caribbean Exiles and Dictatorship During the Cold War
Independent
de Jongh, James. Professor Emeritus, The City College and the Graduate Center
Project:
Historical Dictionary of African American Literature
Schomburg Center Fellows (Short-term)
Anatol, Giselle Liza. Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Kansas.
Project:
The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampirism in Literature of the African Diaspora
Childers, Kristen Stromberg. Adjunct Professor, Department of History, Temple University.
Project:
Seeking Imperialism's Embrace: National Identity, Decolonization and Assimilation in the French Caribbean
Graham, Shane. Associate Professor, Department of English, Utah State University.
Project:
Langston Hughes, Cosmopolitanism, and Black Atlantic Literature
Semley, Lorelle Denise. Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of the Holy Cross.
Project:
Free and French: The Challenge of Black Citizenship to French Colonial Empire
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