Frances Bell (pre-doctoral fellow) presented on a panel, titled "Contested Freedoms, Contested Sovereignties in the Haitian Revolutionary Atlantic," which she organized as part of the Omohundro Institute's 'For 2026: Contested Freedoms' conference in October. Bell was also awarded funding from UVA's Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation to conduct archival research in France next summer. Her research will support the expansion of her dissertation into a book project.