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Talitha LeFlouria
Post-Doctoral Fellow (History)
Howard University
"Doctoring Captivity: Prison Physicians and Incarcerated Patients in the Post-Civil War South"
Taneisha Means
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Political Science)
Duke University
"Race, Representation, and the U.S. Judiciary: The Perceptions, Treatment and Behavior of Judges"
E. Kwame Otu
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
Syracuse University
"Reluctantly Queer: Sassoi and the Shifting Paradigms of Masculinity and Sexual Citizenship in Postcolonial Ghana"
Tammy Owens
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (American Studies)
University of Minnesota
"Making Black Girls Real: The Invention of Queer Black Girlhood in the U.S., 1861-1963"
Giuliana Perrone
Post-Doctoral (History)
University of California, Berkeley
"Litigating Emancipation: Salvery's Legal Afterlife, 1865-1877"
Ava Purkiss
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
The University of Texas at Austin
"Mind, Soul, Body, and Race: Black Women’s Purposeful Exercise, 1900-1939"
2015
Nicole Burrowes
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center
"The 1935 Labor Rebellions and the Politics of African-Indian Solidarity in British Guiana"
Laura Helton
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
New York University
“Remaking the Past: Collecting, Collectivity, and the Emergence of Black Archival Publics, 1915-1950”
LaTasha Levy
Post-Doc Fellow (Philosophy)
NorthernWestern University
"Strange Bedfellows: The Rise of the New Black Right in Post- Civil RIghts"
David Morton
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Minnesota
“The Construction of Home in Maputo, Mozambique, 1940s to the Present”
Ellen Tani
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Art History)
Stanford University
"Black Conceptualism and the Atmospheric Turn, 1968-2008"
2014
Jonathan Forney
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Politics)
University of Virginia
“Community Control over Civil Militias in Sierra Leone, 1991-2002"
Zakiyyah Jackson
Post-Doctoral Fellow (African Diaspora Studies)
University of California-Berkeley
Current Affiliation
Assistant Professor English
George Mason University
Alexandra Moffett-Bateau
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Political Science)
University of Chicago
“‘The Development of Political Identity in Public Housing Spaces”
Celeste Day Moore
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Chicago
"Race in Translation: Producing, Performing, and Selling African-American Music in Greater France, 1944-1974"
Current Affilation
Assistant Professor History
Hamilton College
Erin Nourse
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Religious Studies)
University of Virginia
“Birth is our Spear Battle’: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Religion in a northern Malagasy Port Town"
Katherine Wiley
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
Indiana University
Current Affilation
Assistant Professor Anthropology
Pacific Lutheran University
2013
La Marr J. Bruce
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (African American Studies and American Studies)
Yale University
" The Domain of the Marvelous': Madness, Blackness, and Radical Creativity."
Current Affiliation
Assistant Professor
Department of American Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
Theodore W. Cohen
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Maryland-College Park
“In Black and Brown: Intellectuals, Blackness, and Inter-Americanism in Mexico after 1910”
Tyler D. Fleming
Post-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Virginia
“King Kong, Bigger than Cape Town’: A History of a South African Musical and the World’s Beyond”
Elina I. Hartikainen
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Antropology)
University of Chicago
"Ritual Hierarchy, Secrecy, and Public Discourse: Forming an African Religious Public in Brazil"
Kwame Holmes
Post-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana
"Chocolate to Rainbow City: Branding Black and Gay Washington, D.C., 1954-1978"
Rebecca Keegan VanDiver
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Art History)
Duke University
“‘ Blackness in Triplicate: Lois Mailou Jones, Black Diasporic Art Practice, and Africa in the 20th Century"
2012
Tshepo Monongwa Chéry
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History and Africana Studies)
University of Pennsylvania
"Kingdoms of the Earth: Coloureds, Religious Insurgency, and the Practices of Black Nationalism in South Africa between 1900-1948"
Current Affiliation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
University of Texas-Austin
Z'étoile Imma
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (English Literature)
University of VIrginia
"Intimate Men/Intimate Spaces: (Re)Locating African Masculinities and the Postcolony in Contemporary Feminist Fiction and Film"
Current Affiliation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Notre Dame University
Herbert Timothy Lovelace
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Virginia
"Legal History from Below: The Black South and the International Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), 1958-1964"
Current Affiliation
Assistant Professor Law and History
Indiana University
Anita Wheeler
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (African Studies)
Howard University
"The Diplomatic and Economic Value of Chinese Language in Africa"
Current Affiliation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Univeristy of California, Los Angeles
Dennis Tyler
Post-Doctoral Fellow (English Literature)
University of California, Los Angeles
"Disability of Color: Figuring the Black Body in American Law, Literature, and Culture"
Current Affiliation
Assistant Professor of English
Fordham University
2011
Jeffrey Ahlman
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Illinois
“Fording the Pan-African Nation: Kwame Nkrumah, the CPP, and the Politics of Pan-African Nationalism in Ghana, 1949-1966”
Current Affiliation
Assistant Professor History
Smith College
Jennifer Barclay
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
Michigan State University
“Cripples All! Or, the Mark of Slavery:The invisible Link between Disability and Race in the Old south and Beyond ”
Current Affiliation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Case Western Reserve University
Benjamin Fagan
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (English)
University of Virginia
“Righteousness Exalteth a Nation: Practices of Nationalism in the Early Black Press”
Current Affiliation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
American Academy of Art and Science
Jonathan Fenderson
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Afro American Studies)
"Journey towards a Black Aesthetic: Hoyt Fuller, the Black Arts Movement and the Black Intellectual Community, 1923-1981"
Current Affiliation
Assistant Professor
African and African American Studies
Alisha Gaines
Post-Doctoral Fellow (English)
Duke University
“Spectacle of American Liberalism; Narratives of Racial Im/posture”
Current Affiliation
Assistant Professor of English
University of Florida-Gainesville
Cassie Hays
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Sociology)
Yale University
“A Sociology of Safari; Native, Nature and Nomos in Tanzanian Conservation.”
Current Affiliation
Department of Sociology
Gettysburg College
2010
Olubukola Gbadegesin
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Art History)
Emory University
"Picturing the Modern Self: Politics, Identity, and Self-Fashioning in Lagos, 1861-1944”
Current Affiliation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Bowdoin College
Anna Lim
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
University of Virginia
"Population Politics and the Production of Citizens in the French Antilles”
Rosemary Millar
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (English/American Literature)
University of Virginia
"A Livable Place: (Anti) Utopianism and the African-American Literary Imagination"
Current Affiliation
Department of English
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Anoop Mirpuri
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (English)
University of Washington
"Slated for Destruction: Race, Black Radicalism, and the Meaning of Captivity in the Postwar Exceptional State"
Current Affiliation
Assistant Professor of English
Portland State University
John Willis (Thabiti)
Post-Doctoral Fellow (African History)
Emory University
"Masquerading Politics: Community, Power, and Authority in a Yoruba Town"
Current Affiliation
Department of History
Carleton College
2009
Deirdre Cooper Owens
Post-Doctoral Fellow (U.S. History)
University of California, Los Angeles
"Courageous Negro Servitors' and Laboring Irish Bodies: An Examination of Antebellum Experimental Sexual Surgeries"
Current Affiliation
Department of History
University of Mississippi
Brandi Hughes
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (African American Studies and American Studies)
Yale University
"Middle Passages: African America and the Missionary Movement Throught West Africa, 1850-1930"
Current Affiliation
Department of History and the Program in American Culture
University of Michigan
Kristin Phillips
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology/Educational Policy Studies)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Building the Nation from the Hinterlands: Poverty, Participation, and Statecraft in Rural Tanzania"
Current Affiliation
Department of Teacher Education
Michigan State University
2008
Edwina Ashie-Nikoi
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Caribbean/African Diaspora History)
New York University
"Drumbeats of History: Reading African Diaspora Ritual Documents”
Current Affiliation
Department of Black Culture
Schomburg Center for Research
Yarimar Bonilla
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
University of Chicago
“A Striking Past: Loabro and the Politics of Memory in Postcolonial Guadeloupe”
Current Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology
University of Virginia
Todd Cleveland
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Minnesota
“Stones and Strategies: African Laborers on the Diamond Mines of the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola”
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Augustana College
2007
Regine Jean-Charles
Post-Doctoral (Romance Languages and Literature)
Harvard
“Gendering Violence: Francophone Women Writers, Representations of Violence, & the Violence of Representation”
Current Affiliation:
Romance Language and Literature Department--French
Boston College
Brian Brazeal
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
University of Chicago
“Blood, Money and Fame: Nago Magic in the Bahian Backlands”
Current Affiliation: Department of Anthropology
California State University at Chico
Kennetta Hammond Perry
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
Michigan State University
“Presenting Race, Representing Reality: Black Migrants and The Racial Politics of British Foreign Affairs, 1945–1962”
Current Affiliation: Department of History (Scholar in Residence)
Duke University
2006
Jamillah Karim
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Religious Studies)
Spelman College
'Class-Color Lines in the American Ummah: African American and South Asian Muslim Women in Chicago and Atlanta"
Current Affiliation: Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Spelman College
Vicki Brennan
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
University of Chicago
“Singing the Same Song: Music, Migration, and Translocality in Yoruba Churches” Current Affiliation:
Department of Religion
University of Vermont
Sarah Silkey
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (American History)
University of East Anglia
“Evolving Morality in a Translantic Society: Ida B. Wells, Anti-Lynching Activism and British Interest in American Race Relations, 1877–1920”
Current Affiliation
Department of History
Lycoming College
2005
Cheryl Hicks
Post-Doctoral Fellow (History)
Williams College
“Confined to Womanhood: Women, prisons, and Race in the State of New York, 1890–1935”
Current Affiliation:
History
University of North Carolina
Sandy Alexandre
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (English)
University of Virginia
“Strange Fruits in the Orchard: Pastoral Paradigms in the African-American Literary Traditions"
Current Affiliation:
Department of Literature
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mieka Brand
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
University of Virginia
“Mapping Race, Erasing Histories: The Politics of Making “Historic Black Communities” in the U.S”
Current Affiliation: Department of Anthropology
University of Virginia
2004
Davarian Baldwin
Post-Doctoral Fellow (American Studies)
Boston College
“Chicago‘s New Negroes: Race, Class and Respectability in the Midwestern Black Metropolis, 1915–1935”
Current Affiliation: Department of History
Boston College
Candice Lowe
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
Indiana University-Bloomington
“Speaking Our Name: Multiculturalism and the Struggle for National Belonging Among Afro-Creoles in Mauritius”
Current Affiliation: Department of Anthropology
Vassar College
Tyrone Simpson
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (American Studies)
Indiana University-Bloomington
“Under Psychic Apartheid: Literary Ghettos and the Making of Race in the American Metropolis”
Current Affiliation:
Department of English
Vassar College
2003
Ethan Blue
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
“Hard Time in the New Deal: Racial Formation and the Cultures of Punishment in Texas and California”
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
The University of West Australia
2002
Jeffrey B. Fleisher
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
University of Virginia
“Viewing Stonetowns form the Countryside: An Archeological Approach to Swahili Coast Regions"
Current Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology
Rice University
Jesse W. Shipley
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
University of Chicago
“Performing Ethnicity, Race, and the Nation: A Political Genealogy of the Performing Arts in Ghana from Colonialism to the Neo-Liberal Moment”
Current Affiliation:
Department of Africa and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology
Haverford College
Bryan E. Wagner
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (English)
“Disturbing the Peace: Black Vagrancy and U.S. Cultures of Racial Formation”
Current Affiliation:
Department of English
University of California, Berkeley
Frederick Knight
Post-Doctoral Fellow (History)
Colorado State University
“Seeds of Change: West African Workers and the Making of the British Americas, 1650–1850
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Colorado State University
Charles M. Bwenge
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
Princeton University
“Codeswitching in Political Discourse in Tanzania: A Case Study of National Legislatures”
Current Affiliation:
Department of African Languages and Literature
University of Florida
Meta DuEwa Jones
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Philosophy)
Loyola University Chicago
“African American Jazz Poetry: Orality, Prosody and Performance”
Current Affiliation:
Department of English
University of Texas at Austin
Jemima Pierre
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
University of Illinois, Chicago
"African Immigrants in the U.S. and the Dynamics and Politics of Socialization”
Current Affiliation:
Departments of African-American Studies and Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin
2001
Isabel Mukonyora
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Religious Studies)
University of Virginia
“Womenhood in Conceptualizations of the African Landcape: A Study of the Wilderness Movement”
Current Affiliation:
Department of Religion
Western Kentucky University
Olufemi Taiwo
Post- Doctoral Fellow (Philosophy)
Loyala University Chicago
“Modernity and Colonialism”
Current Affiliation:
College of Arts and Sciences
Seattle University
Adrian T. Gaskins
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (American Studies)
University of Colorado at Boulder
“Colonization or Colonialism? African Americans in the Philippines, 1898–1918”
Current Affiliation
Department of Ethic Studies
University of Colorado, Boulder
Joseph R. Hellweg
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
Florida State University
“Dozoya: Hunting Ethics in Ivorian Civil Society”
Current Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology
Florida State University
2000
Roseanne M. Adderly
Post-Doctoral Fellow (History)
Tulane University
“Middle Passage Voices: New Stories and Insights from the Nineteenth Century Slave Trade”
Current Affiliation:
Department of African American and Diaspora Studies
Vanderbilt University
Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Alabama
“Messin‘ White Women‘: White Women, Black Men, and Rape in Virginia 1900–1960”
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Alabama
Rolland D. Murray
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (English)
Ohio State University
“Beyond Macho: Fiction, Black Masulinity and Black Power (1964–1975)”
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Brown University
1999
Dylan Penningroth
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
John Hopkins University
"The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth Century South"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Associate Professor at Northwestern University
Ian G. Strachan
Post-Doctoral Fellow (English)
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
“Paradise and Plantation: Metaphor, Ideology and Economics in Caribbean Discourse”
Greta DeJong
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Nevada, Reno
“We Were Constantly Trying to Do Something: The African American Freedom Struggle in Rural Louisiana 1930–1970”
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Nevada, Reno
Natasha Gray
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
Lawrence University
“Witchcraft and Sorcery Control in Colonial Ghana: The Case of Akyem Abuakwa 1912–1943”
Phillip Troutman
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
Duke University
“Masters and Markets: Slave Labor and Slave Capital in Virginia, 1815–1865”
Current Affiliation:
University Writing Program
George Washington University
1998
John Gennari
Post-Doctoral Fellow (American Studies)
University of Vermont
“Critiquing Jazz: The Politics of Race and Culture in American Jazz Discourse”
Current Affiliation:
Department of English
University of Vermont
Eve Agee
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
“Race, Class, and the Change: African American Women‘s Narratives on Menopause and Medical Science”
Vania Penha-Lopes
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Sociology)
Bloomfield College
“Make Room for Daddy: A Study of Black Men‘s Involvement in Families”
Current Affiliation:
Department of Sociology
Bloomfield College
1997
Samuel Martinez
Post-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Connecticut
“Unfree Labor After Slavery: The Haitian Immigrant in the Dominican Economy and Imagination”
Current Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology
University of Connecticut
Stephanie Johnson Rowley
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Developmental Psychology)
University of Virginia
“Culture, Context, and Racial Identity: An Ecological Study of the Educational Attitudes and Performances of African-American Students”
Current Affiliation:
Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
Cornelia Sears
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
“Africa in the American Mind, 1870–1495 5: A Study of Mythology, Idwolaogy and the Reconstruction of Race”
Current Affiliation:
Department of American Studies
University of Canterbury
Kara Ellis Skora
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Religious Studies)
University of Virginia
“Funerals and Ancestorhood in Modern Ghana: Meaning and Identity in Asante Life through Death”
Current Affiliation
Department of Religious Studies
Hiram College
1996
Brian Ward
Post-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Florida
“Just My Soul Responding: African-American Popular Music and Civil Rights, 1954–1994”
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Florida
Scot French
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Virginia
“Remembering Nat Turner: The Southhampton Slave Uprising in Collective Memory, 1831 to the Present”
Current Affiliation:
Department of Digital History
University of Virginia
Michele Mitchell
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Michigan
“To Possess a Manly Spirit: Gender, Eugenics, and Empire in the U.S. Black Nationalism”
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
New York University
1995
Emily Crosby
Pre-Doctoral (History)
SUNY, Geneseo
“Common Courtesy: The Civil Rights Movement in Port Gibson, Mississippi”
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
State University of New York, Geneseo
Shelly Leanne
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (International Relations)
Harvard University
“African American Protest Against Minority Rule in South Africa: A Case Study of Disaporas and Transnationalism in World Politic”
Current Affiliation
Author
Rebecca Popenoe
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
University of Chicago
“The Fatting of Girls, Sexuality, and Society among Awawagh Arabs in Niger”
Current Affiliation:
Department of Social Anthropology
Linkoping Universitet, Sweden
1994
John Mason
Post-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Virginia
“Slavery and Freedom in South Africa, 1820–1854”
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Virginia
Cynthia Blair
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
Harvard University
“Modernizing the Black Body: African-American, Dress and the Politics of Public Space, 1910–1940”
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Illinois-Chicago
David Murray
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
University of Virginia
“Martiniquais: The Construction and Contestation of Cultural Identity”
Current Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology
York University-Toronto
Hannah Rosen
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Michigan
“Interracial Rape and the Politics of Reconstruction”
Current Affiliation:r
Department of American Culture
University of Michigan
1993
Mary Johnson Osirim
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Sociology)
Harvard University
“Women and African Entrepreneurship”
Current Affiliation:
Department of Sociology
Bryn Mawr College
Jeanne Whayne
Post-Doctoral (History)
“Reshaping the Rural South: Land, Labor, and Federal Policy in Poinsett County, Arkansas”
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Arkansas
Michael Bennett
Pre-Doctoral (English)
University of Virginia
“Democratic Discourse: A comparative Study of Mid-Nineteenth Century African American and European America Culture”
Current Affiliation:
Department of English
Long Island University-Brooklyn
Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Religious Studies)
University of Virginia
“Female Leadership in Roho Religion”
Current Affiliation:
Department of Religious Studies
University of Virginia
Doris Smith Witt
Pre-Doctoral (English)
“A Cookbook for Cultural Shelving”
Current Affiliation:
Department of English
University of Iowa
1992
Carol George
Post-Doctoral (History)
“The Ideology of Non-Violence: The Civil Rights Movement”
Gerald Horne
Post-Doctoral Fellow (History)
Columbia
“Fire this time: Uprising and the Meaning of the 1960s”
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Bruce Nelson
Post-Doctoral Fellow (History)
“Class and Race in the United States: Industrial Workders, Organized Labor, and the Struggles for Black Equality Since World War II”
Current Affiliation
Department of History
Dartmouth College
1991
Adell Patton
Post-Doctoral (History)
"African Physicians and Diaspora: Imperial Power and the Struggle for Professionalism, ca. 1800-1975"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Marshall Stevenson
Post-doctoral (History)
"Friends and Enemies: The Ebb and Flow of Black-Jewish Relations in Detroit"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Dillard University
Linda Reed
Post-Doctoral (History )
University of Houston
“Simple Decency and Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938-1963”
Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
Current Affiliation
Department of History
University of Houston
Daryl Scott
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"In the Gaze of Experts: The African-American in Social Science Imagery, 1890-Present"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Howard University
1990
Constance Curry
Post-doctoral (History)
"Silver Rights: A Story of School Desegregation in Mississippi"
Current Affiliation:
Author
Mary Ellen Curtin
Pre-Doctoral (History)
Duke University
"Enclosed in a Shell of Self-Importance: Black Prisoners and their Struggles to Survive in Alabama Prisons, 1870-1900"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Essex
Adam Fairclough
Post-Doctoral (History)
University of Keele
"A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1940-1970"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Leiden University
Penny Russell
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"Bound by Ties of Race and Sex: Mary Church Terrell, the First Fifty-Seven Years (1836-1920)"
Columbus, Ohio
Zoe S. Strother
Pre-Doctoral (Art History)
"Demystifying the Fetish: The Art of the Pende People of Zaire in Context"
Current Affiliation:
Art History & Archaeology
Columbia University
1989
Charles Dew
Post-Doctoral (History)
"The Lives of the Slaves: The Ironworkers of Buffalo Forge"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History.
Williams College
Raymond Gavins
Post-Doctoral (History)
"Black Carolina: A Profile History of the Negro in North Carolina"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Duke University
Janette Greenwood
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"New-South Middle Class: Race and Class in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1865-1900"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Clark University
Eric Lott
Pre-Doctoral (English)
"Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy, Cultural Production and the American 1848"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Virginia
Mieko Nishida
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"Gender, Ethnicity and Kinship in Urban Slavery, Bahia, Brazil, 1808-1888"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Hartwick College
Kay Mills
Post-Doctoral Fellow (History)
“Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer”
Current Affiliation:
Author
Tejumola Olaniyan
Pre-Doctoral (English)
"Cross Currents: Contemporary Black Drama and the Poetics of Cultural Identity"
Current Affiliation:
Department of English
university of Wisconsin
Parker Shipton
Post-Doctoral (Anthropology)
"Private Property and the Limits of Individualism in Africa"
Current Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology
Boston University
1988
John Dittmer
Post-Doctoral (History)
"In the Name of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
DePauw University
Terrence Epperson
Pre-Doctoral (Anthropology)
"Thus in the Beginning All the World was America: Class Formation and the Social Construction of Race in the Chesapeake 1675-1740"
Current Affiliation:
School of Culture and Society
The College of New Jersey
Mariane Ferme
Pre-Doctoral (Anthropology)
"Making People and Transmitting Knowledge: The Construction of Gender Among the Mende of Sierra Leone"
Current Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Julia McDonough
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"Clearinghouse for Change: The Southern Regional Council, 1944-65"
David Throup
Post-doctoral
"The Social, Economic and Political History of the Kikuyu People of Kenya, 1860-1990"
Current Affiliation
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Michelle Wagner
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"Community and Collective Representation: A Social History of Buragane, Burundi, c. 1850-1955"
Current Affiliation
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
University of Minnesota
1987
Dennis Dickerson
Post-Doctoral (History)
"The Man in Between: Whitney Young, 1921-1971"
Current Affiliation:
Department of Religion
Vanderbilt University
Michael W. Fitzgerald
Post-Doctoral (History)
"The Union League and Agricultural Labor in the Deep South"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
St. Olaf College
Tera W. Hunter
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"Afro-American Female Household Workers in the Urban South from 1865-1920"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Princeton University
Saba Jallow
Pre-Doctoral (Political Science)
"The Impact of Food Aid on Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pooled Cross-Sectional Time Series"
Current Affiliation:
Department of Political Science
Georgia Southern University
Deborah Kaspin
Pre-Doctoral (Anthropology)
"History and Structural Transformations of Rural Malawi"
Current Affiliation:
Departmet of Anthropology
Yale University
Jean B. Lee
Post-Doctoral (History)
"Black Life and Labor at Mt. Vernon Plantation"
Current Affiliation:
History Department
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Veronique McNelly
Pre-Doctoral (French)
"Senghor’s African Aesthetics and its Implications"
Current Affiliation
Department of Romance Languages
Wake Forest University
J. Mills Thornton, III
Post-Doctoral (History)
"The Montgomery Boycott of 1955-1956"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Michigan
1986
Trevor Hall
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"Reconstructing the Web of Activities Between Europeans of the Cape Verde Archipelago and Africans of the Guine of Cape Verde 1460-1600"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Bethune-Cookman College
Jack Johnson-Hill
Pre-Doctoral (Religious Ethics)
"Elements of an Afro-Caribbean Social Ethic: A Disclosure of the World of the Rastafari as Liminal Social Process"
Current Affiliation:
Timothy Luke
Post-Doctoral (Political Science)
"States and Social Revolutions in Modern Africa"
Current Affiliation:
Department of Political Science
Virginia Tech
Stephanie Shaw
Post-Doctoral (History)
"Black Women in White Collars: A Social History of Lower Level Professional Black Women Workers, 1870-1955"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Ohio State University
Christopher Taylor
Pre-Doctoral (Anthropology)
"Social Innovation and Therapy in Rwandan Popular Medicine"
Current Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology
Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
1985
Yahya Affinnih
Pre-Doctoral (Sociology)
"Occupational Commitment and the Myth of Self-Employment Among Lagos Port and Dock Workers"
Current Affiliation:
Department of African-American Studies
CUNY – John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Frances Ash
Pre-Doctoral (French)
"Caribbean Discourse on History: Nationalism vs Exile"
Melvin Ely
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"Amos ‘n’ Andy: Their Lineage, Life and Legacy, 1890-1966"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
College of William & Mary
Janet Ewald
Post-Doctoral (History)
"Soldiers, Traders and Slaves: The Origins and Growth of a Greater Nile Valley System, 1780-1884"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Duke University
Gertrude Fraser
Pre-Doctoral (Anthropology)
"Medical Belief Systems in Rural Afro-American Communities"
Current Affiliation:
Office of Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
University of Virginia
Gordon Thompson
Pre-Doctoral (English)
Symbols of Escape in the Works of Melvin B. Tolson, Charles W. Chesnutt, and James Baldwin
Current Affiliation:
Department of English
City College of New York
1984
Marcellus Blount
Pre-Doctoral (English)
"A Singer of Tales: The Afro-American Poet as Storyteller"
Current Affiliation:
Depart of English & Comparative Lit
Columbia University
Lynda Morgan
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"The Transition from Slavery to Freedom in Piedmont, Virginia, 1850-1880"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Mt. Holyoke College
Charles Rowell
Post-Doctoral (English)
"That Southern Thing: Black Fiction of the Civil Rights Era and After"
Current Affiliation:
Department of English
Texas A&M
Julius Scott, III
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"A Breathing of the Common Wind: The Sea, Politics, and Communication in the Era of the Haitian Revolution"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Michigan
Patricia Sullivan
Post-Doctoral (History)
"New Deal Politics and Civil Rights Reform in the South, 193-1948"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of South Carolina
John Thornton
Post-Doctoral (History)
"The History of the South Atlantic: The African Perspective, 1450-1650"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Boston University
1983
Yvonne Jones
Pre-Doctoral (Political Science)
"Technological Intervention or Community Development: The Formation of Rural Development Policy in Senegal, 1960-1978"
Current Affiliation:
World Bank
Linda Reed
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"The Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1938-1963"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Houston
J. Scott Strickland
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"African-American Culture and Social Change in South Carolina, 1680-1880"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Syracuse University
Diana Wylie
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"The Center Cannot Hold: The Decline of the Bamangwato Chieftainship, 1925-1950"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
Boston University
1982
Thadious Davis
Post-Doctoral (English)
"Race and Reputation in the Fiction of William Faulkner and Richard Wright"
Current Affiliation:
Department of English
University of Pennsylvania
Kathleen Fatton Balutansky
Pre-Doctoral (English)
"Aesthetics and Politics in the Novels of Alex La Guma"
Current Affiliation:
St. Michael's College
Alexis Gardella
Pre-Doctoral (Anthropology)
"The Process of Social Formation on the Island of Rodrigues"
Current Affiliation:
Indian Ocean Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Haiti
Mary Rayner
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"Slaves, Slave Owners and the British Cape Colony, 1806-1834"
Current Affiliation:
Amnesty International
Julie Saville
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"The Reorganization of Agricultural Labor in South Carolina after the Abolition of Slavery, 1860-1900"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Chicago
H. Leroy Vail
Post-Doctoral (History)
"The Art of Being Ruled: Poetry and Power in South Central Africa, circa 1800-1980"
Current Affiliation:
History Department
Harvard University
(Deceased -3/27/99)
1981
Leslie Rowland
Pre-Doctoral (History)
"Self-Emancipation: The Destruction of Slavery in Kentucky, 1861-1866"
Current Affiliation:
Department of History
University of Maryland
Richard Ralston
Post-Doctoral (AAS)
"The Life and Times of Dr. A.B. Xuma: Meditation on Twentieth Century South African Intellectual Social and Political History"
Current Affiliation:
African-American Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Catherine Macklin
Pre-Doctoral (Anthropology)
"Garifuna Identity in Belize"
Current Affiliation:
Anthropology
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Ira Lowenthal
Pre-Doctoral (Anthropology)
"Culture, Economics and the Family: Domestic Organization in Rural Haiti"
Current Affiliation:
Haiti Democracy Project