Past Fellows: Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program
Fellows are listed by (1) fellowship year; (2) institutional affiliation (at the time of the fellowship); (3) funding source; and (4) project title.
Past Fellows, 1983-2024
2023-2024
Long-Term Fellows
Lena Burgos-Lafuente, Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook University
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
What's Left? Communist Poetry Networks and Cosmopolitanism in the Caribbean, Spain and New York, 1925-1956
Amelia Herbert, Assistant Professor, Department of Education and Urban Studies, Barnard College
[National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
"Caste education throughout the world”: The Racial Politics of US-South Africa Educational Policy Borrowing
Karen Jaime, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Performance, Cornell University
[Mellon Foundation Fellow]
The Anachronistic Butch: Queering Time, Challenging Extinction
Briona Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Connecticut
[National Endowment for the Humanities/Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Black Lesbian Aesthetics
Nana Osei-Opare, Assistant Professor of History, Rice University
[National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Socialist De-Colony: Soviet and Black Entanglements in Ghana’s Decolonization & Cold War Projects, 1957-1966
Evan Turiano, independent scholar
[Lapidus Fellow]
The Politics of Fugitive Slave Rendition and the Coming of the Civil War
Benjamin Twagira, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Williams College
[Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Things to Remember: Urban Militarization and Material Culture in Kampala, ca. 1966-86
Stephanie Markowski, Ph.D candidate, Department of History, CUNY Graduate Center
[CUNY Dissertation Fellow]
From Riot to War and Back Again: Interracial Relationships in Britain 1919-1959
Short-Term Fellows
Lisa Biggs, John Atwater and Diana Nelson Assistant Professor of the Arts and Africana Studies, Brown University
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
George Houston Bass: Radical Black Dramaturgy
Nicholas Boggs, independent scholar
[Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Side of the Mountain, Edge of the Sea: A Study of James Baldwin and Four Figures Who Shaped his Life and Art
Lois Griffith, independent scholar
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
Come to Terms – Llegar a un Acuerdo
Joshua Jelly-Shapiro, independent scholar
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
Harry Belafonte – Significations
Taylor Prescott, Ph.D Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
[Lapidus Fellow]
Cooperation, Contestation, and Identity Formation: A History of Interethnic Exchange in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Freetown (1792-1850)
Zohra Saed, Distinguished Lecturer, Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
Langston Hughes in Soviet Turkestan, 1932-1933
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Associate Professor, Department of English, Georgetown University
[Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Another Set of Worlds [novel]
2022-2023
Long-Term Fellows
Edward Ball, independent writer
[Lapidus Center Fellow]
The Slave Trail
Joshua Cohen, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, City College of New York
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
Art of the Opaque: African Modernisms, Decolonization, and the Cold War
Alaina Morgan, Assistant Professor, Department of History, USC
[National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation
Rachel Afi Quinn, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, University of Houston
[National Endowment for the Humanities/Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Good Women Die: Re-Envisioning the Life of Philippa Duke Schuyler (1931-1967)
Carina Ray, A.M. and H.P. Bentley Professor of African History, Department of History, University of Michigan
[Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Black on White: Writing Race Across Ghana's Long Twentieth Century
Erica Richardson, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Baruch College
[National Endowment for the Humanities/Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Empirical Desires: Data and the Aesthetics of the Negro Problem
Maria Beliaeva Solomon, Assistant Professor, Department of French, University of Maryland
[Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Recovering the Revue des colonies (1834-1842)
A.J. Verdelle, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Morgan State University
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch [novel]
Francine Almash, Ph.D candidate, Department of Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center
[CUNY Dissertation Fellow (non-residential fellow)]
Out of the Shadows: Recovering the History of the New York City '600' Schools
Jadele McPherson, Ph.D candidate, Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
[CUNY Dissertation Fellow]
Overcoming the Difficulty: The Racial Politics of Sacred Sound and Performance in Tampa and New York City
Short-Term Fellows
Mikael Awake, independent writer
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
Playground Moves: A Cultural History of Rucker Park
Yannis Mahil, independent scholar
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X
David Mills, independent writer
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
Tales of the Red Tails: Poems about the Tuskegee Airmen
Erika Schneider, Professor, Department of Art History, Framingham State University
[Mellon Foundation Fellow]
From Horrors to Domesticity: Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller's Quest for Place
Cam Terwilliger, Clinical Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies Program, New York University
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
Yet Wilderness Grew in My Heart: A Novel
Judith Weisenfeld, Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Professor of Religion, Princeton University
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
Spiritual Madness: American Psychiatry, Race, and Black Religions
2021-2022
Long-Term Fellows
Laila Amine, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
Return Travel: The African Diaspora Across Genres of Mobility
Marina Bilbija, Assistant Professor, Departments of English and African American Studies, Wesleyan University
[National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Worlds of Color: Black Print Internationalism Before Decolonization
Abosede George, Associate Professor, Departments of History and Africana Studies, Barnard College
[Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Migrating While Black in the Nineteenth Century Atlantic
Brian Kwoba, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Memphis
[National Endowment for the Humanities/Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Legacy of Black Genius
Petra Richterová, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design
[Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Rumba: A Philosophy of Motion
Stéphane Robolin, Associate Professor, Department of English, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
[Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Subterranean Circulations: The Making of Apartheid's Literary Underground
Mercy Romero, Associate Professor of American Studies, Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University
[National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Farewell: Black Nursing and the East River Islands, 1950-2020
Sean Morey Smith, Postdoctoral researcher, Rice University
[Lapidus Center Fellow]
The Climate of Race in Abolition
Nina Mercer, Ph.D candidate, Department of Theatre and Performance, CUNY Graduate Center
[CUNY Dissertation Fellow]
Transnational Ritual Poetics of Blackness in Performance
Jessica Larson, Ph.D candidate, Department of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center
[CUNY Dissertation Fellow (Non-Residential Fellow)]
Building Black Manhattan: Architecture, Art, and the Politics of Respectability, 1857-1914
Short-Term Fellows
Alexis Callender, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Smith College
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
Housing, High Modernism, and the Architecture of Racial Imagination
Gail Dottin, independent writer
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
Where There Is Pride in Belonging: A Memoir in Family Stories
Naomi Jackson, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Rutgers University-Newark
[Ford Foundation Fellow]
Behind God's Back [novel]
Arlene Keizer, Professor, Humanities and Media Studies, Pratt Institute
[Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black [poetry]
2020-2021
Long-Term Fellows
Melissa Cooper, Associate Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University-Newark [Ford Foundation Fellow]
Conjuring Black Gods: Southern Migrants, Afrocentrism and the Search for African Religion in Northern Metropolises
Malachi Crawford, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Prairie View A&M University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Speak of the Devil: The Nation of Islam, Righteous Anger, and the Rise of African American Free Speech
Anasa Hicks, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Florida State University [National Endownment for the Humanities/Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Carlota's Heirs: Masculinity and Military Service in Revolutionary Cuba
Grace L. Sanders Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania [Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Love During Duvalier: Haiti, Kinship, and the Archive
T. Urayoán Noel, Associate Professor, Department of English, New York University [Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Archival Diasporas: A Geospatial Poetics of Afro-Puerto Rican Harlem
Russell Rickford, Associate Professor, Department of History, Cornell University [Mellon Foundation Fellow]
A Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s
J. T. Roane, Assistant Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place in Philadelphia
Ebony Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University [Lapidus Center Fellow]
Dangerous Characters: Geographies of Punishment and Atlantic World Slavery in the Age of Abolition
Kali Tambree, Ph.D candidate, Department of Sociology, UCLA [Lapidus Center Fellow]
Grammars of Death Revisited: Temporality and Historiography of the Middle Passage
Andrew Anastasi, Ph.D candidate, Department of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center [CUNY Dissertation Fellow]
The Other War at Home: The New Left Within and Against the War on Poverty
Short-Term Fellows
Jeffrey Renard Allen, independent writer [Ford Foundation Fellow]
Hour of the Seeds: A Novel
Stephanie Crease, independent scholar [Ford Foundation Fellow]
Chick Webb and the Musicians' Great Migration to Harlem
Rebecca Hall, independent writer [Ford Foundation Fellow]
Taking Freedom: Black Women and Emancipation [graphic novel]
Eve Meltzer, Associate Professor of Visual Studies, Gallatin School, New York University [Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Camera Lucida, Psyche Obscura: James Baldwin, America, and the Moving Image
Phyllis Ross, independent scholar [Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
The Fabric of Activism
Namwali Serpell, Associate Professor, Department of English, Harvard University [Ford Foundation Fellow]
The Afronaut
2019-2020
Long-Term Fellows
Neil Clarke, independent scholar [Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Rethinking the Presence of the African Drum in North America
Jennifer DeClue, Assistant Professor, Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Smith College [National Endowment for the Humanities/Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Ghosts of Visual Culture: Archives of Violence and the Black Feminist Avant-Garde
Tobi Haslett, independent scholar [Mellon Foundation Fellow]
The Fran Ross Project
Laura Helton, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Delaware [National Endowment for the Humanities/Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Collecting and Collectivity: Black Archival Publics, 1910-1950
Jarvis McInnis, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Duke University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Mapping the Global Black South: Aesthetics, Labor, and Diaspora
Selena Doss, Associate Professor, Department of History, Western Kentucky University [Lapidus Center Fellow]
Involuntary Pilgrimage: Black Southerners and Territorial Separatism, 1783-1904
Tashima Thomas, Visiting Assistant Professor, History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute [Lapidus Center Fellow]
Afro-Gothic: Black Aesthetics of Horror – Past & Present
Jaime Coan, Ph.D candidate, Department of English, CUNY Graduate Center [CUNY Dissertation Fellow]
Metamorphosis Theater: Performance at the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Race, and Sexuality
Maya Harakawa, Ph.D candidate, Department of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center [Non-Resident CUNY Dissertation Fellow]
After the Renaissance: Art and Harlem in the 1960s
Short-Term Fellows
Carmen Cañete Quesada, Associate Professor of Spanish, Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University [Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Marginal Discourse of Resistance and Survival in Salaria Kea’s Autobiographical Narratives
Harmony Holiday, independent writer [Ford Foundation Fellow]
A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom; Thieves Who Stole My Blue Days
Ishma'il Kushkush, independent writer [Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
The Religious Life of Malcolm X after Mecca: Malcolm X and Imam Hassoun
Eric Lamore, Professor, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez [Ford Foundation Fellow]
Abigail Field Mott's 1829 Abridged Edition of Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative: A Critical Edition
Cord Whitaker, Associate Professor, Department of English, Wellesley College [Ford Foundation Fellow]
The Harlem Middle Ages: Color, Time, and Harlem Renaissance Medievalism
2018-2019
Long-Term Fellows
Adrienne Brown, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Black Residential Forms
Garrett Felber, Assistant Professor, Arch Dalrymple III Department of History, University of Mississippi [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam and the Politics of Black Nationalism
Kelly Josephs, Associate Professor, Department of English, Department of English, York College CUNY [Ford Foundation Fellow]
Kamau Brathwaite and the Savacou Enterprise
Jasmine Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of Theater Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University [Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Black Dance: A Reader
Dan Berger, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
In Our Bones: One Family's Journey in the Black Freedom Struggle
Abena Asare, Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies and History, SUNY Stony Brook [Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Seeing Beyond Prison?: Punishment in the Black Atlantic Radical Imagination
Lisa Earl-Castillo, independent scholar, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil [Lapidus Center Fellow]
Children of Iyá Nassô: African Agency and Mobility in the Rise of an Afro-Brazilian Temple (Bahia, Brazil, c. 1800-1910)
Christopher Willoughby, Ph.D (2016), Department of History, Tulane University [Lapidus Center Fellow]
The Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in American Medical Schools
Denisse Andrade, Ph.D candidate, Earth and Environmental Studies, CUNY Graduate Center [CUNY Dissertation Fellow]
This Land is Our Land: The Poetics and Politics of Land in the Black Radical Movement, 1960s-1970s
Short-Term Fellows
Gaiutra Bahadur, independent writer [Ford Foundation Fellow]
Imagined Homeland: African-Americans in Guyana in the 1970s
Hasna Muhammad, independent writer [Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain (It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over) [play]
Susan Gillman, Professor, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz [Ford Foundation Fellow]
Mediterraneans of the Americas: Caribbean NYC, 1930-40s
Akil Kumarasamy, independent writer [Ford Foundation Fellow]
Love, War & Other Visions [novel]
2017-2018
Ansley Erickson, Associate Professor, Arts & Humanities, Teachers College, Columbia University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Our Wadleigh: The Complex Struggle for Educational Justice in Harlem
Ayesha Hardison, Associate Professor, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies / Department of English, University of Kansas [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Specters of Segregation in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination
Imani Owens, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Writing the Crossroads: Folk Culture, Imperialism, and U.S.-Caribbean Literature
Hisham Aidi, Lecturer, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University [Ford Foundation/Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Black Political Thought in (Arabic) Translation
Tyesha Maddox, Assistant Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Fordham University [Ford Foundation/Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Invisible Immigrants: Political Activism and the Construction of Caribbean American Identity, 1890-1940
Anthony Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St. John’s University [Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Heretical Script: An Intellectual Biography of Dr. Sylvia Wynter
Eric B. Herschthal, Ph.D (2017), Department of History, Columbia University [Lapidus Center Fellow]
Antislavery Science: How the Early Abolitionist Movement Shaped Science, 1770-1830
Yuko Miki, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Fordham University [Lapidus Center Fellow]
Emancipation’s Shadow: Illegal Slavery in the Brazilian Atlantic
Brian Jones, Ph.D candidate, Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center [CUNY Dissertation Fellow]
The Tuskegee Revolt: Black Power and the Legacy of Booker T. Washington
2016-2017
Tiffany Gill, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delaware [National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Civil Rights on Vacation
Kim Hall, Professor, Department of Africana Studies / English, Barnard College [National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Othello Is My Grandfather: Race and Shakespeare in the African Diaspora
Arun Kundnani, Adjunct Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University [Ford Foundation/Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Rap: An American Life - A Biography of H. Rap Brown/Jamil al-Amin
Candacy Taylor, Independent Scholar [Ford Foundation Fellow]
Sites of Sanctuary: the Negro Motorist Green Book
Laura Ann Twagira, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Wesleyan University [Ford Foundation Fellow]
Taste of Development: Women Re-Engineering the Foodscape in 20th Century Rural Mali
Shannen Williams, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Tennessee [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Subversive Habits: Black Nuns and the Long Struggle to Desegregate
Anthony DiLorenzo, Ph.D, Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago [Lapidus Center Fellow]
Transatlantic Radicalism and Antislavery Politics in New York City
Philip Misevich, Assistant Professor, Department of History, St. John's University [Lapidus Center Fellow]
On the Frontier of "Freedom:" Abolition and the Transformation of Atlantic Commerce in Southern Sierra Leone
Conor Tomas Reed, Ph.D Candidate, Department of History, CUNY Graduate Center [CUNY/Mellon Dissertation Fellow]
Free CUNY, Free NYC: Movement Composition, Literatures, and Pedagogies at the City College of New York, 1960-1980
Timothy Griffiths, Ph.D Candidate, Department of English, CUNY Graduate Center [CUNY Dissertation Fellow, funded by an ACLS Dissertation Fellowship]
Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplist, 1890-1905
2015-2016
Sylvia Chan-Malik, Assistant Professor, American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University-New Brunswick [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
A Part of Islam: U.S. Muslim Women and the Question of Race
Soyika Diggs Colbert, Associate Professor, Department of Theater and Performance Studies / African American Studies, Georgetown University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Lorraine Hansberry: Artist-Activist
Kaiama Glover, Associate Professor, Department of French / Africana Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
In the Same Boats: Toward An Afro-American Intellectual History: A Digital Project
Tsitsi Jaji, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Cassava Westerns: Refiguring the American Frontier Myth in Global Black Imaginaries
C. Riley Snorton, . Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies / Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Cornell University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Embodied Legacies: Blackness and the Remaking of Trans History
Sonia Sanchez, Independant Scholar [Schomburg Center/Columbia U. Institute for Research in African American Studies Fellow]
Watch My Language: A Memoir
Caree Banton, Department of History and African & African American Studies, University of Arkansas [Lapidus Center Fellow]
More Auspicious Shores: Post-emancipation Barbadian Emigrants in Pursuit of Freedom: Citizenship, and Nationhood in Liberia, 1834-1912
Nicole Wright, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder [Lapidus Center Fellow]
Hue and Cry for Justice: Race, Emotion, and Legal Agency in Proslavery Fiction
Jeff Diamant, Ph.D Candidate, Department of History, CUNY Graduate Center [CUNY/Mellon Dissertation Fellow]
Saudi Arabian Influence on African-American Muslims: Transnational Transformations in Islam from 1975 to 2000
Adrianna Campbell, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center [CUNY/Mellon Dissertation Fellow]
Norman Lewis: Linearity, Pedagogy and Activism in his Abstract Expressionism, 1946-1964.
2014-2015
Myra Young Armstead, Professor of History, Bard College [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Progressive Public History in Harlem
Rashad Shabazz. Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Vermont [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Mapping Black Sexuality: A Spatial History of Black Gay Pride
Rafia Zafar, Professor, English, Washington University, St. Louis [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Recipes for Respect
Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History & African and African American Studies, Louisiana State University [Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Not Blacks, but Citizens: Race and Revolution in Cuba, 1959-1978
James Smethurst, Professor, Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth [Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South 1963-1985
John Perpener, Independent Scholar [Schomburg Center Fellow]
Political and Social Activism in African-American Concert Dance: Eleo Pomare
2013-2014
Belinda Edmondson, Professor, Departments of English and African-American & African Studies,Rutgers University, Newark [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and the Performance, 1874-1920
Raphael Dalleo, Associate Professor, Department of English, Florida Atlantic University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
The U.S. Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Literature, 1915-1950
Andrew J. Rosa, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Shadows of Empire: Black Intellectuals and the Struggle Over African Studies
Yarimar Bonilla, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick [Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Guadeloupe is Ours
Salamishah Tillet, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania [Ford Foundation Fellow]
The World Nina Simone Made: The Story of a Sonic Radical
Jessica A. Krug, Assistant Professor, Department of History, George Washington University [Ford Foundation Fellow]
Fugitive Modernities: Politics Outside the State in Kisama, Angola, and the Americas, c. 1500-1698
2012-2013
Zakiya Renecia Adair, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Missouri [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Negotiating Spectacle: Black Women Vaudeville Performers and Trans-Atlantic Theatre, 1920-1935
Marisa Joanna Fuentes, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s Studies and History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
The Archives of Slavery: Gender, Power and Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century Urban Caribbean
David Goldberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies, Wayne State University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Courage Under Fire: African Americans and the FDNY
Regine O. Jackson,Assistant Professor, Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Diasporic Subjects: Haitian Émigrés in Postcolonial Congo
Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Associate Professor, Department of Latina/o Studies, San Francisco State University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
'Echando Pleito': El Club Julio Antonio Mella, El Club Cubano lnter-Americano and the Emergence of Diasporic Afro-Cubanidades
Kevin Meehan, Professor, Department of English, University of Central Florida [National Endowment for the Humanities/Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Translating Léon-Gontran Damas: Selected Prose Writings and Decolonization
Natasha J. Lightfoot, Assistant Professor, History Department, Columbia University [Independent Fellow, funded by Ford Foundation Fellowship]
2011-2012
Lisa Collins, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Africana, Vassar College [National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow]
The Art of African American Folklore
Ryan James Kernan, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Rutgers University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Black Translation: An Internationalist Portrait of Langston Hughes and the Rise of Black Radicalism
Esther Lezra, Assistant Professor, Department of Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Writers and Fighters and Makers of Freedom
Kevin McGruder, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Lehman College [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Race and Real Estate: Interracial Conflict and Coexistence in Harlem, 1890-1920
Adrienne Petty, Assistant Professor, Department of History, City College of New York, CUNY [National Endowment for the Humanities /Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Standing Their Ground: The Struggle of Black Farm Owners in the Tobacco South
Millery Polyne, Assistant Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University [National Endowment for the Humanities /Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
A Better Destiny: Human Rights, Caribbean Exiles and Dictatorship During the Cold War
James de Jongh, Professor Emeritus, City College of New York / CUNY Graduate Center [Independent Fellow]
Historical Dictionary of African American Literature
Giselle Liza Anatol, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Kansas [Schomburg Center Fellow (Short-Term)]
The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampirism in Literature of the African Diaspora
Kristen Stromberg Childers, Adjunct Professor, Department of History, Temple University [Schomburg Center Fellow (Short-Term)]
Seeking Imperialism's Embrace: National Identity, Decolonization and Assimilation in the French Caribbean
Shane Graham, Associate Professor, Department of English, Utah State University [Schomburg Center Fellow (Short-Term)]
Langston Hughes, Cosmopolitanism, and Black Atlantic Literature
Lorelle Denise Semley, Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of the Holy Cross [Schomburg Center Fellow (Short-Term)]
Free and French: The Challenge of Black Citizenship to French Colonial Empire
2010-2011
Dennis R. Childs, Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego [National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Formations of Neoslavery
Robin J. Hayes, Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies/Political Science, Santa Clara University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow]
A Diasporic Underground: African Liberation and Black Power, 1957-1994
Miriam Jimenez Roman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Africana Studies/Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Shifting Affinities: Afro-Latin@s in New York City, 1900-1945
Walton Muyumba, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of North Texas [National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Artistry of a Different Kind: John Edgar Widemen’s Improvised Literary Aesthetics
Ousmane Power-Greene, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Clark University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Leaves Torn From the Diary of a Critic: Hubert Harrison and the New Negro Movement
2009-2010
M. Thomas J. Desch-Obi, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Baruch College, CUNY [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Sugar: Movement, Masculinity, and the Sweet Science in Africa and the African Diaspora
Sandra Caona Duvivier, Assistant Professor, Department of English, James Madison University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Blurring the Borders: Trans-American and Metaphysical Kinship in Erna Brodber’s ‘Louisiana’
Myisha Tandika Priest, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Santa Clara University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
How I wish I Could Live on That Shore: African American Literature and the Culture of the Antebellum Waterways
Eric Darnell Pritchard, Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric & Writing/African American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Black Queer Literacies
Sherie M. Randolph, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Center for Afro-American & African Studies, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Black Feminist in White America: Floryance “Flo” Kennedy and Black Feminist Politics in Postwar America
Robyn Geanne Spencer, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Lehman College [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
No Justice, No Peace: African Americans Against Vietnam
2008-2009
Carolyn Anderson Brown, Associate Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
Militant Mineworkers, Respectable Clerks and Unruly Youth: Honor and Urban Masculinity in the Radicalization of Enugu Nigeria 1939-1955
Jerry Bruce Gershenhorn, Associate Professor, Department of History, North Carolina Central University, Durham [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
The Freedom of Africa Depends on Us: African American Scholars and the Development of African Studies Programs in the US, 1942-1960
Anthony S. Foy, Assistant Professor, Department of English Literature, Swarthmore College [National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Black Ideography: Autobiography, Ideology, Image
Carla Maria Guerron-Montero, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware [National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
Like an Alien in We Own Land: Tourism and the Construction of National and Transnational Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama
Carter A. Mathes, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick [National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow]
Imagine the Sound: Black Radicalism and Experimental Form in Post-1965 African-American Literary Culture
Laurie A. Woodard, Lecturer, Department of African American Studies and History, Yale University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow]
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
2007-2008
Johanna Fernandez, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
When the World was their Stage: The Young Lords and the 1960s
Kali Nicole Gross, Assistant Professor, Department of History & Politics, Drexel University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Mary Hannah Tubbs, Murderess: A Case Study of Social Violence, 1887
Shannon King, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Home to Harlem: Community, Gender, and Working-Class Politics in Harlem, New York, 1916-1928
Evie Shockley, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry
Nicole R. Fleetwood, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Ford Foundation Fellow]
In the Light: Visuality, Gender and the Discourse of Blackness
Ivor Lynn Miller, Visiting Research Faculty, Department of African Studies Center, Boston University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse Fellow]
West African Ekpe and Cuban Abakua: A CrossRiver Basin Diaspora in the Caribbean
2006-2007
Barbara Krauthamer, Assistant Professor, Department of History, New York University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Runaway Slave Women: Race, Gender and Freedom in the American Southeast, 1730-1840
Malinda Alaine Lindquist, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Minnesota, Twins Cities [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
The Gender of Racial Science: Modern Black Manhood and its Making, 1890-2000
Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Assistant Professor, Department of Pan African Studies/History, University of Louisville [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
African Masks and Masquerades: A Comparative Study of Symbols and Meaning of African Masquerades and Carnivals of the Diaspora
Kezia Ann Page, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Colgate University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Kingston 21: Diaspora, Migrancy, and Caribbean Literature
Chad L. Williams, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hamilton College [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers and the Era of the First World War
Venus Green, Associate Professor, Department of History, City College, CUNY [National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse Fellow]
Black Fraternal Orders and Labor Activism, 1900-1980
Lisa Gail Collins, Associate Professor, Art History and Africana Studies, Vassar College [Independent Fellow]
The Art of Healing
Valerie Babb, Professor, Department of English/African American Studies, University of Georgia [Independent Fellow]
The Ghana Renaissance: Afro Art and Politics, 1960-1966
Carla Kaplan, Professor, Department of English, Northeastern University [Independent Fellow]
Miss Ann in Harlem
2005-2006
Valerie Melissa Babb, Professor, Department of English/African American Studies, University of Georgia [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
The Ghana Renaissance: Afro Art and Politics, 1960-1966
Daphne A. Brooks, Assistant Professor, Department of English & African American Studies, Princeton University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
I Hold No Grudge: Black Feminist Satire, Performance, & Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Charles Isidore Nero, Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric & Theater, Bates College [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Writing a New African Diasporic World: Melvin Dixon, Joseph Beam and the Generation of the 1980s
Sandhya R. Shukla, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Asian American Studies Program, Columbia University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Cross-Cultural Twentieth Century Harlem
Jacqueline N. Stewart, Associate Professor, Department of English/Cinema & Media, University of Chicago [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
At the Crossroads: Style, Segregation, and the Films of Spencer Williams
William P. Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee [National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse Fellow]
Roots of the New Unionism: Black Public Service Workers and the Transformation of Urban Politics, 1945-1985
Patricia Hills, Professor, Department of History, Boston University [Independent Fellow]
Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence
2004-2005
Dayo Folayan Gore, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
“To Light a Candle in a Gale Wind:” Black Women Radicals and Post World War II U.S. Politics
Monica L. Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Barnard College [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism in the Atlantic Diaspora
LaMonda Horton-Stallings, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Florida [National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse Fellow]
Making Jelly: Respectability, Liberation, and the Making of Black Sexual Culture
Kevin J. Mumford, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa [National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse Fellow]
In the Life of Joseph Beam
Jeffrey Strickland, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, University of Texas–Panamerican [Independent Fellow]
Ethnicity and Race in the Urban South: German Immigrants And African-Americans during Reconstruction
2003-2004
Yogita Goyal, Graduate Fellow, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Brown University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Diasporic Nationalisms, Nationalist Diasporas: Theorizing Race in the Black Atlantic
Stephen Gillroy Hall, Assistant Professor, Department of History, The Ohio State University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
To Give A Faithful Account of the Race: History and Historical Writing in the African American Community, 1817-1915
Cheryl D. Hicks, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Williams College [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Confined to Womanhood: Women, Prisons, and Race in the State of New York, 1890-1935
Jacqueline D. Malone, Professor, Department of Drama, Theater and Dance, Queens College, City University of New York [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Jazz Music in Motion: African American Women in Tap and Jazz Dance
John Gray, Independent Scholar [Schomburg Center/Samuel I. Newhouse Fellow]
Black Music in the Diaspora: An International Bio-Bibliography and Resource Guide
2002-2003
Frank Andre Guridy, Visiting Scholar-in-Residence, Department of History, Wheaton College [National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse Fellow]
Racial Knowledge and the Black Transnational Community in Cuba and the United States During the Age of Depression and War, 1929-45
Sarah-Jane Mathieu, Assistant Professor, Department of History, African American Studies, Princeton University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Jim Crow Rides This Train: The Social and Political Impact of African American Sleeping Car Porters in Canada, 1870-1955
Kenneth M. Bilby, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Music, Bard College, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Where Good and Evil Meet: Ethnographic, Literary, and Popular Representations of Obeah
Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, Associate Professor, Department of History, State University of New York at Binghamton [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
The Cultural Politics of Slave Emancipation in the British West Indies and the United States, 1831-1888
Winston Kennedy, Professor Emeritus, Department of Art, Howard University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center Fellow]
Out of the Shadows: The African American Image in Print
George A. Priestley, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Latin American Studies, Queens College, City University of New York [National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center Fellow]
George Westerman and West Indian-Panamanians in the 20th Century: Negotiating Identity, Culture and Nationality
Bruce Hare, Professor, Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University [Independent Fellow]
2001 Race Odyssey
Tanya K. Hernandez,Professor, Rutgers School of Law [Independent Fellow]
"Civil Rights Movements in the Americas: Racial Identity and Group Race Consciousness”
2001-2002
Chouki El Hamel, Assistant Professor, African and African-American Studies, Duke University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
The History of the Blacks in Morocco: Race and Gender in Moroccan Slavery
Rhonda D. Frederick, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Boston College [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Colon Man a Come: Mythographies of Panama Canal Migration
Michele Mitchell, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Center for Afro-American & African Studies, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor [National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center Fellow]
To Find Their Way to Heaven: African Americans, Racial Destiny, and the Politics of Collective Reproduction after Reconstruction
Samuel K. Roberts, Thurgood Marshall Fellow, Program in African and African-American Studies, Department of History, Dartmouth College [National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center Fellow]
Infectious Fear: Tuberculosis, Public Health, and the Logic of Race and Illness in the Urban South, 1880-1930
Jeffrey Thomas Sammons, Professor, Department of History, New York University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center Fellow]
Harlem's 'Hellfighters' and the Crusade for Citizenship: The 369th and the 'Great War'
Barbara Dianne Savage, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania [National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center Fellow]
A New Heaven and a New Earth: African American Religion, Politics, and Culture in the Interwar Years
Lisa Gail Collins, Assistant Professor, Art & Africana Studies, Vassar College [Independent Fellow]
Art of African American Folklore
Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Connecticut [Independent Fellow]
The New Avant Garde: The Culture and Politics of Hip Hop Music in the Late 20th Century
Thomas Reinhardt, Scientific Employee, Frobenius Institute, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany [Independent Fellow]
Afrocentricity - Processes of Appropriation in African-American Identity Formation
Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology & Women's Studies, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York [Independent Fellow]
Children of a Diaspora: African Americans Raised by White Families Weaving a Way Home
2000-2001
Jacqueline Goldsby, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
A Spectacular Secret: The Cultural Logic of Lynching in American Life and Literature, 1882-1992
Robin D.G. Kelley , Professor of History and Africana Studies, Department of History and Africana Studies, New York University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Misterioso: In Search of Thelonious Monk
Genna Rae McNeil, Professor of History, Department of History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Joan Little and the 'Free Joan Little' Movement in Historical Perspective
Kim D. Butler, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Department, Rutgers University [National Endowment for the Humanities/Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow]
The African Diaspora: Paradigms of Power
Kali Nicole Gross, Doctoral Fellow, Department of History, Occidental College [National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center Fellow]
The Dismembered Body of Wakefield Gaines and Other Tales of African-American Female Criminality in Philadelphia, 1880-1910
Cecilia A. Green, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh [National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center Fellow]
Between Respectability and Self-Respect: Afro-Caribbean Women Negotiating Livelihoods
1999-2000
Carolyn Keyes Adenaike, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Memphis [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
God Knew His Brother: War, Slavery, and the Creation of Yoruba Identity
Ivor Lynn Miller, Independent Scholar [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
The Cuban Abakua Society
Kathryne Lindberg, Professor of English and American Literature; Adjunct Faculty in Africana Studies, Department of English, Wayne State University [Irene Diamond Foundation Fellow]
From Claude McKay to Huey Newton: Revolutionary Intercommunalism and Black Syndicalist Lyrics
Lydia Lindsey, Assistant Professor, Department of History, North Carolina Central University [Irene Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Claudia Jones: A Political Biography
Shawn Michelle Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman [Irene Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois' Photographs for the 1900 Paris Exposition
Martha Biondi, Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University [Ford Foundation Fellow]
The Civil Rights Movement in New York City, 1945-1955
1998-1999
Carolyn Anderson Brown, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Cowboys, Letterwriters and Dancing Women: Identity and Struggles Over Space, Leisure and Time in Enugu, Nigeria, 1914-1955
Jeffrey Conrad Stewart, Associate Professor, Department of History, George Mason University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Enter The New Negro: A Biography of Alain Locke, 1885-1954
Martha Elizabeth Hodes Assistant Professor, Department of History, New York University [Irene Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Place and Race, Borders and Identities: Black and White Migrations in the Civil War Era
Debra Walker King, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Florida [Irene Diamond Foundation Fellow]
African Americans and the Culture of Pain
Margaret Rose Vendryes, Lecturer, Department of Continuing Education, Fairfield University [Irene Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Representation of the New Negro: The Black Body as Metaphor in Modern American Art and Literature
Craig Steven Wilder, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Williams College [Ford Foundation Endowment Fellow]
Black Institutions in Colonial and Early National New York
Leslie M. Harris , Assistant Professor, Department of History, Emory University [Independent Fellow]
Creating the African-American Working Class in New York City, 1626-1863
1997-1998
Brent Hayes Edwards, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Rugters University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Black Globality: The International Shape of Black Intellectual Culture
Gerald Robert Gill, Associate Professor, Department of History, Tufts University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Struggling Yet In Freedom's Birthplace - The Civil Rights Movement in Boston, 1935-1972
Douglas Brent Chambers, Independent scholar [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
The Invention of Creolization: Melville and Frances Herskovits and the History of a Key Concept in Africana Studies
Maryemma Graham, Professor, Department of English, Northeastern University [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Southern Roads, Gendered Gardens: An Intellectual Biography of Margaret Walker
Alexandra Clarke Torres, Richard and Edna Salomon Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Black, White and In Color: Television, African American and the Production of National History
Jeffrey G. Garrison, Professor, Department of English Languages and Literature, Komazawa University, Tokyo, Japan [Independent Fellow]
Depiction of Blacks in the Works of Modern White American Dramatists
1996-1997
Ada Ferrer, Assistant Professor, Department of History, New York University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
To Make a Free Nation: Race and the Struggle for Independence in Cuba, 1868-1898
Winston James, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Columbia University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Claude McKay: From Bolshevism To Black Nationalism, 1923 to 1948
Jervis B. Anderson, Staff Writer, The New Yorker [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
A Biography of Bayard Rustin
Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Visiting Scholar, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Memories of Love and War
Sharon Gail Fitzgerald, Contributing Writer, American Vision Magazine
The Biography of Jean Blackwell Hutson
Fahamisha Patricia Brown, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Fordham University [Independent Fellow, funded by Fordham University Fellowship]
Black Poetry: The Hidden Years
Bruce R. Hare, Professor of Africana Studies, College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University [Independent Fellow]
African Americans and Sociology: A Critical Analysis and Issues in African American Education
Nicole R. King, Assistant Professor, Caribbean and Afro-American Literature, Department of English, University of Maryland [Independent Fellow, funded by Ford Foundation Fellowship]
C.L.R. James and Caribbean Cultural Identity
Isabel Soto, Associate Professor, English Studies Department, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain and visiting scholar, Vassar College [Independent Fellow]
Langston Hughes in Spain
1995-1996
Irma Watkins-Owens, Assistant Professor, African American Studies Institute and Social Sciences Division, Fordham College at Lincoln Center [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Migration and Community: African American Women in New York City, 1890-1940
Carla Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Department of English; Affiliate Appointments in African-American and Women's Studies, Yale University [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
The Twenties in Black And White: Modernism's Undesirable Desire
Barbara Smith, Publisher, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
African American Lesbian and Gay History
Helen Siemens Walker-Hill, Visiting Assistant Professor, African American Studies Program, University of Wyoming [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
African-American Women Composers: The Intersection of Race, Gender, Class and Musical Creativity
1994-1995
Randolph Stakeman, Director of Africana Studies/Associate Professor of History, Bowdoin College [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
The NAACP in International Affairs, 1918-1968
Jon-Christian Suggs, Professor, Department of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Status, Text, and Substance: A Study of the Interrelationships Between African-American Literature and American Law
Henry John Drewal, Evjue-Bascom Professor, Department of Art History and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Art History, and Hegemony: An African Diaspora in the Caribbean
Robert C. Hayden, Lecturer, Department of History, College of Public and Commonwealth Service, University of Massachusetts at Boston and Northeastern University [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Dr. Louis Tompkins Wright and the Development of Medicine in Harlem (New York City) between 1919-1952
Joy Ann James, Assistant Professor, Women Studies, Department of Women Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Race, Representation and the Demystification of Sexual Violence in American Visual Culture, 1892-1992
1993-1994
Venus Green, Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies, The City College, City University of New York [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Black Women: Working and Organizing, 1920-1980
James Arthur Miller, Professor of English and American Studies, Department of English and American Studies, Trinity College [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
African-American Cultural Politics of the 1930s
Brenda Gayle Plummer, Associate Professor of History, Department of Afro-American Studies/Department of History, University of Wisconsin at Madison [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Race, Gender, and the Cold War
Ula Taylor, Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, University of California at Berkeley
The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey
Lawrence Patrick Jones, Independent Scholar [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Identity, Drama, and Mutual Aid in the Black Pentecostal Church
Irene Viola Jackson-Brown, Senior Fellow, Program in Education Policy and School Reform, Phelps-Stokes Fund [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
The Black Church as Progenitor of Musical Performance in the African American Community
Melissa Jane Rachleff, Assistant Curator, Exit Art, Inc. [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Morgan and Marvin Smith: Photography in Harlem, 1933-1950
1992-1993
Patrick Bryant Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona at Tucson [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Pillars of Fire: A History of Traditionally African American Colleges and Universities
Edwin S. Redkey, Associate Professor of History, Department of Humanities, State University of New York, Purchase [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
A History of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Regiments
Barbara Lee Browning, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Princeton University [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Afro-Atlantic Syncratic Narratives: A Study of Literature in the Pan-Yoruba Tradition
Jeffrey Nathan Gerson, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Lowell [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Black Succession in Central Brooklyn, 1964-1991
Barbara Ann McCaskill, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University Georgia at Athens [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Reconsidering Race: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of African American Women
Carl George Pedersen, Associate Professor, Institute of Language and Culture, Roskilde University Center, Denmark [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Claude McKay: From Socialism to Negritude
J. E. Franklin, Director, the Zora Neale Hurston Writer's Workshop, New York City [Independent Fellow]
Gray Panthers: The Second Decatet. Ten Ten-Minute Dramas on the Lives of African-American Elders
Michele Lamont, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University [Independent Fellow]
Male Working Class Culture in France and the United States
1991-1992
William Barlow, Associate Professor, Department of Radio, TV, Film, School of Communication, Howard University [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
A Cultural History of Black Radio
Joanne Grant, Independent Scholar [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Grand Lady: The Lifework of Ella J. Baker
Jacqueline Delores Malone, Associate Professor, Drama, Theater and Dance, Queens College, City University of New York [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Dynamic Suggestion: Tracing African-American Vernacular Dance
Cheryl Finley, Independent Scholar [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Photographic Images of African Americans from the F.S.A. Years: The Development of an Afro-Centric Perspective
Enid Gort, Independent Scholar [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
A Career of Conscience: The Story of Franklin H. Williams
Katherine Elizabeth Butler Jones, Independent Scholar [Independent Fellow]
Journey to the Promised Land: Social Economic and Political Influences Affecting an African American Family Migrating Through New York State 1770s-1930
1990-1991
Sandra T. Govan, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of North Carolina, Charlotte [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
The Turbulent Times of Gwendolyn Bennett: Art and Politics After the Renaissance
Adrienne M. Israel, Associate Professor, Department of History, Guilford College [National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow]
Amanda Berry Smith: An Historical Biography of a Spiritual Pioneer
Carol A. Beane, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages, Howard University [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
The Representation of Slavery in Latin American Literature
Margaret L. Dwight, Professor, Department of History, North Carolina A&T. [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
Economic Boycott as Non-Violent Sanctions in Political and Social Conflict in the Civil Rights Movement
Larry A. Greene, Chairman and Associate Professor, Department of History, Seton Hall University [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
An Oral History of Harlem in Depression and War: 1930-1945
Bernth Olof Lindfors, Professor of English and African Literature, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin [Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellow]
The Early Career of Ira Aldridge
Jualynne E. Dodson, Associate Professor, Religious Studies and Afro-American Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder [Independent Fellow, funded by the Ford Foundation]
Women, Power, Church: The First Century
John Samuel Wright, Associate Professor, Department of Afro-American & African Studies, University of Minnesota [Independent Fellow, funded by Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship]
The Riddle of Freedom: Art, Ideas, and the Worlds of Afro-American Cultural Thought
1989-1990
David Adams Leeming, Associate Professor, Department of English and Contemporary Literature, University of Connecticut [Ford Foundation Fellow]
A Biography of James Baldwin
Arthur K. Spears, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, Department of Anthropology, City College, City University of New York and CUNY Graduate Center [Ford Foundation Fellow]
The Black English Verbal System
Jean Fagan Yellin, Professor of English and Director, New York City Humanities Program, Pace University [Ford Foundation Fellow]
Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in a Life
1988-1989
Melvin Dixon, Professor, English Department, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York [Rockefeller Foundation Fellow]
What is Africa to Me?: Memory of the Imperatives of Ancestry in Modern Black Poetry
Gerald Horne, Professor of Black Studies, Department of History, University of California at Santa Barbara [Rockefeller Foundation Fellow]
Biography of Benjamin J. Davis, Jr.
Kathryn Talalay, Archivist/Editor, The American Academy of Arts and Letters [Rockefeller Foundation Fellow]
From Harlem to Hue: A Critical Biography of Philippa Duke Schuyler, 1931-1967
1987-1988
Eloise A. Brier, Assistant Professor, Department of French Studies, State University of New York at Albany [Rockefeller Foundation Fellow]
Negritude: Origins and Effects in the United States
John M. Graziano, Professor, Department of Music, The City College, City University of New York [Rockefeller Foundation Fellow]
Black Musical Theater, 1890-1935: A Chronicle
Elizabeth Rauh Bethel, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Lander College [Schomburg Center Fellow]
Afro-American Responses to the First Emancipation, 1780-1865
Joseph F. Wilson, Tow Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Diversity and Multicultural Studies, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York [Schomburg Center Fellow]
Documentary History of the "Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Bruce Hare, Associate Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook [Independent Fellow]
Community Control of Education in New York City
1986-1987
Larry A. Greene, Professor, Department of History, Seton Hall University [Schomburg Center Fellow]
Social Aspects of the Depression in Harlem: Family Life and Education, 1930-1940
Ferdinand Jones, Director, Psychological Services and Professor of Psychology, Brown University [Schomburg Center Fellow]
Jazz and Adaptive Afro-American Styles
Kathe Sandler, Independent Filmmaker [Independent Fellow]
A Question of Color [documentary film]
Rodger C. Birt, Professor, Humanities Department, San Francisco State University [Rockefeller Foundation Fellow]
With a Camera in Harlem: The Career and Works of James Van Der Zee.
Sheila S. Walker, Director, Center for African and African American Studies and Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin [Rockefeller Foundation Fellow]
[slideshows, audio and video presentations about Africa and the African Diaspora]
Bahia: Africa in the Americas [documentary film]
1985-1986
V.P. Franklin, Professor of History, Department of History and Politics, Drexel University [Independent Fellow, funded by Ford Foundation and National Research Council]
The Black Twenties: An Exploration of New Negro Consciousness, 1917-1930
1983-1984
Margaret Wilkerson, Chair, Department of Theatre Arts, University of California at Berkeley [Independent Fellow, funded by Ford Foundation and National Research Council]
Biography of Lorraine Hansberry