Post-Doctoral Fellowships and Job Placements
Olivia Ekeh, Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at the University of Indiana, 2022-2024
Kiara Hill, James DePriest Visiting Professor in the School of Art + Design at Portland State University
Chloe Hunt, Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of San Francisco
Grants and Fellowships
Maya Cunningham, 2022 Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
José González, World Studies Interdisciplinary Project (WSIP), Andrew W. Mellon Ph.D. Fellowship, 2022-2023
Karl Lyn, 2022 Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Honorable Mention
Kym Newberry, CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice
Yelana Sims, Charles K. Hyde Public History Fellowship and Harvard University Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women and America Dissertation Grant
Paul Michael Thomson, Black Metropolis Research Consortium Summer Short-Term Fellowship
Publications
Maya Cunningham, “The Sound World of Harriet Tubman,” Ms. Magazine, Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Celebration, February 17, 2022.
-----“A People In Flight: African Americans in Movement,” Smithsonian Folkways Records, February 22, 2022.
-----“The Hush Arbour as Sanctuary: African American Survival Silence during British/American Slavery,” Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context, Eds. Russell Skelchy and Jeremy Taylor (Bloombury, 2022).
Yelana Sims et al., “Looking Back, Thinking Forward: A Digital Humanities Assessment of Equity, Diversity, and Representation in Twenty Years of Publishing in Cinema Journal and JCMS,” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61, no. 5 (2020-2021): 1-30.