Letícia Fernanda Carvalho Silva, a PhD student in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, has been awarded a competitive Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship! She is the only UMass Amherst graduate student to receive this nationally competitive award this year. We are incredibly proud of Letícia and look forward to the wonderful dissertation that will result from the support from this fellowship. You make the Du Bois Department proud!
https://www.acls.org/news/2025-mellon-acls-dissertation-innovation-fellows/