Letícia Fernanda Carvalho Silva Receives Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

Awards and Recognitions
Letícia Fernanda Carvalho Silva, smiling, in a high-collared denim jacket.

Letícia Fernanda Carvalho Silva, a Ph.D. student in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, has been awarded a prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.

She is the only UMass Amherst graduate student to receive this nationally competitive award in the 2025 cohort. The fellowship supports early-stage doctoral students pursuing bold and innovative dissertation research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.

Learn more about the 2025 fellows on the ACLS website.

This announcement was originally shared by the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies.

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