Ph.D candidate Venus Green has been awarded the 2022-2023 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship through the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project (WSIP).
This competitive fellowship is awarded to graduate students whose research has a decolonial historic orientation with an intersectional focus.
Selected scholars will participate as Mellon Fellows in the development of a Graduate Certificate Program in Decolonial Global Studies (DGS) at Umass-Amherst.
Venus received the award to conduct research for her dissertation, "Black Women Domestic Workers Within the Afterlife of Slavery".