Woodson Fellows

2009-2011

Jeffrey Ahlman
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (History)
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
“Forging the Pan-African Nation: Kwame Nkrumah, the CPP, and the Politics of Pan-African Nationalism in Ghana, 1949-1966”

Jenifer Barclay
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (African American History)
Michagan State University
“Cripples All! Or, the Mark of Slavery: The Invisible Link Between Disability and Race in the Old South and Beyond”

Benjamin Fagan
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (English)
University of Virginia
“Righteousness Exalteth a Nation: Practices of Nationalism in the Early Black Press”

Jonathan Fenderson
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Afro American Studies)
University of Massachusetts
“Journey Toward a Black Aesthetic: Hoyt Fuller, the Black Arts Movement & the Black Intellectual Community, 1923-1981”

Alisha Gaines
Post-Doctoral Fellow (English)
Duke University
“Black Like We Imagine Ourselves: Spectacular Fantasies of Race and Nation”

Cassie Hays
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Sociology)
Yale University
“A Sociology of Safari: Techne and Travel in Tanzania"

 

2008-2010

Olubukola Gbadegesin
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Art History)
Emory University
“Picturing the Modern Self: Politics, Identity, and Self-Fashioning in Lagos,1861-1944”

Anna Lim
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Anthropology)
University of Virginia
“Population Politics and the Production of Citizens in the French Antilles”

Rosemary Millar
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (English/American Literature)
University of Virginia
" A Liveable Place: (Anti) Utopianism and the African-American Literary Imagination"

Anoop Mirpuri
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (English)
University of Washington
"The Human Problem: Race, Rebellion, and the Problem of Crime in the Wake of Civil Rights"

John Willis (Thabiti)
Post-Doctoral Fellow (African History)
Emory University
"Masquerading Politics: Community, Power, and Authority in a Yoruba Town"