Past Graduate Student Fellows

Summer 2019

Micah Khater (History), “‘Unable to Find Any Trace of Her’: Black Women, Genealogies of Escape, and Alabama Prisons, 1920-1950”
Teanu Reid (Histroy), “Hidden Economies and Finances in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World”
Jared Lucky (Renaissance Studies), “Cowboys and Empire: Atlantic Cattle Frontiers in Comparative Perspective”
Cecilia Sebastian (Germanic Languages & Lits.), “Angela Davis: From Critical Theory to Critical Resistance”
Marshall Watson (History), “Summer Research on Ivory and Slave Trade in Sudan”
Anne Lessy (History), “ ‘The Scourge of Idleness’: The Question of Prison Labor in the of Era of Reform”

Summer 2018

Patrick Barker (History), “ ‘That Rich and Unopened Soil’: Environmental Transformation, Racialized Labor, and the Dawn of Abolition in Trinidad, 1777-1834”
Alycia Hall (African American Studies/ History), “Community Formation Among the Jamaican Maroons, from the Second Maroon War to Morant Bay”
Demar Lewis (African American Studies/ Sociology), “Tuskegee University and Equal Justice Initiative Lynching Archival Analysis”
Nichole Nelson (History), “The Origins of the Fair Housing Movement, Fair Housing Policy, and Potential Fair Housing Policies to Achieve Racial Residential Integration Nationwide.”
Connor Williams (History/ African American Studies), “On the Edge of the Frontier”

Summer 2017

Liana DeMarco (History), “From Colonial Medicine to Medical Capital: Health Care and Slavery in Cuba and the American South, 1790-1860”
Younghwa Kim (Divinity School), “The Return of Freed East African Slaves: Bombay Africans and Christianity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century”
Choon Hwe Koh (History), “ ‘Slaves from India, Horses from Parthia’: The Ecology of Manpower and Horsepower in the Mughal Empire and Central Asia, 1600-1800”
Justin Randolph (History), “Civil Rights Arrested: The Black Freedom Movement and State Suppression in Rural Mississippi, 1945 to 1994”

Summer 2016

Tiraana Bainste (History/ Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), “Slavery and Labor Regimes in Early Modern South Asia”

Alice Baumgartner (History/ Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), “Fugitives: The Underground Railroad to Mexico, 1821-1867”

Liana DeMarco (History/ Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), “Slavery, Medical Knowledge, and Environment in the Mississippi Valley, 1803-1860”

Anne Lessy (History/ Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), “ ‘Force These Idlers to Accept Employment’: African American Women, Compulsory Labor, and Mobility in World War II Maryland”

Heather Vermeulen (African American Studies/ Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), “Slavery, Sexuality, and Science in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World”

Summer 2015

Tiffany Hale, (History), “Ex-Slavery and Ex-Savagery: Betsey Stockton and Christian
Conversion in Early Nineteenth Century Hawai’i”
Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez, (History), “Captives and Slaves in the Pijao Borderlands, 1550-1650”
James Shinn, (History), “The Continuing Problem of Slavery: U.S. Abolitionists and the Post-Civil War Caribbean, 1865-1878”
Brandi Waters, (History/African American Studies), “Bodily Breakdown: Slave Suicide, Illness, and Legal Proceedings in Late Colonial New Granada”

Summer 2014

German Feierherd, (Political Science), “The Political Economy of Modern Slavery in Brazil”
Tao Goffe, (American Studies), “Framing the Chiney Royal: Afro-Jamaican Chinese Vernacular Photography”
Tyler Rogers, (American Studies), “Captive Voices: Indigenous Women’s Narratives of Slavery and Murder in Eighteenth-Century New England”
Anne Ruderman, (History), “Supplying the Slave Trade: How Europeans met African Demand for European Manufactured Products, Commodities and Re‐exports, 1670‐1790”
Juan Ruiz, (History), “Free Labor and the Legal System in Puerto Rico After Abolition, 1873-1898”

Summer 2013

Wendell Adjetey, (History/African American Studies), “Transnational Freedom Dreams: An Oral and Archival History Project in Ghana”
Michelle Anais Morgan, (American Studies), “Material Possessions: Producing Race and Empire in the United States, 1820-1917”
Delaina Price, (History/African American Studies), “Rich Black Soil: African American Economic Life in the Jim Crow South, 1865-1910”

Summer 2012

Christopher Bonner (History), “Making Citizenship Meaningful: Language, Power, and Belonging in African American Activism, 1827-1868”
Sarah Bowman, (History), “The Problem of Yankeeland: Southern Images of the North, 1865-1920”
Andrew Offenburger, (History), “Yaqui Slavery: U.S. Capital, Indigenous Labor, and the Mexican Revolution”
Delaina Price, (History/African American Studies), “Rich Black Soil: Black Southerners and the Pioneer Movement for Economic Advancement, 1865-1910”

Summer 2011

Charles Edel (History), “Searching for Monsters to Destroy: The Grand Strategy of John Quincy Adams”
Anne Ruderman (History), “The Police des Noirs on the Ground”
Caitlin Verboon (History), “Urban Encounters: Struggles for Freedom in the South, 1865-1875”
Eduardo Vivanco Antolin (Architecture), “I Want To Be An Angel: Contraband Education during the Civil War”

Summer 2010

Richard Anderson (History), “Intercepted in Transport: The Lives and Experiences of Sierra Leone’s Liberated African Community, 1907-1870”
Betsy Beasley (American Studies), “A New South and a New City: Negotiating Race, Constructing Region, and Building Soul City, North Carolina, 1969-80”
Christine DeLucia (American Studies), “The Memory Frontier: Making Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip’s War”
Matthew Vernon (English Language & Literature), “Strangers in a Familiar Land: The Medieval and African American Literary Tradition”
Joseph Yannielli (History), “Travelers and Outlaws: Encounters with Slavery in the American West and West Africa, 1820-60”

Summer 2009

Dana Byrd (Art History), “Picturing the Postbellum Plantation”
Rana Hogarth (History of Science and Medicine), “Comparing Anatomies, Constructing Races: Medicine and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1787-1838”
Yakov Klots (Slavic Languages and Literature), “Slaves of the Gulag: Theater, Art, and Culture in the Soviet Hard-Labor Camps”
Katherine Mooney (History), “Slavery and Freedom at the Race Track”
Aaron Carico (American Studies), “Plantation State: Finance, Aesthetics, and the Political Reconstruction of America”

Summer 2008

R. Blake Gilpin (History), “The Return of Nat Turner: The Legacy of a Slave Revolt”
Allison Gorsuch (History), “Free Chicago: African American Responses to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law”
Anna Kesson (Art History), “No Laughing Matter: Slavery and Visual Humor in the Print Culture of Jamaica 1789-1838”
Sarah Lewis (Art History), “Figurative Fictions: Cartographic Language and the Lusophone and Anglo-American Slave Trade”
Shatema Threadcraft (Political Science), “Intimate Labor and Black Feminine Freedom”

Summer 2007

Sarah Haley (African American Studies), “Lawless Character: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South, 1865-1938”
K. Stephen Prince (History), “The Southern Question: The Idea of the South in Northern Culture, 1865-1915”
Adam Arenson (History), “The African American Experience in St. Louis: From Slavery to Freedom”
James Fenske (Economics), “Land and Slavery in Southern Nigeria: 1830-1914”

Summer 2006

Charlotte Walker (History), “Slavery in colonial Cameroon and its implications in the development of anti colonial dissent and the public sphere”
Sonali Chakravarti (Political Science), “Painful Truths: The Political Philosophy of Truth Commissions”
Brandi Hughes (African American Studies/American Studies), “Middle Passages: African America and the Missionary Movement through West Africa, 1850-1930”
Tatiana Seijas (Latin American Studies), “The Asian Presence in Colonial Mexico: Galleon Slaves and the Trade with China”