2024–2025
Borders, Candace, Yale University
Towards a Method of Refusal: Black Women’s Public Housing Activism in St. Louis
2023–2024
Ramirez Madia, Allison, University of California, Los Angeles
Transforming the Tohono: Water Management, Tohono O’odham Labor, and American Colonialism
2022–2023
Smith, Cera, Yale University
Vivified Viscerality: Bioscience and the Black Interior in U.S. Black Literature and Sculpture
2021–2022
Wicks-Allen, Jessica, University of Maryland
"If I Am Free My Child Belongs to Me": Black Motherhood and Mothering in the Era of Emancipation
2020–2021
Abugaber, David, University of Illinois at Chicago
Disentangling Neural Indices of Implicit Versus Explicit Morphosyntax Processing in an Artificial Language
2019–2020
Walker, Pamela, Rutgers University
"Everyone Must Think We Really Need Freedom": Black and White Mothers, the Mississippi Box Project, and the Civil Rights Movement
2018–2019
Ogunnaike, Ayodeji, Harvard University
How Worship Becomes Religion: Religious Change and Change in Religion in Ede and Salvador
2017–2018
Murphy, Dana, University of California, Irvine
Divine Quiet: Phillis Wheatley's Gentle Mastery of Meter, Genre, and Address
2016–2017
Aumoithe, George, Columbia University
Epidemic Preparedness in the Age of Chronic Illness: Public Health and Welfare Politics in the United States, 1965–2000
2015–2016
Sanchez, Alisa C., University of California, Berkeley
A Preoccupation With Modernity: Geopolitics of Knowledge in Colombian Reproduction Policies, 1936–2006
2014–2015
Square, Jonathan M., New York University
Double Jeopardy: Slavery, Imprisonment, and the Fragility of Freedom in Imperial Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1888
2013–2014
Gonzalez Jimenez, Alejandra, University of Toronto
Volkswagen de Mexico: The Car as National Fetish
2012–2013
Stokes, Adam O., Princeton Theological Seminary
Capturing Leviathan: Job 40–41 in the History of Christian Interpretation
2011–2012
Rosales, Rocio, University of California, Los Angeles
Hidden Economies in Public Spaces: Fruit Vendors in Los Angeles
2010–2011
Elliott, Chiyuma, University of Texas, Austin
The Rural New Negro: Blackness and Literary Modernity in the 1920s
2009–2010
Oyogoa, Francisca, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Black Workers and Employers' Racial Ideology in the Pullman Railroad Company and Southern Textile Industry, 1865–1964
2007–2008
Harper Charleston, Sherri, University of Michigan
The Fruits of Citizenship: African Americans, Military Service, and the Cause of Cuba Libre, 1898–1914
2006–2007
Ghartey-Tagoe, Amma, New York University
"Three " ‘Warring Ideals’ ”: The Battle (be)For(e) the Souls of Black Folk at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition"
2005–2006
Stuckey, Melissa, Yale University
The Challenge of Black Progressivism on the Oklahoma Frontier, 1889–1930