YEAR
RESEARCH FELLOW
PROJECT TITLE
CURRENT AFFILIATION
2000 Charles M. Bwenge

Anthropology

Predoctoral Fellow

Codeswitching in Political Discourse in Tanzania: A Case Study of National Legislatures Current Fellow
2000 Jemima Pierre

Anthropology

Predoctoral Fellow

African Immigrants in the U.S. and the Dynamics and Politics of Racialization Current Fellow
2000 Meta DuEwa Jones

English/American Literature

Postdoctoral Fellow

African American Jazz Poetry: Orality, Prosody and Performance George Washington University
Department of English
2000 Olufemi Taiwo

Philosophy

Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow

Modernity and Colonialism Loyola University
Philosophy Department

otaiwo@luc.edu

1999 Rosanne M. Adderley

History

Post-doctoral Fellow

Middle Passage Voices: New Stories and Insights from the Nineteenth Century Slave Trade Tulane University
Latin American Studies/History

ladderl@tulane.edu

1999 Adrian T. Gaskins

American Studies

Pre-doctoral Fellow

Colonization or Colonialism? African Americans in the Phillipines, 1898-1918  Current Fellow
1999 Joseph R. Hellweg

Anthropology

Pre-doctoral Fellow

Dozoya: Hunting Ethics in Ivorian Civil Society Current Fellow
1998 Ian G. Strachan

English

Post-doc

Paradise and Plantation: Metaphor, Ideology and Economics in Caribbean Discourse University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

ISTRACHAN@umassd.edu

1998 Rolland D. Murray

English

Pre-doc

Beyond Macho: Fiction, Black Masculinity and Black Power (1964-1975) Ohio State University
English Dept.

dm8w@virginia.edu

1998 Lisa Lindquist Dorr

History

Pre-doc

Messin’ White Women’: White Women, Black Men, and Rape in Virginia 1900-1960 University of Alabama
History Dept.

ljl2v@virginia.edu

1997 John Gennari

American Studies

Post-doc

Critiquing Jazz: The Politics of Race and Culture in American Jazz Discourse Pennsylvania State - Harrisburg
American Studies

jrg17@email.psu.edu

1997 Phillip Troutman

History

Pre-doc

Masters and Markets: Slave Labor and Slave Capital in Virginia, 1815-1865 North Carolina

troutfang@earthlink.net

1997 Natasha Gray

History

Pre-doc

Witchcraft and Sorcery Control in Colonial Ghana: The Case of Akyem Abuakwa 1912-1943 Lawrence University
History Dept.
                                                                          natasha.gray
1997 Greta deJong

History

Pre-doc

We Were Constantly Trying to Do Something: The African American Freedom Struggle in Rural Louisiana, 1930-1970 University of Nevada at Reno
History Dept. (Visiting Asst. Prof.)

gdejong@unr.edu

1996 Vania Penha-Lopes

Sociology

Pre-doc

Make Room for Daddy: A Study of Black Men’s Involvement in Families Bloomfield College
Sociology Dept.

Vania_PenhaLopes@bloomfield.edu

1996 Samuel Martinez

History

Post-doc

Unfree Labor After Slavery: The Haitian Immigrant in the Dominican Economy and Imagination University of Connecticut
Dept. of Anthropology

smartinez@chief.anth.uconn.edu

1996 Eve Agee

Anthropology

Pre-doc

Race, Class and the Change: African American Women’s Narratives on Menopause and Medical Science Washington, DC
 

dreve@dreve.com 

1995 Brian Ward

History

Post-doc

Just My Soul Responding: African-American Popular Music and Civil Rights, 1954-1994 University of Florida
History Dept.

wardb@ufl.edu

1995 Kara Ellis Skora

Religious Studies

Pre-doc

Funerals and Ancestorhood in Modern Ghana: Meaning and Identity in Asante Life through Death  Hiram, Ohio
1995 Cornelia Sears

History

Pre-doc

Africa in the American Mind, 1870-1955: A Study of Mythology, Ideology and th Reconstruction of Race University of Canterbury
Dept. of American Studies
Christchurch, New Zealand

c.sears@amst.canterbury.ac.nz

1995 Stephanie Johnson Rowley

Psychology

Pre-doc

Culture, Context and Racial Identity: An Ecological Study of the Educational Attitudes and Performances of African American Students University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Psychology Dept.

srowley@email.unc.edu

1994 Michele Mitchell

History

Pre-doc

To Possess a Manly Spirit: Gender, Eugenics, and Empire in U.S. Black Nationalism University of Michigan
History Dept.

mmitch@umich.edu

1994 Scot French

History

Pre-doc

Remembering Nat Turner: The Southampton Slave Uprising in Collective Memory, 1831 to the Present University of Virginia
Carter G. Woodson Institute
Corcoran Dept. of History

saf5g@virginia.edu

1993 Rebecca Popenoe

Anthropology

Pre-doc

The Fattening of Girls, Sexuality, and Society among Awawagh Arabs in Niger Linkpings Universitet
Linkping, Sweden

RebPo@tema.liu.se

 

1993 John Mason

History

Post-doc

Slavery and Freedom in South Africa, 1820-1854 University of Virginia
Corcoran Dept. of History

jem3a@virginia.edu

1993 Shelly Leanne

International Relations

Pre-doc

African American Protest Against Minority Rule in South Africa: A Case Study of Diasporas and Transnationalism in World Politics Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government

Shelly_Leanne@harvard.edu

1993 Emilye Crosby

History

Pre-doc

Common Curtesy: The Civil Rights Movement in Port Gibson, Mississippi SUNY at Geneseo
History Dept.

crosby@uno.cc.geneseo.edu

1992 Jeannie Whayne

History

Post-doc

Reshaping the Rural South: Land, Labor and Federal Policy in Poinsett County, Arkansas, 1900-1965 University of Arkansas
History Dept.

jwhayne@comp.uark.edu

1992 Hannah Rosen

History

Pre-doc

Interracial Rape and the Politics of Reconstruction University of Michigan
American Culture, Women's Studies

hrosen@umich.edu 

1992 Mary Johnson Osirim

Sociology

Post-doc

Women and African Entrepreneurship Bryn Mawr College
Sociology Dept.

mosirim@brynmawr.edu

1992 David Murray

Anthropology

Pre-doc

Martiniquais: The Construction and Contestation of a Cultural Identity University of Adelaide
South Australia
Anthropology Dept.

dmurray@arts.adelaide.edu.au

1992 Cynthia Blair

History

Pre-doc

Modernizing the Black Body: African Americans, Dress and the Politics of Public Space, 1910-1940 University of Illinois-Chicago
Afro-American Studies Dept.

CMBlair@uic.edu

1991 Adell Patton

History

Post-doc

African Physicians and Diaspora: Imperial Power and the Struggle for Professionalism, ca. 1800-1975 University of Missouri-St. Louis
History Dept.

PattonA@msx.umsl.edu

1991 Doris Smith Witt

English

Pre-doc

A Cookbook for Cultural Shelving University of Iowa
English Dept.

doris-witt@uiowa.edu

1991 Marshall Stevenson

History

Post-doc

Friends and Enemies: The Ebb and Flow of Black-Jewish Relations in Detroit Dillard University
History Dept.

mstevenson@dillard.edu

1991 Adell Patton

History

Post-doc

African Physicians and Diaspora: Imperial Power and the Struggle for Professionalism, ca. 1800-1975 University of Missouri-St. Louis
History Dept.

PattonA@msx.umsl.edu

1991 Michael Bennett

English

Pre-doc

Democratic Discourses: A Comparative Study of Mid-Nineteenth Century African American and European American Culture Long Island University
Brooklyn Campus
English Dept.

MICHAEL.BENNETT@LIU.EDU

1991 Carol George

History

Post-doc

The Ideology of Non-Violence: The Civil Rights Movement Hobard and William Smith Colleges
History Dept.

CGEORGE@hws.edu
 

1991 Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Religious Studies

Pre-doc

Female Leadership in Roho Religion University of Virginia
Dept. of Religious Studies

chh3a@virginia.edu

1991 Gerald Horne

History

Post-doc

Fire this time: The Watts Uprising and the Meaning of the 1960s University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
History Dept.
1991 Bruce Nelson

History

Post-doc

Class and Race in the United States: Industrial Workers, Organized Labor, and the Struggle for Black Equality Since World War II Dartmouth College
History Dept.

Joseph.B.Nelson@dartmouth.edu
 

1991 Linda Reed

History

Post-doc

Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer See 1983
1991 Daryl Scott

History

Pre-doc

In the Gaze of Experts: The African-American in Social Science Imagery, 1890-Present University of Florida
History Dept.

dscott@ufl.edu

1990 Constance Curry

Post-doc

Silver Rights: A Story of School Desegregation in Mississippi 930 Myrtle Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
1990 Mary Ellen Curtin

History

Pre-doc

Enclosed in a Shell of Self-Importance: Black Prisoners and their Struggles to Survive in Alabama Prisons, 1870-1900 Southwest Texas State University
History Dept.

mc16@swt.edu

1990 Adam Fairclough

History

Post-doc

A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1940-1970 University of East Anglia
United Kingdom
Dept. of American Studies

Adam.Fairclough@uea.ac.uk

1990 Penny Russell

History

Pre-doc

Bound by Ties of Race and Sex: Mary Church Terrell, the First Fifty-Seven Years (1836-1920) Columbus, Ohio
1990 Zoe S. Strother

Art History

Pre-doc

Demystifying the Fetish: The Art of the Pende People of Zaire in Context Columbia University
Art History & Archaeology

zss1@columbia.edu

1989 Charles Dew

History

Post-doc

The Lives of the Slaves: The Ironworkers of Buffalo Forge Williams College
Williamstown, MA  01267
413-597-3131
History Dept.
1989 Raymond Gavins

History

Post-doc

Black Carolina: A Profile History of the Negro in North Carolina Duke University
History Dept.

Rgavins@acpub.duke.edu

1989 Janette Greenwood

History

Pre-doc

New-South Middle Class: Race and Class in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1865-1900 Clark University
History Dept.

jgreenwood@clarku.edu

1989 Eric Lott

English

Pre-doc

Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy, Cultural Production and the American 1848 University of Virginia
English Dept.

ewl4p@virginia.edu

1989 Kay Mills

Post-doc

Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer Los Angeles, California 
1989 Mieko Nishida

History

Pre-doc

Gender, Ethnicity and Kinship in Urban Slavery, Bahia, Brazil, 1808-1888 Hartwick College
History Dept.

nishidam@hartwick.edu

1989 Tejumola Olaniyan

English

Pre-doc

Cross Currents: Contemporary Black Drama and the Poetics of Cultural Identity University of Virginia
English Dept.

to4x@virginia.edu

1989 Parker Shipton

Anthropology

Post-doc

Private Property and the Limits of Individualism in Africa Boston University
Anthropology Dept.

shipton@bu.edu

1988 John Dittmer

History

Post-doc

In the Name of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi DePauw University
History Department
 

RIP@DEPAUW.EDU 
 

1988 Terrence Epperson

Anthropology

Pre-doc

Thus in the beginning all the World was America: Class Formation and the Social Construction of Race in the Chesapeake 1675-1740 Cultural Heritage Research Services
403 E. Walnut Street
North Wales, PA 19454

Twepperson@aol.com

1988 Mariane Ferme

Anthropology

Pre-doc

Making People and Transmitting Knowledge: The Construction of Gender Among the Mende of Sierra Leone  Univ. of California, Berkeley
Anthropology Dept.

mferme@uclink4.berkeley.edu

 

1988 Julia McDonough

History

Pre-doc

Clearinghouse for Change: The Southern Regional Council, 1944-65 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Law Firm
Washington, DC

Julia_McDonough@ffhsj.com

1988 David Throup

Post-doc

The Social, Economic and Political History of the Kikuyu People of Kenya, 1860-1990 3179 Summit Square Drive, Apt. B8
Oakton, VA 22124
1988 Michelle Wagner

History

Pre-doc

Community and Collective Representation: A Social History of Buragane, Burundi, c. 1850-1955  
1987 Dennis Dickerson

History

Post-doc

The Man in Between: Whitney Young, 1921-1971 Vanderbilt University 
History Dept.

dennis.c.dickerson@vanderbilt.edu

1987 Michael W. Fitzgerald

History

Post-doc

The Union League and Agricultural Labor in the Deep South St. Olaf College
History Department
Northfield, MN  55057 

fitz@stolaf.edu

1987 Tera W. Hunter

History

Pre-doc

Afro-American Female Household Workers in the Urban South from 1865-1920 Carnegie-Mellon University
History Department

thunter@andrew.cmu.edu

1987 Saba Jallow

Political Science

Pre-doc

The Impact of Food Aid on Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pooled Cross-Sectional Time Series Georgia Southern University
Political Science/Criminal Justice

sjallow@gsvms2.cc.GaSoU.edu

1987 Deborah Kaspin

Anthropology

Pre-doc

History and Structural Transformations of Rural Malawi Yale University
Anthropology Dept.

deborah.kaspin@yale.edu

1987 Jean B. Lee

History

Post-doc

Black Life and Labor at Mt. Vernon Plantation Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
History Department

JBLEE@FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU

 

1987 Veronique McNelly

French

Pre-doc

Senghor’s African Aesthetics and its Implications  
1987 J. Mills Thornton, III

History

Post-doc

The Montgomery Boycott of 1955-1956 University of Michigan
History Department

jmthrntn@umich.edu

1986 Trevor Hall

History

Pre-doc

Reconstructing the Web of Activities Between Europeans of the Cape Verde Archipelago and Africans of the Guine of Cape Verde 1460-1600 Bethune-Cookman College
History Department
1986 Jack Johnson-Hill

Religious Ethics

Pre-doc

Elements of an Afro-Caribbean Social Ethic: A Disclosure of the World of the Rastafari as Liminal Social Process 26 Garbutt Road
Sherwood, Durban 4091
Republic of South Africa
1986 Timothy Luke

Political Science

Post-doc

States and Social Revolutions in Modern Africa Virginia Tech
Political Science Dept.

twluke.async.vt.edu

1986 Stephanie Shaw

History

Post-doc

Black Women in White Collars: A Social History of Lower Level Professional Black Women Workers, 1870-1955 Ohio State University
History Department

shaw.1@osu.edu 

 

1986 Christopher Taylor

Anthropology

Pre-doc

Social Innovation and Therapy in Rwandan Popular Medicine Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
Anthropology Dept.

ctaylor@uab.edu

1985 Yahya Affinnih

Sociology

Pre-doc

Occupational Commitment and the Myth of Self-Employment Among Lagos Port and Dock Workers CUNY – John Jay College of Criminal Justice/Dept. AAS

jhajj@cuny.vm

1985 Frances Ash

French

Pre-doc

Caribbean Discourse on History: Nationalism vs Exile  
1985 Melvin Ely

History

Post-doc

Amos ‘n’ Andy: Their Lineage, Life and Legacy, 1890-1966 College of William & Mary
History Department

mpelyx@facstaff.wm.edu

1985 Janet Ewald

History

Post-doc

Soldiers, Traders and Slaves: The Origins and Growth of a Greater Nile Valley System, 1780-1884 Duke University
History Department

jewald@acpub.duke.edu

1985 Gertrude Fraser

Anthropology

Pre-doc

Medical Belief Systems in Rural Afro-American Communities Ford Foundation
New York, NY
1985 Gordon Thompson

English

Pre-doc

Symbols of Escape in the Works of Melvin B. Tolson, Charles W. Chesnutt, and James Baldwin City College of New York, CUNY
English Department

212-650-6365

1984 Marcellus Blount

English

Pre-doc

A Singer of Tales: The Afro-American Poet as Storyteller Columbia University
English & Comparative Lit. Department
305 Philosophy, Mail Code 4928
New York, NY 

mb33@columbia.edu

1984 Lynda Morgan

History

Pre-doc

The Transition from Slavery to Freedom in Piedmont, Virginia, 1850-1880 Mt. Holyoke College
History
African-American & African Studies

ljmorgan@mtholyoke.edu

1984 Charles Rowell

English

Post-doc

That Southern Thing: Black Fiction of the Civil Rights Era and After University of Virginia
English Dept.

chr@virginia.edu

1984 Julius Scott, III

History

Pre-doc

A Breathing of the Common Wind: The Sea, Politics, and Communication in the Era of the Haitian Revolution University of Michigan
History Dept./Dept. of AAS

jsscott@umich.edu

1984 Patricia Sullivan

History

Post-doc

New Deal Politics and Civil Rights Reform in the South, 193-1948 Harvard University
American Studies

paslliv@fas.harvard.edu

1984 John Thornton

History

Post-doc

The History of the South Atlantic: The African Perspective, 1450-1650 Millersville University
History Department

jthornto@marauder.millersv.edu

1983 Yvonne Jones

Political Science

Pre-doc

Technological Intervention or Community Development: The Formation of Rural Development Policy in Senegal, 1960-1978 World Bank
Principal Operations Officer
 

yjones@worldbank.org

1983 Linda Reed

History

Pre-doc

The Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1938-1963 University of Houston
History Department
 

LReed@UH.EDU 
 

1983 J. Scott Strickland

History

Pre-doc

African-American Culture and Social Change in South Carolina, 1680-1880 Syracuse University
History Department
 

jsstrickland@maxwell.syr.edu

1983 Diana Wylie

History

Pre-doc

The Center Cannot Hold: The Decline of the Bamangwato Chieftainship, 1925-1950 Boston University
History Department
 

dwylie@bu.edu

1982 Thadious Davis

English

Post-doc

Race and Reputation in the Fiction of William Faulkner and Richard Wright Vanderbilt University
English Dept.
 

davistm1@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu

1982 Kathleen Fatton Balutansky

English

Pre-doc

Aesthetics and Politics in the Novels of Alex La Guma St. Michael's College
English Dept.
 

balutansky@smcvt.edu

1982 Alexis Gardella

Anthropology

Pre-doc

The Process of Social
Formation on the Island of Rodrigues, Indian Ocean
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Haiti

agardella@acn2.net

1982 Mary Rayner

History

Pre-doc

Slaves, Slave Owners and the British Cape Colony, 1806-1834 Amnesty International
1982 Julie Saville

History

Pre-doc

The Reorganization of Agricultural Labor in South Carolina after the Abolition of Slavery, 1860-1900 University of Chicago
Dept. History and the College
 

jsaville@midway.uchicago.edu

1982 H. Leroy Vail

History

Post-doc

 

The Art of Being Ruled: Poetry and Power in South Central Africa, circa 1800-1980 Harvard University
History Department
(Deceased -3/27/99)
1981 Leslie Rowland

History

Pre-doc

Self-Emancipation: The Destruction of Slavery in Kentucky, 1861-1866 University of Maryland
Director
Freedmen and Southern Soc. Proj.
 

lr20@umail.umd.edu

1981 Richard Ralston

AAS

Post-doc

The Life and Times of Dr. A.B. Xuma: Meditation on Twentieth Century South African Intellectual Social and Political History University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department Chair
African American Studies

rralston@facstaff.wisc.edu

1981 Catherine Macklin

Anthropology

Pre-doc

Garifuna Identity in Belize Univ. of California, Berkeley
Anthropology

macklin@uclink4.berkeley.edu

1981 Ira Lowenthal

Anthropology

Pre-doc

Culture, Economics and the Family: Domestic Organization in Rural Haiti  Americas Development Foundation