Du Bois Fellowship Recipients – Special Collections & University Archives

2018

Richard D. Benson II (Spelman College): “Funding the “Revolution”: Black Power, White Church Money, and the Financial Architects of Black Radicalism 1966-1976”
Juliana Góes (UMass Amherst): “Du Bois on Brazil: the Construction and Deconstruction of the Racial Democracy Myth”
Marc Lorenc (UMass Amherst)
Lisa McLeod (Guilford College): “W.E.B. Du Bois, A World Search for Democracy”
Thomas Meagher (UConn): “Darkwater as Philosophical Classic”
Joshua Myers (Howard University): “Of Black Study: A Critique of Disciplinary Knoweldges”
Benjamin Nolan (UMass Amherst)
Josh Odam (UMass Amherst)
Camesha Scruggs (UMass Amherst)
Phillip Luke Sinitiere (College of Biblical Studies): “Democracy, Education & Peace: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Late Career Life and Legacy”

E. Howard Ashford (UMass Amherst): “Understanding the Southern Experience: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Southern Investigation”
Charisse Burden-Stelly (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): “The Radical Horizon of Black Betrayal: Toward a Theory of Antiradical/Antiblack Subjacency”
Gaidi Faraj: “Unearthing the Underground: A study of radical activism in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army”
Brittany M. Frederick (UMass Amherst): “Expanding the Talented Tenth”: Du Bois and the Educational Evolution of UMass Amherst”
Michael J. Saman: “The Voice of Time: Classical German Thought and the Ethics of Progress in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk”
Erika R. Williams (Emerson College): “Tales from Du Bois: The Poetics and Politics of Cross-Caste Romance”

John Hyland (English, University of Buffalo and Haverford College): “The forest of melody: Black Diasporic Poetics and the Sounding of the Environment”
Nicholas T. Rinehart (English, Harvard University): “‘These illegitimate children of my thought’: The dramatic work and criticism of W.E.B Du Bois”

Nneka Dennie (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst): “Black Male Feminism and the Evolution of Du Boisian Thought, 1903-1920”
Crystal Webster (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst): “‘The Transfiguring Soul of Childhood’: Du Bois and the Social, Political, and Cultural Role of Black Children”

Brandon Byrd (Assistant Professor of History, Mississippi State University and University of North Carolina): “The Problem of Haiti as it Stands Today:” W.E.B. Du Bois on the U.S. Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934″
Donald Geesling (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst): “Black Song and the Talented Tenth: The Musical Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1902-1942”

Horace D. Ballard Jr. (Public Humanities, History of Art, and American Studies, Brown University): “Ethics and Aesthetics: Citizenship and Form”
Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst): “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Literary Interventions on Black Criminality”
Daniel Chard (History, UMass Amherst): Exploring the history of ’60s-’70s radical groups allows Chard to investigate the origins of the first police institutions in the U.S. dedicated to domestic “counter-terrorism”

J. Anthony Guillory (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst): “The Physical Uplift of Race”
Desmond Jagmohan (Government, Cornell): “Creating Community, Cultivating Citizens, and Interrogating Jim Crow: The Political Thought of Booker T. Washington”

Markeysha Davis (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst): “Daring propaganda for the beauty of the Human Mind’:
Redefinition and Reaffirmation of the New Black Self in Poetry and Drama of the 1960s and 1970s”
Ricky Fayne (English, Northwestern): “‘The Shadow of a Mighty Negro Past’: Du Bois and the Re-memory of Africa in to the Black America”