Current Fellows

2026-2027 Fellows

Charles Blow
Fall 2026
Langston Hughes Fellow
Charles Blow is a writer, journalist, and former Opinion columnist for The New York Times.
Charles Blow

Ben Carrington
Spring 2027
Hutchins Family Foundation Fellow
Ben Carrington, Associate Professor of Journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on the sociology of race, politics and popular...
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Anne de Mare
Academic Year 2026-2027
Black Film Project Fellow
Anne de Mare is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her work embodies a deep commitment to projects that celebrate the transformative power of the human spirit, where the individual experience illuminates the face of society as a whole. Most...
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Mamadou Dia
Academic Year 2026-2027
Black Film Project Fellow
Mamadou Dia is a Senegalese filmmaker whose work explores politics, religion, and memory through intimate stories rooted in his community. A Guggenheim and Creative Capital Fellow, his debut feature, Baamum Nafi (2019), won the Best First Feature Award at...
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Rita Freed
Academic Year 2026-2027
Image of the Black Archive and Library Fellow
Rita Freed was Associate Professor of Art at the University of Memphis and founding Director of the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology before coming to the MFA, Boston, to head the Department of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art, a...
Rita Freed

Hazim Hardeman
Academic Year 2026-2027
Dorothy Porter & Charles Harris Wesley Fellow
Hazim Hardeman is a Prize Fellow and Presidential Scholar PhD candidate in the American Studies Program. Before Harvard, he earned a M.Phil in History at St John’s College at the University of Oxford (with distinction), where he studied as a Rhodes...
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Lee Hawkins
Academic Year 2026-2027
Hutchins Family Foundation Fellow
Lee Hawkins is a journalist, 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free (HarperCollins 2025). He is also the creator and host of What Happened in Alabama and Unlocking the Gates: How the...
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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Fall 2026
W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. A tenured faculty member at Harvard since 1993, she chaired Harvard’s Department of African and African Americans...
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Tao Leigh Goffe
Academic Year 2026-2027
Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow
Tao Leigh Goffe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is also an Associate Professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. She directs Dark...
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Yuko Miki
Academic Year 2026-2027
Mark Claster Mamolen Fellow
Yuko Miki is Professor of History and Latin American and Latinx Studies at Fordham University. She is an historian of slavery in Brazil and the Atlantic World. Her award-winning book, Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of...
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Togara Muzanenhamo
Spring 2027
James D. Manyika Fellow
Togara Muzanenhamo is a Zimbabwean poet and writer and the author of four poetry collections. He was born in Zambia, raised in Zimbabwe, and studied in England, France, the Netherlands, and the United States. His most recent collection, Virga , was...
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Jewel Pereyra
Academic Year 2026-2027
Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow
Jewel Pereyra is a Society of Fellows postdoctoral scholar and lecturer at Boston University. She received her PhD in American Studies, with a concentration in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, from Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in the...
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Ebonie Pollock
Academic Year 2026-2027
Dorothy Porter & Charles Harris Wesley Fellow
Ebonie Pollock is a PhD Candidate in the History of Art & Architecture department at Harvard University. She is a scholar of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century African American and African diaspora, and holds an A.M. in History of Art &...
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Jean-Frédéric Schaub
Fall 2026
McMillan-Stewart Fellow
Jean-Frédéric Schaub is Directeur d'études at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris).
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Maya Shipman (Suzi Analogue)
Academic Year 2026-2027
Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellow
Maya Shipman, professionally known as Suzi Analogue, is an award-winning scholar, artist, producer, composer, and founder of Never Normal Records. Rooted in the cultural traditions of the East Coast Black American experience, from Baltimore and the Bronx...
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Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
Academic Year 2026-2027
Hutchins Family Foundation Fellow
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is an art and architectural historian of Africa and South Asia. Committed to the centrality of histories of art and architecture within the world of ideas, her work narrates urgent matters of global migration and displacement...
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Michèle Stephenson
Academic Year 2026-2027
Black Film Project Fellow
Emmy, Guggenheim, and Sundance Award-winning filmmakers Michèle Stephenson and her partner, Joe Brewster, co-founded Rada Studio, creating fiction films, creative non-fiction works, XR installations, and books. Through a Black Atlantic lens, they explore...
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Mariana S. Vieira (Ladybug Mecca)
Academic Year 2026-2027
Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellow
Mariana S. Vieira, known to the world as Ladybug Mecca, is a Grammy Award-winning artist, lyricist, and cultural force whose voice has moved through hip hop for more than three decades. As a founding member of the legendary Digable Planets, she helped...
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Daniel G. Williams
Fall 2026
Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow
Professor Daniel Gwydion Williams, Professor of Literature at Swansea University, is a cultural critic and one of Wales’ leading public intellectuals. His research interests range from the 19th century to the present day and encompass Welsh language and...
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Oliver Wunsch
Academic Year 2026-2027
Hutchins Family Foundation Fellow
Oliver Wunsch is Associate Professor of Art History at Boston College, where he specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art. He is the author of A Delicate Matter: Art, Fragility, and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century France , which...
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