Current Fellows

2023-2024 Fellows

Gbemisola Abiola

Gbemisola Abiola

2023-2024
Dorothy Porter & Charles Harris Wesley Fellow

Gbemisola Abiola is an Anthropologist, having recently received her doctorate from Harvard University. She conducted a comparative ethnographic study of how...

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Bindman

David Bindman

2023-2024
Image of the Black Archive & Library Fellow

David Bindman is Emeritus Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at University College London. Author of many distinguished...

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Charity Clay

Charity Clay

Spring 2024
UNCF Mellon Fellow

Dr. Charity Clay is a Critical Race Sociologist of the African Diaspora. She is an Associate Professor in the sociology department at Xavier University of...

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Ana Paula Cruz

Ana Paula Cruz

2023-2024
Mark Claster Mamolen Fellow

Ana Paula Cruz earned her PhD in History from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). She is a member of the 2021 class of the Mark...

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Gregg Hecimovich

Gregg Hecimovich

2023-2024
Hutchins Family Fellow

Gregg Hecimovich is Professor of English at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He is the author of five books and edited volumes, including ...

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DaMaris B. Hill

DaMaris B. Hill

2023-2024
Hutchins Family Fellow

DaMaris B. Hill is a poet and creative scholar.  She is Professor in the Department of English, Creative Writing Program, at the University of Kentucky....

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Gavaza Maluleke

Gavaza Maluleke

Fall 2023
Mandela Fellow

Gavaza Maluleke is a lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests are in digital activism,...

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James McNally

James McNally

2023-2024
Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow

James G. McNally is a cultural historian, rap critic, and co-ideator of Spotify’s UK rap podcast Decode, which won two gold medals each at the 2022...

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Jak Peake

Jak Peake

Spring 2024
Stuart Hall Fellow

Jak Peake is a Senior Lecturer in Literature in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. He is a scholar of...

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Michael Rain

Michael Rain

2023-2024
Safra-Hutchins Fellow

Michael Rain leverages storytelling and technology to expand the world’s perception of diverse communities. He is the founder of ENODI, a media and...

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Shana Redmond

Shana Redmond

Fall 2023
Hutchins Family Fellow

An interdisciplinary humanist and multi-genre writer, Shana L. Redmond (she/her) thinks and creates at the intersection of music, identity, and power. Dr...

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Carla Ribeiro

Carla Ribeiro

2023-2024
CAPES Fellow

Carla Ribeiro is a doctoral student at the University of Sao Paulo in social anthropology. With a background in museum studies, her main research...

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Britt Rusert

Britt Rusert

2023-2024
Hutchins Family Fellow

Britt Rusert is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, science, and visual culture in the long nineteenth century and Professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois...

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Suraj Yengde

Suraj Yengde

Spring 2024 - Fall 2024
Hutchins Fellow

Dr. Suraj Yengde is completing his doctorate at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. He is the author of the bestseller, Caste Matters (...

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Affiliates

Danson Kahyana

Danson Kahyana

2023-2024
Carr Center Fellow, Scholar at Risk at Harvard University

Danson Sylvester Kahyana is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature, Makerere University, Uganda. He holds a PhD in English...

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