The Wilson Special Collections Library is pleased to announce the 2020-2021 cohort of Wilson Library Research Fellows. We once again congratulate awardees for our established Southern Studies Doctoral Fellowship, our Summer Visiting Fellowship, and our Audiovisual Fellow ship, and we welcome for the first time, three Rare Book Collection Fellows. All 24 of this year’s fellows have crafted exciting and innovating research proposals that demonstrate a deep and compelling need for sustained engagement with our collections.
Due to current campus conditions in response to COVID-19, the fellowship timeline will be adjusted, and we will share those adjustments as decisions are made. We look forward to supporting our fellows’ scholarly work and discussing their research needs. At the close of their research residency, fellows will discuss their research visit and their discoveries in the Wilson Library Research Forum. The University community and the broader public are welcome to attend these presentations.
For more information about Wilson Library’s Fellowship Programs, its generous supporters, and other available funding opportunities that support research in our Library, please visit our Grants and Fellowships page.
Rare Book Collection Fellowships
The Marjorie Bond Research Fellowship
Nicole Bauer, University of Tulsa (History)
Article: “Not-so-clandestine Conspirators: Secrecy and Transparency in the late French Revolution”
The Hanes Graduate Fellowship
Eric Bontempo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (English & Comparative Literature)
Dissertation: Tracing Wordsworth’s Influence on Nineteenth-Century Religious Culture
Sarah Farkas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Art and Art History)
Dissertation: The Self-Fashioning of Anne of Cleves, Her Portraits and Objects
Audiovisual Research Fellowship
Noah Angell, Goldsmiths, University of London (Visual Cultures)
Dissertation/Artwork: If I was a Lizard in the Spring: Performing a Renunciation of Plantation Culture in Song
Summer Visiting Research Fellowships
The John Eugene & Barbara Hilton Cay Research Fund
Gina Caison, Georgia State University (English)
Monograph: Erosion: American Literature & the Anxiety of Disappearance
Scott Huffard, Lees-McRae College (History)
Monograph: Casey Jones, America’s Engineer
The Hugh L. McColl Library Fund
Bart Elmore, The Ohio State University (History)
Monograph: ‘The Environmental History of Bank of America,’ chapter in forthcoming book Country Capitalism: The American South and Planetary Ecological Change (under contract with UNC Press)
Conrad Jacober, Johns Hopkins University (Sociology)
Dissertation Prospectus: Debt Prophets: American Bankers and the Origins of Financialization, 1956-2008
The Parker-Dooley Research Fund
Derrick White, University of Kentucky (History and African American and Africana Studies)
Monograph: A Million Klansmen on a Negro’s Trail: The Escape of Matthew Bullock and American Lynching on Trial
The J. Carlyle Sitterson Research Fund
Heather Nathans, Tufts University (Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies)
Monograph: Playing the Land of Milk and Honey: Performing Southern, Jewish, and African Diasporic Identities, 1776-1915
The Joel Williamson Research Fund
R. Volney Riser, University of West Alabama (History and Social Sciences)
Monograph: Politics, Anti-democracy, and Jim Crow Constitutionalism, 1890-1915
Morgan Vickers, University of California, Berkeley (Geography)
Article: “Pushing Back the Darkness”: Excavating Black Dispossession and White Progress in the Santee Cooper Project
The Lucinda Holderness Wilcox and Benson R. Wilcox Research Fund
Andrew Gardner, Florida State University (Religion)
Monograph: A History of The Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church
Southern Studies Pre-Dissertation Prospectus Fellowship
Rebekah Aycock, University of Kansas (American Studies)
Dissertation: Invention and Violation in the Ideological Southern Home
Huntley Hughes, Vanderbilt University (English)
Dissertation: The Fertile Submarginal: Land, Labor, and Industrialization in the Southern Gothic Literary Tradition
Amber Neal, University of Georgia (Education)
Dissertation: Education for Liberation: Exploring the Teaching and Learning of Black Women Abolitionist Schoolteachers in the South
Margaret Norman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (American Studies)
Dissertation: Everyday Expressions of Zionism in the American South
Sierra Roark, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Anthropology)
Dissertation: Green Gold: Plant Use, Profit, and Exchange in the Colonial South
Southern Studies Dissertation Research Fellowship
Katherine Burns, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (History)
Dissertation: “Keep this Unwritten History”: Mapping African American Family Histories in “Information Wanted” Advertisements, 1880-1902
Sophia Enriquez, The Ohio State University, (Ethnomusicology)
Dissertation: Canciones de Mexilachia: Latinx Migration, Music, and Identity in Appalachia
Shane Makowicki, Texas A & M University (History)
Dissertation: ‘Savage Warfare’: Soldiers, Citizens, and Guerrillas in Eastern North Carolina, 1861-1864
Holly Riley, State University (Musicology Florida)
Dissertation: Safe and Sound: 21st Century Country Music and Changing Perceptions of Violence
Andrew Seber, University of Chicago (History)
Dissertation: Neither Farm nor Factory: The Fallout of Late-Industrial Animal Agriculture in America
Latoya Teague, University of Texas, Austin (African and African Diaspora Studies)
Dissertation: Resistance Literacy: Enslaved women, Imagination, and Self Identity
