The Wilson Special Collections Library is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 cohort of Wilson Library Fellows. We congratulate awardees for our established research awards: Southern Studies Doctoral Fellowships, Visiting Researcher Fellowships (formerly titled Summer Visiting Research Fellowships), and Rare Book Fellowships. All 32 of this year’s research fellows have crafted exciting and innovative research proposals that demonstrate a deep and compelling need for sustained engagement with our collections.
We are also delighted to welcome our first cohort of Primary Sources Teaching Fellows. Our eight teaching fellows represent great potential as instruction librarians and archivists, with aspirations to teach students in a wide range of learning settings. The fellowship will help them build skills in teaching with empathy, creativity, and critical approaches, and they will learn from leaders in the field of teaching with primary sources.
We look forward to welcoming this year’s fellows into our community of users and to our campus. At the close of their residency, research fellows will discuss their visit and their discoveries in the Wilson Library Research Forum. Teaching fellows will present the lesson plan for teaching with primary sources that they devise during the workshop portion of their fellowship. 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 Fellowships page. This year we are especially grateful for the gift of $2 million from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust. $500,000 of that gift is a is a three-year challenge match to endow research and teaching fellowships at the Wilson Special Collections Library.
You can help unlock the $500,000 challenge match from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust with your gift. Contact the Library Development Office at (919) 962-4207 or librarydevelopment@unc.edu to learn how.
Primary Sources Teaching Fellowships
Made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Zachary Boyce, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aspires to teach learners in college & university libraries; and law libraries
Kelly Bullard, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aspires to teach learners in college & university libraries
Geneva Chamblee-Smith, North Carolina Central University
Aspires to teach learners in community groups at state libraries
Amy Dillon, East Carolina University
Aspires to teach learners in K-12 libraries
Arai Greenwell-McAnsh, Appalachian State University
Aspires to teach learners in K-6 libraries and college and university libraries
Sophie Hollis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aspires to teach learners in college & university libraries
Donte’ Perry, North Carolina Central University
Aspires to teach learners in community college and university libraries and through high school outreach
Michelle Wolfson, East Carolina University
Aspires to teach learners in middle school libraries and public libraries
Southern Studies Doctoral Research Fellowships
Made possible by the Watson-Brown Foundation
Pre-Dissertation Prospectus Fellowship
Fiona Boyd, University of Chicago (Ethnomusicology)
Dissertation Prospectus: “‘Merry-Go-Round’: Radio Liveness, Heritage, and Place at Mt. Airy North Carolina’s WPAQ”
Cayla Colclasure, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Anthropology)
Dissertation Prospectus: “Life in the Prison Camps of the Western North Carolina Railroad”
Elizabeth Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (English and Comparative Literature)
Dissertation Prospectus: “Affordances of the Asylum”
Andreina Malki, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Geography)
Dissertation Prospectus: “Genealogies of non-citizen incarceration in the US South”
Samuel Niu, Columbia University (History)
Dissertation Prospectus: “The Other Chinese Question: Immigration, Race and the Problem of Labor in the Age of Emancipation”
Hooper Schultz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (History)
Dissertation Prospectus: “Other Voices, Other Souths: The Southeastern Gay Conferences and Gay Liberation in the U.S. South, 1972-1982”
Hampton Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture)
Dissertation Prospectus: “Insurgent Making: Craftspeople, Racial Capitalism and the Atlantic World”
Andrew Turner, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (History)
Dissertation Prospectus: “‘War is the Business of Youth’: Youth Soldiers, Manhood, and Their Enduring Civil War”
Dissertation Research Fellowship
Elizabeth Barahona, Northwestern University (History)
Dissertation: “Black and Latino Coalition Building in the Deep South”
Claire Bunschoten, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (American Studies)
Dissertation: “Extracts, Essences, and Political Effects: How Vanilla Shapes American Life”
Yasmine Flodin-Al, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Religious Studies)
Dissertation: “Race, Religion, Resistance: Racializing Muslims and Defining Islam from 1850 to 1950”
Amelia Golcheski, Emory University (History)
Dissertation: “Compensating Care: The Professionalization of Women’s Care Labor in Appalachia, 1970-2000”
Kaneesha Johnson, Harvard University (Government)
Dissertation: “The Punishing State: Punishment and Social Control in North Carolina Social Services”
Khari Johnson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Communications)
Dissertation: “Community Cookbooks as Resistance: How Black Women Engaged in Collectivized Forms of Reproductive and Care Work”
Andrea Miles, University of Louisville (Early American History)
Dissertation: “Black Rebels: African American Revolutionaries from North Carolina During and After the War of Independence”
Irene Newman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (American Studies)
Dissertation: “First in Fight: North Carolina’s Leading Role in Late 20th Century White Power Organizing”
Jennifer Standish, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (History)
Dissertation: “Race, Space, and Local Politics: The Southern Right-to-Work Movement from 1940-1970”
Catherine Stiefel, University of Florida (History)
Dissertation: “Semblance of Freedom: The Resilience and Resistance of Virtual Slaves in the Southern Legal Regime”
Emily Wells, College of William and Mary (History)
Dissertation: “‘Keep Within Compass’: Geography and Girlhood in the American South, 1783-1865”
Emily Yankowitz, Yale University (History)
Dissertation: “Documenting Citizens: How Early Americans Understood the Concept of Citizenship, 1776-1845”
Rare Book Collection Fellowships
The Marjorie Bond Research Fellowship
Caterina Domeneghini, University of Oxford (English Literature)
Project title: “Classics in English, English Classics: Reading J. M. Dent’s Everyman’s Library from Greco-Roman Antiquity to Nationalism and World Literature”
Laurie Langbauer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (English and Comparative Literature)
Project title: “The Spectacle of Early Promise in Britain, 1768-1880.”
The Hanes Graduate Fellowship
Emily DuVall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Art History)
Project title: “Power and Possession: The French Conceptualization of Royal Space during the Reign of François Ier”
Megan Anne Fenrich, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Romance Studies)
Project title: “Embracing the Creative: Michelangelo and Ariosto”
The McLendon-Thomas Award
Mandy Fowler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (English and Comparative Literature)
Project title: “The Healing Art: Early Modern Practices of Giving and Receiving Care”
Visiting Researcher Fellowships
The Joel Williamson Fund for the Southern Historical Collection
Lisa Bratton, Tuskegee University (African American History)
Project title: “I am the Forever: The Lives of Green and Malinda Bratton at Historic Brattonsville”
Carlyle Sitterson Fund for the Southern Historical Collection
Craig Gallagher, New England College (History)
Project title: “Imperial Zealots: Scots and the Rise and Fall of British North America”
Michael Schoeppner, University of Maine at Farmington (History)
Project title: “The First Illegal Immigrants: Black Migrants and Border Law before Reconstruction”
The Guion Griffis Johnson Fund
Hannah Katherine Hicks, Vanderbilt University (History)
Project title: “Troubling Justice: Women and the Criminal Courts in the American South, 1865-1900”
The Documenting Social Change Library Fund
Amy Milligan, Old Dominion University (Jewish Studies)
Project title: “Trouble in Selma: Jews, Race, Rights, and Conflict”
The Parker-Dooley Fund for Southern History
David Silkenat, University of Edinburgh (History)
Project title: “Heroes of the Klan War”
The Hugh L. McColl Library Fund
David Thomson, Sacred Heart University (History)
Project title: ‘“On Anti-Bondsman On!’: Debt Default and the Perils of 19th Century American Capitalism”
