The Wilson Special Collections Library is pleased to announce the 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 24 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 second 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.
Primary Sources Teaching Fellowships
Made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Janine Barr, North Carolina Central University
Aspires to teach learners in K-12 libraries
Sabrina Berndt, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Aspires to teach learners in academic libraries
Sarah Dwyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aspires to teach learners in K-12 libraries
Tatiana Hargreaves, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aspires to teach learners in music libraries and folklife archives, and to general music communities
Hannah Helmey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aspires to teach learners in museums and academic libraries and special collections libraries
Samone Jacobs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aspires to teach learners in academic libraries
Katie Souter, North Carolina Central University
Aspires to teach learners in K-12 libraries
Dylan Ward, East Carolina University
Aspires to teach learners in academic libraries and special collection libraries
Southern Studies Doctoral Research Fellowships
Made possible by the Watson-Brown Foundation
Pre-Dissertation Prospectus Fellowship
Andrew Craig, University of Georgia (History)
Dissertation Prospectus: “Obnoxious Odors, Dead Vegetation, and Irritated Lungs: Fertilizer Production and the Long Struggle for Environmental Justice, 1865-1965”
Katie Kushner, Princeton University (History)
Dissertation Prospectus: “Civil Rights and the Democratic Party in North Carolina and Virginia, 1940s-1960s”
Morgan Mayo, University of Galway (Irish Studies)
Dissertation Prospectus: “Multicultural Folkways: Irish Traveller Folk Music and Western North Carolina Musical Traditions of the Twentieth Century”
Emily Morrell, West Virginia University (History)
Dissertation Prospectus: “From Right to Left: How the Religious Left Shaped Modern Southern Progressivism”
Olivia Paschal, University of Virginia (History)
Dissertation Prospectus: “The Localized Global: How the Arkansas Ozarks Gave Rise to Juggernauts of Late Twentieth Century Capitalism”
Dissertation Research Fellowship
Arthur Braswell, Duke University: History
Dissertation: “Making the Forever Fort: Militarization and Race in South Carolina since 1917”
Chase McCarter, University of New Mexico: History
Dissertation: “The Emotional World of Confederate Expatriates in Latin America, 1865-1870”
Zoe Schwandt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Anthropology)
Dissertation: “Care, Cure, and Construction: The Making of White Femininity at the Raleigh State Asylum, 1890-1930”
Rare Book Collection Fellowships
The Marjorie Bond Research Fellowship
Claire Richie, University of Miami (English)
Dissertation: “‘This printing blood’: Reproductive Materialities in Early Modern English Literature”
Michael VanHoose, University of Virginia (English)
Monograph: “The Evolution of British Book and Newspaper Publishing, 1761–1832”
The Hanes Graduate Fellowship
Angelique Bassard, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (English and Comparative Literature)
Article: “‘Finding Fulton’: Reassessing Fulton’s Hanover with New Eyes”
Zachary Boyce, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Information & Library Science and Law)
Masters Thesis: “The Legal History of Print Culture and the Social Construction of the Sovereignty of Law”
Toni DiNardo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (English and Comparative Literature)
Dissertation: “C. S. Lewis in the Margins’
Jo Klevdal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (English and Comparative Literature)
Dissertation: “Laminations: The Graphic Image and Literature in Twentieth Century America”
Kim Jeonghwan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Romance Studies)
Dissertation: “Physical Explanation of Melancholy in the Nineteenth-Century Medical Theories”
Alexis Toufas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (English and Comparative Literature)
Dissertation: “The Gendering of Birds in Early Modern Ornithology”
The McLendon-Thomas Award
Mindy Buchanan-King, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (English and Comparative Literature)
Dissertation: “Visibility of Disability in 19th-century America”
Visiting Researcher Fellowships
The Lucinda Holderness Wilcox and Benson R. Wilcox Library Fund for the North Carolina Collection
Mark Brown Jr, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Art & Art History)
Project Type: Multiple photographic projects
Michael Gutierrez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (English and Comparative Literature)
Creative Non-Fiction Monograph: “Bound to Lose: Silver Shirts, Proud Boys, and the Worst People in America”
The Joel Williamson Fund for the Southern Historical Collection
Antonio Austin, Howard University (History)
Dissertation: “Under the Cloak of Secrecy: Examining the Relationships Among the Enslaved and Free Black Population in Ante-Bellum North Carolina”
The John Eugene & Barbara Hilton Cay Library Fund
Sarah Meador, East Carolina University (English)
Article: ‘Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents, White Sponsorship and Editing, and Manipulation of Texts”
The J. Carlyle Sitterson Fund for the Southern Historical Collection
Gregg Hecimovich, Furman University (English)
Book Project: “The Columbia Seven: The Life and Times of the Zealy Daguerreotypes”
The Guion Griffis Johnson Fund
Susan Goodier, State University of New York at Oneonta (History)
Monograph: “Dignity in Freedom: The Life and Advocacy of Louisa Jacobs”
The Hugh L. McColl Library Fund
George Werner, Duke University (Law)
Article: ‘Here Comes the New Southland: Acquisition and Abandonment on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad’
