Calendar & Final Year 2018 Grant Awardees
Faculty Research Projects
Alex Borucki
UC Irvine
Slaves, Silver, and Atlantic Empires: The Slave Trade to Spanish South America, 1700-1810
Hannah Garth
UC San Diego
Black Foodways in Los Angeles
Sara Johnson
UC San Diego
Slavery and Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Hemispheric American Enlightenment
Kyle Mays
UC Los Angeles
Black Belonging, Indigenous Sovereignty: Black American and Indigenous Encounters in Unexpected Places
Uri McMillan
UC Los Angeles
Surfaces, Muses, and Styles: Grace Jones & New York Underground Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s
Kimberly Nettles-Barcelon
UC Davis
All the Chefs are Men, All the Women are Cooks: But Some of Us Are Brave – Black Women Chefs as Cultural Workers
Tianna Paschel
UC Berkeley
Beyond Colorblindness: Black Social Movements, the Law and Cultural Change in Latin America
Jemima Pierre
UC Los Angeles
Race and Africa: Historical And Cultural Legacies
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
UC Irvine
Words of Wild Survival: Wombs, Wounds, Wastelands, and Water
Graduate Students Research Projects
Micah Akuezue
UC Los Angeles
After 1965: Agonism, Liberalism, and Voting Rights in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Bianca Beauchemin
UC Los Angeles
Arousing Freedoms
Alex Blue
UC Santa Barbara
“You’re Only Ever A Block From The Hood”: Hip-Hop and the Reorganization of Violent Geographies in Detroit, Michigan
Sherine Ebadi
UC Berkeley
Oil and Water: Black Disposability and the Political Economy of Oil Development
Matthew Harris
UC Santa Barbara
The Space Age Cannot Be Avoided’: Afrofuturism and the ‘New Territory’ of Black Religion
Kaily Heitz
UC Berkeley
Black Images Matter: Visual Representation, Blackness & the Digital Landscape of Oakland
Jeanelle Hope
UC Davis
In Search of Afro-Asian Solidarity in Black Feminism & Critical Pedagogies
Kerby Lynch
UC Berkeley
Diaries of an Academic Coroner: Deconstructing Anti-Black Planning In San Francisco
Jaclyn Schultz
UC Santa Cruz
“Learning the Values of a Dollar: Black Childhood and Cultures of Economy in the Nineteenth-Century United States”
Academic Year 2017-2018 Grant Awardees
Faculty Research Projects
Sora Han
UC Irvine
Whither the “Badges and Incidents of Slavery?”: Reading the 13th Amendment Against its Critics
Jessica Millward
UC Irvine
Broken Black Bodies: African American Women and Intimate Violence in the 19th century South
Leigh Raiford
UC Berkeley
Collecting, Cataloguing, Curating: The Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver Family Library
Stephen Small
UC Berkeley
Museum Exhibits in Denmark: Images and discourses of colonialism and imperialism in a peripheral colonial nation
Graduate Students Research Projects
Jennifer Blaylock
UC Berkeley
Spectacularly Mobile: A Transnational History of New Media in Ghana
Martin Boston
UC San Diego
The Role of Mobility and Popular Culture in U.S. and South African Anti-Racist Spatial Struggle, 1948-1994
Katherine Cosby
UC Irvine
Afro-descendant Women’s Political Actions Early-Twentieth Century Brazil
Wade Dean
UC Los Angeles
Shoutin’ the People: Soul – Storying, Expressive Culture and the Black Public Sphere
Kiran Garcha
UC Santa Cruz
Bringing the Vanguard Home: The Role of Children, Home, and Family in the Black Panther Party
Amani Morrison
UC Berkeley
Domestic Architecture and Spatial Performance in Great Migration Chicago
Vineeta Singh
UC San Diego
From Hawai’i to Hampton: the Imbrication of Anti-Blackness and Settler Colonialism in American Higher Education
Academic Year 2016-2017 Grant Awardees
Faculty Research Projects
William Bridges IV
UC Irvine
Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature
Ashon Crawley
UC Riverside
To Be Made an Instrument of Feeling: The Hammond B-3 and the Black Church
Rachel Jean-Baptiste
UC Davis
We Will Remain Métis: Miscegenation, MultiracialIdentity, and Citizenship in Twentieth Century Francophone Africa
Terrence Keel
UC Santa Barbara
Black Scientists in the Age of Eugenics
Roshanak Kheshti
UC San Diego
“We See With the Skin”: Zora Neale Hurston’s Synesthetic Hermeneutics
Laurie Lambert
UC Davis
Surviving Empire: Postcolonial Revolution and Trauma in the Caribbean
Ellen Scott
UC Los Angeles
Cinema’s Peculiar Institution
Damien Sojoyner
UC Irvine
Forced Migration: The Deleterious Impacts of Public Education and Incarceration upon Black Families in Los Angeles, CA
Graduate Student Research Projects
Hossein Ayazi
UC Berkeley
Future Farmers of America: The Agrarian Life of Race and U.S. Colonialism, 1928–Present
Kai Cheang
UC Riverside
The Black Asia/ America: Radical Revolutions and Political Coalition in Afro-Asian Solidarities, 1936-Present
Sandra Harvey
UC Santa Cruz
Passing For Free, Passing For Sovereign
Genesis Lara
UC Davis
Re-Defining Freedom in the Dominican Republic
Laura Moore
UC Santa Barbara
Tracing the Roots of Black Consumer Activism, 1862-1915
Tara Pixley
UC San Diego
Making Pictures: Profession, Process & Race in the Documentary Image
Nicole Ramsey
UC Berkeley
Unpacking Blackness: Cultural Exchange and Identity Formations in Afro-Costa Rica
SA Smythe
UC Santa Cruz
Where Blackness Meets the Sea: Postcolonial Italian Borderscapes
Bianca Suarez
UC Berkeley
The Rise of Educational Consciousness: The Racial and Class Politics of Educational Disenfranchisement and the Detroit Public Schools, 1943-1977
Delio Vasquez
UC Santa Cruz
The Ideological Politics of Criminal Resistance
2015-2016 Grant Awardees
Faculty Research Projects
Bridget R. Cooks
UC Irvine
A Dream Deferred: The Art of the Civil Rights Movement and the Limits of Liberalism
Kelly Gates
UC San Diego
Erasing Black Bodies: The Absence of Data on Police Killings in the U.S.
Nigel Hatton
UC Merced
African-American Women’s Activism and Ending the Problem of Homicide
Ula Y. Taylor
UC Berkeley
Making a New Woman: Women and the Nation of Islam
Bryan Wagner
Elena Schneider
UC Berkeley
Vincent Brown (Harvard)
The 1795 Louisiana Slave Conspiracy (Digital Repository); The Story of BrasCoupé (Critical Edition); Maroons and World History (Essay Collection)
Graduate Student Research Projects
Jarvis R. Givens
UC Berkeley
Culture, Curriculum, and Consciousness: Resurrecting the Educational Praxis of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, 1875-1950
Sophia Sapp Moore
UC Davis
Another world is possible: Agroecological relations, peasant politics, and remaking rural development in central Haiti
Ana Karina de Morais
UC Santa Cruz
Postcards from Africa: Ethnological Cartographies of Empire
Mychal Matsemela-Ali Odom
UC San Diego
From Southern California to Southern Africa: African Liberation and Postwar California
Jas Riley
UC Riverside
A Drinking Gourd: The Katrina Lexicon and Liberation
Melissa Whitley
UC Los Angeles
Black Women Fighting Subprime Foreclosure: The Gendered Anti-Blackness of Neoliberal Financialization in Baltimore
Anndretta Lyle Wilson
UC Los Angeles
My Soul: Labor, Pleasure, and Possession in Transnational Black Musical Performance