Fellows’ Fellowship

Created through the generosity of dozens of NHC Fellows and a handful of trustee benefactors, the Fellows’ Fellowship has been awarded annually since 2012. It is unique among fellowships of this kind as it serves as a gift to future colleagues from those who have previously benefited from a fellowship at the National Humanities Center.

2012–2013Linda RupertUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillInter-Colonial Marronage, Colonial Policy, and Imperial Jurisdiction in the Early Modern Caribbean
2013–2014Noël SugimuraGeorgetown University“Perplexity of Contending Passions”: Milton and His Readers
2014–2015David AmbarasNorth Carolina State UniversityEmpire of Drifters: Life and Death on the Margins of Japan’s Asia
2015–2016Neslihan SenocakColumbia UniversityCare of Souls in Medieval Italy, 1050–1300
2016–2017Florence DoreUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillNovel Sounds: The American Novel in the Age of Rock and Roll
2017–2018Stephen HallAlcorn State UniversityGlobal Visions: African American Historians Engage the World, 1885–1960
2018–2019Lisa Earl CastilloIndependent ScholarBetween Memory, Myth, and History: Atlantic Voyages in the Rise of an Afro-Brazilian Temple
2019–2020Emily LutenskiSt. Louis UniversityModern Lovers: Margery Latimer, Jean Toomer, and Race in American Culture
2020–2021Lester ToméSmith CollegeThe Avant-garde Imagination: Transatlantic Visions of Ballet
2021–2022Paul Ushang UgorIllinois State UniversityThe Cinema of Femi Odugbemi: Screen Media and Popular Culture in Nigeria
2022–2023Emmanuel DavidThe University of Colorado BoulderTrans-American Orientalism: The Asia-Pacific Encounters of Transgender Pioneer Christine Jorgensen
2023–2024Matt SakakeenyTulane UniversityMusic is Life: Coming-of-Age Stories from the Margins of America
2024–2025Brendan GriebelIndependent ScholarCrafting Freedom from Confinement in the Canadian Prairies