Research Triangle Foundation Fellowship

In 1985, the Research Triangle Foundation endowed fellowships to support humanities scholars from the Research Triangle’s three largest research universities: Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Originally named to honor local historical figures with ties to the universities, in 2021 these fellowships were redesignated as simply Research Triangle Foundation Fellowships. 

The Research Triangle Foundation is committed to promoting economic development within the Triangle and facilitating strategic partnerships that benefit both the region and the state of North Carolina. They have supported Center programs in multiple ways since it opened in 1978.

The names of Fellows supported by the endowment created by the Research Triangle Foundation can also be found on pages for the Benjamin N. Duke and Walter Hines Page fellowships.

1985–1986	Bernard Romaric Boxill	University of South Florida	Moral Issues in Development
1986–1987	C. John Herington	Yale University	Herodotus
1987–1988	Sydney Shoemaker	Cornell University	Subjectivity and the Mental
1988–1989	David Copp	Simon Fraser University	Reason and Needs
1989–1990	Graham Bradshaw	University of St. Andrews	Poetic Drama and Music Drama as Metaphor
1990–1991	Silas Douglass Cater	Washington College	(1) The Small Liberal Arts College: Prospects for the Future (2) A Retrospective on Life among American Politicians
1991–1992	Graeme Clarke	Australian National University	The Letters and Fragments of Dionysius of Alexandria
1992–1993	Scott MacDonald	University of Iowa	Rational Pursuit of the Good: Deliberative Desire in Aquinas’s Moral Philosophy
1993–1994	Dorothy Thompson	University of Cambridge	The First Hundred Years: a Study in Early Ptolemaic History
1994–1995	Jack Sasson	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	The Life and Times of Zimri-Lim, King of Mari
1995–1996	Brad Inwood	University of Toronto	Reading Seneca
1996–1997	Samuel Floyd	Columbia College Chicago	(1) Music in the Black Diaspora (2)
1997–1998	Jay Smith	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Status, Class, Identity: Claiming Honor in Eighteenth-Century France, 1740–1792
1998–1999	Ralph Wedgwood	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The Metaphysical Sources of Norms and Values
1999–2000	Laura Gowing	University of Hertfordshire	Women, Sex and the Reproductive Body in Seventeenth-Century England
2000–2001	Jan Willem Drijvers	University of Groningen	Cyril and Jerusalem
2001–2002	Winston James	Columbia University	Claude McKay: From Bolshevism to Black Nationalism, 1923–1948
2002–2003	David Schimmelpennick van der Oye	Brock University	Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Catherine the Great to the Emigration
2003–2004	Jordanna Bailkin	University of Washington	Making Faces: Economies of Color in Imperial Britain
2004–2005	Lawrence Jackson	Emory University	A Song in the Front Yard: A Cultural History of African American Writers and Critics, 1935–1960
2005–2006	Phyllis Hunter	University of North Carolina at Greensboro	Geographies of Capitalism: Imagining Asia in Early America
2006–2007	Sukjae Lee	The Ohio State University	The Untimely Modern: Leibniz and His Rehabilitation of Formal and Final Causes
2007–2008	Ellen Garvey	New Jersey City University	Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake Nineteenth Century Print Culture
2008–2009	Alexander Welsh	Yale University	Meditations on New Comedy and Other Foolishness
2009–2010	Jack Greene	Johns Hopkins University	The British Debate on American Colonial Resistance, 1760–1783
2010–2011	Sabine Hake	University of Texas at Austin	Political Affects: The Fascist Imaginary in Postfascist Cinema
2011–2012	Morgan Pitelka	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Sixteenth-Century Losers: A History of Daily Life and Destruction in Ichijodani, Japan
2012–2013	Christia Mercer	Columbia University	Platonisms in Early Modern Philosophy
2013–2014	Ellen Welch	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Spectacles of State: Diplomacy and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France
2014–2015	Lisa Levenstein	University of North Carolina at Greensboro	Bringing Beijing Home: The Fourth World Conference on Women and the Global Politics of American Feminism
2015–2016	Gregg Hecimovich	Winthrop University	The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative
2016–2017	Marlene Daut	University of Virginia	An Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions (Age of Slavery)
2017–2018	Sara Poor	Princeton University	Telling Tales of Clever Women: Authorship and the Devotional Book in Late Medieval Germany
2018–2019	Alka Patel	University of California, Irvine	India, Iran and Empire: The Shansabanis of Ghur, c.1150–1215
2019-2020	Katherine Mellen Charron	North Carolina State University	“Possibility Thinkers”: Rural Black Power and Women’s Liberation Politics after 1965
2020–2021	Alexis Gumbs	Independent Scholar	The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde: Biography as Ceremony
2022–2023	Keith Richotte Jr.	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, Plenary Power, and the U.S. Constitution
2023–2024	Frederico Freitas	North Carolina State University	Concrete Tropics: An Environmental History of Brazil’s Modernist Capital
2024–2025	Joseph R. Winters	Duke University	Beyond Imperial Piety: Black Study, the Opaque Sacred, and World De-formation