The CCWH Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship is an annual award of $1000 given to a graduate student working on a historical dissertation that interrogates race and gender, not necessarily in a history department. The award is intended to support either a crucial stage of research or the final year of writing.
The applicant must be a CCWH member; must be a graduate student in any department of a U.S. institution; must have passed to A.B.D. status by the time of application; may hold this award and others simultaneously; and need not attend the award ceremony to receive the award.
The 2022 deadline for the Wells award is July 1, 2022 (note extended deadline).
2022 Wells Fellowship Application (MS Word download)
Committee email: WellsAward@theccwh.org
NOTE – Applicants can only apply for one CCWH sponsored graduate student grant each year.
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Donations by CCWH members and other patrons support the Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship. To make a one-time or recurring monthly donation by credit or debit card, please fill out our secure online Donation Form. To donate by check, please send your donation to the CCWH at 1313. N. 2nd St. #1508 Phoenix, AZ 85004. You may request that your donation go to a specific award or that it be used where most needed.
The Coordinating Council on Women in History is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All donations to the Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship are tax-deductible.
2021 Ida B. Wells Award Recipients
Co-Winners:
Samantha Davis, Penn State
“In Plain Sight: Confounding Gender and Race in Early Modern Yucatan.”
Rozzmery Vicente, Florida International University
“Menacing Mothers: Medicine, Social Science, and the Politics of Black Motherhood in Mid-20th century Cuba.”
Honorable Mention- Megan M. Williams, Purdue Un
iversity, “Vibrational Reprieves: Black Women’s Soul Food Novels as Aesthetic Sites of Erotic and Sexual Agency.”
2020 Ida. B. Wells Award Recipient
Mali Collins, University of Delaware
“To Learn to Let Them Go: Black Feminist Archiving and the Creative Revivals of Black Motherhood.”
Honorable Mention- Caitlin Wiesner, “Controlling Rape: Black Women, the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence and the State, 1974-1994.”
2019 Ida. B. Wells Award Recipient
2019- Kerry Knerr, University of Texas, Austin, “Troubling Paradise: Tiki Bars and American Imperial Imaginaries.”
2019 Honorable Mention- Shelby Pumphrey, Michigan State University, “Finding Asylum: Race, Gender, and Confinement in Virginia, 1880-1930.”
Previous Wells Award Recipients
2018
Michaela Kleber, The College of William and Mary, “Gendered Societies, Sexual Empires: Early French Colonization among the Illinois.”
Honorable Mention- Neama Alamri, University of California at Merced, “Long Live the Arab Worker: A Transnational History of Labor Activism in the Yemeni Diaspora.”
2017
Jordan Lynton, Indiana University, Bloomington, “Diasporic Identities in the Age of Rising China: Examining Chinese Community Membership in Jamaica.”
Honorable Mention- Joan Flores-Villalobos, The Ohio State University, “Colon Women: West Indian Women in the Construction of the Panama Canal.”
2016
Alisha J. Hines, Duke University, “Deinstitutionalization and Disability Rights: Policy and Activism in New York State.”
Honorable Mention- Jessica Blake, University of California, Davis, “A Taste for Africa: Imperial Fantasy and Clothing Commerce in Revolutionary-Era New Orleans.”
2015
Kimberly McNair, University of California, Berkeley, “Cotton Framed Revolutionaries: T-shirt Culture and the Black Protest Tradition.”
2014
Katelyn Aguilar, University of Connecticut, “A ‘Cannes Thing?’ Football, Race and American Conservatism.”
2013
Katie Knowles, Rice University, “Fashioning Slavery: Slaves and Clothing in the United States South, 1830-1865.”
2012
Nicolette Kostiw, Vanderbilt University, “A Lost Generation: The Tutelage of Minors, Slavery, and the Black Family in Rio de Janeiro.”
2011
Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell, Duke University, “Daughters of the Nadir: Black Girls in South Carolina’s Jim Crow Courts, 1885-1905.”
2010
Melissa Lambert Milewski, New York University, “From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post War South, 1865-1920.”
2009
Katy Simpson Smith, University of North Carolina
2008
Nicole Eaton, Brown University
2007
Reena Goldthree, Duke University
2006
Lisa Blee, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
2005
Irina Mukhina, Boston College
2004
Linda Rupert, Duke University
2003
Tanfer Emin Tunc, State University of New York, Stony Brook
2002
Katherine Benton, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2001
Gillian McGillivray, Georgetown University
2000
Lisa Materson, University of California, Los Angeles
1999
Julian Carter, University of California, Irvine