Ida B Wells Award Winners

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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.

Committee email: WellsAward@theccwh.org

2023

Morgan Barry, Northwestern University

“(Im)PossibleThreats: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Political Repression in the Twentieth Century U.S”

Honorable Mention: Ursula Rall (Emory University), “Forging Inter-Urban Communities: The Spatial Mobility and Social Networks of Women of African Descent in Seventeenth-Century New Spain”

2022

Mia Michael, Boston College

“Caring for the Commonwealth: Domestic Workers and Workers’ Organizing, 1960-2015”

Honorable Mention: Liliana Quirora-Crowell (CUNY Graduate Center), “Forgotten Invisibility: Mapping the Erasure and Resistance of Urban Q’eqchi’ Women in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala”

2021

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 University, “Vibrational Reprieves: Black Women’s Soul Food Novels as Aesthetic Sites of Erotic and Sexual Agency.”

2020

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

Kerry Knerr, University of Texas, Austin

“Troubling Paradise: Tiki Bars and American Imperial Imaginaries.”

Honorable Mention: Shelby Pumphrey (Michigan State University), “Finding Asylum: Race, Gender, and Confinement in Virginia, 1880-1930.”

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