Previous Graduate Student Research Fellows

Fall 2025

Mark Gunnery, Historical Studies MA Program
Project: Leonard Cohen, Neo-Sabbatianism, and Heterodox North American Jewish Identities

Spring 2026

Neisha-Anne Green, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: Breaking Bread, Breaking Cycles: Food, Trauma, and Generational Healing in Black Women’s Writing

Fall 2024

Sasha Krongos, Historical Studies MA Program
Project: Gender, Labor, and Home-Design in American Magazines from 1890-1920

Spring 2025

Kristen Kelly, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: A Participatory Action Research Exploration of Black Women Educators and Black Girl Spiritual Literacies Utilized in School-Based Mentorship Program Design

Sonya Squires-Caesar, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: Finding Face and Building Financially Resilient Spaces: Becoming Communal Agents of Economic Change Workshop – An Interactive Storytelling Exhibit

Fall 2022

Charlotte Keniston, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: Digital Storytelling Workshop with Black Yield Institute

Spring 2023

Forrest Caskey, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: ‘Who Is Dorothy?’ Baltimore Drag Queens Establishing Space and Place for Queer Culture

Alyse Minter, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: Black Women and Unmet Fertility Desires

Foster Santiago, Intermedia + Digital Arts MFA Program
Project: Transgender Euphoria: Puerto Rico’s Queer Exaltation

Fall 2019

Corbin Jones, Texts, Technologies, and Literatures MA Program
Project: Narrating the ‘Self’ in ibn Battuta’s Travels

Spring 2020

cicada inscoe, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: Sonic Waves of Grain: Paul Harvey’s American Evangelism

Fall 2018

Chinen Aimi Bouillon, Intermedia + Digital Arts MFA Program
Project: Finding Ryukyu

Spring 2019

Ibrahim Er, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: Global Television Formats and National Identities

Erin L. Berry, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: ‘They Ask, Why Do You Talk Like That; I Ask, Why Don’t You Want to Talk Like That?’ Analyzing the Online Speech and Identity Practices of Black Female Undergraduates

Mary Laurents, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: The Fracture of Upper Class Identity in the First World War and the Cultural Impact of that Fracture on Britain in the Interwar Period

Kelly Daughtridge, Historical Studies MA Program
Project: Defining their Past and Immortalizing their Future: Women’s Monuments in Early Modern England

Jessica Floyd, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: Jibooms, Barrels, and Arseholes: Singing Sex in Sea Chanteys

Felix Burgos, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: Exploring Memory and Memorialization in the midst of Colombia’s Armed Conflict

Rachel Carter, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: Imagining otherwise: Narrating transformative identity work in a college-level social justice course

Kevin Wisniewski, Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program
Project: (Re)membering Francis Hopkinson and his Literary Gambols

Emek Ergun, Language, Literacy, & Culture Doctoral Program
Project: Doing Feminist Translation as Local and Transnational Activism: The Turkish Translation of Virgin: The Untouched History and Its Reception

Teresa Foster, Language, Literacy, & Culture Doctoral Program.
Project: Felonious Women & Familial Bonds: Convict Transportation to the Maryland Colony, 1718-1739