Fellowship Recipients
Smith College Special Collections
Smith College Special Collections offers travel research grants. For more information, see Research Fellowships.
Funded Scholars receive awards intended to support research visits of four to six weeks, and give a work-in-progress colloquium to the Smith College community during their residency.
Funded Scholars
Carel B. Germain Fellowship
Carly Mychl Murray
“In Their Own Words: Implications of the National Welfare Rights Organization’s Struggle for
Justice, Dignity, and Democracy (Working Title)”
Margaret Storrs Grierson Fellowship
Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones and Precious Chika Musa
“Queering Creation: Then & Now”
Friends of the Smith College Libraries Fellowships
LaNesha DeBardelaben
“A History of Race Relations in the YWCA, 1946-1976”
Laura McLaws Helms
“Garmentos: An Oral History of New York’s Garment District, 1919-2019”
Ruth Mortimer Fellowship
Megan Lester
“A Million Little Replicas of Itself: Sylvia Plath's Manuscripts”
Madeleine L’Engle Travel Research Fellowships
Emma Day
“Beyond Procreation: A New History of Reproductive Justice in the United States”
Hannah Dudley-Shotwell
“A History of Abortion Funds in the U.S. (1960s to present)”
Ira Dworkin
“Imperfectly Known”: Nicholas Said and the Routes of Black Writing in North America”
Anne Gray Fischer
“Going Ballistic: A Concealed History of Feminism and Guns”
Stephen Jackson
“Western Exceptionalism in American Secondary Education at the Fin de Siècle”
Kelsey Kitzke
Kianna M. Middleton
“(Re)shaping Intersexionality: Black Feminist Disability History and Intersex Representation”
Elizabeth M. Perego
“Algerian Women in the International Eye and International Community, 1954-2005”
Anne-Laure Sabathier
“The Expression of Self: Gender and Sexuality in Women’s Colleges’ Students’ Diaries”
Magdalene Zier
“Women at the Bar: Forging Feminism through Law and Liquor, 1873-1973”
Arts & Media Fellowships
Mae Colburn
“Wool Skirts”
Betsey Donham
“Thread of Life”
Laura Grothaus
“Scabs: A Novel of the Future Labor Movement”
Abigail Santamaria
“I Am Meg: The Life of Madeleine L’Engle”
Anonymous Travel Fellow
“In Consideration of Children’s Literature”
Friends of the Smith College Libraries Fellowship
Lenora Renee Knowles, University of Maryland
“‘Women in the Struggle’: Women of Color Coalitional Politics in the 1960s and 70s”
Lucy Collins, University College Dublin, Ireland
“Flitting: The Creative Lives of Lola Ridge”
Carel B. Germain Fellowship
Nivedita Joon, Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland
“Beyond Carceralism: Global Feminists and the Struggle Against Sexual and Gender Based Violence (1975-1995)”
Margaret Storrs Grierson Fellowship
Sarah Shotland, Independent Researcher
“The Bulldogger’s Daughter” (Novel)
Ruth Mortimer Fellowship
Quinn Diacon-Furtado, Independent Researcher
“Dreadful Things” (Novel)
Madeleine L’Engle Travel Research Fellowship
Brianna Anderson, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Framing Injustice: Environmental and Social Activism in Comics and Zines”
Alyssa Bedrosian, Ohio State University
“Catholic Feminism and the Fight for Abortion Rights in Mexico, Argentina, and the United States”
Catherine Evans, Carnegie Mellon University
“On the Road: Producing & Documenting Lesbian Life across the United States”
Brittany Huner, University of North Texas
“Athena, Winnie, and Pfc Mary Brown: Creating the Military Woman in Pop Culture and Servicewomen’s Self-Representations During the Second World War”
Destiny Meadows, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Sounding Fit Americanism: Sonic Constructions of US Cold War Identity through Physical Fitness Media”
Wendy Rouse, San Jose State University
“The Feminist Self-Defense Movement in the Era of Women’s Liberation”
Janina Shirin Santer, Columbia University
“Women, Welfare, and Social Reform in Postcolonial Lebanon (1930s-1950s)”
Kristina Valada-Viars, Independent Researcher
“Jane 1891 (working title)”, research on Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr
Zachary Vanes, University of Iowa
“The Carousel Revolution: Feminist and Lesbian Slideshow Activism in the 1970s and 1980s America”
Margaret Vigil-Fowler, Harvard University Medical School
“The Wright Doctors: The Untold Story of the Black Medical Dynasty that Transformed Medicine”
Emma Wathen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“A Disability History of Reproduction in the United States, 1950-95”
Caroline D. Bain Fellowship
Andrea Rebecca Marrocchi Savoi, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Research on Ur III materials in the Smith College collection of cuneiform tablets
Friends of the Smith College Libraries Fellowship
Crystal Mun-hye Baik, Carnegie Mellon University
“Unsanctioned Knowledge: The Lives and Labor of Korean American Feminist Activists”
Anthea Taylor, University of Sydney, Australia
“Making a Feminist Icon: Gloria Steinem, Celebrity, and the Public Identity of American Feminism”
Carel B. Germain Fellowship
Kit Ginzky, University of Chicago
Research on “an intellectual and social history of the origins of the American social work profession from the turn of the century through the New Deal”
Margaret Storrs Grierson Fellowship
Priya Dixit, Virginia Tech
“International Imaginings of ‘Radical’ Women in Early 20th Century New York City”
Madeleine L’Engle Travel Research Fellowship
Luisa Banki, University of Wuppertal, Germany
“Holocaust Memory, Gender, and the Family Novel”
Crystal Brandenburgh, University of California, Riverside
“Planning for Peace: Carrie Chapman Catt, the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, and Women’s Organizing after Suffrage”
Sophie Corser, University College Cork, Ireland
“‘I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity’: Creative Criticism, Reading, and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”
Taylor Hare, Pennsylvania State University
“N. B. Kneass Jr.’s Manual on the Notation of Music and the History of Nineteenth-Century Tactile Music Books”
Adam Kocurek, City University of New York Graduate Center
Research on “the history of LGBT+ faculty in higher education”
Daniel Laqua, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
“Forging Female Leadership?: Student Mobility and International Student Organisations, 1919–1960”
Justina Licata, Indiana University East
“The Politics of Norplant: Feminism, Civil Rights, and Social Policies in the 1990s” and “‘We need people to join this movement, not reinvent it’: How Abortion Funds Have Been Preparing for a Post-Roe America”
Holly Ranger, University of Westminster
Research on “Sylvia Plath’s poetic engagement with Greco-Roman literature”
Jordan Villegas-Verrone, Columbia University
“The Letter from Chapultepec: Texas-Mexican Girlhood and the Political Culture of Critique, 1928-1941”
Haleigh Yaspan, University of Rochester
Research on the “evolving conceptualization of birth as a medical event in the early- to mid-twentieth century”
Caroline D. Bain Fellowship
Andrea Rebecca Marrocchi Savoi, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Research on Ur III materials in the Smith College collection of cuneiform tablets
Friends of the Smith College Libraries Fellowship
Crystal Mun-hye Baik, Carnegie Mellon University
“Unsanctioned Knowledge: The Lives and Labor of Korean American Feminist Activists”
Anthea Taylor, University of Sydney, Australia
“Making a Feminist Icon: Gloria Steinem, Celebrity, and the Public Identity of American Feminism”
Carel B. Germain Fellowship
Kit Ginzky, University of Chicago
Research on “an intellectual and social history of the origins of the American social work profession from the turn of the century through the New Deal”
Margaret Storrs Grierson Fellowship
Priya Dixit, Virginia Tech
“International Imaginings of ‘Radical’ Women in Early 20th Century New York City”
Madeleine L’Engle Travel Research Fellowship
Luisa Banki, University of Wuppertal, Germany
“Holocaust Memory, Gender, and the Family Novel”
Crystal Brandenburgh, University of California, Riverside
“Planning for Peace: Carrie Chapman Catt, the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, and Women’s Organizing after Suffrage”
Sophie Corser, University College Cork, Ireland
“‘I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity’: Creative Criticism, Reading, and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”
Taylor Hare, Pennsylvania State University
“N. B. Kneass Jr.’s Manual on the Notation of Music and the History of Nineteenth-Century Tactile Music Books”
Adam Kocurek, City University of New York Graduate Center
Research on “the history of LGBT+ faculty in higher education”
Daniel Laqua, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
“Forging Female Leadership?: Student Mobility and International Student Organisations, 1919–1960”
Justina Licata, Indiana University East
“The Politics of Norplant: Feminism, Civil Rights, and Social Policies in the 1990s” and “‘We need people to join this movement, not reinvent it’: How Abortion Funds Have Been Preparing for a Post-Roe America”
Holly Ranger, University of Westminster
Research on “Sylvia Plath’s poetic engagement with Greco-Roman literature”
Jordan Villegas-Verrone, Columbia University
“The Letter from Chapultepec: Texas-Mexican Girlhood and the Political Culture of Critique, 1928-1941”
Haleigh Yaspan, University of Rochester
Research on the “evolving conceptualization of birth as a medical event in the early- to mid-twentieth century”
Grierson Fellowship
Molly Brookfield, University of Michigan
“Watching the Girls Go By: Citizenship and Sexual Harassment in the American Street, 1850-1980”
Germain Fellowship
Emily K Hobson, University of Nevada Reno
“AIDS and Abolition:Confronting the Epidemic in the Prison Boom”
Friends of the Smith College Libraries Fellowship
Kate Grauvogel, Indiana University Bloomington
"A Gendered History of Pathology: Women, Hormones and Blood Clots, 1784-1969”
Mortimer Fellowship
Danielle N. Gilman, University of Georgia
“Common Readers: The Literary Criticism of Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, and Elizabeth Bowen”
Travel-to-Collections Awards
Desiree Abu-Odeh, Columbia University
“The Sexual Violence Problem and Anti-Violence Work on American College Campuses, 1950-2000”
Kris Belden-Adams, University of Mississippi
"Picturing Privilege: Photography, ‘Aristogenics,’ Eugenics”
Carla Cesare, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash
"Women in Design”
Meghan Daniel, University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
“Reproductive Justice Praxis”
Isabel Dulfano, University of Utah
“Rebecca Adamson: An Activist’s Voice along the Path of Alternative Knowledge Production, Sustainable Living, Minobimaatisiiwin (the good life), Recuperation and Preservation of Culture”
Chrissy Yee Lau, Texas A&M University
“Love of Luxury: Japanese American Respectability and Its Discontents, 1908-1942”
Andrew McNally, Villanova University
“Women Internationalist Educators and the Emergence of Social Studies Curriculum”
Samira K. Mehta, Albright College
“God Bless the Pill: Contraception, Sexuality, and American Religion”
Yukako Otori, Harvard University
“Disposable Subjects: Child Migration, International Law, and U.S. Immigration Policy, 1900s-1920s”
Victoria Christine Skelton, Auburn University
“An Empire of Ladies: The International Council of Women and Euro-American Hegemony, 1888-1963”
Andrea Walton, Indiana University
“Philanthropy in US Higher Education: A History’”
Emily Westkaemper, James Madison University
“Career Women: Image and Reality in U.S. Popular Culture, 1940-2000”
Lindsay Whalen, CUNY Graduate Center
Untitled authorized biography of Mary Oliver
Rhaisa Williams, Washington University in St. Louis
“Shuffling, Shouting, and Wearing Down: Techniques of Protest in Welfare Rights Organizations”