Current Fellows
Cohort Twenty-Two (2022-2024) and Cohort Twenty-Three (2023-2025)
 | Arturo Contreras Latin American and Caribbean Studies/Spanish Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yami Rodriguez Research Title: "Preserving Institutional Memory of the Emory Latinx Community through Archival Research and Oral Histories." |
 | Russell Lee (2022-23) Comparative Literature Faculty Mentor: Dr. María M. Carrión Research Title: "Crazy Woman: The Redemptive & Vengeful Figure of the Female Shaman in Modern Korean Media." |
 | Mckayla Morrison African American Studies/Sociology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Linette Park Research Topic: Social Stratification of Race in the Legal System |
 | Christian Ballard African American Studies Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels Research Topic: "African Religions and Spirituality in Black Sonic and Visual Culture" |
 | Makalee Cooper Theater Studies Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nicholas Fesette Research Topic: History of blackface minstrelsy in the American Theatre and how it has pervaded how Blackness is viewed and performed. |
 | Courtney Fitzgerald Sociology/Quantitative Sciences Faculty Mentor: Dr. Karen A. Hegtvedt Research Title: "Analyzing the Hierarchy of Colorism in the Black LGBTQ+ Community's Romantic Preferences." Courtney seeks to understand how internalized colorist ideologies influence the romantic preferences of Black LGBTQ+ identifying individuals. |
 | Raya Islam Anthropology/Human Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yami Rodriguez Research Title: "Jackson Heights: A Case Study of Urban Relational Racialization" |
 | Leilani Nti French/International Studies Faculty Mentor: Dr. Subha Xavier Research Topic: How has imperialism continued to shape the conditions of post-colonialism? Leilani explores the extractive policies of neo-colonialism, and its relationship to the legacy of totalitarianism in post-colonial states through the impact of language and culture and analyzing supra-governmental organizations and transnational networks such as “the British Commonwealth" and "L’organisation Internationel de la Francophonie." |
 | Emilio Rosas Gutiérrez Linguistics & Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christina Crawford Research Topic: Spatial justice in Latin American cities. An interdisciplinary look at spatial segregation in the urban peripheries of modernist Latin American cities (with a focus on Cancún, Mexico, and Brasília, Brazil), exploring how capitalist urbanization denies its citizens' right to the city through the spatialization of class hierarchies. Drawing from architectural studies, sociology, critical theory, and counter-historical methods like oral history. |
 | América Ruiz Latin American and Caribbean Studies/Spanish Faculty Mentor: Dr. Pablo Palomino Research Topic: US immigration and its transformation to the identity of Latinx through an anthropological approach. |