Awards

Angela Stuesse received a fellowship to spend 2019-2020 at the National Humanities Center working on her current book project, #FreeDany: Dreaming and Detention in Dixie.

Maya Berry was awarded the Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson Foundation) for Fall 2020 and the Faculty Fellowship from the Institute for the Arts & Humanities for Spring 2021. 

For her teaching Maya Berry received the UNC Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award in Engaged Teaching in 2020, and the 2021 UNC Johnston Teaching Excellence Award.

Glenn Hinson was awarded the coveted Chapman Family Teaching Award in January 2021.

Maya Berry has won the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. She will conduct a Workshop “Gender Violence and the Politics of Research. 2019

Anna Agbe-Davis was named as a Fulbright Scholar for 2019/2020 (Roving Scholar of American Studies).

Angela Stuesse and the UndocuCarolina team (Todd Ochoa, Emil Keme, Barbara Sostaita, Rubi Franco, Ricky Hurtado, Josmell Perez, and Raul Pinto) were selected for a $20,000 Critical Issues Award from UNC’s Humanities for the Public Good to continue building UndocuCarolina’s programming at UNC and in the broader community in 2019-2020.