The Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025-2026 travel grants. Our research centers annually award travel grants to students, scholars, and independent researchers through a competitive application process. We extend a warm congratulations to this year’s awardees. We look forward to meeting and working with you!
The Archive of Documentary Arts awarded no travel grants this year.
Doris Duke Archives
Stephanie Opperman, Faculty, Georgia College and State University, “Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith and the Legacy of Jazz Clubs in 1940s Mexico City”
Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Collections
Elon Clark History of Medicine Travel Grants
Sarah Ahmed, Graduate Student, McGill University, “Madness and Methodism: Wesleyan Sick Societies and the Treatment of Madness in the British Atlantic World, 1741-1818”
Lea Eisenstein, Graduate Student, Princeton University, “Coming Out: The Private and Public History of Hysterectomy in America”
Olivia Maddox, Graduate Student, University of California, San Diego, “Maternal Revolutions: A Cultural History of Motherhood in Modern China”
John Hope Franklin Research Center
Jennifer Blaylock, Faculty, Rowan University, “Ghanavision: Ayi Kwei Armaha’s Work in Television in the 1960s”
Peyton White, Graduate Student, University of Texas, “Rastafari, Sovereignty, and Black Religious Nationalism in 20th Century Jamaica”
Halima Haruna, Graduate Student, Northeastern University, “An Intellectual History of African American Women’s Disability Politics, 1900s – 1920”
Christina Thomas, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of South Carolina, “Digitizing Freedom Summer: An Interactive Map”
Corbin Covington, Graduate Student, Northwestern University, “Black Historiography and Psychoanalytic Theory”
Mickell Carter, Graduate Student, Brown University, “Black Men’s Style During the Black Power Movement”
Sydney Smith, Graduate Student, Rutgers University, “Reading for the Revolution: Black Bookstores and the Radical Tradition of Self-Education”
Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
John Furr Fellowship for JWT Research
Henry Jacob, Graduate Student, Yale University, “Tourism in Flight: JWT, Pan-Am, and the Making of U.S. Power in the Americas”
Mario Uolla, Graduate Student, Northwestern University, “JWT’s T-Plan and the Origins of Consumer Centricity”
Alvin A. Achenbaum Travel Grants
Jennifer Scanlon, Faculty, Bowdoin College, “We Try Harder: Paula Green, Inc.”
Francesca Polletta, Faculty, University of California, Irvine, “Advertising to the New Woman, 1970-1975”
Ijeoma Kola, Faculty, University of Notre Dame, “Kitchen Chemists: Black Women, Medical Neglect, and the Science of the Natural Hair Movement” (joint award with the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture)
Jonathan Marrow, Graduate Student, Cambridge University, “The Development of American Holocaust Tourism, 1945-2000”
Stephen Sonnenfeld, independent Researcher, “The Meaning Makers: A History of the American Advertising Agency”
Human Rights Archive
Jessica Day-Lucore, Graduate Student, Indiana University Bloomington, “The Human Rights Violators Club: The Uruguayan Dictatorship, the United States, and the Regulatory Regimes of the Late Cold War, 1973-1985”
Vivian Hernandez, Graduate Student, University of California Los Angeles, “’Nos interasa a todas’: Voluntary Motherhood and the Reproductive Rights Movement in Late Twentieth-Century to Early Twenty-First Century Mexico”
Ian Glazmer-Schillinger, Graduate Student, Syracuse University, “Web of Hate: White Power Goes Online, 1983-1999”
Eva Baylin, Graduate Student, Vanderbilt University, “Gender and the Radical Right: A Cultural History from the Margins to the Center of American Politics, 1965 – 2014”
Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture
Mary Lily Travel Grant
Amaluana Brock, Graduate Student, Auburn University, “1990s Young Women Zines as Feminist Identity Building”
Hsiao-Yun Chu, Faculty, San Fransico State University, “Exquisite Boredom: Ladies Fancy Workbooks and the Birth of Leisure Crafts, 1850 – 1910″
Maddy Coy, Faculty, University of Florida, “Feminist Knowledge, Violence Against Women, and Public Policy”
Hannah Dudley-Shotwell and Justina Licata, Faculty, Longwood University, “A History of Abortion Fund in the U.S., 1960s – Present”
Halina Haruma, Graduate Student, Northeastern University, “An Intellectual History of African American Women’s’ Disability Politics, 1900s – 1920″
Ijeoma Kola, Faculty, University of Notre Dame, “Kitchen Chemists: Black Women, Medical Neglect, and the Science of the Natural Hair Movement”
Felicity Palma, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University, “Eurydice in the Underworld”
Hope Tucker, Faculty, University of Iowa, “Feminist Bookstores in the South: A Film”
Lisa Walters, Faculty, University of Queensland, “Forgotten Histories: Renaissance Women and the Science of Atomism”
Jessie Wilkerson, Faculty, University of Tennessee – Knoxville, “In Sisterhood, In Struggle: A History of Feminist Possibilities in the American South”
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Travel Grant
Rachel Haines, Graduate Student, University of Virginia, “Close Reading as Queer Reading: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s ‘kind of formalism’”
Jennifer Hamilton, Faculty, University of New England, Australia, “Exploring the Relationship Between Queer Theory, Buddhism, and Textile Art in Sedgwick’s Body of Work”
Samuel Rutherford, Faculty, University of Glasgow, “Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, Transmasculinity and the History of Queer Ideas”
Suzanne Scanlon, Faculty, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “In Time, a novel”
