PI: Jasmine Yarish, Assistant Professor, University of the District of Columbia Grant Amount: $2,500 Project Abstract: By returning to the intellectual contributions of six Black women to the unfolding of the first Reconstruction era in and beyond the city of Philadelphia between 1850 and 1880, this project aims to extend W.E.B. Du Bois’s theory of […]

PIs: Andrew Bloeser, Associate Professor, Allegheny College; Tarah Williams, Assistant Professor, Allegheny College Grant Amount: $2,500 Project Abstract: In recent years, some elected officials have engaged in behavior that has threatened democracy, yet a substantial number of citizens continue to support them. Why are people willing to support leaders who would trample on democratic norms […]

PI: Robin L. Turner, Associate Professor, Butler University Grant Amount: $2,500 Project Abstract: Reworking Tradition analyzes the gendered politics of representation and traditional governance in southern African democracies, where monarchs, chiefs, clan leaders, and other traditional leaders preside over courts and meetings, mediate disputes, facilitate development, and sometimes allocate communal land and other collective resources. […]