Summer Short-term Fellowship

Through a rigorously reviewed international competition, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium offers one-month residential fellowships in Chicago for its Summer Short-term Fellowship Program.  Since 2009 our Fellowship Program has engaged scholars, artists, writers, and public historians to better formulate new historical narratives of the Black experience. The new, original research and art developed through this program are significant as it illuminates the national and international importance of Chicago to African American history.

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Fellowship Application Information:

The 2024 Summer Short-Term Fellowship application period is CLOSED. We will accept applications for the summer 2025 cohort beginning in October of 2024.

Learn more by reviewing the OVERVIEW & HOW to APPLY webpage to become familiar with the application requirements and specific program details.

2023 Fellows:

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AGNIESZKA TUSZYNSKA, PhD
Associate Professor of English, Queensborough Community College-City University of New York University
PROJECT TITLE: “A Damn Hard Fight”: The Life and Work of Willard Motley" Read more...

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AMANDA JOYCE HALL, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University
PROJECT TITLE: “A Child is Dying in Soweto:” Black Chicago and Freedom for South Africa"
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ARIELE DIONNE-KROSNICK
PhD student, Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
PROJECT TITLE: "The Fire Hydrants Were Turned on Again: Chicago, 1966" Read more...

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ASIF WILSON, PhD
Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
PROJECT TITLE: "Right to the City: Black Organizing, the 1980s Education Summits, and a Model for participatory democracy" Read more...

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BRITNI MOORE
PhD candidate, Linguistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
PROJECT TITLE: "Police Recruits and the Discursive Construction of ‘Real Rape’ in Sexual Assault Training" Read more...

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CALEB SMITH
PhD candidate, History, Brandeis University
PROJECT TITLE: "Pillaging the Vanguard - The Neoliberal Shift of Black Politics in Chicago 1966 - 1994" Read more...

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EDWARD SCHMITT, PhD
Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
PROJECT TITLE: "You Expect More": Dick Gregory and Mayor Daley's Chicago" Read more...

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EVE WADE, PhD
Assistant Professor of History, Northwest University (Kirkland, WA)
PROJECT TITLE: "'Chicago is the Place for Them:' Migration Clubs and the Black Metropolis"
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JENE WATSON
Librarian, Writer and Independent Cultural Researcher
PROJECT TITLE: "Juba, Calinda, Bamboula: The Life of Maud Cuney Hare (A Story for Young Readers)" Read more...

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OLIVIER MAHEO
Postdoctoral Fellow, TEMOS (CNRS-Université du Mans ) & Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent (IHTP, CNRS, UMR 8244), FRANCE
PROJECT TITLE: "The DuSable Museum and the Re-appropriation of History. How Black Left Activists Thwarted McCarthyism in the Cultural Sphere" Read more...

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REED WILLIAMS
PhD, student, Music History and Theory (emphasis in Music History), University of Chicago
PROJECT TITLE: "Gigging in the Great Migration: Mapping Chicago’s Musical Networks, 1930-50"
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VENISE WAGNER
Professor of Journalism, San Francisco State University
PROJECT TITLE: "Anatomy of My Past" Read more...


PAST FELLOWS

2022

2020-2021

2015-2019

2009-2014


Application Information:

The 2024 Summer Short-Term Fellowship application period is October 13 - December 8. We encourage you to learn more and strongly recommend reviewing the OVERVIEW & HOW to APPLY webpage to become familiar with the application requirements and specific program details.

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