2022 FELLOWS

Richard Benson, PhD
Associate Professor of the Black Radical Tradition in Education
in the Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy
University of Pittsburgh
Project Title: Harold Washington: Black Power Politics and United Front Radicalism in the ‘City of Wind’

Daniel Candee
M.A. in Social Sciences
University of Chicago
Project Title & Presentation: From the Front Door to the Factory Floor: Triumphs and Tribulations of Black Autonomy in the Interwar Illinois Communist Party

Michelle Johnson
PhD candidate, History and African American Studies
Yale University
Project Title & Presentation: Wagons and Warehouses: Desegregating Chicago Public Schools, 1942-1966

Peter Kent-Stoll
PhD candidate, Sociology
and Certificate in African Diaspora Studies
University of Massachusetts
Project Title & Presentation: Imperial Metropolis: Settler Colonialism and Antiblackness in Chicago, 1952-1972

Brandon Stokes
PhD candidate, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Indiana University
Project Title: A Divided Bronzeville: How Race and Class Created Separate Housing Institutions for African Americans in the Black Metropolis

Paul Michael Thomson
PhD student, Afro-American Studies, Literature & Culture Track
The University of Massachusetts and
Founder & Executive Director, Governing Ensemble, The Story Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
Project Title & Presentation: Comparative Practices in New Play Development, Conversant with Chicago’s Black Arts Movement

Andre Zachary
MFA, Performance & Interactive Media Arts
Brooklyn College, CUNY and
Co-Founder/Artistic Director, Renegade Performance Group, Brooklyn, NY
Project Title: Against Gravity: Flying Afrikans + Other Urban Legends