The following individuals have been selected to participate as Mellon Fellows for our Summer Workshop as well as our Skills Repurposing Weekends. We will continue to recruit on an annual basis for openings that fulfill the guidelines of this three-year grant.
Skills Repurposing Fellows
Alexandra E. Stern
March 2023
Reconstructing Indian Territory: Federal vs. Native Power and the Expansion of American Sovereignty, 1861-1907
Amanda Katz
November 2022
Miracle Miles: From Roadbuilding to American Highway Engineering, 1893-1933
Citlali Sosa-Riddell
Spring 2023
Californio Local Liberalism: The Lasting Impact of Mexican Ideologies in California, 1848-1890
Cori Tucker-Price
December 2022
In the Land of Milk, Honey, and Hollywood! Religion and Black Urban Life in Los Angeles, 1903-1953
Jonathan Cortez
April 2023
The Age of Encampment: Race, Migration, Surveillance, and the Power of Spatial Scripts, 1933-1950
Jonathan Shafer
2023
Wild by Design the Technological Construction of Authenticity, Wilderness, and Nature in America’s National Parks, 1890-1945
Kevan Malone
Fall 2023
Borderline Unstainable: Urban Planning and Diplomacy at the Tijuana-San Diego Boundary, 1919-1999
Sherri Sheu
Fall 2023
Parks to the People: The National Park Service and Social Change in the Long 1960s
Veronica Duran
Spring 2023
"Liderazgo con Buena Mano”:” Aida Barrera, Carrascolendas and the Intersection of Race and Gender"
Sean Fraga
September 2022
"Ocean Fever: Steam Power, Transpacific Trade, and American Colonization of Puget Sound"
Ariel S. LaGue
TBD
"Right to Painless Death": The Fight for Humane Animal Slaughter in the Cold War United States
Nichelle Frank
November 2022
“Sanitizing History: Environmental Cleanup and Historic Preservation in U.S. West Mining Communities”
Carlos Hernandez
January 2023
Narcomundi: How Narcotraficantes Gained Control of Northern Mexico and Beyond
Tiffany González
April 2022
"Representation for Change: How Chicanas Transformed American Politics in the Twentieth Century"
Farina King
November 2021
The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century
Ryan Driskell Tate
October 2021
Coal Frontier: Corporate Power and the Making of the Powder River Basin, 1965-1985
Greg Atkins
February 2020
“God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise”: Christianity and Nature in the American West
Daniel Fischer
January 2020
“Trapped by Progress? Technological Innovation and Winter Security in the Northern Plains, 1854-1949”
Alison Laurence
December 2019
“Sinclair’s Dinoland: How Artists and Oilmen Made Midcentury America Mesozoic”
Alison Jefferson
November 2019
“Black Leaders of Leisure in the Struggle for Freedom during the Jim Crow Era in the American West: The Implications of their Stories for Our Lives Today”
