IBICL GRANT RECIPIENTS

Black Culture / Black Life

FACULTY RECIPIENTS

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Mauricio Acuña

Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
“Mestre Pastinha: The Afro-Brazilian, Intellectual of Capoeira”

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Marie Larose

Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian
“Preserving Traditions: The Digital Archiving of Caribbean French CreoleFolktales”

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Allie Martin

Assistant Professor, Department of Music
“49 Waltzes in the Key of Life”

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Ingrid Brioso Rieumont

Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The ‘Free Womb Law’ and the Unborn in 19th-Century Cuba

BOOK MANUSCRIPT RECIPIENT

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Jarrett Drake

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Africana & American Studies at The University at Buffalo
“Angels of Angola: Fascism and Slavery in the Deep South”

STUDENT RECIPIENTS

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Macintosh Bazile, MALS, ’25

“From Silence to Song: The Transformative Power of Critical Fabulation in Historical Narratives”

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Kourtney Bobb, ’25

“Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Situating and Historicizing Medical Misogynoir”

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Brittney Frantece, GR

“Word & Image: Writing about Black Literary and Visual Art”

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Chukwuka Odigbo, ’25

“Spectres, New Media of Anti-blackness, and the Question of the Subject”

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Osasenaga Osarenmwinda ’25

“Investigating the British Influence on Maroon Communities”