GRANT RECIPIENTS
Black Culture / Black Life
Chukwuka Odigbo
2025
“Spectres, New Media of Anti-blackness, and the Question of the Subject”
Brittney Frantece
GR: “Word & Image: Writing about Black Literary
and Visual Art”
Macintosh Bazile
MALS, ’25
: “From Silence to Song: The
Transformative Power of Critical Fabulation in Historical Narratives”
Kourtney Bobb
2025: “Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Situating and Historicizing Medical Misogynoir”
Osasenaga Osarenmwinda, ’25: ” Investigating the British Influence on Maroon Communities through Archival Research in London”
Faculty Grant recipients and their research titles:
Allie Martin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Music: “49 Waltzes in the Key of Life”
Marie Larose, Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian:“Preserving Traditions: The Digital Archiving of Caribbean French Creole Folktales”
Ingrid Brioso Rieumont, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese: “The ‘Free Womb Law’ and the Unborn Enslaved in 19th-Century Cuba”
Mauricio Acuña, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese: “Mestre Pastinha: The Afro-Brazilian Intellectual of Capoeira”
Book manuscript winner and book title:
Jarrett Drake, Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana & American Studies at The University at Buffalo: “Angels of Angola: Fascism and Slavery in the Deep South”