Congrats 2025-2026 NC Fellows & Grantees!

 

American Dissertation Fellowships 

 

Recipient Name: Brandee Newkirk

Brandee-NewkirkAward Program Name: American Dissertation Fellowships

Institution: Duke University Graduate School (Durham-NC)

Primary Area of Expertise: Art – History/Criticism/Conservation

Project Name:Rendering Fat: Largeness Inside the Black Beauty Economy

 

 

 

 


American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships

Recipient Name: Claire Crawford

Claire CrawfordAward Program Name: American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships

Directory Award Year2025-26

Institution: Wake Forest University (Winston-salem-NC)

Primary Area of Expertise: Political Science

Project Name: Hum So the Devil Doesn’t Hear You: Rural Black Southern Existences as the Otherwise

 

 

 

 

Recipient Name: Veronica Bahamondes Lorca

Veronica-Bahamondes-LorcaAward Program Name: American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships

Institution: North Carolina State University (Raleigh-NC)

Primary Area of Expertise: Biology

Project Name: Modification of lipid raft-like microdomains post solar ultraviolet exposure and its role in regulating mitochondria-ER and mitochondria-nuclei crosstalk

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient Name: Maria White

Maria WhiteAward Program Name: American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships

Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill-NC)

Primary Area of Expertise: Health & Medicine

Project Name: Novel therapy for EBV-positive lymphomas

 

 

 

 

 

 


Career Development Grants 

Recipient Name: Atiya Bigby-Yodlowsky

Atiya-Bigby-YodlowskyAward Program Name: Career Development Grants

Institution: Winston-Salem State University (Winston-Salem-NC)

Primary Area of Expertise: Music

Project Name: Bachelor of Arts in Music

 

 

 


International Fellowships 

Recipient Name: Sangeeta Mahajan

Award Program Name: International Doctoral Degree Fellowships

Institution: University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Greensboro-NC)

Primary Area of Expertise: Biology

Project Name: Climate change (4.2ka BP) and its impact on human health and lifestyle at Dahwa, Oman

 

 

 

 

 


Selected Professions Fellowships

Adwoa-Baffoe-BonnieRecipient Name: Adwoa Baffoe-Bonnie

Award Program Name: Selected Professions Fellowships

Institution: Duke University Graduate School (Durham-NC)

Primary Area of Expertise: Health & Medicine

Project Name: Does length of second stage labor before Cesarean delivery affect the risk of shortened cervix in subsequent pregnancy?