Congrats 2025-2026 NC Fellows & Grantees!
American Dissertation Fellowships
Recipient Name: Brandee Newkirk
Award 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
Award 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
Award 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
Award 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
Award 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
Recipient 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?