Mellon Foundation Graduate Teching Fellowships
The MFGTF is a cooperative project between the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Emory University and five partner institutions: Agnes Scott College, Clark-Atlanta University, Dillard University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College. The Fellowship funds Emory graduate students to teach for one year at the partner insitutions, while they also participate in a seminar on issues facing academic professionals starting their careers.
The MFGTF is directed by Dr. Regina Werum, Sociology, rwerum@emory.edu and Dr. Rudolph P. Byrd, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, rbyrd@emory.edu.
Read about the current fellows below, and catch up with past fellows on the News page.
2007-2008 Fellows
Kristy Gordon, Sociology, at Morehouse College. Her dissertation is titled The Policy Behind the Problem: How Educational Reform Impacts the Teaching Environment. She has proposed courses on Introduction to Sociology and Sociology of Education.
Antoinette DeNapoli, Religion, at Dillard University. Her dissertation is titled Leave Everything and Sing to God: Hindu Holy Women's Rhetoric of Renunciation and Innovation of Traditon. She has proposed courses on World Religions? and ?Gender and Religious Behavior.
Natasha McPherson, History, at Dillard University. Her dissertation is titled Creole Women of Color and the Making of a Community in Late 19th and Early 20th-Century New Orleans. She has proposed courses on US History Prior to 1865? and ?Race and Ethnicity on Modern America.
Faidra Papavasilou, Anthropology, at Agnes Scott College. Her dissertation is titled The Political Economy of Local Currency: Alternative Money, Alternative Development, and Collective Action in the Age of Globalization. She has proposed courses on Introduction to Cultural Anthropology and Culture and the Global Economy.
Caitlin Stewart, History, at Spelman College. Her dissertation is titled Religious Diplomacy: The Impact of the American Protestant Shift from Anti-Semitism to Philo-Semitism on US-Israely Foreign Policy, 1933-1979. She has proposed courses on US Foreign/Mideast Policy and Religion in the 20th-Century US.
Carol White, History, at Clark Atlanta University. Her dissertation is titled Collaboration and Conflict in the Republic of Letters: The Enlightenment in Geneva, 1755-1772. She has proposed courses on European History, 1500-1815 and 18th-Century Revolutions.
